Uncle Ben’s renamed ‘Ben’s Original’ in effort to ditch racist imagery

[signalmankenneth]

Mars Inc. has renamed its Uncle Ben’s rice products “Ben’s Original,” making it the latest food producer to ditch a brand steeped in racist imagery.

The Virginia-based company is also scrapping the portrait of a white-haired black man that has adorned its rice boxes for decades — an image that’s long been criticized as a racist stereotype.

“We’re still in the process of deciding on what our new iconography will be, but are committed to ensuring that it will be truly reflective of the inclusive future we are striving to create for Ben’s Original,” a Mars Food spokesperson said in a statement.

Mars unveiled the new name Wednesday after its June announcement that it would “evolve” the Uncle Ben’s brand amid a nationwide uproar over racism following the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.

https://nypost.com/2020/09/23/uncle-...racism-uproar/

[CFM]

Yet you idiots want to put Aunt Jemima on the $10 bill.

[Wolverine]

Yet you idiots want to put Aunt Jemima on the $10 bill.

They are a special kind of ignorant!

[CFM]

They are a special kind of ignorant!

They know better which excluded the ability to claim ignorance. Stupidity is knowing better and still doing what they do.

[Celticguy]

So putting a picture if a venerable black man on your box is racist but in doing so you just cancelled blacks from boxed rice.

[anatta]

so then....who is Ben?

[Doc Dutch]

Mars Inc. has renamed its Uncle Ben’s rice products “Ben’s Original,” making it the latest food producer to ditch a brand steeped in racist imagery.

The Virginia-based company is also scrapping the portrait of a white-haired black man that has adorned its rice boxes for decades — an image that’s long been criticized as a racist stereotype.

“We’re still in the process of deciding on what our new iconography will be, but are committed to ensuring that it will be truly reflective of the inclusive future we are striving to create for Ben’s Original,” a Mars Food spokesperson said in a statement.

Mars unveiled the new name Wednesday after its June announcement that it would “evolve” the Uncle Ben’s brand amid a nationwide uproar over racism following the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.

https://nypost.com/2020/09/23/uncle-...racism-uproar/

[IMG]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C3oboNlWcAAgLGj.jpg

Easier to just change the picture rather than the brand name.

Something like this:
...and, yes, I love rice, gravy, fried chicken and watermelon. Ummm ummm good!

[Doc Dutch]

so then....who is Ben?

He's not a fucking Russian cocksucker so why do you care, comrade anatta?

[Wolverine]

He's not a fucking Russian cocksucker so why do you care, comrade anatta?

You mean this Russian cocksucker

[Sailor]

Mars Inc. has renamed its Uncle Ben’s rice products “Ben’s Original,” making it the latest food producer to ditch a brand steeped in racist imagery.

The Virginia-based company is also scrapping the portrait of a white-haired black man that has adorned its rice boxes for decades — an image that’s long been criticized as a racist stereotype.

“We’re still in the process of deciding on what our new iconography will be, but are committed to ensuring that it will be truly reflective of the inclusive future we are striving to create for Ben’s Original,” a Mars Food spokesperson said in a statement.

Mars unveiled the new name Wednesday after its June announcement that it would “evolve” the Uncle Ben’s brand amid a nationwide uproar over racism following the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.

https://nypost.com/2020/09/23/uncle-...racism-uproar/

This from Cartoon Ken. The white liberal Democrat who thinks nothing about calling an African American in this country an "Uncle Tom" if he is not Democrat. Go fuck yourself Ken, fucking racist.

[Grokmaster]

Mars Inc. has renamed its Uncle Ben’s rice products “Ben’s Original,” making it the latest food producer to ditch a brand steeped in racist imagery.

The Virginia-based company is also scrapping the portrait of a white-haired black man that has adorned its rice boxes for decades — an image that’s long been criticized as a racist stereotype.

“We’re still in the process of deciding on what our new iconography will be, but are committed to ensuring that it will be truly reflective of the inclusive future we are striving to create for Ben’s Original,” a Mars Food spokesperson said in a statement.

Mars unveiled the new name Wednesday after its June announcement that it would “evolve” the Uncle Ben’s brand amid a nationwide uproar over racism following the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.

https://nypost.com/2020/09/23/uncle-...racism-uproar/

RACIST MUCH???