{"id":385690,"date":"2021-03-10T15:54:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-10T20:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=385690"},"modified":"2021-03-11T16:16:39","modified_gmt":"2021-03-11T21:16:39","slug":"the-real-story-of-aunt-jemima-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2021\/03\/10\/the-real-story-of-aunt-jemima-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Real Story of Aunt Jemima"},"content":{"rendered":"

TODD: I think God was the first, first actual anti-racist. Not in the social justice sense. He made all of us. That\u2019s my view. And to the secular portion of this, racism is being taught in the school. It\u2019s being taught us if you\u2019re white you\u2019re racist, you can become an ally, but you can\u2019t be not racist because it\u2019s in your DNA. We have Disney pulling Dumbo, the Aristocats and Peter Pan off the shelves because they\u2019re racist.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s the attack on Dr. Seuss despite him writing a book that actually decried racism. History is not racist. It can\u2019t be. It\u2019s history. It\u2019s what was. It\u2019s educational, unless it\u2019s taken from us. It can be our guide on things not to do unless it\u2019s stolen from us. Aunt Jemima was a real person, and Rush Limbaugh may have been trolling the Drive-Bys when he accepted the nickname America\u2019s Real Anchorman, but, man, it came true.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re gonna continue this discussion that\u2019s ongoing this week about race, the cancel culture of racist stereotypes. I want to relive with you a reason why Rush was, in fact, America\u2019s Real Anchorman as he tells us the incredible story of a woman named Nancy Green who we all knew as the now canceled Aunt Jemima.<\/a><\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, that\u2019s right, folks, I don\u2019t know if you\u2019ve heard or not, but Quaker Oats has decided they\u2019re gonna get rid of Aunt Jemima pancake mix and the syrup. I think they\u2019re gonna do it before anybody pressured them to do it, I\u2019m not sure. Somebody may have pressured them to do it. The Aunt Jemima person was a real person. But here\u2019s the story.<\/p>\n

“Aunt Jemima brand to change name, remove image that Quaker says is ‘based on a racial stereotype.'” Now, this brand, Aunt Jemima pancake mix and syrup is a 130-year-old brand and it features a black woman named Aunt Jemima who was originally dressed as a minstrel character and then as a domestic cook and maid.<\/p>\n

\"\"But I don\u2019t think people know who Aunt Jemima was. There was an actual real person, and I have it here somewhere. And I\u2019m gonna have to delay it, go back to the phones \u2019cause I thought I had these two pieces of paper right back-to-back, but I don\u2019t. Wait \u2019til you hear her story, and wait \u2019til you hear how Quaker Oats made her wealthy and rich. And she\u2019s a former slave. Aunt Jemima was a former slave. A real one. Not a descendant.<\/p>\n

What has happened is that Quaker Oats has announced today that they\u2019re gonna broom the brand. The Aunt Jemima brand is gonna get a new name, and they\u2019re gonna remove the image of Aunt Jemima because Quaker Oats says it\u2019s based on a racial stereotype.<\/p>\n

So I don\u2019t know if Black Lives Matter demanded this or if Quaker Oats is just getting out ahead of the curve. I wouldn\u2019t be surprised if it\u2019s the latter. How many of you are getting to the point where you\u2019re just throwing your hands up and saying, “Look, let\u2019s get rid of anything that upsets anybody and then can we shut up?” How many are getting to that point?<\/p>\n

Get rid of anything that upsets you. Except you and I won\u2019t be able to do that. But, I mean, the people that are permitted to have grievances. There are only a certain number of people allowed to have grievances against America. You understand that? We white supremacists are not allowed to have grievances \u2019cause we are (chuckles) the grievance. White supremacists!<\/p>\n

What an absolute crock. White privilege? I\u2019ll tell you, white privilege is liberal elites. They\u2019re the ones that have white privilege. When you want to know what white privilege is, just think of Hollywood, Silicon Valley, New York-Washington, liberal elites, because that\u2019s white privilege. That\u2019s how it\u2019s utilized, that\u2019s how it is manipulated — and this businesses of white supremacy.<\/p>\n

But, anyway, I digress. While we have to get rid of Aunt Jemima, black Americans have — I think — had robust success in a number of ways. You know something else Shelby Steele says? In case you haven\u2019t noticed, I dig Shelby Steele. I have quoted from Wall Street Journal columns of his over the course of this program for years. He\u2019s raised a very… See, he can say this. I couldn\u2019t say this.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>He can say — and, by the way, he is a target of the Black Lives Matter. You know, Shelby Steele comes out of the Malcolm X generation. Malcolm X is a big guy to Shelby Steele. That\u2019s how he traces his racial lineage. But he makes the point that he doesn\u2019t understand why the American left doesn\u2019t find the truly achieved and highly successful African-Americans and put them on pedestals as role models for younger blacks to follow.<\/p>\n

Instead, bad actors, foul-language rappers, people who\u2019ve been accused of sexual abuse. He says the wrong message is sent. He doesn\u2019t understand why people like himself or Clarence Thomas or Thomas Sowell — and the list is long. Not only are they not held up at examples and role models, they are ridiculed! They are ruined! They\u2019re call sellouts.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s exactly right that it\u2019s such a disservice to young people who don\u2019t think they have a chance of success. The reason that they are accused of being sellouts, by the way, how did they try to destroy Clarence Thomas? Before they dredged up and found Anita Hill somewhere, they tried to say (sniveling impression), “Clarence Thomas, the only reason…<\/p>\n

“The only reason he succeeded is because white people accepted him, and he knew that he had to make that happen. So he groveled, and Clarence Thomas sucked up, and he sold out his blackness to John Danforth, and he became a Stepin Fetchit.” So no black success outside of affirmative action was permitted. Thomas didn\u2019t use it! That was held against him. It was also held against him that if you\u2019re a young black and you somehow have white champions — in his case, John Danforth — then you\u2019re a sellout.<\/p>\n

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