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Oling_Roachinen · 06-19-2020, 01:04 PM

One thing to keep in mind is that Aunt and Uncle to refer to black elders can be considered problematic. In some cases, it was a way of getting away from calling them Sir or Ma'am and Mr. or Mrs. like their white counterparts. It's not unfair to say that it's called Aunt Jemima instead of Mrs. Jemima because the racists (read: pretty much all white people in the 1800s southern states) would have rioted over giving her that type of respect. While Mrs. Butterworth still has the same 'mammy' racial issues, her creation in the 1960s meant she wasn't called Aunt Butterworth. Think of it like the word "boy", on the surface it doesn't seem at all bad but if you hear a southern police officer call a black man a "boy" you know he's a racist ####head.

In other cases it's because slaves were seen as part of the family, as terrible as that sounds and was. And in other cases it was just a way of showing southern endearing traits.

06-19-2020, 01:04 PM	#3198
Oling_Roachinen Franchise Player Join Date: Sep 2011 Exp:	One thing to keep in mind is that Aunt and Uncle to refer to black elders can be considered problematic. In some cases, it was a way of getting away from calling them Sir or Ma'am and Mr. or Mrs. like their white counterparts. It's not unfair to say that it's called Aunt Jemima instead of Mrs. Jemima because the racists (read: pretty much all white people in the 1800s southern states) would have rioted over giving her that type of respect. While Mrs. Butterworth still has the same 'mammy' racial issues, her creation in the 1960s meant she wasn't called Aunt Butterworth. Think of it like the word "boy", on the surface it doesn't seem at all bad but if you hear a southern police officer call a black man a "boy" you know he's a racist ####head. In other cases it's because slaves were seen as part of the family, as terrible as that sounds and was. And in other cases it was just a way of showing southern endearing traits. Last edited by Oling_Roachinen; 06-19-2020 at 01:39 PM.