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Johnny Cash’s first wife was black. Totally erased in the movie.
☝☝☝☝☝☝ YES.
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The girls excited as fuck for her too , I need friends like them
Cream of Wheat (pt.1)
43. Oh my, where do we even begin with Cream of Wheat? How do we explain this smiling, reassuring face we see on every trip down the cereal aisle?
In 2015, some may wonder how there could be any issues with this iconic figure. Today, chefs are celebrities, so to us, it may seem a positive thing to see an African American in full chef’s garb assuring us that Cream of Wheat is something we ought to have on our breakfast table.
But there’s another side to the story. It starts in the 1890s, in Grand Forks, North Dakota, an hour’s drive from the Canadian border. A flour mill, seeking to stave off bankruptcy after the Panic of 1893, developed a new product, a breakfast porridge generically known as farina. This “Cream of Wheat” caught on, and by 1897, the company had to move its operations to Minneapolis, the milling powerhouse, to keep up with the demand.
One of the mill’s officers, Emery Mapes (1853-1921), had some commercial art and advertising experience, and had put a face on the product: a chef named “Rastus.” And that’s where things get uncomfortable.
Why “Rastus”? It’s an extremely uncommon name. In the 1870 Census, for instance, there were only 42 in the entire country, and only four of them were identified as black or mulatto. But the name had become intricately linked with African Americans by the conventions of the minstrel show.
The “Rastus” character was happy, simple, and often skating on the wrong side of the law. An 1887 Harper’s Weekly cartoon, for instance, combined a couple stereotypes to create an “Uncle Rastus,” hauled before the judge:
In the early 1900s, “Rastus” had become a movie character as well. In the 1910 comedy “How Rastus Gets His Turkey,” Rastus successfully steals his family’s Thanksgiving turkey, but does so in a clumsy, buffoonish way. Of course, true to the minstrel show tradition, Rastus is played by a white actor in blackface:
Cream of Wheat spent a lot on advertising, and hired well-known artists to create a wide variety of images of Chef Rastus at work. Many might be seen as “slice of life” Americana, and are not inherently offensive, such as this one of the chef at work in his hotel kitchen:
But others played to the demeaning stereotypes of the time. In a particularly shameful 1921 example, Rastus brings his own message, set in ignorant minstrel dialect:
On the face of it, the ad makes no sense. The Chef, in his immaculate cooking wear, is supposed to represent the product’s quality and purity. At the turn of the century, led by the Kelloggs and C.W. Post, cereals were considered to be “health” food, both delicious and wholesome.
So what’s the advantage in having its chief spokesman sound like an imbecile? But such were the contradictions of the Jim Crow/Minstrel Show era. If the Chef had to speak, he couldn’t be shown as speaking as an intelligent, knowledgeable person. That wouldn’t fit the Rastus side of the stereotype.
In this 1916 ad, Rastus’ face appears next to the stereotyped character of the little black kid who’s able to escape the bulldog because he’s eaten his Cream of Wheat, but loses the apples in his pockets, which we’re supposed to assume he’s stolen:
And in this 1929 “A Case of Desertion” ad, we find Cream of Wheat combined with the classic “watermelon” stereotype:
There was also a Mrs. Rastus. I don’t know if she was ever named. She is presented as a “mammy” figure, similar to the Aunt Jemima artwork of the period, complete with bandana and apron. Believe it or not, this is one of the more humane versions:
At one level, then, many Cream of Wheat ads represented this theme of the infantilization of the black population. Before the Civil War, part of pro-slavery propaganda was that the enslaved people were happy. (And many owners would go to extreme lengths to hide whipping and other torture scars that would evidence otherwise). After the Civil War, this turned into the sentimentality of the minstrel shows and the “Brer Rabbit” stories (which also included a Brer Rastus character). The popular media image of African Americans in general, and men in particular, was that they were happy, harmless buffoons who did not need to be taken seriously:
That’s never entirely disappeared. Even in 2013, Duck Dynasty’s Phil Robertson reflected on his relationships with black folks back in the old days, and declared that “they was happy” under Jim Crow.
So what’s the moral of the story? After all, it’s 2015, not 1915, and things have changed. Yet many of us, whether our heritage goes back to Africa or Europe, feel obliged today to specify that #blacklivesmatter precisely because it seems that in some very important ways, our society doesn’t act like they do matter, and we don’t seem to be addressing key issues.
So what about the Cream of Wheat guy in 2015? The ads don’t call him Rastus any more, with all of that baggage, he’s not presented to us as a household servant (see part 2!!), but rather, purely as the Chef, in a day when chefs are heroes. So maybe he’ll survive. And maybe that’s ok,
But it’s good to think about it anyway. In this election cycle, some have tried to write-off such discussions as “political correctness,” which is assumed to be bad. But representation is important. Media depictions and characterizations play a big role in shaping not only the self-image of African Americans but also the image and perceptions of the majority population, i.e., the folks who have to take the lead in shaping the laws that ultimately decide whether black lives matter, or not so much.
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Disturbing footage of police shooting and killing 18-year-old Paul O’Neal has surfaced.
The July police shooting death of an unarmed black teenager in Chicago seemed destined to fly under the radar, until officials released video footage of the incident that showed officers may have violated use-of-force guidelines. At the business end of the officers’ service weapons was 18-year-old Paul O'Neal, who authorities say drove a stolen luxury vehicle into a police vehicle.
O'Neal led police on a chase into the South Shore neighborhood of Chicago on Thursday, July 28. Video from an officer’s body-worn camera shows at least one officer firing multiple shots at a fleeing vehicle. According to revised use-of-force policies in Chicago, officers are prohibited from “firing at or into a moving vehicle when the vehicle is the only force used against the sworn member or another person.”
An officer’s body-worn camera also captures the dying teen being handcuffed, as he laid in a pool of his own blood. Police later revealed that the teen was unarmed and relieved two officers of their police powers, the Associated Press reported. An investigation into the incident is ongoing.
His sister’s heartbreaking statement to the media revealed O’Neal’s life and dreams for the future.
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Tone Policing 101: using anger to delegitimize marginalized people is as old as racism itself.
I’m so tired of y’all trying to justify cops who shot #KorrynGaines. I’m tired of y’all not listening.
Korryn Gaines was NOT using her child as a shield.
She was scared to lose him. She was trying to protect him. Because cops don’t care if the victim is 5, 23 or 50 years old just as long as they are Black.
How come a SWAT team in bullet proof vests couldn’t disarm a tiny woman without killing her when they successfully managed to disarm this guy ⇓ ⇓ ⇓ ⇓
OR THIS GUY ⇓ ⇓ ⇓ ⇓ ⇓
OR THESE GUYS ⇓ ⇓ ⇓ ⇓ ⇓
There are plenty more examples and guess what’s one common thing about them?
THE COLOR OF THEIR DAMN SKIN.
Korryn Gaines shouldn’t have been unarmed for you to #SayHerName if you consider yourself pro Black.
You can’t be pro Black if you’re trying to justify the oppressive force!
#JusticeForKorrynGaines #PoliceBrutality
#Amerikkka #BlackLivesMatter
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But they won’t tell us about the times they fought back ( Florida 1938 )
let’s get this a million fucking notes but damn this is powerful shit.
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Man who videotaped Alton Sterling's death was arrested at his job for assault & battery. After failing to produce a warrant the police held him on unpaid traffic tickets. He uses Uber to go to work and back home. Because of his arrest at work his supervisor told him not to return.
Christopher LeDay was arrested less than 24 hours after he posted video of #AltonSterling being shot and killed by Baton Rouge police officers. Police came to his job at Dobbins Air Force Base in and put the cuffs on him for alleged assault and battery.
LeDay’s lawyer says that he was taken in on false charges.
“He never had a warrant for an assault,” lawyer Tiffany Simmons told the station. “My client has never had any criminal history.”
She adds, “They never showed a warrant for an assault to my client, in fact my client was held in DeKalb County Jail for at least 26 hours and they never produced a warrant.”
Simons told that when police could not produce a warrant, she was then told her client was being held for unresolved traffic tickets.
After paying those tickets and trying to return to work, LeDay’s lawyer says he was turned away at the gate of the base for “security clearance issues.”
Yet, LeDay, who was just hired about six weeks ago, said his supervisor knew about the traffic tickets when he was hired.
“He should not be penalized or possibly retaliated against, he should not be embarrassed at his place of employment for doing what is right,” Simmons said.
This is not the first time the person who videotaped police murder has been harassed by cops.
Why don’t they want to clean that up, why they want that the hate against them increase?
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“There’s a reason you separate military and the police. One fights the enemies of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people.”
Actually even farmers are more than twice as likely to be killed in the line of duty. Being a cop hasnever been safer. They want it to be perceived as being horribly dangerous so they can get military weapons they don’t need and nobody with half a brain would trust them with.
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And the store owner where he was shot was also detained illegally. They are punishing people for telling the truth
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@racistsgettingfired @reverseracism y'all know the drill 😒
See this is the part of institutional racism that some ppl don’t fully grasp. Look at her job title….think of all the shitty things she’s done to the other “black bitches” she’s encountered in her work.
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Dozens of serving and former US police officers have taken to the internet to air their astonishment at the racist emergency calls that they've had to deal with.
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