tma_sierrahills: The Courier-Journal: Pancake Flap: Aunt Jemima Heirs Seek Dough - "'It’s one of those representations of black people that white people love because Mammy loved her white children so much,' Roberts said. 'It proved to white people that we couldn't have been that mean to black people because Mammy loves us.'" (Like most American academics, Professor Roberts no doubt by now knows fashionable and lucrative PC so well that she could play it by memory for hours on a Stradivarius.)

Wednesday, October 8, 2014

The Courier-Journal: Pancake Flap: Aunt Jemima Heirs Seek Dough - "'It’s one of those representations of black people that white people love because Mammy loved her white children so much,' Roberts said. 'It proved to white people that we couldn't have been that mean to black people because Mammy loves us.'" (Like most American academics, Professor Roberts no doubt by now knows fashionable and lucrative PC so well that she could play it by memory for hours on a Stradivarius.)

Pancake Flap: Aunt Jemima Heirs Seek Dough

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Born a slave in Kentucky in 1834, Nancy Green was the first Aunt Jemima "Mammy."

Nearly a century has gone by and Aunt Jemima no longer resembles a servant, having swapped her red bandanna for pearls and soft curls in 1989.

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Now a lawsuit claims that Green's heirs as well as the descendants of other black women who appeared as Aunt Jemima deserve $2 billion and a share of future revenue from sales of the popular brand.

The federal suit, filed in Chicago in August by two great-grandsons of Anna S. Harrington, says that she and Green were key in formulating the recipe for the nation's first self-rising pancake mix, and that Green came up with the idea of adding powdered milk for extra flavor. ...