Not only does she make breakfast treats even more delicious, she totally reminds me why I work so hard to be an Oreo!
Wow if that’s what RBP look like, no thank you! And if that caption (which read: “Aunt Jemima, you is so sweet”) is how they talk…ugh! not for me!!
A big thanks to Tennessee Republican Terri Lynn Weaver for posting this pic on her facebook page shortly after Halloween of her (on the right) posing with her pastor.
Also, thanks to the folks at Sociological Images where I found this video of coverage of the photo. Click the link for the video.
There are so many things to love about that video and this story that I don’t even know where to start. So many good tips and reminders for Oreos! Here’s some of what I learned from this clip.
1. When lawmakers and men of God decide together that dressing up in blackface is okay, how can you possibly argue with that?
2. The use of the phrase “some of my best friends are black”–still a totally valid argument. In the video, Weaver asserts that “she is the least racist person because SOMBFAB.”
3. When doing a story about a contentious race issue, be sure to put your of color reporters on it and have only a passing quote from someone who’s a non-color so that there’s no doubt that this story is pretty much just for black folks and doesn’t affect anyone, except maybe the poor lawmaker who clearly doesn’t understand that facebook is a wildly public space accessible by anyone with a computer or cell phone.
I wonder if we can get that Aunt Jemima get up in a sexy version for the ladies!
I also wonder what other costumes Pastor Jemima threw out in favor of the one he picked. I mean, if he were going for syrup ladies, he could have done Ms. Butterworth and not had to spend so much money on shoe polish.
For more fun with facebook, check out this skin whitening app, this invitation to a “Compton Cookout,” and this charming message I got in my inbox.
The Oreo Experience 
Man, it must be SO lovely to be that ignorant. They are probably the most blissfully happy people on Earth.
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I once had that question. Seeing that I was the only black person in my school I of course was the leading authority on black people. Yes, I went to boarding school. Our school had a costume party and one of the kids came in blackface. Now, everyone asked me if I were ok. I mean why, it wasn’t me that was smudge with whatever was choking the pores of his face. Ah, good times they never stop as I recently had that here also. Anyway you must know that Oreo must master tatemae and honne even better than a Japanese person would have.