Aunt Jemima: Using a black woman to sell your product is bad!
Little Mermaid: Using a black woman to sell your product is good!
Aunt Jemima: Using a black woman to sell your product is bad!
Little Mermaid: Using a black woman to sell your product is good!
Even worse because the woman who inspired the Aunt Jemima character was a FREED SLAVE!
She was a self-made woman, someone to ASPIRE to be like!
That's a problem in the eyes of the establishment that controls how aspirations are viewed in the zeitgeist.
Now had she been a prostitute...
... with a viral TikTok ass-shaking video...