Aunt Jemima: Using a black woman to sell your product is bad!
Little Mermaid: Using a black woman to sell your product is good!
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The Jemima wikipedia page is a real trip nowadays due to the racial controversies of late.
TL;DR: Jemima was a "harmful" stereotype, Ariel is a bootyful fish princess.
Part of the media's eternal pro-black PR campaign is a constant cycle of declaring all portrayals of black people, no matter how realistic, to be racist caricatures.
Black woman who loves baking and who everyone calls "auntie"? Never existed. Jive talking? Never existed. Goofy novelty rappers? Never existed. Gangsta rap? Never existed.
What you see them push today - black male/white female relationships, mostly - is going to be declared a white supremacist fabrication within 20 years. In fact, I believe they're already working on declaring that one racist, because black women have finally realized that BMWF is bad for them and are complaining about it.
Screencap this. In the very near future, journos are going to be writing articles with titles like "no, white supremacists, black men were never coming for your women", the lede of which will insinuate that none of the ads and TV shows we all saw ever actually existed and any examples to the contrary are rare exceptions. There was no push to get white women to seek out black men. There is no war in Ba Sing Se.