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Podcast: The Dollar Vigilante
Episode: Happy Juneteenth! Goodbye Aunt Jemima and Hello Greatest Depression and Hyperinflation
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How dare you feature a smiling black granny on a box of buttermilk pancake mix? Are you implying she has to make it for you? Or a happy black uncle on a bag of rice? Are you saying he worked his hands to the bone in the Southern paddies to bring that rice to you, you privileged scumbag? And that he is happy about it?
I really don’t know what these brands and their racially stereotyping Mad Men were thinking. Putting African Americans on food products? For 130 years?
Racists!
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