I’ll have to research that because she was heavily involved with the Baptist church she went to and financed a large part of the home missions program to help those who were poverty stricken. That kind of leadership costs a lot of money so the possibility is that she might have earned around a million or two but she also spent a chunk along the way.
The mere title Aunt and Uncle are racist. Elderly people are generally accepted by society. Whites bestowed elderly blacks with the labels because a black person could never attain the right to Ma'am,Miss, Mrs..Mr. Sir, so they became Aunt and Uncle.
That may have some vague truth to it depending on the location and type of people involved but we had a white widow on our street when I was a kid and every white or black, adult and kid knew her as Aunt Ellen. I also used to call an elderly black lady “grandma” because she treated me like one of her own grandsons. Was that racist? Nope.....love. The problem some folks are having is that if one wishes something to be racist, then chances are they’ll find something racist and try to convince someone else such and such is racist and who are those folks? Racists. By the Bye......How did “Mrs” Butterworth miss the boat and wasn’t called aunt or something along those lines?
Anyone ever hear of a 1930’s actor named Bill Robinson otherwise known as MR. Bojangles? He was always in those terrible racist movies where he tap danced and stuff in white folks mansions. (give a gasp here). GASP!! There’s good reason for those who are looking for a reason based on the depiction of a black guy in a submissive situation to hate the movies he was in but even the KKK probably hates them even worse because......he often held the hand of little white girl! (gasp with an Oh No!). GASP! OH NO!! Yeah, here’s that terrible guy in those terribly racist movies. Get a good look because they’ll probably be wiped out soon,.......... as they should be!
In addition to Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben -.now the Cream of Wheat packaging is also being challenged and also Mrs. Butterworth. Plain brown wrappers coming to a store near you soon .. it's disgusting !
I think that this might be what happens, at the end of this. They remove pictures of black people because they are being classified as racist, but they are also removing pictures of white people (like the Quaker from Quaker Oats), because they say that is also racist. These pictures are ones that people of all colors have recognized and loved for years and years, and never even considered it derogatory to anyone. Every single thing is now being looked at from the color of a person’s skin, which is the most racist thing of all, and it is being done by politicians, and not by everyday people, who are distressed that our favorite food labels are being taken away. What most upsets me about this, is that everything is being focused on stuff that does not matter, and no one is even concerned about people who are being sold into slavery right now, which is what should be on everyone’s mind.
Just another aspect of the whole thing. The great-grandson of Anna Short Harrington, the lady who took over the job of Nancy Green when she passed in 1923 has come forward saying that they should leave the Aunt Jemima logo alone lest her legacy and his family history disappear. https://patch.com/illinois/chicago/aunt-jemimas-great-grandson-enraged-her-legacy-vanishing
After reading that piece, I come away with the idea that grandson is just looking to profit from grandma's legacy. He already sued the company for billions (and lost.)
Yeah, there is that. Perhaps he’s joining in on the bandwagon of (should be a book) “race and profit” how you too can use your race (or someone else’s) to make money.