The great-grandson of the original Aunt Jemima expressed his rage that cancels culture is erasing her heritage after Quaker Foods unveiled its rebranding.
As we revealed, the brand will be rebranded after Quaker Foods gave in to pressure to “cancel” Aunt Jemima. The genuine Aunt Jemima’s great-grandson, Anna Short Harrington, is now speaking out to express his outrage and disappointment over the erasure of her legacy.
The “Aunt Jemima” Anna Short Harrington’s Great-Grandson Speaks Out
“This is unfair to my family and me. My history includes this, sir,” Larnell Evans Sr. said to Patch. “The racism they allege comes from the other side, from white people, as seen by their use of pictures from enslavement.”
This business makes money off depictions of our slavery. They’ve decided to do this by erasing the past of my great-grandmother. A black woman. It hurts.”
