Be sure to Click LIKE at the bottom of this article, and share it everywhere!! By Craig Andresen – The National Patriot and Right Side Patriots – Commentary
Last week, B&G Foods Inc. released this statement: “We are initiating an immediate review of the Cream of Wheat brand packaging. We understand there are concerns regarding the Chef image, and we are committed to evaluating our packaging and will proactively take steps to ensure that we and our brands do not inadvertently contribute to systemic racism.”
First of all, it pretty hard to contribute to something that simply doesn’t exist as a real thing, and second off, I’m confused.
The B&G Foods Inc. statement came on the heels of Quaker Oats decision to pull the Aunt Jemima brand and brand imaging from the consumer market, which preceded a decision by Mars, which makes Uncle Ben’s Rice and a decision by Congara Brands, the parent company of Mrs. Butterworth’s to also pull from distribution to consumers their product brand names.
All of that follows the recent image rebranding of Land-O-Lakes butter so as to discontinue the image of the Indian maiden on their packaging.
It’s all about ending “systemic racism” we’re told.
Now I’m not trying to be snarky here. I have what I feel are legitimate questions and I’ll start with this one…
Oprah suddenly injected herself into the race baiting fray last week when, in an interview for the BBC, she stated, “Just the level of disrespect. When the senator yelled out, ‘You’re a liar.’ Remember that? Yeah, I think that there is a level of disrespect for the office that occurs, and that occurs in some cases, and maybe even many cases, because he’s African-American.”