Yikes! Actor Ben Stein is getting dragged on social media after going on a bizarre rant about Aunt Jemima syrup, noting how he misses when “a large African American woman was on the syrup bottle.”
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Actor Ben Stein Dragged Over Rant About Aunt Jemima Syrup: ‘I Miss When A Large African American Woman Was On The Syrup Bottle’
The viral video — which appears to have been pulled from the ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ actor’s Truth Social account — shows his visible disdain for the Pearl Milling Company replacing Aunt Jemima.
If you recall, back in 2021, the company re-branded and retired the iconic, but newly problematic, logo. It was reported that the illustration depicted a “racist ‘mammy’ archetype,” which is rooted in American slavery.
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Stein’s video opens with him saying, “About to do something which I sometimes do, which is to make breakfast for dinner.
Aunt Jemima, yummy, pancake syrup. Now, this used to show a large African American woman chef, but because of the inherent racism of Americans’ corporate culture, they decided to make it a white person, or maybe no person at all.
But, I prefer when it was a Black person, showing their incredible skill at making pancakes. So, God bless you all and have a good evening.”
Social media users over on Twitter proceeded to drag Stein after his video about the Aunt Jemima syrup bottle went viral. One user reposted an article that was titled, ‘Ben Stein’s ‘Aunt Jemima’ Rant Is A Master Class On White Privilege.’
The sub-header went on to read, “In today’s episode of White People Who Can’t Seem To Find Their Lane, actor and comedian Ben Stein posted a video of himself expressing nostalgia…”
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Another Twitter user went on to say, “I’m trying to figure out how to say ‘F Ben Stein, his money and his racist fixation with Aunt Jemima syrup.’ without actually going all the way there. Maybe this will suffice. A**.”
Another said, “Ben Stein is a racist and a moron. Aunt Jemima syrup was a racist company that was making colored sugar water pretending to be pure maple syrup.”
Another user said, “Ben Stein is known for an incredible IQ … yet fails to consider the fact that the Aunt Jemima logo was based on a minstrel show song and character. So yeah … that needed to be jettisoned a long time before it was.”
One user added, “Just as cringe as expected when I saw Ben Stein was trending with ‘Aunt Jemima.’ He is the perfect example of the difference between intelligence and ignorance. He is intelligent, ut also willfully ignorant.”
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