Greetings, Peace and Blessings to you, your family and loved ones. My name is Nana Baakan and I have a lot of questions about what is happening in our world today.
I am going to upload a few videos over the next few weeks. I just want to share with you some of my questions and get your responses. These videos are simply opinion pieces, I make no claims of being a scientist or having any inside info. Please take that for what it's worth, I just have a lot of questions.
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The topic of Today's video is It's Not About the Mask, It's About the AI.
Let me begin this video with this quote:
By Oswald Spengler, The Decline of the West (1928)
“Today we live so cowed under the bombardment of this intellectual artillery, the media, that hardly anyone can attain to the inward detachment that is required for a clear view of the monstrous drama. The will-to-power operating under a pure democratic disguise has finished off its masterpiece so well that the object’s sense of freedom is actually flattered by the most thorough-going enslavement that has ever existed.” The link to the pdf version of this book along with links to the other references in this video will be in the blog post listed in the description below.
Ever since this thing started with the lockdowns, the social distancing and the mask mandates I have been trying to wrap my brain around what the heck is really happening. I could make sense of how the entire world was bought off by the IMF, World Bank, CDC and WHO cartel, that made sense earlier. I created a meme to get that message across after doing some research into the connections and how governments around the globe were getting funding for their CV-19 efforts to manage this thing.
But the mask thing seemed to stand out so loudly to me, and it was the most and continues to be the most irritating thing about this. Especially in light of the worse mask wearing protocols that are being advised and implemented.
Over and over, I would say, if you are going to wear a mask, wear the right one and please wear it correctly. But then there would be public officials handling the masks in such a way that they certainly knew they were contaminating it. But if the masses see these so-called experts handling it this way then what could be expected?
To Mask, Dr. Fauci, Or Not To Mask, That is the Question.
https://youtu.be/fSjzjwqhV6M
Masque 4 All, Tank the Economy, Impose Financial Burden, Qui Bono?
All of which escaped the YouTube algorithm except the last one, Masque 4 All, Tank the Economy, Impose Financial Burden, Qui Bono.
But I was still not quite sure what the bottom line was on this issue. I was and am convinced it's definitely not about our health. Quite the contrary. I won't take the time to review the many article on the efficacy for the use of masks. You can go to the Last American Vagabond website to check out Ryan Christian's extensive research on that subject. His link is also in the blog post listed below.
I felt strongly that mask wearing is poor science and definitely not good for your health, but on the other hand I saw folks being arrested, beaten, fined and even socially shamed for not wearing a mask. I kept scratching my head, what the heck is with this fake mask charade. Why are these folks showing up in masks and why are they wearing masks that they know full well will not stop a virus from getting through. Yet it continued to this very day, October 25, 2020. Some say that even Biden, if elected will require masks to be worn by everyone.
In this video he said something about a beta test for AI but I had no proof, until a recent video by Max Igan called, "It's All About Control" where he showcased a report about an Israeli based tech company called Corsight and their new product called Cor ID. There was my smoking gun!
Check out this video about a new technology called Cor ID
Corsight - Facial Recognition Powered by Accuracy and Privacy
So, yeah, it really ain't about the masks. It's about keeping us in the mask until they can fully roll out this new facial recognition technology. According to the website, this technology was reported on in April, 2020.
Even Uber is using face recognition technology called "Mask Verification for Riders". They are serious, no mask, no ride. It certainly is a way to add data of the facial recognition with a mask for this experiment.
Then it all began to make sense. It doesn't matter how poorly we wear these masks. It doesn't matter if we touch our face, take them on and off when we eat and drink, wear the same mask all day long, reuse our masks, wear paper thin ones, with gaping holes around the sides, over beards and under our chin or nose. It doesn't matter as long as we have a face covering. Even one made from a T-shirt. It doesn't matter that the science tells us that masks don't work to prevent the transmission of a the corona virus.
These folks have all got to be in cahoots with one another and know the end game as it relates to covering our face. They have declared war on us in more than just one way and this technology is an adjunct to the war on terror, whereby, they will be able to identify potential terrorists or criminals because the technology can detect the individual by simply scanning the eyes and forehead. Of course, if you have on sunglass or some other kind of shield over your eyes maybe not so much, but step by step they will perfect the technology and they will be able to read an entirely covered body.
The Surveillance apparatus of modern day society is on steroids, they can't seem to stop at finding more and more ways to track and trace us. I would imagine that this technology is being funded and sold throughout the world during this beta testing of it. We are all part of a grand experiment. And to be sure, the virus was just a pretense to roll out much of the technology that has been on the back burner for some years now, perhaps decades. It would only make common sense to see the roll out of various other technologies in just a few months since CV-19 has been blamed for ravaging everything in its wake.
Heretofore we certainly have been tracked and traced, but now, it can be blatantly done under the guise of keeping us all safe. These tech companies will be and have been making huge sums of money for these so called "new" technologies for global safety from a virus that has a survival rate of 99.9% but nevertheless, once the technology is rolled out, it can't be taken back. It will charge ahead into more and more tracking and tracing for our so called safety till all the bases are covered.
If you want to get a look at what they are working on, just a little peep at it, I strongly advise you to go to this website…
And to follow Whitney Webb on Twitter, OffGuardian, a frequent contributor on the Last American Vagabond with Ryan Christian and various other sites for her in depth covering of what the technocrats have in store and have been working on for decades. Whitney Webb is a staff writer for MintPress News and a contributor to Ben Swann’s Truth in Media. Her work has appeared on Global Research, the Ron Paul Institute and 21st Century Wire, among others. She has also made radio and TV appearances on RT and Sputnik.
I will end it here. Thanks for listening, thanks for watching, peace and blessings to you your family and loved ones, and be sure to hit the subscribe button. Thanks again and see you next time.
Peace and Blessings.
References:
COR ID™ Facial Recognition Authentication Overcoming the Face Mask barrier Apr 21, 2020
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Greetings, Peace and Blessings to you, your family and loved ones. My name is Nana Baakan and I have a lot of questions about what is happening in our world today.
I am going to upload a few videos over the next few weeks. I just want to share with you some of my questions and get your responses. These videos are simply opinion pieces, I make no claims of being a scientist or having any inside info. Please take that for what it's worth, I just have a lot of questions.
Thanks to all my subscribers who stopped by and to new visitors be sure to subscribe.
The topic of Today's video is "Masque 4 All, Tank the Economy, Impose Financial Burden, Qui Bono?"
I travel a lot in my dreams. I meet people from all walks of life and have real life conversations with them. Sometimes, I am them, in that I experience what they are going through. My dream world and waking world converge very often. I find myself discussing in my dreams what I have experienced in waking life and discussing in waking life, what I have experienced in my dreams. Lately, I have been dreaming of folks wearing masks. I would want to turn away from those visions as I am so uncomfortable with the whole idea as I struggle with the doublespeak around it. But it seems masks and people wearing them have seeped into my dream world more and more.
During a time when masks were not the dominate theme in my waking world, masks would have a different interpretation. However, something intrinsically is changing, and I am not too sure if the figurative meaning of seeing masks individuals in dreams has changed or that there is a combined figurative and literal meaning now, because masks are being worn all over the place.
I just can't with this mask thing? I just can't.... and you know for a while there, I didn't even understand what "I just can't" even meant, but I certainly do now. So let me take a moment and make a plug for my latest video, "Thesis-Antithesis, Goddess Corona's Mask-Charade and the New Abnormal". https://youtu.be/PdOXbMhP9RM
One of the things that I do not and cannot understand is the fact that they have basically allowed folks to participate in the worse mask wearing protocols of all times. Doctors, Nurses and other medical professionals know the truth and they are silent or barely audible when it comes to alerting folks of the proper use of these masks in the first place. These folks are taking them on and off, putting them on to enter a restaurant and taking them off to eat or talk. Got them hanging from their ears, reporters some have them on others not. The same with the protesters, and yet they want to mandate employees to wear them while working from home and using Zoom. It makes no sense and yet folks are being accosted because of having a mask on or not having a mask on. And then you have the Surgeon General telling folks they can use a T-Shirt, and other folks are making mask out of cloth that are totally ineffective for blocking viruses that are so tiny.
They are encouraging folks to wear masks like some kind of badge of honor but they are basically useless and more of a FASHION STATEMENT and a BRAND OF SLAVERY than anything else. They are improperly used, improperly handled and improperly disposed of, and the cloth/reusable ones are of no benefit except to make it harder for you to breathe. What I think is criminal is that folks who are supposed to know better are not telling us this, they are simply going along with the charade. Got us all masked and it ain't even Halloween, SMDH…
Masque for All, Tank the Economy, Impose Financial Burden, Qui Bono?
In this dream something about this mask mandate came to me that I had not thought of. Interestingly enough with all my rebellion against the mask mandate I had not thought of this one.
I decide to take a bus ride on SEPTA’s G bus in Philadelphia, PA. I wanted to take this bus because it is one of the longest routes in Philadelphia going from South Philly to the Mainline. As you travel this route you actually see the communities as they change from lower to middle to upper class. The shops, stores, houses, schools, roads, streets and people change dramatically along this route. Of course having traveled this route several times while living in Philadelphia, I already knew what to expect. What surprised me was the conversation I had with two young African American women on the bus and after we departed the bus.
One young woman was a health worker, more of a medical assistant, barely making minimum wage, and the other was currently unemployed. Since the outbreak, her job was terminated, with no hope of returning.
We talked about what it meant to both of them. And what was interesting was that they both lived in the same apartment building.
The health worker said, “You know, I am a little better off than a lot of people, especially those folks who don’t have jobs, or were laid off indefinitely. They don’t know when or if they will ever go back to work.”
I respond, “Yeah, I know that has got to be hard on folks these days.”
She says, “Yes, it is, and then they want folks who can barely feed their families to buy masks. They have to choose between eating or buying a mask.”
The other lady who was with us was quiet. Her N95 mask was absolutely filthy. I could only imagine how long she had it. And it hit me hard because that part of this scenario hadn’t occurred to me, that there are actually people who cannot afford to buy a mask, no matter how fancy, cheap, or high grade they may be. Folks are juggling between rent, phone, gas, electric, car insurance, transportation, etc. and the fear of catching a virus they cannot afford to purchase the proper mask for.
As we walked along the street, I noticed a street sign that said “O Street” and I wondered if I might have gone too far on the bus, and may have ended up in far NorthEast Philly somehow. Also, along this walk to their apartment building, I saw masks on the ground, some torn, missing the earloop, others dirty and misshaped, even an N95 mask was discarded right there on the ground. The unemployed lady said not a word, she just quietly walked along side us.
As they entered the building, the health worker said, “I really feel for those folks who cannot even afford to buy the masks they need for themselves and for their families. I can barely do it myself, but I am lucky to work in a place that gives them to us. I think that the government should give people the masks they say we should wear. Like they are giving folks money, the masks should be free, and everywhere. I mean the real masks that protect us, not the cheap ones. That way people without jobs or have a little bit of money coming in, won’t have to worry even more about catching this virus. People don’t all have money to buy masks and other people can’t even sew their own masks.”
It struck me so hard, like they say, a ton of bricks. Even those of us who can afford to purchase the correct type of masks, follow the correct protocols and have a stash of masks are of a privileged class because there are folks who cannot even afford to feed their families much less purchase masks in any sizable quantity over a period of time. Then I thought, “THEY” really DON’T care about us, AT ALL!! I could hear Michael Jackson’s song playing in my mind.
We said our goodbyes and I walked further along and came upon 3 European Women. It was a chilly day and they were dressed in light coats and shawls, none of them were wearing masks. One woman was carrying a small child in her arms. I overheard one say to the other.
“If they ask me about my mask, I will take this shawl and cover my face, and say, “See, I have a face covering, now leave me alone.”
The other two ladies chimed in agreement. And again, I realized that even with this mask thing, there are those who are privileged and those who are not, those who are able to move through this virus thing, with a cavalier attitude and those who are struck with fear and can barely do anything about it. Those who can feed their families and those who cannot, who depended on the now closed schools and summer camps, to give their children a free breakfast and lunch.
Along with so many other inequities that permeate this society, even this plandemic is bringing to the fore, just how much disparity reigns between the have’s and the havenot’s in this so called land of the free and home of the brave.
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Greetings, Peace
and Blessings to you, your family and loved ones.My name is Nana Baakan and I have a lot of
questions about what is happening in our world today.
I am going to
upload a few videos over the next few days. I just want to share with you some
of my questions and get your responses.These videos are simply opinion pieces, I make no claims of being a
scientist or having any inside info.Please take that for what it's worth, I just have a lot of questions.
Thanks to all my
subscribers who stopped by and to new visitors by sure to subscribe.
The topic of
Today's video is "Thesis-Antithesis, Goddess Corona's Mask-Charade and
the New Abnormal".
One of the things
that I do not and cannot understand is the fact that they have basically
allowed folks to participate in the worse mask wearing protocols of all times.
Doctors, Nurses and other medical professionals know the truth and they are
silent or barely audible when it comes to alerting folks of the proper use of
these masks in the first place, and then you have the Surgeon General telling
folks they can use a T-Shirt, and other folks are making mask out of cloth
that has holes so large all types of whatevers can get thru.
They are
encouraging folks to wear masks like some kind of badge of honor but they are
basically useless and more of a FASHION STATEMENT and a BRAND OF SLAVERY than
anything else. They are improperly used, improperly handled and improperly
disposed of, and the cloth/reusable ones are of not benefit except to make it
harder for you to breath. What I think is criminal is that folks who are
supposed to know better are not telling us this, they are simply going along
with the charade. Got us all masked and it ain't even Halloween, SMDH…
This mask thing
just raises the hair on the back of my neck.
Not sure which is
more hair raising the fear, the mask, the draconian measures, the lies, the
hypocrisy, the mockery, the raping of the economy, the lying so called
experts, the hidden agenda, the new abnormal acceptance, the forced vaccines,
the home prisons, the shutdown of transits, the snitchers, the social shamers,
the uninformed big mouths, the indoctrinated MSM zealots, the carbon copy
ideologues, the lack of common sense, the fear of
the sun, ocean, and regular outdoors, the ultra Sharpe focus in Covid-19 while
deaths from other causes are in the gazillions, the mass mania, the mass
hypnosis, the staunch believers in government being there to help when they
took down the towers and blamed Bin Laden, the politricks that they have
played over and over again and most people believe in government now.
Hey.
Government = mind control
Bottom
line, the sheeple will be slaughtered and the oligarchs will have more wealth
than they could ever imagine. And Bill Gates and Dr. Fauci will ride the hide
tide slapping each other on the back and laughing at how easy it was to fool
every one with this mask-charade.
There
was once a time when the squat team would be called in to suppress a would be
bank robber if a black man showed up, dressed in black clothing, a hoodie and
a black mask as he entered the bank.All types of alarms would be set off, folks would hit the floor, cash
draws would be locked and security guards would tackle that black man to the
ground if not kill him right there on the spot.Today, it's commonplace, and what can anyone
say about this black militia? Well, at least they are all wearing their masks.
Facebook
fact-checkers censored this picture, saying it goes against community
guidelines and all I am saying is if you are gonna wear a mask to prevent the
spread of a virus, then this is the best most efficient mask to wear,
otherwise you are not preventing the spread, you are simply covering your
face, and preventing your spit from going out into the air and landing on
someone. If you are asymptomatic, then you are not gonna carry the virus.
Now,
if you are weak, tired, overworked, underpaid, stressed, and have chronic
illness like heart disease, diabetes, lung disease, congestive problems,
pneumonia, and various other core-morbidities, you are in a nursing home and
finally you are scared of a virus that has killed barely .5% of the population
wear a mask, but wear the right one, cloth masks do absolutely nothing.
In my
next video I will present a compilation of various videos that bring out this
exact point. So stay tuned.
An
ill-fitted one allows all types of air to pass to your nose, and throat. the
surgical masks have synthetic fibers that you are breathing in. Any chemicals
you use to sanitize your mask, is being breathed in as well.
If
you are touching your face, taking your mask on and off, then you are
contaminating the mask. Health workers change they masks periodically
throughout the day and dispose of them "properly" to minimize
contamination. If you are removing your mask to eat, drink, talk, take
picture, below your nose, then take the damn thing off and throw it in the
trash, otherwise, you have swallowed the new fashion craze... signature masks
with designs are not safe. They do not protect you or anyone from you.
Cheap
masks are not safe either, and the N95 respirators need to be fitted. If the
mask is ill fitted it is not doing anything but making you look weird. If you
have a beard, or facial hair, the air is going to seep in past the mask.
Just
ask yourself a few questions as you watch the so-called experts pontificate on
this mask-charade.
If you are wearing a mask and not wearing it
properly, then you are doing more harm than good. Are you touching your face?
Wearing the same mask for several hours? Adjusting your mask several times.
Sweating, coughing, sneezing into your mask? Washing your mask and re-wearing
it? Wearing an ill fitting mask? Placing it on and off as you eat and drink?
Are you lying your mask on the dashboard? Handling it with your hands? Does
your mask has open spaces around your cheeks? Wearing a mask over a beard?
Wearing it under your chin? Wearing it under your nose?
My
point is, if you insist on wearing a mask, then wear it correctly otherwise
you are defeating the purpose for wearing it.
Most
of all folks need to use common sense. If you are a health worker, you are
wearing your mask so that you do not contaminate a sterile environment, you
cannot sterilize the outdoors, or any open-air environment. Health workers all
know how to wear their masks properly and even they are not doing so, making
tic-tok videos dancing in the most unsanitary of places.
The
mask is a ritual, a ritual of compliance. They just want to see just how
gullible people are and how willing they are to do exactly what does not make
sense, and like Jim Jones they will drink the cyanide (take the vaccine) all
under the guise of avoiding inevitable death. The only way to get out of here
is to die, and they have us so afraid of dying that we forgot how to live in
truth and light and ding-dong common sense.
Sorry
for the long rant, but I just can't with this mask thing!!
Letme take a moment and show you a couple of
articles that can be found on the internet.
The
links to these article will be in the blog post listed below. I will not quote
from them, but you can read them at your leisure.
Don’t wear a Mask! Bill Gates – An
African Perspective…, A Yorkshire Man Speaks…
"Thesis,
Anti-thesis, synthesis.. It's a reprogramming in motion. Turning the world
upside down, to a so called new normal infested with total cognitive
dissonance and Stockholm syndrome sheeple."
This concludes my
commentary on Goddess Corona Mask-Charade.
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Peace & Blessings to you, your family and loved ones.
REFERENCES:
Blaylock: Face Masks Pose Serious Risks To The
Healthy
"We know that
wearing a mask outside health care facilities offers little, if any,
protection from infection." LINK HERE
(2) CAL-OSHA
Regulations:
”Cloth face
coverings do not protect against COVD -19” LINK
HERE
(3) California
Department of Health:
"Face
coverings may increase risk if users reduce their use of strong
defenses."
"There is
limited evidence to suggest that use of cloth face coverings by the
public during a pandemic could help reduce disease transmission.” LINK
HERE
4) FDA - “Even
a properly fitted N95 mask does not prevent illness or death” LINK
HERE
(5) CDC
— There is no scientific evidence for healthy people wearing
masks. : Watch
“CDC Mask Deception”
(6)
Neurosurgeon Dr. Russell Blaylock :
”There is no scientific evidence that masks are effective.
If you are not sick, you should not wear a face mask.” LINK
HERE
(7) Columbia
University: Psychological Harms of Face Masks:
"Many young
children burst into tears or recoil when someone wearing a mask approaches. By
putting on masks, we take away information that makes it especially difficult
for children to recognize others and read emotional signals, which is
unsettling and disconcerting." LINK
HERE
(8) US Surgeon
General Jerome Adams:
”Masks are not
effective in preventing the general public from catching coronavirus.”
“People should not
be walking around wearing masks. Masks do not provide the protection people
think they do.” LINK
HERE
(10) WHO, Dr. Mike
Ryan:
”There is no
specific evidence to suggest that the wearing of masks by the mass population
has any potential benefit. In fact, there’s some evidence to suggest the
opposite in the misuse of wearing a mask properly or fitting it
properly. LINK
HERE
(11) US Department
of Labor — OSHA:
”Oxygen deficient
is any atmosphere that contains less than 19.5%.” This happens when the oxygen
is displaced by inert gas such as CARBON DIOXIDE and is
the leading cause of FATALITIES.” LINK
HERE
(12) OSHA 10&30 Certified Expert - "N95
blows the virus into the air from a contaminated person. The surgical mask is not designed for the outside world
and will not filter the virus upon inhaling through it. It’s filtration works
on the exhale. (Like a vacuum bag it only works one way. Cloth masks are WORSE than none."
Greetings,
Peace and Blessings to you, your family and loved ones. My name is Nana Baakan and I have a lot of
questions about what is happening in our world today.
I am
going to upload a few videos over the next few days. I just want to share with
you some of my questions and get your responses. These videos are simply opinion pieces, I
make no claims of being a scientist or having any inside info. Please take that for what it's worth, I just
have a lot of questions.
Thanks
to all my subscribers who stopped by and to new visitors by sure to subscribe.
The
topic of Today's video is the "Black Lives, All Lives Matter, & Cancelling Aunt Jemima."
As the
steam engine rolls out and the cry of alarm is hoisted against racial and
social injustice, something seems to be missing from the dialogue. On the
one hand the Black Lives Matter Movement is flagged with the comment All Lives
Matter. All lives matter to the point that Obama pinned an executive
order that "Blue Lives Matter" as well after the series of deaths of
police officers in their line of duty. So now we have another color to
add to the mix of lives that matter. People are asked to stand for the
color of the lives and make a statement about changing how these lives are
treated.
In
this video I want to talk about "All Lives" and I want to ask the
question….. When do all lives "NOT" matter? In other words as
much as we see these signs going up and protests happening around the world,
how is it that the lens of those who are living on this planet can be so narrow
and skewed that they miss the hypocrisy of it all.
What
am I getting at here? Well, I am getting at the unauthenticity of the outcry
for whatever color of the life we are currently being smothered with.
What is the nature of the hypocrisy I speak of, you may ask? The hypocrisy I
speak of today has two prongs. One is the death penalty and the other is war.
How
many times do we say, Black Lives Matter or All Lives Matter and in the same
breath call for the "chair" for someone who took a life, whomever
that someone may be. How often have these radicalized groups of
protesters and opinion makers, followed their, all Lives Matter, Black Lives
Matter rhetoric, with ban the death penalty.
You
see, we as humans can come almost full circle and still miss the mark. We
miss our own double speak which is quite appropriate for the predator class who
will find enjoyment in the divide and conquer strategy, polarizing the masses
while knowingly understanding that the masses don't REALLY mean Black
Lives or All Lives Matter. For if they did, then they would take a more
global look at the prevailing culture to see that no life really matters to
those who run this world. And on a small scale, Black Lives Or All Lives
Matter only in the moment and for specific purposes. Indeed, they would
certainly rally around the death of a murderer, encourage revenge and/or
vengeance to anyone who murdered their loved one.
It
struck me to see the call for "frying" the police who murdered George
Floyd. How is that a resolution, especially after saying, Black Lives,
All Lives Matter? Taking a look at the crime and punishment scenario, we
live among one another as human beings with little regard to how
"punishment" can ruin a life.. But feel justified in that punishment
because that life did something we deemed criminal or wrong. We fill prisons
with millions of lives, and we do not say their lives matter. How deep
and pervasive is this movement when we do not include the systemic destruction
of lives on a daily basis, vis a vis, poverty, poor education, poor health
care, etc.
The
beast is humongous and it needs plenty of fear and vengeance to keep it
alive. By muddying the waters, it keeps humanity at each other's throats
about small issues that do little or nothing to change the status quo.
How does killing another human being who killed someone benefit the prevailing
society overall or any individual family? They said that Gandhi said, and
I am not too sure he even said it, but let me just quote. "An eye for an
eye and a tooth for a tooth, will leave the world blind and toothless."
Change
needs to go deep down into the fiber of the human construct. If a life
matters, whatever the color, then why does humanity allow, condone and support
wars when innocent lives of many ethnicities are lost? The average human
is more concerned with his immediate needs and takes not into account the needs
of those 7 thousand miles away. Yet those needs maybe the needs of human
beings of all ethnicities. Yet, this average human being will march and protest
saying an injustice to one is an injustice to all… and not move forward with an
antiwar agenda. If Black Lives, All Lives Matter why are these protesters
voting for warmongering politicians who live off the carnage of the human
species? Is the cover over their eyes so thick that they cannot see the
contradiction nor the hypocrisy?
I ask
this question because Black Lives cover a wide spectrum of human beings. Human
beings who have suffered under oppressive situations around the world. I
ask this question because the qualifying retort of "All Lives Matter"
still does not take into account the suffering and oppressive situations going
on around the world to all ethnicities. When we narrow our focus, we only
change a portion of the problem or let's say, we put a band-aide on
cancer. We are not dealing with man's inhumanity to man across the
broader more pervasive perspective. Therefore, the cry of alarm will only
travel a short distance and keep the prevailing society moving forward making
the most overt statement of all "No Lives Really Matter".
I
could get into a long list of the ways that lives are destroyed on this planet,
but suffice it to say that if there is a kernel of sincerity in this movement,
then we will see a major change in how
societies around the world function, and in how human beings treat human
beings.
Folks
are coming out with the banner of anti-racism and social justice etc., and,
missing the true essence of what this really means, they make quick adjustments
and claims to forestall the momentary
ire of the masses. I say to Pepsico,
Leave Aunt Jemima alone, that doesn't fix anything. Go deeper… get historical context and share
that, improve that. Add a caveat on the
box, tell the story. Cancelling the
product will have no significant impact. I protest this change. What the ever
living Fuq is happening to this world. All of a sudden it's racist? Wait till
they start looking into fairy tales and Walt Disney.
Now,
they took the rag off her head, they gave her some nice curls, and now they
just wanna take her face off altogether and change the labeling? This is going
a bit too far with this whole social justice bs. It's so superficial and again,
does not speak or even point to the systemic racism that is pervasive within
the company itself. How about changing
some of those hiring practices? How about giving more people of color a say in
what goes on around there? How about
making sure that Black History month is extended to include the entire
year? How about not supporting
warmongering politicians? How about
disbanding the death penalty?
Some
of this stuff is historical and needs to be addressed in its completeness, I
never knew the story till now, and that's a good thing. Why can't you just tell
the story and let folks decide if they want to purchase the product or not?
By now we have probably all heard the news that Aunt
Jemima will lose her face and brand on all the Quaker Oats products that
feature her face. So let's go to our
first article that tells the story.
Before we have to get our tissues out for this
heartfelt ripping at the sensibilities oration of what Quaker Oats/Pepsico see
as a need to remove Aunt Jemima, let's go for a little historical context and
look at this article from wikipedia. Now
don't give me the blues about Wikipedia, I was beginning to get confused over
who Aunt Jemima was as the names were coming up for more than one person, so
wikipedia helped me make some sense of it, so they get a shout out just this
one time. From Wikipedia we read….
Aunt Jemima is a
brand of pancake mix, syrup, and other breakfast foods. The Aunt Jemima pancake
mix debuted in 1889, the first ready-mix. By 1915 it had become one of the most
recognized brands in US history, and changed US trademark law. Currently owned
by the Quaker Oats Company of Chicago, now a subsidiary of PepsiCo.
The Aunt Jemima
character is based on the enslaved "Mammy" archetype. On June 17,
2020, following the killing of George Floyd and subsequent protests, Quaker
Oats announced that the Aunt Jemima brand would be rebranded "to make
progress toward racial equality."[1][2]
St. Joseph Gazette editor Chris L. Rutt, of St. Joseph, Missouri, and his friend Charles G. Underwood bought a flour mill
in 1888. Rutt and Underwood's Pearl Milling Company faced a glutted flour
market. After experimenting, they sold their excess flour as a pancake mix in
paper bags with a generic label, "Self-Rising Pancake Flour," later
dubbed "the first ready-mix".[3][4][5] To
distinguish their pancake mix, in the autumn of 1889 Rutt appropriated the Aunt
Jemima name and image from lithographed posters seen at a vaudeville house in
St. Joseph, Missouri.[4][5]
However, Rutt and Underwood could not raise enough
capital and quickly ran out of money.[5] They
sold their company to the Randolph Truett Davis Milling Company (also in St.
Joseph, Missouri) in 1890, then the largest flouring mill on the Missouri
River, having an established reputation with wholesale and retail grocers
throughout the Missouri Valley.[3][5][6] Davis
improved the flavor and texture of the product by adding rice flour and corn
sugar, and simplified the ready-mix by adding powdered milk. Only water was
needed to prepare the batter.[5]
The Davis Milling Company was renamed Aunt Jemima Mills
in February 1914.[3][6] By
1915, the Aunt Jemima brand was so well recognized that it changed trademark
infringement precedent, the "Aunt Jemima Doctrine".[7]
The Quaker Oats Company purchased the Aunt Jemima Mills Company in 1926,
and formally registered the Aunt Jemima trademark in April 1937.[3] It
remains one of the longest continually running logos and trademarks in the
history of American advertising.[8]
Quaker Oats introduced Aunt Jemima syrup in 1966. This
was followed by Aunt Jemima Butter Lite syrup in 1985 and Butter Rich syrup in
1991.[3]
"Jemima" character on 1899 cakewalk sheet
music cover (place picture here)
Character
Aunt Jemima is based
on the common enslaved "Mammy" archetype, a plump black woman wearing
a headscarf who is a devoted and submissive servant.[8][9] Her skin is dark and
dewy, with a pearly white smile. Although depictions vary over time, they are
similar to the common attire and physical features of "mammy"
characters throughout history.[10][11][12][13][14]
The term
"Aunt" in this context was a southern form of address used with older
enslaved peoples. They were denied use of courtesy titles.[15] A character
named "Aunt Jemima" appeared on the stage in Washington, D.C., as
early as 1864.[16]
Rutt's inspiration
for Aunt Jemima was Billy Kersands' American-style minstrelsy/vaudeville song
"Old Aunt Jemima", written in 1875. Rutt reportedly saw a minstrel
show featuring the "Old Aunt Jemima" song in the fall of 1889,
presented by blackface performers identified by Arthur F. Marquette as
"Baker & Farrell".[4] Marquette recounts that the actor playing
Aunt Jemima wore an apron and kerchief.[4][15]
Let me add here that it appears from what is reported
in this article called
The
inspiration for Aunt Jemima came specifically from the song “Old Aunt Jemima”
written by a black performer named Billy Kersands in 1875. It was a staple of
the minstrel circuit. The song was based on a song sung by slave hands. “Old
Aunt Jemima” was performed by men in blackface. One of the men depicted Aunt
Jemima – a
Slave Mammy of the Plantation South.
What I
found most interesting was the number of models who portrayed Aunt Jemima in
ads, on the radio and even at the 1920 World's Fair and various other venues.
Performers
The African American
Registry of the United States suggests Nancy Green and other individuals who
played the caricature of Aunt Jemima should be celebrated in lieu of what has
been widely condemned as a stereotypical and racist brand image. On Nancy Green's
birthday, November 17, the registry wrote "we celebrate the birth of Nancy
Green in 1834. She was a Black storyteller and one of the first Black corporate
models in the United States."[27]
Nancy Green was the first spokesperson hired by the R.
T. Davis Milling Company for the Aunt Jemima pancake mix.[3] Green was
born a slave in Montgomery County, Kentucky.[5][28] Dressed as Aunt Jemima,
Green appeared at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois,
beside the "world's largest flour barrel" (24 feet high), where she
operated a pancake-cooking display, sang songs, and told romanticized stories
about the Old South (a happy place for blacks and whites alike). She appeared
at country fairs, flea markets, food shows, and local grocery stores, her
arrival heralded by large billboards featuring the caption, "I'se in town,
honey."[5][9][28]
Following Green's
work as Aunt Jemima, the company hired a few dozen actors to portray the role,
often assigned regionally.[20] Some were relatively well-known.
Lillian Richard was hired to portray Aunt Jemima in
1925, and remained in the role for 23 years.
Anna Robinson was hired to play Aunt Jemima at the
1933 Century of Progress Chicago World's Fair.[3]
Anna Short Harrington began her career as Aunt Jemima
in 1935.[32]
Edith Wilson became the face of Aunt Jemima on radio,
television, and in personal appearances, from 1948 to 1966.
Rosie Lee Moore Hall portrayed the role of Aunt Jemima
from 1950 to 1967.
Aylene Lewis portrayed Aunt Jemima in 1955 at a
restaurant of the same name at Disneyland, posing for pictures with
visitors.[5]
Ethel Ernestine Harper worked as a traveling Aunt
Jemima, giving presentations at schools, churches, and other organizations
during the 1950s in person, in print, and in media.
So let's look at a few headlines the links will be in
the blog post in the description below for those who wish to read the articles
in total. See Below in section marked references
This is just a shot
listing of the many articles I have read in preparation for this video.
I have done a
tremendous amount of research on this thing. It had my head spinning but I
still stand that they should leave it alone, it doesn't mean they are no longer
racists! Folks were asking about changing it back in the 50's and
60's and now all of a sudden they realize it has racist stereotypical
overtones, give me a break! What was really racist was the fact that none
of the models were compensated for their work. And when their families sued,
they lost the court case. Remember how they copyright the "Happy
Birthday" song?
The issue is that
time and time again, they co-opt and patent a product that was not their own.
Although, Nancy Green was not the originator of the recipe, her face and the
face of those who followed became the brand, and that's my point, stop with
this superficial "I ain't gonna be a racist, no more." And give
credit where it's due, if they remove her, so they will remove the history and
the impact on society not to mention the millions of dollars that that
marketing scheme made General Foods, Quaker Oats and now Pepsico!!
Again, I must say
that many of these folks who are stepping up and "taking
responsibility" are making superficial gestures, they are not making
significant changes that will change the face of systemic racism or social
injustice. They are simply flapping
their lips to get a clap or to, because to me, if they were really sincere,
they would have been at the forefront of this movement 500 years ago, or at
least 20 years ago.
That's my take on
it, and I am sticking with it. Change
will take time, but heck, we need to focus on the real problems in order to
make real change, window dressing in 2020 will not make the grade.
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family and loved ones.
Aunt Jemima's logo has changed 6 times, and its history is rooted in racial stereotypes and slavery — check out how the brand started and evolved over 130 years
Aunt Jemima's logo has changed 6 times, and its history is rooted in racial stereotypes and slavery — check out how the brand started and evolved over 130 years
