Zimbabwe’s Mugabe of Knighthood
Phew! Close one!
Queen Elizabeth II stripped Robert Mugabe of his ceremonial knighthood on Wednesday, revoking the honor amid new attempts to rebuke the president of Zimbabwe and express revulsion over human rights abuses in his country. The highly unusual move was the most eye-catching of several steps, which included decisions to press for new European Union sanctions against Mugabe’s regime, to ban Zimbabwe’s cricket team from a tour of Britain, and a government warning that Britons should avoid all travel to the country engulfed in violence.
Queen Elizabeth, showing the UN how to get tough the liberal way!
Nelson Mandela complimented the queen on her looks as she greeted him in the palace Wednesday. In return, she praised his bright gold shirt.
More: Just How Racist Was Aunt Jemima?
Proving, once again, that women have more stones than the UN.
Good for her.
It looks like the British Lion isn’t completely toothless yet.
Well I’ll be damned. God save the Queen…and her royal pimp hand.
OK wait. How the hell did he get knighted to begin with?
Well, yes.
Those ads — the ones that aren’t straight-up “warmth, nourishment and trust” image-ads — are about how nice it is that that friendly Mississippi-talkin’ lady rescued those hapless white people with pancakes.
In all of them, her stereotypicality is heightened to make her seem more warm and trustworthy. Sixty or seventy years ago, that mammy stereotype was a favorable one, rather like the secular-magical one that Morgan Freeman’s film characters embody now — which, too, will look pretty crazy (and RACIST!, if people still speak that language) to future interpreters.
Meh.
Oh, lawdy! Now you done gone and done it!
And the matronly figure of Mrs. Buttersworth? Sexist!
Or should we be saying – “Darn! A lot of people really do not have a lot to do, do they?”
* Chuckle* – “Ohhh….someone has put a logo right over my face…”
The sun has after all not set on the British Empire,thanks to you Yankees
Well kind of, but it was more of a nourishment and trust of racism. Embrace your past, Quaker Oat Company!
Why? What possible connection does the current management (or shareholders) of Quaker Oats have with what the management/shareholders of 70 years ago did? That they played their advertising to a stereotypical image of the warm, benevolent “mammy” figure? Does the idiot who wrote the gleeful “embrace your racism you running dog capitalists” really believe there was some equivalence between people buying a pancake mix and hooded KKK members?
Quaker Oats
Hey, how come the anachronistic Aunt Jemima figure is “racist”, but the anachronistic Quaker himself isn’t?
I know some Quakers, and none of them dress like that or speak in that archaic “thee”/”thou” dialect.
Cap’n Crunch? Also racist. British naval officers haven’t dressed like that in more than a century. We won’t even go into the stereotyped Frenchman of Jean LaFoote.
Chef Boyardee? Racist.
Juan Valdez? Racist.
Orville Redenbacher? Douchebag.
Darleen,
Does the idiot who wrote the gleeful “embrace your racism you running dog capitalists†really believe there was some equivalence between people buying a pancake mix and hooded KKK members?
The idiot who wrote that, I can all but guarantee, thinks all whites were either members or supporters of the Klan, whether they bought pancake mix or not.
I never understood how Aunt Jemimah was racist, I really can’t work that out. A big fat cookin’ mama with a scarf on her head? Hell yeah I’ll buy twenty flapjacks from that kind of cook.