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Lexi Carter (an African American woman) says she has been distraught after Dr. James Turner (her white dermatologist) greeted her with Hi Aunt Jemina during a July 11th exam. It was an insult, racial ethnic insult, a joke. Its putting me on a level of someone who is subservient with a smilekind of step and fetch it. It was very derogatory, very demeaning. Especially for someone who prides myself in being none of that, Carter said. She also said that Dr. Carter repeatedly used the term and did not apologize at the time.
Ms. Carter is one of our very dear patients and has been for years. She is one of many African American patients and I count it a privilege to be their doctor. Anything I said that tarnishes that image and my respect for her was a misspoken blunder on my part and was not intended to show disrespect for Ms. Carter, Dr. Turner said in a statement. I am very sorry for that misunderstanding.
Cornell University associate professor Riché Richardson wrote in the New York Times in 2015 that the Aunt Jemina logo remains one of the longest continually running logos and trademarks in the history of American advertising. This Aunt Jemima logo was an outgrowth of Old South plantation nostalgia and romance grounded in an idea about the mammy, a devoted and submissive servant who eagerly nurtured the children of her white master and mistress while neglecting her own, Richardson explained. Visually, the plantation myth portrayed her as an asexual, plump black woman wearing a headscarf.
In 1923, the United Daughters of the Confederacy sought to erect a monument in Washington, DC honoring the faithful slave mammies of the South.
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/07/white-memphis-doctor-fire-repeatedly-calling-black-patient-aunt-jemima-face/
Demovictory9
(32,419 posts)Ohiogal
(31,887 posts)madaboutharry
(40,181 posts)Kittycow
(2,396 posts)kysrsoze
(6,019 posts)Still trying to figure if there were always this many loud-mouthed assholes and it was under-reported, or if theyre all coming out of the woodwork b/c of Comrade Assface.
Major Nikon
(36,818 posts)Shit like Aunt Jemima and Chief Wahoo need to be delegated to the ash heap of history. The Redskins and the so-called Confederate flag need to go with them.