Why Redman** changed their name

Go woke, Go...

Nothing says “inclusive” like removing all references and images of non-whites from your products.

Red Man was my dad's go to. We spent tens of thousands of hours in trout streams and roaming the woods. Always had a chew or a Lucky Strike

I remember her and Uncle Ben. Its unknown if Uncle Ben was real, but the model for Aunt Jemimah was both a legitimate mammy and a civil rights activist. It was not a contradiction to be both.

The image of the Indian on the Red Man package was noble and proud. There was nothing undignified about him. And Indians gave us tobacco. The association made sense.

Nancy Greene was the original model hired to be Aunt Jemima and one of many used by the companies that owned the brand. She was not known as Aunt Jemima, that was a fictitious name created by  the R.T. Davis Milling Company. She died long before the civil right movement began in the 1950s. She did use her position to speak out as an advocate against poverty and in favor of equal rights for individuals in Chicago. She was the model for 20 years and then replaced by another black woman. The figure on the current boxes before they changed the name was not her. It was another model they used when they did the last update to the photo. 

Uncles Ben's image was based on a hotel maitre D named Frank Brown, but the character was also fictitious. It was also updated a few times before being retired. 

their new name might be even worse ...