The Makers Of Cream Of Wheat Are Reviewing Their Packaging Which Features A Black Chef With A Racist Past

Aunt Jemima and Lady Antebellum might be dead, but Rastus, the Cream of Wheat chef whose name is a vile slur taken from a minstrel character whose defining characteristics were stupidity and shiftlessness, lives on. Like he literally lives on every box of Cream of Wheat sold all over the world. However, according to CNN, current COW owner B&G Foods (it was a Kraft product until 2007) “has initiated a review of its packaging,” which I guess technically isn’t doing the absolute least, but it’s close.

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