In today’s episode of White People Who Can’t Seem To Find Their Lane, actor and comedian Ben Stein posted a video of himself expressing nostalgia for the days when racist imagery on consumer products was no big deal (to white people) and no one (who was white) complained it.

Apparently, Stein loves his pancake syrup—but he prefers it with a side of Mammy.

Actor Ben Stein says he misses the good old days when “a large African-American woman” was on his syrup bottle, but woke corporate culture ruins everything. pic.twitter.com/WkSXUDbRIj

— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) February 21, 2023

“Aunt Jemima yummy pancake syrup,” the former Richard Nixon ghostwriter said while holding a Pearl Mining Company bottle, which is PepsiCo’s updated brand that replaced Aunt Jemima. “Now, this used to show a large African American woman chef. Because of the inherent racism of America’s corporate culture, they decided to make it a white person or maybe no person at all. But I prefer it when it was a Black person showing their incredible skill making pancakes.”

First of all, Stein doesn’t even want the syrup bottle with the updated, less mammy-inspired version of Aunt Jemima. He wants the more stereotypical, pre-Jim Crow, minstrel-inspired, racist cookie jar you better not find at your white friends’ parents’ house version of Aunt Jemima. Stein is really out here pining away for the most racist version of the historically racist image while appearing to mock the idea of “inherent racism of America’s corporate culture.” (And, honestly, he didn’t even necessarily need to specify “corporate.”)

Secondly, Ben is showing us that he’s out of touch in more ways than one. Besides the fact that he’s coming off like someone who definitely has a sambo lawn jockey on his Amazon wish list, it’s very clear that the guy from Ferris Bueller does not know how to read a room. Why else would he go completely out of his way to get himself dragged by the fine folks on Twitter like this?

I’m curious how he’d feel if it was a blatantly racist picture of a Jewish person advertising a savings account.

— Nathan Quarry (@NateRockQuarry) February 21, 2023

Why did black people have to go and get all this pride and dignity and ruin everything?!! Now I can’t shout to my wife “Just grab the syrup with the fat black woman on it!!!” when we’re in the store. Woke!!!!!

— Lamont Thompson (@TheLamontDT) February 21, 2023

Aha!! That explains a lot!

— Jo momma (@Joetta) February 21, 2023

Everyday in the life of an angry Republican complaining about how things aren’t like “the good ol’ days” anymore. pic.twitter.com/yzNe8gzkWa

— 🄰🄽🄳🅈 (@ndyGH17) February 21, 2023

He put on a jacket to say this.

— wheatus (@wheatus) February 21, 2023

he’d just been jacket cockin’ around the house and thought, i gotta speak on wokeness, better put on my pants.

— wheatus (@wheatus) February 21, 2023

Ben stein misses Aunt Jemima because of course he does and of course he tells us during Black History month because… only a few more days in the month… https://t.co/guDzcKRvmT

— President Kamala’s Hand (Again) (@myronjclifton) February 21, 2023

At the end of the day, white people show off their privilege when they debate about whether or not imagery derived from racism should be preserved in the name of their pride, heritage, nostalgia or whatever it is they’re holding on to it for. White people are still, in the 21st century,  using “Aunt Jemima” as a slur against Black women. Hell, politicians are still doing it.

But none of that matters, because Ben Stein misses his woke-free breakfast.

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