George Floyd overdosed and then died in police custody. Black Lives Matter rose from obscurity to lead a revolution (burning down black businesses and extorting money), and weak-kneed concerns, from insurance to sports teams to pancakes, rice, and dairy products, cleansed their brands of anything “brown person.”
These casualties included the Mutual of Omaha Chief, Mia the Indian Maiden, Aunt Jamima, Uncle Ben, and Blackfoot Chief John Two Guns White Calf. Land-O-Lakes got rid of the Indian and kept the land. Aunt Jemima disappeared in both face and name. Uncle Ben’s image was erased, and the Washington Redskins changed the team’s name to the Commanders. After we suffered through the interim with “The Washington Football Team,” they changed the name and banned the image inspired by John Two Guns White Calf.
Related: Rebranding: Quaker Oats Should have Replaced Aunt Jemima with ‘Uncle’ George
It’s almost as if they created a whole new platform standard with which the previous versions would not work. You couldn’t use the old logo, wear it, or be seen in it. Like Moses’s name, it was to be struck from every book and tablet. But something changed. Maybe the election of Donald Trump. Perhaps the relentless success of Robbie Starbucks. But that Washington Football Team has commanded that the old logo is no longer verboten.
Un-erasing the logo would also mean that if Wetzel wanted to use the logo in a throwback uniform, or something created to be posted in the stadium, etc. he could, Fox News noted.
Wetzel’s grandson Ryan Wetzel said that he feels good that a plan will come about to honor his grandfather’s legacy, the Daily Montanan reported.
“It’s exciting to even have that conversation after they said it (the logo) would be gone forever,” Wetzel said.
We have lamented the woke culture war against public personals of people of color, so this is a positive step, but again, why now? What happened? How about politics and money?
[Republican Montana Senator Steve] Daines has said he would approve legislation for the building of a new stadium for the Commanders, as long as the team agreed to never censor the logo again or degrade it. That includes the team using the logo again in some shape or form, ie. in historical images, videos, merchandise, even using the logo if the team should want to use it throwback game jersey, etc., the Bozeman Daily Chronicle noted.
I wonder if someone can figure out how to get Mia back on the pound of butter and Ben back on the bag of rice.
