"Racial stereotypes" ? No, these were the actual people, and how they looked. These black men and women died rich. And their heirs continued to make money. But because you are offended by how they look, because you are a damned racist leftist Marxist, you insisted something change about this. So another black woman got chosen for Aunt Jemima. That wasn't the real issue was it?
Ben's Original would be perfectly fine as a name, as would Pearl Milling Company. I don't need Aunt or Uncle names as a bygone practice for blacks. Pearl Jemima, this could be the character's name. Now called Pearl, because you are also offended with people having the last name Jemima. Yeah my last name is a source of ridicule too, but I've never let it bother me. But no black faces are on any of these products, not the old Jemima, not the newer one. This means the families that made money on this are now defunded.
Michael Jordan does not have shoes with his face on them. I checked. Nor is Serena Williams on any major products. Having someone as a spokesman or spokeswoman foe a product is entirely different from having their image on a product.
When you have your image on something, this means every single Aunt Jemima syrup or mix that is made gives that black family a cut of profits. Huge huge deal. Even if profits are only a small percent, that's a pretty good fortune.
Nancy Green (the original Aunt Jemima) and Agnes Moodey (the replacement) are names you actually should know, if you cared at all for these women. But the truth is, you are racist, and want to forget them as soon as possible. You should also care that I was wrong, they royally screwed over Nancy Green by claiming that Moodey was the real one, meaning all that effort to replace her image because "racism" meant the woman died in poverty and obscurity.
Frank Brown was the image for Uncle Ben. Likewise by 2020, when all this erasure is going on, "We don't know if a real 'Ben' ever existed."
In other words, if you want to not be racist, what you do is offer people money for their image as trademark money. Denying these are real people in order to avoid justly compensating them?
Yes, that's racist.
Show me, then, where any products have black people on them. Because in order to "not be racist", they defunded people and their families. That's extremely cheap.
Nothing at all comes of tearing down statues of great people. Nothing comes of removing black people from products. Those people could be justly paid for using their image. That part is racist.
Replacing them with nobody is also racist, though.