So apparently Uncle Ben (of rice fame) has been promoted to the CEO of the company in the company's new marketing campaign. Good for him. Other racist spokescharacters haven't been so lucky. Here's a slate.com slideshow on the topic - the strange history of racist spokescharacters.
Oddly enough it doesn't even touch upon sports logos, which I generally find pretty interesting anyway.
I mean, not that there's any blatant Native American stereotyping in major league sports in this day and age ...
Oh poor Chief Wahoo, when is the white man going to finally let you rest in peace?
