Please click the icon to follow us on Facebook.on this day President Jesse Louis Jackson, Sr. honoured a key campaign pledge by signing new legislation that completely banned the use of slave images in advertised products.

By this time of course the most notoriously crass commercials had already been rebadged. By way of example to arguably one of the least offensive products, "Darkie Toothpaste" had been relabelled to "Darlie Toothpaste".

However, even in this more enlightened age, residual images of historic archetypes such as "Uncle Ben" and "Aunt Jemima" were still impinging upon the American consciousness. Without refering explicitly to those particular brands, President Jackson emphasised that racist product packaging depicting obsequoious role models from history could have no place in the Progressive Modern Confederacy now that the rainbow nation had begun to find "common ground".