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** Regardless of how it's presented, the movie's real purpose is to highlight a serious and legitimate real-world issue - namely, racism, both de facto and institutionalized. For example, virtually all of the "fake" advertisements used in the commercial breaks are for real products. Granted, most of these were discontinued or renamed to remove racist imagery within the last hundred years, but it mentions that the restaurant chain Sambo's was in operation as late as the 1980s and Uncle Ben and Aunt Jemima are still in use as advertising icons, albeit cleaned up as major business executives in the food industry.
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** Regardless of how it's presented, the movie's real purpose is to highlight a serious and legitimate real-world issue - namely, racism, both de facto and institutionalized. For example, virtually all of the "fake" advertisements used in the commercial breaks are for real products. Granted, most of these were discontinued or renamed to remove racist imagery within the last hundred years, but it mentions that the restaurant chain Sambo's was in operation as late as the 1980s and Uncle Ben and Aunt Jemima are (or were) still in use as advertising icons, icons[[note]]Both were rebranded in response to the George Floyd protests in 2020, with the former being rebranded as "Ben's Original" and the latter to "Pearl Milling Company", after the original manufacturers of the pancake mix[[/note]] though as mentioned else, albeit cleaned up as major business executives in the food industry.
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* CanadaEh: Inverted. Since many of those responsible for what we think of as American culture (from Creator/MarkTwain to Music/ElvisPresley) are forced into Canada due to Confederate morality laws, it essentially becomes the America of this world--the heart of global popular culture.
