How well known is the aunty jemima thing? Have you got more than one person's perspective on it in America? Or it could be just their opinion iykwim?
No it's a big deal. the Aunt Jemima brand is massive and everyone knows it and everyone has a very negative response to it as an offensive name. I asked my friend to give an actual example of how it is used and she remembers it more as a school yard slur used against larger girls with dark skin. So there was a racist connection there in that white girls were never called Aunt Jemima but it also seems a bit school yard petty to me. I need to question the forums more I think for a very broad overview that I can't get from asking just people around me.

One of my closest friends growing up was jemima, don't let it worry you that we called her jemima vagina often, it was said with love
Well that doesn't really help the case for Jemima

Throwing Henrietta into the mix now...