PLEASE STOP SAYING SOUL FOOD CAME FROM WHITE PEOPLE'S SCRAPS.
It's a complete lie that robs us of our agency, ownership, creativity and resistance and shows a lack of critical thinking and cultural literacy.
Damn, I wrote a 400 page book about this with 350 books in the bib.
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It's a complete lie that robs us of our agency, ownership, creativity and resistance and shows a lack of critical thinking and cultural literacy.
Damn, I wrote a 400 page book about this with 350 books in the bib.
🤬🤬
Really, them 6 white folks in the big house gave their 40 enslaved laborers some biscuit ends and a wing tip and was like...be grateful and work a 12-16 hour day tomorrow?
Black people actually revolted over food more than once. Stop the armchair history fakelore.
Black people actually revolted over food more than once. Stop the armchair history fakelore.
I've been to eight West African nations and btw intestines, livers, hearts, skin, feet, heads are happily consumed by everybody.
European medievalists can chime in here, but the idea of scraps from the master of the land is very pre-modern Europe.
European medievalists can chime in here, but the idea of scraps from the master of the land is very pre-modern Europe.
Thank you for coming to my Twitty talk.
The book is called The Cooking Gene btw. :)
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