The Hebrews to Negroes documentary is incredibly flawed. Smatterings of fact mixed w/lots of conjecture&mistakes. I've been to West Africa7 times. This is Western centric history disguised as empowerment not a genuine account of cultural connections betwn ancient Africa&Israel. "All of our struggles in America are a result of the curse of Israel..." not at all H2N....it was the commodication of African knowledge and bodies; economic&social exploitation, cultural genocide, and overall psychological abuse during a time of mercantile excess.

I'm #Jewish ok? I wasn't going to tweet this but....it's the sweet and sour I exist in. I met a very nice lady at the kosher grocery store who told me that they didn't have lulavim/etrogim but that her community was giving them to those who needed and told me where to go (1) We went to the place, I had a kippa on and didn't sound out of place but the first thing was one of the boys with the adults (I'm not going to speculate why) ran off screaming in terror and while the adults present were direct and fairly cordial they did not respond to (2)

One of my big influences for #Koshersoul is a book called Miriam's Kitchen.
And I'm going to bring this book up often because it shows a discrepancy between the way some ppl might view my book vs. Others (1) Food memoir is very personal, vulnerable and raw. Cookbooks are manuals with hopefully some personal, cultural or regional context. If you don't want food memoir, don't read it. But really don't use cookbook expectations on food menoir.

#Jewish we aren't just traumas and issues&"oh hell whats up with them now..." we are our joys and things that are happy or peaceful or satisfying& substantial.
50 Joys of Jewish, a thread.
1. Its the smell of challah baking or warming on Friday.
Continued.... 2. It's the nod and smile when I wear a kippa from another brother in a kuffi.
3. It's getting a random ride when I'm standing in the rain.
4. --singing Debbie Friedman songs
5.--never mourning alone
6.--the sound of Ladino
7.--Morroccan Rosh Hashanah dinner

I'm a #Black Gay Jew. #VotingRights are under attack,synagogues are being attacked, Nazis are here, #HBCUs being threatened, Black& #Jewish &Gay authors are seeing our books banned under false pretense.some schools will ban discussion of LGBTQ issues. We are hurting. Im hurting. There's a difference between that sanctimonious bullshit about "victimhood," (imma tell you how to feel after making your life hell) and living under constant pressure from people who don't like you just for being who you can't help but be.

#WhoopiGoldberg ok. So this tweet is about dialogue...
The comment Whoopi made was myopic and uninformed at best, but its based on American not Hitler's Germany issues. To many Jews are a faith community, or assimilation into "whiteness," in America has made them "white" but... Anti-Semitism really is about Jews as a distinct, racial group that bear in their genes dysfunction..it was coined by a racial anti-Semite. I use Anti-Jewish also to describe issues with the religious part of Jewish peoplehood, Judaism.

Principal Bill Nolte tried it.
This is all you need to know:
This might be a short thread...so buckle up...
In my book The Cooking Gene. I had to deal with the legacy of cotton. I used to go picking cotton for long days. An Antebellum bale was about 400 pounds of picked cotton. Hardscrabble poor white folks or as one author put it "Dixie's Forgotten People" didn't get the whip. Their mothers were not r*aped to humiliate them, their children&husbands. They were often deputized against Black folks&were used as a racial football to maintain planter power.

Oh yeah...
If you teach about us, the Jewish people in the context of the Shoah/Holocaust you have to admit:
1. White supremacy is evil and has affected the human race, the planet and the fulfillment of the American promise.
2. That America turned away Jews from sanctuary.
Cont. 3. That there is no hierarchy of religions. It is personal and private to decide to be a part of or not be a part of a religious community.
4. That Jewish peoplehood stands on its own terms not in relation to the story of Christianity.
5. That Jews had lives before our traumas.

Conservative white evangelicals are overrepresented in the voting demographics because they participate at higher rates&have easements to vote at higher rights given them by legislatures that know they will get what they want by making it all abt them.
Vote. Do not be apathetic. 17 percent of the population determines over a quarter of its election results.

#SupremeCourt the responses of the hypocrites on Fox News...aren't just disappointing&enraging,they are sad&if I may, cruel. If u are not Black, consider me one of your Black neighbors. This drivel hurts to hear.they are talking abt my Mother, Grandmother, sisters, cousins&aunts My late Mom was the smartest person I think I ever met. She had so many dreams and ambitions but many were stolen by racism&deep sexism inside&outside her world.If people shit on Black women for having an overdue moment of representation they are not Americans to me.

So re: Thomas Jefferson book
Context
Context
Context
Its from 2003. Things weren't so great in the interpretation of American slavery. Exhibits&language u see now wasn't as common. Its so important to realize that our societal mood matters..like the moment we are in right now. GO TO PLANTATIONS AND KEEP THEM HONEST

I want to thank Chloe from GWU...but....wow..
@mimva @MuseumLara @HistoryGonWrong @old_line_plate get ready
1. This is not an "outrage," tweet.
2. Those of u who know my work interpreting the food culture of the enslaved know how important this is to me.
3.are you ready for this? Whats wrong with this picture?
1. He had enslaved labor& indentured Scotsmen doing his gardening until retirement.
2. James Hemings, was a young master chef. A "bright mulatto," who shared a father with Jefferson's wife.
3. Jefferson only entered the kitchen to change the clock.

Hey everyone...important notice. A thread: We have been in contentious times for a while. I know some if u vigorously disagree w/each other. I don't cosign 100% on other people's stuff just bc I follow them or them me. If you have an issue w/someone DM me rather than pull me in. I have never gone into somebody's profile&done that to them. Its like being at a party&pulling someone on stage and saying, "And this is the company you keep? Explain yourself." You wouldn't do that in public but apparently its a tactic on here. I prefer DM if there's a problem.

#InternationalHolocaustRemembranceDay I want acknowledge that part of my dedicated interests in traditional Jewish foodways drew inspiration from Joan Nathan's recipe adaptation of the Beigel family challah. Its my favorite and it was saved by a family decimated in the Shoah. So for me, I understood what it meant to grasp onto these culinary memories because they represented people and life beyond trauma. People living from day to day. It was this inner dialogue that fertilized my work interpreting the food and lives of the American enslaved.

Ok but here's the real T....as a gay man....these are the same dudes who take on WASP performer names and spend 18-24 in groups just as large "frollicking" in front of a camera and those that don't go the only fans route so cut the queerphobia sis. @cmclymer she tried it.

https://twitter.com/SameeraKhan/status/1485685242837057541

Like straight up acting as if they aint the worlds biggest twink and daddy bear factory

One of the things that the enslaving culture never got over was an African that could read, but even worse was an African that could write. The current war against Black literature and Black writers is just an unresolved sickness from the Antebellum past. But fascism is futile. Its not just the books, its a Michael W Twitty who read The Bluest Eye and Sula and Beloved and The Color Purple and Giovanni's Room many other works and found a path. I learned about spaces and universes where I was possible and Central and like Milkman, I could fly.

How does someone like me experience #Antisemitism ?
Anti-Jewish sentiments and behavior can reflect the different variants of people expressing their displeasure with Jews as a people, sub-ethnicities and as a set of religious practices or cultural or social stances. Wearing a kippa, having a beard or wearing tzitzit...or fringes intended to remind me to observe the commandments often signify my Jewishness but that's not the only way people might identify me as a Jew and treat me differently in a negative way.

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.
🤬🤬 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.

When I was middle school, I was on a bus on a field trip and John whatever his name was' father decided to put a sticker from a potato chip bag on me and when I grasped at it from behind he chuckled and said "Thats your worth." This blue eyed white man thought this was ok to do. And so when I hear some radicalized white parents deliberately confusing social justice and CRT and BIPOC consciousness with each other and using it as a political weapon, I remember how growing up defeating my self esteem was critical to their whiteness being a form of currency.

IMPORTANT: READ CAREFULLY
AFRICAN AMERICAN, AFRO CARIBBEAN&AFRO-LATIN DESCENDANTS:
I'm working on something pressing due today.
Big ?: what are the things abt your kitchen growing up/grandmas kitchen etc. That was culturally or culinarily SIGNATURE that u remember fondly? Hotcomb

So because I'm the King of Black Fat Gay Jewish Vulnerable,
I am hoping one day I can really write about the intersection of these things in a way that won't make me feel like I'm saying too much. Which is hilarious when I'm surrounded by a narrative that only pretty WASPs play. Being with other Jewish men was a challenge in the sense that I could usually only play one unfortunate role....exotic Black bear daddy who could likely give mamele a coronary...but after beast...pillow talk revealed tada...Im Jewish too
And they would run like gehenna.