Reminds me a bit also of this discussion about “vanilla” becoming paradoxically associated with whiteness and blandness.
I want to say I saw another essay on that too. But it’s interesting, and yes, it’s about white culture and slavery.
Not because we’re trying to prove how “good” we are by eating spicy food. That’s a childish and simplistic way to think about a difficult and complicated problem.
Frankly it’s an offensive assumption as well and really borders on bad faith.
Who the hell is eating spicy food to prove they aren’t racist?
Exactly; even much of today’s ‘soul food’ is a direct throwback to the antebellum south and the leftover, unwanted animal parts that were given to slaves for food (ie, chitterlings, hamhocks, pig’s feet, ox tail, etc…)
This convo about white culture in the context of food is really eye opening for me. I’m constantly grateful to live in a time with such rich access to foods that weren’t available when I was growing up, and had never thought about the cultural* biases built into our food culture before.
This comment isn’t directed at you, personally, but a thank you to all commenters here furthering the conversation. TIL. I’ll definitely be more mindful of this from now on.
Barring the run of the mill sexism we see in that industry.
“I couldn’t sleep last night,” Anckle said. “I couldn’t get the image of these people out of my head. When you looked at their faces, there was no compassion, a total lack of humanity. It was the best display of privileges I have ever seen.
But on Wednesday, the “vaccine vultures in Versace”, so named by the director of the community center, Beryl Tsang, descended.
“The demographics of the group that showed up for the second doses were quite different from the group that our volunteers worked so hard to bring to the line,” said Anckle. “My office overlooks a parking lot, which was full of luxury SUVs yesterday. These are the cars in which they finally left.
Anckle said many of the crowd appeared to know each other.
White people hot sauce needs more allspice / cinnamon / cloves / nutmeg to smooth it out a little. And we need to use more turmeric as well, preferably after investing in a serious apron.
