(January 2, 2017 at 4:29 pm)mcolafson Wrote: 1.
RENO, Nev. (AP) - Madeleine Pickens wanted the African-American chef she recruited from the country club she owns in Southern California to cook "black people food" - not "white people food" - at her rural Nevada dude ranch and wild horse sanctuary, according to a federal lawsuit accusing her of racial discrimination.
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(from The White Man's Guilt by James Baldwin)
Do not blame me. I was not there. I did not do it. My history has nothing to do with Europe or the slave trade. Anyway it was your chiefs who sold you to me. I was not present in the middle passage.
I am not responsible for the textile mills of Manchester, or the cotton fields of Mississippi.
So, how can a man born in Finland be responsible for textile mills of Manchester, or the cotton fields of Mississippi?
The essay written by Baldwin is more than 50 years old, but from the comments I read in the internet (on American news browsers), white people will be guilty for eternity of the black slavery...
and then, children of interracial marriages, should they fill white man's guilt?
(January 2, 2017 at 4:17 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Ok, now can you tell me what either the article about 'black people food' or a 51 years old piece by James Baldwin has to do with your question?As an American explain to me, what is wrong, oppressive, racist in saying 'black people food'
Boru
I can't answer as an American, but what is wrong with it is that there is no such thing as 'black people food'. The phrase implies that all black people eat the same kind of food...that the Maasai in Kenya have the same diet as the Zulu in South Africa who have the same diet as black Americans in Louisiana. When you paint with so broad a brush you reveal a basic ignorance that the differences in people go far, far deeper than skin colour. And that, my friend, is precisely what racism is, you ignorant wretch.
Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson