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Why are my people involving themselves in this buffoonery.
They really playing slave dress up to allow this man to play make believe
I did drop 45 minutes of video, mostly so I could get to a punch line about pudding.
To be fair to the middle video, the black guy in it, Micheal Twitty, is a real one. If you have the time, you should watch the video because he does explain how much of southern food and American food, in general, is a product of the horrors of slavery and the genius of enslaved people. This is a relatively short video with Twitty collaborating with another youtube series. There are longer videos of Twitty talking at length about the intersection of food and American history and I hope that his work in academic and living history might just get a few Paul Deen sort of white folks woke.
For younger white people, hip hop, seakers and basketball can act as a an overture to humanize people of color and maybe get you more and more aware of their struggles and your privilege. Older white folks love BBQ and living history so hopefully people like Twitty can humanize blacks folks in a way that articles and academic literature never could.
Sorry to disappoint you, but many in this generation of sneaker hoarders have no clue about the relationship between black culture, basketball, hip hop, and sneakers. They've really bought into the myth that MJ started it all. Tell them Puma, and they'll think Rihanna instead of Clyde or Suede. They've been lost in the sneaker marketing sauce.