Thank you for sharing this. You’ve made strong points that highlight the dangers of manipulating language to push divisive narratives. While we can all agree that access to healthy food is a serious issue, blaming it solely on systemic racism—without acknowledging economic, criminal, and policy-driven factors—distorts the discussion and delays real solutions. I appreciate your effort to refocus attention on practical causes rather than ideological framing. It’s important that we protect both truth and unity in how we address community challenges.
They do this because they have no other marketable skills. In general, most of them can't create anything useful, fix a broken something and return it to usefulness, or produce anything of great value. Everyone needs a reason to get up in the morning and, sadly, this seems to be theirs.
I have a different take on this. When we live separately we make it far too simple. The stories become just that, different stories with simple answers, and simple answers sell. When we lose a center to a place, a town, a community, a city... we become apart from it. We used to have neighborhoods, especially in cities. We used to have towns and communities where many of us knew each other. We agreed and disagreed but there was a center, or center draws to it. With these patchworks there became a quilt. Shop owners, adjacent farmers, small businesses, local people, and everybody walked to and from them, or there were hucksters, nearby goods. That's largely gone with the Amazons and Walmarts and franchise chains of the world not even to mention the just in time global trade of giant containers, stretching us away. Forget "food deserts" for a moment, and think of a desert. But with 10,000 mile caravans, bringing everything from the cheapest faraway place to the consumers who will and can buy. We live separately in more ways than one. In many ways. Then the Amazons of the world and the media moguls of the world who make the stories feed us with what we are inclined to hear. And separated, we stop talking to our separated neighbors. We want, or are inclined to believe, simple answers. There once were neighbors, there once were local farms, we grew out own food and made our own necessities... And we weren't "consumers", we were out own makers, our own customers. It was not "convenient" but it was lived, more real. I know the difference because I, we lived it.
Ishisaka is a typical Progressive - they never talk about the role they played in destroying valuable food traditions by forcing poor people out of their neighborhoods into projects. Ishisaka should ask the question “Why is Gullah cooking so rich in everything we should eat when they were a segregated community?” She should talk to cab drivers in NYC about the vegetable and fruit gardens they've eaten from on tiny lots out in the cheapest neighborhoods. My husband used o go to a hair cutter in Greenwich Village where we lived for several decades. That guy grew amazing vegetables where he lived on Staten Island and he fished as well. The Progressives made the eating habits of poor people what they are today - addictions to worthless fast food.
People who use words such Nazi, homophobic, racist white supremest and Christian nationalist have lost their flipping minds. Enter in the new slur, food apartheid.
Thanks for the article. It helped me firm up my theory that wokeness is really just a license to kill (well, curse, shove, cancel or kill) over anything the woker feels strongly enough about to curse, shove, cancel or kill.
Recently a number of states have been pushing the 10 Commandments into schools. I was kind of iffy about that until it occurred to me that the biggest problem with wokers is that they have no rules to guide them when they run into those things that they can't change. Has no one ever told anyone like those clowns in New Jersey there are things they aren't allowed to do. Hmm?
Progressive zealots are desperate to manufacture oppression where there is none. They also love inventing new terms to push fear, for example, heavy rains are now called "atmospheric rivers". LOL!
Liberal identity politics has one job- to obscure with myths and virtue signalling the moral, cultural and economic disparities that have been creating the real problems in human society. PMC elites (and wannabees) love promoting DEI/BIPOC/LGBTQ/CRT, etc., because they don't threaten (or impact much when it does) their comfortable way of life and they appear morally and intellectually superior when they pay lip service to them.
Thank you for sharing this. You’ve made strong points that highlight the dangers of manipulating language to push divisive narratives. While we can all agree that access to healthy food is a serious issue, blaming it solely on systemic racism—without acknowledging economic, criminal, and policy-driven factors—distorts the discussion and delays real solutions. I appreciate your effort to refocus attention on practical causes rather than ideological framing. It’s important that we protect both truth and unity in how we address community challenges.
They do this because they have no other marketable skills. In general, most of them can't create anything useful, fix a broken something and return it to usefulness, or produce anything of great value. Everyone needs a reason to get up in the morning and, sadly, this seems to be theirs.
Also, victimhood has become immensely profitable.
I have a different take on this. When we live separately we make it far too simple. The stories become just that, different stories with simple answers, and simple answers sell. When we lose a center to a place, a town, a community, a city... we become apart from it. We used to have neighborhoods, especially in cities. We used to have towns and communities where many of us knew each other. We agreed and disagreed but there was a center, or center draws to it. With these patchworks there became a quilt. Shop owners, adjacent farmers, small businesses, local people, and everybody walked to and from them, or there were hucksters, nearby goods. That's largely gone with the Amazons and Walmarts and franchise chains of the world not even to mention the just in time global trade of giant containers, stretching us away. Forget "food deserts" for a moment, and think of a desert. But with 10,000 mile caravans, bringing everything from the cheapest faraway place to the consumers who will and can buy. We live separately in more ways than one. In many ways. Then the Amazons of the world and the media moguls of the world who make the stories feed us with what we are inclined to hear. And separated, we stop talking to our separated neighbors. We want, or are inclined to believe, simple answers. There once were neighbors, there once were local farms, we grew out own food and made our own necessities... And we weren't "consumers", we were out own makers, our own customers. It was not "convenient" but it was lived, more real. I know the difference because I, we lived it.
Ishisaka is a typical Progressive - they never talk about the role they played in destroying valuable food traditions by forcing poor people out of their neighborhoods into projects. Ishisaka should ask the question “Why is Gullah cooking so rich in everything we should eat when they were a segregated community?” She should talk to cab drivers in NYC about the vegetable and fruit gardens they've eaten from on tiny lots out in the cheapest neighborhoods. My husband used o go to a hair cutter in Greenwich Village where we lived for several decades. That guy grew amazing vegetables where he lived on Staten Island and he fished as well. The Progressives made the eating habits of poor people what they are today - addictions to worthless fast food.
People who use words such Nazi, homophobic, racist white supremest and Christian nationalist have lost their flipping minds. Enter in the new slur, food apartheid.
sounds like a great opportunity for minority entrepreneurs to open businesses. win-win.
Thanks for the article. It helped me firm up my theory that wokeness is really just a license to kill (well, curse, shove, cancel or kill) over anything the woker feels strongly enough about to curse, shove, cancel or kill.
Recently a number of states have been pushing the 10 Commandments into schools. I was kind of iffy about that until it occurred to me that the biggest problem with wokers is that they have no rules to guide them when they run into those things that they can't change. Has no one ever told anyone like those clowns in New Jersey there are things they aren't allowed to do. Hmm?
Thanks for the thoughts.
Progressive zealots are desperate to manufacture oppression where there is none. They also love inventing new terms to push fear, for example, heavy rains are now called "atmospheric rivers". LOL!
Very well put, John!
Liberal identity politics has one job- to obscure with myths and virtue signalling the moral, cultural and economic disparities that have been creating the real problems in human society. PMC elites (and wannabees) love promoting DEI/BIPOC/LGBTQ/CRT, etc., because they don't threaten (or impact much when it does) their comfortable way of life and they appear morally and intellectually superior when they pay lip service to them.