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bravenak

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27. I like being told how I should feel about 'Black Stuff'.

Mon Feb 10, 2014, 01:28 AM

Feb 2014

It's so fun. I'm reading the soul food thread right now and it's a live one. I'm trying to pretend to myself that fried chicken isn't a stereotype, playing off of some racist bull from the past. Its not working.

Why should I care if some guy wrote a book fantasizing about how wonderful soul food is? He's trying to sell books, of course he's going make everything sound comfy and nice. The real history of black people and chicken is that we rarely got any. Lots of times when a slave ate fried chicken it was stolen since they weren't allowed to have any. We got salt pork, cornmeal, fatback, molasses, and tobacco. The rest we scavenged for, and grew from the plots we tended to at night if the massa allowed us to tend our own fields near our shacks. That ain't soul food to me. That's slave food and I don't want to embrace it.

Sorry for posting this here, but I had to get that out. Again. I'm leaving it alone now.

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Ha! JustAnotherGen Feb 2014 #18

very sorry you are getting such undeserved grief, Tarheel! Whisp Feb 2014 #45

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persevere heaven05 Feb 2014 #64

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that's what I meant heaven05 Feb 2014 #66

I saw that BainsBane Feb 2014 #4

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don't assume they are really democrats or liberals JI7 Feb 2014 #20

I think that's exactly why she's got the bullseye so squarely on her back Number23 Feb 2014 #21

Well said, and you wouldn't believe this was still a valid TOS, would you? Tarheel_Dem Feb 2014 #22

I wish I had your strength to be able to laugh at them. This libertarian BS hurts people IRL. n/t freshwest Feb 2014 #24

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I tell people in public that if they have a problem with Obama, they need some kind of medical help! freshwest Feb 2014 #37

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I noticed this, too ... 1StrongBlackMan Feb 2014 #23

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Every time I step away... onpatrol98 Feb 2014 #26

And now someone else is leaping onto the "Crush. Kill, Tarheel" train Number23 Feb 2014 #30

My husband says the same thing to me. Leave those crazy people alone! bravenak Feb 2014 #31

You are too funny! Number23 Feb 2014 #33

I feel like that one black lady that joined the TEA party sometimes. bravenak Feb 2014 #35

I think you've had a really good impact on this forum Number23 Feb 2014 #36

I've been around people like this my whole life. bravenak Feb 2014 #38

I love you JustAnotherGen Feb 2014 #40

I'll show up to partay!! bravenak Feb 2014 #42

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You are exactly right Number23 Feb 2014 #55

OMG! Someone found this offensive??? freshwest Feb 2014 #50

I've noticed that it's the same folks over and over again, posting the same tired assed Number23 Feb 2014 #54

You said it all, just what I wanted to say: freshwest Feb 2014 #49

Tell it ... 1StrongBlackMan Feb 2014 #51

I like being told how I should feel about 'Black Stuff'. bravenak Feb 2014 #27

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Oh hells yes. bravenak Feb 2014 #29

Fishwax is a god(dess) Number23 Feb 2014 #34

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