No slave cooking in Chicago 'burbs

[George K]

https://www.oakpark.com/2023/02/07/park-district-cancels-controversial-cooking-camp/?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark

[jon-nyc]

following intense public criticism that it glorified this country’s painful history of forcibly removing African people from their homelands, stripping them of the most basic human rights and enslaving them.

Sorry, I’m calling bullshit on that. Their fellow Africans enslaved them and stripped them of their most basic human rights. This country just forcibly removed them from their homelands.

I mean, it’s important that we get history right.

[George K]

@jon-nyc you're a racist.

[Horace]

If America had never invented Slavery, Africa today would have been built similarly to how the slaves built America. Talk about a game changer.

[Mik]

History for me, but not for thee.

It sounds like an interesting effort to show how the slave trade affected American culinary culture. I have a BBQ cookbook called Black Smoke that purports to do something very similar. I guess you can only do this if you’re black.

Cooking is the new n-word.

[Jolly]

Created with inspiration from The 1619 Project.

'Nuff said.