I'm not weird. I would never eat that junk. I just like laughing at it. It's like those pictures of disgusting houses. You like those too right?
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I've always considered black cooking to be not much different than traditional American Southern cooking. It's not all that spicy, so I have no idea where the concept of black people cook spicy food comes from. It's also the exact type of stuff my white grandmother cooked. It's also pretty damn good.
Maybe that food is a throwback though. I can't imagine the ghetto rapist gangster black culture cooking anything.
That's exactly it. "Soul food" is just southern food.
It's not a surprise, they had the same culture for a couple hundred years. Black Rednecks and all that. The only differences would be in regards to whether the food came from Appalachian, Cajuin, or Tejanos populations. All still mostly southern, but the ethnic backgrounds of those populations (or isolation in the case of the Appalachian peoples) would make them slightly different.
The worst thing that ever happened to black culture was the great migration, we lost the entirety of the black middle class in a decade, saw the pervasiveness of black ghettos and lost the culture war of north vs south by the 60's.
That makes sense. It's something I never paid attention to much being from the South and all. It also seems the ones that migrated were even the worst of the bunch.
I grew up and worked around a lot of traditional Southern black family oriented, church-going culture. It's exactly what they should look to as their culture as it's the different identity from whites that they want but still actually has good values. Sadly they totally failed to pass it on somehow as the remnants of that are gone. Now somehow black culture is being a ghetto gangster.
I don't agree. Thomas Sowell actually notes that thought the initial migration northward caused racial tensions in the north, there were a significant number of efforts by blacks to improve the culture of southern blacks and integrate them into the north. He points out that racialist laws were enacted during the beginning of the migration, but after about 20-30 years they were actually being stripped away with popular support in many areas. Non-blacks simply didn't see a need to continue enforcing segregationist laws when blacks were not culturally objectionable to the local population (and also didn't threaten the economic security of other groups).
Sidenote: this is really what a lot of racial discrimination boiled down to, some specific group being given special treatment and economic control over certain sectors, and other groups either inadvertently, or advertently, challenging that protectionism. This was a consistent problem in high-immigrant, party-boss run, democratic cities.
The pervasiveness of black ghettos simply did not exist the way it does now until the 1960's and the totalization of blacks under a plantation style welfare state.
Not to mention, that the situation outside of the North and the Neo-Confederate South was also different. This is why activists harp on Tulsa and other black communities in the west. These did not become ghettos because they were founded by people who were freed slaves and decided to build communities from scratch. That's a massive work ethic, with an entrepreneurial spirit, and enough endurance to live through slavery, and then head west. Those are tough people! There's no evidence that the Great Migration out of the south to the west was even a problem. The communities were effectively policing their own behavior.
Right? Collard greens, grits/hominy, cornbread, fried-anything, I'm not black but had shit like that alllll the time because my grandparents were Southerners. I feel bad for the yankees that didn't grow up with that sort of food. Y'all missed out. fucking yankees