Washington State University is promoting the notion that farmers markets and food charities exude “white supremacy,” and perpetuate “white dominant culture,” conservative radio host
Jason Rantz reported for KTTH-AM.
Say what?
Rantz wrote that the agriculture program coordinator for WSU’s San Juan County Extension Ag Program promoted a
webinar: “Examining Whiteness in Food Systems.”
He said attendees learned that “white supremacy culture” creates food insecurity by “center[ing] whiteness across the food system” — and that “whiteness defines foods as either good or bad.”
The webinar was originally produced by Duke University, and featured a pair of speakers from WSU’s 2021 San Juan Islands
Ag Summit on the same topic, Rantz wrote.
More from his KTTH piece:
Jennifer Zuckerman of the Duke World Food Policy Center led the discussion. She framed the webinar around her identity as a white woman who has “benefited from whiteness for my entire life at the expense of other people.” With that in mind, she explored the “really specific ways in which whiteness shows up in the food system and particularly in the work of food insecurity.”
Promoting the belief that “whiteness permeates the food system” and that “it specifically articulates these white ideals of health and nutrition,” Zuckerman chided the “whitened dreams of farming and gardening.”
She took particular aim at farmers markets as being too white. She uses a quote from Rachel Slocum (“a preeminent researcher on whiteness and food”) as a jumping-off point.
“What that does is it erases the past and present of race and agriculture. What whiteness also does is ‘mobilizes funding to predominantly white organizations who then direct programming at nonwhite beneficiaries,’” she said. “And we’ll talk about that a little bit more when we talk about communities that can’t take care of themselves. Also, what this does is it creates inviting spaces for white people. Then program directors or farmers market directors are scrambling because they’re trying to add diversity to a white space. So what whiteness does is center whiteness.”
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Rantz also wrote that — according to Zuckerman — food charities also are a form of white supremacy.
Indeed, Zuckerman said the idea that “communities can’t take care of themselves” represents a “belief that low-income and or [black, indigenous, persons of color] communities and individuals — and that’s not necessarily one in the same — cannot provide or make decisions for themselves.”
She added that it “makes the assumption that they need to be helped. And these assumptions are based in negative racial and class stereotypes. And they dictate who’s given power and decision-making in food policy and programming. And then what happens, as a result, is that organizations prescribe solutions to the community without consulting them, assuming that they know better.”
More from Rantz:
Luckily, these communities have a privileged white lady to tell them they don’t need any help. She says the focus should not be about handing out food to help the hungry. Instead, the priority should be on “providing economic assistance, increasing wages, or providing direct capital for BIPOC owned food and agriculture businesses.”
Ironically, white savior Zuckerman says food charity promotes “a savior mentality over mutual aid.”
Zuckerman said she needed “to step back to de-center myself” as a privileged white person so that in-need people of color can speak. Yet she only gave the two women of color on the panel roughly 21 minutes between them.
Here’s Rantz’s excellent commentary on Zuckerman and the seminar:
Farmer’s markets are… racist?
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Well the FACT that White humans mobilize funding to predominantly White organizations who then direct programming at nonwhite leeches is true.
And those non-white animals had better be darned glad that White humans take care of them, otherwise they would still be picking lice of each other and swinging from trees.
Then why are 90% of the people who show up for free food black??
I won’t say 90%, because there are Mexicans (and here in Seattle) Chinese in that mix. It really depends on where you live on the ratio of white to non-white in the food lines.
Some of this also comes from personal experience since I’ve helped work on the food lines in the past. Down in Arizona (for example) it was more Mexicans and Native Americans in the food lines. Yes, there were a good number of Blacks, but they weren’t the dominant group. It really does depend on the racial makeup of where you live.
I think her point is that they are trained to show up for handouts rather than being trained to be self sustaining. You know, give a man a fish he will eat for a day but teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.
Ya’ll seen enough yet?? 19th President of the Republic of the United States for America, Donald J Trump said, you can’t just tell people, you have to SHOW THEM! Ya’ll know what needs to be done. The Whole Global Cabal deserves dirt naps. NCSWIC, WWG1WGA.
I’ve known many people who’ve had to rely on these food charity programs. Many of them are sponsored by Churches. I’ll guarantee you that if you dug deep enough into their psyche you’d also find these “anti-whites” are also anti-religion, or at the very least practice a corrupted version of a religion.
Also, these food charities are simply a RESPONSE to people who cannot (or will not) take care of themselves. That’s something these people refuse to understand. They also fail to understand that being POOR is no respecter of skin color, sexual preference, age or nationality.
And if you’re POOR, you probably don’t have enough to keep enough food in your kitchen, so you are GRATEFUL toward these charities, who are typically operating at a LOSS. At least the honest ones, those who want to get to a point they don’t NEED to accept charity are grateful. There are sadly many who are not, because they’ve been bred by Democrats into believing the world owes them because they were born a victim and they cannot change.
Gee, I don’t know much about this Duke University chick who made this presentation but she probably does not get out into the community very much. I live 27 miles from Duke and our local farmers markets are full of booths run by Mexicans and some by black people. When I shop there I am in the minority!
Nothing like looking a gift horse in the mouth. If the white food banks don’t meet your specifications, find a non-white one.
The food system begins with people who raise the food, whether animal or vegetation. Such people are typically self-starting, self-sustaining types, working hard instead of being parasites playing the victim card. From there through transportation and marketing most of them (who work for a living) do not bother talking much about skin color and racism. People who do not work are the majority of the ones who have time to spend on complaining about everything imaginable !!!
Who will feed the sick, lame and crazy? Who will feed the drug zombies? Or maybe we should let them steal what they need as is now the policy across the nation.