Farmers Markets Are Riddled With ‘White Supremacy’ – Opinion

It’s only a matter of time. Everything will be there sooner than we think. The The planet is going to be connected to “white supremacy” in some way. You’re right, in the end, it will all be completely flat. racist, America. So, why not just add food charities and farmers markets right away? Oh — wait.

Washington State University was able to beat us. Never mind.

As reported by talk radio host and frequent Fox News guest Jason Rantz, Washington State University is “amplifying claims” from a webinar originally produced by Duke University that farmers markets and food charities are examples of “white supremacy” and “white dominant culture.”

EXCLUSIVE: Washington State University and Duke are amplifying claims that farmer’s markets & food charity are examples of “white supremacy” & “white dominant culture.”

It’s impossible to believe my reasoning. But I come with video nonsense.https://t.co/VGh3ZLKhJG

— Jason Rantz on KTTH Radio (@jasonrantz) December 2, 2021

Warning!

Anyway, as Rantz reported, the agriculture program coordinator for WSU’s San Juan County Extension Ag Program promoted a webinar event titled: “Examining Whiteness in Food Systems.” During the hour-long presentation, attendees learned that “white supremacy culture” creates food insecurity by “center[ing] whiteness across the food system.”

Do you see what I’m referring to? The crazy part is that it keeps getting more insane.

The material in the webinar claims, for example, noted Rantz, that “whiteness defines foods as either good or bad” and that farmers markets are merely white spaces.” What the h*ll does that even mean? Except for rice and some off-white food, my favourite foods don’t exist anywhere. CloseWhite.

Another reason I love licorice is that it’s real. The real thing. I’m talking licorice extract licorice. Oh, and while we’re at it, there is There is no red licorice.For the love of God, people. That red waxy crap like Twizzlers — which does not say “red licorice” anywhere on the label — is Not licorice.We are sorry (not sorry!) to interrupt.

Rantz states that Jennifer Zuckerman from the Duke World Food Policy Center is leading the discussion. She frames the entire thing around her identity as a white woman, who has “benefited from whiteness for my entire life at the expense of other people.”

With that nonsense in mind, she launches into “really specific ways in which whiteness shows up in the food system and particularly in the work of food insecurity.”

“Jennifer Zuckerman and Alison Conrad, of Duke University World Food Policy Center, claim that whites form every part of the “white” food culture, labeling “good” and “bad” foods as an expression of racial power dynamics.”

Go figure, white women🙄https://t.co/ao5r3YpmAX

— Dr “Cranky Pants” McCroskey MD,DO,PhD,JD,DDS,DVM (@WatchYerButt) December 2, 2021

It’s insane, remember? It’s also disgusting.

Promoting the belief that “whiteness permeates the food system” and that “it specifically articulates these white ideals of health and nutrition,” Zuckerman even stoops to chiding the “whitened dreams of farming and gardening.”

People like Jennifer Zuckerman don’t live in the real world, gang. They live in a self-created pseudo-reality they’ve created in their narrative-driven minds, solely as some ridiculous, pretend-proof source to use against the sane among us that they think will bolster whatever ridiculous case they’re pushing at the time. They’re a few and far between, but they don’t matter.

As Rantz transcribed, Zuckerman does it well.

“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.

And we’ll talk about that a little bit more when we talk about communities that can’t take care of themselves. It creates safe 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.”

Is it possible to imagine yourself being this screwy? What is your purpose? How do you view life from the first time you wake up each morning, until the last moment before your bed at night? Me, neither.

Rantz says Zuckerman is most upset about food charities. Specifically, she’s offended by white groups bringing mobile food banks to communities of color. All of humanity! Yeah, I got nothin’, either.

Let’s just listen to Jennifer explain it, shall we?

[Offering food free of charge presumes] “that low income and or BIPOC communities and individuals (and that’s not necessarily one and the same) cannot provide or make decisions for themselves” comes out of the “white supremacy culture” of individualism and neo-liberalism.

Ok, now stop. So, if, for made-up example, we know a black family down the street with hungry children because the parents don’t have enough money to buy enough food, and we take some food to that family so they won’t be hungry, that’s racist. “White supremacy culture,” as it were. Sounds legit.

Zuckerman says that by feeding hungry people, you are creating a disease in them, based on the assumption they require help.

“What this does is it pathologizes people and makes the assumption that they need to be helped. They are also based on negative stereotypes about race and classes. 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. And there’s so much in our systems that reinforce this narrative that communities can’t take care of themselves.”

OK, fine. Okay. Jennifer seems to be saying that this is what we must do. All entitlement programs must be eliminated in America that provide help to those less fortunate among us — because by helping them we’re teaching them they need to be helped.

Wait. Hang on.

Hasn’t the Republican Party been trumpeting This message has been passed on for 60 years. (Yes.) Back to the beginning of LBJ’s “War on Poverty,” some $40 trillion (and counting) ago? What has happened to nuclear black families since then? Black-on-black crime? Single-parent children born with single children? Drunkenness? Black-on-black violent crime?

Act NowThese loons do it!

Or don’t then even know they’re saying the same thing — in this respect, at least — that conservatives have been saying for more than 60 years. You’re not crazy. I’m confused.