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The Guardian: Whites Stole Barbecue from Native Americans and Africans
The Social Memo ^ | 7/4/15 | Aurelius

Posted on 07/04/2015 12:41:50 PM PDT by rightistight

To celebrate July 4, the Guardian published an article to tell the people of America that one of their favorite ways of cooking, barbecue, was stolen from enslaved Africans and Native Americans.

The article is titled, "Barbecue is an American tradition – of enslaved Africans and Native Americans" and was written by Michael Twitty, who calls himself a culinary historian.

"The traditional holiday cookout has its roots in the cooperation between black and indigenous peoples struggling to get or keep their freedom from colonialists," Twitty's secondary headline reads.

"If America is about people creating new worlds based on rebellion against oppression and slavery," he writes, "then barbecue is the ideal dish: it was made by enslaved Africans with inspiration and contributions from Native Americans struggling to maintain their independence."

However, according to Twitty, Europeans took the credit from Africans: "The common cultural narrative of barbecue, however, exclusively assigns its origins to Native Americans and Europeans... Some American barbecue masters have taken to attributing the innovation of barbecue to their German and Czech ancestors."

The truth is, however, "Enslaved Africans and Native Americans had a lot in common, culinarily-speaking: they had been cooking and eating in similar ways. despite [sic] an ocean between their civilizations. It only makes sense that, when their foodways, crops, cooking methods and systems of preservation, hunting, fishing and food storage collided, that there would be deep similarities and convergences of technique, method and skill."

That led to barbecue. And in the Americans, "enslaved men became barbecue’s master chefs." If indeed whites added anything to barbecue, they just "added to a base created by black hands forged in the crucible of slavery."

Twitty concludes, "Barbecue is laced with the aspiration of freedom, but it was seasoned and flavored by the people who could not enjoy any freedom on Independence Day for almost a century."


TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: racism
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1 posted on 07/04/2015 12:41:51 PM PDT by rightistight
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To: rightistight

I buy my own BBQ.


2 posted on 07/04/2015 12:43:05 PM PDT by dforest
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To: rightistight

Sure...no one cooked over fire until native americans and Africans came along.


3 posted on 07/04/2015 12:43:26 PM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Pray for their victory or quit saying you support our troops)
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To: rightistight

Now give it back!


4 posted on 07/04/2015 12:43:31 PM PDT by headstamp 2
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To: rightistight

Wow. What crap. I’ll never get that two minutes of my life back.


5 posted on 07/04/2015 12:44:00 PM PDT by Eccl 10:2 (Prov 3:5 --- "Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding")
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To: rightistight

We HAD to take it away from then - they weren’t doing it right ;’)


6 posted on 07/04/2015 12:44:01 PM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: rightistight

Really Guardian?
Seems to me that Abraham in the Old Testament is recorded as having had what amounted to a BBQ for distinguished visitors that he didn’t know were distinguished..
..it was the day that he was told by God that his wife would conceive and bear a son..


7 posted on 07/04/2015 12:44:17 PM PDT by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: rightistight

So why do they continue voting for those who enslave them?


8 posted on 07/04/2015 12:44:32 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)
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To: rockrr

Manifest spare ribs.


9 posted on 07/04/2015 12:45:21 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: rightistight

There are a lot of racists in the world, and they see everything, and I mean EVERYTHING through a prism of race.

All I can say is, it sucks to be them, and it sucks to be a sucker who buys into it.


10 posted on 07/04/2015 12:45:27 PM PDT by rlmorel ("National success by the Democratic Party equals irretrievable ruin." Ulysses S. Grant.)
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To: rightistight
Yeah. That's how white people discovered fire.

Stupid leftists. It must be a real bitch to live in their heads!

11 posted on 07/04/2015 12:46:04 PM PDT by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal")
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Twitty concludes, "Barbecue is laced with the aspiration of freedom, but it was seasoned and flavored by the people who could not enjoy any freedom on Independence Day for almost a century."

Sorry, uh, Twitty. (is that your real name?). My "guilt" card and my "sympathy" card are overdrawn and expired. But "disgust" card has plenty of miles to go.

12 posted on 07/04/2015 12:46:04 PM PDT by VRW Conspirator (American Jobs for American Workers)
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To: rightistight

Michael Twitty stole his brain from a dumpster
behind a French cheese shop.


13 posted on 07/04/2015 12:46:41 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason and rule of law. Prepare!)
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To: rightistight

“stole”? WTF?


14 posted on 07/04/2015 12:46:55 PM PDT by shalom aleichem
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To: rightistight

Hey Michael, I stole beer from the ancient Egyptians. Sue me.


15 posted on 07/04/2015 12:47:14 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: rightistight
The Primeval History of Barbeque
16 posted on 07/04/2015 12:47:15 PM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Pray for their victory or quit saying you support our troops)
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Edison invented the light bulb. Bell invented the telephone. Tesla invented AC current. We will concede the barbecue, the banjo and tap dancing.
17 posted on 07/04/2015 12:47:37 PM PDT by AEMILIUS PAULUS
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i was going to say- the original settlers cooked their food in general electric ovens...


18 posted on 07/04/2015 12:47:40 PM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: rightistight

Indians and Negroes


19 posted on 07/04/2015 12:47:50 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (Liberals are like the Taliban and ISIS....destroying cultural icons they don't like.)
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To: rightistight

Found it, Genesis 18:6-8.
It’s a BBQ.


20 posted on 07/04/2015 12:47:59 PM PDT by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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