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."
lol
Edison invented the light bulb. Bell invented the telephone. Tesla invented AC current. We will concede the barbaque.
With Solar convection
Wait...I thought that was Kwanzaa? This is so confusing.
Oh, do tell how cooking meat over a fire is unique to particular cultures... and how those cultures first invented the _iron_ grill commonly used in “barbecue”.
And George Foreman invented the indoor bbq. Spot on Guardian!
Are we now talking “rib privilege” here?????
This article is utter tripe.
Here is the core purpose of this article; anyone who is American is guilty and is not to have a minute of enjoyment over a single crumb of their existence without being jabbered to death by some self- righteous pice of crap with a briquette sized chip on his shoulder. I’m f$&@ tired of it.
If I was everybody, whites would put the fear of God in me. Apparently, they are the masters of the universe. And “white privilege”??? Lol. Puh...leese. All they’re doing is giving excuse for some to expect it and others to accept it.
I’d say these profs are secretly invested big in the Obama economy and kicking ass, because....THEY are the elite whites...and they’re teaching others to live with it and give up.
Really?
How about Whites publish articles saying that other races “stole” things like: the telephone, radio, television, antibiotics, the computer, the Internet,......,etc, etc?
Especially since Africans never rose to the iron age. Not to be racist here, but 20,000 miles of coastline and no boats - probably because they were busy perfecting the bbq.
#BBQsAreRacist (when does the looting start?)
How unbelievably stupid. Did someone sign their real name to this?
Not BBQ. Missionary stew.
Forget the tap dancing.....blacks stole that from their Irish masters....who did clog dancing, long before blacks wore shoes; let alone shoes with taps on them !
I wonder why there are articles written that whites stole jazz but never any about an ethnic group that stole basketball?
I stole my BBQ from the Goodwill
Now THAT'S a riot I'll join in on!!
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