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Posted on 08/03/2017 4:33:50 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
When Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans there was a brief moment of shocked compassion before racial anxieties flooded the Internet. Victims of the disaster were quickly recast as looters, criminals, and layabouts. They were government “dependents” seeking even more entitlements now that they were bona fide survivors. Some of these hideous opinions drew on the physical “evidence” of the bad character of hurricane survivors: their size. The mostly black bodies crowding the Superdome, getting on rafts, and being carried away by helicopters, were too large for online critics. Obesity, while common in the US and over-represented in the South, was conflated with blackness. Black bodies fleeing New Orleans were not only linked to historic stereotypes of menace and criminality but also slothfulness, helplessness, and a tropical torpidity unwelcome in hard-working America.
African Americans are more likely to be obese in the United States than their white counterparts. The same is true for Hispanics. For some conservatives, that may be an indictment. For the rest of us, it is a public health problem. The rise in obesity in the U.S. is an epidemic and much of the root causes lie in poverty, a condition more prevalent in communities of color. In many U.S. cities, bodegas serve dinner in the form of chips and soda to low-income people living nearby who have no access to neighborhood supermarkets. For those without much money or options, fast food can be a blessing: a full meal that is quick and affordable in a safe and predictable setting. Yet, these very meals are one of the country’s biggest public health menaces. Filled with fat and sugar, fast food is contributing greatly to obesity, diabetes, and heart disease.....
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‘I’ll be taking these Huggies and whatever cash you got.’
I have gotten overweight several times, and I NEVER eat McDonalds or any other fast food. We cook our meals at home 99% of the time. I only have ME to blame when my weight goes up!
We didn’t have fast food in my hometown. I didn’t have money to eat out anyway. Our current town has only one fast food place, Sonic. We moved here 1.5 years ago and have never been to the Sonic. Can’t blame them!
We knew ppl who went to La. with their own boats, to rescue stranded ppl after Katrina. They got shot at, turned around, came back to Texas.
Amen amen amen to that!
My mother took a cold dry hard biscuit for lunch. There were ten or 12 kids. She had step siblings. She was embarrassed to take that biscuit to school so she left it by the side of the road, ate it on her way home, long walk. I don’t know if bugs got in it. She didn’t have a lunch pail or box. Btw I grew up very poor and never had one of those cute lunch boxes, either.
I guess I turned out ok. We didn’t have heat or AC, NE Oklahoma has super hot summers, 100s. And super cold winters, freezing. We never asked for a gov hand out. We were poor and SKINNY. Don’t give food stamps to fatties.
Poverty causes skinny people, NOT fat ppl!!!
Raising Arizona?
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“Son, you got a panty on your head”
You and me both although I do eat egg mcmuffins on occasion
I prefer In and Out burgers when I can get them
Or Cookout
The latter a chain growing in the mid south
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