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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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To: rightistight

Well, I assume if they were the first to BBQ “the other white meat,” then he perhaps has a point.


121 posted on 07/04/2015 2:39:43 PM PDT by ought-six ( Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: Vermont Lt

No. Apparently, we can’t. We must go out to purchase rug dye and make ourselves more pure and wonderful.


122 posted on 07/04/2015 2:41:43 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: rightistight

According to the Smithsonian Institute, Columbus observed Natives in the Caribbean slow-cooking meat (such as they had meat). He named the process barbecue. The Spanish introduced pigs to barbecue, and spread the idea around. English, Germans and French contributed binger-based and mustard sauces; and local cooks, free and slave, added according to their imagination. I think it is fair to say that barbecue is an authentic collaborate of the diverse peoples of the Americas. Barbecue on the 4th of July is as American and Turkey and corn on the cob on Thanksgiving.


123 posted on 07/04/2015 2:47:32 PM PDT by Redmen4ever
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To: rightistight

[eyeroll] Even if this were true, is imitation not the sincerest form of flattery? Guess I better get about forgetting all the Al-gebra I “stole” from the Arabs and the Cal-coolus I ripped the Germans off for.


124 posted on 07/04/2015 2:49:10 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: xzins
Tarzan movies with Tarzan saving stupid white adventurers

Indeed! And kind of a white man's burden, for Tarzan to save the natives from the white men who were crooked.

Yep, they will rerun no more, the old movies with beautiful manners (to paraphrase Ezra Pound).

125 posted on 07/04/2015 2:50:55 PM PDT by MUDDOG
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To: Flick Lives
... some self- righteous pice of crap with a briquette sized chip brain....

Fixed.

126 posted on 07/04/2015 2:52:29 PM PDT by QT3.14 (How long before 'DIXIE' cups are banned?)
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To: Darksheare

So....you’re saying I actually stole BBQ from the Jews?


127 posted on 07/04/2015 2:52:48 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: cornfedcowboy
Actually I think Tripe is a Mexican dish.

You just can't stop with the appropriation, can you? ;)

128 posted on 07/04/2015 2:59:42 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: xzins

Thanks! That was fascinating.


129 posted on 07/04/2015 2:59:59 PM PDT by luigi
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To: 17th Miss Regt

Is that you, Sandiz?


130 posted on 07/04/2015 3:02:07 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: Redmen4ever

See link at post #16


131 posted on 07/04/2015 3:02:29 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: Still Thinking

Lol, it’s just the first recorded one that I know off the top of my head.
I’m pretty certain that various village celebrations all over the ancient world from one side of earth to the other included something like a BBQ.


132 posted on 07/04/2015 3:03:23 PM PDT by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: Alex Murphy

Genesis 27:4 sounds a lot like barbecue to me.


133 posted on 07/04/2015 3:12:16 PM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: ilovesarah2012

The Russians can have the borscht back. The rest of the stuff I’m keeping. If the original “owners” want it back, they can come and get it.


134 posted on 07/04/2015 3:13:18 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: catnipman

Well, the American Indians stole smallpox to make up for it.


135 posted on 07/04/2015 3:16:56 PM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: rightistight

Does this mean I have to quit using Arabic numerals?


136 posted on 07/04/2015 3:17:30 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: rightistight

Yes. Because no one ever thought to burn meat over fire before. White Devils!!!!


137 posted on 07/04/2015 3:30:55 PM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

Quite a neat trick by that dastardly Edison since Goebel never patented his “invention.” Of course the courts later ruled Goebel in fact didn’t produce working light bulbs prior to Edison, but what the heck.


138 posted on 07/04/2015 3:42:09 PM PDT by SoCal Pubbie
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To: Redmen4ever

English, Germans and French contributed binger-based and mustard sauces;

Freepers contributed Beeber-based saucys for
Moose BBQ.


139 posted on 07/04/2015 3:46:42 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: rightistight
Barbecue! Jazz! Yams! All sorts of things!

We also stole pizza from the Italians, Octoberfest from the Germans, Tacos from the Mexicans, sushi from the Japanese, boomerangs from the Australians, ballet and half the words of our language from the French, caviar from the Russians, the alphabet from the Arabs, gun powder from the Chinese...

We're a bunch of thieves.

Get over it, moron.

140 posted on 07/04/2015 3:54:57 PM PDT by Savage Beast ("Inside every 'Liberal' is a totalitarian screaming to get out!")
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