Posted on 05/21/2019 12:08:23 PM PDT by LibWhacker
Alexandria says growing cauliflower in community gardens is colonial
Here she is, talking total hogwash => https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=87&v=PUJ6o4tqwyM
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said yesterday that growing cauliflower in community gardens is part of the colonial attitudes that her Green New Deal will stamp out.
The New York Democrat, who introduced the proposal to tackle climate change by radically transforming the economy, posted a series of Instagram videos filmed in her home state talking about community gardens as a core component of her proposal.
What I love too is growing plants that are culturally familiar to the community. Its so important, she said as she filmed a community garden in the Bronx.
So thats really how you do it right. That is such a core component of the Green New Deal is having all of these projects make sense in a cultural context, and its an area that we get the most pushback on because people say, Why do you need to do that? Thats too hard.
But when you really think about it when someone says that its too hard to do a green space that grows Yucca instead of, I dont know, cauliflower or something what youre doing is youre taking a colonial approach to environmentalism, Ocasio-Cortez said.
That is why a lot of communities of color get resistant to certain environmentalist movements because they come with the colonial lens on them.
Growing weed that people will pay money for is a different proposition, the ditchweed grows wild, but you can smoke a whole truck load and only cop a headache.
thank you chauncey
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