Probably because it's so white.
Posted on 05/25/2019 5:26:16 AM PDT by Kaslin
Ever true to her sophomoric self, the Democratic party’s new thought leader never stops thinking about what’s best for the planet, and what’s most punitive for the old white patriarchal robber barons who run it.
And Sunday was no day of rest for this champion of all things green.
Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s cortex was buzzing with the thought of a new grievance she’d dug up while visiting a communal garden in her Bronx, New York, district.
In the Instagram video that followed, she revealed her discovery of an elitist “colonial approach” that’s taken root in most of today’s community gardens -- a surprise to everyone, especially the gardeners.
Evidently by omission, they’ve been guilty of denigrating the “culturally familiar” vegetables prized by communities of color: long-oppressed indigenous peoples and slave progeny whose culinary traditions are being dismissed by community garden gatekeepers -- those palefaced neo-hippies who unwittingly do the bidding of their neo-racist overlords by growing healthy vegetables like cauliflower.
What’s worse, stripping people of color of their dietary identities makes them wary about embracing the noble goals of environmental justice, which are intractably woven into the larger reed basket of socioeconomic justice issues.
This creates a de facto “Stockholm syndrome” in which the oppressed end up voting in line with their oppressors -- or not voting at all -- resulting in a subversion of their own cultural interests.
To Ocasio-Cortez and other radical progressives, it’s simply the latest example of the poisonous Eurocentric bias of America’s dominant white culture.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
The millennial ditz barks like a dog yet again. Sick of her. Ew!
It was white Europeans who introduced maize from the Americas which allowed Africa to rebound and rebuild its population.
White man can't jump, but he sure do know how to grow things.
I didn’t realize they could grow Flamin’ Hot Cheetos in gardens.
Dumb as a stump!
I bet she can’t even keep a house plant alive.
BTW - Doesn’t she have the same surname as one of the greatest colonizers in history (Hernando Cortes) ?
I suspect this crazy thing will be taken up in the pages of the New York Times Food section. Cauliflower out, yuca plants in. Of course, vegetables of color probably don’t grow in the somewhat cool climate of NY state which makes that landmass: RACISS!
I always suspected cauliflower of holding racist sentiments
What was the movie where Sean Penn played a retard? I think it was called “I am Sam.” With a AOC the sequel is “I am Sandy.”
Imbeciles and morons laugh at her expense.
I sold Flamin’ Hot Cheetos in the hood for a decade. It is the most important food staple in the ghetto, and no I’m not trying to be sarcastic.
Leftards are emotionalists. They have emotionalistic rather than objective criteria for rating the value of foods. Cultural familiarity takes precedence over nutritional quality.
Probably because it's so white.
This little commie bi*ch must have snacked on lead paint chips when she was an infant.
“Sandy” got her nickname in high school, Yorktown High School, Yorktown Heights, New York. My Alma Mater!!!
not a "vegetable of color"
Cauliflower---and we----owe reparations to the black and brown people for this vegetable racism. We might promote potatoes (skin on), mushrooms,bell peppers (LGBTQ rainbow) and green leafy vegetables (global climate change).
Plus money, and lots of it, for reparations.
Wonder how many would like to see a return to THIS real New World diet, before the “evil” European brought bread to them.
http://www.hollowtop.com/finl_html/amerindians.htm
or this...
***reintroduced slavery to the world following the fall of the Roman Empire.****
Ever notice there are no great pools of former black slaves in the ME. That is because the arabs emasculated their slaves, then worked them to death digging wells and such. Slaves were cheap for them.
not a “vegetable of color”
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