” raised by full figured black women who could cook and they were very good with fried chicken and cobbler’s and”
When I was a boy we would go to Mississippi each summer to visit my dad’s family. Sometimes dad’s cousin would have us stay at the lake house and Annabelle would cook for us. Annabelle always reminded me of Aunt Jemima, kinda built along the same lines, and she was a great cook. The same southern cooking that my grandmother and her sisters also did, which for some reason is dubbed soul food above the Mason Dixon line.
The lake house was built on the old family farm next to the original log house built in 1840. My grandmother grew up in that log house with it’s breezeway and separate kitchen and her CSA veteran uncles. Her own father had been too young. Annabelle’s family either lived on the farm property or nearby. My dad’s cousin had kind of a paternalistic relationship with some of the local black families, I recall that he built them a church once.
“I remember all of them from a bygone era and no we did not treat them like that stupid movie “
Hollywood making liberals comfortable with their own bigotry.
“Hollywood making liberals comfortable with their own bigotry”
Very well said.