re: Black History Month school lunch features fried chicken, cornbread and more

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but you have no problem spoon feeding me the white man's defense for slavery and how the africans are at fault for slavery.

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i think both whites and africans should share the same amount of blame right?

The problem here is i bet you blame drug cartels more for supplying weed & cocaine and put less blame on the buyers...right?

Rudyard Kipling would disagree

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I do wish we celebrated what African Americans ate BEFORE they were chained off into captivity. Their heritage and lineage did not start as enslaved people.

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Bugs and goats?

I love this menu.
Gods gift to man.

No koolaid?

No Franks Red Hot on the tables?

Was there brown sugar, butter, aaaaaand marshmallows on the sweet potatoes?

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Bugs and goats?

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You know, it's possible to view success and accomplishments through non-western lenses of capitalism, property, assets, guns, Christianity (i say this as a Christian), and technology.

Africa countries and empires were flourishing and were self-autonomous kingdoms before the Europeans and Arabic nations pillaged it.

Europeans and the Arabic nations needed their cheap labor more than Africa ever needed them. Maybe that's why they soliticed their services.

Obviously Africa has benefited from being westernized, but is has also been severely harmed in various ways. We act as if Africa wouldn't be here today unless the slave trades and colonialism happened. There's really nothing to base that premise on

The White Man's Burden: The United States and The Philippine Islands (1899)- Rudyard Kipling

Take up the White Man's burden, Send forth the best ye breed
Go bind your sons to exile, to serve your captives' need;
To wait in heavy harness, On fluttered folk and wild—
Your new-caught, sullen peoples, Half-devil and half-child.

Take up the White Man's burden, In patience to abide,
To veil the threat of terror And check the show of pride;
By open speech and simple, An hundred times made plain
To seek another's profit, And work another's gain.

Take up the White Man's burden, The savage wars of peace—
Fill full the mouth of Famine And bid the sickness cease;
And when your goal is nearest The end for others sought,
Watch sloth and heathen Folly Bring all your hopes to nought.

Take up the White Man's burden, No tawdry rule of kings,
But toil of serf and sweeper, The tale of common things.
The ports ye shall not enter, The roads ye shall not tread,
Go mark them with your living, And mark them with your dead.

Take up the White Man's burden And reap his old reward:
The blame of those ye better, The hate of those ye guard—
The cry of hosts ye humour (Ah, slowly!) toward the light:—
"Why brought he us from bondage, Our loved Egyptian night?"

Take up the White Man's burden, Ye dare not stoop to less—
Nor call too loud on Freedom To cloak your weariness;
By all ye cry or whisper, By all ye leave or do,
The silent, sullen peoples Shall weigh your gods and you.

Take up the White Man's burden, Have done with childish days—
The lightly proffered laurel, The easy, ungrudged praise.
Comes now, to search your manhood, through all the thankless years
Cold, edged with dear-bought wisdom, The judgment of your peers!

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Can I just say fried chicken is tasty as frick

Ok, well good luck getting all those urban blacks to eat traditional African fare like tarantulas and grubs.

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Tell people why African American food staples are currently what they are --- it's strictly extends back to slavery and the scraps with which they had to work with.

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it would help to now what is african cuisine...ive never seen a restaurant like i have with chinese, vietnamese, mexican, and so on