The Cotton Kingdom: A Photographic Essay
Photography by JWD and Jasper Colt @kidcolt on behalf of The Cooking Gene Project. Special thanks to them both for the extraordinary images and video. Special thanks to Chippokes Plantation State...
View ArticleDuck Dynasty: Gathering the Feathers and saving the South
The recent comments of Duck Dynasty patriarch Phil Robertson have ignited a storm of controversy due to some remarks Mr. Robertson made that expressed some unfortunate language on the topics of...
View Article#Ferguson : My Thoughts on an American Flashpoint
“…It was the corroboration of their worth and their power that they wanted, and not the corpse, still less the staining blood.” James Baldwin, “To Be Baptized,” from No Name in the Street, 1972 I have...
View ArticleOklahoma, Damn!!????
If the word integration means anything, this is what it means: that we, with love, shall force our brothers to see themselves as they are, to cease fleeing from reality and begin to change it. James...
View ArticleWhen the Spice is “Race”: The Case of the “Racist” Pizza
Huffington Post called it “the most racist pizza ever.” It’s got southern fried chicken, argula, sea-salted watermelon, a sunflower seed crust and goat, ricotta and bleu cheeses. It’s the...
View ArticleOklahoma, Damn!!????
If the word integration means anything, this is what it means: that we, with love, shall force our brothers to see themselves as they are, to cease fleeing from reality and begin to change it. James...
View ArticleWhy I Don’t Do “Race.”
Race. The minute I say that I’m African American people cast that word “race,” on me faster than the net that they used to catch Kunta Kinte in Roots. Race is a dangerous concept and it’s source, the...
View ArticleMy Response to #Charlottesville
http://forward.com/food/380133/im-black-jewish-and-gay-and-food-is-my-weapon-against-bigotry/
View ArticleCOTTON IS NOT INHERENTLY RACIST.
I’m not even linking to the story because it’s that stupid. I can’t be bothered. Hobby Lobby, which I would never patronize because of their stance on birth control, etc. sells decorative cotton. Once...
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