Wednesday, May 22, 2019
Let's do it!
AOC:
For Eskimos, the native and culturally familiar food is whales. Let's turn our gardens into oceans and raise whales, then harpoon them and bring them up on the beach and strip off the blubber and leave the rest of the carcass to rot.
For Cubans, the culturally familiar plant is tobacco. Let's fill our cities with tobacco farms and bring back smoking.
Krauts would raise pigs to make Blood Tongue and Griebenschmalz.
Communities Of Colour should raise watermelons and collard greens.
Koreans and Vietnamese should have community puppy and monkey ranches.
The possibilities are endless! Let's do it now!
“But when you really think about it — when someone says that it’s ‘too hard’ to do a green space that grows Yucca instead of, I don’t know, cauliflower or something — what you’re doing is that you’re taking a colonial approach to environmentalism, and that is why a lot of communities of color get resistant to certain environmentalist movements because they come with the colonial lens on them,” Ocasio-Cortez said. “What I love too is growing plants that are culturally familiar to the community. It’s so important,”Excellent! For most North American tribes, the native and culturally familiar food is buffalo. Let's raise buffalo in our community gardens and slaughter them the culturally correct way by running them off a cliff.
For Eskimos, the native and culturally familiar food is whales. Let's turn our gardens into oceans and raise whales, then harpoon them and bring them up on the beach and strip off the blubber and leave the rest of the carcass to rot.
For Cubans, the culturally familiar plant is tobacco. Let's fill our cities with tobacco farms and bring back smoking.
Krauts would raise pigs to make Blood Tongue and Griebenschmalz.
Communities Of Colour should raise watermelons and collard greens.
Koreans and Vietnamese should have community puppy and monkey ranches.
The possibilities are endless! Let's do it now!
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