It’s only a matter of time. I mean, sooner or later, everything on theplanet is going to be connected to “white supremacy” in some way. Yup, one day, everything is going to be flat-out racist, America. So why not add farmers markets and food charities to the list right now and get it over with? Oh — wait.
Washington State University beat us to it. Never mind.
As reported by talk radio host and frequent Fox News guest Jason Rantz, Washington State University is “amplifying claims” from a webinar originally produced by Duke University that farmers markets and food charities are examples of “white supremacy” and “white dominant culture.”
EXCLUSIVE: Washington State University and Duke are amplifying claims that farmer’s markets & food charity are examples of “white supremacy” & “white dominant culture.”
You won't believe the reasoning. But I come with video nonsense.https://t.co/VGh3ZLKhJG
— Jason Rantz on KTTH Radio (@jasonrantz) December 2, 2021
Warning: This is insane.
Anyway, as Rantz reported, the agriculture program coordinator for WSU’s San Juan County Extension Ag Program promoted a webinar event titled: “Examining Whiteness in Food Systems.” During the hour-long presentation, attendees learned that “white supremacy culture” creates food insecurity by “center[ing] whiteness across the food system.”
See what I mean? And it just keeps getting crazier.
The material in the webinar claims, for example, noted Rantz, that “whiteness defines foods as either good or bad” and that farmers markets are merely “white spaces.” What the h*ll does that even mean? Other than rice, and a few off-white foods, none of my favorite foods are anywhere close to white.
Moreover, I love licorice. Real licorice. I’m talking licorice extract licorice. Oh, and while we’re at it, there is no such thing as red licorice, people, for the love of God. That red waxy crap like Twizzlers — which does not say “red licorice” anywhere on the label — is not licorice. Sorry (not sorry) to digress.
According to Rantz, Jennifer Zuckerman of the Duke World Food Policy Center leads the webinar discussion. She frames the entire thing around her identity as a white woman, who has “benefited from whiteness for my entire life at the expense of other people.”
With that nonsense in mind, she launches into “really specific ways in which whiteness shows up in the food system and particularly in the work of food insecurity.”