Food Oppression
Did you know that there’s something called food oppression and despite what you may think, it’s not something like denying people of color a seat at lunch counters or something like damning a river and thereby depriving a tribe in a reservation downriver of the fish they rely on for nutrition. Nope. Food oppression is more like programs to include milk in school lunches for kids whose families may be too poor to provide those kids with milk at home.
According to Pacific Standard (October 24, 2018), Andrea Freeman, law professor at the University of Hawaii, argues that food oppression consists of…
federal policies that disproportionately harm low-income people and people of color. In the case of milk, these include employing former representatives of dairy corporations to lead USDA marketing efforts, passing legislation that embeds milk in federal food assistance programs and school lunches, and buying up agricultural surplus to keep dairy prices steady under the farm bill. The National School Lunch Act of 1946, for example, requires schools to offer fluid milk in order to receive federal reimbursement as "a measure of national security, to safeguard the health and well-being of the Nation's children."
So, it’s racist to provide children of all colors with nutrition by giving them milk because white kids have a higher tolerance for lactose than other kids BUT at the same time, it’s racist to assert that there are differences between white kids and other kids or even to say that there is such as race. So they admit that it is not racist but also assert that it is racist. That seems sane and fair, right?
Professor Freeman’s webpage states…
Professor Freeman writes and researches at the intersection of critical race theory and food policy, health, and consumer credit
To be fair, professor Freeman’s webpage states that…
her pioneering theory of food oppression…examines how facially neutral food-related law and policy, influenced by corporate interests, disproportionately harm marginalized communities.
But, also, to be fair, the example she provides in her paper The Unbearable Whiteness of Milk: Food Oppression and the USDA (UC Irvine Law Review, Vol. 3, p. 1251, 2013) is that of providing milk for poor children of all colors.
She is not reluctant to point out that these programs are racially neutral. But as critical race theory asserts, being color-blind is racist. One could argue here that if a racially neutral program has negative effects that are not racially neutral, it would be racist to continue such a program if one is aware of those negative effects that are not racially neutral (as CRT would argue) were it not for the fact that (also according to CRT) it is racist to argue that there are racial differences or even that there are races.
This woke, progressive critical race theorist, food oppression and milk as a racist symbol intersects with the whole He Will Not Divide Us fiasco.
Also see CRT, He Will Not Divide Us, milk.
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