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I hope she has not gone to a black neighborhood community garden.
She might have suggested that they grow collard greens, corn, okra and some watermelon and no cauliflower or anything that reeks of colonial influence.
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You guys are nuts. All she said was that communities and their gardens should be allowed to be culturally relevant to the people who live there, and that communities should be able to make their own choices. If you were growing a garden, wouldn't you want to decide for yourself what you want to grow? She did not say cauliflower was a racists veg.
Then again, that news stalk station linked in the OP has these on their lineup, and whose shows are most visibly featured on their front page.
Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Jeff Katz, Mark Levin, This Morning with Gordon Deal (dont know him, but the media company owning his show features no liberals in its own lineup), Clyde Lewis (UFO, Paranormal, Conspiracy), Coast to Coast with George Noory (ditto), Gary Hess (Sports Talk -- added only for the sake of completeness. Sports Talk has no relevance here).
So for the OP, at best (from the OP's point of view), there's more to the AOC caulifolwer claim than meets the eye. At worst, a distortion just short of outright falsehood.
Her point is why not grow stuff familiar to the people in the community? She used plantains and yucca vs cauliflower as examples.
She, like, many, don’t seem to understand not all food can be grown everywhere.
Plantains would not survive in NYC, nor in most regions of the US.
While yucca is indestructible, it dies back in the winter.
Cauliflower is an early cool season annual crop. For this reason, it is not grown in the Caribbean or Africa or PR and therefore may not be familiar to those who hail from these parts.
The more AOC talks, the more she sounds like Trump. Both are reality TV shows. Both say a lot of things that don’t make a lot of sense.
Both seek media attention and opportunities to throw red meat to their bases.
That'd be the same logic if you said "Hey why don't they grow oranges and lemons all year round in Chicago, they're racist" (((Because, Chicago weather is not suited for year round citrus growing))).
Isn't the point of a community garden that neighbors plant and take care of it themselves? As such, aren't the neighbors deciding for themselves what they each want to plant in their own section of the garden? I didn't think these things had a "garden boss" who decided what everyone had to plant, which made AOC's entire commentary pointless.
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