"Post racial" America can be so confusing. You just don't know what is black or what is white anymore. Take, for instance, the case of "Thug Kitchen".
"When I first clicked through the recipes at Thug Kitchen, a tongue-in-cheek, vegan cooking blog served up with a heaping side of expletives, I imagined a calorie-conscious, gangly young black man who’s particularly vehement about clean eating, insistently tapping recipes into his blog while Dead Prez reverberates in the background. He has a good eye, too, as he complements such recipes as “Roasted Brussels Sprouts With Quinoa and Motherf--king Cranberries” with Pinterest-worthy pics and the tagline, “Eat like you give a f--k.”
With African Americans especially plagued with obesity and the accompanying stressors and diseases, it was a refreshing idea that a young black man would be the purveyor of not just healthy eating but vegan cuisine at that, a leap that some health-conscious folks might find it difficult to make, given the restrictions on eggs and dairy in addition to meats.
More Auntie Fee than Chef G. Garvin, the blog would likely discourage trading recipes word for word with your mom. Still, I was inspired. To me, Thug Kitchen could have helped whip up a healthy eating movement akin to those of the natural-hair purists or, say, Black Girls Run— which are all uplifting healthwise for black folks and enforce a positive message for us. Would Chef G. Garvin or Chef Roblé feature the up-and-comer? Might he be cooking with the Neelys one day?
But wait.
"With more than 51,000 followers on Twitter, a couple of endorsements from Gwyneth Paltrow and a new cookbook released to much fanfare, the mystery blogger behind the well-trafficked site was poised and ready to emerge from the shadows and join fellow next-level black entrepreneurs.
But wait.
"With more than 51,000 followers on Twitter, a couple of endorsements from Gwyneth Paltrow and a new cookbook released to much fanfare, the mystery blogger behind the well-trafficked site was poised and ready to emerge from the shadows and join fellow next-level black entrepreneurs.
An Epicurious profile revealed one astonishing caveat, however: The Thug Kitchen creator isn’t exactly a black entrepreneur—or black at all.
In the spirit of Thug Kitchen language, what the f--k?
The blog is actually the brainchild of a white man and white woman who started it in August 2012 on Tumblr." [Read more.]
Lord have mercy! These white folks are getting slick.
This is why I don't feel bad for that white lady who thought that she was getting a little white bundle of joy and got a black one.
Hey, in "post-racial" America, should it really matter what color the child is?
The couple said that they ordered sperm from a white man with blue eyes but they got the sperm of a Negro.
Now they are worried about raising the little girl in a neighborhood that will not be friendly to a little child of color. (You gotta love America.)
Anyway, I keep thinking about this poor girl. What will happen when she grows up and realizes that her parents made national headlines when she was a baby because they didn't want her ?
That is definitely not a good look.
"Within days of their wedding in New York, Jennifer Cramblett and Amanda Zinkon had become pregnant with the donor sperm. In April 2012, five months into her pregnancy, Cramblett, 36, called Midwest Sperm Bank LLC outside Chicago to reserve sperm from the same donor in the hope that Zinkon, 29, would someday also have a child.
Lord have mercy! These white folks are getting slick.
This is why I don't feel bad for that white lady who thought that she was getting a little white bundle of joy and got a black one.
Hey, in "post-racial" America, should it really matter what color the child is?
The couple said that they ordered sperm from a white man with blue eyes but they got the sperm of a Negro.
Now they are worried about raising the little girl in a neighborhood that will not be friendly to a little child of color. (You gotta love America.)
Anyway, I keep thinking about this poor girl. What will happen when she grows up and realizes that her parents made national headlines when she was a baby because they didn't want her ?
That is definitely not a good look.
"Within days of their wedding in New York, Jennifer Cramblett and Amanda Zinkon had become pregnant with the donor sperm. In April 2012, five months into her pregnancy, Cramblett, 36, called Midwest Sperm Bank LLC outside Chicago to reserve sperm from the same donor in the hope that Zinkon, 29, would someday also have a child.
That's when Cramblett learned from a sperm bank employee that she had been inseminated with sperm from the wrong donor, according to a lawsuit filed Monday against Midwest Sperm Bank in Cook County, Illinois.
Cramblett said they had chosen sperm from a man known as No. 380, a white donor. The sperm used for insemination came from No. 330, a black donor, she said.
"How could they make a mistake that was so personal?" Cramblett said during a telephone interview on Wednesday.
According to the lawsuit, her excitement about the pending birth was replaced with "anger, disappointment and fear." [Source]
The "anger" and "disappointment" I might get. But why the "fear"?
Oh wait.....raising a boy of color in America. Yep, that would probably scare me as well.
*Pic from okolo.org.
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