Fast Food's Bad Bargain For Black America / Naa Oyo A. Kwate
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🗓️ 12 April 2023
⏱️ 90 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Oh, Make it back. a job. This This is hell. |
| 0:35.0 | is hell. |
| 0:37.0 | Behind every great fortune lies a great crime because this is hell and a fortune has been made in the United States from fast food. |
| 0:54.0 | So what's the crime behind fast food? |
| 0:56.0 | Well, there's the obvious crime of selling food to the public that is not good for us. |
| 1:01.0 | As the National Institutes of Health concludes, |
| 1:04.0 | fast foods typically contain multiple chemicals |
| 1:07.2 | and synthetic ingredients. |
| 1:09.0 | They are a calorically dense, highly flavored flavored and nutritionally barren. |
| 1:15.0 | Fast foods typically contain extra corn syrup, sugar, |
| 1:19.3 | artificial sweeteners, salt, coloring agents, and other potentially disease-promoting chemicals. |
| 1:27.0 | But that's far from the only crime fast food has been engaged in during its 100-year-plus history. First First there was its original crime of refusing to serve |
| 1:36.5 | black people which wasn't a crime at the time but morally and ethically it always |
| 1:40.8 | has been and I did not know that it was excluded from African Americans but should have assumed when the first |
| 1:48.9 | fast food franchise was called White Castle, |
| 1:53.0 | White Tower. |
| 1:56.0 | Yes, from the start, fast food was a White's only, |
| 2:00.0 | as whites only as any Woolworth lunch counter. |
| 2:04.0 | Eventually, however, white suburban communities began shunning the national franchises |
| 2:09.0 | which changed fast food from excluding black Americans to fast food exploiting African Americans. |
| 2:17.0 | Sure, black franchisees got in on the act and in movies like coming to America fast food is depicted as a way for members of the black |
| 2:23.5 | community to not only give back to their neighbors but also for personal |
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