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The Latest Thing They’re Calling Racist Is ABSURD

Amala Ekpunobi

Amala Ekpunobi

Education

4.22.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2023

⏱️ 7 minutes

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A TikToker went viral for claiming that eating 3 meals a day is a vestige of colonialism and white supremacy. Is there actually something to this argument, or is it the latest case of reading racism into things that are completely normal and benign? Let’s watch and react.

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0:00.0

Are you eating breakfast lunch and dinner every single day?

0:02.9

Well then you must know that that comes from white supremacy.

0:05.8

Let's talk about it.

0:06.9

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0:08.9

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0:15.0

one as many people to find this channel as possible so you know what to do.

0:18.6

Now let's watch a TikTok that details how three meals a day comes from white supremacy and colonialism.

0:23.8

That the three meals a day thing breakfast lunch and dinner is from colonialism.

0:29.2

I've been waiting for this day.

0:32.0

Continuously.

0:34.0

If you don't know me please go check out my page.

0:35.7

I talk a lot about diet culture and in Thruzon white supremacy racism and just whiteness in the food system

0:43.6

as a whole and this person really articulated it well and also thank you for sharing this book.

0:47.8

What is so amazing about that book and also what's being discussed in that video is it really articulates how

0:53.8

whiteness has infiltrated the way that we view and address our hunger cues because we are trying to adhere to very strict schedules that our bodies didn't you know they were not created to immediately adhere to.

1:08.3

Like you don't come out the womb being like I will only eat breakfast lunch and dinner.

1:11.4

Society tells you only eat breakfast lunch and dinner.

1:14.1

Okay, there's a lot to unpack here I guess as they say.

1:19.2

First of all I just want to make the note that nobody is making people eat these three meals a day that I'm aware of and these two women presumably are from the United States of America where you have the freedom to eat whenever it is that you want to it's got a ridiculous TV be pondering these sorts of things.

1:35.8

New York, man, starvation.

1:39.0

But nonetheless here we are three meals a day comes from white supremacy and colonialism.

1:45.8

Now there's a lot of different histories that talk about where three meals a day comes from they talk about breakfast coming from the Romans in the middle ages and them having lunch and all this different stuff but we're not even going to get bogged down in that let's assume that what they're saying is true and that colonialism brought about three meals a day and they couldn't stand seeing people of color eat any other way so they decided three meals a day is what we do as a society and this is what we are bringing this is our.

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