Saturdays were when my grandmother would go to the store to buy all the things she needed for our big Sunday dinners.

That's what I thought about when I saw the faces of the victims of that racist mass shooting at the

Top's grocery store in Buffalo, New York.

Roberta Drury, Marcus Morrison, Andre McNeil, Aaron Salter, Geraldine Tally, Celestine Cheney,

Hayward Patterson, Catherine Macy, Pearl Young, Ruth Whitfield.

They were buying food for themselves and the people they loved. And that grocery store, it was the only one in that

neighborhood. Black residents there had fought years to have access to a store like Tops.

They're now not only traumatized by the horror of this racist

attack, but back to traveling outside of their neighborhoods for something that should be a simple

American right. The show you're about to hear is about that right

that so many black and brown communities in America still don't have access to.

Fresh foods that nourish us and the ability to create our own food sources.

This episode was recorded before that tragedy in Buffalo,

our condolences to the Buffalo community, and our nation. Do you remember your first birthday party as a kid? This pandemic over the last few years has prevented us

from throwing parties like that for our kids. So recently when our son turned nine

we decided to give him a backyard celebration where he could be in charge of what to serve all his friends and of all the possibilities you know what this kid said he wanted?

I wanted to have McDonald's because it's my favorite fast food

place and I think their food tastes good. Why do you think their food tastes good? What is it about it?

It just tastes chemically and I like that.

Wait, wait, wait, like, describe what chemically tastes like and I'm a little bit horrified.

Like dry.

Man as crazy as this sounds, I totally understand.

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