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If You Are a Racist White Person You’d Better Avoid Both Pumpkin and Sweet Potato Pie
Maybe apple too, but you’ll have to do your own research on that.
Want to show your support for Black Lives Matter with your choice of Thanksgiving dessert? Consider the humble custard-like orange vegetable pie.
In the 1800s pumpkin was the clear choice of those against slavery. Pumpkins were the humble vegetable grown on small farms by the salt of the earth family farmer. Large plantations exploiting enslaved people kidnapped or descended from those kidnapped from Africa didn’t bother with growing the simple pumpkin.
Serving pumpkin pie was a form of boycott, of virtue signaling for those in the North at least for some abolitionists.
Sorry racists, hate to spoil your day. (Really not sorry).
Maybe you think you should switch to sweet potato pie instead. That’s a southern thing right? Long live the south. Go, Dixie!
Hold up a moment. Sweet potato pie is a Black thing. I realize cultural appropriation is all the rage even for racists, but seriously what are you doing?
Sweet potatoes were cultivated by enslaved people who missed the wonderful yams of their homeland. Each bite of sweet potato pie is a…
