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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I (a white person) enjoy eating mac and cheese but I can still recognize that it's a significant food for pepole the AA community. It's not that hard to understand.[/quote]

That doesn’t make Mac-n-cheese a “black thing.”  Nobody’s denying that Uno is a part of black culture.  But it’s also a part of white culture.  Same with Mac-n-cheese, bbq’s, drunk uncles, and big Sunday dinners.[/quote]

Mac n cheese is a black thing - which doesn’t make it “not a white thing,” but it has a specific black cultural connotation that’s unique. not sure why this is hard to understand? [/quote]

Because by making it a “[insert race here] thing”, there is an implication that others don’t get it, don’t use it (play it, cook it, etc...) right or haven’t been exposed to it. There are certainly black things and white things (although they are often further divided by ethnicity- Irish things, German things, etc) and most of those haven’t been part of the experience of someone else of another race, but co-opting a standard American card game that all kids were exposed to in some way doesn’t make it a thing.

For instance, one black thing that I learned of was talking during movies at the theater.  At first, I was surprised but I learned to appreciate it as it adds such a fun, extra element to watching a movie.  Talking during movies is a black thing because it isn’t something most of the rest of America does.    Conversely, every freaking one plays UNO and loves Mac-and-cheese at potlucks![/quote]

Mac and cheese started with slaves just because you eat it now doesn’t mean it isn’t a black thing. It’s something we only make if there is a picky eater, it’s not something most families have at every non-POC family party.

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It's Southern. Like grits and collard greens.  It so happens that a lot of Black people live in the South. It so happens that a lot of white people also live in the South.[/quote]

Nope again.

Southern food and soul food are different.

Grits was given to slaves and greens were cut off the beets and slaves would cook the greens because they were “waste” it evolved into other green (collard).

But it was originated from slaves and part of black history.

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You're contradicting yourself.

Nevermind. I don't like grits, I'm not Southern. You can keep them.[/quote]

No I’m not. Southerners imitating black culture became Southern food. It’s an off shoot but grits is soul food.

You’d like grits if you ate them the way black people do.[/quote]

Your cited article says that mac and cheese started as aristocratic, elite food that was prepared by slaves for slaveowners.  Then, helped by the invention of Kraft dinner, it became ubiquitous and was adopted by Black people.  Then you say that grits and collard greens were low-class food.  You're saying that all food is Black people food and sometimes white people eat it, but less well.

Okay.  [/quote]

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