Anonymous wrote:Do you eat and enjoy chitlins, fried chicken, chicken and dumplings, cow tongue and/or pigs feet?
Barf. No. I grew up in the South, and I've never had chitlins, how maw, or pigs feet.
Anonymous wrote:Do you know vegetarian AAs? What about serious environmentalists who are AAs? AA friends who are part of those weekend warrior bikers riding around in spandex?
I'm a vegetarian AA, and have many AA friends who don't eat meat. Most of them are vegan. Admittedly, most of the Black vegans that I know are privileged. They're usually well educated, and very invested in the Black community, and tend to go to all Black schools like Howard, Hampton, or Meharry. I know one vegan family where the parents went to Brown, and all the children went to Howard.
DC also has a lot of Black vegans who are Five Percenters or Black Hebrew Israelites. They own two excellent vegan soul food restaurants near Howard's campus; Soul Vegetarian and Everlasting Life.
Also, I have two AA friends who are bike enthusiasts. One is a guy who wears spandex, the other is a hipster folk singer in Brooklyn who bikes in dresses.