Recipe For Making a Racist
With little effort, you too can make a racist. Makes 2 to 4 million servings (and then some, with leftovers for sharing)
Ever since I was a little Black girl, I have been warmly embraced by racism. I fondly remember, as a kindergartener, sneaking into the kindergarten room next door with my other little non-Black friends on a secret mission to trade our Black baby doll with the White one (the White one was prettier, obviously).
Since then, I’m hit by nostalgia every time I turn on the news and hear of yet another innocent Black person dying just for existing. Smelling the fetid fetor of bigotry and rancid redolence of racism as it wafts through the TV screen or social media timeline into my living room always takes me back to those precious moments in my early childhood.
I thought back to my ancestors who were abducted from Africa and sold into slavery to work in the brutal sugar plantations of Jamaica. It all seemed so far away, and I longed for the manifestation of white supremacy in my own life. I soon wondered — how could I possibly fashion myself an Amy Cooper or Derek Chauvin or Dylann Roof in 2020? I took to my kitchen to figure it out.
I’m pleased to share with you this recipe on how to make a racist. It’s a tried, tested and true…
