{"id":2521,"date":"2020-09-03T16:11:33","date_gmt":"2020-09-03T20:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/?p=2521"},"modified":"2020-09-03T16:11:33","modified_gmt":"2020-09-03T20:11:33","slug":"tess-keating-blog-post-for-9-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/2020\/09\/03\/tess-keating-blog-post-for-9-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Tess Keating Blog Post for 9\/7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Within the first moments of starting to read, \u201cHating My Soul\u201d by Twitty I felt guilt. I never really thought about the reason I liked the movies and celebrities that I did as a kid. Twitty states, \u201cBlame it on a world that taught me early on that the only people who actually mattered were pretty white people getting laid and living large, and their cute children living without want\u201d (twitty, 26). I watched movies and thought \u201cI want to be like her\u201d not \u201cI could never be like her\u201d, because of the color of my skin. The impact of this never truly occurred to me.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I also found it interesting and sad that the way Twitty saw (or didn\u2019t see for that matter) black culture in popular culture is the reason he didn\u2019t have the appreciation for \u201csoul food\u201d that his family did. Chain and fast food restaurant take over is something that is damaging to all cultural foods and appetites. \u201cI remember all these soul food horror stories and shudder. They came from a cultural disconnect\u2026 a grandson who lived in a world taken over by Pizza Hut and McDonald\u2019s and Kentucky Fried Chicken, and this could have been the end of my soul\u201d (Twitty, 35). While it is impressive to me that Twitty was able to re gain an appreciation for the food of his culture, it is sad to think that this was probably not the case for many people\/families, and is the reason that there is a die out in culture. To many, food is a key part in culture, tradition, and heritage, and the \u201cwhite washing\u201d of food is something that is ruining this for many. I can see this causing some sort of internal conflict in people, especially children, when part of them wants to embrace their culture, but the other part of them wants to fit in and go with what is popular, which is sad.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Within the first moments of starting to read, \u201cHating My Soul\u201d by Twitty I felt guilt. I never really thought about the reason I liked&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/2020\/09\/03\/tess-keating-blog-post-for-9-7\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tess Keating Blog Post for 9\/7<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4924,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4924"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2521"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2522,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2521\/revisions\/2522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}