What Food Shaming Looks Like for Black Women

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What Food Shaming Looks Like for Black Women
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Humiliating others about what they eat should never be okay.

that it is much too convenient to place the lion’s share of the blame for the appearance of people’s varying larger body shapes on eating alone.

It’s all quite sad, really. America was founded on the ethereal concept of freedom and liberty. But far too often we find that others want to define what these ideas mean for us. One would think thhat adults would help young people to appreciate rather than ridicule social, cultural, physical, and sexual differences. And nowhere is more the case than in.

We are misguided in thinking that young adults are empty vessels merely existing to have knowledge poured into them. Brazilian educator and philosopher Paulo Friere long ago warned us against this “” of educational thinking. Rather, young people should be considered creative and inquisitive beings who desire knowledge and are capable of being encouraged to think critically when given good information.

The excerpt below addresses some of these issues from my perspective as a single mom and PhD who raised an African American daughter in what is considered one of the most affluent African American counties in the nation. During middle and some of high school, my daughter was constantly shamed for her foodways and her lifeways, led not only to feel that she was unable to be the young, innocent girl that she was, learning to navigate the worlds around her; but also, that she was less than human.

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