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Your dreams have come true, kids: French fries and pizza are now good for you, so eat up, or else: if you don’t, you might be suspected of “white supremacism.” If you thought things couldn’t possibly get any crazier, forget it: a “nutritionist” has proclaimed that “nutrition standards are rooted in whiteness,” and so like Robert E. Lee and Bull Connor, they’ve got to go. Nor is the nutritionist in question, Kéra Nyemb-Diop, some nut raving on the streetcorner; she works for Mondelez International, which is so concerned about nutrition that it produces Oreos and Chips Ahoy!. She is so well respected that the Los Angeles Unified School District’s (LAUSD) Office of Human Relations Diversity and Equity (HRDE) just shared her eating-right-is-racism video on its Instagram account. Oh yes, they did.
It comes as no surprise, really, now that women are men and men are drag queens in primary schools, that someone who calls herself a “nutritionist” would tell us something like this and, instead of being laughed out of her profession, would be held up by what is supposed to be an organization of sane and sober educators as someone who actually has something to tell us. The video that the L.A. school district wanted those who are foolish enough to follow it on Instagram to see begins with one woman offering another a plate of doughnuts, and being absolutely baffled when they’re refused. “Are they moldy? I mean, are they poisoned?” The woman who refused a doughnut is speechless, whereupon the fatty snack pusher scolds her: “Hmm. You’re judging my food choices based on a false standard of ‘health,’ again, aren’t you?”
The refusenik says happily, “Guilty!,” but she doesn’t get off that easily. The video then cuts to Kéra Nyemb-Diop herself, identified only as “@Black.Nutritionist,” who declares: “Diet culture, fatphobia and systems of oppression have created false hierarchies of food; it shows up everywhere.” A bit later in the video, a woman appears who is identified as “@SavageXFatty.” A woman named Maya Finoh, whose tweets are protected, has that Twitter account, and here’s her Twitter bio: “cultural worker. a salone pikin from the 919. like claudia jones i’m left of marx. they/them.” In the video, she says: “We are all incorrectly taught from a young age that our size and therefore the foods that we eat are markers of our self-worth. Moralizing food can lead to harmful relationships with food and disordered eating.” See? If you say that people ought to eat right, it’ll just make them eat even worse.
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fadeye@yahoo.com says
Thought morbid obesity was a co-morbidity?? How did the covid19 china-virus miss all these hoggettes?!!
Infidel says
How indeed? I think the variants like Omicron learned not to destroy the morbidly obese, or else the population that they get to feed on will go down sharply
Infidel says
As somebody who relishes unhealthy food, this is something I can get behind. Now whenever I get a lecture about the fries or bacon or sausages I eat, I can unleash the R-word 😈
somehistory says
This is self-destruction on a rampage to cause little kids to also self-destruct. It’s evil.
CogitoErgoSum says
When I was a kid I was told that carrots were good for my eyes, milk was good for my bones and fish was called brain food. The people in that video have not been eating enough fish.
somehistory says
A day or two ago, a “drag queen” dropped dead during a performance. the creature was 25. dead with a heart attack, diabetes and obesity. In the photo, the creature appeared to be a poc.
I guess it takes a nuclear scientist, a “rocket scientist” to recognize the benefits of eating right, if the scientist is White, then all who eat right are racist. but, they get to live longer.
CogitoErgoSum says
Another thing I don’t hear very often anymore is that eating fewer calories helps slow aging. Proper exercise is important too. So many people are just living in a fantasy world these days and wishful thinking has taken over. Men want to be women and women want to be men and fat people want to be healthy and stupid people want everybody to think they are smart. Meanwhile, life expectancy in the U.S. has dropped for two years in a row for a total of 2. 7 years.
somehistory says
It’s turned into a swamp of bad ideas, like the Everglades are full of pythons. these Blacks who are complaining about every good idea, things that have been proven over time, are literally killing themselves out of spite; the worst part being, they are taking others down with them. they are killing the kids who don’t know any better.
I remember Popeye, eating his spinach to stay strong to the finish. Now, he would be called a racist pig, lying for other Whtie supremacists.
gravenimage says
Insanely, Popeye *has* been condemned as racist, because among his enemies were an Arab pirate and an Arab leader of a gang of thieves. Not making this up.
commonsense says
Second reply to gravenimage:
I was being sarcastic about banning the Arabian Nights, but it’s entirely my fault that I didn’t make that sufficiently clear. Sorry about that. And you’re entirely correct about the premise of the Arabian Nights – that Sheherazade beguiles the Sultan with intricately crafted, marvelous stories for a thousand and one nights in order to continuously postpone her execution, a punishment decreed by the sultan for all women he chooses to lie with as retribution for his unfaithful wife’s affair with a despised and ugly black man who, as I seem to recall, was a mere slave.
commonsense says
This comment is in response to that of graven image, posted here.
The condemnation of Popeye as racist is based on two animated shorts made in the mid- 1930s, both very loosely based on the stories of Ali Baba and Sinbad, respectively. Bluto is Abu Hassan, leader of the gang of forty thieves, and is also Sindbad (sic), who is portrayed as a pirate, not merely an adventuring seaman In the latter cartoon. Perhaps the one enduring masterpiece the Muslims have given to the world, The Arabian Nights (actually of Persian origin and not Arabic) should be banned because of its overt racism, manifestly so in Sheherazade’s description of blacks (e.g. in Richard Burton’s translation, the prelude to the tales involves an illicit affair between the Sultan’s wife and a “big, slobbering blackamoor”).
gravenimage says
commonsense, thank you–I know this. I’ve actually been rewatching the Popeye cartoons recently on both TCM and MeTV. I’m familiar with these cartoons–and there is one more–Aladdin and his Wonderful Lamp, which has the famous/infamous ending with the chant of “Salami, Salami, Boloney”.
Bluto as Abu Hassan or “Sindbad” is generally just being Bluto, albeit with a gang these times. Not all Arabs are depicted this way, just as not all sailors are depicted this way in other Popeye cartoons. In fact, other Arabs are depicted as Abu Hassan’s victims.
As for the Thousand and One Nights (often called the Arabian Nights) I would not ban it. I would put a reference to racist passages in the forward, but *not* ban it. I don’t think that “canceling” uncomfortable literature is the way to deal with disturbing history.
Moreover, Muslims are *still* racist against Black people, including enslaving them–I think this is important to know.
And the most disturbing thing about these stories to my mind is the fact that Scheherazade is spinning these tales to avoid being raped and murdered by the Sultan, since this is the way he has treated all of his wives thus far–a habit that makes Henry VIII look like a good husband in comparison, and is *also* important for us to know in understanding Islam and its attitudes. Pretty rough stuff for something generally considered childrens’ literature, but I wouldn’t ban it for this reason, either.
somehistory says
the salami, salami, boloney, was my favorite part.
John ..Smith says
The black woman with her tits hanging out tells us, “the only foods that are bad for you are foods that contain allergens poisons, and contaminants. What a load of garbage, and she’d be the last one you’d want to take any nutritional advice from, unless you want to end up looking like her.
And as for the other black girl with the yellow cardigan, well she needs to go for some elocution lessons before she starts lecturing us about nutrition. Since when has focusing become fuckusing, did anyone else pick up on that or is it just me.
somehistory says
I watched it and read some of the captioning, but I didn’t listen. I can only stand a small portion of stupidity every day. that would exceed my limit and be unhealthy for my brain cells. So, I didn’t notice it, but I believe you.
I listened to kjp try to answer questions about the inflation rising act, and far exceeded my daily limit of hearing stupid lies.
Anonymous111 says
The Black nutritionist with the yellow top speaks English with a foreign French accent.
gravenimage says
She went to school in France and may still be based there.
GreekEmpress says
Lose that broccoli, you white supremacist!
And she works for a company that makes junk food?
I hesitate to ask if it will get any crazier.
Signs point to yes.
PS—Is Michelle Obama now a racist?
somehistory says
Yes, yes mo is a racist…and not for saying kids have a food desert with which to contend.
And does this mean that all those illegals who keep invading your space are going to be given cake and pie and chips instead of tortillas, tacos, and other racist foods? After all, tomatoes are in short supply, so the news feed reports. beef is down forty or fifty percent, wheat and corn also. along with carrots and celery. while prices for these keep going up.
tim gallagher says
GreekEmpress, I keep thinking the same thing about a lot of the imbecilic crap that emanates from some of the black spokespeople – can this stuff get any crazier.? I am amazed at some of the utter garbage that I have heard from black academics, usually as mentioned on the “Outsiders” program here in Australia. I think one said that being white was a disease or some such gem of wisdom. I keep thinking, how in hell’s name did such complete morons ever get jobs in universities as academics. The idiocy of their opinions are truly beyond belief. If some people take the opinion of this idiotic “nutritionist” seriously, she will cause quite a few junk food eaters to drop dead because of the crap they have eaten.
gravenimage says
Yes, crazy stuff. A few years ago there was the whole “Ebonics” thing–trying to get Black street slang accepted as (or alongside) standard English. This seems to died back, but there is stuff just as stupid being bandied about now.
Anonymous111 says
On the LA Parent Tweet there is the bio information on the Black nutritionist. She works at University of Rennes in France. I live in France. In France there is the GROS organisation: Groupe de recherche sur l’obésité et le surpoids (Research group on obesity and overweight). There works the Dr Gérard Apfeldorfer and the Dr Jean-Philippe Zermati. These doctors have published books, very friendly and soothing in the nutritional approach, saying that the mental tension of using your will to refrain from overeating is bad because I believe they say that you will end up binging on food to compensate the tension. They presuppose their readers and clients have notions of what is a balanced diet because they are supposed to be acquainted with traditional diets that are instinctively balanced. I have read their books and they don’t explain what is a balanced diet because they believe people know it.
In the province of Quebec, Canada, I have attended a course 30 years ago given by an association that informs on hypoglycemia. The right diet to keep the sugar levels all right in your blood does not interest Big Pharma because no money can be gained from it. The right diet is simple: whole foods combined the right way: carbo-hydrates (potatoes or whole rice or whole wheat etc) with vegetables and proteins (meat, fish, eggs, even vegetarians must follow that diet for months if they want to rebalance their blood sugar levels). Never eat something naturally sweet on an empty stomach.
This association that helps hypoglycemics would teach us that many people are diagnosed with depression and prescribed heavy medication when in reality they are sugar addicts with a very bad diet of over processed foods, junk food, sugar. Also that hypoglycemia triggers violence because the burst of violence compensates the drop in blood sugar levels because of the hormones involved in stress. So you have families, with children, victim of violence stemming in reality of reactions to compensate drops in blood sugar levels. Ex alcoholics who binge on sugar in compensation also have problems.
Odette Bouchard and Murielle Thériault had published a very good book in French “Vaincre l’hypoglycémie” but they did not renew the edition when all was sold after a few years because they don’t have the means and the strength to put it up to date with all the new information.
somehistory says
You have provided some very good information. thank you.
gravenimage says
Thank you, Anonymous.
gravenimage says
Thank you, Anonymous.
I would question one claim, though–the idea that violence can be linked to sugar consumption. There is no doubt that ingesting large quantities of sugar is bad for people, but I have never heard that it causes violence. Moreover, I know quite a few people who have far too much candy, donuts, and soda to be healthy, but who are not at all violent.
Anonymous111 says
(continued from previous comment) So the Black nutriotionist who works at University of Rennes in France probably knows about the theories of the GROS association. She uses that information which is already incomplete in itself in a completely damaging way to health.
You will notice that we only see her face in the video and that she looks average weight. Not overweight. In France the obesity problem is not as advanced than in America. She is benefiting from the thousands years old healthy food tradition in France that helps keep a low weight and criminaly condemns to junk food the American people who live on a land that is born at the same time as industrialisation of food only a few centuries ago.
Overly processed foods are made to enrich the CEO of the food processing company with no regard for health. Big Pharma makes money on civilization illnesses. Civilization illnesses are illnesses from the industrialisation of food and modern ways of living.
gravenimage says
L.A. School District Shares Video from ‘Nutritionist’ Who Says Eating Right Is Racist
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This *sounds* like a parody–but it is not. They aren’t just saying that donuts are fine to have sometimes, but that there is no difference health-wise between a donut and a salad.
Using a morbidly obese spokesperson using the handle “Savage X Fatty” might not be the best way to get the idea of “food neutrality” across. Nor is this even “food neutral”, in any case, since she refers to eating healthy vegetables as “punishment”.
Kéra Nyemb-Diop demands that you “decolonize your plate”–but to learn what this means you have to be accepted into her coaching program…
I can’t believe the LA school district is doing this–or maybe I can…
bill carr says
1984 did not come on time but it seems to have finally arrived in the Western world. Or perhaps the USA in particular has descended into insanity. Some body once said and I forget who, ‘if the USA was a mental hospital, California would be the violent ward’
gravenimage says
I live in California and wish I could say you are wrong, Bill.
brenrod says
What we have here is a black racist who works for Oreos trying to get black folks to eat more Oreos.
brenrod says
Apparently I am under moderation for referring to the “nutritionist” as a racist.
somehistory says
It is my understanding that recently everyone was under the “moderation” for the first comment. I have been moderated for posting too many links in a comment. I doubt that calling her a racist was what caused the moderation.
gravenimage says
Somehistory is right, Benrod–with the new login system everyone is dealing with this for their first post–it is automatic and has nothing to do with content.
And I often forget how many links are OK (I think it’s just two) and so have my comments go to moderation. This is because so many posts (not all, certainly!) with multiple links are spam.
James Lincoln says
The video by nutritionist Kéra Nyemb-Diop should be accurately followed – if one wants to increase the incidence of metabolic syndrome.
Patients with metabolic syndrome often need medications – with all of their problematic side effects:
Medicines to lower your blood pressure: These include ACE inhibitors, angiotensin receptor blockers, diuretics, and beta blockers.
Medicines to control blood triglyceride and “good” HDL cholesterol levels such as statins and niacin.
Medicines to lower blood sugar levels: Insulin sensitizers such as thiazolidinediones can help treat high blood sugar levels.
gravenimage says
All true, James. This is absolute insanity–nor is there anything intrinsic in being Black or any other ethnicity to eating poorly. In fact, suggesting that there is *is itself* terribly racist.
gravenimage says
Here’s more stupid tosh about “Food Neutrality”
https://peaceandnutrition.com/what-is-food-neutrality/
Yes, there are some disagreements about which are the healthiest foods–keto or vegan? “Superfoods”? How much protein? Vitamins from whole foods or supplements?
But no one seriously considers donuts to be a healthy food.
One may argue–rationally, I think–that having a certain number of treats is fine and even psychologically healthy. And beating yourself up over eating bad foods may backfire.
But pretending that donuts are as healthy as apples is obviously nuts, and *exactly* the wrong thing to tell children, especially these days, with obesity and diabetes levels so high.