gahdamnpunk:The fact that he brought chocolate and vanilla..People saying Larry should’ve brought So
gahdamnpunk:The fact that he brought chocolate and vanilla..People saying Larry should’ve brought Soul Food are missing the point that it’s an INTERNATIONAL Potluck. Soul Food is the product of West Africans making do with what little they were given by their enslavers. More over, because those recipes have been copied by American corporations to fill their chain restaurant menus, it wouldn’t be an out-of-the-ordinary or enlightening experience for the people attending the potluck. Going to Europe and then only eating McDonald’s isn’t immersing yourself in the cultureAs for those saying he should’ve used a DNA testing service like 23 and Me or Ancestry, be mindful that the test only locates the general region (Eastern Europe, Scandinavian, Middle Eastern, Latin American, etc.). Even if the test could accurately pinpoint the exact country in Africa, there are often multiple distinct ethnic and language groups present—many of which are spread across national borders—because today’s maps were drawn by European colonizers based on access to resources and NOT according to the ancestral territory for any one ethnicity -- source link