I'm adapting this conversation from something I read years ago, it's not me, I'm not making it up,
Let's call him Dustin, he's a writer for a southern homemaker's magazine, he's got a degree, probably in one of the humanities, from a school we've heard of, and he wrote for the school paper, and he found his way into writing as a food critic for a southern homemaker's magazine.
And he's good at it!
And then he wrote an essay about how the restaurant business has to end, we have to destroy it, because it is fundamentally oppressive and exploitative of the people who have to work for restaurants.
In his life as a food critic, he'd interviewed too many of the chefs at these prestigious southern restaurants. They were overwhelmingly people of color, working for white restaurant owners.
Eventually Dustin has to write about the economic and racial injustice.
As part of this new article, Dustin invited a talented black chef over to his house for an interview. While they were talking, Dustin asked what people like him could do to remedy the injustices of the restaurant industry.
The black chef replied,
"You could let me live in this fine house of yours."
No. That wasn't going to happen. But point made.
And he's good at it!
And then he wrote an essay about how the restaurant business has to end, we have to destroy it, because it is fundamentally oppressive and exploitative of the people who have to work for restaurants.
In his life as a food critic, he'd interviewed too many of the chefs at these prestigious southern restaurants. They were overwhelmingly people of color, working for white restaurant owners.
Eventually Dustin has to write about the economic and racial injustice.
As part of this new article, Dustin invited a talented black chef over to his house for an interview. While they were talking, Dustin asked what people like him could do to remedy the injustices of the restaurant industry.
The black chef replied,
"You could let me live in this fine house of yours."
No. That wasn't going to happen. But point made.