White people, am I right?
by Mark Tapson
In today’s Anti-White Racism in Academia news, two California professors predictably claim in a new book that farmers’ markets in urban areas are weed-like “white spaces” responsible for oppression.
According to the Washington Times, San Diego State University geology professors — that’s right, geology professors — Pascale Joassart-Marcelli and Fernando J. Bosco wrote in a recently-released anthology titled Just Green Enough. Their contribution, titled, “Alternative food and gentrification: Farmers’ Markets, community gardens, and the transformation of urban neighborhoods,” claims there is a correlation between the “whiteness of farmers’ markets” and gentrification.
“Farmers’ markets are often white spaces where the food consumption habits of white people are normalized,” the SDSU professors write.
The food consumption habits of white people are being normalized? This is an outrage! Nothing white people do should be normal.
The professors claim that 44 percent of San Diego’s farmers’ markets cater to “households from higher socio-economic backgrounds,” which raises property values and “[displaces] low-income residents and people of color.”
So, less than half? That means more than half cater to households from lower socio-economic backgrounds. In any case, do only whites occupy socio-economic backgrounds? Are there no whites in lower socio-economic backgrounds?
The race-baiting social justice whiners — I mean, geology professors — continue:
The most insidious part of this gentrification process is that alternative food initiatives work against the community activists and residents who first mobilized to fight environmental injustices and provide these amenities but have significantly less political and economic clout than developers and real estate professionals.
Fight environmental injustice? We thought farmers’ markets were about farmers getting their produce directly to consumers. Apparently if they’re white farmers and white consumers, that process is “insidious.” And what’s “environmental injustice,” anyway?
The professors assert that “negative externalities” of “white habitus” formed at farmers’ markets can be managed through “inclusive steps that balance new initiatives and neighborhood stability to make cities ‘just green enough.’”
“Inclusive” — except for white people.
https://www.truthrevolt.org/news/professors-farmers-markets-are-racist-normalize-habits-white-people