' You know, it’s very disturbing for us, as Kānaka Maoli, to see the headlines and ... see Lahaina as this tourist town, as if that’s all it is, because, for us, it’s so much more. And the tourism is part of the commodification of our culture. It’s part of the erasure of our culture. That narrative literally just takes us out of the picture. And, you know, without Hawaiians, there would be no Hawaii... '

#Hawaii #wildfires #Lahaina #CulturalErasure #TraditionalCulture

https://www.democracynow.org/2023/8/11/noelani_ahia_maui_wildfires

Collard greens, yum.

Michael W. Twitty teaches culinary cultural history "on the foodways of Africa, enslaved African Americans, African America and the African and Jewish diasporas."

https://afroculinaria.com/2016/01/16/a-letter-to-the-newgrorati-of-collards-and-amnesia/

#Collards
#foodhistory #Food #histodon #CulturalErasure #RevisionistHistory #Reclaim
#SuperFoods #LeafyGreens
#BlackMastodon