Understanding History To Create Health

Getting people to understand the history of the African-American experience when it comes to food. It has been embedded, the food system has been embedded for so long in terms of what we're eating now. And the only way that is going to really change it is really to educate people to understand that food for so long has been used as a weapon. Against the Black community, Black and Brown community. It's used as a weapon against us. And as a result, you're seeing the diet-related diseases that is happening that's killing our population. I even make this statement that our food is killing us as part of a genocide that is happening. I hate to have to use that strong word, but I'm just saying it's part of a genocide that's happening within our communities as food is being used as a weapon against us. because it's something that we all need to have. But yet, in communities of color, that food is processed food, junk food, and fast food. And making people aware of that fact, hopefully. Like I said, it's true.

People don't realize that while gun violence is horrible and needs to stop, that it's a fraction of the amount of people that die in these communities compared to diet related diseases that are totally preventable.