From Business Insider:
Why celebrity chef Tunde Wey wants to charge white people $100 for salt
Because he’s a God damn racist piece of shit. It’s that simple. But because his racism is directed at white people it’s going to get justified in the name of Wokeness.
How much are white people willing to pay for reparations?
That’s the question celebrity chef, writer, and provocateur Tunde Wey asks with his new venture launched August 14, A Lot of Salt, which sells premium salt to white people for $100 a box.
“Now, you’re prolly thinking: “$100 for salt? that is outrageous!” Lot’s website reads. That’s exactly the point.
I’m not sure exactly how much of this salt he’s going to sell. Maybe a few boxes to some very rich Progressive celebrities to show off how woke they are. I doubt much more than that.
What worries me is that some Woke corporate executive is going to buy some using company money, at which point he should be sued for breach of fiduciary duty for deliberately and unjustifiably overpaying on materials.
“The folks who interpret value are the folks who have money,” Wey told Business Insider in a phone interview. “The question isn’t, “Is that too expensive?” The question is: do people value reparations? Do people value Black lives?”
No, the market determines value, not a cabal of white people. If this guy decides that the value of black lives is $100 for a 9 oz box of salt, he’s going to be very disappointed.
According to the Lot website, “Every time you add a dash of our delicious sea salt to your under seasoned dishes, we hope you contemplate your many privileges and the disparities they create.”
Insulting the people you are demanding pay reparations pricing for salt is… actually Progressives are racial masochists. The more abuse they take the better they feel. Progressivism is like a medieval religion, they love nothing more to be flagellated in public to atone for their race’s sins.
In May, as most high-profile chefs were pleading for aid to save the sinking restaurant industry, Wey wrote an essay, titled “Let it Die,” making the opposite case. “It” refers to the restaurant industry in its pre-pandemic form — an industry that Wey says is rife with inequality and largely segregated along race lines when it comes to rank and income. It’s also an industry that is emblematic of American capitalism in the way that it values profit over lives, Wey said.
I bet he made a lot of friends in the restaurant industry with that statement.
How did this guy become a celebrity chef anyway?
Time Magazine will tell us.
Here is the despicable part. Time has this guy listed in their Next Generation Leaders category.
From his columns in the San Francisco Chronicle, to essays in The Boston Globe, and the Oxford American that interrogate the passivity and hypocrisy of American food culture, to performance-art inspired experiments that aim to challenge (mostly white) individuals to pinpoint their role in systemic oppression, Wey is always thinking about the debt owed to black people. Food, with its wide lens, is the perfect malleable prop.
So he’s half Al Sharpton and half Jamie Oliver.
Wey invited food activists, professors, writers and artists to engage guests from varied backgrounds on racism from the perspective of black people — a topic white America tends to avoid. He served Nigerian dishes like egusi stew and fried plantain and watched repeatedly as black diners did most of the emotional grunt work of explaining the personal effects of oppression; meanwhile he found white people mostly felt awkward, responded defensively, and sought patchwork solutions without dealing with the impact of a system they benefited from.
He’d used the term “discomfort food” to describe what he was trying to get at — that food was not always a salve or an escape, that communal dining spaces could be used confront injustices, to prompt meaningful action.
Instead of the time-honored tradition of food being used to bring people together, he uses food to drive people apart and torment them.
In 2018, he opened SAARTJ, a pop-up food stall in New Orleans where black visitors were charged $12 for dishes like isi ewu, a goat stew, while white visitors were asked to pay $30.
Also last year in Nashville, Wey explored the root causes of gentrification in an event called Hot Chicken Shit. As part of the project, white diners were asked to pledge $100 for one piece of chicken, $1,000 for four pieces, or to sign over a property deed in North Nashville in exchange for a whole chicken with sides. For black people, the meal was free.
He is sure to call these events “performance art” because if he just did this it would be very illegal.
If you wonder how this guy makes money, it’s not with his cooking. He has a book advance for a book on a topic yet to be determined.
As I have learned, book advances are one of the more popular ways for Progressives to bankroll activists who are not qualified (connected) enough to get a talking head or think thank sinecure.
This guy is a flat out fucking racist.
This topic really gets under my skin because my family was in the restaurant business. We were a kosher deli but we served everyone. In Miami, it wasn’t uncommon to cater a breakfast of bagels and lox to Catholic groups for Easter or Christmas brunch.
In the Jewish tradition, fish is parve so can be served with milk, which makes smoked salmon and cream cheese Kosher. It also makes a good meatless breakfast for Catholics who don’t eat meat during Lent and Eastertide. Also, the Jewish caterers were usually the only ones open for Easter and Christmas.
There was no discrimination in the food.
Good food brings people together. The breaking of bread is an ancient tradition of unification.
This asshole uses food to harm people, to pick open wounds, and browbeat people over grievances they have no control over.
This attacks an institution I hold near and dear to my heart.
And it is truly disgusting that what Time considers our next generation of leaders.
We have gone from “I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.”
To, ‘I’m going to charge white people who sit at my table exorbitant prices for food to punish them and extort them with guilt.’
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