Limited access to healthy food, or “food apartheid,” is one side effect of racist housing policies seeking to keep our people malnourished and impoverished. However, we’re not allowing it to stay this way. Here are ways we’re fighting back to ensure our people have access to nutritious food, no matter where we live!
#1: Cooperation. Black farmers and growers are combining forces to get access to land and equipment. What the growers are challenged with separately, they can achieve when they combine resources.
#2: DIY. Urban farming projects are providing access to healthier food choices by providing community gardens and mobile delivery of fresh produce. In rural areas, communities are banding together for healthy potlucks so everyone can get a meal.
#3: Education. We’re teaching current community members and future generations to grow their own food through youth programs. The effects of racist housing policies won’t change overnight, but equipping our youth to fight back will help future generations become even more effective at helping us help ourselves.
As these programs demonstrate, when we work together we can always find ways to fight back against white oppression and racism. We must always remember our resilience and creativity can overcome anything racism throws at us.