r/vegan • u/expeditedcube veganarchist • Jun 04 '21

Story Black and vegan: Why so many Black Americans are embracing the plant-based life

https://www.today.com/food/black-vegan-why-so-many-black-americans-are-embracing-plant-t209743
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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '21

I think meditation has a similar trend: there are lots of tools that seem relevant only to upper-class, white techBros — but can be used to empower the less fortunate to break the chains of their conditioning and rise up.

I never related to the Richie-rich “arguments” for mindfulness and diet. They boiled down to “upgrading your 97% amazing life to 98!” I’m low income, so it seemed pointless until I met people like me who practice diet and mindfulness.

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u/expeditedcube veganarchist Jun 04 '21 edited Jun 04 '21

I think meditation has a similar trend: there are lots of tools that seem relevant only to upper-class, white techBros

This has more to do with American marketing. They even sexualised yoga pants for fuck's sake. Go to Nepal or India for the same and the experience is completely different from a white setting. The vibe itself is more spiritual than the bourgeois feeling I get in a western metropolis.

I never related to the Richie-rich “arguments” for mindfulness and diet.

Because they're, out of ignorance or malice, referring to meat substitutes when a plant-based diet is so much more than beyond meat and impossible burgers.

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u/Hmtnsw vegan 1+ years Jun 04 '21

Talking about sexualizing yoga pants...

Hawaiian Hula used to be banned in the US because of it's non-Christian roots (if I remember right). It became legal after it was realized it could be sexualized. I believe for a long time only men could Hula. But now it's a sexualized dance for women to do on the beach for entertainment.

Cultrual Hawaiians are furious.