Analysis Soul Food Junkies - 938 Words

Soul Food Junkies Dr. Marc Lamont Hill stated, â€Å" If you want to wipe out an entire generation of people and engage in a 21st century genocide, all you have to do is keep doing what we are doing and deprive people of access to healthy food.† Bryon Hurt s documentary Soul Food Junkies challenges and informs people s way of thinking when it comes to soul food. Questioning if dishes such as fried chicken, buttery mac and cheese, smokey ribs and greens in pork fat are significant to the black culture or just a recipe for an early death. So, he used his father s story, Jackie Hurt, about his ways of not giving up his artery-clogging classic soul food. At one point, Bryon Hurt wanted to be just like his father so he ate just like him. Especially on Sundays for the breakfast ritual which included grits, cheesy eggs, salt pork and bacon on toast. He felt that was a way to bond with his father. Jackie Hurt was not only consuming soul food dishes on a daily basis but he never exerci sed. This lead to serve weight gain, but he was not changing his eating habits even though his family did. He was later diagnosed with pancreatic cancer that took his life so young. Soul Food Junkies shows Bryon Hurt in the parking lot at a football game at Jackson State which is predominantly a black college so he knew there would be some soul food around. He ran into a group of gentlemen who were making a â€Å"Junk Pot† which included corn, pig ears, pig feet and anything else not good for your health.Show MoreRelatedCultural Theory And Popular Culture1578 Words   |  7 Pagesâ€Å"the way a society organizes the means of its economic production will have a determining effect on the type of culture that society produces or makes possible† (Storey, pg. 4). This statement was evident in the documentary I watched in class, â€Å"Soul Food Junkies† (Hurt, 2012), which explores how the conditions of black people shaped the ideologies that eventually became their cultural identity. This is also relevant in chapter 2 that focuses on powerful minorities and the hegemonic attempts â€Å"to policeRead MoreCoaching Salespeople Into Sales Champions110684 Words   |  443 Pagesthe usual routine, the cashier came outside to deliver the food, headset intact and bags of food in hand. The customer then drove off. As I pulled up, I wondered if I too would have the same experience. Then, out of the corner of my eye, I noticed a digital timer mounted on the wall above the cashier’s head. At that moment, the manager at the drive-through window waved me forward, without 1 2 THE DEATH OF MANAGEMENT my food. ‘‘We will bring it out to you. Just pull up, please,’’ he requested