why are you not doing stories about persons of color ?
As a person of color and a champion for gender and racial equality, I am deeply offended that the work, the gardens, you cover and support are very white and clearly all about white power and privilege the women version.
Why do you not support persons of color who grow food while also demanding respect and inclusion in policy and leadership ?
When support is finally given it goes to the very small handful of persons of color who very often are the last hired, token hired, self haters, who act as gate keepers to keep persons of color who are active and vocal advocates for real racial and gender equality from access to the system and who themselves are very beholding to the white power structure at tilth or dept of neighborhood in order to keep employment and access.
Ever notice how the very few persons of color who are in your circle, have few to no roots in any communities of color and have little to no history of being advocates or in speaking truth to power about structural gender bigotry and racism ?
Notice too how the persons of color that work for the city or for nonprofits, do not ever challenge nor raise the issue of how the master narrative that white women and men are the face and power in food production and security and intentionally excludes the contributions and hard work of persons of color?
Bigotry based on gender, white power, white privilege and gate keeping are rampant in the food and nonprofit industry here in Seattle.
For those of you who now enjoy and protect white privilege and white power, change will be painful and uncomfortable.
If we are to have true gender and racial equality we must end how gender and race are being used by whites to oppress and deny access and equality to peoples of color.