AfriClassical: John Malveaux: BlackLikeMoi: 'Southern Blacks Were Banned From Eating Vanilla Ice Cream, Except on 4th of July'

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John Malveaux: BlackLikeMoi: 'Southern Blacks Were Banned From Eating Vanilla Ice Cream, Except on 4th of July'

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Southern Blacks Were Banned From Eating Vanilla Ice Cream, Except on 4th of July

Added by yvette on July 4, 2014.

The racist hierarchy in the South manifested in several ways, but most people don’t know that racism even impacted what foods blacks were allowed to buy. As Maya Angelou once wrote, it was custom not to sell vanilla ice cream to blacks in many parts of the South, except on Independence Day.

As The Guardian notes, even though it was a black slave named Edmund Albius who perfected the flavor of vanilla ice cream, its white sweetness was viewed as a representation of the American dream, which is why blacks were kept from eating it.