TikToker Rachel Hall, in viral video asked an interesting question while she was cooking. Who cooks better, black people or white people? In her video, she briefly speaks about how some people focus on stereotypes, like no seasoning, then she genuinely asked for the opinions.

There were several comments, reposts, and stitches, (many worth checking out if you go down that rabbit hole), ranging from very serious to very funny. Some were enlightened, yet others… not so much.

I couldn’t help but respond in a way that aims to shed light on such stereotypes, as well as educated. As always, my goal is to bring insight and help people better understand each other so there’s a little less hate in the world.

This was my response, initially posted on X.

Sure they cook well. Some of the best cooks in the world are white. For example Gordon Ramsey. Let me break this down for you guys.

“White” is not real in the sense of a people or race. It’s a category for people of a fair skinned complexion, but encompasses various cultures.

In the US black people call themselves “black” or “African American” because that is the culture and heritage the created after having theirs stripped from them.

I bet everyone reading, at some point, they said, “I love Italian food”, right?

Or when you’re looking for places to take a date, “there’s a new French restaurant across town we should try”.

If you walk down the street of New York today, I bet you a dollar that there’s a Greek restaurant not too far from a Russian restaurant.

See, “white people” – of European descent – while historically many weren’t considered “white” in the US, they are a part of the “whiteness” categorization today.

Italian food, Russian food, Irish food, Canadian food, French food, Greek food, German food, and more.

Today, they are categorically white. Heck, even some Latinos are white.

This is why racism is stupid, because it’s made up.

When I hear a person with racist leaning ask, “what month is white history month?” it let’s me know they don’t understand that every month is white history month.

Every month recognizes a people’s heritage month. We recognize black history month because they don’t have a heritage anymore after it was stolen from them.

Ask a black American who’s a descendant of slavery where their heritage is, and they can’t tell you which of the 54 countries in Africa they come from.

They couldn’t tell you if they’re from Angola, or Mozambique, or Morocco, or Egypt, or Nigeria.

There’s no Gambian-American heritage month. No Senegalese-American heritage month.

But there is a Greek-American heritage month, Italian-American heritage month…

Along with Irish-American, Asian-American, Jewish-American, Arab-American, French-American, German-American, Irish-American, Polish-American, Filipino-American, and many more.

And some of them have damn good food!

We need to stop the whole white vs black nonsense.

The only legitimate people that can call themselves “black” in terms of heritage are those who descended from slavery.

Everyone else has their heritage, including those from the Caribbean and those from the Motherland.

Yes, we’re black people, but unless we descended from a type of slavery that robbed us of our heritage, “black” isn’t our identity. It’s just our complexion.

And “whiteness” isn’t real. They still have their heritage, and we rightfully celebrate them.

It’s our diversity that makes us great.

Out motto is “E Pluribus Unum” – out of many, one.

… and I think we’d do well to remember it.