Geology is racist, claims university professor Queen Mary lecturer links science to ‘white supremacy’ and colonialism “Broadly, black, brown, and indigenous subjects… have an intimacy with the earth that is unknown to the structural position of whiteness,” she wrote. Prof Yousoff described herself on the Queen Mary website as a professor of “inhuman geography”. The study of rocks was also “racialised”, according to the academic. “To tell a story of rocks is to account for a eugenic materialism in which white supremacy made surfaces built on racialised undergrounds…” she wrote. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/11/16/geology-is-racist-claims-university-professor/
Yes, black and brown hematites have been oppressed by white marbles for centuries, and she? has lost hers.
The French eat everything too. Geophagy is about dietary deficiencies in essential elements. They used to do similar in Europe during pregnancy cravings. Many red foods, including ketchups, are or were made with ground up cochineal insects. I'm certain I had ketchup at a Wimpy made of this. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-43786055