Abigail notes that:

The Oregon Food Bank, a non-profit which annually receives millions in government funds, may be violating civil-rights laws by prioritizing racial and sexual minorities in the provision of food and the awarding of contracts to produce that food.

“We know that the root causes of hunger are systemic injustices — including the connections between racism, classism, sexism, settler colonialism and more — which continue the conditions that sustain hunger and poverty,” the Oregon Food Bank states on its website. “Understanding this, we commit to center those who most disproportionately experience hunger across our service area — Black, Indigenous and all People of Color, immigrants and refugees, gender expansive folks (including Two-Spirit folks), and single mothers and caregivers — in ways that honor and value each other and our lived experiences.”

Can there exist a starker example of the growing divide between progressives who care primarily about class and progressives who care primarily about identity? We’re talking here about a food bank, not a dance collective. The purpose of the Oregon Food Bank is to ensure that people who are hungry are accorded sufficient sustenance to stay alive. Although I typically disagree, there are some circumstances in which I can at least comprehend the focus on race or sex or whatever. Here, I cannot. Food is food is food. There is no such thing as “black hunger” or “gay hunger”; there is only hunger. What a preposterous state of affairs these hustlers are leading us into.