On this day, the four of them gathered around the table to eat.

A dish of braised pork without soy sauce and purely fried sugar as the main dish, made the three guys reluctant to speak.

Or rather, I wish each person had two mouths, one for eating and the other for ...... Or is it used to eat......

Edward didn't care, while drinking beer, he muttered to himself, "I can't teach you the instructor's dragon slaying technique these days, and I can only use Mao's braised pork to conquer your stomach."

A sip of meat and a sip of wine, and then watching the TV news, the small life is moist, and he is wondering whether to find Megan to eliminate food after a while of being full of wine and food, or to find Alicia to talk about life and ideals......

"Hey, hey, hey" he cried out "Hansen, damn it, don't eat it, leave me some, look, look, your job is coming...... Hey, hey, I didn't lie to you, look! ”

The three of them immediately brushed and put down their chopsticks.

Yes, one big black, two white-skinned, three people make the chopsticks perfect to the fire, if you give a silver chopsticks can definitely pick up pigeon eggs.

Yes, it's all thanks to Edward - the tyrant of the kitchen and dining room.

With absolute authority, anyone who dares to resist will be beaten mercilessly and brutally.

He insisted on the idea that Chinese food must be eaten with chopsticks.

Otherwise it is an unchaste heresy, for which it will not be burned at the stake.

But Chef Edward also has his own solution.

At one point, the trio rarely formed a united front, insisting on defending their freedom to use knives and forks, and angrily denounced Edward's chopsticks hegemony, believing that pushing chopsticks with food is inhumane chauvinism, which belongs to the objective practice of bandit logic imposed on others, which is inconsistent with the ideas and concepts of the founding fathers of the United States, and must be resisted by the most appropriate method.

The so-called most appropriate way to do this is to eat as you are, but to require the use of any utensils that can be used, to ensure fairness and non-discrimination, which is a major step forward for the civil rights movement at the table!

He also said that he would write an article and send it to the Harvard Law Review.

Although someone who loves him can speak well, it is a trivial matter to choke an opponent to death in court, but in the face of three of his classmates, he can only obediently lose.

Three stinkers can defeat Zhuge Liang, so Mr. Wolong's cube must be better than Kong Ming, right?

Only magic can defeat magic

The only thing that can silence a lawyer is the classmates (who) read it together.

Immediately, he snorted into the kitchen.

The three of them high-fived and celebrated, and the weak (diet) civilization finally won a great victory in the face of power.

Half an hour later, they couldn't laugh anymore.

Someone brought it out, Li Hongzhang's chopped pieces, Zuo Zongtang chicken, fried spring rolls, sweet and sour pork, plus long soup and short soup.

And someone also had a smile from hell: "My dear, in order to maintain the purity of your civilization, I put a lot of MSG in all the dishes, taste it, and use a knife and fork to ...... Oh...... Wrong...... It's time to taste it...... Delicious ......"

At this moment, they knew that in the face of absolute monopoly advantage, lip service was unreliable after all.

After eating the MSG meal with tears in his eyes, he no longer dared to show off his cleverness in front of Edward, and obediently learned chopsticks kung fu.

It's just that the follow-up thing made Edward completely unexpected-Hansen slept with many girls with this hand, and his logic was simple: "Hey, pretty girl, look, look, this is chopsticks, two small sticks involve a complex lever principle, but you see, I can do it with one hand, you should understand how good the kung fu on my hands is, to be exact, right?" ”

Carl Wright also gained a lot of "sincere love" for showing odd finger skills, so much so that some people thought he could simply become a digital examiner.

In short, just like this chaotic era, all kinds of messy things continue to take root around Edward.

BACK ON THE TV SHOW, "THIS IS FAKE NEWS, I'M REPORTER MEGHAN." Now I'm at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, reporting on a horrific atrocity. ”

Not to mention the professional demonstrator Hansen, even Chris was also attracted, and the matter has something to do with the latter, and his dark-skinned compatriots are the biggest suspects.

Here's the thing.

The Metropolitan Museum intends to host an exhibition of Harlem historical art.

Harlem in the narrow sense is located in Upper Manhattan, Upper New York City.

to the west are St. Nicholas Avenue and Morningside Park; Fifth Avenue to the east; South to the north side of Central Park.

Greater Harlem encompasses several other neighborhoods in the neighborhood and extends to the Hudson River to the west, 155th Street to the north, East River to the east, Martin Luther King Jr. Street Boulevard to the south, and Central Park East 96th Street to the south.

Originally founded by the Dutch in 1658 as a village and gradually developed into a town center, Harlem itself is a place name in the Netherlands.

There are many towns in the United States that have a longer history than the country, especially near the East Coast and New England.

As a result, the natives, while loyal to the United States, have a greater affection for the small environment around them.

It is useless to tell them that the big river has water and the small river is full, and the big river has no water and the small river is dry, and they only know that before the birth of the federal government, their ancestors were already in this place and began to massacre the Indians (crossed out).

The history of Harlem's borough is defined by a series of cycles of economic boom and bust, each accompanied by major demographic shifts.

In the 19th century, Harlem was occupied mainly by Jews and Italians, as is now Polo Park.

But during the Great New York Migration of the 20th century, black, politically correct African-Americans began to pour in.

During the decade 1920 to 1930, Central and West Harlem was the center of the so-called Harlem cultural revival, and was also the birthplace of NGER music painting, and of course the zero-dollar purchase of performance art.

All of this was born all over the country, thrived in Harlem, and then wanted to spread all over the country again.

With the Great Depression brought on by the Wall Street crash of '29, during which a large number of bankrupt factories and the deindustrialization of New York City after World War II, the unemployment rate of local residents reached a staggering 25%, and crime and poverty rates increased significantly.

Naturally, the original resident population began to move out on a large scale, although they were also poor, but they all came to the New World to seek a living, there were many minor problems, but hard work and willingness were necessary, so they also accumulated some property.

But no matter how thick the family foundation is, it can't withstand repeated zero-yuan purchases.

In this way, the region went from Dutch-Jewish/Italian-Black to complete its own demographic transformation.

It's actually a very small area, politically part of New York's national 13th electoral district, the smallest congressional district.

NGER has a pretty good tradition of not being outside of sight, no matter how quickly they move there, becoming part of that area, and saying "Hey, we've lived in this place since ancient times, this is our home" over and over again.

Of course, the evil slave traders are to blame, and if there were no criminal slave traders, it would not be a big problem for them to shout these slogans to lions and hyenas in the vast African savannah.

In fact, after the end of World War II, it really became the cultural capital of black New York and even black people in the United States, and the magical Harlem Revival is an indelible name in the history of jazz in this country.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art presents a major exhibition on the history of Harlem that showcases more than 200 years of the area's history.

The most precious is an original by Rembrandt.

Although the great Dutch painter did not have a dime to do with Harlem or even the New World, after all, he and Harlem were born around the same time and were Dutch, so ......

From this point of view, the ability of the United States people to recognize their fathers around the world is actually quite strong.

Thomas Howen, director and director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, was the lead curator for the three-month (January 18–April 6, 1969) multimedia exhibition, which was designed to highlight the history of Harlem and included floor-to-ceiling introductory photographic murals, followed by photographs of various sizes depicting life in Harlem, but without artwork by NGER artists.

The exhibit even includes a small essay written by Candace van Ellison, a Harlem Quarter resident and recent graduate of Theodore Roosevelt High School, which cites a large number of anti-Semitic and anti-Irish foul language.

Although it was taken down by Howen in the final published collection, it can still be seen in the exhibition.

This makes sense, after all, anti-Semitism and anti-Irish are real things that have happened in history.

Since this kind of thing can be put on display, it is obviously unreasonable that there are no works related to black artists in the whole exhibition.

NGER hates it, but as mentioned above, jazz, which originated in black music, has actually become an important card for the export of American culture to the outside world.

In other words, in this exhibition, the artistic achievements of black people are considered to be ignored or deliberately forgotten.

This is obviously an unbearable thing for the "Hey, we've lived here since ancient times" crowd.

What's more, black art here, especially musical works, can indeed occupy a place in the history of music in the United States and even in the world.

So, on the one hand, the arrogance of the whites, and on the other hand, the reasonable and unreasonable anger of the blacks, finally came together.

Harlem is a traditional old revolutionary district with a long history, where a black violent civil rights group (which sounds ironic) took root in the '40s, and how could they give up in the face of such humiliation?

Edward thought that the vigorous "zero-yuan purchase" would be grandly opened again.

Unexpectedly, things did not deteriorate.

The Black Emergency Cultural Coalition (BECC) came forward to speak out on behalf of Harlem artists – calling it a serious act of racism – while Thomas Howen refused to apologize and the two sides exchanged words for more than a week.

Except for the occasional demonstration, everything was peaceful.

This came as a surprise to Edward.

On January 16, 1969, eight days after its opening, ten works of art, including Rembrandt's works, were tragically undamaged.

Fortunately, most of the paint was splashed and smeared, and most of it only damaged the protective varnish covering the painting, and the damage was not serious, and after expert identification, the painting was likely to be successfully repaired.

I don't know who did it.

Subsequently, BECC strongly condemned this vandalism and publicly stated that although BECC was extremely dissatisfied with this exhibition, it would never and would not approve of the atrocities that defaced the exhibited works.

even hinted that this would be the anti-"black" strings of those 3 Klux Klan elements.

"What are they doing?" Chris threw the chopsticks, to be honest, as soon as this kind of thing came out, although there was no evidence, the ghost knew who the culprit was.

The 3 Klan Party, what a hell of a life.

In New York in 1968, no one could be found even if they dug three feet into the ground, and if such a guy with a white sheet really appeared, there was a high probability that he would be sent to the zoo for public exhibition.

The other three looked at each other, not daring to speak.

After a while, Hansen scratched his head, "Why don't I get a demonstration and support the Harlem arts scene?" ”

"No!" Chris roared, "They're committing crimes!" They destroyed works of art! Howen is a bastard, but Rembrandt and the other artists are innocent! I condemn this behavior, it is simply a reversal of civilization! ”

"Alright, alright!" Hansen handed him a new pair of chopsticks, "Let's eat, hey!" Hey! Carl, you guy, eat less, if Chris is hungry, beware of being thrown out of the window by him! ”

Turning his head and persuading, he said, "Dude, there are no outsiders here." Although everyone has different colors, they have similar ideas, otherwise they wouldn't be sitting at the same table to eat, would they? Don't be so angry, eat first. As for how to solve this matter after that, let's think about it again, in short, Huo Wen, this bastard, can't just let it go! Let him see what the power of the people is! ”

Edward muttered, "I think it's my craft and it doesn't have much to do with political views......"

No one paid any attention to him.

Carl Wright tried to swallow the braised pork in his mouth, and also interjected: "Although the matter seems to be quite big, the violence and the defaced artwork can also be repaired, forget it, forget it...... You can't get angry about these things. ”

"Yes," Hansen added, "It's important for everyone to do their own thing, and you, the first African-American quarterback in history, are the best gifts for the civil rights movement, how about we've got a big march in a few days, and you're going to join it?" Let me tell you, so many girls want to know you! They're amazing! Definitely not with a bra! That's what really freedom and unrestrained ...... If a man doesn't bring it, a woman naturally doesn't bring it! How about it, tell us a few words! ”

"yes!" Carl Wright added, "The last time Judy Garland came, now the idea of civil rights equality has penetrated into everyone's heart, and this is our victory, let the lord of Washington see the power of the people......"

Chris shook his head "I don't like street politics, I'd rather get into politics myself"

"You, you!" Hansen was furious: "Do you know the weakness of your petty bourgeoisie? Damn, you are a born member of the Second International, abandoning the line of radical struggle in favor of parliamentary struggle, and when you join parliament you have betrayed your class...... Your struggle is going in the wrong direction! ”

Hansen slapped the bowl on the table and exclaimed, "You're on the wrong route!" ”

"Wait...... Edward hurriedly stopped "Eat Emperor Great", he said in Chinese.

"This is a friend's table, not a debate on street politics, and whoever dares to say those terms during a meal will be invited to a sandwich...... Egg sandwiches! ”

"You're suppressing free speech and revolutionary fervor," Hansen muttered.

"yes, I'm just suppressed, what are you going to do? The weapon of criticism cannot replace the criticism of weapons, and braised pork is my atomic bomb! "He's in high spirits.

After some commotion, everyone began to stare at the braised pork again, and the chopsticks fell like raindrops......

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