Hey all im back again with another rant. So for as long as ive been an occultist and practicioner of sacred paths, specifically african based. I have noticed more and more white people practicing african traditional religions/ spiritual sciences. I brought up this issue in a spiritual group i belonged to immediately after i was kicked out for inciting "racial issues"... i simply asked how did black people in the chat feel about white people practicing african traditional religions. All the white people in the chat lost it and i was thusly removed. So lets talk. I personally have an issue with white people practicing our ancestors religions and here is why. When ENSLAVED (NOT SLAVES) Africans were brought to the Caribbean and americas, they did not originally practice european based religions like that of christianity, baptism, Catholicism etc. They actually practiced things like akan (vodoun pre-colonisation), or ile ifa (santeria/palo mayombe pre-spanish influence). White slave owners feared the religious practice of african peoples because they could not control it. So they would FORCE the enslaved africans to convert to their religion. Always through means of violence, brutally beating african people into converting, also condemning them from reading any other book than the "slave bible"( look it up). White slavers would force africans from their original spiritual science and make them adopt the one of their slave master. Now from slavery all the way up to now africans and africans in the diaspora are still dissociated from our ancestors original religion. Now here is where the problems start. Most african spiritual religions call for a connection to the spirits, a blood connection, and not just any spirits, but the spirits of OUR ancestors... now tell me how can a white person descendant of white slave owners practice hoodoo, vodou, ile ifa, santeria, palo...etc in this religions you have to call down the spirits of the ancestors thats how the workings get its power. We were forced to drop our faiths and adopt that of colonisers and just recently we have been able to reconnect to our roots, undoing generations of pain and suffering. And here come becky and tom, with the african cloth, cowery shells and honey jars calling down the spirits( black spirits) some of which where probably brutalized by their ancestors. When confronted on why they feel they get to take part in something their ancestors stole from us they typically say things like, "for me its not about race its about feeling, im drawn to hoodoo blah blah". If you are going to practice a faith that black people for years have been chastised, and beaten for practicing at least have the decency, to acknowledge what your ancestors did, and make it a point to call down and APOLOGIZE to the spirits of the black people whose energy you use for your ripped off hoodoo and vodou work. The spirits you use in your work are those of the enslaved and someone in your family ancestry owned them, beat them, raped them, killed them. Your ancestors committed atrocities against black people, before you call on the spirit of our ancestors to use for your own gains make ammends first, and then ask them if you can practice OUR religions. And if they tell you hell no, respect that and move along cuz it aint for you.
