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Rethinking Traditions For Traditions Sake

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I was thinking about the rituals and traditions that many practitioners of Black/African religions/paths are involved in, some respectfully, some not so. In particular, the serving of rum as libations or offerings as well as cigars and cigar smoke to the ancestral spirits. It came to me that maybe these "traditional" products aren't appropriate offerings to our spiritually cultivated ancestors and ancestresses (the Egungun in the Yoruba tradition, *Nananom Nsamanfo in the Akan (*as I learned from studying materials by Kwesi Ra Nehem Ptah, Akhan, Odwirafo), *Kuvito in the Fon, Ntoru/Ntorotu in Khemit, etc. If anyone that knows the history of slavery, The MAAFA, The Black Holocaust, *the Great Perversity, it is known that rum was introduced to the Afurakanu/Afuraitkaitnut, Black race by the white alien mutant albino oppressors. They also forced our people to work in their rum factories and pick tobacco in their tobacco fields. Many of our people died in these fields and ...

Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome-Dr. Joy DeGruy

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On the slave ships, black people being kidnapped and brought to a foreign land against their will Once brought here, forced to work and toil under brutal conditions inflicted by a cruel and unjust monster who calls himself the "white man" Barbaric treatment and torture tactics in order to instill fear and terror, for desired results, domination Poor and unacceptable living conditions Notice in the above picture there are two men in this family, way back then, even when the slave kidnappers were forcing the black families apart by selling them off to other plantations and/or killings. Some families managed to stay together or at least reunite. This book was published in 2005 so add 10 years to this equation. DISGUSTING "Modern Times" Poverty. STILL unacceptable conditions! WHERE ARE THE FATHERS IN THESE PICTURES??? IS THIS ALL THAT CIVIL RIGHTS GOT US??! ARE WE TRULY FREE?!! YOU BLACK FOLKS ...