We are our ancestors and our ancestors are us: nothing is new. We can never appropriate African or Diasporic Traditions that are ours. We can, however, handle things roughly if we don't first exorcise ourselves of whiteness.Â
While there are serious practitioners of Ifá and its offshoots across the country and around the world, there has also been a bandwagon trend for some in the diaspora to claim this religious practice, and most often its deities, without knowing what it means and the implications for their life.
Colonizers show readiness to consign both their own children and ours to the flames of global warming rather than risk giving up global hegemony maintained primarily through capitalism.
Although African rituals were retained by Black Christians, much of what spawned them was shrouded in codes that must now be deciphered in order to regain its regenerative power.
In an unhealed state, inflicting pain is the only way we know divinity.
I’ve found home in myself, and that whisper within promises that it is okay to never hide the God I serve.
We should all seek to understand the ways we’ve actively perpetuated violence, or willfully remain complicit in the harm of others.
