Ofcourse, no worries.
Knowing history provides an opportunity to rethink and break mental slavery.
I do observe some fearmongering which is internalized anti-Blackness in your post.
The Catholic Church in the US alone has paid about 3-4 Billion dollars in settlements of sexual abuse. That’s excluding the spiritual abuse that came with it, yet when it comes to ATRs it’s always some individual experiences being used to throw dirt on it when people talk about it. Sad.
How often do people say:
“I’m a Christian, but I know someone that was abused. So I feel conflicted/reluctant to mess with it”
when people bring up about Christianity
Compared to:
“I heard such-and-such, said that such-and-such..
so I don’t fukk with it”.
As an excuse to be negative about ATRs.
The deeper questions are:
Why is the DESIRE to point to the negative individual experiences when people talk about ATRs which our ancestors created themselves so strong?
Why is the DESIRE to point to structural negative experiences when people talk about Christianity which was imposed through slavery so weak?
Internalized anti-Blackness by way of Abrahamic faith is a monster with many layers.
Bias and unequal condemnation are manifestations of it.
(Cognitive dissonance)
It was the Vodou, an ATR that was the driving force behind the liberation of Haiti.
Cècile Fatiman and Dutty Boukman performed a ceremony August 14th, 1791 that sparked the Haitian Revolution. Salute to those Haitians that freed themselves with their ATR, Vodou.
The Haitian Revolution was legendary and should be taught to every Black person imo.
Similarly it was Winti, an ATR that was the driving force behind the liberation of the Maroons in Suriname
Similarly it was Obeah, an ATR that was the driving force behind the liberation of the Maroons in Jamaica
The ATRs that the enslavers tried to eradicate and stigmatize is the driving force behind those Maroon communities successfully taking their freedom.
But it is the ATRs that get all the stigmas opposed to Christianity that was imposed during slavery.
The deeper question is.
WHY. IS. THAT?
Again, Christianity comes with internalized anti-Blackness that fuels cognitive dissonance. .
Fearmongering ATRs to praise and uplift Christianity.
Whew, could never be me.
Fear and hostility towards ATRs is anti-Blackness.
I can only advise people to do more research about history, which I believe you will. Good luck on that journey.
You’ll learn to look deeper to be able to recognize, confront and get rid of taught internalized anti-Blackness and cognitive dissonance when it comes to Abrahamic faiths.
It’s one part of a multi-layered wound to thoroughly heal and move forward as a people imo
But kept his tongue tho
Paddy Constantine smashed that role. Might be the goat GOT performance end to end
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