ReasonableMatic
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You just named the differences
Whats crazy is the centering of black Americans in slavery as if it’s a phenomenon that only happened here.
Where are the black Jew descendants in Dominican Republic where black slaves arrived first in the new world?
Where are the black jews in Brazil where more slaves arrived in the new world than anywhere else?
Again these places retained more African customs than us, yet it all points to western African countries and nation states. Wolof, senegambian etc ie verifiable and scalable. Yet black Hebrew Israelites would rather explain something that is not even possible or loosely affiliated but not applicable to 99 percent of us.
This is self hatred, no other explanation
A case study could be made how Black people got mad at white people for opposing a Black mermaid. To then turn around and say the ATRs all over the Diaspora that have Black mermaids as a spiritual deity are demonic to praise and align themselves with Abrahamic faiths
The cognitive dissonance is insane
In mainland Africa she’s called Yemoja and Mami Wata,
(Ghana, Nigeria, Angola, Ivory Coast, Togo, Benin Etc)
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In the Americas she’s called.
Yemanja in Brazil
La Sirène in Haiti
Watra Mama in Suriname
River Mumma in Jamaica
Mama D’Leau in Trinidad
Manman Dlo in Martinique (I’m on vacation here now, the statue of her is in the sea as an homage to the ancestors)
The Trans-Atlantic and Arab slave trade were so destructive and effective in the psychological warfare on Black people. Because on top of the physical atrocities, they forced those enslaved to get rid of whole African spiritual systems with cosmologies, concepts and nature-based lifestyles attached to them to be replaced for their own Abrahamic faith.
That’s why the marketing on ATRs in the Black Diaspora have always been so heavily anti-Black calling it demonic and devilish. This was all on purpose to keep our people mentally and spiritually under their control, as far as possible from our ancestral African Spiritual systems.
Why when you look at the ATRs in the Black Diaspora is it that they wanted to eradicate those systems under slavery specifically, but were so adamant about converting our ancestors to Christianity and Islam?
Why did the Ancestors go through such lengths to save the ATRs and create the Diasporic ATRs to save what they had, under such severe attempts of the enslavers to eradicate them?
THOSE are the deeper questions Black people in the diaspora need to ask themselves.
It’s because the ancestors saw unity in African rooted thought as more important than division.
Ancestors of Afro-Caribbean, African-American and Afro-Latino people all created their own versions of African Spiritual Systems under slavery to preserve their ancestral customs for a reason.
But instead lost nikkas keep tryna distance themselves from ATRs and their West and Central African ancestral history, to find ways to get proximity to whiteness by tryna align themselves within Abrahamic faiths
Shyt is pure self-hatred.