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Emanuel Basnight is a Hoodoo reconstructionist, creator, researcher, educator, ancestor devotee, & founder and owner of Bless the Roads & Brands by Basnight.
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I feel like we should celebrate Bernie Mac during Hoodoo Heritage Month (Oct 5th) , and use it as a holy day to honor Black comedians, Black entertainers, Black joy and the importance of the arts and storytelling.
On this day, the late Bernie Mac was born. Forever grateful for this talented comedy King.
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My mama always said, if you want something done right you got to do it yourself.
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I be needing about 3+ hours of alone time a day. My Brazilian family said it’s because I’m psychic.
I always thought it was because people be getting on my damn nerves.
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I’ll tell anyone listening that I ain’t have a Hoodooing grandmama. It seems like everyone’s Hoodoo origin story is watching their grandma serve the community, and I love that for them, but that wasn’t my experience.
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Today we honor Mother Fannie Lou Hamer in Hoodoo Heritage Month. Mother Hamer is the prototype for mad-as-hell and righteous community activism and organizing. Today, we focus on the power of community and wisdom of Black collectivism. Happy Fannie Lou Hamer Day! ✊🏿💀💜🕯️
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Me: I’m not ready to do that.
My Ancestors: Ok. How about this?
Me: Oh. That seems more manageable. I’ll do it.
My Ancestors: Gotcha bitch! This is really that!
Me:
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Hoodoo is not your whore.
Hoodoo is not to be pimped out to sell merchandise and events. It’s not a fallback cuz you can’t sell your initiated religion. It’s how we Black Americans honor our Ancestors. It’s not a trend. It’s a lifestyle. Sometimes it’s a 🎯on our backs.
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I am not one of those “Hoodoo is for everyone” practitioners. I see them out there and, to each its own. I would encourage non-Black people and non-American-born folks to pursue the indigenous spiritual traditions of their lineage and of the land they originated.
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@iamthecreatress
We have to deal with White Qanons and now we have to deal with Black nonfactuals trying to erase our own history too?
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You can tell 🥷🏾 there are no Orisha in Hoodoo and they still gonna make a Yemoja Hoodoo fertility bath.
Folks don’t respect the traditions and it’s incredibly disappointing.
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Black Christians say “demonic” spirits, whole time they mean African spirits. But they don’t say African cuz that’ll require them to explore their internal anti-Blackness. Then their own religion has to be scrutinized cuz why African spirits evil and not Irish or Asian spirits?
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Free the Congo.
Free Palestine.
2024 about to be a head bussing liberating ass year.
Fuck the bullshit.
We getting free.
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One thing I’ve had to accept about this Hoodoo life is that a lot of the ill will comes from family. A lot of the prayers people say for you won’t be for your benefit. A lot of the witchcraft will be from people who hate witches cuz for the Bible told them so.
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You can’t get deep into Hoodoo if you are ashamed of your Black American heritage.
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Hoodoo ain’t just what Black folks did in church.
It’s the amalgamation of West African spiritual belief systems/cosmologies transported to the US that became the foundation of Black way of life, which includes the church.
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I need more Hoodoo friends.
I need more gay friends.
I need more gay Hoodoo friends.
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Rich people always telling poor people that struggling is noble. 😂
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I feel like we all should get deep into our sensuality bag this year.
You desirable, bitch.
Be desired.
Bend that ass ova! Let that coochie breathe…
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🧵One of the biggest obstacles new Hoodoos face is crossing the nameless Ancestor threshold. It's emotional because you realize how close to the surface your slavery-based generational trauma is.
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It’s time to realize that we hit the era of social media where people intentionally say wrong and incendiary shit just for engagement. They don’t have the dignity to prefer good attention over bad attention. They just want attention.
We have to ignore them.
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Again, you are better off practicing Hoodoo for your family and lineage than strangers on social media.
Our lineages and families (biological, adoptive and chosen) need elevation in life and death.
Your cousin didn’t just HAPPEN to be like his daddy & grandaddy ya know?
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One thing I hold dear about Hoodoo Heritage Month is that it was created for the community to commune with the living and dead. When Mama Rue, and her Walking the Dikenga society (of which I’m an original member) created the idea and calendar it wasn’t about selling shit.
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This is really it! If your Ancestors worked rice and tobacco, chances are they used a scythe rather than a machete. So, if you want a weapon for your altar or for defense/protection/safety...
This beautiful tool often goes unnoticed and underappreciated in the realm of Modern Hoodoo, so I say! It has been and remains a mighty implement in the tapestry of Low Country Hoodoo, not just for harvesting crops. The Elders & Rootworkers wielded it to gather the fruits of…
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So EVERYbody in our generation’s grandmama was doing Hoodoo?
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Blow smoke on your tools.
Give liquor to your tools.
Give flicker of a flame to your tools (be careful).
Give earth and oils to your tools.
Feed your tools people. They have spirits.
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The more I learn about other Black religions and spiritual practices, the more I see in Hoodoo what people like to say Black Americans lost.
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The older I get, the more I understand that you have to go to the places, leave the relationships, start the ventures, create the barriers, wrong the rights, tell the truths, finish the fights, and fuck the bullshit your parents, grands, and greats, didn’t get the chance to.
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Not me realizing the glasses I got for my Ancestor altar in 2020, FROM GOODWILL FOR $1 EACH, are crystal?!
It’s BLOWING me cuz I had a dream about a crystal filled room a year later.
The funny thing is, I was using mason jars at first and my Folks were NOT going for it!😅
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A huge part of spiritual growth is understanding how your body and personhood responds to spiritual and intuitive exchanges. If you don’t invest time in learning how your mind, body, energy, and soul processes energetic info, all the classes, readings & YouTubes won’t help.
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Sippin my way to luxury Unc status. 🥂
Happy birthday to me.
Here’s to 44. 🍸
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WE don’t have the same God as THEM.
The sooner we stop trying to find solidarity in religion with THEM the better.
Cuz they’ll look you dead in your face and tell you God told them to strike down AA.
Who’s God?
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I smile when I read/hear folks say Hoodoo doesn’t have deities.
That’s right. It don’t.
Keep it moving.
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You don’t have to know everything.
If all you know is one working and know when to use it, why and how, you good.
You don’t have to know everything.
If all you know is one root and know when to use it, how and why, you good.
You don’t have to know everything.
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Why this feel like a deity?
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The “everyone in our generation grandmama was a Hoodoo” tweet was a joke. But the fact that so many responded with the same churchy Hoodooing grandmama trope is the point. All of our grandmamas weren’t doing Hoodoo. Everything spiritual Black folks do ain’t Hoodoo and that’s ok.
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Happy High John the Conqueror Day!! Remember to get the last laugh on them niggas. 💀💜🤴🏿🥃🚬
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Sometimes I wonder if those of us who were called to pick up the practice of Hoodoo realize we are in a reconstruction era.
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It took me 2 days to make something for my Ancestors I was shown in a dream.
I’m so grateful for this.
I’ll keep emphasizing the importance of a dream journal but more importantly knowing how to dream, elevating your lineage, and being a student of Black American culture.
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The little I do know (cuz no one knows everything) was told directly to me in dreams, learned through study, and absorbed via online communities. I definitely fucked up a few times.
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The way my spiritual sister wrote a whole book on prominent Black diviners who used everything their spirits directed them to for divination? I got started with tarot, not having at all, but now it’s a by-product of pop culture spirituality. There’s WAY more to reading.
We need diviners who use various tools. I promise there is space for people who aren't tarot readers. If you are looking for a sign to start, this is your sign.
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To add to this, the way Christianity became a framework for Hoodoo to be woven throughout Black American life begs the question why we don’t look at Hoodoo + Christianity the same we we look at (and respect) Catholicism+ Vodou.
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I’ve done work with the Bible.
I’ve done work without it.
I’ve done work with a candle.
I’ve done work without it.
I’ve done work with an altar.
I’ve done work without one.
Use the tools at your disposal.
That’s real Hoodoo.
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My nose was all in this book yesterday. I’m nearly done and have thoroughly enjoyed it.
I love stuff like this!
Post a picture of a book. No explanation.
Nominate 6 people to do the same.
@bonniebotanical
@ethereal_aura5
@NolaAngelMedium
@Daposhon
@BlesstheRoads
@CarinaeConjure
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I’m still eating off blessings church elders spoke over me when I was 7.
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🪡 I feel like we are about 5-7 years away from the majority of Black Americans incorporating some form of formal ancestral veneration into their daily lives.
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Welcome to day one of the first Holy Hoodoo Septenary.. Today, pray for the gates to open so messages and visions can flow freely to you over the next seven days.
You can pray at 7 AM or 7 PM, as an individual or in a group.
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Tarot really got social media spiritual niggas in a chokehold. It’s legit, I ain’t shitting on it. But, Black folks been reading with all types of shit LONG before tarot was popular. I’m not just talmbout bones either.
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The more I pray and talk to these trees, the more I learn about Black American culture, and the more I honor my Ancestors and the collective African ancestry of this land, the more I understand why my Ancestors didn't want me to initiate into any ATRs. We got religion at home.
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I just realized I never shared this on Twitter. Get into it.
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I left the church around 2010-2011. I ran into my former first lady in the medical district, and she said the church missed me, and God missed me. I told her I had left the church, not God. She knew exactly what I meant and wished me the best.
People get it.
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Every priest/priestess I meet tell me I’m supposed to initiate into their religion.
Then I tell them what my Ancestors show me in my dreams and they say, “Oh! Well, if they are showing you all of that then don’t worry about initiating. Pursue that!”
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It’s time for all of us to admit that no one taught us about relationships and that we are figuring it out through trial and error. Or, was blessed to have people impart wisdom on to us due to their errors.
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Yesterday I saw a tiktok where this guy was saying you don’t have to be initiated to meet Oshun at the river.
The comments were all in agreement with folks saying Oshun came to them in a dream and claimed them.
I don’t know Oshun, but I know she sick of y’all. 😂
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I feel like them kitchen witches are the ones NOT to fuck with.
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I can never tell how I’ll react to my mom’s birthday. She passed away 12 years ago. I’m always happy when I am in good enough spirits to give her flowers. The way she used to go on about the roses, azaleas & hydrangeas? Please.
Happy birthday, Ma. 🥂❤️🌹
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You really see who eating off you when you stop cooking.
Hoodoo been feeding ALOT of folks.
Kitchen’s closed.
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Being in the reconstruction era of Hoodoo can be a little disjointed for some of us; want to honor the old ways but we also live in modern times where we can and can’t do certain things.
Most of us don’t live in rural eras where we have easy access to uninterrupted crossroads
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Get your Hoodoo lessons from Black Americans who fight for Black American liberation, grew up in Black American culture, and preserve it for future Black Americans.
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You would NEVA catch me getting any type of divination done in front of the public. Hell naw.
The bones told the bone carrier, the tea about her romantic future. It’s been 12 years later and Sheree…… Chile
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My kind of carrying on. This entire fit is 🔥
Buck Colbert Franklin was a Black lawyer who survived the 1921 Tulsa race massacre and fought on the behalf of other survivors
Photo circa 1901
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If you think about a Hoodoo southern aesthetic what types of clothing and accessories come to mind? I think of these.
Church inspired, whites, florals, tailored, hats/head coverings, layers, classic & southern bohemian, accessories like stones & gems, cotton, linen & leather.
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I just had to accept the fact that these blessings ain’t stopping no time soon and ask God for more strength and discipline to take advantage of them cuz a nigga gonna be rich in 5 years.
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Let us pray.
Join me for the 1st annual Holy Hoodoo Septenary. It’s a way for us to close out HHM the same way we opened it, together and in lock-step with our Ancestors.
Check out the details below and be sure to join the post-Septenary chat via Twitter Spaces.
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The conflating of Hoodoo and “Voodoo” on social media is getting to be a problem.
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If you are non-Black American and follow me to soak up some useful magic, you’re in the wrong place.
If you’re Black American who is ashamed of your culture and ancestors, you’re definitely in the wrong place.
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You found more Hoodoo in the juke joints and on the corners than in church.
But you ain’t that heard that from me.
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I’ve been in my academic bag and I loved that my prayers were answered.
I’ll be on a panel in October to talk about Hoodoo and spiritual pan-Africanism.
And I won a mini-grant to start the second phase of my Hoodoo research.
Imma show my ass this Hoodoo Heritage Month.
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My spiritual baths be having 2 ingredients and be hitting.
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Hoodoo reconstruction is realizing that Protestant Xtianity devalued our indigenous beliefs in exchange for social mobility. You see this clearly in Xtianity’s complete disregard of nature. Hoodoos have to unlearn nature fallacies b4 acknowledging spirits of nature/place.
Really digest what’s being said here it’s so important.
I lower my head when thunder strikes.
Rejoice when rainbows shine.
Breath and release when the rains fall.
Spirit breathes in every form. It only takes open eyes and ears to receive.
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The more funerals I attend the more I believe we need to be consumed with the spiritual hygiene of our own families. Fuck reading niggas online and planning goddess retreats for women you don’t know, how is your living family? How are your elders? What is your youth inheriting?
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If the past 3-5 years taught me anything it’s that the spiritual-to-conspiracy pipeline is real.
I had a friend look me dead in my face and say Joe Biden eats the pineal glands of babies and Donald Trump was going to be re-elected because he’s “of the light.”
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We must realize that celebrating Hoodoo brings out racist and anti-Black American sentiment.
They hate us because we are Black AND American, just like Hoodoo.
It's the intersectional gift of religious racism that keeps on giving.
And we keep on Hoodooing. 😎💀🕯️💜
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A lot of folks won’t get this cuz they lowkey ashamed of being Black in America.
I cannot stress enough that the bulk of African American Hoodoo Traditions has been staring us in the face through the works of Saints such as Zora Neal Hurston & Toni Morrison. Through our music such as the Gospel & Blues. And through the “backwater” culture most run from..
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I started actively speaking what I want this year and shit is getting real y’all.
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(1/2) 📣Calling all Hoodoos!!!!!📣
Can you do me a solid and take AND SHARE my survey with other Hoodoos? It’s for a great cause. Link to the survey is in the next tweet.
The survey closes on Nov 28th! Thanks and Happy Hoodoo Heritage Month! ✊🏿💜🕯
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Am I the only one not doing stuff for full moons and new moons?
I MAY take a spiritual bath but, I kinda stopped doing rituals and stuff for the moon years ago.
If anything, I’ll shower and go to bed early. Guess that’s ritual enough. 🤷🏿♂️
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You gotta be careful with flowers. Use organic when possible and research if the flowers you use are safe for topical application cuz not all flowers are. I don’t even think hydrangeas are tbh.
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Hoodoo Heritage Month was created by the Walking the Dikenga Society under the tutelage of Mina “Mama Rue” Wilson. It was born from a need to identify and commune on spiritual days of significance for Black Americans who practice Black spirituality.
#hoodoo
#HoodooHeritageMonth
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Learning by making mistakes really is the best teacher cuz I learned 1) that shit worked and 2) to never forget to sweep the salt ever again. I wrote a blog post about getting stated and making mistakes in Hoodoo. Check it out and learn from my mistakes! 🥴🤷🏿♂️🫠
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My mom passed in 2012. My homeboy got married in 2018. I had to dip in the bathroom and cry like a baby for a good 30 minutes because being in a family setting triggered my grief. It was sudden and intense.
nobody tells you that, when you lose a parent….it randomly hits you out of nowhere even if it’s been YEARS…cause what is this?!? 😭
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People replying “I never thought about it that way” is wild as hell. Cuz even as a kid, I was like, so she just gonna walk up in their house?!
Do you remember Goldilocks and the Three Bears? This is a clear illustration of societal conditioning. As you know, Goldilocks is presented as a white character with a sense of entitlement, free to act on her impulses, take what she wants, sleep anywhere she chooses, and not…
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Bad enough we have some Black Americans selling Hoodoo to whoever is buying, but to say it’s an Ancestral practice and then sell it to people outside of your collective ancestral community is low down.
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Because you have to do it the way your Folks yearned to but never had the freedom to. Hoodoo is also about fulfilling missed spiritual opportunities of Black Americans. Church was what it had to be but not all we wanted it to be. Now we can form it in our image.
I don’t really want to be involved with Christianity and yet I feel specifically called to be
And only in the way of calling for more small/local practices, shrine practices, more mysticism, less dogma, crumbling the church, and actually living the teachings
And it’s weird bc
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I forgot to sweep! I was talking to the homie
@AkamaraTarot
and was like OH SHIT!! I dropped everything and swept all that shit up! I threw it away and instantly felt the difference. I fucked around and Hoodooed myself. 😂
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I’m a Black American who LOVES Black American culture.
I ain’t expatriating no fucking where. I love us and I’ll be right here defending what my Ancestors built.
See ya at the cookout.
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I just saw a tiktok talmbout Hoodoo is about not doing harm and honestly?
The willing intentional misinformation about shit (i.e, everything) will make it harder for people who genuinely want to learn. They’ll be inundated with BS and experts will be too fed up to care.
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I want someone to give me $250,000 to research Hoodoo and the Black spiritual way of life in America.
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