I was led here by my Ancestors. First, I saw a website site offering lessons on the history of hoodoo. A feeling overcame me, I could not describe it but it was a pleasure. Next day on a different pc I saw a TH-cam suggested video about the difference between voodoo and hoodoo. Today I see this video. A warm sensation is running through my body as I watch. I ran from my ancestors, becoming a 7thday adventist Christian for 10 years. I woke up 2years ago and moved towards moorish science. From there, I saw the trap I was in while in the church. I now innerstand my family and culture. I am the last of my parents' obeah bloodline. Spiritual hand is bringing back. Once you stop running and demonizing, the magnetic pull will pull you back. I am free, and I broke the matrix in my life. Thanks for this video.
THIS IS A GREAT VIDEO HOWEVER I DO THINK YOU CAN LEARN SOMETHINGS FROM BOOKS AS WELL AS VIDEOS. EVERYTHING ISN'T PASSED DOWN FROM EVERYONE'S FAMILY CAUSE NOT ALL FAMILIES ARE THE SAME. I'M HAPPY YOU LADIES HAD AN ADVANTAGE OF HAVING SUCH OPENNESS. SOME OF US HAVE A FEELING IN OUR SOULS THAT THIS IS OUR NATURAL CONNECTION. AND SOME OF OUR ELDERS ARE GONE SO WE CAN'T QUESTION THEM. WE CAN'T GET BACK TO OUR NATURAL HERITAGE IF WE DON'T RESEARCH IN DIFFERENT WAYS.
As an author, I am a book lover and absolutely agree with books being one way to learn. I think the sentiment in this talk is that some people prefer books to learning from people who have the knowledge and experience. It is an encouragement not give up on finding the right people to learn from. Much in our spiritual traditions is not transmissible through a book. Also, there are many people who have very little real experience out here writing books as an authority on the subject. Getting recommendations for good source material is important.
The issue we have now is all books aren't wrote "by us" and there is a lot of appropriation going on. And there are some that are wrote by "us" that aren't even written correctly. There are a lot videos out here on the topic yet misinformation being presented so it's good if you can find an elder or a trusted mentor to learn from if that is the avenue one has to take if they didn't grow up with it.
But we MUST keep alive the african tradition of passing our history from one generation to the next. this is how you keep respect of the elders. this is how they keep their place in our society. their the history and tradition keepers. I've recently reached my 30s and now have grown to play more of a role of being a history and story keeper of my family. I told it to all the kiddies and now that I'm older and years into my research I have only been CONFIRMED on what stories I had passed down. The fulfillment in knowing my ancestors kept it all alive for us gives me a deep connection with my ancestors. If there's any elders in your life just ask them even if it's just your parents. You'd be surprised which elders they were able to meet before they transitioned to the spirit world.
Osiyo! I'm indigenous american and always grew with the women in my family doing hoodoo without really noticing. Spiritual workers who have indigenous american blood are being awakened, so we can show our respect, gratitude, and love to our ancestors during slavery and who were here far before slavery. ASE ❤ 🪶
YES!!! This was so well done, great conversation. My story is that I never felt comfortable inside the church. my daddy and his family migrated from Mississippi to Chicago. And I'm named after my grandmother. I was raised in spirituality. While I don't favor one over the other. But I connect more with Hoodoo, especially the traditions and rituals. Most of the church has voodoo in it. They are afraid to admit though. Holy Ghost, holy water, and so on.
I am so happy I found this interview. I’ve just recently connected with my aunt and she’s given me my family history and it dawned on me that my family history is embedded in Hoodoo practices. I laugh because it’s definitely in me. I saw it growing up. I remember my aunt was big in taking spiritual baths.
Beautiful conversation by two beautiful sisters. Thanks for sharing. We need more people talking about the core of our traditions rather than the hype.
Yes. That's true. Everything I know and experience and the way or level of knowledge and gifts and more all have came from time and self exploration or whatever. But the breakthrough happened when I started having suicidal tendencies and all, that's when I really started seeing and hearing and realizing over time and realized my purpose and who and what I am to God, myself, family and the world to the point of having like minded conversations with all types of people and societies. Our spirituality are real and obvious to few
ive been looking into diff african spiritual practices for about 3 years now and im thinking about embracing hoodoo more and making it my spiritual practice so i do appreciate this video and the detail
I'm so thankful that I grew up being able to see my great grandmother and my aunts and uncles doing so many of these things and I recognized it even then
Hello. I know this episode is old but I'm a somewhat new Spiritual practitioner (two years). I practice sigil magick, deep breathing exercises, meditation, manifesting, learning about Magick and occultism. This truly interests me because I want to learn the old ways of my ancestors.
Wait!!!! Your mommy is from Yazoo!! The gateway to the delta!! 😮 I’m from/Currently reside in Yazoo this is just confirmation all in one the fact I found the video during this time 5AM 🤭👏🏽👏🏽 this is amazing
I am from Guyana living in Canada, and the practices you mentioned I have experienced as a child. Vicks at the bottom of the feet and on your nose made me laugh. Thank the both of you! Ase! 🙏🏿
We are not saying the same thing. The point that was made in the video is that Hoodoo was born from a mix of ancient African spirituality and the adaptation to the new land, circumstances and needs. Not from mixing with other non-African traditions.
💀✨️..Stayed all the way through, til the end, but it was easy, with two such Lovely, & Enchanting Ladies.. Soo, THANK YOU, for taking Your valuable Time, and sharing it soo generously !!✨️🕯⚘️🪻~Peace, Kyl..🥀
@sacredmysteriesworldwide5810 ..No, Thank YOU !! I shared it with some friends too.., I'm definitely intrigued, & I will definitely be back, as well..!! ..and, Thanks again..I really dig what you're doing..~ Peace 🙏🪻
I am ready to reconnect with my spiritual heritage. I was born in Louisiana, and my mother knew a lot about Hoodoo but would not teach me because of her belief in Christianity.
Interesting. Evan as somebody who has studied the various Orisha traditions a lot, I still thought that Hoodoo, and Obea, were nothing but the spell craft aspects of African based practices, with the spiritual aspects gone. It seems like I was wrong.
Sadly you, I and many others were duped, mostly as a result of 20th century yte people stealing Hoodoo, removing it of its system and selling it off as just magic. Hoodoo is a full fledged African American spirituality and folk religion.
1:08:38- my great grandmother used to sneak it in a hot toddy. It was so nasty already, you couldn’t even taste the Vicks. Then she gon say, “That’s why Mother told you to drink it as fast as you can and as hot as you can stand it!” 🤣🤣🤣
The difference is vast and too much to get into here, but I will say simply necromancy is European based and is largely transactional and involves miscellaneous spirits good or bad. Ancestor reverence is based on love, connection, history, culture and only involves elevated family members. They help because they love you not because you give them offerings. They help without receiving anything at all.
@@sacredmysteriesworldwide5810 thank you. Do you think that maybe you will ever do a video on this to bring clarity to someone like me that have been stuck in Christianity the majority of my life, then to Hebrew Israelite because I got sick of Christianity and found out that it still the same? My prayer to Source is to be brought back to how I worshiped (Him/Her) before the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade. I know it looks nothing like Christianity, I know that I need understanding, and to be fearless on this journey but I do not want to fall into something I shouldn’t be doing.
@@Schequita Our ancestral spirituality is very beautiful, empowering, healing with lots of wisdom. I've done a video one ancestor reverence that you might find helpful as you figure out your path. Here is the link: th-cam.com/video/sFboED-9SYk/w-d-xo.htmlsi=k1KOyHpR18wN9G1v There are other videos on the channel that may help as well. May you continue to be guided by the light of your Ori (higher self) and the love and wisdom of your ancestors.
Yes we do grow up doing hoodoo , but I did’t know it but my people did on an every day basis , and I still do. The other races try to make us believe we are do evil things. Don’t believe it my people.🙏🏽💜
Very interesting talk but to say that Hoodoo or Haitian voodoo is its own practice and not a mix is really completely false. Haitians know they're direct descendants of the Beninese - Benin being the birthplace of voodoo, Benin being one of the main places that Africans left the continent, hence why every year when we have our annual voodoo festival people from Haiti, Cuba or Brazil come to Benin. I can understand that as African Americans we at times receive the warm welcome we would like from Africans and as an African, racism led many African Americans to show newly arrived Africans, post slavery contempt and a desire to distance ourselves from Africans but to say that Hoodoo, Nigerian practices etc are not mixes or bear no influence from other spiritual practices is completely incorrect.
Thank you so much for viewing this video and for your comment! Of course Hoodoo comes from African spirituality. The intention of that statement was to frame Hoodoo as a whole system in and of itself. That African Americans alongside of the rest of the diaspora retained their spiritual wisdom and identity and masked it from their enslavers in Christianity. Hoodoo is deserving of respect as a distinct belief system. Hoodoo is a complete religious entity derived from the essence of the Africans belief systems (of various ethnic groups) in captivity in the United States and infused and shaped by their adaptation to their new environment and the need to survive and rebel against the atrocities being experienced. Hoodoo was forged into existence independent of other non-African influences (mixes) with the core being African wisdom and all else the result of the application of that wisdom to heal and strengthen their people. When it comes to Hoodoo many want to claim it comes from various mixtures of non-African inputs (white & Native American most often). This is what is being addressed at that moment in this talk.
From my opinion, Native Americans of course showed our ancestors which plants were safe but our ritual are still African. Whites contribute the religion they pushed on us. I feel we need to be clear because native Americans and whites are demanding and saying they created it.
What happened to family reunions. The black family is broken as hell that's what happened. This is awesome but there's molesters, rapists and ppl that beat the shit out of u growing up. All of us aren't in a rush to run back to the foot of our "elders"
African Spirituality of veneration of Mother Earth and nature's is the same with native American. For example the native American Totem of Eagle and Wolf. So in Africa our Totem like Lion, Hawk, Leopards and many powerful animals that we share planet with. African concepts of creation and nature veneration is similar to native American and or Ancient cultures. There is no way you will denied African in black America. There is so much African element in Black Americans. Especially in Southern part of America.
I’m feeling this conversation. Chi born, MS roots, Hoodoo was definitely present in my family. I paid attention because I was always fascinated by some of the daily acts my aunts, mother, grandmothers would make. Thank you for affirming Hoodoo as an African American spirituality. So many cultural practices that ground our survival and existence. Many gems shared here. YES! Hoodoo as a branch of African spirituality. ✌🏿👊🏿🙏🏿💥
@@renereadingjourney1793 in this day and age you know why…. However, since you brought it up you can choose to identify yourself as Black American. Others can choose to identify with the continent and America as African American, while others interchange the 2… hey people can even go back to calling themselves Negro if that’s what they want. That is a group identity very specific to America and not used anywhere else but with our ancestors, while “black” is a color that can be and is used world-wide…. I personally experienced the shift from Negro, to Black and then African and heard the discussions about why back when they were happening.
Yes most of us African Americans grew up with Hoodoo and don’t even know it
Yes like walking and chewing bubblegum
I was led here by my Ancestors. First, I saw a website site offering lessons on the history of hoodoo. A feeling overcame me, I could not describe it but it was a pleasure. Next day on a different pc I saw a TH-cam suggested video about the difference between voodoo and hoodoo. Today I see this video. A warm sensation is running through my body as I watch. I ran from my ancestors, becoming a 7thday adventist Christian for 10 years. I woke up 2years ago and moved towards moorish science. From there, I saw the trap I was in while in the church. I now innerstand my family and culture. I am the last of my parents' obeah bloodline. Spiritual hand is bringing back. Once you stop running and demonizing, the magnetic pull will pull you back. I am free, and I broke the matrix in my life. Thanks for this video.
THIS IS A GREAT VIDEO HOWEVER I DO THINK YOU CAN LEARN SOMETHINGS FROM BOOKS AS WELL AS VIDEOS. EVERYTHING ISN'T PASSED DOWN FROM EVERYONE'S FAMILY CAUSE NOT ALL FAMILIES ARE THE SAME. I'M HAPPY YOU LADIES HAD AN ADVANTAGE OF HAVING SUCH OPENNESS. SOME OF US HAVE A FEELING IN OUR SOULS THAT THIS IS OUR NATURAL CONNECTION. AND SOME OF OUR ELDERS ARE GONE SO WE CAN'T QUESTION THEM. WE CAN'T GET BACK TO OUR NATURAL HERITAGE IF WE DON'T RESEARCH IN DIFFERENT WAYS.
As an author, I am a book lover and absolutely agree with books being one way to learn. I think the sentiment in this talk is that some people prefer books to learning from people who have the knowledge and experience. It is an encouragement not give up on finding the right people to learn from. Much in our spiritual traditions is not transmissible through a book. Also, there are many people who have very little real experience out here writing books as an authority on the subject. Getting recommendations for good source material is important.
The issue we have now is all books aren't wrote "by us" and there is a lot of appropriation going on. And there are some that are wrote by "us" that aren't even written correctly. There are a lot videos out here on the topic yet misinformation being presented so it's good if you can find an elder or a trusted mentor to learn from if that is the avenue one has to take if they didn't grow up with it.
..@emagyne1 ..Your Heart of Hearts is in thee right place, man..
But we MUST keep alive the african tradition of passing our history from one generation to the next. this is how you keep respect of the elders. this is how they keep their place in our society. their the history and tradition keepers. I've recently reached my 30s and now have grown to play more of a role of being a history and story keeper of my family. I told it to all the kiddies and now that I'm older and years into my research I have only been CONFIRMED on what stories I had passed down. The fulfillment in knowing my ancestors kept it all alive for us gives me a deep connection with my ancestors. If there's any elders in your life just ask them even if it's just your parents. You'd be surprised which elders they were able to meet before they transitioned to the spirit world.
@@sacredmysteriesworldwide5810 what would be your recommendations
Osiyo! I'm indigenous american and always grew with the women in my family doing hoodoo without really noticing. Spiritual workers who have indigenous american blood are being awakened, so we can show our respect, gratitude, and love to our ancestors during slavery and who were here far before slavery. ASE ❤ 🪶
@sacredmysteriesworldwide5810 Thank you so much for having me ❤️
I believe that I am a black Indian as well . The Sioux Tribe
This conversation is so rich! So much gratitude Mama Deyana & Mama Mignon. Can y'all consider a part 2?
We definitely need a part 2 of this conversation
YES!!! This was so well done, great conversation. My story is that I never felt comfortable inside the church. my daddy and his family migrated from Mississippi to Chicago. And I'm named after my grandmother. I was raised in spirituality. While I don't favor one over the other. But I connect more with Hoodoo, especially the traditions and rituals. Most of the church has voodoo in it. They are afraid to admit though. Holy Ghost, holy water, and so on.
I am so happy I found this interview. I’ve just recently connected with my aunt and she’s given me my family history and it dawned on me that my family history is embedded in Hoodoo practices. I laugh because it’s definitely in me. I saw it growing up. I remember my aunt was big in taking spiritual baths.
Beautiful conversation by two beautiful sisters. Thanks for sharing. We need more people talking about the core of our traditions rather than the hype.
30 minutes in ~ so many gems dropped
🎉🎉 I'm a Mississippi blues artist. I heard her mention Yazoo too. Mississippi tuned in
Thank you for bringing this information to us. I’ve been drawn to learning more about hoodoo in recent months. 🙏🏾❤️
Thank you for sharing this video. This video have given me so many downloads .
Yes. That's true. Everything I know and experience and the way or level of knowledge and gifts and more all have came from time and self exploration or whatever. But the breakthrough happened when I started having suicidal tendencies and all, that's when I really started seeing and hearing and realizing over time and realized my purpose and who and what I am to God, myself, family and the world to the point of having like minded conversations with all types of people and societies. Our spirituality are real and obvious to few
WOW! WHAT A BEAUTIFUL CHANNEL. ASE'
ive been looking into diff african spiritual practices for about 3 years now and im thinking about embracing hoodoo more and making it my spiritual practice so i do appreciate this video and the detail
I'm so thankful that I grew up being able to see my great grandmother and my aunts and uncles doing so many of these things and I recognized it even then
A'se my Sisters, Beautiful Queens❣❣❣
Happy Hoodoo Heritage Month 🕯️🤍✨🧹 I'm so thankful for learning and being reminded by Our traditional practices ASE ✨
Great conversation, great information, great video.
🌹❤️🙏🏾🌞🔥 Thank you so much for this lesson in who and what we are!
Great show!!! I follow Mama Yana and love her content!!! My family is in Detroit via Talladega Alabama, so I absolutely relate!
Hello. I know this episode is old but I'm a somewhat new Spiritual practitioner (two years). I practice sigil magick, deep breathing exercises, meditation, manifesting, learning about Magick and occultism. This truly interests me because I want to learn the old ways of my ancestors.
This is so nourishing ❤
My granny use throw that Vic’s All over our body lol nose be wide open 😂😂😂 love the video #TeamHoodoo All day
This has changed my life.
Wait!!!! Your mommy is from Yazoo!! The gateway to the delta!! 😮 I’m from/Currently reside in Yazoo this is just confirmation all in one the fact I found the video during this time 5AM 🤭👏🏽👏🏽 this is amazing
Needed this for my soul, thank you sisters
I am from Guyana living in Canada, and the practices you mentioned I have experienced as a child. Vicks at the bottom of the feet and on your nose made me laugh. Thank the both of you! Ase! 🙏🏿
Thank you❣️💖
thank you Ms. Grayson by the way. Great video
Thank you ladies🫶🏾🫶🏾💕💕
This is awesome
We are not saying the same thing. The point that was made in the video is that Hoodoo was born from a mix of ancient African spirituality and the adaptation to the new land, circumstances and needs. Not from mixing with other non-African traditions.
S/O Yazoo ..I'm from the SIPP... GVILLE 💪🏾
Loved this video very informative ❤❤❤❤❤
Thank you💜⚡
💀✨️..Stayed all the way through, til the end, but it was easy, with two such Lovely, & Enchanting Ladies.. Soo, THANK YOU, for taking Your valuable Time, and sharing it soo generously !!✨️🕯⚘️🪻~Peace, Kyl..🥀
Thank you so much for spending your time watching the video. We are always happy when viewers enjoy the material. 🙏🏾💗🙏🏾
@sacredmysteriesworldwide5810 ..No, Thank YOU !! I shared it with some friends too.., I'm definitely intrigued, & I will definitely be back, as well..!! ..and, Thanks again..I really dig what you're doing..~ Peace 🙏🪻
Hey Deyana 👋🏽 I was in a FB group with years back, it’s nice seeing you spread gems 💎 I believe Martin created the group, we had a ball in there. 💛
I am ready to reconnect with my spiritual heritage. I was born in Louisiana, and my mother knew a lot about Hoodoo but would not teach me because of her belief in Christianity.
born and raised in chicago, direct southern roots and I definitely hear that we are COUNTRY folk lol
Sister Grayson, I’d love to get that mucus recipe.
Same
Interesting. Evan as somebody who has studied the various Orisha traditions a lot, I still thought that Hoodoo, and Obea, were nothing but the spell craft aspects of African based practices, with the spiritual aspects gone. It seems like I was wrong.
Sadly you, I and many others were duped, mostly as a result of 20th century yte people stealing Hoodoo, removing it of its system and selling it off as just magic. Hoodoo is a full fledged African American spirituality and folk religion.
1:08:38- my great grandmother used to sneak it in a hot toddy. It was so nasty already, you couldn’t even taste the Vicks. Then she gon say, “That’s why Mother told you to drink it as fast as you can and as hot as you can stand it!” 🤣🤣🤣
Thank you for the time and effort you put into bringing this information to us ✊🏾🫶🏾❤️🐌
You’re so welcome! Thank you for spending your time and watching this content.
You’re very welcome! Thank you for viewing the video and also for supporting this channel!❤️
Peace my sistas thank u for bringing knowledge to our people aslo what was the remedy for getting rid of mucus ✌🏿✊🏿
What’s the difference between Necromancy and ancestral veneration, and asking for their help?
The difference is vast and too much to get into here, but I will say simply necromancy is European based and is largely transactional and involves miscellaneous spirits good or bad. Ancestor reverence is based on love, connection, history, culture and only involves elevated family members. They help because they love you not because you give them offerings. They help without receiving anything at all.
@@sacredmysteriesworldwide5810 thank you. Do you think that maybe you will ever do a video on this to bring clarity to someone like me that have been stuck in Christianity the majority of my life, then to Hebrew Israelite because I got sick of Christianity and found out that it still the same? My prayer to Source is to be brought back to how I worshiped (Him/Her) before the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade. I know it looks nothing like Christianity, I know that I need understanding, and to be fearless on this journey but I do not want to fall into something I shouldn’t be doing.
@@Schequita Our ancestral spirituality is very beautiful, empowering, healing with lots of wisdom. I've done a video one ancestor reverence that you might find helpful as you figure out your path. Here is the link: th-cam.com/video/sFboED-9SYk/w-d-xo.htmlsi=k1KOyHpR18wN9G1v There are other videos on the channel that may help as well. May you continue to be guided by the light of your Ori (higher self) and the love and wisdom of your ancestors.
❤🙌🏿🙏🏿
Yes we do grow up doing hoodoo , but I did’t know it but my people did on an every day basis , and I still do. The other races try to make us believe we are do evil things. Don’t believe it my people.🙏🏽💜
omg im from chicago and my ppl came from yazoo miss. she may be a cousin. whats her info?
Not getting a lot of HOW TO. NEED more example. Need a time line regarding how we step by step practice it... thxs.
I remember as kid getting my haircut after the barber told me to get my hair up and burn it
💯❤️🧙🏿♂️
I think that we also need to pay homage to hoodoo has Native American practices what’s in it as well?
👋
Very interesting talk but to say that Hoodoo or Haitian voodoo is its own practice and not a mix is really completely false. Haitians know they're direct descendants of the Beninese - Benin being the birthplace of voodoo, Benin being one of the main places that Africans left the continent, hence why every year when we have our annual voodoo festival people from Haiti, Cuba or Brazil come to Benin. I can understand that as African Americans we at times receive the warm welcome we would like from Africans and as an African, racism led many African Americans to show newly arrived Africans, post slavery contempt and a desire to distance ourselves from Africans but to say that Hoodoo, Nigerian practices etc are not mixes or bear no influence from other spiritual practices is completely incorrect.
Thank you so much for viewing this video and for your comment!
Of course Hoodoo comes from African spirituality. The intention of that statement was to frame Hoodoo as a whole system in and of itself. That African Americans alongside of the rest of the diaspora retained their spiritual wisdom and identity and masked it from their enslavers in Christianity. Hoodoo is deserving of respect as a distinct belief system. Hoodoo is a complete religious entity derived from the essence of the Africans belief systems (of various ethnic groups) in captivity in the United States and infused and shaped by their adaptation to their new environment and the need to survive and rebel against the atrocities being experienced. Hoodoo was forged into existence independent of other non-African influences (mixes) with the core being African wisdom and all else the result of the application of that wisdom to heal and strengthen their people. When it comes to Hoodoo many want to claim it comes from various mixtures of non-African inputs (white & Native American most often). This is what is being addressed at that moment in this talk.
From my opinion, Native Americans of course showed our ancestors which plants were safe but our ritual are still African. Whites contribute the religion they pushed on us. I feel we need to be clear because native Americans and whites are demanding and saying they created it.
Ase
Modupe Iya Mignon
I was told by a few HOODOO practitioners it’s not a religion voodoo is a religion. Would you please clear this up for me?
What happened to family reunions. The black family is broken as hell that's what happened. This is awesome but there's molesters, rapists and ppl that beat the shit out of u growing up. All of us aren't in a rush to run back to the foot of our "elders"
Momma Yana what did you say boil for mucus?
MAMA was seeing spirit on the side of her ik what that look means lol .
Love Is Love Queen
It was the , you drum you you bid 😣😕 just a little to be thankful for
Hoodoo comes from our Indigenous American indian ancestors, not from Africa
Please stop trying to erase our African Ancestors. If you don’t think you’re African fine. But this conversation is not for you.
@@tvlover1492 You said it best! Thank you💗🙏🏾
African Spirituality of veneration of Mother Earth and nature's is the same with native American. For example the native American Totem of Eagle and Wolf. So in Africa our Totem like Lion, Hawk, Leopards and many powerful animals that we share planet with. African concepts of creation and nature veneration is similar to native American and or Ancient cultures. There is no way you will denied African in black America. There is so much African element in Black Americans. Especially in Southern part of America.
I’m feeling this conversation. Chi born, MS roots, Hoodoo was definitely present in my family. I paid attention because I was always fascinated by some of the daily acts my aunts, mother, grandmothers would make. Thank you for affirming Hoodoo as an African American spirituality. So many cultural practices that ground our survival and existence. Many gems shared here. YES! Hoodoo as a branch of African spirituality. ✌🏿👊🏿🙏🏿💥
@@Eniola0ne indeed both are animists
Why do you keep calling us African Americans? Were black Americans 😂and I am from the Chicago area
@@renereadingjourney1793 in this day and age you know why…. However, since you brought it up you can choose to identify yourself as Black American. Others can choose to identify with the continent and America as African American, while others interchange the 2… hey people can even go back to calling themselves Negro if that’s what they want. That is a group identity very specific to America and not used anywhere else but with our ancestors, while “black” is a color that can be and is used world-wide…. I personally experienced the shift from Negro, to Black and then African and heard the discussions about why back when they were happening.