NO MACUMBA – NO APPEASE -
BSC, CA – Several things must be
accepted for the following topic explored. The first is the writer
has lived over 7 decades, so to think that the way you once felt is
how you feel today is nonsense. The short side is you are grateful to
have lived long enough to know how wrong you were X amount of years
ago. The second is that during the time you were born determines your
starting point in life so you can judge history by your memories. And
third, you are the sum of your friends and enemies, especially if
your friends know cannabis, cough, Lenard Nimoy and Aretha
Franklin. They probably could have been saved.
But more about what you are led to
believe in. You are led to believe all black people come from Africa,
every one, and so African-American. No one on my branch of the family has
a piece of African art hanging on their walls, but I can't speak for
any other branches having never been to any of their homes. That's
family*. I asked my grandmother about it back in the day when being from Africa
became popular. All she did was wrinkle her nose up and say
nobody on her side ever came from Africa, then short. Used to crack me up.
I did own a dashiki when it was cool in the sixties.
If you have looked up Macumba and appease you find a curious relationship for words not
chosen at random. On the next page you will see how black magic
played on both sides of the coin, who did the fiddling, and how this
whole thing was done so everyone believed the hoax because it was so
believable, even enduring because it plays on everyone's ignorance.
So let's start with the obvious. Why do most white folks believe
blacks come from Africa?
This isn't to say that bid whist didn't
come down from the black roots as stated, just that playing bid whist
wasn't something that all levels of blacks did, like wearing shoes.
It was a cultural phenomena only done by some groups like swap
meeting, except with more intensity. You wanted to come and
represent. People who played bridge looked down on bid whist players
but whist required more grandstanding, hence the 'talking shit' strategy.
Where do blacks come from? Pretty much
everywhere if you count skin tone. The only real place of white
skinned people way back then is China, who once shared a skin tone
thing with Japan/other Asian cultures. I've known blacks from Alaska,
Britain, along with Africa [Congo, Ethiopia, Uganda] and read about
other blacks in Africa, Australasia, France, along with the other
places you have read about. So what should you know about blacks.
First they usually fall into two different types vaguely, cosmopolitan and down-home.
Though these two types seem
self-explanatory, they are not because the down-home are separated into three types. Caught in the middle are the
people who follow their ears, and this is where most black folks
live. Fortunately this is also a generational gap and it comes from
believing what you read or hear, and what you see.
Case in print comes from local sources,
the Precinct Reporter, a San Bernardino free print, 8-page weekly
aimed at the black marketplace just as the ads for Maxi-Foods are
aimed at the Latino market. In Issue March 15, 2018 on the commentary
page there are two articles, one by Congressman Cedric L. Richmond
and the other by Charlene Crowell, respectively.
The first commentary has the headline,
President Trump's FY 2019 Budget Hurts Blacks, in bold print and the
second states, Access to Safe, Decent and Affordable Housing
Threatened. Both articles denounce Trump or his policies. If
Congressman Richmond's name isn't familiar it's because he is from
Louisiana, 2nd District, imagine that. What has that to do
with a black in California except propaganda for the Democrat
[taking your skin color for granted] party?
Charlene Crowell seems a featured
writer at the journal's commentary section and does indeed state
facts resulting in depression of black wages, like the 1935 Security
Program's 'New Deal excluding farm hands and domestics' in her fine
piece from August 30, 2018, Black Wealth Still Plummeting.
There are just two omissions. The first being that it was the
DEMOCRATS that put in the provisions of those programs [see Dinesh
D'Souza's Death of a Nation], and that the farm workers/domestics also
included Latinos; but in those days people south of the border weren't
illegal, they came and went as they pleased. This omission is the
reason the addition of 'too' could have made the difference in black
lives matter, just saying.
Gone are the days when the only source
outlet was the barbershop, hairstylist, and church gossip route.
Today's folks fall into mostly two categories, those that watch TV and agree; and
those who watch TV but shake their heads. Here's a video about the
two groups.
(*- While we have all moved out of state, there is one exception)
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