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Kendrick calling Drake white but calling Adonis a Black man is one of the funniest things I’ve ever heard in my life
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Black storytelling literary devices are my favorite.
1. Introduction: “So tell me why…”
2. Climax: “Come to find out”
3. Resolution & Closing remarks: “At the end of the day…”
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Saying “Long story short” after talking for 45 minutes
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I’m tired of highly curated lifestyle content please show me your white fridges and empty bottles of 40s I’m begging
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Everyone else: “I’m off tomorrow.”
Black People: “Today is my Friday.”
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Wrong holiday but I love the sentiment 🫶🏽
on the cross at 33… He should’ve been at the club
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Black people love an Italian dressing tri-colored pasta salad in the summer.
And by Black people, I mean me myself and I. I would live off of it if I could. Every meal. Every day. All summer. 😭
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That’s Baptain Brunch
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Gen Z has a particular brand of ageism that is going to cause a lot of severe depression and existential crises when they age past 25.
It’s very… peculiar.
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That boy is gonna wake up to a statement from the United Nations at this rate
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When I imagine the 3 wise men in the Bible, the dressed like this
Detroit know they love wearing they furs to a funeral
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Do I care about the royals? No
Do I care about the fall of the house of Windsor?
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I don’t know whose great aunt I stumbled upon on TikTok, but I am eternally grateful.
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Y’all have me crying with the honorable mentions 😭
“Mind you”
“I say that to say this”
“Aight so boom”
“So how bout”
“Long story short” (the story was not short)
“Whole time”
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This sits beautifully atop that tennis anklet. 10/10.
And with the cancer crab?? She was dead serious.
my auntie has an ankle tattoo that say “Niggas Ain’t Shit” she’s had it for like 30 years😭😭😭
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Let’s discuss a couple things 🙂
1. Hoodoo is a closed practice that is for African American Descendants of BLACK slavery.
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Hoodoo deep cuts — not slicing in to somebody’s name when cutting their birthday cake 😆
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Honestly… Jesus hosting a dinner then looking around and saying “One of you will betray me” is very much straight out of the Godfather. Very mob boss. I love the drama.
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…That lady? For a children’s movie? Aight
Disney’s ‘Haunted Mansion’ reboot will now be released on July 28, 2023. The cast includes:
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• Jamie Lee Curtis
• Winona Ryder
• Tiffany Haddish
• Owen Wilson
• Dan Levy
• Rosario Dawson
• LaKeith Stanfield
• Danny DeVito
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Stevie is a sorcerer, and that song is a spell. That’s the only explanation.
How the fuck did Stevie Wonder come up with "As"
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Elders speaking blessings over you will always hit. Whew.
This older woman sitting across from me at the airport told me 2024 is going to be such a wonderful year for me. And to enjoy every bit of it.
I don’t know what made her say that but I receive it.
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As a spooky bitch, I would never in my life use a Ouija board. Ever. I don’t even want to be in the same room as one.
I do however want to hear your experiences with them 🙂
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Do you ever think about how maybe it’s easy to assume you’ve never seen a ghost but also how do you know that half the people you see randomly out in public minding their business aren’t ghosts? Especially the ones you never see again? Are you SURE?
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Listen here. Kings of Leon were in their MF baggggg back in the day.
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Scrolled past someone doing an egg cleanse on TikTok and they in the comments talking about “IN THIS ECONOMY???” 😭
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@imthatgirlsugar
It means maybe people who enjoy astronomy or have hobbies will have something to look forward to. Jesus.
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In colonial America, lobster wasn’t exactly a delicacy. In fact, it was so cheap and plentiful that it was often served to prisoners.
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Orcas forming a military against us is the only thing that has made sense recently.
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We can’t talk about slavery on plantations... PLANTATIONS.
Almost like how can’t say “genocide” despite thousands dead and millions displaced.
We can’t acknowledge oppression in any way. This is so fucking sickening.
The Texas Historical Commission removed books on slavery from plantation gift shops after an amateur historian sent several angry emails
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Show me junk drawers and random piles of cords! Car parts in the front yard. I want to hear “It’s giving who-was-smoking-wine-black-&-milds-on-the-porch?”
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AHT. Don’t come over here explaining a bar that was already obvious. Don’t do that.
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In honor of Capricorn season, let’s stop focusing on love languages and focus on hate languages. How do you show people you hate them? What fuels you?
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Aldi quarter.
Does anyone really know what the little jeans pocket is for?
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Some people saying they didn’t know this was Hoodoo, so to clarify, a lot of Hoodoo culture includes things we grew up just doing bc of“good” or “bad” luck (like not putting your purse on the floor). It’s a collection of AA cultural practices (including but not only conjure)
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2. Hoodoo is a set of practices brought over to the US/Colonies during the transatlantic slave trade as a means of preserving our west African cultures (particularly Bantu/Kongo), and to protect us from the nearly unsurvivable conditions of White enslavement.
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Ya Ya feels very Proud Mary to me. In the best way.
And the fact that she references both Good Vibrations by The Beach Boys and samples These Boots Are Made for Walkin by Nancy Sinatra…
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4. TO ME you cannot claim Hoodoo without having an intimate understanding the OLD Black church (Praise house and river baptism culture).
Without the historical context, you are practicing spiritualism. Which is fine. Just a nuanced difference.
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I’ve been audibly talking to myself nonstop in public since March 2020
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So those random family practices that you have, or those random things Black folks “just do” to keep the luck around you good and prosperous ARE Hoodoo, even if it doesn’t involve commodified craft or backwoods conjure lol
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3. Hoodoo is not interchangeable with the term “ancestor veneration.” Ancestor veneration is a pillar of Hoodoo, but not the same thing.
Ancestor veneration itself is not a closed practice.
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I love my spiritualists, woo woo’s, conjurers, mediums, brujas, dreamers, prophets, kitchen witches, channelers, metaphysicians, and the ones who don’t know what to call themselves but always introduce themselves with the disclaimer “I’m a little weird.”
I love y’all DEEP.
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7. Hoodoo doesn’t have European influences, it has European interruptions
8. Hoodoo varies by US region. Herbs, recipes, superstitions, land spirits, etc. all vary,
The Carolinas are different from the Mississippi Delta which is different from Arkansas etc.
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I love how we all just act like divination via groundhog is totally normal
GOOD NEWS! Punxsutawney Phil predicts early spring on Groundhog Day
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Constantly frustrated that the concept of self-care has been reduced to consumerism-based hygiene rituals.
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This is the first October y’all haven’t tweeted “omg the veil is so thin” every few hours. What’s wrong? Y’all veils too thick?
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Whether or not something is “slave-speak”, “slave food”, or slave WHATEVER, I want you to question why you believe they don’t deserve to be memorialized and honored.
Your shame ugly and not ours to carry. Slavery is for non-Black people to be ashamed of.
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Myrtle Beach suddenly having Caribbean blue water is hysterical (and a sign of Armageddon).
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Whether or not you’re celebrating the 4th tomorrow or just enjoying a day off, there is only one thing to keep in mind:
Keep your ass out of Lake Lanier.
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*Someone being held accountable for their own actions*: “DON’T PLAY WITH ME. MY ANCESTORS WILL COME AFTER YOU!!!”
Babe if you don’t stop treating your dead great granny like a Rottweiler she’s gonna come after YOU.
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5. Two important maps to always keep in mind as you practice and learn the origins of traditions are the transatlantic slave routes, and the great migration.
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@YungKundalini
It also used to be connected to Ireland/Scotland before the continents drifted… So some of the cryptids/fae overlap 🌝
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For more reading, start with this.
Mojo Workin': The Old African American Hoodoo System
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@thechioma_
• 3 color rotini
• Olives
• Cucumber
• Cherry tomatoes
• Colby Jack, cheddar, or feta
• Banana peppers or pepperoncini
• Pepperoni or shrimp (or both)
• Bacon bits
• A little broccoli
• Red or scallion onion
• Italian dressing & tiny bit of spicy brown mustard
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@mirrorssmoke_
Crying. I definitely only say long story short after I’ve been talking for no less than 20 minutes straight.
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At this point I feel like the best thing I can do for my children is not have them.
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6. There are a a few components of Hoodoo. All are equally valid. You can either fall in to one category, a couple, or all.
1) Rootworkers
2) Conjurers
3) Historians
4) Lifestyle & Superstitions (the day-to-day do’s and don’ts that our parents told us)
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Because “slave” isn’t an identity. It was a condition. We descended from rich cultures and ancient tribes of people who later became enslaved. The way y’all speak down on “slaves” is a result of brain washing and whiteness. Start there.
Why do y’all clown “black ppl” who really try to study and figure out their true roots instead of just settling for just being niggas and descendants of slaves?
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Y’all’s ancestor-to-demon pipeline is so swift. Lmfao your poor granny just wants a candle and a prayer. Lord God 😂
I don’t know who needs to hear this but your ancestors are dead.
They CANNOT lead you or guide you or visit & talk to you. Those are demons.
Happy Sunday!
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When they said “Lord don't move the mountain, but give me strength to climb” I did not feel that. Please move the mountain. I am tired.
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Add this to the list of war crimes and psychological warfare. My God.
Instead of giving our children food,
The UN is giving them toys that look like food.
#Gaza
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This is… horrifying
(but I do believe she deserves grace and tried her best at 15. I’m horrified that no one helped her).
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That baby’s accent predates him by at least half a century. 😂 I love aggressively southern youngins
Also WHAT is this argument 💀
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Live image of me going through the quote tweets
Whats an Rnb song that you feel was created PERFECTLY ?
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To add more context — Hoodoo is defined as US only bc other regions have other names for their practices.
Generalizing everywhere that was affected by slavery as Hoodoo is reductive.
Each location has nuances as to how African traditions adapted in each environment. Like Obeah.
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Obeah and Hoodoo are like cousins, but not necessarily the same. Each region has its own voice, and thus it’s own name for their practices 🙂
And each western region also was importing Human cargo from different African nations.
So practices will vary bc origins vary.
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This… was not a classist post about cost and what not to buy. 🥴
Each one of these serves a purpose.
For example, it doesn’t make sense to wear a parfum on the beach. I’d reach for an EdT.
Or if I wanted a “before bed” spray I wouldn’t buy one that lasts 10 hours.
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One more caveat: I’m not saying you have to have grown up in the Black church or currently belong to a church.
I’m saying you need to understand the significance that praise houses and churches have always had in the Black community
4. TO ME you cannot claim Hoodoo without having an intimate understanding the OLD Black church (Praise house and river baptism culture).
Without the historical context, you are practicing spiritualism. Which is fine. Just a nuanced difference.
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Every version of Same Ol Mistakes is perfect. That song is perfect. It’s perfect.
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