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In light of a tragedy involving Mystic Lipstick aka Akoya, here are few quick witch tips that are invaluable for practitioners of any skill level.

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Hoodoo 101 - Jezebel Root

What is Jezebel root & why is it used in Traditional Hoodoo & Vodou?

Jezebel Root is a feminine root used in traditional Hoodoo & Vodou for dominate a wealthy man, sugar daddy for better business sales and is sometimes used for hexing or cursing. This root was named after a mythical biblical figure Queen Jezebel who belonged the Omri dynasty of the Kingdom Israel in 852 BC. As a controversial figure, she was known to be extremely cunning and ruthless, using her power to gain the upper hand by any means necessary. Historically this plant has been used by ADOS who practiced Hoodoo & Vodou, for a variety of reasons. The Jezebel stereotype was an oppressive image that was used for the sexual assault and servitude of black women during chattel slavery in the US. This root was typically associated with brothels, working girls, vaudeville/showgirls and mistresses who needed to keep their bills paid and food on their tables, by attract abundance and docility from rich clients, to better their lives as a means of survival. Today this root is still very potent and extremely beneficial for anyone who works in any type of service industry but is typically used by women seeking a luxury lifestyle via wealthy boyfriend or sugar daddy. Typically, these roots are fed or dressed in a variety of ways and placed in mojo bags, candles or other spells to manifest their intention.

Unfortunately, in modern times authentic Jezebel root has been extremely hard to come by and the majority of Jezebel root being sold on the market is actually common garden variety mulch or cherry bark. To the untrained eye it might resemble an actual root, especially when ground up. Here is a common example of fake jezebel root that you’ll typically see being sold in spiritual shops in person or online below.

Real jezebel root should not resemble bark or any type of mulch. Depending on the maturity of the root, the main root will always have multiple smaller roots sprouting from it, unless they have been clipped or shaven off. It should always look like a root! Fake jezebel root is also easy to snap and like most bark, has a dark brown center. Real jezebel root should be somewhat flexible and have a white center, when broken open.

While this is an easy to mistake to make, many trusted shops are STILL selling fake jezebel root to their clientele. I’ve always been passionate about collecting and providing authentic high-quality goods for myself and my patrons at an affordable price. So I’ve been working on a way to provide REAL Jezebel root to the public for the past few years.

I’m pleased to finally announce my shop will finally be offering limited plant shares of Jezebel root to purchase during the upcoming spring season of 2023 under our new indoor grow system.

What is a plant share?

A plant share is when members of a local community purchase a share of a plant harvest, which is tended, nurtured and watered by the owner, which in turn the shareholder receives the plant after a certain period of time.

Plant shareholders receive monthly updates about the status of their plant until it is shipped to them. This process will take about a year to for the Jezebel flower to seed and produce, a decent root system. All Jezebel root plants will be fertilized, hand grown under a professional micro grow light system and sustained and empowered with enchanted & holy waters, to increase it’s powers.

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The mythology of the Siren, Mermaid, Water Spirits & Mami Wata and it’s origins within black feminity.

Today I had to listen to other another black woman rant about how mermaids/sirens/mami wata are evil low key. So this educational post was born in response. 

Did you really think the divine essence of the black feminine wouldn’t protect itself ? That energy exists for a reason.  Suddenly it’s evil, to have teeth and protect yourself from predators. Water is a precious resource. You will be tested to see if you are deserving of it or not. Also these spirits will defend natural resources so they don’t get fucked up by human greed. 

It’s common for some places in Africa for people to offer the Sirens/Mami Wata/Water spirits or make an offerings/contracts with them in order to use the resources on their land. It also keeps the white ppl away too because they cause so much trouble.

Sirens are also associated with being the killers of children and men, but often this is completely misrepresented intentionally.

Men fear the power of the siren because she can override the patriarchy at core and can completely unravel them. The orgins of many water spirits lie in matriachal societies, temples divine feminine and motherhood. This is why temples and sacred magikal knowledge was intentionally destroyed and stolen, especially to empower the white patriarch.

Sirens are also described as thiefs of children and child killers. Sirens have been known to kidnap kids who were being abused or have were murdered near water and take them to their kingdom to restore them.

Sometimes the child returns, sometimes they are not. However in general they are big on kidnapping people, mostly women and giving them powers, if they decide to return. The idea of them eating and killing children, was a lie perpetuated by Greeks to cover up some truly horrific acts. Unfortunate these false accusations have been allowed to continue to perpetuate.

If a siren is acting in a predatory way, there is a reason why as their energy as been disturbed. Sirens are natural guardians. 

So the real question is … what did you do ? Did you destroy their habitat ? Abuse a child or a person ? Commit an egregious act against a woman ie rape/murder etc ? Disrespect a sacred place, the land, the seas or rivers ? Steal precious resources that weren’t yours to take ?

These sacred traditions are more than just deities, spirits and our ancestors. All forms of ATR are access to our spiritual mind state as an entire community. When you move in Vodou, you can sense the whole of black consciousness and all of our problem spots, specifically  areas that need healing. 

Oxum-Oshun, Olokun, Yemaya, the Mami Wata, La Baliene, La Siren, Met Agwe, The Simbi - these are all spirits with a connection to waters. Water is life and has always been inherently associated feminine energy. I’m not going into detail about all these cross connections but let’s chat about La Sirene, specifically.

La Sirene, Queen of all Mermaids is more than just a powerful sorceress and queen of song/music and dreams, she is also a keeper of secrets an a guardian of sacred memories & knowledge.

Many of the souls of slaves, from the Transatlantic slave trade that were thrown off the boats into the ocean are her children, citizens and warriors now. She comforts them eternally & they live in paradise. That doesn’t mean all of these souls are at rest, plenty continuously ask their mother if they will be avenged, especially the young children. She also has a close connection with the Indigenous Taino. The isle of Hispaniola also known as Haiti (Ayiti) & the Dominican Republic is her most known domain. 

Let’s not act like slavery and colonization was a cake walk. Rape was common place and mermaids, water spirits offered African and Indigenous women protection and power over men. They became demonized overtime for their hypnotic powers and killing men, who often overstepped their boundaries. Women could leave offerings to these spirits, work or commune with them and be quickly avenged or gain great power and wealth. All of this was threatening to the white patriarchal standard.

La Sirene’s presence in Haiti and other merfolk tales that float around the Caribbean/West Indies, is not without purpose. She has ties to many people and many different cultures. Her sacred symbols are global. This is why I speculate she is much older than people think. La Sirene, is a fairly young evolution. She clearly has ties to much older things. Her older names might have been lost but she has evolved, to save her self and also document other forgotten elements of history in the process. There are those who speculate that La Sirene is the embodiment of a cross mixed culture, the evolution of Indigenous & African water spirits combined, due to the excess trauma of colonization and so the Mermaid Queen was born. Others will argue that she is the Orisha Yemaya but a newer avatar of her.  I hate to argue semantics but I will say this, she exists and her presence is felt to this day, all around the world. 

La Sirene is often depicted as a mulatto woman with eyes like the sea but if you have been blessed to see her in dream state, she does appear sometimes as a brown or dark skinned skinned woman of possibly mixed Indigenous/African ancestry with glowing hypnotic eyes.  Alot of her older depictions, deal with colorism and slavery, but as things have grown in the modern world this imagery has begun to change. However mermaids, are known for their shapeshifting powers - to truly behold her true form, is a gift reserved for the rare few. 

As a keeper of the mysteries, La Sirene also access to many forgotten things in the black subconscious. The element of water is an intensely psychic sign.  Water is her domain, and what is the human body 80% of? WATER! The truth does not hide from her hypnotic eyes. This sacred connection to water and her essence, also means you can  track forgotten elements black history and connect to other deities/cultures who’ve had contact with her & her whole court or other black water spirits as a whole. So let’s take a short historical trip down memory lane.

The Greeks & Black women. Sirens, Aphrodite, Sibyls and other Children of Water 🧜🏾‍♀️

The deity Aphrodite/Venus is of Grecian and Roman legend.  

A little known magikal fact is that Aphrodite/Venus is half siren. She is a child of the water, she was literally birthed this way after Uranus got his balls cut off & thrown into the sea. Much of her Venusian influence and powers of love and beauty come from this element. Now my Mambo doesn’t like mentioning it but Aphrodite, is tolerated by the oceanic court of sirens/mermaids. Any child of water, falls under the domain of the queen. La Sirene has a sort of strange fondness for her and so does Aphrodite for her. However this doesn’t mean they are best friends.  It’s tentative friendship at best and comes with some perks. Aphrodite works quickly for children of water sirens and often will send mermaids to her devotees who misbehave. She has deliberately placed me around her people have pissed her off, to cause mischief. She’s quite petty but also  very generous. I won’t go as far to dare and say she is in the queen’s court, but she does curry favor with the queen. Being born of water, her half siren/mermaid influence has definitely attributed to legends of her beauty in myth but also her treachery with men 🧜🏾‍♀️😂. She clearly also has some sort of homesickness for the world underneath the water, because many of her offerings are gifts of pearls, kisses, sea shells, beauty products etc. Anyone who serves the Mermaid Queen knows the meaning behind those gifts. If you’re a black gyal with water or siren energy and decide to work with Aphrodite, do it!  If you ever irritate her, the least she’ll do is give you pimples and fuck up your skin, she won’t have the full power to completely fuck up your love life like she does with the white girls.  And let me tell you, she has completely ruined some white girls lives by giving them terrible lovers or men.  

The trident 🔱 is known for its connection in Greek and Hindu cultures.  However La Sirene or other African water spirits are depicted carrying it, which is largely ignored in the occult world.

You can track the trident in Hinduism, with the serpent spirits, the nagas or Lord Shiva but let’s focus on it’s Grecian connection. The usage of the trident and Poseidon, even in mainstream society today is associated with him.  This lets us know there is a connection between the mermaids, merfolk and La Sirene/African water spirits. Poseidon’s trident was rumored to made in Athens by the Cyclops - this is the city of Athena. So now we can track an element of black history all the way to Poseidon & Athena. Keep that in your thoughts we’ll come back to that later.

Tridents were also used ceremonially in Africa & India as well, as scepters, tribal weapons and religious symbols.

They were also associated with the sea faring people and fishing. It’s highly likely the origins of the trident are cross mixed between these two societies. Indo-African relations, go back to the Bronze age and the Indus Valley civilization. Which means traveling over by sea to reach each other was necessary. There is historical evidence of African millet being found in a Indian city Chanhudaro, including a cemetary or burial ground for African women.  Maritime relations between these two groups existed before Grecian & the Egyptian Ptolemaic dynasties.

Now of course there are some deranged historians that will try to whitewash history and say the trident has its origins from the labyrs but the Ancient Greeks & Africans/Indians interacted regularly. The trident also looks nothing like a labyrs, which is quite literally a double sided axe.  This is one of the more painful obvious pieces of white washing and historical revisionism. 

Regardless, the trident is associated with water, ceremonial/religious purposes, fishing, battling in the coliseum and the symbol of power for a few African,  Black diasporian an Hindu deities.

🧜🏾‍♀️ Oracles & Sibyls

Some sibyls/oracles were known to be African prophetesses/Mamissi to the Mami Wata/Sirens in Africa, some were stolen or captured by Greeks or Romans, sold into slavery and made to be oracles, some of whom became quite famous in legend. Their connection to these water spirits, is what gave them their gift of prophecy. Not every sibyl or oracle was African but SOME were.  This lead to the sharing and theft of sacred knowledge. It’s likely these women shared this sacred information, with their colleagues, some whom may or may not have been enslaved or kept in these temple and likely this information was traded, for their freedom, power or money etc. This gave way to the usage of sacred spirits and magick being used by men. A great example of this is the snake spirits of the genii, genius spirits (not to be mistaken with genies) and which then evolved into a diluted lesser energy in Greek society being known as daemons (not to be confused with goetic demons) Instead of a woman commanding these specific energies/spirits, the patriarchs decided that these specifics powers were only worthy of being used by men. These spirits were whitewashed, adopted into their religious practices and said to only be given to men at birth. No woman was allowed to possess them anymore.

🧜🏾‍♀️ The whitewashing of Medusa & Lamia. 

In mainstream society these two women stories have been white washed but also to hide a very shameful history and narrative. These two were beautiful women, in older stories of black black mythology were known to be black and they were children of water & daughters of the powerful water spirit/snake/siren divine mother/feminine goddess. 

Medusa was raped by the GREECIAN GOD OF THE SEA, POSEIDON  and Athena covered it up, refused to avenge her and punished her by making her ugly to everyone. It’s speculated in several magikal circles that the snakes in her hair were actually dreads, due to their lack of understanding of black hair and also allegorically might have been a reference to her devotion to the fish or water snake, great mother goddess. A child of the divine feminine, mother goddess was assaulted in a temple by a man and a woman covered it up & celebrated it.

Let’s start there … cuz this story says a lot! It’s one of the first historical cases  in myth that really documents the issues that surround the black feminine specifically and it was intentionally whitewashed. Then to add insult to injury, Athena made her hideous to all men and her chopped off her head and used as a symbol of protection but also a subtle sign of disrespect to the fullest. This still goes on to this day.

In fact ALGOL, the demon star, which is considered to be strongest protective magick talisman in the occult world today is the HEAD OF MEDUSA. The child of water! BITCH! This energy is invoked constantly and the spirit of medusa is never allowed to rest.

However these egregious acts did not come without a price. Athena at time was a goddess of fertility. However desecrating a child of water or the sirens, is seen as an attack by the divine feminine and can will cause people to be afflicted with fertility and other mental health issues as well. This is speculative but it’s also likely that after this they were constantly visited by droughts, floods or repeating issues with water sanitation & purity after this. Lowered fertility rates and miscarriages might be more prominent, for Athenians and Athena devotees & likely continues to this day.

Devotees of Athena may also develop severe issues when it to their mental health because of this connection. They completely lose touch with their feminine energy and become extremely misogynistic after continued work with her.

Not only did Athena, cause Medusa to be seen as hideous throughout the land but she celebrated when she was murdered and proudly wore Medusa’s decapitated head on her shield. From the feminist eye this virgin deity/woman was extremely male identified and adhered to the patriarchal standard. She was tested by the divine feminine and failed.

Even more strange, Athena’s birth allegorically proclaims her essential character: her wisdom is drawn from the head of a male god; the bond of affection between father and daughter; her championship of heroes and male causes, born as she was from the male, and not from a mother’s womb. A dreaded goddess of war, she remained a virgin and a servant of the patriarchal society and remains so to this day. She is the misogynistic cool girl and very asexual at the core. In fact if you explore more of her mythos, it becomes very clear she hates women. I’m bewildered at how she has become associated with lesbians and the feminine at large, when it’s been very clear that she was intent on transcending her gender from the very beginning, but never managed to escape it.  

To top it off, I’ll leave you with this quote from Aeschylus’ Oresteia by Athena:

“There is no mother anywhere who gave me birth, and, but for marriage, I am always for the male with all my heart, and strongly on my father’s side. So, in a case where the wife has killed her husband, lord of the house, her death shall not mean most to me.”

Queen Lamia was a said to incredible beauty who seduced Zeus, (a literal man whore) which as made Hera jealous. Hera cursed Lamia with infertility and insomnia. She went insane and is said to have killed her own children and ate them. Zeus is said to be the one who gifted her prophecy and gave her the ability to take out her eyes, so she would not be irritated at the site of other happy mothers.

She became associated with a child eating monster who was half woman and half snake, which ties into the Libyan snake cults. She was associated with phantoms, the shapshifting laimai or empusai and the daemon spirits.

Medusa and Lamia were Libyan by heritage and came from a place in Africa where temples to the water snake mother goddess & divine feminine were common before they were destroyed by invaders intentionally. These women likely had extreme gifts of seduction, mind control and other abilities etc. It’s highly likely that Queen Lamia used her powers of seduction, at the behest of her people to save them from colonization and was demonized for it. Zeus’s temple was in Cyrene in Lybia, so this is far more than an allegorical story. This may be a real life story that was disguised in mythos. Unfortunately deeper research into this subject has turned up many dead ends for me. It’s highly likely Medusa was a priestess of the the matriarchal Mami Watas or water goddess/snake spirits and was likely raped intentionally in Athena’s temple, as a show loyalty to the rising patriarchy by descrating the symbolism of the great mother and the divine feminine. This was likely an attempt to lessen power and status of the matriachal societies that existed at the time. Rape was common war tactic amongst colonizers and news of such disgrace would likely spread like wildfire. This also solidified Athena’s place amongst the male gods and gaining her their respect. Athena and her devotees went a step further to show their allegiance to the patriarchy, by stripping Medusa of her beauty supposedly and exiling her, then parading her decapitated head on shields, when going into battle likely with Libyan enemies.

This is just a brief explanation of a few horrific acts in history, which were whitewashed & explain why the essence of the black feminine has evolved to become more protective, predatory and fierce. She learned to defend herself. Now she kills those who threaten her. 

Fun history tip: Usually anytime you see a snake in Grecian mythology, just know something got whitewashed, because the truth was really fucked up, made them look really bad & a black woman was there.

🧜🏾‍♀️ The black feminine is capable of more than you know.

Yes, mermaids/sirens/snakes & the mami watas can be scary at times but that’s what stepping into mysticism of deep waters is like. Water is capable of many things, it is one of the most powerful elements on earth. It can nourish you and kill you, and that’s the beauty of it really.

We should all be grateful the black feminine is so beautiful, fierce & scares the living daylights out of everyone.

You would be dead if it wasn’t.

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“Thou hast prepared feasts in front of me in the presence of my enemies. Thou anointed my head with oil & my cup runneth over. Assuredly goodness & mercy follow me ALL the days of my life, for I dwell in the house of YHWH forever.”

Excerpt from Psalms 23:5-6 used in ADOS Hoodoo Bibliomancy 📖

#sending blessings everyone's way and mine

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Idk what to do with this blog as of late. I've been busy af. How the hell are y'all ?

#mental health

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Grounding yourself is an important part of your spiritual practice that is often overlooked, when it comes to our spiritual hygiene. It’s so easy to do a reading, a couple of rituals, venerate ancestors or spirits and then casually disregard your own energy in the process. Grounding helps you recharge and prevents spiritual burnout along the way, because it regulates the nervous system. When working with a variety of different energies, it’s fairly easy to overwhelm and overload your senses, so we using grounding techniques, to disperse this energy that we have collected within peacefully.

a few helpful grounding techniques:

1.) Meditation - Using breath work, we can channel and release energy, through a variety of different methods. You can use a crystal, dispel energy simply using your breath or other methods if you are familiar with it.

2.) Earth Techniques - Using the earth to disperse and stabilize your energy is also a very common practice. You can do this using the ground beneath your bare feet or even plant allies that you are familiar with like trees, etc. Just be aware if you have a significant amount of energy that you need to expel, it can cause the plant to mature early. This is why it’s good to have a working relationship with your plant allies.

3.) Crystals - Certain crystals like clear quartz and black tourmaline are great for resetting your energy and dispersing it. This can be done through a variety of methods, like placing it under your pillow, holding it your hands etc. Please make sure you source your crystals from reputable shops.

4.) Spiritual Baths - In the Hoodoo, Ifa, Vodou and many other Afro-Indigenous Religions it’s fairly common to take a spiritual bath. Spiritual baths can have a variety of uses, including grounding. If you are familiar with your plant allies you can create a spiritual bath for yourself or purchase one from a trusted source. I myself make spiritual baths for my patrons but only those who are local to me at this time.

5.) Words of Power - Now this one is more for a more experienced practitioner but there are certain words in various traditions, that are used to ground and dispel energies. Usually these words are sacred to their select practices.

I hope this short guide was helpful to you in some way. If you enjoyed it, please feel free to share, like and spread these helpful tips within our community. I also offer tutoring packages to those in need, which can you can find by clicking on the title of my site: Lionheart Apothercary & Botanica

You can find me on Ig @lyonessahartx

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The Queen of Disco 🪩 Donna Summer

Vintage Black Glamour

#hoodoo #black femininity #aphrodite #the love witch #venus #haitianvodou #black glamour #leveling up #hypergamy #beauty spells

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EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE (2022)

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Anyone else feel the dread? Clap if you feel the dread

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Hey I loved the article of siren / mermaids 🧜🏼‍♀️ the only thing it's missing is siren mermaids spirits are definitely real but any folk lord tales has truth into it and some of us are ancestrally link to them in a way . I'm mixed but look white but siren are water spirits so they are wherever water is . Some of us have siren spirits as our shadow angels if you like to call it that with all negative there are positives . Myself I have my twins I call them that been with me all my life they

The major point of the post you are referring to was that Siren/Njuzu have an ancestral link & lineage for some of us. You’ve misunderstood that the point your trying to make, has already been made.

I do not discuss my spiritual court with strangers as a matter of preference, however I will say as a child of water, I exist as a ranking member of the society and sisterhood. The siren song reigns supreme.

Siren are not shadow angels. They are ancestral spirits which guide you. Angels are a completely different pantheon of spirits. All siren have a petro side as well as rada. Which is somewhat similar to a shadow aspect, if you aren’t familiar with terms in Vodou. Also you having white ancestry is irrelevant. There are European siren/water spirit, such as Aphrodite, Melusine, Selkie and other spirits of water which are known. However, if governed by water, all answer to the Source & Queen - Water is fluid.

Take care to cultivate comprehensive focus in the future so you have less misunderstandings. Know that this explanation was also a rare kindness. Your Siren should be helping you to facilitate these things, due to the intuitive, psychic and empathic nature of water. Water is one of the most powerful elements on this earth and in the spiritual realm, it can absolutely purify or destroy you. I suggest you look into training for your highest good.

#hoodoo #black femininity #la sirene #mami wata #watramama #Ifa #njuzu #vodou #african traditional religions

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I need a black woman with a bald head to recreate this outfit.

WESLEY SNIPES as BLADE/THE DAYWALKER         BLADE (1998)

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#salman salzman #say no to Nazis #no to white supremacists

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What's you're name and where are you from?

#lol gtfo out my inbox

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The Allure of Lori Harvey

A Social Analysis of the Modern Black Feminine

Lyonessa Hart

For the summer of 2022, Ms. Harvey’s social life is trending, due to her sudden and abrupt ‘ amicable’. break up with Michael B. Jordan, who’s also known as baby Denzel and one of the most eligible black men in the world.

We can speculate that the relationship was fake, real, MBJ was played or trying to rehab is image or Lori just didnt want to settle down and we’ll likely never know the real reason but we can unpack the mysteries of Lori’s femininity, allure and figure out why she is so polarizing, equally admired by black woman & despised by some black men socially. But first ? We need a little background of course!

Lori Harvey is the quintessential black American princess + socialite of the mainstream urban & hood collective. The adoptive stepdaughter of Steve and Majorie ‘Lady Heroin’ Harvey born into one generation of black wealth. Her biological father was a famed drug kingpin from Memphis who managed to snag her mother. Majorie was also a legend in her own right on the streets, known for her beauty, an lavicious and lavish tastes, she courted and married famed drug kings and pimps, in the underworld. Majorie was described as beautiful, intense, ruthless and hypergamous. There was no doubt in Majorie’s mind that she would make it to the top and she didn’t care how she got there. Majorie narrowly avoided going to prison, after being investigated by the FBI and moved on to higher pastures setting her sites on and marrying comedic legend Steve Harvey.

Steve & Majorie Harvey

The glamour of a famous stepfather and dangerous mystique of her mother past has rubbed off on Lori, as it appears she intends to follow in her mother’s footsteps by doing the same, marry well.

This lends Lori an incredible amount of curiosity and admiration from the black feminine collective. Her personal style, diet and dating choices are all up for social inspection and which she seems to enjoys and utilize to her benefit. Socially in the black collective, it’s not looked upon favorably for black women to openly date hypergamously or in her own self interest. The black woman is expected to be completely self sacrificing to the detriment of herself, other women, black men and the mental and social health of the community anworld at large. Historically the black body has been seen as hypersexual culturally and unfortunately black women aren’t free from this archaic assumption today. This hyper sexuality when paired with two hundred plus years of systemic racism & psychological terrorism has created a confusing and hostile climate the social and mental health of anything feminine in the black community. Black women are consistently expected to have lower standards in terms of a partners whether it be mentally, spiritually, physically or financially and constantly defeminized or robbed of their individual respect, sense of person and womanhood. These toxic ideologies, have seeped into the blacks social structure and in the mainstream social collective, terrorizing and harming the social health of both black men and women, which has been passed down from generation to generation.

Laurie represents a new breed of Black American women who have grown tired of a horrible status quo, hope for better & who might see fractions themselves in her. She may not know it but Lori actively carries hope of shattering toxic glass ceiling and creating a better example for black female collective and maybe even the mainstream world.

Lori is bold and actively hypergamous, dating some of the wealthiest black men in the community and making a clean break when things don’t work out. For a black woman this is considered to be highly unusual and makes her intensely polarizing and hated by certain groups of black men, women and the community who aren’t used to change and are comfortably brainwashed by status quo.

Lori represents social change and a sense of modern evolution within the mainstream black feminine collective. Change is not easy and this new development is extremely scary to many, for a variety of reasons. For some groups of men, this means having to put in more effort when finding a sexual partner or mate and losing certain benefits they felt previously entitled too, for outsiders this can also mean possibly losing access or the interest wealthy or high status black men financially or sexually that they also feel entitled to, it could even threaten centuries old racist structures which are were intentionally created to keep the community unstable and foster hostility via gender wars. This makes the dating scene within the community obviously toxic. Black women aren’t really given the structure on how to go about dating properly or seek out quality mates, which in turn creates a horribly cycle of toxicity. For some black women this has led to hyper paralyzed state of toxic independence, which has been harmful to both black men and women, something that can be further researched by taking the time to read the Willie Lynch letters. It’s important for black women to break this cycle which has been enforced since the beginning the Trans-Atlantic Slave trade, because it will actively promote better social health for both black men and women.

Lori also fits a certain beauty standard, which can be argued to fit Urban or Eurocentric ideals. She’s moderately brown skin, gently relaxes her hair making it wavy/straight, an has a slim nose and full lips. She’s relatively fit partaking in Pilates, a bit of precarious dieting and her shape varies between lightly petite and curvy. Her resources give her access to a variety high quality skin care, plastic surgery and beauty treatments. Despite this, her beauty looks natural and feels more easily accessible. She takes a considerable amount of care in her looks and it’s certainly strategic on her part because she’s hyper aware of the beauty privilege and the visual nature of men, which she works to her benefit. All of these things somewhat work in her favor, but also can lend way to her being ripped apart socially, because beautiful brown skinned black women aren’t often taken seriously or well respected within black collective, without extremely well credentialed educational background or status, and this may still never be enough. She walks a precarious tightrope of gender and colorism. There is no way of knowing for certain if her behavior would be considered less controversial and tolerated slightly better if she was even lighter of skin, like the semi-controversial musican and queen of hip-pop n rnb Doja Cat for example. Colorism can be is fickle and randomized symptom of systemic racism, which is aggravatingly hard to gage.

Lori’s beauty, background and dating style seems to resonate mainstream black feminine collective who desires to find a new way to counter the deliberate defeminization of the black woman socially. This brings her a degree of considerable allure and magnetism and makes her a interesting woman to watch in the future.

How will it all end ? Will Lori finally find the right man for her ? Only time will tell.

In the mean time, let’s keep our eyes peeled n stay tuned. If there is one thing we can count on it’s for Lori to keep tongues wagging, while putting on a great show!

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Right-wingers believe the most outrageous conspiracy theories about the government, but "the police, who have been openly racist throughout most of the country's history, are still racist now" is just too farfetched for them.

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I’m hearing reports about Roe Vs Wade being overturned ? Can someone confirm ?