#People of African Ancestry

[gwydionmisha]

#Racism #People of African Ancestry #Genetic Studies

[ghost-37]

#chad #chadain women #📸:@ingervandyke #blackisbeautiful #blackwomen #blackbeauty #africanbeauty #africanwomen #africancultures #african ancestry #african diaspora #africa #africamatters #afrocentrism #fulani #fulani people #peulh #fulanigirl #wodaabe #mbororo #tchadien #africanculture #africanheritage #cultural heritage #cultural practices #pan africanism #blackpride #blackpower #blacktumblr

[leroibobo]

oh if you ever are curious about non-maghrebi/egyptian african synagogues i highly recommend this website. they're unfortunately not as recorded in pictures as the other sorts of synagogues i post, but there is comprehensive information on them.

#jewish #info #my posts #also how interesting that there's such a marked difference between the ones for the 'black' and 'white' jews #like zimbabwe and south africa have synagogues for european jews that came but not one for the extant lemba jewish community #afaik they just didnt have them (and just prayed at peoples homes) but i could be wrong #(man the bullshit lemba jews have to go thru re: their 'legitimacy' reminds me of treatment of native americans w black ancestry in the us) #but ya synagogues in the maghreb and egypt are pretty well-documented so i dont include them #unfortunately info online on african synagogues everywhere that isnt those places is scarce

[annachum]

We've gotten to a point where Asterix, Prince of Egypt, Jodha Akbar, Empress of China series and several other great historical fiction franchises are more ' historically accurate ' than Cleopatra Netflix Docuseries

How sad.

My deep condolences to Egyptians and Greeks all over by the way.

I hope you all are okay.

#fuck that cleo netflix madness #like srsly that series DESTROYS cleopatra's legacy #they could have chosen ANY OTHER African queen #like hatsheput njanga and/or amanirenas #BUT NO #they chose to destroy the legacy of a powerful egyptiote ruler of egypt #ugh #fyi egyptiotes are greek people or people with greek heritage/ancestry in egypt #which is what cleopatra vii is #my deep condolences to egyptians and greeks #i feel your rage

[panafrocore]

Tanetjerian Race: Proposing A New Racial Name For The People Of Melanated & African Descent

As we all know, race is a social construct based on the observable reality and genetic variety among homo sapiens. Whether we like it or not, the concept of race to us humans will likely never fade away for a very long time. This brings me to the discussion for today. As of late I have noticed an increasing amount of discussions among those of African descent. This discussion revolves around the…

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#African ancestry #Africans #Black people #Melanated #New word #Race #racialized classification #social-political construct #Tanetjerians

[the-best-bagel]

i think most of the white ppl feeling like they have no culture stuff stems from a lack of connection to their communites. if you go nowhere and talk to no one then yea youre not really participating in the culture of your area. eat produce grown by ppl in your area go to county fairs check out the annual things in your area, thats your culture. like to give an overly simple answer if you live in america then americana is pretty likely to be part of your culture

#put some blue jeans an cowboy boots on if you need a cultural garment #or logger boots/ work boots if those are more historically or familially relevant to you #honestly if you just talk to your living relatives enough you can learn about possible fibercraft your great-whatevers did #i learned recently that a lot of my family lived in tenessee for a few centuries #but my dad is a carpenter and i live in the pnw #my town had some historic logging activity #and is known for its raspberry production #currently we have a lot of local dairy and beef #the grocery store sells cheese and milk from the next town over #this is part of my culture #i do think Americans' affinity for moving across the country from where they were born makes the cultural alienation worse too #but you just gotta learn the cultual details of wherever you end up putting down roots #at the same time #i don't think its very harmful to learn more about older traditions your european relatives had as long as youre not being fascy about it #ppl say its diff with black people learning about african cultures because of the violent supression of slaves' cultures #but like you still get fascy hoteps and shit #and historically there was (much less violent) suppression of non brit protestant european cultures in the US #so like #none of us got to choose how much culture got passed onto us from our relatives #obviously dont start spouting ethno-nationalist bullshit and speaking with an accent based on your ancestry results #but i think its ok for people to adopt practical cultural elements into their daily lives #like cooking cultural foods or learning about the history of that culture #its not like americana hasnt ever been used for fascist ends

[hayleysayshay]

I think the problem I have with Bridgerton and this Queen Charlotte show I s that why on Earth do we need to pretend that of all Kings, George III was ‘woke’

#famously progressive king George iii #it’s not like he steadfastly opposed catholic emanicpation for decades #what does he just hate catholics but comes round on slavery and black people? #I’m creasing what is this show #they took the idea that Charlotte may have African ancestry hundreds of years ago and ran with it huh

[rabbits-of-negative-euphoria]

might make a Black Panther MCU prequel set hundreds of years in Wakanda’s past but retcon certain prominent Wakandan figures as caucasian without explanation, and then also not explain what happened to all the caucasian Wakandans between my movie and the events of Black Panther

#- HK #like I can freely acknowledge that Wakanda is an African mythology and therefore Wakandans should be of African ancestry #(a mythology that a modern person made up using African history and motifs) #why is it so offensive to say the same of Lord of the Rings and England #I can’t tell if people genuinely don’t know that LOTR is an English mythology (not a pure fantasy) or if they just don’t care #mobile #x #Tolkien #Marvel #if it seems like I’m talking about this a lot it’s because nobody else wants to #and the people who do don’t know how to present their case coherently

[thelastharbinger]

When Tenoch Huerta hugged and kissed a Latine reporter’s head after bringing them to welling emotions when he said:

“The only thing I want is the next time little boys and girls [in Latine countries] see themselves in the mirror, that they feel proud of that reflection. That they see that there was never anything wrong with them, but rather in the eyes of those who judged them.”

When Tenoch Huerta of Nahua and Purépecha Indigenous ancestry said this in a cast interview for Wakanda Forever:

“...We have in Latin America, two main roots: which is the Indigenous roots, of course, and African roots. The food, the customs, the music, even our way of life has a strong influence from African cultures. So for me it’s important to see it [in the movies]; I mean this character [Namor] comes from Meso-American inspiration, particularly Mayan and, of course, is an interpretation of those cultures. But at the same time, we can feel close [to it] because all the process to get us “mixed” is just a way to erase our Indigenous heritage and they taught us to feel ashamed of who we are. For 500 years!”

When long-time actor--since 2006--and advocate, Tenoch Huerta published a book (paperbacks set to release December 13 but digital copies available now!!!) titled Orgullo Prieto (Brown Pride) that is a reflection on racism and colorism in Mexico. He has also gifted his voice for the audibook narration of these books: La sombra de Miztlán [The Shadow of Miztlán]; Las Venas Abiertas de América Latina [The Open Veins of Latin America]; and Los Narcos Gringos [The Gringo Drug Traffickers] (Spanish Edition).

And when Tenoch reiterated:

“It’s not common in Mexico, in Latin America that a brown-skinned guy could be the main character and have a lead role in movies. And then I jumped to the U.S. and I did it here [with Wakanda Forever] and it’s powerful and deep, and I hope the kids in their homes can feel identified. And I’d just say to them never, never in the life was nothing wrong with you, it was in the eyes of the people who was looking at you. But not [as in nothing being wrong] in you, not in your skin, not in your roots, not in your blood, not in your history. So please, babies, feel proud.”

He is also a mental health advocate and champion for the sciences. He has said all the YouTube channels he follows are science, historian or philosophy-related. If this man didn’t already have me in a choke-hold I swear to fucking god-

#tenoch huerta #namor #namor the sub mariner #black panther wakanda forever #black panther #wakanda forever #bpwf #marvel #mcu #namor x shuri #mcu namor #sir scoop me up now please! #señor por favor te pido #a man with brains and nice titties? woe is me

[fatehbaz]

In fact, far more Asian workers moved to the Americas in the 19th century to make sugar than to build the transcontinental railroad [...]. [T]housands of Chinese migrants were recruited to work [...] on Louisiana’s sugar plantations after the Civil War. [...] Recruited and reviled as "coolies," their presence in sugar production helped justify racial exclusion after the abolition of slavery.

In places where sugar cane is grown, such as Mauritius, Fiji, Hawaii, Guyana, Trinidad and Suriname, there is usually a sizable population of Asians who can trace their ancestry to India, China, Japan, Korea, the Philippines, Indonesia and elsewhere. They are descendants of sugar plantation workers, whose migration and labor embodied the limitations and contradictions of chattel slavery’s slow death in the 19th century. [...]

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Mass consumption of sugar in industrializing Europe and North America rested on mass production of sugar by enslaved Africans in the colonies. The whip, the market, and the law institutionalized slavery across the Americas, including in the U.S. When the Haitian Revolution erupted in 1791 and Napoleon Bonaparte’s mission to reclaim Saint-Domingue, France’s most prized colony, failed, slaveholding regimes around the world grew alarmed. In response to a series of slave rebellions in its own sugar colonies, especially in Jamaica, the British Empire formally abolished slavery in the 1830s. British emancipation included a payment of £20 million to slave owners, an immense sum of money that British taxpayers made loan payments on until 2015.

Importing indentured labor from Asia emerged as a potential way to maintain the British Empire’s sugar plantation system.

In 1838 John Gladstone, father of future prime minister William E. Gladstone, arranged for the shipment of 396 South Asian workers, bound to five years of indentured labor, to his sugar estates in British Guiana. The experiment with “Gladstone coolies,” as those workers came to be known, inaugurated [...] “a new system of [...] [indentured servitude],” which would endure for nearly a century. [...]

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Bonaparte [...] agreed to sell France's claims [...] to the U.S. [...] in 1803, in [...] the Louisiana Purchase. Plantation owners who escaped Saint-Domingue [Haiti] with their enslaved workers helped establish a booming sugar industry in southern Louisiana. On huge plantations surrounding New Orleans, home of the largest slave market in the antebellum South, sugar production took off in the first half of the 19th century. By 1853, Louisiana was producing nearly 25% of all exportable sugar in the world. [...] On the eve of the Civil War, Louisiana’s sugar industry was valued at US$200 million. More than half of that figure represented the valuation of the ownership of human beings – Black people who did the backbreaking labor [...]. By the war’s end, approximately $193 million of the sugar industry’s prewar value had vanished.

Desperate to regain power and authority after the war, Louisiana’s wealthiest planters studied and learned from their Caribbean counterparts. They, too, looked to Asian workers for their salvation, fantasizing that so-called “coolies” [...].

Thousands of Chinese workers landed in Louisiana between 1866 and 1870, recruited from the Caribbean, China and California. Bound to multiyear contracts, they symbolized Louisiana planters’ racial hope [...].

To great fanfare, Louisiana’s wealthiest planters spent thousands of dollars to recruit gangs of Chinese workers. When 140 Chinese laborers arrived on Millaudon plantation near New Orleans on July 4, 1870, at a cost of about $10,000 in recruitment fees, the New Orleans Times reported that they were “young, athletic, intelligent, sober and cleanly” and superior to “the vast majority of our African population.” [...] But [...] [w]hen they heard that other workers earned more, they demanded the same. When planters refused, they ran away. The Chinese recruits, the Planters’ Banner observed in 1871, were “fond of changing about, run away worse than [Black people], and … leave as soon as anybody offers them higher wages.”

When Congress debated excluding the Chinese from the United States in 1882, Rep. Horace F. Page of California argued that the United States could not allow the entry of “millions of cooly slaves and serfs.” That racial reasoning would justify a long series of anti-Asian laws and policies on immigration and naturalization for nearly a century.

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All text above by: Moon-Ho Jung. "Making sugar, making 'coolies': Chinese laborers toiled alongside Black workers on 19th-century Louisiana plantations". The Conversation. 13 January 2022. [All bold emphasis and some paragraph breaks/contractions added by me.]

#abolition #caribbean #imperial #colonial #ecology #plantation #multispecies #landscape #indigenous

[matan4il]

Have you noticed how almost everything that the anti-Israel crowd accuses people who simply recognize Israel's right to exist of, is (in additional to usually being false) stuff they're guilty of themselves?

"You support ethnic cleansing!"

What do you think it means, when you chant the English translation of "From water to water, Palestine will be Arab"?

"You support an ethno-state!"

Do you call for the destruction of every single nation state, such as Germany, Japan, France, and so on? No? Then so do you. Have you called for the establishment of a Palestinian state? Then, so do you. Between Hamas ruling Gaza and being genocidal when it comes to Jews, and Mahmoud Abbas (president of the Palestinian Authority) stating no Israelis will be allowed in the State of Palestine (and by "Israelis" we all know he doesn't mean the Arab citizens of Israel, he's talking about Jews) that's going to be an ethno-state, too. Oh, you meant a "pure" ethno-state. Those don't exist in today's reality, and Israel, with 27% of its citizens being non-Jews, is no exception.

"Oct 7 didn't happen in a vacuum, you're ignoring the context of the past 75 years!"

You are ignoring big chunks of anti-Jewish violence during these 75 years, you're ignoring the expulsion of almost 900,000 Jews from Arab and Muslim countries, you're ignoring the anti-Jewish violence and persecution that preceded the establishment of the Land of Israel, and you're ignoring all 3,500 years (at least) of Jewish existence in and connection to our ancestral homeland, Israel.

"You support collective punishment!"

The same way you do, when you chant, "When people are occupied, resistance is justified"? Because that's what it means, that for the sin of Israel supposedly being a colonial state (a false claim, since Jews are native to Israel), you're justifying raping 13 year old girls, shooting them in the head, murdering Holocaust survivors, burning babies alive... what's that if not supporting collective punishment? (that's before we get into the fact that Israel not surrendering in a war started by Hamas is NOT collective punishment, or else we would have to define the allies not surrendering to the Nazis in WWII as collective punishment of the Germans)

"You suppor apartheid!"

All Israeli citizens have the same civil rights. Apartheid in South Africa was a system where citizens of the country had their rights limited based on skin color/ancestry. The issue in South Africa wasn't that racism existed (IDK a single country where racism doesn't), it's that it was codified into law, and used against the rights of that country's own citizens. Israeli Jews and Israeli Arabs have the same rights. Non-Israeli Palestinians not having the same rights as Israelis, including as Israeli Arabs, is the same as French Canadians not having the same rights in the US as French Americans. It is NOT proof the US is applying a system of apartheid unto French people. And if it were, then I have news for you, every country applies different rights to citizens vs not citizens, so every country would be an apartheid state by this criterion. Which would make the word meaningless, and it would diminish the suffering of non-whites under South Africa's apartheid (as some young black South Africans who have actually been to Israel now point out). Meanwhile, I'll point back up to where Mahmoud Abbas said no Israelis (i.e Jews) will be allowed in Palestine, and that under the Palestinian Authority, a Palestinian can be jailed or executed for selling land to Jews, which means the PA demolishes the right to property (of Jews to own it, and of the PA's Palestinian citizens to sell it as they see fit) based solely on the ancestry of the buyer... And you support the PA, right?

"You deny the Nakba!"

I had never encountered any Israeli denying that roughly 850,000 Arabs fled Israel due to the War of Independence. Pointing out that the Arabs are the ones who started that war isn't the same as denying it happened. Meanwhile, the people who make this accusation, largely deny the expulsion of the Jews from Arab and Muslim countries, deny the suffering, discrimination, expulsions and massacres Jews had endured for centuries under Arab and Muslim regimes, and deny the atrocities of Oct 7.

"You support colonialism!"

Say the people who deny the native rights of the Jews, who act as if these rights are limited by time (as if such a limitation benefits anyone other than actual colonizers), who ignore the fact that Palestinians wouldn't exist here without Arab colonialism, or who wish to confer a native status unto them by virtue of... being settler colonialists for a "long time" (to be clear, the way the UN's definition of a Palestinian refugee works, it only requires a person to have been an Arab* settler colonialist in Israel during the 2 years prior to the founding of the Israeli state, to be recognized as a Palestinian. To become a US citizen, in addition to other requirements, you have to live in the US for at least 5 years, 3 if married to an American citizen. That means in June of 1946, it was easier to become a Palestinian "native" in the eyes of the UN, than an American citizen). Don't get me wrong, Palestinians have a right to live in the place where they were born. I can both recognize that they're here due to Arab colonialism, AND be okay with them living here. Just like I can recognize that no Americans today deserve to be displaced, even though the majority of them are there thanks to colonialism. And I don't have to pretend like Americans of European descent have suddenly become native (something that if I did, would probably hurt actual Native Americans), in order to recognize their right to live where they were born. It's just ironic that if we took the logic of the anti-Israel crowd when it comes to native Jews, and applied it to all native peoples, this would harm the natives, erase their rights, recognize their colonizers as natives, and generally help colonialism.

There's probably more, but I think this is demonstrative enough.

* Technically, the UN didn't specify ancestry. As an idea, you could be Arab, Jewish, a Polish Catholic priest living in a convent in the Land of Israel from Jun '46 to May '48, and you'd be recognized as a Palestinian by the UN, but in reality this definition ended up favoring all non-Jewish colonizers of the land. In 1952, Israel said, "It's okay, we'll take care of the Jewish refugees displaced by the War of Independence. No need for the UN to do so. This is what we set up a Jewish state for." This is in addition to Israel taking care of the Jewish refugees from Arab and Muslim countries, and Jewish Holocaust survivors. And for Israel's show of responsibility, the now-Israeli Jewish refugees have been punished. They don't get recognized as existing, as having been displaced by, and having suffered due to the war the Arabs started in the Land of Israel against its Jewish communities. "Palestinian" refers to non-Jews only from the second The British Mandate in Palestine's Jews became Israeli Jews, but that doesn't stop the anti-Israel crowd from falsely claiming there are Palestinian Jews today... even though since May of 1948, there aren't, and before that, those Palestinian Jews were British subjects, not the citizens of an Arab independent state called Palestine (something that has never historically existed). Thanks to the exclusion in practice of Jews from the definition of Palestinian refugee, the UN agency for taking care of Palestinian refugees, UNRWA became a tool of spreading anti-Jewish hate.

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#israel #antisemitism #israeli #israel news #israel under attack #israel under fire #israelunderattack #terrorism #anti terrorism #hamas #antisemitic #antisemites #jews #jew #judaism #jumblr #frumblr #jewish #resources

[noandpickles]

Can we talk about Across the Spider-Verse as a metaphor for immigration policing?

First, we have the watches. A pass that lets you cross borders that were previously immutable. They (and the little electrostatic wristbands) also prevent you from being constantly penalized (i.e., glitching) for being in the wrong dimension. But access is heavily controlled by a central authority that's obsessed with making sure that, with few exceptions, everyone stays where they started. (Hobie instantly challenges this structure from pretty much the moment he appears on screen. Want a watch? Make your own. Fuck these assholes who try to control free movement.)

Then, we have the Go Home Machine. A device (or creature??) that reads your DNA to figure out where to send you. That description instantly set me on edge. It sounds like an ethnonationalist's dream. Everybody ends up where their genes are "from" (however you define that, whatever arbitrary point in history you choose to define people's "true origin"), regardless of where they want to be or where they actually live.

And then we have Miles. Miles, the New Yorker with Puerto Rican and African ancestry. Miles, born and raised on Earth-1610 but with traces of Earth-42 in his DNA. He had every reason to expect the Go Home Machine would send him home. But based on something in his genes that has nothing to do with where his home actually is, it sent him to a place he'd never been. And that's not a glitch in that kind of system. That's exactly what it's designed to do.

#across the spider verse #atsv #across the spider verse spoilers #miles morales

[snowviolettwhite]

I just need to rant about the antisemitism in leftist spaces and the erasure and re-writing of Jewish history and heredity from people who claimed to be for marginalized and oppressed people. Because I have no where to let it out. I feel betrayed by the leftists and libels, like I can no longer trust them or feel safe around them, they claimed to care about me and Jewish people but they lied and are out for violence.

You can be for a free Palestinian without antisemitism. Some people are being disgusting with their hatred for Jewish people and wanting the annihilation of the only Jewish state. You can be against corrupt governments but innocent people shouldn't suffer.

People are using what is happening as an excuse to be vocal about their antisemitism. What is more upsetting is the fact the people who consider themselves goodhearted and for the oppressed being disgusting to Jewish people and refusing to see them as human than the right wing conservatives. Because at least I know they are dangerous and they are not hiding behind fancy words and trying to erase and rewrite Jewish history and identity.

The only reason Jewish people are considered "white" is because for thousands and thousands of years the been forced to leave their homes, forced to convert, be raped or be murdered. Another reason is to erase the historical oppression which has been going on for over three thousand years.

Jewish people have not even been considered white for hundred years and depending on where you live in the world Jewish people are still not considered white. In their legal documents it was literally listed that they were Jewish, not Russian. My parents are not even old, they are only in their early 50s. My family is from Soviet Russia and immigrated to the USA in the 1990s. My parents were not considered white in Russia, they would sometimes experience hate crimes and bullying because of their Jewishness multiple times a day. One of the reasons my parents moved to the United States was because it was one of the safest places for Jewish people. After the collapse of the soviet union the violence and antisemitism was a lot worse.

Your blatant antisemitism in the free Palestinian movement is scaring Jewish people away from it and the from left. Fyi, after Black Americans, Jewish Americas are the largest group to vote democrat and be involve in activism according to statistics and history. People are not calling Black American people or Native American people white or mixed even though Christian Europeans did similar things to those groups as well.

Frankly, I personally feel conflicted when I have to check white in a box because it means European descent, my family has no European ancestry. It is most Middle Eastern, West Asian and North African.

Also, we can talk about how Christian Europeans stole the term Caucasian. The actually Caucasus region is in West Asia and Eastern Europe.

Also I want to state Judaism in a ethnoreligion. People who convert to a different religion can still experience antisemitism. People who have Jewish ancestry but raised as a different religion can still experience antisemitism. Non practicing Jewish people can still experience antisemitism. You can change religion but you can not can your ethic background and your family history.

More than one group of people can be indigenous to a certain place.

Jewish people can not talk about just being Jewish without antisemitic comments, recently saw someone claim an anti-Jewish protest was actually a pro-Palestinian protest despite the the leader of the event literal said it was an anti-Jew protest. A pro Palestinian group wanted to hold a protest at the Holocaust Museum and the antisemitism has been on the rise for years.

My grandparent are Holocaust survivors my grandpa was almost killed by a Nazi in his hometown twice, my grandma almost died from the same thing the killed Anne Frank, I had family that was buried alive.

It has not even been hundred years since the holocaust happened, so stop claiming their is such a thing as Jewish privilege. Jewish people are still being murdered and bombed and all these terrible things for being Jewish.

#jewish history #antisemitism #jewish #leftist antisemitism

[skippyv20]

Your site has indeed become racist; much more so than when I first became aware of it. You should not be posting pictures of that little girl with cheap shot comments aimed at her resemblance and Meghan’s or comparing Meghan’s appearance against that of the Nigerian girls she posed with. That is playing skin tone politics which is a no-no amongst Blacks because its a wedge that Whites have historically used to divide us and cause conflict. Nor should any of you be remarking about her makeup. Meghan is mixed; we follow different rules and yes most black people use grease or some sort of moisturizer in our hair because of its coarseness. Many of you are very ignorant. about African American and African culture. Any African American who has taken a dna test will tell you most of us are about 20-30% Nigerian if the dna tests are to believed and many are about 25% Caucasian.  We are not racist, I am not racist.  If you choose to believe all the crap she has out there, fine.  If we say anything we are racist!  What little girl of any race would want to be compared to her???? Mixed?  Yes, Maltese, Nigerian, Caucasian….who spent all her life before marrying into royal family as a Caucasian…only associating and marrying Caucasian men!  Most Canadians born in Canada have some indigenous in their ancestry…when a person plasters themselves with spray tan…that’s a little too much! Meghan herself said…“I see myself in you” when she looks at these young girls….please….how insulting to those precious girls!  It’s not acceptable to do “blackface”….but she does it…and when we call her out…we are labeled racists…..it has never been about her race….its always been about her actions…she spray tans herself….that is the action!  

[doberbutts]

Maybe it is because I, too, am part of a diaspora, actually I'm part of MULTIPLE diasporas because I am mixed race, but like.

My black genes are not indigenous here. But also it is not possible to tell you where they are indigenous to because records were not kept this way for slaves and there were multiple ethnicities and countries involved in the slave trade and most of the borders look nothing like what they would have back then, so the answer to where my black family is indigenous to is 🤷‍♂️ the entire continent of Africa possibly 🤷‍♂️

Like I don't even know when my particular family branch was taken, at what point in history. I don't know their names. My family history on that side ends 5 generations behind me, my grandfather's grandfather, who was born a slave. I know his name, when he was born, and when he died. Anything before that is lost to time.

Most black people with known ancestry in slavery are mixed with white. The white masters couldn't keep their hands off the women, we know this for a fact. Some of us look more white than others. Some of us look more black than others.

My nephew was born with blonde hair and blue eyes and white skin. My nephew came out of my sister who is about as dark as me. I'm lighter skinned than many, but darker than Obama and Beyonce.

Would you say that I no longer can call myself black because oppression and slavery has forced my family to be here for presumably centuries? If not me, with my visible black features, what about my nephew, who could pass as white as long as he's not with his mother?

Is he no longer allowed to call himself African American? Is he not allowed to have pride in his culture and history? Is he not allowed to point at a map of Africa and say "my people come from here"?

[overandundertarot]

Pick a card reading; Your psychic talents/ gifts and how you can develop them.

Keep in mind this is a general reading so if something doesn't resonate for you, feel free to leave it or pick another pile! Trust your intuition always.

Take a few deep breaths and chose from the pictures below.

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Pile 1

Cards; 4 of cups reversed, Ace of wands, 5 of swords,8 of cups reversed, 8 of swords reversed.

Your psychic gift/ talent is knowing. Clairaudience, clairsentience etc You have been blessed with so many opportunities and ways out if you desire them. If you need something, it shows up for you, if an opportunity is not for you, you are guided away accordingly. Its kinda like the world is especially looking out for you and your sense of intuition and manifestation is quite strong. You may have things go your way easier than some other people. The people in this pile are great manifesters and masters of their emotions as well. The type of people to make a wish and it happens. Some of you always experience great luck and advantageous coincidences. However, a message is coming through that you should remember not to take things for granted.

How to develop your gift;

Develop a clear channel to your intuition, so that you can receive messages easily. This is important so that you can make the correct decisions, since you are being guided constantly. Developing a strong sense of trust in yourself is important as well. Having psychic clarity or practices that can improve your clarity such as meditation will have a very positive impact on your life. For a specific few of you, there is a set way that your life is supposed to go, a kind of divine purpose that you have to fulfill, and your gifts are meant to align you on this path.

signs/confirmations; blue and cool toned colours, oceans, vines, reeds, fire.

Pile 2

Cards; 3 of pentacles, Wheel of Fortune, Queen of wands reversed, 3 of wands reversed.

Pile 2 you are quite connected with animals and nature, there's a way you can intuitively understand and work with the cycles of life around you. You may care quite alot about the environment and its enhabitants. You may also have a particular fascination with insects. Your psychic gift/talent is this connection. You are the type of person who easily gets signals and synchronicities through animals/ wilderness. Some of you have strong ties to your ancestry and could come from cultures that practice nature based religions with medicine men/ women. You are talented at divination too and could be adept at bone throwing or runes. Strong ties to your ancestors, they could send you psychic messages quite often and work with you to bring in manifestations and blessings. (this last part is only for a specific group of people.) People who chose this pile may have native american/african(particularly the interior/central african communities)/celtic ancestry.

How you can develop your talents/gifts;

Going out into nature and managing your emotions. You may be prone to depressive episodes? or bursts of irritation and anger and may also often get disillusioned with life and feel that it is cruel to you, or that you are unlucky. Learn to take it in stride, there are always ways to seek support from the universe and sometimes bad things just happen. Seek support from your communities(if you dont have one, try to cultivate one) and look to learn from them, you could greatly benefit from a mentor or a guide in your spiritual practice. Carry out research on your ancestry and their ways of life/spiritual practice.

signs/confirmations; small woodland(i know these arent all woodland creatures but im honestly not sure how to classify them😭) creatures eg squirrels, possums, badgers., insects, eagles, warm fiery colours and violet and orchid flowers., 333.

Pile 3

Cards; Queen of wands, 3 of swords, The tower, Page of pentacles reversed, The sun reversed.

Pile 3 you may be quite beautiful and sensual. You aren't afraid to embody your sexual energy and may have broken quite a few hearts. Your gift/ talent is towards healing and transformation. You have depth of character and may have gone through some traumatic experiences but you overcame them and transformed them into wisdom. There is a sort of femme fatale energy about you but interlaced with kindness. Because you present yourself this way people may have been eager to approach you but found themselves transformed instead. Beauty and brains, mysterious and magnetic appeal. You are also talented at witchcraft and could work your magic through glamours, charms, sex magic, lunar magic too. There is a duality here, sometimes you are femme fatale, tight dress and red lipstick, other times you are more nature, cottagecore aesthetic. You are unafraid to present yourself in whatever way you are feeling.

How to develop your gifts/talents;

You may get bored easily and feel that you always have to be working on something. Frequent change and following your intuitions and urges will help you develop your talents; if you feel interested in something you are being encouraged to do some research about it/try to pursue it. Working to see your life in new perspectives you can appreciate is also helpful for you. Don't be afraid to do things that shake you up or that may seem dramatic to other people.

signs/confirmations; sun, chickens, yellow, sunflowers, farms, south american countries .

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