Black female millennials are leaving Christianity for witchcraft

[Samira]

https://www.theatlantic.com/interna...nials-african-witchcraft-christianity/574393/

“We may not be Christian here, but we still pray,” said a woman dressed entirely in white as she addressed a large audience of African American women. Standing behind a lectern, speaking in the cadences of a preacher, she added, “I understand God more now, doing what I’m doing, than I ever did in the Church.”

The call and response that followed (“No one’s going to protect us but who?” “Us!”) was reminiscent of church—but this was no traditional sermon. The speaker, Iyawo Orisa Omitola, was giving the keynote address last month at the third annual Black Witch Convention, which brought together some 200 women in a Baltimore reception hall. The small but growing community points to the hundreds of young black women who are leaving Christianity in favor of their ancestors’ African spiritual traditions, and finding a sense of power in the process.

Over the past decade, white Millennials have embraced witchcraft in droves. Now a parallel phenomenon is emerging among black Millennials. While their exact numbers are difficult to gauge, it’s clear that African American pop culture has started to reflect the trend. In the music industry alone, there’s Beyoncé’s allusion to an African goddess in Lemonade and at the Grammys; Azealia Banks’s declaration that she practices brujería (a Spanish term for witchcraft); and Princess Nokia’s hit “Brujas,” in which she tells white witches, “Everything you got, you got from us.”

 

[Samira]

The future is looking grim and black and beautiful. Should this trend continue, you will start to see Iblis' very real blessings shower upon the black community. Somali women will join them too. A coven mixture of menstrual blood under the light of a waning gibbous, transmits the power to separate men from their second wives.

 

[Noble-Cushite]

Damn Wallahi your telling me Xalimoo's in the future will be practicing their old religon Waaq and Eeb not bad

 

[munira]

Damn Wallahi your telling me Xalimoo's in the future will be practicing their old religon Waaq and Eeb not bad

You know how I support you but you can’t be promoting people to leave Islam.

 

[Noble-Cushite]

You know how I support you but you can’t be promoting people to leave Islam.

I was joking sxhb

 

[Genesisx72]

The future is looking grim and black and beautiful. Should this trend continue, you will start to see Iblis' very real blessings shower upon the black community. Somali women will join them too. A coven mixture of menstrual blood under the light of a waning gibbous, transmits the power to separate men from their second wives.

Am I reading this right?

 

[munira]

I was joking sxhb

That’s good but there’s many gallos on here you know.

 

[Noble-Cushite]

You know how I support you but you can’t be promoting people to leave Islam.

It's just Xalimoos some times can be dumb as a rock and follow whats ever popping, wallahi they be getting Phd and shit and still can't think for themselves

 

[munira]

It's just Xalimoos some times can be dumb as a rock and follow whats ever popping, wallahi they be getting Phd and shit and still can't think for themselves

I know what you mean, it’s mad. The most you can do though is question their beliefs.

And it isn’t only girls, somal guys are like that as well.

 

[munira]

Am I reading this right?

She’s mentally unhinged lol.

 

[Noble-Cushite]

I know what you mean, it’s mad. The most you can do though is question their beliefs.

And it isn’t only girls, somal guys are like that as well.

True I shouldn't discriminate to all you Somalis don't follow the heard just because it seems right.

.......So come join the Alt-Right Somali Nationalist movement

 

[Genesisx72]

She’s mentally unhinged lol.

This forum is.....diverse? lol, that's the only word that comes to mind.

 

[munira]

This forum is.....diverse? lol, that's the only word that comes to mind.

There’s only a few like her though, so dw

 

[South Cushitic]

What a shame

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