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05-04-07, 07:28 PM
DtotheJ wrote:
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What do you think "roots" "hoodoo""juju" mean when you hear Southerners speak of it?
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lol.
I've heard of Southernsspeaking of "Islam" and "buddah" but does that mean that most Southerns are "muslim"????
What kind of question is that?
We're talking about the comment apedemak made claiming Voodoo was widely practiced in the South, which it is NOT. 100 people practicing voodoo out of 30+ million does NOT COUNT as something being "widely practiced"confused3
Everybody and their mother knows that African traditions lasted in Brazil (and even this is not the majority) because during slavery time in Brazil, Brazilian slaves were often freed upon their masters death. Or for example your homeland Haiti, because of the slave revolt that completely wipped out the French population in Haiti. However, what holds true in Haiti or Brazil does not necessarily hold true in the US. They are 3 seperate countries with 3 seperate histories.
I have roots all over the South. So I'm not speaking on something I saw on t.v. or read in some booklike you and Apedemak are surely doing.
In fact, right after hurricane Katrina me and another AA lady were talking about how terrible the storm was and out of nowhere I remember her making a comment "well this is nothing but God's work paying these people back. You know alot of those people in Louisana practice voodoo".confused3I wanted to tell her how ignorant she was, and that was just a sterotype sort of like Northerns would have of us and that all Southerns are dumb or stupid. Its the same thing really. But she was kind of an older lady so I didn't want to dispect her so I dropped the subject.
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