Black people have been dealing with this stuff for decades. Look up Night Doctors - not the same as the pizza people, but close enough. Black people are also generally more religious and aware of evil in the world. American whites tend to trust their government, at least until Watergate. Blacks know better.
Black people are also generally more religious and aware of evil in the world.
Yes, I think that is why the Spirit Cooking thing coming out right before the election was the most damaging part of pizzagate. It struck a real blow to the black and hispanic turnout for Dems. It will be VERY interesting seeing how that vote goes in the next election.
That's a good point. I hadn't thought of it before. Not only the Spirit Cooking, but Hillary channelling Eleanor Roosevelt, the voodoo stuff - some black people are into that, but generally they tend to be Christian at heart, even if their lifestyles aren't, at least in my experience.
Toured a 300-year-old haunted house once in Virginia while on a family vacation. There were a couple of black ladies on the tour. We all got to try out various gadgets used by "ghost hunters". One lady had a dowsing rod thing, which twisted in her hands and clearly swung to point at the fireplace when we all walked into an upstairs bedroom. The poor lady shrieked, dropped it and beat feet out of there so fast she didn't even get to hear the story of how the lady of the house died at that hearth at the hands of someone wielding a fireplace poker. You could hear her exclaiming as they left: "Oh NO. No. No no no. Not having NONE of that. Nope."
Yep! I don't know if it is cultural or what, but African Americans are generally not at all into any sort of weird occultism, aside from the few into voodoo/hoodoo.
And it occurs to me that you never see that depicted in movies or television, do you. I can think of numerous examples of blacks being depicted as into Voodoo...almost none as being anything else other than agnostic or atheist. Think of the Pirates of the Caribbean movies, the blacks portrayed in various seasons of American Horror Story, etc. Interesting.
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Vindicator ago
Giving this the "Share" flair.
Is it me, or is there a trend of black folks waking up?
mrohm ago
Black people have been dealing with this stuff for decades. Look up Night Doctors - not the same as the pizza people, but close enough. Black people are also generally more religious and aware of evil in the world. American whites tend to trust their government, at least until Watergate. Blacks know better.
Vindicator ago
Yes, I think that is why the Spirit Cooking thing coming out right before the election was the most damaging part of pizzagate. It struck a real blow to the black and hispanic turnout for Dems. It will be VERY interesting seeing how that vote goes in the next election.
mrohm ago
That's a good point. I hadn't thought of it before. Not only the Spirit Cooking, but Hillary channelling Eleanor Roosevelt, the voodoo stuff - some black people are into that, but generally they tend to be Christian at heart, even if their lifestyles aren't, at least in my experience.
eucalyptus_spearmint ago
Eleanor Roosevelt???
mrohm ago
http://plinthos.blogspot.com/2016/02/hillary-clintons-witchcraft.html
The Clintons minimise it, saying that they weren't seances or channelling, but "therapeutic." Still, it was weird.
eucalyptus_spearmint ago
Yeah but what about Eleanor Roosevelt?
mrohm ago
Hillary was channelling her, or communing with her.
eucalyptus_spearmint ago
So what you're saying is ER was a witch? This is news to me.
mrohm ago
No, Hillary is. ER is long since passed.
Vindicator ago
Toured a 300-year-old haunted house once in Virginia while on a family vacation. There were a couple of black ladies on the tour. We all got to try out various gadgets used by "ghost hunters". One lady had a dowsing rod thing, which twisted in her hands and clearly swung to point at the fireplace when we all walked into an upstairs bedroom. The poor lady shrieked, dropped it and beat feet out of there so fast she didn't even get to hear the story of how the lady of the house died at that hearth at the hands of someone wielding a fireplace poker. You could hear her exclaiming as they left: "Oh NO. No. No no no. Not having NONE of that. Nope."
mrohm ago
Yep! I don't know if it is cultural or what, but African Americans are generally not at all into any sort of weird occultism, aside from the few into voodoo/hoodoo.
Vindicator ago
And it occurs to me that you never see that depicted in movies or television, do you. I can think of numerous examples of blacks being depicted as into Voodoo...almost none as being anything else other than agnostic or atheist. Think of the Pirates of the Caribbean movies, the blacks portrayed in various seasons of American Horror Story, etc. Interesting.