If We Don’t Demand It They Will Not Change It

Posted on July 13, 2015 by James R. Yarbrough

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Auntie Jemima Pancakes

There are some, and I am hoping very few, Blacks who think that we should not protest and make demands on businesses to change their practices. And that we should not take action against businesses and corporations for them to change or discontinue the products that they sale when it is deemed offensive or racist in fact, by inference or through suggestive methods and techniques. Well, here is one where pressure did what it was supposed to.

Those old enough will remember this image. And this is just one, there are many more including Sambo, nigger hair and tobacco products, Amos and Andy, The Little Rascals and Uncle George, one of the characters, with a bone through his nose and “jungle” clothing that covered part of his body. Yum yum eatum up for those who remember him on the show.

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What I write is inspired by the Creator. It is a natural process, not forced or coerced. It is written as it flows into my mind, and my life experiences and observations of the wonders of nature are the foundation for my insight. I am on a mission to let how I think be a voice that has not been heard. What I write and say is what I believe. My life has been a road well traveled. There have been freeways, side streets and dead ends. I have been cautioned, sped up and slowed down. I have changed lanes, merged with traffic and yielded to the right of way. I have been first at four way stops and the last to leave. I have driven through heavy rain, sunny days, and dark nights. It is after the darkest of them all, that I came to an intersection. I could pray on or move on. I now move with the traffic. I speed up when I can slow down when I should and pass when I must. Though, I am not in a hurry for life to me is not a race. We get to the end of the road soon enough. I made a decision to stay on the road of life. To take the off ramp is a thing I did not want to do. I know there is more to say than what has been said. What I have to say is not academic; I simply look at life in a way you may never have. It is how I see the world.

Hoodoo is a form of predominantly African American traditional folk magic. Also known as conjure, it is a rich magical tradition that developed from the merging of a number of separate cultures and magical traditions. Hoodoo incorporates well established practices from African and Native American traditions, as well as some European magical practices and grimoires. It is often used to describe a magic spell or potion that also include conjuration, conjure, witchcraft, or rootwork.

The goal of hoodoo is to allow people access to supernatural forces to improve their daily lives by gaining power in many areas of life, including luck, money, love, divination, revenge, health, employment, and necromancy. As in many other folk religious, magical, and medical practices, extensive use is made of herbs, minerals, parts of animals' bodies, an individual's possessions, and bodily fluids, especially menstrual blood, urine and semen. HOODOO.