Black Witch

So, there’s been something recent occurring in the online Pagan community. There was a rehash on Pagan.about.com about minority Pagan bloggers and of course, some commenter named Silvia felt mighty brave in her Whiteness and cried tears about how Wicca should be left to the White folks. Everyone, please witness this demonstration of why saying “Post-Racial America” is a long way off:

This is a very dusappointing article. Other races have their own pagan traditions. Wicca should be reserved for whites. White people have almost no place where they can come together and experience collective pride for their culture and ancestors. Wicca was one of rare exceptions. Now, thanks to Patti, we don’t have even this. I don’t see any point to be Wiccan then.

Firstly, if you’re gonna be racist, please learn to spell. I mean, if you’re going to be heavy on the whole “White race is superior” lean, at least learn how to spell the King’s English. What, are you scared of spell check or dictionaries? I mean, at least back then, racists had used science and literature to justify their bullsh*ttery, the very least you could do is try. C’mon, don’t make baby Hitler cry. That’s my job.

So, in Black culture, Silvia is being what we define as “rachet”. Extremely wretched, honestly. Poor thing must have cried oceans when McCain lost and if we scan the internet enough, probably did a “Leave Santorum Alone!” when people were dropping heat on him because he nearly called President Obama a not-so-presidential word. Let’s pick apart her comment, folks!

“Other races have their own Pagan traditions. Wicca should be reserved for Whites”: Ah, ha, ‘dis heffa not only can’t spell but doesn’t know history either. Wow. Well, literacy does usually lead to knowledge and she did prove she lacked literacy so I guess looking for intelligence should have been a farther pitch. Y’see, thanks to the draw of Orientalism from the era that Gerald Gardener was in, all that is put into Wicca. That means you have some Egyptian in Wicca (Africa) and you have Eastern philosophy of various sorts such as Hindu and Buddhism (Asia) implemented. I mean, Wicca was established in 1957, how much originality do you think it’s going to have? Shucks, even the idea “An’ it harm none” stems from the “Golden Rule” which is in Christian beliefs, a faith that came from the Middle East. Wicca is a conglomeration of various occult paths, including non-Western paths. Then you have the fact that Wicca is pretty broad due to the fact that it is a religion with a take on polytheism where you can use any pantheon since the face of the God and Goddess is not particular. If anything, the different goddesses and gods are considered the varied faces of the God and Goddess, which is a bisected split of the Great Spirit (Doesn’t that sound so Native American?) of the universe.

“White people have almost no place where they can come together and experience collective pride for their culture and ancestors. Wicca was one of rare exceptions.”: Wow, I think she’s crying White tears*right here. All that whine, so vintage. It’s certainly old, like Monroe Doctrine old. Is this lady serious? She lives in the Western world, where White privilege is rampant. She can turn on the tv and see herself, read a magazine and hear people who shares her opinions, Newt Gingrich can rant and be an angry White guy and everyone calls it “vigor”, she can see movies that star White people – even if the movie is supposed to star minorities. You’d be hard press to find any advertisement that is supposed to be for a general audience but lacks White people. White history and culture is pretty much Western culture and vice versa. Our holidays mainly revolve around White people, history likes to Whitewash until White people look like the victors or the victimized. There is collective pride for White culture and ancestors – waaaaaaaaaay too much of it because that collective pride sure like to be the only one getting the limelight, to the point it will block everyone else’s. Even Wicca has it, just look at the Wheel of the Year’s holidays.

“Now, thanks to Patti, we don’t have even this. I don’t see any point to be Wiccan then.”:Byyyyyyyyyyye, heifer. Now if only we could remove your point to exist. Orrrrrr maybe you just got into Wicca because you thought the Grand Wizard of the KKK and a regular wizard were the same thing and you’re just a tad confused. ‘Ey, if I had low watt smarts, those robes would baffle me too. Here’s a basic hint to tell them apart: look for eye holes in the hood, that’s the Klan. That would be your coven, so bounce.

Now, let it be known that I’m not in the “let’s be kind to racists” group. Nope, they got that way possibly due to not enough pushback. I am not going to sit here and let some two-bit chick tell me that I need to leave a faith I’ve practiced for over ten years because she’s crying White tears over me being there. If she don’t like it, she can cast a time traveling spell and get lost.

Paganism is a very diverse belief system and so is Wicca. The face of Wicca (and Paganism) is Whiter than a snowstorm but that’s why blogs like mine exist. I still remember some simple chick named Dion getting mad I said that, I think during an interview I had with Daughters of Eve. She was complaining that I shouldn’t have said the face of Paganism matches the color of mayo. Lol, it sure isn’t the color of a rainbow, she may need to take off her shades made of privilege before she tries to throw any shade next time. Then there’s the one time a reader posted my column “The Invisibility Cloak” on her blog and some White Pagan with a name that sounded like a bootleg Harry Potter name, Lucius-something, came along and said “Yes racism exist but could you not say racism exists in Paganism?” Everyone, this is what logic-bending looks like.

Listen, Paganism and Wicca can be for anybody, any culture and any pantheon so please give up on the “Won’t anyone please think of the White people?”because no one cares. And thank you Ms. Patti for being so nice to tell Silvia what she needs to hear.

*White Tears: Basically means that a White person is feeling unnecessary anguish over the fact that their privilege is crumbling away and they can’t be as racist as they like. Example of White Tears: Any Republican presidential runner from this current election and supporters of George Zimmerman.

Now, tomorrow starts a raffle for Princeless! Keep on the lookout for a post on it.

Alright, some news on the book Black Witch: Life from a Black Pagan Perspective, Vol. 1: It’s coming out on Feb 25, 2012. No more pussyfooting or anything, it will come out on that day and that’s that. I will be posting pictures in the near future of the book as it is further and further in progress, possibly updating every Saturday to the Black Witch FB Fan Page. The book will be in hardbound and handmade by me. There will be extra content, a surprise at the back of the book. The price of the book will be $26.50 but for now, the price of $18 stands as it is the pre-order price. Yup yup.

Continuing on with this week’s column:

Did any of you read the feature in the New York Times or even on The Root where they interview Black Atheists? So far the interviews are pretty good. There are occasionally some bitter atheists but that’s bound to happen from time to time. The responses to the interviews, at least on the Root, are mildly predictable: People were miffed, mainly the Black Christians.

They said the usual stuff: “Oh we know the truth [that Christ is real and this person is really crazy].” “This is nonsense.”, “This person doesn’t have morals”, etc etc etc. Everything you can pretty much imagine a staunch Black Christian would say.

Now, why is this so important that a Black Atheist was interviewed noteworthy on a Pagan site? Because it shows that Black culture is starting to expand even just a little bit to start including more Blacks. Black culture, thanks to poor representation in media and to important historical periods, work in a pretty narrow scope. Blackness is supposed to be urban, Christian, conservative, preferably male and self-aware accurate cultural history optional. This is not actual Blackness because I’m Black and while I was raised in the inner city, I am not Christian, I am fairly alternative, I am not male and I am very big on actually accurate (read: not gender-wiped, white-washed or wrapped in nonsense) cultural history. I don’t think that displayed Blackness is the definition of true Blackness and it needs to be widened beyond the Christian foundation of Black culture. It is indeed useful in that the history of Black religious culture and the role Christianity has played in it, that goes without saying, but to assume that all Blacks are either Christians or “confused about who they are (code: They think they’re White)” is pretty damaging to the racial “solidarity” I hear so much about but don’t see much of.

Racial solidarity is pretty important. It establishes a basic culture that everyone can relate to and learn from because America certainly won’t do it. In a country that is not at all post-racial and just as prejudiced as always, just without the overt displays such as lynching, it is important that culture of any minority is preserved to the best of its abilities. The average American culture is pretty much White culture on a loudspeaker with little dashes and stirs of minorities just so people can say “Oh, it’s not bigoted; I can see an Asian person!” There’s very little room to express any other culture without some random White person squealing about how this isn’t needed, we have a Black president, they have a Black friend and there has been at least one Black person on their TV (that was most likely a secondary character or an extra), Will Smith has starred in a movie in the past two years and Tyler Perry makes movies so all is spiffy, right?

Wroooooooong. So dead wrong.

There’s so many issues within Black Culture that never gets covered in mainstream media because it is considered “not important”. That’s nonsense because I think if the TV was more diverse, that would probably help out a few issues in this country. The issues in Black culture are important and unique to our culture just like any culture because of our history and how we have interacted with it. Every culture does have its issues but the only way we can solve them is by not ignoring them and catering only to the center, the mainstream within that culture. Just like it is important for mainstream American culture to portray true diverse American culture (and fails to), it is important for Black culture – and any minority culture – to portray true Black culture in all of its vastness.

It shouldn’t have to be said, Black culture is not monolithic. Black People are not monolithic. We are way more than the minstrel depictions and plot hinges on television, in games and in movies. And not only should American culture acknowledge and welcome that, so should Black culture itself.

I think that for the safety of everyone and for the expansion of the race, I think that we should move away from the religiosity of Christianity. I’m not saying bomb Churches and institute a new religion to shape our culture around. No, instead just allow more freedom for Blacks of different religions to have an equal place at the table. Something that, if the Black Christians would have felt it, there would be no end to the discussion of it and it probably would look a little something like this: “Attack on Christianity”, “Have Black People Lost Their Way”, radio shows, talk segments on BET or WorldStar Hip Hop, etc etc etc. It would be everywhere.

It’s okay to have Black Christians but it is important that the culture that they, me and other Blacks reside in doesn’t cater to only them. Just like Paganism, Islam, Judaism, Atheism and other belief systems (would have said religion but atheism doesn’t count), Christianity should be open to criticism. Right now, in Black culture, the idea of Christianity, unlike any other religion, enjoys the ability of being impervious. Black Christians will attack each other all day, all week, assuming every Black Christian they meet is breaking every rule in the Bible at breakneck speed or they themselves will flag out what sins they’re committing while saying “Jesus loves me and forgives me” in the same breath but no one dare attack the religion. The religion is considered gold; the Bible is taken as law and above critique supposedly. But every other religion (or lack thereof) that a Black person could follow isn’t. Christianity should be allowed to be picked apart and its own cultural relations again and again just like any other religion. My religion gets picked apart, my Muslim friends’ religion gets picked apart, Black Christians should not be so invulnerable. I’m not saying destroy the religion but examine it.

Christianity, in Black culture, serves as a security blanket, I am sure. It’s the most unifying thing the culture relies on to connect to others with to the point every Black person is pretty much raised as cultural Christians: even if a Black person doesn’t practice Christianity and never has, it does not mean they don’t know what Christianity is, what the basic stories are from the Bible, the different psalms and spirituals, etc etc. Take Lupe Fiasco for example. To strip him down to a normal person so readers can fully understand and relate: Wasalu Jaco.

Okay then. Wasalu was a born and raised Muslim. However, even growing up, his dad took him to various houses of worship besides the mosque and churches were one of them. It does show because once when spoken to via phone interview some odd years ago, he was talking about death or infallibility, I forgot which, but he referenced Christ and he said, “oh, but He’s coming back.” This stuck out to me because some people didn’t know that this person was Muslim. Ask any of the listeners of that interview and they would have sworn up and down that Wasalu was Christian. The only religious mention that he made was of the Christian rhetoric and sounds as if he was beyond a casual observer of the religion but an actual believer of it because he acknowledged that Christ was coming back and sounded certain about it. It would take a close look at Wasalu to find his actual religious practice (in other words, you’d have to be a fan or read a thorough bio) but so long Wasalu made no mention of it, everyone assumed he was Christian just like everyone else. It didn’t even have to be the interview to solidify those beliefs. There’s the mention of Lord several time in his music, which people would assume it is a reference to Jesus Christ. Plus, there’s little no overt mention of Allah or anything of the Muslim faith, nada, until recent.

Now, returning Wasalu back to Lupe Fiasco and him telling people that he’s Muslim, here comes the surprise – and disdain. Some people don’t mind, Lupe is simply joining the ranks with Busta Rhymes, Mos Def and other emcees that are Muslim. Some were completely surprised because, hey, this is a trick! There were actual responses of people whose disbelief ran along the lines of “This Muslim tricked me into buying an album and making me think he was a normal rapper! Why isn’t he Christian! Now he’s going to talk about Allah and crap!” Yep. Thankfully, since Lupe actually knows how to rap and make sense at the same time, he doesn’t have to worry of his fan base deflating much because some people want to now call him a terrorist. Plus, he has a solid Muslim fan base, always good to have a niche to keep you up and going.

I know that this probably was a little confusing so here’s another: Janelle Monae’s The Archandroid. Apparently, some people believe that it is a gospel album (despite very little reference to Christian ideology – unless the Androids are assumed to be Christian, which wouldn’t make a lot of sense). That’s great and a complement for Janelle Monae, she certainly took it as one and rightfully so, but to anyone who wanted to enjoy The Archandroid for what it is, it certainly douses it because it’s as if Black Christians are going “Firsts!” and trying to stamp their beliefs on it, even when there is barely a hinge to hang from. I took it as a story of star-crossed lovers and an android being persecuted for it because it’s against the rules for humans and androids to date and even more illegal for androids to have human-like emotions so double whammy for Cindy Mayweather. Where you can stamp the album as Christian, I don’t really know but hey, since someone stamped it as Christian, can I stamp it as Pagan? I’m pretty sure with an hour and a couple world mythology books, I can spin some connection together instead of, y’know, taking the story for what it is and letting it stand on its own merit. If The Archandroid was a gospel, an honest gospel, I would become a cautious listener. I wanted to hear a cool story, not another revamp of the Bible incarnate. I’m a big P.O.D. fan I am but even they know how to ease up on the Bible-thumping and just express themselves in earnest, and their music has overt Christian expressions! I understand that Janelle Monae definitely is hard to pin down genre-wise, I like to think of her as genre-less, simply as “good music” and “one of the few remaining signs of real Black music remaining”, but gospel? Just buy a Mary Mary cd and don’t ruin the fun for everyone.

Black culture should be able to exist without Christianity as the home base (at least I can enjoy a Wondaland album in peace) and on a more equal footing instead one religion being the pinnacle and the rest are subordinates.

Awwww yeeeaaahh. A topic I’ve been meaning to get at for a long ol’ time. Don’t like it? Check the name of the blog and move on somewhere else.

I was just reading a book I had recently gotten, The Magical Household: Spells & Rituals for the Home, penned by Scott Cunningham and David Harrington. I kinda wanna take it back to the store. I bought it because I just recently moved into a new apartment and I was so stoked about it that I pretty much bought practically any crap that was witchy and pertained to it. I would have purified my cat if there was some home warming spell asking for that if I didn’t check myself at least a little bit.

I don’t have many books on the Craft or on Paganism itself and The Magical Household reminded me why: It’s too White.

Yes, the book claims and actually does talk about spells from different cultures such as Chinese culture and Native American culture, even Raymond Buckland said that “[It is] a delightful compendium of bits and pieces of folklore gleaned from Europe, China, Hawaii, and other parts of the world.” That’s really nice of him and it’s a little true, I see references to Chinese goddesses and Native American rituals to keep your home clean and totally absent of astral nasties here and there. The book was made in 1983 so I guess I shouldn’t expect so much inclusivity but it still strikes me nonetheless. The mentions of different cultures are kind of glance-overs instead of in-depth looks at the spells and rituals from the culture, it is clear the book is very much western. When mentioning anything African, it relies on the go-to of Egypt as if A) It’s not a country in Africa and B) That can check Africa off the list of continents represented in the book. I’m sure part of this is ease for the reader because you can’t just post a Chinese house clearing ritual without needing something Chinese and potentially inaccessible. Plus, too much focus on any “exotic” culture and it would suck pretty fast.

It is far too common that just about any book in Paganism (or simply mainstream anything) is written from the White perspective. White, middle class (or middle-upper class), but at least the gender reflection in modern Pagan writings is a little better than the mainstream given that women have strong voices in the movement. But that’s probably where the “diversity of Paganism” culture stops.

If you’re a minority in Paganism, it is very bright and clear that unless you’re a picture on the wall, you’re probably not going to get represented in any well-rounded way and shouldn’t expect it. The common face of Paganism is White and suburban and the current expressions of it are very well rooted in White culture and most of White hegemony. For many minority Pagans, that means dealing with being thrusted into White culture whether they like it or not – or just study alone and remember that the author doesn’t mean it but they probably assume you’re White.

Just because someone is part of a different religion doesn’t mean they’re potentially any less of a douche in the race and culture department. Thanks to the invisible knapsack of White privilege, it throws an invisibility cloak over minorities. To keep from going too broad, I’m going to focus primarily on the Black Pagan issues as different minorities have different issues depending on how White culture decided to shape them in the eyes of the public and mental landscape of society. You see, I’ve learned through experience and hearing the experiences of others that Pagans love rooting for the underdog – I mean, we are one so it makes sense right? So stories of things happening to minorities anywhere in the world is terrible and tear jerking, right? Even issues that happen in their own home country such as America or the UK, there is an “Oh, some people are awful” kind of reaction. Y’know, as if racism exists in a vacuum and only shows itself when a lynching occurs and stuff like that. As long as there’s no voice from the side of the minority, it’s a one-sided show that can sometimes turn into a near circle jerk of “Well, we’re Pagans! We’re better than that. Those Christians! How dare they! Another sordid testament to the religion itself. What meanies. We would never act like that, the Goddess says love all!”

Let the minority open its mouth, even criticize Pagans and their shortcomings in the culture department and watch that cooing and sympathy drop quick. All of a sudden, it’s “We’re being attacked” and rationalizing ahoy. Talk about some of the humanitarian issues in this nation and how it disproportionally affects minorities and the working class, they’ll claim it’s from not doing enough hard work – this is America, after all. (Yeah, how that occupying working out for you?) Mention words like “institutional racism”, “tokenization” and “privilege” and up come the defenses. I’ve dealt with a stunning variety of Pagan women or Pagan men who thought they don’t benefit at all from any form of institutional anything and definitely not privilege because they’re Pagan, bigotry only benefits you if you’re Christian and Christian only. That, as Pagans, they’ve dealt with all sorts of historical bigotry that my race could not fathom such as the Burning Times, the Salem Witch Trials and the loss of some useful occult texts. Yup. I totes wouldn’t know – or maybe I would since I am Pagan. Though, I have never gotten a Walking While Pagan so maybe the jury is out on that one.

Yep. The colonization of Africa, which is still reeling from the effects to this very day, unlike Europe; the clear problems in race and police politics which are usually brutal and baseless against a minority with a bad rep that have always existed and has existed to this very day; a nearly whole cultural wipeout via systematic psychological, mental, physical and emotional destruction of a whole race that still exists to this very day cannot at all sum up to the prejudice that was incurred in Europe and the New World by those of European descent. Not trying to make this a Suffering Olympics but to be honest, it is pretty unfair to assume that what Pagans are enduring in America is worse than what other minorities have endured and not only but guess what? That assumption ignores the intersection of minorities who are Pagan. It ignores what Black Pagans have to deal with since they have a combo of two separate cultures that has to endure harsh prejudices (Black, Pagan) and how it will intersect within the cultures they reside in, the Black Pagan can easily become an outcast twice over: Blacks won’t get along with them because they “turned their back on Christ” and Pagans aren’t sure how to take them because as most Pagans are White, so will be their perceptions on the Black Pagan’s race. Oh joy.

This leaves a lot of Black Pagans in limbo about their faith. I’ve gotten letters from several readers where they said they thought they were the only ones who were Black and Pagan or said that since they found a Black Pagan publication, they are going to be a little more open-minded about the religion instead of brushing it off as “weird things White people do”. If you don’t see it, you can’t be it – this is the foundation of a lot of Black Pagans who are on the fence about their beliefs because no one wants to give up their culture for a religion – something, at face value, it appears to be when it comes to Paganism. No one wants to be the cultural ambassador, no one wants to willingly deal with racial tension, no one wants to meet subvert racism face first and be forced to deal with it. They probably do that already, why add to the pile? Here comes the assumptions of reclaiming African faith (because if you’re Black, why ever would you experience another culture?), that you’ve just hopped down from their television set and everything the tv told them about you is taken as fact (but in the same breath will bristle if you assume the same for Pagans), to be patronized about your culture (“I love Black people!”, “You’re not like other Black people”, “I wish more Bla – I mean African-Americans – were like you.”) and other thoroughly annoying nonsense, all for wanting to practice your faith as you see fit.

Then there’s the cultural swagger jacking that is very prevalent in Paganism. So many White people thinking that they can relate to Egyptians, Native Americans, Africans, Asians (preferably Chinese or Japanese) – or that if they try reeeeeeally hard enough, they’ll be one. Its official name is cultural misappropriation (it’s also “cultural appropriation” but “misappropriation” sounds more accurate to me) but you can call it being a culture vulture or cultural swagger jackers. These people love Isis like there’s no tomorrow, but can’t seem to get her skin color right. And they think all Egyptians have been the same since the pyramids. Ask them about Egyptian politics, culture and history and you’re either going to get a downpour of whitewashed bullsh*t or just naïve chatter. They feel Isis in their heart, though! No need to pay attention to what the humans (who are directly related to the culture the White, Western Pagan is trying to jack for their own needs) are doing. They may instead feel close to the earth and practice Native American rituals (*koff*incorrectly*koff*) but call Occupy Wall St “Decolonize Wall St” and prepare to be pegged a rabble rouser and told “We’re all Americans. It’s really sad what happened to them but they have casinos now! And they’re so beautiful!” Yah, maybe their spirit guide should point them to some official stats on life on a reservation and the grandest form of jacking anyone of anything ever done in American history – if not world history. What happened to Native Americans wasn’t simply swagger jacking, that was an outright, government-sanctioned heist. Then you have most Asian acknowledgement in Paganism is rife with Orientalism. Asians are supposed to have this mysterious culture that science just can’t get a hold of. Asia is this place of exotic mystery and mystique. As long as Asians don’t speak, they’re pretty and have such a calm around them. White Pagans will eat this up in a heartbeat – think of how many Pagans you have met that talk about yin and yang, Buddhism (but they only know about Buddha/Siddhartha, Kwan Yin and whatever kung fu movies mention), Chinese dragons (but suck at the different Asian lores – yep, not all Asian dragons, and lores, look and act alike), and other forms of Orientalism – but ask them about the Monkey King or even what China was going through during the 18^th century and how do they feel about Japan constantly crapping on Korea throughout history, expect to be met with stares. Then there are the African adaptations (and severe Whitewashing) in mainstream Paganism. Talk about the beautiful rituals in the sub-Sahara but couldn’t tell me anything about kente cloth and doesn’t understand that African thinking, almost regardless of what diaspora it is, is going to be a little hard to grasp if you’re a cultural outsider because Africa developed differently than Europe (and had all the cool stuff before Europe pillaged it). They look at African gods and goddesses but are entirely disrespectful of the history and culture that sits behind them from the native spirits in Africa to the Orishas in the Americas to even the cultural conducts in even African-American culture. Snatch and grab of culture, pretty much.

When faced with such disdainful perspectives that on the surface are very kind and open but based on having the ability and privilege of looking at history from the colonizer’s side they’re not noticing what they’re doing and no, the White Pagan of today doesn’t own slaves, force Asians to build them railways and pay them in opium, perform a mass genocide of a native race or were the people who destroyed the nose of the Sphinx via cannon fire but blindly walking around in the privilege that every culture is – and should be – an open book for them to study and take what they want while leaving nothing behind except a pretty pissed off race is no better. Nothing is wrong with exchanging information and learning something new, but something is definitely wrong with trying to get info from another culture for one’s personal gain and then force said culture to assimilate the parts that aren’t so well liked. Asia, Africa and the Americas are treated like specimens to be examined. Isis should be Black or at least Middle Eastern, not White. (Heck, Jesus Christ should look Middle Eastern. Kinda hard to be White and living pretty much a stone’s throw away from Iraq rather than a stone’s throw from France. As in, if Rick Perry saw Him, he’d scream for Homeland Security to take away the terrorist.) Buddha isn’t a funky trinket, he’s not even a god and wouldn’t even want to be, he’s a prince that learned the truth of the world and “made right” the errors of his actions the hard way. The gods of Voudun do pick those who want to work on them but I don’t think they would pick so many people who look (and sometimes subconsciously think) like the very people who oppressed them and persecuted their followers if they didn’t pick the awfully White-looking Middle Eastern guy.

Being Pagan, it’s a lot like being an American. Anyone can be an American, regardless of race, creed, gender, sexuality or background – but there is one face of America that is often touted and if your skin is darker than your newspaper, you’re not it. Same with Paganism. Behind the “Come one, come all” lip service that is often touted, it’s got an undercurrent mentality that any minority isn’t aware of, it will take them in a riptide away from a really decent faith. In other words: Being Pagan doesn’t mean you’re infallible of making the same cultural slipies that the mainstream society makes so often. Just ask Occupy.  Simply be mindful and well-researched of other beliefs and keep respectful to them – and the people around you. Not everyone likes being invisible. Or occupied.

And must I say “Not All White Pagans Are Like That?” Lol, just read NALT.