Whoops also Lukumi (but that's still mostly Yoruba, vs Fon in Haiti) and it was Lukumi via a Candombliero host so I tend to conflate them
Ignoring it when people very literally demonize Afro-Caribbean religious traditions is something people are way, way too comfortable doing. Vodou, Lukumi, Candomblé, Palo Mayombe, 21 Divisions etc are all beautiful, complex, richly sophisticated and nuanced belief systems worthy of respect.
I haven't eaten any meat in 21 years. at my most fanatical vegan point 20 years ago I actually attended a Lukumi bembe that involved a real chicken sacrifice Those animals are treated better than anything white people eat, it's fairly rare to begin with, and they are never left lying around...
Somehow the decision gets worse the farther down you go. Judge Barker, please do share with the class what is meant by "any alternative practices to the use of names or pronouns." Grunting? Pointing? Would that be for the whole class or just students you don't like? www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/...
![that he was giving Geraghty "the proper instruction on how she should handle things moving
forward."
(Carter Depo. at PageID₩# 3075.) Carter had to look into it further because before his
meeting with Geraghty he had never "discuss[ed] whether there were any factors that would be
considered when determining whether or not the [student's] request[ed] name or pronoun was
mandatory.'
(Id. at PageID# 3087.) Nor had he ever discussed "any alternative practices to the use
of names or pronouns." (Id. at PageID# 3088.)
Defendants dismiss Geraghty's hypothetical of the Jewish teacher and a student preferring to
be called ahweh as "not proof of anything.
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Yeah my primary attraction to folk Catholicism is that I spent a significant amount of time as a teenager around Candomblé and Lukumi practitioners who fully sacrifice chickens to saints syncretized with Yoruba deities while checking "Catholic" on census forms
The Lukumi/Hermetica pipeline is alive and well
The Orisha?!?! (Not Yoruba directly just a Caribbean lukumi practitioner)
I have actually never heard this song people just sang it at me every single time I mentioned Lukumi for like 10 years so I know the first two lines
What are the things you inevitably bring up in classes regardless of topic, to the point that students joke about it/identify it with you? Mine are: -Righteous Discontent by Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham -1893 World's Parliament of Religion -Church of Lukumi Babalu Aye v. City of Hialeah -Shakers