Extemporaneous musings, occasionally poetic, about life in its richly varied dimensions, especially as relates to history, theology, law, literature, science, by one who is an attorney, ordained minister, historian, writer, and African American.
Thursday, May 4, 2017
OUR HOAX-FILLED FOLKS
OUR HOAX-FILLED FOLKS
Belief in the boogie man, haints, devils or ghosts made our people susceptible to superstitious hoax.
Such banal beliefs internalized soon become facts that nothing but truth can attack. But knowing truth from lies is so hard to decide.
If this superstitious psychosis was confined to just one race solutions to fix it would have shown its face.
But we are so hampered by its long American history abolishing these phobias is a supernatural mystery.
Where to start ? With whom to begin? It reaches from Plymouth Massachusetts to Vinegar Bend
Chumming the water brings fish.
Sowing the earth brings plants.
But what can bring relief from spasmodics, neurotics psychotics?
Lord knows I don't know!