DARK SKIN 10

DARK SKINNED WOMEN

The people from the Land of the Blacks brought the spiritual sciences to the Earth Walkers. Bestowing gift after gift to the People in the spirit of a Giver it should not be a surprise why the Land of the Blacks is bereaved of its former glory. Today, Black People are a tribal people by blood and heritage, and the Chief has been replaced by the Messiah. We have absorbed all the contradictory energies of White people to the degree it is difficult to tell the difference between us, and our ancestors can barely tell us a part from our conquerors.

My father was right when he said, "Black People own their tragedies!" But I've learned to follow the lead of my upbringing and spend a lot of time in the wider world. I can't carry that burden of today's dark angst. I've learned over the years to cheer myself with all of the light and brilliance of Black America and the rest of our Diaspora. There is an inexhaustible supply of it, and it will keep me going at the oddest times into the magical spheres of creation and creativity we were originally known and respected for.. The attendant fears of the Black people in the Americas, and elsewhere are too unpredictable an animal so healers have to work in shifts shifting energies among the lame and broken of heart and spirit. It is difficult work but it is work necessary. Peoples from the different races now have Medicines Black people desperately need, but false pride and a possessive spirit keep many from sitting in sacred spaces outside of the Church, and so they die, and their last breath is inhaled by their children's children and passed to the next and the next.  - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories