‘Are you saying I’m not Hoodoo because I’m white? There are lots of white Hoodoo practicioners.That’s pretty racist.’



Aw, sweetie, no. It’s not your race, necessarily; I know there are white rootworkers, it’s your goddamn behaviour.



You don’t get to strut around calling yourself 'Hoodoo’ because your practice has a few additional phrases and groovy oils you plucked out of it like a 15 year-old buying her first Dreamcatcher from a stall at Beautiful Days whilst ignoring the rest of the entire living tradition.



You don’t get to call yourself Hoodoo when you only focus on white Catholic syncretism because it’s more comforting and familiar than the Black powers you 'don’t feel so drawn to,’ and dear God I wish that wasn’t an actual quote.



You don’t get to call yourself Hoodoo and then shit all over POC in the comments because acknowledging their voices, their agency and their pain makes you really uncomfortable.



I am more likely to pull a whole, screaming Mandrake root right out of my ass than you are to have any meaningful relationship with the spirits and deities of people you are consistently actively trying to silence.