I find it very disrespectful for the author to refer to African customs as ''witchcraft'' . If you will use your writing to be demeaning to other cultures then you better not write.
I'm sure that made you feel like a true antiracist saint for a good minute, but they refer to it as witchcraft themselves. This condescending attitude isn't based on a real understanding of what's happening in this country.
Of course, black nationalists educated at white universities don't use the term to refer to practices they like (i.e., any witchcraft practitioner that hates white people), but ordinary black people use the term readily, and often burn suspected witches themselves.
I don't feel the need to be polite about a genocidal death cult like Makhanda's anyway, so I think you're barking up the wrong tree.
I find it very disrespectful for the author to refer to African customs as ''witchcraft'' . If you will use your writing to be demeaning to other cultures then you better not write.
I'm sure that made you feel like a true antiracist saint for a good minute, but they refer to it as witchcraft themselves. This condescending attitude isn't based on a real understanding of what's happening in this country.
Of course, black nationalists educated at white universities don't use the term to refer to practices they like (i.e., any witchcraft practitioner that hates white people), but ordinary black people use the term readily, and often burn suspected witches themselves.
I don't feel the need to be polite about a genocidal death cult like Makhanda's anyway, so I think you're barking up the wrong tree.