2 chapters across the catalog
Minister Bratt describes witnessing seances and witchcraft practiced by grandmothers in his neighborhood, which he believes invited a "spirit of death" into the community. A news report confirms a growing trend of African-American women leaving the church for ancestral witchcraft. Mo Fax links these spiritual practices to the "coldness" and violence found in certain urban environments.
Writer Lena Waith defends her casting choices on Hot 97, arguing that "Black is Black" regardless of nationality because police discrimination is universal. Her claim that all Black ancestors helped build America is challenged as an erasure of the specific history of Foundational Black Americans. This perspective is viewed as a political effort to maintain a "Black monolith" for easier social and political management.
