Why most witches are white?

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  • Опубликовано: 16 сен 2024

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  • @asterperpetua
    @asterperpetua  10 месяцев назад +2

    🖤 If you enjoy my work and would like to have access to exclusive bonus content, make sure to visit my Patreon page and take a look at the goodies that I offer over there! patreon.com/AsterPerpetua

  • @craftyhippiechick3839
    @craftyhippiechick3839 11 месяцев назад +34

    Great video. I can't speak for all but a lot women of my generation didn't/don't call ourselves "witches" because of being raised in certain churches where it is definitely frowned upon. The "practices" that we do are things "we just do" and not necessarily speak about. It is nice to see people who look like me be open about their practices.

    • @asterperpetua
      @asterperpetua  11 месяцев назад +6

      It's past time for us to be open about our black girl magic ✨ thank you for being here 🤍

    • @bleep9559
      @bleep9559 11 месяцев назад +3

      I came here to say exactly this! You'd just go to see "someone" or "some lady who knows stuff" to deal with whatever situation you're going through.

      I also feel like it's very hush-hush either because of church indoctrination and colonisation and also because some practices actually require some secrecy to be protected and effective.
      For me personally I still struggle to call myself a witch (and I doubt I'll ever relate 100% to that term) because I feel like it's negatively loaded when describing non-white people while being simultaneoulsy seen as inoffensive and benevolent when it's white people who talk about it publicly (I'm thinking of how people reacted to Azealia Banks and her cat vs how people reacted to Lana del Rey when she said she tried to hex Trump)
      I'm so thankful to see people out there looking like me, it has definitely done a ton to explore my own practices! I follow nottydesigns on here but I'm gonna look up the other youtubers mentioned

    • @craftyhippiechick3839
      @craftyhippiechick3839 11 месяцев назад +2

      @bleep9559 I also don't know if I would go with that term as well. Also, I agree with you that some things were/are kept to be effective. I'll have to check out nottydesigns.

  • @sabrinachangwoo
    @sabrinachangwoo 11 месяцев назад +22

    BeyondBronxWitch and Blaque Witch Yaya are good people of color youtube channels to watch. There needs to be more. I love your channel and Mint Faery as well.

    • @asterperpetua
      @asterperpetua  11 месяцев назад +4

      Thank yoooou for mentioning some other girls! It seems that black spiritual content creators are rather difficult to come by... I still have less than 10 names in total.

  • @ottabee
    @ottabee 2 месяца назад +2

    Muchas gracias for a very much needed, greatly appreciated, and powerfully healing video. I'm thrilled to have found your channel from another magical practitioner of color (Activist Witch) who respectfully mentioned you. I've been on wonderous journey of exploration, magic, healing, decolonization, and celebration for decades. Your personality radiates so much sacred wisdom, capability, humor, and compassion, and encouragement. Simply put Aster, you're AMAZING! Now off to watch your other videos.

    • @asterperpetua
      @asterperpetua  2 месяца назад +1

      aww thank you so much 🥰🥰🥰 and welcome on board!

  • @asterperpetua
    @asterperpetua  11 месяцев назад +28

    2 things:
    1) I have people coming to the comments to explain how witchcraft is from Europe, when this is literally the first point that I make in the video on 4:06 lol
    2) I will make a list of all the other creators mentioned, so anyone who finds this video will know about other spiritual content creators of color: (the list is in no particular order)
    - MintFaery www.youtube.com/@Mintfaery
    - The witch of Darklight www.youtube.com/@TheWitchofDarklight
    - Beyond Bronx Witch www.youtube.com/@BeyondBronxWitch
    - Behatilife www.youtube.com/@BehatiLife
    - Blaque Witch Yaya www.youtube.com/@blaquewitchyaya
    - Mystic Rainn www.youtube.com/@MysticRainn
    - Afura Nefertiti the Writing witch www.youtube.com/@AfuraNefertiti
    - Astro Finesse www.youtube.com/@AstroFinesse_25_7
    - The Queen Po www.youtube.com/@TheQueenPo

    • @LavenderHazelwood
      @LavenderHazelwood 10 месяцев назад +2

      Thank you for the list, Aster! I only know about half of them, so it's nice to see more witch channels. I've got more for you: House of Azarh, The Earth Witch (hasn't posted in a while), Haus of Hoodoo. Tarot and Divination (not witchcraft per se, but in the spiritual sphere): Atypical Tarot & The Tarot Priest/The InnerG Reader.

    • @echozines
      @echozines 7 месяцев назад +2

      Thank you for your video and for the list of recommended channels, Aster! I also really like Over the Moon Academy, theVonnieness, Meghann and the Moon, and of course The Activist Witch, and recently discovered Juju Thyme.

    • @echozines
      @echozines 7 месяцев назад +1

      and also The Local Sea Witch but she seems to have stopped posting videos sadly.

    • @daniellecapri6964
      @daniellecapri6964 6 месяцев назад +2

      I think a big part of this is exactly what you said. Many people of color choose not to embrace this term because it feels externally imposed by people who sought to oppress and wasn’t how our ancestors would have referred to themselves. I think for some people it’s that oppressive energy that the word witch carries for them. I’m late to the party but I love this discussion. 🩶

    • @daniellecapri6964
      @daniellecapri6964 6 месяцев назад +3

      Here are a few suggestions that I don’t think I saw in other comments: Conjure Queen, The Conjure FAMILY by Layla Inuit Ahari, Mystic at the Crossroads, Ashera Goddess, Connecting with/Guides and Goals by Adunola, Queen Cup, The Hood Botanical, Makeda Wisdom

  • @giovannaguedes7911
    @giovannaguedes7911 11 месяцев назад +7

    that's a really important discussion! As you said, the structural racism it's everywhere and the fact that black women are struggling until nowdays to have space to exist, to create, to be belivied in theirs powers it's not random. I think that the content production it's monstly on the cisgender white men's hands, that are making a lot of money saying the obvious and everyone clap. Maybe there's a lot of amazing black witches out there that do not feels that the internet can be their space. Content production and witchcraft IS for black women!! really amazing to listen to you

    • @asterperpetua
      @asterperpetua  11 месяцев назад +1

      a melhor comentarista deste canaaaaaal!!! amo vc, migues s2

  • @megmiller1671
    @megmiller1671 2 месяца назад +1

    such an important topic to discuss and you spoke so eloquently 👏🏼♥️✨

  • @se_18383
    @se_18383 3 месяца назад +2

    Encontrei seu canal em um momento onde eu estava desesperada para achar uma produtora de conteúdo negra sobre magia e espiritualidade. Sou negra, me denomino uma bruxa e me quebra o coração o fato de ter tão poucas pessoas pretas produtoras de conteúdo principalmente sobre espiritualidade da cultura negra. Seu canal foi um colírio para os meus olhos e uma esperança pra mim Aster, e quase chorei vendo seu vídeo hoje. Por favor, se for possível, não desista desse canal, seu conteúdo é rico, um verdadeiro tesouro nessa Internet e como uma bruxa preta (e iniciante) reforço que seu canal não é só necessário como é precioso.
    Espero ter transmitido aqui o quanto ele é importante, pra mim e pra outras pessoas também.

  • @OldLadyMapleSeed
    @OldLadyMapleSeed 11 месяцев назад +9

    This might not be super accurate, but here’s what I remember learning about North American abolition in school as a Canadian. One big difference is that socially, abolition was a more gradual process up here. Slavery and abuse of enslaved people were more commonly frowned on in certain parts of the US (mostly the North) and more popular in the south, and Canada abolished Slavery altogether before the US. This meant that it was technically possible for enslaved Americans to run away and become free, and they were able to network more to create a bit of a support system, pursue proper jobs, and cooperate with White abolitionists. However, things were still really bad, because folks from further South could come up North and drag back escaped slaves and any random Black person they felt like if the judge decided to take the higher pay he would receive for ruling the Black person a runaway. Then Americans picked sides and there was a big old war about it because people were so divided on the ethics of forcefully enslaving an entire race to do the bidding of rich landowners somehow. Basically there was a little more of a transition period compared to some other places, but African Americans and Canadian still got stuck with a lot of shit jobs, hiring discrimination, poor education, police violence, etc. to a pretty horrific extent, a lot of which was probably partially fuelled by the bitterness of racists who were afraid that the risk of a fully integrated America was too great. A more gradual and complicated chain of events that lead to a lot of back and forth because of conservative backlash.

    • @asterperpetua
      @asterperpetua  11 месяцев назад +4

      Thank you so much for your comment. I don't know a lot of details about how things happened in north America when it comes to slavery. But even with some differences in history, the final consequences are very similar for the black population 😕

  • @Titi22923
    @Titi22923 11 месяцев назад +6

    Hello my lovely 😍 I'm so glad you bought this up I am a witch of Colour 😊 an I am just starting out on RUclips however ive been a witch all my live (or for as long as ive been aware ) I would love to connect an Share all magical ✨️ things with you I love this ! An I too agree an want to embrace witches of colour.... I will say that I do watch an love all my witches who are not of colour let's all come together witchlings !!!!

  • @VagrantButterfly
    @VagrantButterfly 11 месяцев назад +20

    because it stems from druidism. the druids were northern folk. Africa has their own version, such as voodoo. Every country had their type of magic and labels surrounding that.

    • @make5284
      @make5284 4 месяца назад +2

      Have you even watched the video?

    • @TheLunaWitch
      @TheLunaWitch 2 месяца назад

      Voodoo originated in North America with African American peoples, not in Africa. And no religion is “just for“ one race.

  • @yasminheskey8981
    @yasminheskey8981 11 месяцев назад +21

    Quite as its kept. I'm disappointed that this topic has not been brought up by many non black witches. I can only think of one witch who does have the conversation, her name is Wicked Moonlight she always mentions how diversity is important in tarot and in the spiritual world. Its a real shame we don't have more witches like her.

    • @asterperpetua
      @asterperpetua  11 месяцев назад +3

      I think that maybe white witches don't feel that it is their place to talk about that, then they don't. Also, truth be told, it's not a topic that generates lots of views... So..

    • @yasminheskey8981
      @yasminheskey8981 11 месяцев назад

      @@asterperpetua I get you. It would be nice though if we could evolve into embracing each others cultures. There so many amazing spiritual cultures. 💚

  • @barbwilliams2976
    @barbwilliams2976 11 месяцев назад +5

    Afura Nefertiti, The writing Witch is absolutely amazing!!! Her approach to magic is contagious!

    • @asterperpetua
      @asterperpetua  11 месяцев назад

      Thank you for sharing, I didn't know about her! 😊🤍

  • @himesama8779
    @himesama8779 9 месяцев назад +3

    Firstly, I just wanted to say THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR MAKING THIS VIDEO!!! I've been trying to find more content on witchcraft as a whole throughout this year because this is the first year I've started studying/began making a book of shadows. Of course I became frustrated by the fact that the "witchy" space on RUclips is dominated by white creators. At the same time a lot of them are very good creators, but I still wanted to find some that looked like me to see how things were different/if I related to them more/etc. Anyhow, it felt weird typing "black witch"/ "witches of color" and other variations of that into the search bar, scrolling through probably a few hundred videos to find only a small handful of channels whose creators in this space are people of color, and immediately clicking on and subscribing to *almost* all of them. I found this video by accident tonight while I was simply flipping through the recommended tab and probably have never clicked a video faster. I really appreciate you asking this question I've been wondering the answer to for months (and years if we think about representation in mainstream media in this niche), and answering it. To address some things you talked about in the video, structural and/or systemic racism is a big problem in the US and many parts of Europe and even Asia sadly. It branches into so many different types of discrimination, such as workplace, housing, education and even the beauty space. I think the saddest part of racism is that it embedded itself into some people of color as well, now called colorism. A similar concept to racism and technically what racism should be called. But how lighter-skinned people of color get "light-skinned privilege", 1, and 2, that light-skinned poc look down on darker-skinned poc. Almost like this sort of "class system" among poc where the closer to being white you are, the better you are. & it's disgusting and so depressing that this actually happens on top of the fact that "racism" began in the first place.
    As far as other poc content creators I've found in the witchy/spiritual space here on RUclips, there's also BlaqueWitchYaYa, Aeon the Alien, Magick Unleashed, Sheetalc, WhiteRaven and Witch's Lair, Witch of Earth's Curious Goods, Magical Witch, Witch of Wanderlust (she's part Filipino), High Priestess Creole Queen

  • @Wooddweller
    @Wooddweller 11 месяцев назад +6

    Beautiful beautiful ! So happy that I found your channel.

    • @asterperpetua
      @asterperpetua  11 месяцев назад

      and I am so happy to have you here! Welcome to the fam! 🤍

  • @mslesliezuel
    @mslesliezuel 3 месяца назад +1

    Thank you soooooo much, Aster, for your message!! Since following you, I have been taking a deeper div into my spirituality. Love you messages and content ❤️❤️❤️ Sending love and light ✨✨✨✨

  • @kueenykind6615
    @kueenykind6615 8 месяцев назад +2

    Thank you for making this video. I was feeling lost until I came across this video.

  • @EM-wh4bu
    @EM-wh4bu Месяц назад

    You are amazing! I’m a new baby witch accepting my calling! I am America Black woman! Thank you Thank You for being here!!

  • @jpan7071
    @jpan7071 11 месяцев назад +2

    LOL!! I just discovered your channel, and the first thing I thought was, “wow, she’s not white!”. Now I have to watch this video.

    • @asterperpetua
      @asterperpetua  11 месяцев назад +1

      hahah I guess that same thought will come to many people's minds when they first see my content!
      And welcome to the fam 🤍

  • @rebeccam.4257
    @rebeccam.4257 10 месяцев назад +1

    Thank you. This was fascinating, educational and enlightening.

    • @asterperpetua
      @asterperpetua  10 месяцев назад

      My pleasure! Thank you for your comment 🤍

  • @kirstencorby8465
    @kirstencorby8465 6 месяцев назад +1

    Bronx Witch and Elemi at Yeyeo Botanica would be worth looking into. Witch of Darklight, she's African American. Oh, JuJu Thyme too. I'm not sure how she identifies her practice, but she's a magic worker.

  • @LunaBey777
    @LunaBey777 12 дней назад

    I love this video so much. When I fist started looking into witch craft years ago I stuffed to find witches of color. Jess of Behatie life was on of the first witches I found. Jess is definitely a witch by the way she’s just been on here for years and she’s calmed down a lot of witchy content but she’s always had a focus on tarot and astrology. And she owns a store crafting oils and candles for people which she has also done for years and still does. You gotta go way back for her more witchy content and hear her call herself a witch tho.

  • @jujuthyme
    @jujuthyme 10 месяцев назад +1

    Im so happy that I found your channel! Loved the video! ❤

  • @IvyTheOccultist
    @IvyTheOccultist 11 месяцев назад +5

    I just stumbled upon this video and bravo! 👏 This topic is so important. Thank you for sharing your voice.

    • @asterperpetua
      @asterperpetua  11 месяцев назад +3

      Omg I can’t believe you just commented on my video! I love your content, thank you for taking the time to stop by 🤍 * happiness noises *

    • @IvyTheOccultist
      @IvyTheOccultist 11 месяцев назад +1

      @@asterperpetua ahh you are fabulous!! I'll be lurking around for sure! 😆❤️❤️

  • @juna4444
    @juna4444 8 дней назад

    It's a great video! :) Thank you so much! :)
    I didn't think so much about that you're a woman of colour as much as I thought that you're a very nice and intelligent witch and that I can learn a lot from your videos even though I practiced for years :) But yes, it's a very important topic and I will support you and other POC as much as I can, cause I like the content and not because of saviorism!!! (Sorry, I don't speak English that good, but I hope you understand what I'm trying to say)

  • @Justaclown-endoy09
    @Justaclown-endoy09 3 месяца назад

    My ancestors are romanichal (a traditionally nomadic peoples) and I resonate with this so so much. We migrated across Europe from India hundreds of years ago and have faced persecution because of our language, skin and our cultural practices were seen as witchcraft so the term became linked with judgment and racism.
    I will say in recent ish years the term is definitely becoming reclaimed by myself included. Culture is rich people should embrace more of it

  • @LavenderHazelwood
    @LavenderHazelwood 10 месяцев назад +1

    Wonderful topic, Aster! You made a lot of good points that also apply to the US experience as I understand it. Freed slaves didn't have any resources either and rules were made that made being free really difficult too. There was more acceptance in the Northern half of the US (but still not 'welcoming'). But if you were in the South, getting to the North with no money was almost impossible unless you had people you could count on to help you. I'm glad that you're here making the connections between race and witchcraft. It's not your responsibility to do it but you choose to and many people thank you for doing it. xo, Aurora

  • @M00nwater
    @M00nwater 11 месяцев назад +4

    Thank you for your video. Im someone who also has a combination of ancestry. Mexican/peruvian indigenous background and european. My family is familiar with brujeria, but because of the catholic background that is dominant mexican/latin culture its hard to identify with at times. I grew up catholic in my youth, and brujeria is heavily intertwined with catholicism. I however, dont involve it in my practice. I see it as the colonizer religion that is prevalent and forced upon us. I sometimes have a hard time finding good resources on the subject due to the stigma, as well as the lack of resources available in the US. I focus more on the nautral and elemental of witchcraft. I tend to side with the term of witchcraft rather than brujeria.
    I would love to find more resources on the on brujeria and ancestral history, but a lot of information has been hidden or destroyed.

  • @whiterzwzm
    @whiterzwzm 11 месяцев назад +8

    As a white American, I appreciate your approach on this sensitive topic. I have watched other content creators who demonize being a white American. I understand the reason to a point, but they are bullying white American people who don't think or feel the way their ancestors did. I sincerely apologize for what your ancestors (and by association, you) have gone through!! I do appreciate how you teach folks who may not understand or may not recognize the struggle of people other than their own culture.

    • @yasminheskey8981
      @yasminheskey8981 11 месяцев назад +9

      I don't think people deploring the heinous actions of their ancestors is bullying. They are calling out issues that have happened historically that have had a huge impact until this very day. I only recently found out out that im largely Nigerian ancestry thanks to DNA ancestor test. I don't feel they should be ashamed to be who they are, but I do believe we have to learn from history so it never repeats its self,

    • @mariharrik5987
      @mariharrik5987 11 месяцев назад

      @@yasminheskey8981 so its ok to bully white American for what their ancenstors did stop demonizing innocent people

    • @mariharrik5987
      @mariharrik5987 11 месяцев назад

      @@yasminheskey8981 then Why people of coulour make white americns to be ashamed of their ancenstors

  • @afrodyete
    @afrodyete 11 месяцев назад +4

    My same thoughts. Thank you for having the values and strength to voice it in a skewed reality. I’ve always wondered is the algorithm also structurally racists on platforms. I had a channel and it just wasn’t what people wanted to see or getting any recommendations on the algorithm,maybe this is a sign to try again.
    Witches of colour on here:
    The Afro Animist
    Notty
    Priestess Auset Ra Amen
    Connecting w/guides and goals Adunola
    Queen Afua
    Conjure Queen
    High Priestess May
    Indra Ali
    Jade Lore
    Isis Wisdom
    Spiritual Insight by Tesh
    There are many more you just have to dig deep and find them as a lot of them are no Longer active channels too.

  • @elfinmagic100
    @elfinmagic100 11 месяцев назад +3

    Love your video. Please check out The Queen Po. She speaks about African Traditional Religions and has defined the term witch from the ATR view. I find her channel very informative.

    • @asterperpetua
      @asterperpetua  11 месяцев назад +2

      Thank you sooo much for the recommendation, I didn't know about her channel! 🤍

    • @elfinmagic100
      @elfinmagic100 11 месяцев назад +3

      Check out these ladies as well: Mystic at the Crossroads, Yeyeo Botanica, Magick Unleashed, Shonetta's Divine Tarot.

    • @asterperpetua
      @asterperpetua  11 месяцев назад +1

      I definitely will! 🙂

  • @vanessalamartiniere-ic4iv
    @vanessalamartiniere-ic4iv 11 месяцев назад +1

    I really enjoy all the content creators but I was thinking about this yesterday.

  • @KNRK379
    @KNRK379 2 месяца назад

    🔥🔥🔥 thank you for your wisdom

  • @Leila-ym6hl
    @Leila-ym6hl 6 месяцев назад +1

    An interesting video, I think most likely, in large part, is that the term “witch” is Anglo-Saxon and rooted in European folklore so naturally many more euro-descended people would identify that way as it is the most prominent description available in European culture. The Christianisation of much of Europe by the Roman Empire defaced and demonised many of the regional pagan beliefs and later, in some places, the native language was banned and speakers were punished as invaders attempted to entirely annihilate the mother tongue and they did successfully wipe out most of the culture, as for example with the Gaelic and Brittonic languages and culture, that over time ostracised people from their own lands and cultural heritage as it became fully Romanised and many are only waking up to what has been done now and trying to reclaim their heritage. Then there is also the European Witch Trials which almost certainly put much of a stop to anyone identifying themselves with any kind of nature-based practises or Paganism/ worshipping of Old Gods outwardly until relatively recently. That is as concisely as I can really put it. Reclaiming the word witch is the best many can do with the limited and extremely biased knowledge they have of their own ancestors prior to all of this destruction and I think they are mostly trying to reconnect the dots to their respective cultures. Outside of, and even inside of Europe, the word witch is replaced with a multitude of different words with variations in meaning dependant on the culture and that word in particular is still heavily penalised around the world today and certainly not met with welcome in most places as a whole. So I understand that you may feel that you are not represented in the witchcraft community on RUclips and I know you will inspire many in feeling represented & I also hope you may also appreciate that this is still a widely misunderstood and un-accepted term even among white people and many ‘people with straight hair’ as you say, are also trying to reconnect to it and unlearn the harmful messages that they have been raised with due to this complex history. I hope that in the future the term Witch can represent an open door for all people who feel that their cultural history has been eradicated and who have been displaced from their ancestral home lands to grieve for their loss and relearn the old ways, to whatever degree they can, whilst working to recreate much of it from scratch in their own modern context. Many blessings and I hope that you will feel more welcome in the witch craft community. I hope in the future anyone feels that they may use the term, if it suits them, and it may come to represent many people who struggle to feel a sense of geographical and cultural belonging in their practise but can turn to this term to reclaim a part of themselves.

  • @witchNwand
    @witchNwand 10 месяцев назад +8

    As a male witch, the question that i always ask is, Why are most witchy content creaters women?
    It's men that are in the minority in regard to the craft on social media.

    • @asterperpetua
      @asterperpetua  10 месяцев назад +1

      You know, I have asked myself that question as well. There's probably a reason for it. Even if we think about the image of the witch in the middle ages, it's always been mostly associated with women... But why? That's a very good question, for sure.

  • @witchways
    @witchways 8 месяцев назад

    Just rewatched this. Such an important topic. Thank you for doing this. And also Angela Davis is incredible in all ways! Thank you such an important topic.

  • @debrionyx9318
    @debrionyx9318 10 месяцев назад +3

    The glamour witch

  • @Apollos2023
    @Apollos2023 10 месяцев назад +1

    This was a very informative video. I also researched how the roman catholic church's involvement with slavery and it's insane. Smh. I've been looking for more of my own people who are into a spiritual way of living. We are the only people who don't know where we came from and it's designed that way. Smh. I really hope that your channel grows. Keep it up👍🏾

    • @asterperpetua
      @asterperpetua  10 месяцев назад +1

      That is a very strong statement: we are the only people who don't know where we came from. And it's absolutely true. It's something violent to not have access to our ancestry as other people normally have :(
      Anyway, thank you so much for dropping by! Welcome to the fam! 🤍

  • @johnnymurray6275
    @johnnymurray6275 5 месяцев назад +1

    Hello, thanks for the video, please look at the Occult Kollege by Terrane Hicks.

  • @mrsdedrathompson
    @mrsdedrathompson Месяц назад

    First thank you for asking to get a better understanding from what I understand is we didn’t even know we was free until years later, that’s why the 4th of July is so funny to see black people celebrate it for my family. We’re still inslave in the U.S. from birth is you understand the system, they created a whole law system against us, they’ve flooded out and burnt down black owned town’s businesses etc took our land, made us learn their language also took religion from us as well… it’s a lot here going on still…we should definitely collaborate on these topics, I’m Native American but use to think I was black or identify as African American until I knew better.

  • @gaabrie.l
    @gaabrie.l 11 месяцев назад +1

    There is a Filipino descendant folk witch i like a lot! She's also a folk witch, tho she talks abt lots of kinds of magic and spells and stuff, shes very nice! "The Witch of Wonderlust", btw :)

    • @asterperpetua
      @asterperpetua  10 месяцев назад

      Oh I know Olivia, she's such a dear!!

  • @ImNanibby
    @ImNanibby Месяц назад

    As a white woman I love that this video brought up structural racism. Growing up in the US, they teach the history of the end of slavery as though freed black people were capable of building their wealth through share cropping. This was when the "freed slaves" had the "opportunity" to work on the white mans farm for a small portion of the revenue. They really just stayed in the slave houses, doing the same work, until they had the funds to leave. For what I understand, this was mainly in the south and a lot of people never had the money to leave easily. This leads to the structural racism in the US today. Black people weren't allowed to vote either. When they could vote they had to pass mundane literacy tests. We took one of the literacy tests in high school and almost nobody passed.

    • @asterperpetua
      @asterperpetua  Месяц назад

      Thank you for this comment. I learned with it! 👀

  • @M00nwater
    @M00nwater 11 месяцев назад

    Also, dont stress about producing content when working your 9-5. We will be here to watch the content you produce. Take your time. Your presence is appreciated. Figure out what works for you❤

    • @asterperpetua
      @asterperpetua  11 месяцев назад

      thank you sooo much, M00nwater 🤍

  • @nikkism8338
    @nikkism8338 8 месяцев назад

    I really enjoyed watching this video, and finding your page. So glad to see a community of black witches coming forth, and you are right most black people never called themselves witches. I always heard terms like practitioner, or maybe sorcerer. They just did what they did. Lol
    Also Jess of Behatielife definitely calls herself a witch. In most of her videos she says she is the head witch of behatielife.

  • @DevoteeOfAthena
    @DevoteeOfAthena 9 месяцев назад +2

    As you asked for suggestions of other channels I have a couple that weren't mentioned in the video they are: Afura Nefertiti and Goddess In The Making. I'll be looking through the comments and subscribing to other suggestions too

  • @quiestinliteris
    @quiestinliteris 11 месяцев назад

    Thank you for providing this. Going to have to come back to rewatch, because I'm nasty sick and currently have a ten-second attention span. Might have something actually interesting to say then, but for now, algorithm comment. :)

    • @asterperpetua
      @asterperpetua  11 месяцев назад

      Oh thank you so much for stopping by anyway, it's very nice of you to worry about the algorithm 🥰 I hope you'll het better soon 🤞🏽❤️‍🩹

  • @reshenewells6815
    @reshenewells6815 Месяц назад

    Alot of black and Latina women also tend to call themselves kemetic Yoruba or voodoohoodoo priestesses brujeria or juju women or rootworker rather than witches or wiccan which is a European word

  • @EM-wh4bu
    @EM-wh4bu Месяц назад

    Thanks!

  • @aebostick4241
    @aebostick4241 11 месяцев назад

    I love Jess from Behatilife, been following her since the beginning of my practice pretty much. I also follow Valerie Love who i think is one of the biggest Christian witches on youtube and though i dont identify as a christian witch she is so powerful and uplifting with good info to share.
    As a white american women, i find myself always interested in topics like this because it challenges my regular thought patterns or exposes topics i as an individual may not have thought about. I know im only human and have conditioning from the society i was raised in (good and bad, as we all do) so i hope to always expand my sense of awareness for those in whatever ways may be different from me.
    From what i think i know slavery ended through civil war, president lincoln hoped to send the majority of black people back to Africa or their homeland but it didnt pan out, segregation was a huge aspect of society afterwards and in 1964 through the efforts of people like Dr. Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks a lot of civil rights movements gained momentum, laws were passed to abolish segregation but there were still places obviously with racism and segregated mentalities making it hard for people of color to even become middle class citizens.
    Thanks for the great video!

  • @booksbrownliquor8689
    @booksbrownliquor8689 11 месяцев назад +1

    Thank you so much for speaking on this topic. Your points are relevant, and thank you for the book recs as well.❤

  • @manifest_with_cecian
    @manifest_with_cecian 3 месяца назад

    Yes being a black women living in Southern Africa , being a black witch is still uncomfortable as most Africans have accepted the oppressive Christian or Abrahamic religions . So yes blacks spiritual practitioners in South Africa are called traditional healers and lets say that it is accepted now since it is a little open and practiced since SA is democratic country . But yes black people have embraced the white western religions a little too much.

  • @Bjorn_Algiz
    @Bjorn_Algiz 7 месяцев назад

    Very interesting and informative 😮

  • @M00nwater
    @M00nwater 11 месяцев назад +1

    To answer your question, slave history in the US is part of the civil war. The northern states (the union) wanted to abolish slavery, and the confederacy (the south) depended heavily on slavery for working on plantations. Pretty much everything from marylands mason dixon line down was the south and they were pro slavery. When a new state was added, it was a political issue as to decide whether it would be a slave state or not. The war ended with the union defeating the confederacy. The south today, is still heavily plagued with racism/prejudice. Reparations were supposed to be made. The common 40 acres and a mule was a promise that was made to freed slaves, however then the rise of sharecropping became a way to opress the newly freed black people in the south.
    In the Louisiana and states along the coast its common to hear about voodoo/hoodoo practices. Some have had influences of other european cultures like french or spanish especially in Louisiana and florida. Along the appalachian mountains, appalachian folk magic is also fused with black/hoodoo practices and european witchcraft, as well as native american influences. Down in south texas, you can hear more practices rooted in brujería, santeria, as well practictioners who worship the santa muerte.
    Theres been ongoing debates among people particularly in the south where ancestral practices are mixed with other traditions on whether it is okay to partake in the practice or not because of association with closed practices.

    • @asterperpetua
      @asterperpetua  11 месяцев назад +1

      Thank you so much for your comment 🤍 I don't know a lot about the history of the US. When it comes to the mixture of cultures and practices, something very similar happened in Brazil.

  • @melolore1280
    @melolore1280 4 месяца назад

    Aradia Arcanam,Working with spirits,Leap Taken,Mystic at the crossroads,Mastering Spirit,Magical Witch,The Spartanite,Behatife,Ashera Goddess, the earth witch these are just a few that come up in my feed????? A witch is a witch is a witch. Obviously in other countries witch’s are called by other names. Here we’re called what we’ve always been called & crucified for WITCH! I find it absolutely horrible that so many people who profess to be witch’s,practitioners are such creepy people? I follow all kinds of practitioners and the only ones I’ve found to have issue with are as one man calls them people of melanin & insists that only people of color are allowed to be Hoodoo? One of my favorites is Aradia Arcanum she’s an absolute doll. I have loved your content but hate seeing where this has gone? It’s truly sad that once again someone is trying to divide us?

  • @taryntickell4479
    @taryntickell4479 11 месяцев назад

    Thank you for sharing on this ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

  • @Tina-zl8ev
    @Tina-zl8ev 11 месяцев назад +2

    Holy......you are so beautiful 😮❤

    • @asterperpetua
      @asterperpetua  11 месяцев назад +1

      The beauty is in the eyes of the beholder 🤍 thank you!

  • @psukebariah3435
    @psukebariah3435 5 месяцев назад

    I've found that not only are a lot of "witchcraft" content creators in my suggestion feed white, they're from the other side of the ocean, and mostly specifically English.
    But I think talking about "witchcraft" is much too limiting. Personally I think a broader term would be more useful...because there are a lot of magickal practitioners that specifically avoid using the term, for many reasons. Possibly because they want to avoid getting into the Wicca/Witchcraft debate.
    Also, in a time when there is so much talk of...staying in your cultural lane?..."witchcraft" is more of a white European thing. Not magic(k), or non-Abrahamic spirituality, but "witchcraft" is a specific folkcraft practice that is from the British Isles and Europe. So it would make sense for non-white practitioners to call themselves something else...or even white practioners involved in other methods of using magic(k) also call themselves something else. Like Ivy the Occultist, who I think uses the label for some practices, and includes "witch" alongside several descriptors including "chaos magician"
    Which is why I wish the use of a broader term came into fashion to include more non-white practitioners in the suggestion feed and thus make it possible to support their channels.

  • @Sholton7558
    @Sholton7558 10 месяцев назад

    The "liberation" of slaves happened quite similar to how it did in Brazil. I recommend the book Heart and Soul by Kadir Nelson if you are interested in some Black history in America. It's available in an audio version if you don't have time to read.

  • @muriellambert2750
    @muriellambert2750 8 месяцев назад

    ❤❤❤ Love it!!!

  • @nutz4pugz421
    @nutz4pugz421 6 месяцев назад

    There is also: www.youtube.com/@blaquewitchyaya who is an amazing story teller. I love her stuff.

  • @GrannyNoodles
    @GrannyNoodles 11 месяцев назад

    ❤❤ I really enjoy your channel. ✌💞

  • @tamarahamid4805
    @tamarahamid4805 5 месяцев назад

    Hello Aster! Here are some spiritual content creator
    •Connecting w/guides and goals by Adunola
    •Shonneta's divine tarot
    •Tehuti speaks
    •Priestess Auset Ra Amen

  • @sorceress_eye
    @sorceress_eye 6 месяцев назад

    Hey I know this is a couple months late but I have at least one recommendation for a black witch youtuber her name is @Blaque Witch Yaya

  • @reshenewells6815
    @reshenewells6815 Месяц назад

    There are new black women witches out there on RUclips like Valerie love elemi botanics afera Nefertiti writing witch Bronx witch priestess ausetmen mint faery and okani Luna and mindful mage

  • @kukumuniu5658
    @kukumuniu5658 2 месяца назад

    Why most witches are white?
    Because of black magic

  • @debrionyx6676
    @debrionyx6676 10 месяцев назад +1

    Brooklynn jayde

  • @TheLunarPriestess
    @TheLunarPriestess 9 месяцев назад

    Blaque Witch YaYa is one

  • @anastasiabeaverhausen860
    @anastasiabeaverhausen860 11 месяцев назад +1

    Racism. Lol i mean... thats it.
    Just like most things when it comes to representation.

  • @bassbint72
    @bassbint72 9 месяцев назад

    Muito obrigada querida🫶🏼

  • @Lord_Laskov
    @Lord_Laskov 11 месяцев назад +7

    The words ''witch and witchcraft'' are deeply rooted within European folklore. The key word being European. There are however lots of cultures that have a history of witchcraft, but those simply have different names for the same thing. Really sad that you had to make even witchcraft about race and discrimination. Find some confidence in your life without feeling the need to drag others down.

    • @asterperpetua
      @asterperpetua  11 месяцев назад +6

      Right back at you 🤍

    • @Lord_Laskov
      @Lord_Laskov 11 месяцев назад +1

      Still pointing the finger at others instead of doing some much needed self-reflection, i expected nothing less. Enjoy the dead end road called marxism.@@asterperpetua

    • @asterperpetua
      @asterperpetua  11 месяцев назад +5

      Thanks, you too! 🦋✨

    • @wulfsorenson8859
      @wulfsorenson8859 4 месяца назад +2

      Exactly. lol at the Marxist propaganda she felt the need to insert on this topic even though Brazil is full of thriving Quimbanda and Candomble communities she could join if her racism against whites makes her feel so threatened among witchcraft communities.

  • @debrionyx6676
    @debrionyx6676 10 месяцев назад +1

    crescent city conjure
    XOLANI

  • @brunamoura7909
    @brunamoura7909 Месяц назад

    No Brasil Bruxa Preta, Minona.oficial , Kemetperfumariabotanica, Dandara Suburbana, Papisa & Yoni das Pretas nos EUA Afuranefertiti, Gazelle Monet , TheHedgeWitchsHearthHomestead .

  • @johnnymurray6275
    @johnnymurray6275 5 месяцев назад +1

    Hello, thanks for the video, please look at the Occult Kollege by Terrane Hicks.

  • @johnnymurray6275
    @johnnymurray6275 5 месяцев назад

    Hello, thanks for the video, please look at the Occult Kollege by Terrane Hicks.

  • @johnnymurray6275
    @johnnymurray6275 5 месяцев назад

    Hello, thanks for the video, please look at the Occult Kollege by Terrane Hicks.