I trained alongside an African-American woman, so I'm not really seeing that as a barrier or challenge to British Traditional Wicca. Frankly, as we used to joke, my having Irish parents was a bigger one.
I'm not seeing the issue with being strictly Recon, were you meaning for there to be one in your example? It can be done respectfully, with scholarly and academic sources, as most of have seen.
Its nearly impossible (but not entirely) for us to know what cultures we've been born into along our soul's journey, but we do have to be respectful to how those cultures if in existence today feel about our current ethnicity's involvement. NA don't want a bunch of white people running around practicing their rites and Gods knows, we can't blame them for that given the history there. Polynesians don't want a bunch of white people running around proclaiming themselves Huna priests. Can't blame them there, either.
What's truly disturbing is how many pagans don't see the above examples as PROBLEMS. I like to think this group is above that. Or at least once learning about them, would be. But we're all learning. Maybe someone truly feels Huna is their only way to approach Hawaiian spirituality. I'd wish more for them than that pale approximation. More for their ethical structure.
I'm of Jewish ancestry, I do work with Semetic deities but I'm NOT of Sephardic ancestry (I'm Ashkenazi). Some Jewitches have issues with that. I can see why, frankly. But I can't quite see it as the barrier they do. My ancestors migrated before theirs did. Theirs stuck around. Procrastination shouldn't impart a pre-destination. Or should it? :D
At the end of the day, I don't really think its so much about our genetic racial ancestries. I think its more about our cultural ancestry. I don't have ties to the indigenous tribes so I've no rights to their cultural rituals. No one gets to sit at the family table without an invite. Initiation is an invitation, without it, you're a trespasser.
I'm not seeing the issue with being strictly Recon, were you meaning for there to be one in your example? It can be done respectfully, with scholarly and academic sources, as most of have seen.
Its nearly impossible (but not entirely) for us to know what cultures we've been born into along our soul's journey, but we do have to be respectful to how those cultures if in existence today feel about our current ethnicity's involvement. NA don't want a bunch of white people running around practicing their rites and Gods knows, we can't blame them for that given the history there. Polynesians don't want a bunch of white people running around proclaiming themselves Huna priests. Can't blame them there, either.
What's truly disturbing is how many pagans don't see the above examples as PROBLEMS. I like to think this group is above that. Or at least once learning about them, would be. But we're all learning. Maybe someone truly feels Huna is their only way to approach Hawaiian spirituality. I'd wish more for them than that pale approximation. More for their ethical structure.
I'm of Jewish ancestry, I do work with Semetic deities but I'm NOT of Sephardic ancestry (I'm Ashkenazi). Some Jewitches have issues with that. I can see why, frankly. But I can't quite see it as the barrier they do. My ancestors migrated before theirs did. Theirs stuck around. Procrastination shouldn't impart a pre-destination. Or should it? :D
At the end of the day, I don't really think its so much about our genetic racial ancestries. I think its more about our cultural ancestry. I don't have ties to the indigenous tribes so I've no rights to their cultural rituals. No one gets to sit at the family table without an invite. Initiation is an invitation, without it, you're a trespasser.
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