What Lady Di would have wanted 🕯️

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I did not mean any offence, just to highlight this discussion around Smith and I sent the fb link because that was unfortunately the only place I could find Courtney talking on this exact topic

I’m speaking on Smith specifically in that comment. Of course there’s cross overs of many religions and esotericism. There was also a great deal of appropriation of eastern and other non-white spiritualism by those in the esoteric movements Smith was a part of, ie golden dawn, theosophism etc

Courtney Alexander who created Dust II Onyx: The Melanated Tarot made a video about it for BHM

www.facebook.com/share/v/1DVi...

This isn’t the only article that argues that Smith wasn’t black but instead part of a colonialist family. It’s just the most thorough and to hand one I thought to share.

It’s my understanding that she converted to Catholicism at the end stages of her life? And that this was possibly a way for her to distance herself from her esoteric past.

Here’s a very extensive exploration of the colonialism of Smith’s family history and of Smith’s appropriation of Jamaican culture

www.americanrenaissancetarot.com/blog/2019/3/...

I’m certain that she wasn’t black; her family moved to Jamaica from England when her father got a job with the “West India Improvement Company”, so they were colonisers. Smith appropriated Jamaican folklore and culture, giving public performances of the Anancy The Spider Folktales in patois.

Easy mistake to make!

Smith died in 1951, so this is the transition I’m assuming Sinnamon means here.

Niko’s comment on last week’s episode saying that Anna has all the Smallville hairdos in one made me spit take my earl grey tea

You are an incredible photographer. Very warm, distinct and recognisable style