if black arts or magic do exits why?
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True magic has rules, darkness begets darkness, every action has an equal and opposite reaction, if you want to learn about magic, find a local crystal shop that has witchcraft lessons, or practitioners of teh arts willing to share with you the history and tales of magic.
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THEIR IS SUCH A THING AS MAGIC! BUT I WOULDNT CALL IT MAGIC! THE MAGIC YOU SEE COMES FROM A SOURCE WORKING THRU AN OBJECT OR HUMAN! EVER HEARD OF WHITE AND BLACK MAGIC? SOME DO HARM OTHERS DO GOOD! IT DEPENDS IF THE PERSON IS DEALING WITH THE DEVIL OR NOT!
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First of all AA is a particular diaspora and does not apply to all Black people. To answer your question in some cases the minute Black people or any other non WASP group move into a neighborhood no one wants to invest in it. Without resources a neighborhood won't thrive.  I'v seen this happen.  Everyone left and took everything with them. Only thing that was left was an auto parts dealer and Walmart, no one can live on those wages.  They left because of Racism plain and simple. I also think it is a mind thing, the minute a black child leaves the womb thier stamped with Deprived or Inner city or Ghetto or Crime.  It doesn't go away you have to make it go away, If those things were true I wouldn't be working on my 2nd Master's right now. Also there is this stigma that comes with black neighborhoods. That is, that their must be more crime there. So you will have, White males cruzing the streets harrasing women and young girls and trying to by drugs. Like I said before Black neighborhoods lack resources if their were more places to go for help instead of the police station we would be better off. \n\nMy Boss (who is white)asked if it is a good idea to start hiring students at the nearby high school.  The school is mostly Black.  She was concerned that she might have trouble with these kids.  I took offense to this and we began to talk. She asked me why don't we all stick together instead of killing each, why is there so much crime and black women on Welfare. I kindly told her that we are not the ones on Welfare, her people are, and White people kill each other all the time I don't hear the term White on White crime. I also told her that if she paid people decent wages and start some college and mentoring program that might help. She didn't like that answer and she stated a scholorship at a surburban prep school that was mostly white.  I didn't understand, most of the people at my job (who are Black and my job is in a Black Neighborhood) didn't either, so we started a mentoring program.  This reasoning is part of the problem. She completely wrote off a group of people imagine 20 people thinking this way now imagine thoudsands, get my point.  She had it drilled into her her whole life by watching tv and reading the newspaper that Black people are lazy and don't want to work, steal and rape white women. That's part of the problem and that's why there is crime because no one wants to invest. So people sell drugs and their bodies so they can eat and feed their kids. They feel depressed because of their state, so they drink and do drugs. The media creates a demand to have Ipods and shiny jewerly and cars, so they rob and steal to make themselves feel apart of something.  They  go to jail and when they are released can't find a decent job so the are back to selling drugs and their bodies.  They start using drugs again which is observed by their kids so they learn early. Then the cycle starts over and over again.  Just think that, if someone invested in some of these neighborhoods, with better health service and decent paying jobs the cycle would stop.
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BET has gone to the dogs.  For something that is supposed to represent black entertainment in a positive light, taking out anything of substance is a bad idea.  The only thing worth watching anymore is the few old television shows & even then I regret watching because it increases their ratings.
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During spells DO NOT burn black candles you will be inviting entities from the evil side... There are some riuals that use black candles and they are for good but I have long forgot them - don't use them till' you know their purpose it is danger, death, dark, endings, blindness, confusion and deception.\n\nI no longer use black candles too many bad experiences....\n\nI have attended and red cards at big meetings many time and I "never" saw anyone burn black and red candles while reading cards, I don't burn any at all it doesn't make you weaker or stranger and it can be dangerous. Many places don't even allow them to be burnt for fire hazardous purposes.
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of all the night clubs I ran lights for and met a lot of different people and whitches in wite  gray  and black   say that they do not know how    well blac magic witches do   but I advise you do not go there.\nfor a favor you pain dearly in this life or next or both or byond.\n\nwhite magic is good   gray is half good half bad    black is 100% bad black as in the devil
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The fact that no one seems to know this really says a lot for the city of Austin, doesn't it? I have a couple of different answers, depending on which R&B you mean...old school Rhythm and Blues, or new age hip-hop kind...If it's the first kind, Austin "The Live Music Capital of the WORLD" has done everything they can to destroy any black venues, treats most bands poorly and black bands are just invisible, herded over to the East Side, where gentrification is taking place, thus shoving black artists OUT altogether. It is South by Southwest right now and there are too many bands to see, yet most of them are from California or somewhere else, and they come here hoping to get picked up by a Label. (Some do.) I looked through the Chronicle to try and answer the question, and found nothing as far as R&B clubs. (My band has to play restaurants and weddings, or out of town gigs)If you really just meant like hip-hop, I suggest you go down to 6th Street and walk around. You'll probably find something, although Techno has pretty much taken over down there, since the Live Music Capital doesn't have to pay real musicians that way. BTW, I'm disgusted and will soon be leaving.
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I've talked to Art about this. He doesn't like music and when its lease was up, he made it move to Entertainment. Art's an elitist!
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Black is void of anything. So traditionally, story tellers and Spiritual leaders choose black. It is sort of scary to see something with no reflective value and devoid of light, don't you think?? I wouldn't be scared of a woman or man in pink, in an alley!  would you?
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I think that the black smoke is to do with the dead spirits of each of the various characters pasts. I don't believe it is an experiement, i think they are in a parallel universe that is why all hte characters are all interlinked in the way that they are.
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When it no longer appeals to the masses who purchase this art form. Because Rap sells and Sells big, music producers will continue to produce and sell this art form. If you wish to eliminate rap, try replacing it with an alternative form of music. Much as Rock n Roll replaced most pop music of the fifties, Rap can be replaced when the next wave of music appeals to the masses. It will probably never completely go away as there may always be a portion of the buying public willing to buy this art. After all Vic Damone, Frank Sinatra, and Dean Martin are still selling records even though their time has come and gone.
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This has been something of a mystery to DJs, but explanations are emerging.\n\nOne thing is for sure, when the record companies tried to commercialize it, they kind of messed up the genre, particularly all the "remixes" crammed onto a CD. That broke the feeling of "unity".\n\nAnother thing that surely happened is that the authorities in many areas broke up many good developmental clubs where new music broke because of unpleasantness to do with drugs.\n\nThese two "classic" explanations are not enough in themselves though.\n\nPart of the problem has been the lack of development in musical instruments. As more and more manufacturers piled on the bandwaggon, there was less innovation in sound.\n\nSecondly, you have to hand it to the Afro community, they work HARD at their music. They get it right. They seek out tube amplifiers that are millions of years old and scour the country to get them repaired. While there may be trouble at their clubs, they keep a lid on it in a way that the dance music scene didn't. Their launchpads for new music are thriving.\n\nAfrican American music doesn't "sell out" as easily to big commercial interests. They have a lot of very independent-minded labels. They don't court the radio stations as much.\n\nWhen they develop new skills eg sampling, they don't throw away old ones like vinyl scratching. White electronic musicians tend to do that. \n\nRock has never been my thing really, but its popularity is related to demographics and the baby boom and the children of baby boomers.\n\nThey have a different attitude to life than those born to non-baby boomers. That is part of the explanation.
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I have been to dozens of Black churches, this is not a custom and as far as I know from 80 year old black church members he never was.\n\nAt some black weddings ( or at the reception after) they still do the jumping of the broom more as a fun activity or to be part of thier history.
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I hope not...The new thing in hip hop is to claim you are retiring then come back ... so probably not. \n\nI want him to take some time and get back to the roots of his talent. He has been putting out garbage lately.
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I was in New Orleans the day before Hurricane Katrina hit. When we were evacuating the city we passed by very poor neighborhoods. Most of the people living in those neighborhoods were African American. They were sitting on the porches waving to us. I asked my boyfriend why they weren't leaving and he said they didn't have enough money for gas, food, hotel etc.. I don't think its the entire black race that feels this way about it. Just those in New Orleans who did not have enough money to evacuate.
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Magic that magicians do is slight of hand or illusions.\nMagic(k) as is what witches do--is like asking if there is a God. Depends who you ask--some people are believers others are not.
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Learn what you choose. If it doesn't feel right then, don't do it. People are all different. What feels OK to some isn't so to others. The main thing to remember in anything you do, harm you do to others, can come back against you in one way or another. Wicca and black magic are not the same thing, no matter what christians may think. White, black or grey magic is all the same energy. It's how you direct and use that energy, and your will, that determines how you would view the "magic".