The co-founder of Black Lives Matter (Patrisse Cullors) stated she uses the practice of (Ifa) in political protest events?
As seen below (Ifa) is witchcraft/satanism (Santeria) (Voodoo) Etc
She also advocates prison abolition, a parallel to defunding the police in the USA
Wikipedia: Patrisse Cullors
Patrisse Cullors (born June 20, 1983) is an American artist and activist. Cullors is an advocate for
prison abolition in
Los Angeles and a co-founder of the
Black Lives Matter movement. She is also a
LGBTQ activist.
Cullors was born in Los Angeles, California. She grew up in
Pacoima, a low-income neighborhood in the
San Fernando Valley.
[1] She became an activist early in life, joining the
Bus Riders Union as a teenager.
[1]
Cullors recalls being forced from her home at sixteen when she revealed her
queer identity to her parents.
[2] She was involved with the
Jehovah's Witnesses as a child, but later grew disillusioned with the church.
She developed an interest in the Nigerian religious tradition of Ifá, incorporating its rituals into political protest events. She told an interviewer:
For me, seeking spirituality had a lot to do with trying to seek understanding about my conditions—how these conditions shape me in my everyday life and how I understand them as part of a larger fight, a fight for my life.
Wikipedia: Ifa
Ifá is practiced throughout the
Americas,
West Africa, and the
Canary Islands, in the form of a complex religious system, and plays a critical role in the traditions of
Santería,
Candomblé,
Palo,
Umbanda,
Vodou, and other
Afro-American faiths, as well as in some
traditional African religions.