Tuesday, February 17, 2015
Is Mardi Gras another Halloween to the religious right?
Apparently Mardi Gras is now getting the same damnation shade eye from
the Religious Right as does Halloween. When a stranger observed me today
wearing beads and smiled that I had "the Mardi Gras spirit," a woman
nearby corrected him to say it was Shrove Tuesday. When I jokingly asked
what that was, she stiffened up to say it was the name of the day for
Christians. To which I replied, "So is Mardi Gras" and walked off. I
encountered a lot of this kind of You're-Going-to-Hell-and-I'm-Not
attitude when writing American Voudou,
which deals with violently repressive white "Christian"
religious/racial intolerance to African theology. I don't think it's an accident that the main city that celebrates Mardi Gras in the U.S. is majority black. Today I got a twinge
of that same feeling. The more things change.....
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