posted March 25, 2010 05:52 PM         

I have gone to quite a few "New Age" things whether its Healing/Psychic Fairs, Brian L. Weiss Regression Workshops, and even going to the interfaith unity church that I am going to.

I always notice one thing:
There is hardly any people that have black ancestry that go to these events.

It makes me wonder why.

It's not like I live in Vermont or Maine.

I live in Sacramento,California which has an estimated 14 percent black population.

Do blacks here in USA on the average tend to resistant to New Age beliefs, especially if they get very idealistic like everything is all rosy,love,and light. I live in the neighborhood community of Oak Park, and well...blacks here don't have that impression.

I feel that maybe the black part of me was resistant to New Age beliefs too, but the overall multiracial me that believes that there should be unity and universal love made me to eventually be open to this stuff.

I was very idealistic and naive when I joined the navy, and I came out pessimistic and just getting hard core reality of race relations as I interacted with people from many states,cultures,ethnicities,etc. I often noticed people "staying with their own kind" when I was on ships. One guy who was mixed like me told me that there are people on the ship that still blacks should be slaves when he confronted me about idealistic views which were strengthened with my interest in the rave movement and electronic music.

My own white mother reminds me that Sacramento is a prejudiced town even though it's multicultural. She always noticed racial prejudice than I did.

any ways...I think there are significant racial differences in regards to beliefs about New Age.

Raymond

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