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Black Herman

Black Herman was an African-American magician who combined magic with a strong separatist and militant political message, and became one of the most important Black magicians in history. His mission was to promote his view of Black power by attracting attention and support using stage magic, occult magic and superstition. Born in Amherst, Virginia, Benjamin Rucker learned the art of illusions from a huckster named Prince Herman. The two ran a medicine show, performing magic tricks to attract customers for their "Secret African Remedy", a tonic that was mostly alcohol with some common spices added for good measure. When Prince Herman died in 1909, Rucker, then only 17 years old, continued to travel with the show, focusing on the magic and dropping the medicine show. Creating his own stage persona, Rucker took the name "Black Herman", partially in honor of Prince Herman, and partly as an homage to Alonzo Moore, the famous African-American magician who wa...

Judge Me by the Color of My Skin

Every time, We curse Our Sacred Features; i.e. hair, lips, nose, eye color, and skin color, these self-negating thoughts block the development of our personal logic circuit. Consequently, We as a as People are blocked from authentic thought s and concepts. We have been so traumatized by this Branch of Hell, called America, that the mere mention of anything considered militant, radical, Pro-Black induces a panic attack. The fear of white reprisal for independent, self-reliant thoughts and behaviors has trapped Us in a debilitating, intellectual limbo that shuts down the reasoning capacity. The proof this psychic/mental malaise is in the Conspiracy of Silence in African-American Culture. Children intuitively sense that something is terribly wrong about the savagely brutal cycles of poverty, injustice and degradation. Yet, all the “adults" are talking about Satan Claus, Disney Land and Basketball Wives. Those irrepressible Freedom Fighters who have the temerity to speak agai...