This is just weird as fuck to me.
Yea..I got thoughts on this too.
This is what happens when you know that a thing is done, but don’t really understand why it was done.
Exactly.
….yeah this is awkward.
??? What’s wrong with it?
In some instances slaves were forbidden to legally marry by the their master’s and would instead have ceremony where the broom was jumped to indicate that they were married.
The issue with the picture above is that if the broom is being done for historical significance, we’re pretty sure that an interracial relationship would have been forbidden….especially to a white man marrying a slave.
I feel like this is their wedding. She may have wanted to jump the broom and didn’t care/know about the implications her husband jumping it with her.
I totally plan on jumping the broom when I get married ( if I get married). Because of its cultural significance to me. One because it a symbol in African American culture and Pagan culture. Being a Black Wiccan, I am jumping the broom and doing a hand tying. And I don’t care that my partner is white. Inter-faith and interracial wedding and marriage are bound to be a weird combinations of culture, history and traditions. That is a good thing since that sort of marriage will have to able to blend and combine various cultural aspects in a respectful way in order to survive.
i think if you’re going to jump the broom within the context of an inter-racial marriage {and that could be non-black POC or white in my mind} you better make sure they not only understand the historical implications of doing so but they have dismantled their anti-blackness. because hopping the broom in an inter-racial relationship means nothing if you’re partner is anti-black.
It’s obviously apart of her culture and family tradition.Why would she not take part in said family tradition because her husband is white? At the end of the day it shows progress in race relations than anything else.
if jumping the broom is a sign of improved race relations then either race relations never stood a real chance or the bar has been set extremely low
cultural integration is not nor ever will be a sign of race relations improving, especially when it comes the context of somebody belonging to the dominant party who technically would be able to access such traditions without even needing to having a black wife to do it. see paganism/wicca appropriation of the jumping the broom tradition.
white people can engage in the traditions of POC anytime they damn well please, they don’t have to understand it, nobody but POC will say boo, and i guarantee you race relations will have not improved in the slightest from them doing so
so that overly idealistic argument grounded in false notions of “race relations” is invalid on its face
I feel a bit like I shouldn’t speak on this, but I’m going to anyway. My husband (who is non-Roma) and I had a small ceremony that contained many traditional Romani … things.
We had a … mangavipen, a small… intimate affair with only a few close, close friends (our “family” here at the time) where we were handfasted with a red string and although we didn’t drink out of each others hands, we did out of glasses we each held to the other. We also jumped a broom (very traditional for us) and that was the close of the ceremony.
Later we did have a bijav and everyone came. It was different to the mangavipen… a lot different. I think I liked the smaller one better…
Anyway, I have been criticized harshly for marrying my husband in this way… because he is non-Roma. I kind of… when I see this photo and the commentary I feel… sort of hurt. If there were photos of my mangavipen (of which some are on the internet) people could start saying this about me. Asking why I did it, isn’t this disgusting, o.m.g.
And… it was the best day of my life… and I made the decision to do it the way I did because I am Romani.
The end.
There was no great plan, no great decision, no undercurrent of anything but love and respect and tradition…
If you want to jump the broom at your wedding, jump the freaking broom. I think its a lovely symbol, it means whatever obstacles are in your way, you’re still going to marry the love your life. If this was two white people it’d be problematic, but its not, so get over it.
What would you prefer? Making this lovely woman whitewash her own wedding because this makes you uncomfortable? It is obviously meaningful to them so mind your own biz.
