Who is this, you ask? This is us. This is Black. This is our
true and undeniable connection to deep, dark Africa. It's in our DNA. It’s in
our genes. It’s in our Heavenly origin. That’s why our children need to know
themselves. Any culture or ethnicity can claim a stomp (drum, thunderclap, but
not this one). It has meaning that Black and Been-There-Done-That know. Even
the deaf understand it when they hear (feel) it. You know it, whether you
remember it or not. You feel it in the spine, the heart, the head. Own it. Little
children recognize it when their ancestors or their present parents make them
understand what they are witnessing.
The teaching ancestors still, and will always, bend down and
teach us cultural wisdom and knowledge. It is Black us. You know it and see it
in church, in the home, in the honkytonk, in line dancing, in game arenas. The
stomp is the sound of the drum (in us also, our heartbeats, our pulse, our
words translated into drumbeats, into teardrops, especially into thunder – they
are thunder. Elijah calls down fire from heaven (lightning, which are the
hands) that strikes the drums (in you).
The hand movements are beating those drums. The voice, well,
you see what the voice does to the hands that beat the drums. Elijah’s voice
controls the sound of the drums. Their feet are drums. Elijah is a woman. Watch
her as she calls down fire from Heaven as her voice reverberates through the
ether. Watch her right foot. She calls down fire (lightning, in their hands, the
drumsticks), they stomp in unison. The inner and outer worlds are shaken.
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