Okay, with this post I am going out on a limb. "Ha, ha, ha. Hee, hee, hee. Very funny, you say." Yes, I know some white people feel like the get the Holy Ghost too. Yes, and so do some Asian people. However, nobody gets the Holy Ghost like a Black person gets the Holy Ghost. Also, Black people are some of the most religious and churchgoing people I've ever seen on Earth.
Have you ever been to one of those churches where the people there get the Holy Ghost? It gets very loud and normally the church has a band too, which makes the church even louder. The people get real hype and some of them start to speak in tounges, which is a hole 'nother thing I could write about. Anyway, emotions are running high and there's a lot going on in the church.
Religious blacks love to evoke the spirit of the Holy Ghost. Have you ever seen those commercials on BET that ask you if someone put a root on you? Those commerical are so silly to me, yet many Black people believe in such things as the fact that a root can be put on somebody. The Holy Ghost is supposed to combat a "root" and many other ills that people can or will face in life.
On a more serious note, the Holy Ghost is also a very popular figure in African-American culture because the Christian church has always been a central figure in African-American life. This fact is due in large part to the experiences of Black people since they arrived in North America as slaves. Christianity was the only thing that brought hope and peace to most of the slaves. What would you do if someone came to you and offered you eternal life and salvation when all you see around you is nothing but hopelessness and despair, not to mention hostility, hipocrisy, and also crimes against humanity? I mean really. It wasn't like slavery was a picnic in the park for Black people. Slavery was hard as hell and some people just could not and did not make it. The ability of the African-American community to get through terrible times like slavery was only a testament to the fact that God, in the figure of the Holy Ghost, actually existed.
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