“What or who exactly is one conjuring when they say they have a mammy spirit in their lives, with which they personify with the ubiquitous mammy statues and figurines of Fictional Mammy? Because chances are if it were an actual mammy, she is most likely not coming back happy, jovial, good-natured nor eager to please those whom she would regard as “massa’s chillun’”. The very idea of interfering with the eternal rest of the spirit of a slave, reeks of privilege, entitlement and plain out willful ignorance. Mammy, both Factual and Fictional, has earned her right to retirement. She deserves her peace, and an undistrurbed reunion with the loved ones she may have lost in life. Mammy finally has her freedom. And yes, her spirit is honored and kept alive, by those who carry her blood through their veins. For those of no blood relation to enslave her spirit for the purposes of–whatever it is one does when they call themselves conjuring up the spirits of dead slaves– is not only disrespectful to her right to rest in peace and dignity, it is hugely disrespectful to her living descendants.”
