According to IFA Yoruba Scientific Spirituality, the wisdom of Ifa is for all the world to drink, the cup bearers must be Black (defined as at least 2/3rds African ancestry). This is not about racism, but about preventing both the Oyinbo (pure Europoids), Castizos (Spaniard-Americans with 25% or less Nativeamerican blood), or Mestizos (half Euro/half native) from exploiting and bleaching African religion.
They are presently going to Nigeria in high numbers and buying titles (just like they have been “buying” people for centuries) in order to get “credibility” when they return to the Americas and start their business as a “babalawo.” Many of them recognize the large amounts of money that can be made with a babalawo title. In the pseudo-Yoruba superstitious dogmatic system, once you have that official title, you can make life-long customers of people coming to you for initiations, fortune-telling, and other rituals.
This is why 95% of the Castizos that are into African Religion are never just trying to be followers, but leaders/babalawos. $$$$$ They very rarely try to reveal true philosophic depth to the system but use superstition and fear to keep you a devoted and fearful consumer of their lies.
Some of them go so far as to adopt African names and even dress in order to convince their customers that they are official. Many Africans, so conditioned to look for non-African authority figures, even continue to do so when looking at African religion. They jump for joy when they see a non-African wear African clothes or adopt an African name. They feel validated and this is why they make easy targets for enslavers. Don’t be fooled by superficial appropriation of African culture by non-Africans, stop looking for their validation, and stop letting them make money off of defining false Truth to you.
They just want your money and to bleach your African religion.
(photo of a Mestizo and his African worshipping a bleach Yemaya)