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...of Kwanzaa!






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Two Spiritual Brothers, one Black one White
and Jewish, were influential in the founding
of Kawaanza, the Black American Holday
that ends today implanting the Virtue of Faith.



Kwanzaa (/ˈkwɑːn.zə/) is a week-long celebration held in the United States and in other nations of the Western African diaspora in the Americas. The celebration honors African heritage in African-American culture, and is observed from December 26 to January 1, culminating in a feast and gift-giving.[1] Kwanzaa has seven core principles (Nguzo Saba). It was created by Maulana Karenga and was first celebrated in 1966–67.




December 26: In reverence of Umoja (Unity): To strive for and to maintain unity in the family, community, nation, and race.




Stjepan Meštrović, a sociology professor at the Texas A&M University, sees Kwanzaa as an example of postmodernism. According to Meštrović, modern society has discarded ancient traditions as racist, sexist or otherwise oppressive, but since living in a world where nothing is true is too terrifying to most people, "nice" and "synthetic" traditions like Kwanzaa have been created to cope with the nihilistic, individualistic modern society






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Bill Wiltrack wrote:.



...of Kwanzaa!






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Two Spiritual Brothers, one Black one White
and Jewish, were influential in the founding
of Kawaanza, the Black American Holday
that ends today implanting the Virtue of Faith.



Kwanzaa (/ˈkwɑːn.zə/) is a week-long celebration held in the United States and in other nations of the Western African diaspora in the Americas. The celebration honors African heritage in African-American culture, and is observed from December 26 to January 1, culminating in a feast and gift-giving.[1] Kwanzaa has seven core principles (Nguzo Saba). It was created by Maulana Karenga and was first celebrated in 1966–67.




December 26: In reverence of Umoja (Unity): To strive for and to maintain unity in the family, community, nation, and race.




Stjepan Meštrović, a sociology professor at the Texas A&M University, sees Kwanzaa as an example of postmodernism. According to Meštrović, modern society has discarded ancient traditions as racist, sexist or otherwise oppressive, but since living in a world where nothing is true is too terrifying to most people, "nice" and "synthetic" traditions like Kwanzaa have been created to cope with the nihilistic, individualistic modern society






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FFS. Who comes up with this shit?
And 'modern society' I presume means 'American society'. Next we won't be allowed to use any pronoun that denotes gender.

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Kwanzaa is now recognized & celebrated in Canada...so, that may be why the term modern society is beginning to lend itself relevant here within this topic....



*Life Pro Tip - Far be it from me to criticize anyone's style of posting & I'm not doing that here- but, just a word if you care to take-it: You really don't need to copy & paste someone's entire prior post IF you are immediately following-up upon that fellow member's post. It just reads better. MHO.






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Bill Wiltrack wrote:.




Kwanzaa is now recognized & celebrated in Canada...so, that may be why the term modern society is beginning to lend itself relevant here within this topic....



*Life Pro Tip - Far be it from me to criticize anyone's style of posting & I'm not doing that here- but, just a word if you care to take-it: You really don't need to copy & paste someone's entire prior post IF you are immediately following-up upon that fellow member's post. It just reads better. MHO.






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True, but I had a particular reason for doing so in this case. I felt that such an astounding pile of dog-dos deserved to be seen in full stereo.

Bill Wiltrack wrote: *Life Pro Tip - Far be it from me to criticize anyone's style of posting & I'm not doing that here- but, just a word if you care to take-it: You really don't need to copy & paste someone's entire prior post IF you are immediately following-up upon that fellow member's post. It just reads better. MHO. [/size]

What if that person has a noted tendency to edit their posts after the fact?

Maulana Ndabezitha Karenga (born Ronald McKinley Everett, July 14, 1941) is an African-American professor of Africana studies, activist and author, best known as the creator of the pan-African and African-American holiday of Kwanzaa. Karenga was a major figure in the Black Power movement of the 1960s and 1970s, and co-founded with Hakim Jamal the black nationalism and social change organization United Slave. -Wikipedia
Kwanzaa is just another example of black self-segregation from whites, comparable to the goofy African names given to black children today in the USA.

bobevenson wrote:Maulana Ndabezitha Karenga (born Ronald McKinley Everett, July 14, 1941) is an African-American professor of Africana studies, activist and author, best known as the creator of the pan-African and African-American holiday of Kwanzaa. Karenga was a major figure in the Black Power movement of the 1960s and 1970s, and co-founded with Hakim Jamal the black nationalism and social change organization United Slave. -Wikipedia
Kwanzaa is just another example of black self-segregation from whites, comparable to the goofy African names given to black children today in the USA.

And American white trash 'names' are so much better. Bad spelling does not a name make. Nor misspellings of words that weren't names in the first place, or even words.
Regards,
Janeice
Ala'skar
Jaxxon
Kynleigh
Braylon and
Brandee Abercombie.

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KWANZAA
Day #2: December 27
Nguzo Saba Kwanzaa Principle #2

Kujichagulia (koo-jee-cha-goo-LEE-ah)
Self Determination

"To define ourselves, name ourselves, create for ourselves and speak for ourselves."

The second Principle of the Nguzo Saba is self-determination. This too expresses itself as both commitment and practice. It demands that we as an African people define, defend and develop ourselves instead of allowing or encouraging others to do this. It requires that we recover lost memory and once again shape our world in our own image and interest. And it is a call to recover and speak our own special truth to the world and raise images above the earth that reflect our capacity for human greatness and progress.

The first act of a free people is to shape its world in its own image and interest. And it is a statement about their conception of self and their commitment to self-determination. [Frantz] Fanon has said each person must ask him or herself three basic questions:

1. Who am I?
2. Am I really who I say I am?
3. Am I all that I ought to be?

These are questions of history and culture, not simply queries or questions of personal identity. More profoundly, they are questions of personal identity. More profoundly, they are questions of collective identity, based and borne out in historical and cultural practice. And the essential quality of that practice must be the quality of self-determination.

"To answer the question of "Who am I?" correctly, then, is to know and live one's history and to practice one's culture."

"To answer the question of "Am I really who I am?" is to have and employ a cultural criteria of authenticity, i.e., criteria of what is real and unreal, what is appearance and essence, what is culturally-rooted and foreign."

"And to answer the question of "Am I all I ought to be?" is to self-consciously possess and use ethical and cultural standards which measure men, women and children in terms of the quality of their thought and practice in the context of who they are and must become - in both an African and human sense."

Practice Kujichagulia every day!







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Bill Wiltrack wrote:.




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KWANZAA
Day #2: December 27
Nguzo Saba Kwanzaa Principle #2

Kujichagulia (koo-jee-cha-goo-LEE-ah)
Self Determination

"To define ourselves, name ourselves, create for ourselves and speak for ourselves."

The second Principle of the Nguzo Saba is self-determination. This too expresses itself as both commitment and practice. It demands that we as an African people define, defend and develop ourselves instead of allowing or encouraging others to do this. It requires that we recover lost memory and once again shape our world in our own image and interest. And it is a call to recover and speak our own special truth to the world and raise images above the earth that reflect our capacity for human greatness and progress.

The first act of a free people is to shape its world in its own image and interest. And it is a statement about their conception of self and their commitment to self-determination. [Frantz] Fanon has said each person must ask him or herself three basic questions:

1. Who am I?
2. Am I really who I say I am?
3. Am I all that I ought to be?

These are questions of history and culture, not simply queries or questions of personal identity. More profoundly, they are questions of personal identity. More profoundly, they are questions of collective identity, based and borne out in historical and cultural practice. And the essential quality of that practice must be the quality of self-determination.

"To answer the question of "Who am I?" correctly, then, is to know and live one's history and to practice one's culture."

"To answer the question of "Am I really who I am?" is to have and employ a cultural criteria of authenticity, i.e., criteria of what is real and unreal, what is appearance and essence, what is culturally-rooted and foreign."

"And to answer the question of "Am I all I ought to be?" is to self-consciously possess and use ethical and cultural standards which measure men, women and children in terms of the quality of their thought and practice in the context of who they are and must become - in both an African and human sense."

Practice Kujichagulia every day!







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Professor of 'Africana (?) Studies'.
''It is to be distinguished from African Studies, as its focus combines Africa and the African diaspora (Afro-Latin American, into a concept of an "African experience" with a Pan-African perspective.)''


Academia.

Bill Wiltrack wrote:.
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Kwanzaa is a BS holiday invented by blacks in protest of the perceived white celebration of Christmas, which was in fact for all people, including blacks. Invented by blacks who didn't know anything about anything.

thedoc wrote:

Bill Wiltrack wrote:.
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Kwanzaa is a BS holiday invented by blacks in protest of the perceived white celebration of Christmas, which was in fact for all people, including blacks. Invented by blacks who didn't know anything about anything.

Not by 'blacks', by tossers in the ivory towers of academia. I would bet that most black Americans haven't even heard of it, or him. Black Americans are big on kristianity and all its bells and whistles.

Maulana Ndabezitha Karenga (born Ronald McKinley Everett)

vegetariantaxidermy wrote:

thedoc wrote:

Bill Wiltrack wrote:.
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Kwanzaa is a BS holiday invented by blacks in protest of the perceived white celebration of Christmas, which was in fact for all people, including blacks. Invented by blacks who didn't know anything about anything.

Not by 'blacks', by tossers in the ivory towers of academia. I would bet that most black Americans haven't even heard of it, or him. Black Americans are big on kristianity and all its bells and whistles.

Maulana Ndabezitha Karenga (born Ronald McKinley Everett)

The first I heard about it, it was being promoted by blacks, as an alternative to the Christian celebration of Christmas.

" Maulana Karenga created Kwanzaa in 1966, as the first specifically African-American holiday,[2] (but see also Juneteenth). According to Karenga, the name Kwanzaa derives from the Swahili phrase matunda ya kwanza, meaning "first fruits of the harvest",[3] although a more conventional translation would simply be "first fruits". The choice of Swahili, an East African language, reflects its status as a symbol of Pan-Africanism, especially in the 1960s, although most of the Atlantic slave trade that brought African people to America originated in West Africa.[4]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwanzaa

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maulana_Karenga

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Third Day of Kawanzaa - Ujima: Collective Work and Responsibility





To build and maintain our community together and make our brother’s and sister’s problems our problems and to solve them together.






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Bill Wiltrack wrote:.

Kwanzaa is now recognized & celebrated in Canada...so, that may be why the term modern society is beginning to lend itself relevant here within this topic....

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So's every other imported, fake 'holiday', Bill. Now, stop speaking for Canada. We speak for ourselves when we need to.

Anyways, Merry 2nd day of Christmas. :/ (Third, now.)