The second thing taken from us after our freedom, was our culture. Now this was a scientific imperative to promote mental slavery,
because it is ones culture that creates the instinctive motivation towards collective reciprocity on every level of human life.
Dr Clarke relates in the documentary "A Great and Mighty Walk" that the institutions, that evidenced mass social pathologies did not exist,
in Africa 500 years ago.
He staes that there were no prisons, becuase the culture, lead one to alyruism rathe then avarice,
and there were no orphanages, because the village really did raise a child, whose parents may have passed on.
Mariage, loving mariage, was an institution, tha was universal.
Educational excellence among the youth from 5 to 16, had a peer pressure towards excellence and achievement according to the slave naratives, and a socialisic type of economy of reciprocit existed, yet allowing aspecs of free trade.
The Afrocentic movement had burst and starts, like those who had escaped to te Gulah islands in the Carolina and the North Ameican Maroons, in Loisiana.
Richard Alen established some vestiges of it with the African Methodist Zion churches and philanthropies, and later, with Garvey's thust towards Pan Africanism, and the imperative of studying African history and culture.
Malcolm after leaving the NOI, said the most important aspect of the NOI was it's emphais on things African, something I recall vividly as a small child seeing Olatunji and Mariam Makeba perform at a NOI presentation.
The liberation struggle victories in the Motherland were shared with us here, via the visitation of numeous dignitaries, scholrs, and artists,
who in the 60s came to Harlem and Breoklyn,making presentaions for family viewing and edification.
The New Breed created the IN THING in clothing with their dashikis, gaelahs andbubahs, that sisters and brothes wore to church, school, work, and the style was also promoted by the Soul, Motown, Wat Saxx, singes and movie actors of the time,
so literaly millions were being lost by white industry via our dolars doing a 360 within the community, and this gotthe atytention of COINTELPRO
music, the music of The Last Poets, Pharoah Sanders, Sun Ra, Alice Coltrane, Archie Shepp, Nina Simone, promoted the movement also Abie Lincon and her husband Max Roach
Ed Bulins, Barbara Ann Ter, and Amiri Baracka, use te teater to promote te movement,
but what realy scared the hell out of white supremacy was the
Nguzo Saba, and the creation of Kwanzaa, something that would notonly put a dent ptentialy in the shoping peid most imprtant to any pseudo capitalist society
Christmas shoping, but also instil very real principles that would remove Black folks from, mental, economic and political slavery Umoja (Unity)
To strive for and maintain unity in the family, community, nation and race.
Kujichagulia (Self-Determination)
To define ourselves, name ourselves, create for ourselves and speak for ourselves.
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.
Ujamaa (Cooperative Economics)
To build and maintain our own stores, shops and other businesses and to profit from them together.
Nia (Purpose)
To make our collective vocation the building and developing of our community in order to restore our people to their traditional greatness.
Kuumba (Creativity)
To do always as much as we can, in the way we can, in order to leave our community more beautiful and beneficial than we inherited it.
Imani (Faith)
To believe with all our heart in our people, our parents, our teachers, our leaders and the righteousness and victory of our struggle.
http://baykwanzaa.blogspot.com/2009/12/nguzo-saba-seven-principles.html
because it is ones culture that creates the instinctive motivation towards collective reciprocity on every level of human life.
Dr Clarke relates in the documentary "A Great and Mighty Walk" that the institutions, that evidenced mass social pathologies did not exist,
in Africa 500 years ago.
He staes that there were no prisons, becuase the culture, lead one to alyruism rathe then avarice,
and there were no orphanages, because the village really did raise a child, whose parents may have passed on.
Mariage, loving mariage, was an institution, tha was universal.
Educational excellence among the youth from 5 to 16, had a peer pressure towards excellence and achievement according to the slave naratives, and a socialisic type of economy of reciprocit existed, yet allowing aspecs of free trade.
The Afrocentic movement had burst and starts, like those who had escaped to te Gulah islands in the Carolina and the North Ameican Maroons, in Loisiana.
Richard Alen established some vestiges of it with the African Methodist Zion churches and philanthropies, and later, with Garvey's thust towards Pan Africanism, and the imperative of studying African history and culture.
Malcolm after leaving the NOI, said the most important aspect of the NOI was it's emphais on things African, something I recall vividly as a small child seeing Olatunji and Mariam Makeba perform at a NOI presentation.
The liberation struggle victories in the Motherland were shared with us here, via the visitation of numeous dignitaries, scholrs, and artists,
who in the 60s came to Harlem and Breoklyn,making presentaions for family viewing and edification.
The New Breed created the IN THING in clothing with their dashikis, gaelahs andbubahs, that sisters and brothes wore to church, school, work, and the style was also promoted by the Soul, Motown, Wat Saxx, singes and movie actors of the time,
so literaly millions were being lost by white industry via our dolars doing a 360 within the community, and this gotthe atytention of COINTELPRO
music, the music of The Last Poets, Pharoah Sanders, Sun Ra, Alice Coltrane, Archie Shepp, Nina Simone, promoted the movement also Abie Lincon and her husband Max Roach
Ed Bulins, Barbara Ann Ter, and Amiri Baracka, use te teater to promote te movement,
but what realy scared the hell out of white supremacy was the
Nguzo Saba, and the creation of Kwanzaa, something that would notonly put a dent ptentialy in the shoping peid most imprtant to any pseudo capitalist society
Christmas shoping, but also instil very real principles that would remove Black folks from, mental, economic and political slavery Umoja (Unity)
To strive for and maintain unity in the family, community, nation and race.
To define ourselves, name ourselves, create for ourselves and speak for ourselves.
To build and maintain our community together and make our brother's and sister's problems our problems and to solve them together.
To build and maintain our own stores, shops and other businesses and to profit from them together.
To make our collective vocation the building and developing of our community in order to restore our people to their traditional greatness.
To do always as much as we can, in the way we can, in order to leave our community more beautiful and beneficial than we inherited it.
To believe with all our heart in our people, our parents, our teachers, our leaders and the righteousness and victory of our struggle.
http://baykwanzaa.blogspot.com/2009/12/nguzo-saba-seven-principles.html