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Create Your Own Kwanzaa Traditions
Principle: Umoja (Unity)
Premise: To strive for and maintain unity in the family, community, nation and race
Project: Resolve to do one activity every week as a family in 2010 -- family board game night; movies and pizza; or a stroll around the neighborhood to stay active, fit and healthy.
Principle: Kujichagulia (Self-Determination)
Premise: To define ourselves, name ourselves, create for ourselves and speak for ourselves
Project: Invite each member of the family to share one positive word to describe themselves, and then ask other family members to chime in. Combine these words to create an inspiration board that can be hung where everyone can see it and reflect on it.
Principle: Ujima (Collective Work and Responsibility)
Premise: To build and maintain our community and make our brother's and sister's problems our problems and to solve them together.
Project: Choose one charitable act to participate in as a family: working at a food bank, walking in a fundraising marathon, writing a group letter to our president to express an opinion or support for an issue.
Principle: Ujamaa (Cooperative Economics)
Premise: To build and maintain our own stores, shops and businesses and to profit from them together.
Project: Seek out a local black-owned business to frequent; if none are available, search for online businesses that you can support.
Principle: Nia (Purpose)
Premise: To make our collective vocation the building and developing of our community in order to restore our people to their traditional greatness.
Project: Consider volunteering at a local Boys and Girls Club or other organizations that focuses on mentoring young people.
Principle: Kuumba (Creativity)
Premise: 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.
Project: Resolve to gather a group of volunteers to clean up a local park area; enlist the help of family to start a flower or organic vegetable garden; seek out arts programs, community theaters, church programs, and other options for seniors and young people that encourage our creativity to flourish.
Principle: Imani (Faith)
Premise: To believe with all our heart in our people, our parents, our teachers, our leaders, and the righteousness and victory of our struggle.
Project: Keep our history alive by passing it along. Invite young people to videotape oral histories of their grandparents' lives, purchase books that celebrate our contributions to this country and the world, or challenge your children to write the best essay on a black leader they admire and reward their efforts.
Source: The Official Kwanzaa Website
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By: ADMR on 12/23/2009 11:37PM
What WONDERFUL, MEANINGFUL Principles - If all PEOPLE regardless Of Color practiced these wholeheartedly, the World would be a BETTER place.
GoodNite GOOD ONES!!!!
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By: blessed with god's mercy&grace,god really loves all of all! on 12/26/2009 7:44AM
i've always wanted and still do to this day to be part of such a caring and very concern organization that operates on love with love for the people of the world,no matter what creed or color it should be called for the love of the kwanza experience!
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By: RubyJewel on 12/26/2009 1:12PM
This is an excellent presentation about Kwanzaa. If we, as a people, would only practice these seven principles, we would become a better race of people. Our racial pride is deteriorating fast for lack of knowledge about our own culture and history. It seems like so many of our people are busy trying to be somebody else, something other than who and what they ARE, that our Black men and women have just, snarlingly "TURNED" on each other.
This is sad. We are, slowly, becoming a dying breed. We need the principles of Kwanzaa, NOW, more than ever!! Thank you, Vanessa K. Bush, for this fine article.
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By: patti777 on 12/26/2009 6:17PM
The people who embrace Kwanzaa are generally not the ones who need to embrace it's principles. Maybe Dr. Karenga could help by getting out of the classroom, rolling up his sleeves, and visiting the streets of South Central. See if he can get all the baby daddies to take care of their kids, and the baby mommas to learn some job skills. Maybe he can get the Rolling 60's to put down their guns and stop terrorizing the neighborhood. Maybe he can suggest how we can get some of our young men out of jail (he knows a little something about jail.) Maybe he can develop a program that really empowers the powerless. These rituals are very sweet, but they do not change the lives of our people in a constructive way. Faith in God is what we need to teach. When people find Jesus, their lives change in measurable ways. This is just a bunch of rituals to take our minds off of what is really important. You can keep Kwanzaa!
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By: ochi on 12/28/2009 1:43AM
While I understand what you are saying. It is very judgmental and self-righteous. It is us to each of us to roll up our sleeves. Why look to someone else to do what you can do? Dr. Karenga has done his part, look at the person in the mirror. Everyone who celebrates Kwanzaa needs it, don't be naive or mislead. If more black people had their lives together that alone would rectify the problems you mentioned but we are not together as a people and that is why our schools, churches, families, and communities suffer so.
Just something to think about before shooting off. Look in the mirror. Personally, I do a lot and that is still not enough. So I don't pat myself on the back I just dig in even deeper and keep working. None of us can talk until we see daylight.
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By: Jerome on 12/26/2009 11:19PM
I am A 7 year veteran of the army, E-7 > I like the Army , I like being an American . I don't see the point of Kwanzee. Africans don't wan't us back and at least 50 % of American whites back me if not more. Black Voices is racist and my friends here black and white American soldiers is all I need and I know they have my back. to hell with Africa . I am A black American NCO in the Army.
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By: Rhonda on 12/26/2009 11:33PM
I have been hearing about KWANZAA for many years, but never knew the full meaning of it. Iam a Christian. The whole idea of KWANZAA is great, because it teaches BLACKS to be responsible in all aspects of life. This is good for a person no matter what they believe in. Every one can benefit from KWANZAA the world would be a better place.
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By: Emerald on 12/29/2009 10:43AM
I have been celebrating and exposing my 2 sons to the Kwanzaa tradition for 5 years now. Although it was a "blah blah" fest for them, I continued to expose them to the 7 life altering Principles and I've also made sure I've exposed them to the blessed rewards of following the Principles. This is such a wonderful way to promote dialog, thought provoking ideas that turn into well thought out plans for the following year. Raising 2 boys alone I want to make sure they are not "statistics" and guide them into being successes like their mom. The Principles build character, raises awareness and keeps one focused on bettering the family and the self. I think EVERY race should look into this; maybe eyes will be opened to destructive behavior patterns. I plan on continuing this tradition and I hope it brings my boy's family to my home each year for the celebration so it may be instilled into their children as well.
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