Kwanzaa - Celebrating the Safeguarding of the Afrikan Soul

The following is an account taken from the important text: From Afruika to Afrika Ukombozi Siku - The Living Observance of Afrika Liberation Day. It includes quotations from a number of sources including great heroes from the Afrikan pantheon:

"Over the continuum of recent centuries the hostile enemy forces have consistently attempted to render Afrikan ascendancy impotent. All kinds of desperate tactics have been wickedly devised and deployed to thwart the natural manifestation of Afrikan liberty. The litany of vile concoctions is multitudinous though it is deemed useful to account for a selection of some of these dire enemy ills here.

The following account articulates the European experience of destitution emerging from the baron ice plateaus of Europe and their generational breeding practice for animals. The outcomes for both the European and the subject animal become clear.

'Let’s go back across 30,000 years to time before dogs when our ancestors lived in the endless winter of the last ice age. Our ancestors were wonderers living in small bands. They slept beneath the stars. The sky was their storybook, a calendar, an instructional manual for living. It told them when the bitter colds would come and when the wild greens would ripen. And the herds of caribou and bison would be on the move. Their idea of home was earth itself. But they lived in fear of other hungry creatures. The mountain lions and bears that competed with them for the same prey - the wolves who threatened to carry off and devour the most vulnerable among them.

All the wolves want to get the bone but most of them are too frightened to come close enough. Their fear is due to the high levels of stress hormones in the blood. It’s a matter of survival. Because coming too close to a human can be fatal. But a few wolves with natural variations have lower levels of those hormones. This makes them les afraid of humans. This wolf discovered what a branch of his ancestors figured out some 15,000 years ago – excellent survival strategy – domestication of humans.

Let the humans do the hunting. Don’t threaten them and they’ll let you scavenge their garbage. You’ll eat more regularly. You’ll reap more offspring and that offspring will inherit your disposition. This selection for tameness would be reinforced with each generation. Until that line of wild wolves evolves into dogs. You might call this survival of the friendliest. Then (as now) this was a deal for the humans too. The scavenging dogs were not just a sanitation squad – they were security. As this interspecies partnership continued over time, dogs’ appearance changed also. Cuteness became a selective advantage. The more adorable you were the better chance you had to live and pass on your genes to another generation. What began as an alliance of convenience became a “friendship” that deepened over time. To see what happens next let’s leave our distant ancestors of some 20,000 years ago to visit the more recent past during an intermission in the ice age. This break in the climate starts a revolution. Instead of wondering, people are settling down. There is something new in the [European] world – villages. People still hunt and gather but now they also produce food and clothing, agriculture.

The wolves have traded their freedom for a steady meal. They’ve given up their right to choose a mate. Now the humans choose for them. [The humans] consistently kill off the dogs that can’t be trained. The ones that bite the feeding hand. And they breed the dogs that please them. They nurture those dogs that do their bidding. Hunting, herding, guarding, hauling and keeping them company.

From every litter the humans select the puppies they like best. Over the generations the dogs evolve. This kind of evolution is called artificial selection or breeding. Turning wolves into dogs. It was the first time we humans took evolution into our own hands. We’ve been doing it ever since to shape all the plants and animals we depend on. In a blink of cosmic time just 15 or 20,000 years we turned grey wolves into all the kinds of dogs we love today. Think of it, every breed of dog you’ve ever seen was sculpted by human hands. Many of our best friends, the most popular breeds were created in the last few centuries. The awesome power of evolution transformed the ravenous wolf into the faithful shepherd who protects the herd and drives the wolf away.'

Great liberators of the Afrikan pantheon understood this wicked manipulative science of artificial selection expressed in the ‘master of the dog’ strategy and how it became brutally and genocidally imposed upon Afrikan souls in the guise of the so-called slave-master or plantation master. The outcomes for the Afrikan and the evil abhorrent enslaver are a continuing scourge of existence. The magnificent hero Omowale Malcolm X eloquently articulates profound insight on the subject:

'To understand this, you have to go back to what the young brother here referred to as the house Negro and the field Negro back during slavery. There were two kinds of slaves, the house Negro and the field Negro. The house Negroes – they lived in the house with the master, they dressed pretty good, they ate good, they at good because they ate his food – what he left. They lived in the attic or the basement, but they lived near the master; and they loved the master more than the master loved himself. They would give their life to save the master’s house – quicker than the master would. If the master said, “We got a good house here”, the house Negro would say, “Yeah, we got a good house here”. Whenever the master said “we”, he said, “we”. That’s how you can tell a house Negro.

If the master’s house caught on fire, the house Negro would fight harder to put the blaze out than the master would. If the master got sick, the house Negro would say, “What’s the matter boss, we sick?” We sick! He identified himself with his master, more than his master identified with himself. And if you came to the house Negro and said, “Let’s run away, let’s escape, let’s separate”, the house Negro would look at you and say, “Man, you crazy. What you mean separate? Where is there a better house than this? Where can I wear better clothes than this? Where can I eat better food than this?” That was that house Negro. In those days he was called a “house n****r”. And that’s what we call them today, because we’ve still got some house n****rs running around here.

This modern house Negro loves his master. He wants to live near him. He’ll pay three times as much as the house is worth just to live near his master, and then brag about, “I’m the only Negro out here”. “I’m the only one on my job”, “I’m the only one in this school”. You’re nothing but a house Negro. And if someone comes to you right now and says, “Let’s separate”, you say the same thing that the house Negro said on the plantation. “What you mean separate? From America, this good white man? Where you going to get a better job than you get here?” I mean, this is what you say. “I ain’t left nothing in Afrika”, that’s what you say. Why, you left your mind in Afrika.

On that same plantation, there was the field Negro. The field Negroes – those were the masses. There were always more Negroes in the field than there were Negroes in the house. The Negro in the field caught hell. He ate leftovers. In the house they ate high up on the hog. The Negro in the field didn’t get anything but what was left of the insides of the hog. They call it “chitlings” nowadays. In those days they called them what they were – guts. That’s what you were – gut-eaters. And some of you are still gut-eaters.

The field Negro was beaten from morning to night, he lived in a shack, in a hut; he wore old, cast-off clothes, he hated his master. I say he hated his master. He was intelligent. That house Negro loved his master, but that field Negro – remember, they were in the majority, and they hated the master. When the house caught on fire, he didn’t try to put it out; that field Negro prayed for a wind, a breeze. When the master got sick, the field Negro prayed that he’d die. If someone came to the field Negro and said, “Let’s separate, let’s run”, he didn’t say, “Where we going?” He’d say, “Any place is better than here”. You’ve got field Negroes in America today. I’m a field Negro. The masses are the field Negroes. When they see this man’s house on fire, you don’t hear the little Negroes talking about, “our government is in trouble”. They say, “The government is in trouble”. Imagine a Negro: “our government”! I even heard one say “our astronauts”! “Our Navy” – that’s a Negro that is out of his mind, a Negro that is out of his mind.

Just as the slave master of that day used Tom, the house Negro, to keep the field Negroes in check, the same old slave master today has Negroes who are nothing but modern Uncle Toms, twentieth century Uncle Toms to keep you and me in check, to keep us under control'

The wicked science and control of the foreign criminal pirate was compounded by his repugnant ‘slave laws’. As an insidious aid to foster desired behavioural patterns amongst kidnapped and captured Afrikans, enemy forces established manipulative statute such as the Meritorious Manumission Act of 1710. The strategy for artificial selection became an abominable feature of oppression maintained by the same bogus legal system that validated and sanctioned the genocidal piracy of the Afrikan in the first place.  

'the Meritorious Manumission Act of 1710 was enacted in Virginia. It was the legal act of freeing a slave for “good deeds,” as defined by the national public policy, and could be granted to a slave who saved the life of a White master or his property, invented something from which a slave master could make a profit, or “snitched” on a fellow slave who was planning a slave rebellion or to run away.'

Throughout the centuries the wicked enslaver has demonstrated the wicked extremities of exploits to plunder Afrikan resource. He will sinisterly concoct and execute strategies that may even result in collateral loss of some of his own number to ensure continual piracy. In the case of the death of a European missionary on a religious conversion mission from Portugal in land of Zimbabwe in the 1500s.  

'It was just what the Portuguese needed as a reason for open intervention with eventual Portuguese sovereignty over the entire region. It was an old trick, well known and practised by the secret agents of great powers: To sacrifice one’s own fellow citizens in a foreign land, if by doing so, the larger ends of the state might be served. The Portuguese version that the priest’s death was “engineered by the Muhammadans of Mozambique” may or may not have been true. The Portuguese themselves may have done it.'

Post the chattel plantation phase of enslavement where colonisation became the cruel updated version of subjugation, theft and genocide, Afrikans were perversely misguided to participate in self-destruction for enemy benefit.

'Returning to the question of indigenous Afrikan agents of European colonial rule in Afrika, it should be recognised that Europeans recruited Afrikans to serve in the armies that actually conquered Afrika in the bloody period from the 1880s through the First World War started by Europeans in 1914. It is a widespread characteristic of colonialism to find agents of repression from among the colonial victims themselves. '"

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Alien enemy strategy is a persistent vile science of parasitic and genocidal wickedness. For the marvellous Afrikan souls of the world reclamation, restoration and manifestation of their Afrikan spiritual and cultural way is imperative foundational fabric to safeguard fullest flourishing of life. Protection of the Afrikan soul at all levels is key and the living knowingness of self from the deepest spiritual and cultural levels provides collective rootedness of being to avoid the vulnerabilities, susceptabilites - indeed, the coercement outside of the self that leads to destruction. 

The wonderful observance of Kwanzaa is an important part of Afrikan spiritual and cultural living. This time of year allows the Afrikan to celebrate his or her all-year-round efforts to safeguard the Afrikan soul into the best possible ascension. It is a time to celebrate all efforts to protect Afrikan souls from the disastrous contaminants of alien imposition throughout the annual cycle. 

Obviously, to celebrate protection (as with the other facets of Afrikan life) in triumphant yield of harvest it is necessary to engage in the process of cultivation in order for bountiful crop to be. It is therefore vital that Afrikans take the responsibility for self-cultivation and victorious yield in the context of self-determined organisation. 

The Universal Royal Afrikan Nation is a mission for Afrikan ascendancy with spiritual and cultural fabric at its core. From observance to observance throughout the URAN spiritual and cultural calendar is a grand process of cultivating elevation and spirit protection. It is truly a blessing to celebration this grand yield during the Kwanzaa observance. 

The wonderful observance of Kwanzaa takes place from the 26th of so-called December to the 1st of so-called January. It is seven-day period of Afrikan celebration and spiritual-cultural enrichment. Based upon the harvesting traditions of the Afrikan world this celebration of first fruits has at its core the Nguzo Saba (Seven Principles) together with an beautiful array of deeply meaningful symbols established elevate the Afrikan world community to its fullest flourishing.

Kwanzaa is one of the essential cultural observances of life within the Universal Royal Afrikan Nation. The Universal Royal Afrikan Nation (URAN) is an Afrikan-centred spiritual and cultural mission for ascendancy that embodies living spiritually and culturally rooted life. To find out more about URAN and its spiritual-cultural mission for liberty and nationhood click here. The exquisite URAN pendant can be obtained online by clicking here.

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