Misconceptions About Kwanzaa: Is Kwanzaa Responsible for a War of Self-Destruction?

The thrust of Afrikan culture and its values and meaning to its people has remained unchanged since time immemorial. Afrikan culture is brought into self-determined existence to provide Afrikan souls with their own basis of life functioning and ascension.  Kwanzaa both beautifully and magnificently represents the much needed cultural restoration and elevation critical to Afrikan life. Indeed, whether via a cursory glance or from deep study of Kwanzaa and its values it is beyond doubt that its substance is of powerfully progressive Afrikan cultural continuance. Kwanzaa is a vehicle of Afrikan foundational strength and fortitude that empowers Afrikan oneness throughout the various levels of the self in the natural onward and upward thrust of Afrikan betterment. It inherently holds substance to energise the cultural safeguarding of Afrikan beingness. Naturally, any war of self-destruction is anathema to Afrikan culture and as such is anathema to the wonderful Afrikan cultural observance of Kwanzaa.

According to a popular mainstream platform the word war is defined as:

“a state of armed conflict between different countries or different groups within a country”.

This popular platform also refers to the phrase self-destruction as:

“behaviour that causes serious harm to oneself”.

The obvious and clear conclusion is that Kwanzaa, a celebration of the productive and bountiful Afrikan harvest, can in no way be at the basis of any self-destructive war. However, some wilfully destructive misconceptions can rear their ugly head when different groups of Afrikan people rise to better Afrikan life.

Two pioneering groups in the 1960s were that of Us Organisation and the Black Panther Party. Both set their respective courses for the uplift and security of Afrikan life. Both were acutely aware of the alien imposition via the Maafa of recent centuries. Both understood that there was a deficit in the otherwise natural connection that Afrikan people had with own their culture.

 According to the Chairman and Co-Founder of the Black Panther Party in the 1960s:

“[He] came to my land, Black people’s land, the mother country of Black people – Afrika! Took guns took force and enslaved us. Took our labour, all the fruits of our labour away from us. Took our [fathers and] mothers away from us. Took all the governments and justice we had away from us. Took our language and our culture away from us. Took our whole means of survival away from us”.

 According to the leader of the Us Organisation:

“in the 60s the general thrust was to demonstrate and defend the historical and cultural unity of Afrikans on the continent and Afrikans in the diaspora…We argued that the key crisis in Black life is the crisis of ideology and culture, i.e. the critical lack of a coherent system of views and values that would give them a moral, material and meaningful interpretations of life as well as demand an allegiance and practice which would insure their liberation and a higher level of human life”.

The Us Organisation progressively picked up the mantle of cultural restoration that gave rise to the wonderful observance of Kwanzaa.

Members of the respective organs came together at a meeting on a university campus where conflict erupted and fatalities occurred The Minister of Defence and Co-Founder of the Black Panther Party states:

 “The impression given from official investigations is that the FBI merely took advantage of an existing state”

 However, the Minister of Defence continues:

 “There is no doubt that the bureau desired violence to occur between the two organisations…To be sure, promoting violence for political reason is a serious enough charge to be levelled and proved against a federal agency charged by law with investigating crimes and preventing criminal conduct. Much more serious, however, is the recently discovered evidence that the FBI participated in the murders of two Panthers, John Huggins and Alprentice ‘Bunchy’ Carter, at the University of California, Los Angeles in 1969, helped to cover up their role, and sought to pin the blame on [the Us Organisation]”.

In this, any war upon Afrikan souls is simply yet another episode in the continuance of the Maafa imposed by alien forces. The havoc, destruction and the loss of life caused by others that mean the Afrikan ill leaves scars and wounds that have continued to fester.

 The legacy of what took place on that campus lingers on. As one insightful contemporary rap music artist puts it:

 “You see LA ‘s been bangin’ ever since Bunchy got shot on that campus”.

Afrikan people can halt the crisis of culture by living their own way of life. The wonderful observance of Kwanzaa with its core values are a powerful form of cultural restoration and security for Afrikan life in that its lived fabric energises Afrikan oneness and fruitful productiveness (amongst much else of self-benefit and ascension). In short, any suggestion that Kwanaa is responsible for a war of self-destruction is gross misconception and any such suggestion ought to be cast into the pit of redundancy outright.

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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