Why don't blacks still celebrate Kwanzaa these days?

[Whogivesafuck]

Karenga wasn't a snitch and there isn't any paperwork on him. They are many Kwanzaa inspired community events around the country this time of the year. They offer Health screenings, food donations,legal reps, musical performance among other things.

 

[videogamestashbox.com]

Harambee!!!!!!!!!!​

 

[videogamestashbox.com]

I celebrate kwanzaa

Black folks for the most part are stripped of cultural pride and fully assimilated into European culture. The lack of pride has made us insecure and dependent so we measure success and celebration by the people we envy and see as successful, which are white folks. This insecurity and dependency also leaves us wanting to be apart of the popular ideologies. We are trained to adopt European customs and practices from the womb on. And we are insecure in being proud of our own culture. Plus it's difficult to be proud of a culture we are unaware of.

We are a broken people, kwanzaa was at least a remedy to try and help us piece ourselves back together, in the same way the red black and green flag and black power was designed to do. Unfortunately we are more Europeanized than ever.

I would encourage us, even if we celebrate a clear European holiday that at times gave black slaves away as gifts, to still attend a kwanzaa festival in a city near you. Teach your children pride early on, just as every other culture of people teach their youth pride. Without pride and a strong cultural foundation anywhere we are next to any other group of people, we will be 2nd class to them.

Lack of interest. It’s easier not to and just to let the typical bs swallow you in. If you actually analyse the concept of kwanza, you could really come up with an interesting holiday based on some wholesome ideas.

 

[cornercommission2k12]

Is it European or is it Americanized??



I had this discussion years ago with a comrade about whether Black women straightening their hair and wearing weaves is really them trying to look like white women or just a Black American tradition.

Yeah we can say slavery did a number on us....But after awhile we kinda just fell into our own thing while here. We are Afrocentric and we are Americans. We rock afros, braids, weaves and colored wigs(the ladies not me of course )


I say all that to say this....Gangster Rap destroyed everything "say it loud I'm Black and I'm proud" tried to build up. And we accepted it. Rap music and Hip Hop is American. At some point our culture has become what we created in America. American culture is our culture. In our case its "being Black in American culture."

Naw Christmas came across the seas with Europeans. It was so savage in Europe that early Christians in america actually wouldn't celebrate the holiday. Christmas as well as thanksgiving unlike others who had a choice in the matter , just like Christianity was forced on us. The would pull the slaves out and force them to entertain the slave owners and whip whoever wouldn't participate.

I do agree that American culture is an amalgamation of many other cultures but cultural pride is something all other groups of people maintain even after adopting another cultural practice. The difference with us is, we didn't find a way to make these holidays unique to us we fully adopted their customs while forgetting our own. Not having those roots and education in history is what cause the adverse effects of hatred and violence we have with one another.

The key here, is open your eyes and see what all other productive groups of people choose to celebrate these holidays and their god vs us. We are the only ones who praise a god that doesn't look like us, we are the only ones who adopted practices while totally eradicating our own. We have to have a sense of our own identity just as every other group here in america has. We can't be the only group acting totally like white people then calling that American culture.

 

[JahFocus CS]

I celebrate Kwanzaa every year. It needs to be widespread although I understand some of our movement elders having issues with Kwanzaa because of Karenga's agent actions.

 

[Doobie Doo]

Because Kwanzaa was started by an FBI informant and c00n.

 

[JackRoss]

I dont know..

 

[8WON6]

that song still jam tho!

 

[JackRoss]

I celebrate kwanzaa

Black folks for the most part are stripped of cultural pride and fully assimilated into European culture. The lack of pride has made us insecure and dependent so we measure success and celebration by the people we envy and see as successful, which are white folks. This insecurity and dependency also leaves us wanting to be apart of the popular ideologies. We are trained to adopt European customs and practices from the womb on. And we are insecure in being proud of our own culture. Plus it's difficult to be proud of a culture we are unaware of.

We are a broken people, kwanzaa was at least a remedy to try and help us piece ourselves back together, in the same way the red black and green flag and black power was designed to do. Unfortunately we are more Europeanized than ever.

I would encourage us, even if we celebrate a clear European holiday that at times gave black slaves away as gifts, to still attend a kwanzaa festival in a city near you. Teach your children pride early on, just as every other culture of people teach their youth pride. Without pride and a strong cultural foundation anywhere we are next to any other group of people, we will be 2nd class to them.

 

[JackRoss]

Because Kwanzaa was started by an FBI informant and c00n.

come on, OE

 

[Doobie Doo]

come on, OE

Receipts

Cuz I got mine

 

[Gold]

its not part of my culture

 

[JahFocus CS]

its not part of my culture

If you aren't New Afrikan, then it isn't part of your culture per se. The holiday is a cultural derivative of African cultures, created for those of us in the diaspora whose original cultures were forcibly stripped. Nonetheless people of African descent around the world, including in Africa, celebrate the holiday.

 

[Wildhundreds]

I would encourage us, even if we celebrate a clear European holiday that at times gave black slaves away as gifts, to still attend a kwanzaa festival in a city near you. Teach your children pride early on, just as every other culture of people teach their youth pride. Without pride and a strong cultural foundation anywhere we are next to any other group of people, we will be 2nd class to them.

We've hit rock bottom as a people.

 

[JackRoss]

Receipts

Cuz I got mine

You were recently in another thread saying weird shyt. You get no receipts.. Im building a case