2006-12-26 00:55:02 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Other - Holidays
I don't.
Where was Kwanza before being political correctness came into popularity???
2006-12-26 00:56:52 · answer #1 · answered by Mr. G 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It's a great holiday for shopping all the after Christmas sales :)
2006-12-26 10:03:25 · answer #2 · answered by Kimo 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Kwanzaa celebrates "The Seven Principles of Kwanzaa", or Nguzo Saba founded by Ron Karenga which Karenga said "is a communitarian African philosophy" consisting of Karenga's distillation of what he deemed "the best of African thought and practice in constant exchange with the world." These seven principles comprise Kawaida, a Swahili term for tradition and reason that Karenga used to refer to his synthesized system of belief. Each of the seven days of Kwanzaa is dedicated to one of the following principles, which are explained by Karenga as follows:
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 brothers' and sisters' 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.
These principles correspond to Karenga's notion that "the seven-fold path of blackness is think black, talk black, act black, create black, buy black, vote black, and live black.
each day beginning Dec 26 for 7 days, a Kinara candle is lite for one of the 7 principles.
2006-12-26 09:04:08 · answer #3 · answered by ♣DreamDancer♣ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I ignore it as I do the regular xmas bogus holiday.
2006-12-26 08:57:00 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋