For those who’re stressing about what items to get to your family members this vacation season, worry not. I’ve obtained you lined. Under is an intensive listing of something and the whole lot the folks in your life want (and consciously or unconsciously need) for Christmas, Kwanzaa and past. Added bonus: gadgets on this listing gained’t value you an arm and a leg and can, in truth, and great worth to your life. I hope you take pleasure in studying and sharing this listing with everybody in your circles and that you just use this listing as your official, major 2023 vacation procuring information. Doing so is assured to carry pleasure to the “worlds” of those you like.
Take into account this listing my reward to you!
UMOJA (Unity)
Sure, on the high of Blackfolk’s Christmas listing is that factor talked about in each barbershop dialog about “What Blackfolk are lacking” or “What Blackfolk have to do,” with the reply all the time being, “We have to unify. We’d like us some unity.” We’ve all heard it 1,000,000 occasions. However we want greater than some basic, amorphous, non-descript “unity.” The late Rev. Albert B. Cleage Jr., the daddy of Black Liberation Theology, stated “Unity for unity’s sake” is ineffective and non-productive. We’d like what Nationwide Black United Entrance Nationwide Chairman Kofi Taharka calls “Operational Unity,” or unity with out uniformity – teams and organizations having the ability to be themselves and imagine what they imagine whereas discovering frequent floor upon which to work collectively towards a greater world for our individuals.
KUJICHAGULIA (Self-Dedication)
Certainly one of my mentors stated Blackfolk, whether or not we all know it or not, are engaged in two separate battles: one for our rights and the opposite for self-determination. As residents of this nation, we’re alleged to take pleasure in all of the rights that citizenship grants. Nevertheless, we all know that in each nook of this Babylon, we’re denied equal entry to these. So, we’ve got each proper to protest and combat for each inch of these rights to be utilized to us. The opposite battle, the one for self-determination, says that whether or not we ever entry these citizenship rights (equal therapy below the legislation, and many others.) or not, we owe it to ourselves to construct the institutional energy wanted to feed, dress, home, educate, and defend ourselves. That’s self-determination, recognizing that “We’re those we’ve been ready for.”
UJIMA (Cooperative Economics)
We’re getting higher at this, however we’ve nonetheless obtained gentle years to go. I like the participation in Houston’s Purchase Black efforts, just like the Purchase Black Market, BLCK Market and others. However we’ve obtained to take our observe of “UJIMA” up a notch or 12.
UJAMAA (Collective Work and Duty)
The earlier we acknowledge the futility of ready on Superman, the “gubment” or anyone else to swoop in and do for us what the Creator gave us the facility to do for ourselves, the earlier we’ll undertake the observe of “UJAMAA” (Collective Work and Duty). This, nonetheless, requires a realization that “I’m as a result of we’re; and since we’re, subsequently I’m.” It’s adhering to the traditional African knowledge “We are able to do extra collectively than we are able to aside.” After we roll like that, we notice your issues are my issues, and vice versa. So, sitting again and doing nothing when you undergo it’s actually self-sabotage. However collectively, the place two or extra are gathered… you realize the remainder. No weapon shaped in opposition to us, and many others., and many others. Amen and Ashe!
NIA (Objective)
Our ancestors believed that we had been every born with a divine goal, a goal given to us earlier than we had been even born by the “Uncreated Creator.” In addition they believed that it was the job and accountability of the neighborhood wherein a toddler was born, to facilitate that youngster discovering their divine goal. For those who had been blessed with that form of neighborhood and found your divine project, reward Jah! For those who weren’t, that goal remains to be inside you, solely ready so that you can acknowledge and launch it upon the world by the great works you carry out.
KUUMBA (Creativity)
As the folks who gave the world the items of faith, artwork, science and civilization, we’re mos def full of an overabundance of creativity. And over the eons, we’ve used that creativity in quite a few methods. We’re known as proper now to use some creativity to enlighten our individuals to our unbelievable historical past that powers and principalities are in search of to dam and ban. We’d like some creativity put into discovering all these lacking Black ladies and youth; financing the brilliance and the goals of younger people who search to begin game-changing companies, organizations and initiatives; constructing a viable FUBU economic system; and many others. A mentor shared with me that life is all about problem-solving. You remedy one drawback, and that offers you the boldness and know-how to tackle and remedy the following, greater drawback. And problem-solving calls for we use the creativity we’ve been blessed with and open ourselves to obtain much more.
IMANI (Religion)
Can we transfer away from working with the form of religion that damns everybody to hell who believes otherwise than us? Reality be advised, all of the world’s main non secular programs hint their roots again to Africa, extra particularly to the teachings of Ma’at out of historic Kemet (Egypt). So why are we tripping if one particular person is Christian, one other is Muslim, and one other practices a extra conventional African religion system? God is larger than anyone identify anyone group offers to God… and larger than anyone religion system. Malcolm X’s lawyer, Percy Sutton, stated of El Hajj Malik el Shabazz, “He was essentially the most Christian brother I ever met.” Take into consideration that one for a minute
Giving and receiving these items this vacation season can have us getting into the brand new yr in energy and righteousness.
