Kwanzaa's First Family Reunion Spoken From African BlacknessUnity Consciousness #894

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Here I am in this land, labeled America, a fragment still virgin according to the celestial. I am walking down a country road with a newly discovered family member. We meet some people he knows from earlier ago. He is related through a maze of marriages. They speak of their last family reunion.

I wonder if I am also part of my fellow traveler's extended relations. I begin to question the woman he is speaking with. He leaves us in conversation. We continue walking and talking out in the open as younger ones follow along listening. I keep trying to figure out exactly how she is related to my brother friend, so I can figure out how I also fit in. I question, she answers. After several times through this pattern, the clarity we are both seeking seems to get more convoluted and farther away. We have gone through marriages, connections, cousins, in-laws, neighbors, friends and “play” kin.
Finally, this country woman, sensing the never-endingness of our exchange, states in plain fashion to complement her natural style,

”It doesn't matter anyway, we are all African from the same family.”

She spoke the seed of civilizing logic – Kwanzaa in a nutshell.
She spoke first truth to overcoming enslavement of the mind and estrangement of spirit untwined.
At that exact moment, literally, actually and physically, the Sun shone brighter upon us black people down in the valley beneath the trees in the shadows of mountains, clouds and obscuring identities.
All of us standing on that dusty road went from good-looking to simply beautiful. We were restored to water-bred virginity by zeroing in on infinity.
Despite the varying shades of skin and degrees of understanding, that one understanding of family caused African blackness to reign supreme.

This understanding of the First Family to which we are all kin, is something I am hearing said more and more.
Because it is being spoken, it is no longer in theory, but in practice.

The restoration of consciousness will not be stopped by those who don't get it or reject it.
A new reunited extended family is being reformed in blackness, which on Earth is African and in the Universe, is the first Truth in the Waters. Blackness is Preexisting in the Universe, thus in the Creator. Night is always existing, Light is created by Night. On Earth, this preeminence of blackness has an African birth. Consciousness of the First Family is being reborn first and then colors will reverse along with all else.

The First Family Reunion came out of theory and into practice because Ancestors are speaking and more of us are listening, even ones who have become citified and misidentified.
As we continue to connect awareness of our common Ancestry, we, the Ancestors, will be reunited in our present form.

The clarity of understandings we are seeking on all levels is only as far away as African blackness is from consciousness.

Here we are in Africa. Having made this connection to a spontaneous ongoing First Family reunion on Earth, we have now been invited to the larger one being held on the Galactic Sun.
We are heading back the way we came and telling everyone who already knows, they are welcome to come.
Right now we are still living in the chill of Great Year Winter but the Great Age of Spring is marching closer to the equinox of a new epoch.

I'm not sure where the brother I started today's journey with walked off to, but I am sure I'm more fully connected to the relationships I need to and yet all of creation awaits the same awakening that reorients human participation.
The feeder roots of understanding tapped into the main root and we are firmly planted in a worldview of African Blackness.
We are becoming more primitive and primordial and evolving into our elemental nature as Nguzo Saba and Akhemu-Seku (the seven never-setting stars in Ursa Minor Constellation representing the seven elementals).

Kwanzaa Poetry Poem: Seven Principles, Seven HarvestsUnity Consciousness #553

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Seven Principles, Seven Harvests

by Ancestors through Usiku

Basic concepts for living are sensible
Embodied in Kwanzaa's seven principles
To remind us to practice the fundamentals
Purely plain, purely simple
The Nguzo Saba help us become invincible

1 - Umoja is oneness
Within self is the focus
Unify four inseparables for wholeness

2 - Kugichagulia is self-determination
Based on the destiny of all creation
Gain understanding, maintain translation

3 – Ujima is the communal family
Collectively working sharing responsibility
To become the best Ancestors-Descendents we can be

4 – Ujamaa is expressing fully
We understand our destinies
Requires using resources cooperatively

5 – Nia is knowing we are multi-purposed
To thrive from within to bring life to the surface
Provide understandings to the Creator who births us

6 - Kuumba is the creative process
Who causes all things to exist
Nutrition ourselves to get fundamental access

7 - Imani is faith
Who helps motion vibrate
Persistence, then patience interrelates

The Nguzo Saba or Saba Nguzo
Must be planted in the African Utamawazo
The basic context for being optimal
Ashe, Heka, Hiao Watoto
So harvests match our genetic potential

Update 12.13.22:

And I myself also am persuaded of you, my brethren, that ye also are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish one another. (Romans 15:14)

Bring more fullness to your understandings. Kwanzaa does not begin on December 26th or end on January 1st.

Better is a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished. (Ecclesiastes 4:13)

You can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink. Are we a fly by night learner who routinely has no breadth or depth of understanding or are we an Initiate of Learning? In the 7 years since posting this message in poem, I'm still wondering why, despite over 1200 views, almost 100% of the people who visit this page in search of Kwanzaa inspiration, do not, as a matter of practical habit, search this blog for additional references to Kwanzaa to expand their learning experience. This web log is over 15 years old and contains almost 3,300 messages. This could be easily ascertained by looking at the list of posts on the right. We must remember to use more of the plant than what we are told to use and understand that each plant contains more benefit than what we are told and each plant connects us to the broader base of truths.

06.30.25:
Ujamaa is African familyhood per Marimba Ani on John Henrik Clarke as an Afrikan Sovereignist

Kwanzaa & Karenga | Unity Consciousness #56

The purpose and basic benefits of Kwanzaa have already been stated in ”Kwanzaa, A Matter of Principles & Black African History.”

I am reminded of an article a few years back that said Kwanzaa was whack. Kwanzaa is still under attack like all things African Black.

Kwanzaa is not about Maulana Karenga. Neither was the Civil Rights Movement about Rosa Parks or Dr. King. It is inappropriate to mix the person with principles of Kwanzaa that are helpful to Black Africans who are without African traditions. We cannot afford to be discouraged away from what we have that moves us away from a foreign culture and towards our own.

One Example

The Nation of Islam has been more beneficial to our people than Judaism, Christianity and many other religions. It is not the total solution for our people but it has helped a lot of our people.

At a minimum, the Nation of Islam is no worse than Judaism, Christianity and other religions. At a maximum, the Nation Of Islam has taught many practices of self-sufficiency behavior we need and should follow. Also, they teach history like it was, not the way the European world wishes it could have been. Many have learned more of the truth of history via the Nation Of Islam than they have in any school or any religion.
The Nation Of Islam has and continues to be an important transition back to our full African spiritual traditions which is where African people are headed.

Those who speak against Kwanzaa on the basis of Karenga, should be just as fervent in the demolishing of every unholy holiday Black Africans worldwide are following because European culture is doing the same thing. These holidays are not doing a thing to strengthen Africans in any way, especially in the essential way - knowledge of self.

Conclusion

Kwanzaa is a transition and stepping stone back into our full Africanness. To disassociate from Kwanzaa on the basis of Karenga would be the same as not loving a child born of imperfect circumstances. What kind of people would have nothing to do with a child born of a crackhead mother who was raped and murdered someone. The child is not responsible for what the mother did, and is worthy of the rights of creation and must be loved if we are who we say we are. So also must we continue to show Kwanzaa, the African love it deserves. After all, don't all our beautiful black children remind us of home?

There Are Other Principles

42 Declarations of Innocence or Admonitions of Maát

Ten Cardinal Principles Of Ancient African Deep Thought

21 Behaviors To Counteract The System Of Human Racism White Supremacy

More principles will be encountered through self-study.

Kwanzaa, A Matter of Principles & Black African HistoryUnity Consciousness #40

Summary:

Kwanzaa is for Africans outside of Africa. Even so, Kwanzaa is meant to unify and honor Africans everywhere. Kwanzaa's objective is to help motivate, honor and educate our nation towards a more constructive, healing future. We must continue to utilize and improve upon ideas, such as Kwanzaa, that promote personal growth combined with African consciousness.

Full Text:

Identity is important. Know yourself is the core focus to get to that identity. Kwanzaa helps connect us to this identity as individuals and as a nation. Kwanzaa and Black History are pieces of the cultural puzzle to help readjust our vision to the true image of who we are and help establish traditions that are beneficial to us. We must continue to utilize and improve upon ideas, such as Kwanzaa, that promote personal growth combined with African consciousness.

Kwanzaa is intended to give Africans outside of Africa who are disconnected from African traditions, a holy observance to celebrate and build good foundational habits and values. The objective of Kwanzaa is to help motivate, honor and educate our nation towards a more constructive, healing future.

Africans outside of Africa have inherited holidays and traditions from a Western devaluing system that is anti-African and anti-Creator. Kwanzaa is a holy observance of our own creation, designed from components of our African heritage. Kwanzaa holds sacred the harvesting of abundance within self, among ourselves and from the fields of Creation. If we are going to improve, we must support and uphold everything that reflects our ancestry.

Kwanzaa was never intended to become credible by having Africans in the Motherland identify with it. They have traditional observances to keep them connected to unifying values within self and outside of self. Kwanzaa is for Africans who are not connected to traditional observances. Umoja is first because Kwanzaa's idea is to unite identity and knowledge of self in the individual with identity and knowledge of self as an African nation – at home (Africa) and elsewhere. Kwanzaa is a bridge between all the continents, islands and different names Africans currently go by, not the Westernized Divide.

Historically and currently, many groups copy African thought. Today, many Africans copy Western thought and practices. This reversal of focus and behavior is inappropriate if we Africans are to transcend and transform our situation as a nation. Read the Nguzo Saba (Seven Principles) of Kwanzaa and be receptive to instruction. Knowledge and awareness are empowering and will guide us through these purposely confusing times. Even so...

Memories of ourselves are becoming clearer
Africa within is drawing nearer.

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1. Black African Unity Begins With Knowledge Of Self

2. ”African Consciousness & Justice For All Is Optimal Theory Based On Optimal Practice”

3. Black African History | General Facts & Understanding

4. Africans, The Great, Our Story Is Not A Mystery

5. 7 Proverbs You Haven't Heard | Ujima Kwanzaa Celebration

6. Think Kuji! Think!| Kujichagulia & Kwanzaa

7. Kwanzaa, Kuumba & Creativity Poem

8. Kwanzaa & Karenga | Unity Consciousness #56

Kwanzaa, Kuumba & Creativity Poem

A tribute to Kwanzaa, Kuumba, creativity, culture, heritage and Black African pride. This is a powerful, positive poem honoring Mama Africa and her descendents. This spiritual poem is a reminder of our strength, endurance and the essence of who we are.

Baba Receives Permission To Speak

by Usiku

We are a creative people,
Putting mud to cloth to stay,
Rituals of proud display,
Beware of the civilized way,
And listen to what Mama say.

We are God's, and Africa's artistry,
A skillful blend of vibrant clay,
As we crouch beside the tiger the old way,
To capture the hope of a sacred life,
"Feel the butterfly," according to "Dre."

People! We are incredibly intelligent!
Stoop close to understand what was meant,
The truth, the wisdom, the origin,
The season and soil of expansiveness,
Yes! We dance,
To consecrate the continent.

We are magic and rhythm,
Each poetic is seen through vision,
As Mama embraces each song,
Cry not long,
Rains will prove to soothe the pains,
'Til all sounds sleep in her cradle.

We are grains of spirit,
Precious as one, powerful in sum,
Resolute and esteemed we come,
To restore elder knowledge in the prodigal young,
And to listen as we hear it.

Kwanzaa Poetry Poem: Seven Principles, Seven Harvests, Unity Consciousness #553

Article: Kwanzaa, A Matter of Principles & Black African History

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7 Proverbs You Haven't Heard | Ujima Kwanzaa Celebration

At the Ujima Kwanzaa celebration today, participants shared proverbs. I heard this one deeply:

He who upsets a thing should know how to rearrange it.

Now, to me, this proverb means: don't mention a problem without providing a solution.
It also means: if I'm going to encourage something I must also provide things to help attain it.

In keeping with the blessing of today, here are seven personal proverbs.

1. Who can tell happiness or sadness from a hyena's laugh or a cat's cry?

2. Might as well, is the best worst reason to do anything.

3. He who only listens with his ears hears less than he who is deaf.

4. It takes two halves to make a whole, but two wholes to make one relationship that has half a chance.

5. Encouragement is: More than words can say.

6. The more time spent hiding things or keeping a thing hidden, the less time available to find things.

7. The farmer who must know how much rain or sun his crops will get, or what his harvest will be before planting, will never set foot in the field. His seeds will lose their power while in his hands, in his pocket or in the safe place he stores them.

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In addition to overall comments you'd like to share, consider these this question:
1. In what way does one or more of these proverbs become usable for you in your life?

Think Kuji! Think! | Kujichagulia & Kwanzaa

Kujichagulia is Kwanzaa's second principle. It means self-determination. In order to determine for self you have to think for self.

I think most of us were taught and teach our kids to not follow the crowd. “Even if you're the only one,” we tell them, yet this is exactly what we start doing the older we get. I guess thinking for yourself is only a temporary teenage thing to try out and take with a grain of salt. I guess not thinking for yourself is proper in the land of the free and home of the brave. Being self-determined in many respects is anti-everything.

This brings us to the dangerous notion of ”political correctness”-- an oxymoron, misnomer and dichotomy all in one. Political correctness keeps us from speaking plainly while masquerading as politeness. It effectively keeps us afraid to speak what we think and adhere to a code of conduct that appeases the majority and thus only benefits the majority.

Any publicly pervasive notion, we trust, instead of our intuition. It's time to stop believing our individual thoughts, ideas, opinions, actions, abilities, resources and power don't matter. If what we think doesn't matter then why is so much time spent trying to methodically control and program what we think? Why is so much effort given to blackening anything that sheds light on injustice or upholds basic truths and rights? It's time to hold these truths to be self-evident in our thoughts and prevalent in our lives.

Truth is, in order to get you to do anything, they must have your buy-in to keep you buying whatever the pusher man has. You must think there is greater benefit to you to give someone else's thinking priority over your thoughts. You must think there is greater safety and security in sitting down and shutting up rather than standing up and speaking out.

Everything you do takes place in your thoughts first. Your actions and behavior are just the automatic results of what you think. If you think like someone else, let it be because you came to the final decision independently, willingly and knowing the ramifications of your actions that will follow and not from feeling afraid, powerless or not knowing your impact in the Universe.

The sad part is this: We think we're thinking for ourselves when we're not living the way we want to. Once we learn to think for ourselves and give the status quo the heave-ho, 4 out of 5 dentists won't be able to tell us what gum to chew and no one will be able to keep us buying stuff instead of substance, equating quality with publicity or convince us not to vote or vote differently because our candidate can't win. Think Kuji! Think!

Be determined to be yourself because you are what you think whether they're your thoughts or not.

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