A Joyous Kwanzaa and a Happy New Year

I propose my fellow Sup Forumselligent join me in celebrating the African holiday of Kwanzaa. It is a secular holiday, and while it is Afro-centric, anyone can celebrate it: Black, White, Christian, Muslims, Theist, Atheist. It is a celebration of traditional African values and philosophy.

Habari gani!

> “The Nguzo Saba are the moral minimum value system Black people need in order to rescue and reconstruct their history and humanity, indeed their daily lives, in their own image and interests.”

ooga booga

Millions of blacks celebrate Christmas, an ostensibly European holiday.

Why not celebrate a bit of Africa as well? Give Mother Africa some love.

If you're European, you can still celebrate Kwanzaa, since all humans descend from Africa.

> not celebrating your African heritage

It's like you don't even want to be woke.

The seven principles of Kwanzaa.

Kwanzaa is a seven day celebration. Each evening you light a Mishumaa (candle) and reflect on each principle.

>African holiday

Its not african

Its african american

It's an American-made holiday based on traditional African philosophy and traditions.

It's a celebration of African heritage.

>Christmas
>European
No, Christmas is a CHRISTIAN holiday
And Christianity spread throughout all of Europe, Western Asia and Northern Africa.

>why not celebrate Africa

WHY celebrate Africa?

Christmas is influenced heavily by paganism

Ostensibly: i.e. Christmas is indeed Middle Eastern in origin, but the European version (Christmas trees, santa, presents, anglo-saxon jesus, et cetera) is the most practiced form by far, especially internationally.

The only Africans who practice a Semitic form of Christmas are Ethiopians and Copts. Christianity in most of Africa is from the Latin-European branch.

What is this? It sounds pretty good judging from the picture.

It's Swahili. Maulana Ndabezitha Karenga (born Ronald McKinley Everett), the creator of Kwanzaa, was a historian and philosopher who created Kwanzaa by combining a number of African harvest celebrations from both east and west Africa.

The term Matunda ya Kwanzaa is Swahili for "first fruits of the harvest". The seven principles (Nguzo Saba), are the seven traditional African principles Maulana believed African-Americans lacked and needed to reflect upon to regain a healthy self-image.

Kwanzaa is the first post-modernist holiday. The first Kwanzaa was celebrated in 1966 among Maulana Karenga (the creator) and his family and friends.

> Karenga created Kwanzaa in 1966[10] to be the first pan-African holiday. He said his goal was to "give Blacks an alternative to the existing holiday and give Blacks an opportunity to celebrate themselves and their history, rather than simply imitate the practice of the dominant society."[11] It is inspired by African "first fruit" traditions, and the name is derived from the name for the Swahili first fruit celebration, "matunda ya kwanza."[12] The rituals of the holiday promote African traditions and Nguzo Saba, the "seven principles of African Heritage" that Karenga described as "a communitarian African philosophy":

It's actually very national socialistic. It could easily be adopted into a white tradition.

It's all about celebrating what you are instead of foreign influence that exclude the experiences of your ancestors and people.

Europeans should be proud of Europe, Africans should be proud of Africa and Asians should be proud of Asia and their respective ancestors and heritage.

It's not about racism or xenophobia. It's about self-respect and knowing how you got where you are. You can't take on the future if you haven't confronted your past.

No it isn't, that's a facebook-tier meme.>but the European version (Christmas trees, santa, presents, anglo-saxon jesus, et cetera) is the most practiced form

There is no one European version. Things like Christmas tree come from German Lutherans then got spread by Americans and Brits. Presents and Santa come from secular consumerism.

> There is no one European version.
After the Arab invasion of North Africa (and Iberia), Latin Christendom became centred in the realm of the Charlemagne. From the Pyrenees to the Elbe and everything to the North there is a common Euro-centric Christendom, whether they be Catholic or Protestant.

Eastern Christendom has faded to obscurity in the face of Frankish Christianity.
> Presents and Santa come from secular consumerism.
From a predominantly European Anglo-Teutonic culture, which Africans find difficult to identify with.

Well said. This is exactly the type of thinking that Europeans need. Mutual respect between the races but also an understanding that we are different and that there is no universal perfect system for everyone to unite and live under.

It's a fake holyday made im USA for dem american negroes

Trust me, I'm black

Still völkish as fuck.