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Kwanzaa Celebration in our California State Capitol

by Khubaka, Michael Harris
Black Farmers and Agriculturalists co-host our “California Grown” Celebration of Unity. Black Civic Participation is a basic requirement for a people to return to our historical greatness and we must look for legislative, judicial and executive action to address the lack of equal opportunity for a Nation of Black farmers yearning to provide fruits and vegetables for a plentiful harvest for a people whom suffer globally from epidemic levels of diet related disease in our community. Kwanzaa provides universal principles and practices to make life more beautiful, in this land and our motherland.
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Sacramento, CA ~ Kwanzaa Umoja Celebration: California State Capitol

The idea of giving honor to the creator for a “first fruits harvest celebration” requires deep thought within a cultural context of an historic elevated consciousness over many seasons and cycles of life.

We are a spiritual people whose beginnings come from a deep belief in a story of creation from dust from fertile soil, on a hill, in the Garden of Eden. We have always been an agricultural people; today we celebrate the first day or our “California Grown” holiday, Kwanzaa, Umoja, oo-mo-jah.

Black Farmers and Agriculturalists join a call for cultural vision where natural order permeates different yet similar aspects of classical African civilization in Unity.

Kwanzaa brings the essential light from ancient Africa to a people estranged from self, yearning for a path home, scared and deeply wounded by generations of trauma.

We were violently disconnected from self, unable to look into the mirror and see our God given humanity as something to be desired. Many today still choose to copulate with alien fantasy and embrace every thing foreign in self hatred and denial.

Under a parasitic growth many run from self toward talking snowmen, flying reindeer, through the vision of a never aging symbol of the patron saint of thieves, lawyers and bankers, jolly ole St. Nick.

Under a full moon, stellar signs from Orion’s belt in a clear illuminated sky our vision is no match for Madison Avenue, 5th Avenue and Wall St. in frenzy buying season to cloak the birth of the son of God from our collective wisdom.

Kwanzaa takes us back to the Garden of Eden and plants the seeds in our mind toward: who am I, am I really who I say I am and am I all that I ought to be.

A quiet, silent and meditative conversation with self is why Kwanzaa will be celebrated in the hearts and minds of a people who continue to grow strong together, back toward
authentic people of high culture while living the foundational principle of unity.

The eternal spark of creation in the hearts and minds of a people is what brings Kwanzaa alive through social principles and practices of daily living.

Our global community is on a journey back to our divine way toward an elevated quality of life here on earth.

In unity, we will grow stronger together and celebrate Kwanzaa 365, throughout eternity.


California State Capitol: Kwanzaa Umoja Celebration
Room 126 ~ Noon ~ December 27, 2007

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by Nate Mezmer
Just as the truth should be told about the falsehoods associated with the Jesus myth, Christianity and the story of Christmas it should also be noted that the creator of Kwanzaa Ron Karenga is at the very least a fraud and a criminal.

Not only was his black nationalist organization "Us" responsible for the deaths of two Black Panthers on the UCLA campus in 1969 but he was later convicted of kidnap and torturing two female members of his Us organization.

Below is common knowledge information quoted from Wikipedia:

"In 1971 Karenga, Louis Smith, and Luz Maria Tamayo were convicted of felony assault and false imprisonment for assaulting and torturing two women from the Us organization, Deborah Jones & Gail Davis, over a two day period. [4] A May 14, 1971 article in the Los Angeles Times described the testimony of one of the women: "Deborah Jones, who once was given the Swahili title of an African queen, said she and Gail Davis were whipped with an electrical cord and beaten with a karate baton after being ordered to remove their clothes. She testified that a hot soldering iron was placed in Ms. Davis's mouth and placed against Ms. Davis's face and that one of her own big toes was tightened in a vise. Karenga also put detergent and running hoses in their mouths, she said."

Moreover, Mr Karenga who is championed for his creation of Kwanzaa continues to spew his hate filled docturine at the University of Cal State Long Beach. Indeed, as one former female student of his personally told me. She was thrown out of his class and permanently expelled for questioning his male supremacist beliefs.
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