Day 5: Nia Purpose (Click here for day 4) To make our collective vocation the building and developing of our community in order to restore our people to their traditional greatness. Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people. Action, self-reliance, the vision of self and the future have been the only means by which the oppressed have seen and realized … [Read more...]
Day 4 – Ujamaa – Cooperative Economics – Malcolm X
Day 4: Ujamaa Cooperative Economics (Click here for Day 3) To build and maintain our own stores, shops & other businesses and to profit from them together. "The economic philosophy of Black nationalism only means that our people need to be reeducated into the importance of controlling the economy of the community in which we live...which...means that we … [Read more...]
Day 2: Kujichagulia – Self Determination – Marcus Garvey
Hey folks! As promised here is Day 2 of the 28 Day Nguzo Saba Devotion Project I mentioned in my post about Kwanzaa Haters finding a loving spirit this year. Enjoy! Day 2: Kujichagulia (click here for Day 1) To define ourselves, name ourselves, create for ourselves & speak for ourselves. "Let us with one determination create in our minds today the conditions of … [Read more...]