Word: kwanzaa
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...yesterday's Black Students Association-sponsored Kwanzaa celebration in a local elementary school, one child couldn't sit still...
...aware, at least two of our course members--Joshua D. Bloodworth '97 and Kristen M. Clarke '97--clearly nurse a strong appetite for Black solidarist catharsis, and especially its high-symbolic and emotive forms represented by Kwanzaa Rituals celebration...
...fact, I would like to invite the class to join us this week for our end-of-the-semester project at Martin Luther King Elementary School. We will work with the students for a few hours, sponsor a pre-vacation party for them and translate the principles of Kwanzaa into a context that would be extremely beneficial to them...
This long-haul task--defined in activist uplift terms, not cathartic terms of Afro-Romanticism--is, of course, less symbolically stirring and solidaristically glamorous than your Kwanzaa Rituals celebration proposal, that's for certain. But from my vantage point as a pragmatic activist and leftist member of the Black intelligentsia, I can say without fear of contradiction that Rev. Rivers's kind of humanistic and activist outreach program will produce greater modern transformation and benefits for our massive Black poor population (32 percent of Black households, compared to 29 percent of Latino households) and 15 percent of white households...
...were not prompted by cathartic needs to do this. I can't imagine a more productive way to teach Black children the significance of unity, cooperation, creativity, faith etc., than in a way that engages them through Afrocentric means directly in the classroom. Kwanzaa is the penultimate expression of formalized African-Diasporic significance in America...