Kwanzaa 2022

Let’s Talk About Race (LTAR)

Welcome to another edition of LTAR

This is our Kwanzaa 2022 show- Now Kwanzaa is a nonreligious holiday that I have celebrated for decades-

Kwanzaa is celebrated from Dec 26-Jan 1 -each day symbolizes principles -called the 7 principles for Kwanzaa. The panelist of LTAR picked a news event and connected it to one of the principles of Kwanzaa. These principles celebrated the achievement of women in 2022 as women pushed for the passing of the Inflation Reduction Act, for the passage of the Respect for Marriage Act that enshrines marriage equality in federal law, granting protections to same-sex and interracial couples. And how some Americans came together at the national and local levels to pass gun safety regulations. There is an overriding theme that 2022 represents: Collective Work and Responsibility: To build and maintain our community together and make our brother's and sister's problems our problems and to solve them together. Ujima- Collective Work and Responsibility-

The Seven Principles of Kwanzaa In English and Swahili -Umoja (Unity)

To strive for and maintain unity in the family, community, nation, and race.

Kujichagulia (Self-Determination)

To define ourselves, name ourselves, create for ourselves and speak for ourselves.

Ujima (Collective Work and Responsibility)

To build and maintain our community together and make our brother's and sister's problems our problems and to solve them together.

Ujamaa (Cooperative Economics)

To build and maintain our own stores, shops and other businesses and to profit from them together

Nia (Purpose)

To make our collective vocation the building and developing of our community in order to restore our people to their traditional greatness.

Kuumba (Creativity)

To do always as much as we can, in the way we can, in order to leave our community more beautiful and beneficial than we inherited it.

Imani (Faith)

To believe with all our heart in our people, our parents, our teachers, our leaders and the righteousness and victory of our struggle.