By Gloria DULAN-Wilson
Hello All and Happy/Blessed Holidays!
Hope all is well and wonderful with you!!
Regardless of what you celebrate and how, I hope that you, as ECLECTICALLY BLACK PEOPLE are continuing to - or beginning to - keep the culture of KWANZAA alive and well.
Despite the derisive campaigns that have suddenly arisen among many of our comedians claiming that no one, or few Black people continue to celebrate or recognize KWANZAA - it is still alive and well and living in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland and other areas where you find educated, emancipated, intelligent Black men and women.
These not so subtle attempts to separate Black people from their cultural heritage is nothing new. They (caucasoids) have apparently worked with ersatz comic writers to infuse Black comedians with these state in order to subtly brainwash us into thinking KWANZAA was no longer fashionable, or relevant to Black people by cracking jokes about it. I heard it first on Trevor Noah when Roy Wood jr. - part of his ensemble - began to crack jokes about no one celebrating Kwanzaa any more. Then, this morning, as i was listening to the Steve Harvey Show on WDAS-FM (Black owned radio), I heard the same derisive statements being made. I wondered how many people hard this and believed was true - as this trend begins to mushroom and find legs, how many will fall in line, lock step with the jokes and throw their own culture under the bus?
We can't afford to be so ignorant and nonchalant about our culture, about the struggle of our people, which continues through to this day and how we've adapted, managed to survive and surpass the horrors of slavery, jim crow and current day racism. stripped of our culture by rapacious racist caucasoids.
So when an enlightened brother tries to bring the cultural pride we've lost and been deprived of, through developing a cross section of our lost heritage in modern times for ourselves and our children going forward, it's disingenuous of our Black artists to try to use it as the brunt of jokes. Sadly there are enough gullible fools out there, and those have no sense of cultural/racial pride, who are looking for and excuse to not be Black. I love Steve Harvey and Trevor Noah - watch and re-watch them all the time. Just want them to understand that this not a good look or a good thing for our Black people.
We laugh and joke a lot - Black people own laughter in the face of adversity and tragedy - but if you keep saying that Kwanzaa is bogus, somewhere down in their subconscious minds, it begins to take hold and become a self-fulfilling situation. It's like the ersatz news anchors continuously sneaking in snide remarks about President Biden, and predicting that T-rump and the repuglycons will win in the Mid-term election. The same lie told enough times over and over again becomes a not-so-subtle form of brainwashing, self fulfilling prophecy and a defeatist subconscious self sabotage posture begins to run throughout the Black community - and results in our eventually helping the enemy by succumbing to the lie.
HEY
YOU GUYS! KWANZAA IS ALIVE AND WELL AND
LIVING IN BLACK AMERICA - WHY DON'T YOU MAKE SURE YOU GET TO AND
PARTICIPATE IN AT LEAST ONE OF THE CEREMONIES IN YOUR COMMUNITY. As the
STAPLE SINGERS SAID: "If you don't respect yourself, ain't nobody
gonna give a good cahoot!!" Watch your writers - sadly, quite a few of
them are not necessarily part of our culture or community. I don't know
if you have artistic control over the material you are given, but
everything that's funny may not be beneficial.
IJS - Stay Blessed &
ECLECTICALLY BLACK
Gloria DULAN-Wilson
THAT SAID - HERE'S ONE THAT IS GOING TO TAKE PLACE IN PHILADELPHIA (by the way, one out of several - IJS):
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NOW THAT YOU KNOW
WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT IT?
Stay Blessed &
ECLECTICALLY BLACK
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| Gloria DULAN-Wilson |
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