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Speaker 1: Fifteen, You're facing with the Most Submissive the Carl Nelson Show, You're.

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Speaker 2: Fucking with the most.

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Speaker 3: And grand Rising family. And welcome to Wednesday on w

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Speaker 3: L watching the DC. Thanks for waking up with us. Later,

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Speaker 3: Quansa creator, doctor Malana Kreger will turn to our classroom.

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Speaker 3: Doctor Krengo will share how he conceived the idea of

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Speaker 3: Quansa and why the celebration is much more than an

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Speaker 3: alternative to Christmas. Doctor Krengo will also reveal how he

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Speaker 3: developed the seven guiding principles, the canar and the candlelighting ceremony.

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Speaker 3: But before we hear from doctor Kerengo, Gavia I brother

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Speaker 3: Singha by A will introduce us to some inspiring guests

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Speaker 3: who will share some of their quans of plans and traditions.

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Speaker 3: But here's what's making us this Thursday morning, Christmas Eve

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Speaker 3: for someone this twenty fourth day of December, the US

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Speaker 3: Supreme Court is blocking the Trump administration's plans to deploy

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Speaker 3: not the National Guard in Chicago. Newly released Epstein documents

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Speaker 3: indicate the President traveled on Epstein's playing more than first

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Speaker 3: and reported They say travel eight times, and Donald Trump

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Speaker 3: says the new York Times is a is a detriment

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Speaker 3: to the national security, a threat to national security, I

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Speaker 3: should say. Anyway, let's get started by here Gavi sing

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Speaker 3: by Grand rising, brother Saint God.

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Speaker 4: And rise and call in to the listeners. How are

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Speaker 4: you this morning?

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Speaker 3: I'm still learning, brother sing God. I'm still learning to

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Speaker 3: get into this classroom here. I know you've got a

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Speaker 3: us on this day before Christmas for some and some

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Speaker 4: Certainly do, but let me first wish everybody hope everybody's

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Speaker 4: had or it's having a prosperous winter solstice, which is

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Speaker 4: an extremely important time of the year. Of course, tomorrow

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Speaker 4: the new sun, the renewed son, will come in, and

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Speaker 4: then of course on the twenty six through the first,

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Speaker 4: we'll be celebrating Kwanza that has been created over since

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Speaker 4: nineteen sixty six. But it's very important for us to

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Speaker 4: understand Kuansa principles relevant year round. So what we have today,

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Speaker 4: I've brought some guests on well, not to guests to

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Speaker 4: brother Obion I don't know what he's called in yet,

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Speaker 4: and his daughters, the Holly Girls. And I have sister

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Speaker 4: smart hood sparked and hood sparked very very important.

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Speaker 4: And a lot of our young people are doing great work.

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Speaker 4: Sometimes we hear so much in the news about things

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Speaker 4: the reality is most of our young people are on

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Speaker 4: I don't know.

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Speaker 3: We're both underline.

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Speaker 4: So it will go withlves and then we'll get right

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Speaker 4: into it. So if we want to start with sister Atia,

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Speaker 4: good morning, Uh, my sister, how are you tease?

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Speaker 6: Good morning? Good morning baba, and teach you all the

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Speaker 6: listeners and tc you too, our hosts, thank you so

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Speaker 6: much for having us.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, brother Obi, good morning, Baba sing Gore, Good morning

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Speaker 7: Baba Carl Nelson, his brother Obi here on the phone.

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Speaker 7: And I'm with the illustrious.

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Speaker 5: A'mminica chef suits.

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Speaker 7: My partner and wife.

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Speaker 5: Peace and blessings, Atiya. How are you? Sisters? Hey, how

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Speaker 8: How are you?

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Speaker 5: In peace and blessings, babak Baba thing Gore.

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Speaker 4: It's a pleasure, my dear sister. It's a pleasure having

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Speaker 7: Of course, I'm sorry, well, I don't want to cut

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Speaker 4: Let them introduce control.

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Speaker 3: I don't see them yet on the line, so I

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Speaker 4: Quite a few people were trying to call in because

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Speaker 4: for us. I know it's a lot of things going on,

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Speaker 4: which is Pan African universal African nationalism and doing our

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Speaker 4: attribute always to our ancestors, because if we're not for

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Speaker 4: I'm not going to do a lot of talk in

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Speaker 4: And I also want to hear about the Ujama joint

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Speaker 4: which Obi and I'm an America could also share in

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Speaker 4: that we call them at seven. So let's let's start

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Speaker 4: That's the time when we all unify and come together.

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Speaker 4: And you know the good thing about the DMV call,

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Speaker 4: we have many many Quanta programs going on. We have

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Speaker 4: But then we have Union Temple. We have so many

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Speaker 4: other Union Temple is doing something every day. We have

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Speaker 4: so many different things going on, even in Baltimore, even

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Speaker 4: we set the stage for the world because Quans is

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Speaker 3: Who's going to discuss that one? I just mentioned your

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Speaker 7: Absolutely, So Barba san gord uh you want to talk

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Speaker 4: General Obi Quanji in general? But you know because you

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Speaker 7: All right, well, well, thank you, thank you, and I'm

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Speaker 7: also aware that the girls are on the call and

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Speaker 7: You know, my name is Obie Holly Washington, d C. Natives,

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Speaker 7: Kimbolydia and family. We were actually raised in the Pan

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Speaker 7: But back in the day, we started, I mean in

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Speaker 7: can't remember if it was you, Barber Senor or somebody

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Speaker 3: Oh behold on a second, give us a favorite, Oh

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Speaker 7: Here, Listen, I understood Kwanta as an individual one. I

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Speaker 9: My I was going.

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Speaker 3: Remember returning to people all across the country. Now, so

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Speaker 7: Right, you're right, Well, thank you so much. Yes, absolutely, well,

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Speaker 9: A very.

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Speaker 7: But about nineteen eighty, Kwanza had already been a tradition.

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Speaker 10: Now back to the Carl Nelson Show.

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Speaker 3: And Grand Rising family. Thanks for waking up with us

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Speaker 3: on this twenty fourth day of December. We're discussing quansa

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Speaker 3: we go back there. Love, if you're traveling today, please

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Speaker 7: Hey, I appreciate it, thank you so much. And so

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Speaker 3: So at some point, though you do, you still continue

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Speaker 5: my step my very large family that you know, I'm

435
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Speaker 5: celebrating Quantita now I'm no longer celebrating Christmas because of.

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Speaker 12: X, Y and Z.

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Speaker 5: And I also gave them the history of Christmas and

438
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Speaker 5: why they you know, should you know, take a look,

439
00:25:35,520 --> 00:25:38,119
Speaker 5: you know, at themselves and what they truly claim to

440
00:25:38,160 --> 00:25:41,960
Speaker 5: be their value system and acts themselves, like are you

441
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Speaker 5: sure you still want to celebrate Christmas? You know, and.

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Speaker 3: To what they say. It's intriguing because you know, I'm

443
00:25:49,880 --> 00:25:53,600
Speaker 3: never really confronted or trying to convert anybody to celebrate

444
00:25:53,680 --> 00:25:56,960
Speaker 3: quants I just did it. But I know what was

445
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Speaker 3: how did they respond when you when you when you went.

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Speaker 5: To would go to my fa you know, I would

447
00:26:02,200 --> 00:26:06,560
Speaker 5: go to my families and friends. Uh, they're they're you know,

448
00:26:06,800 --> 00:26:11,400
Speaker 5: it's ingrained in your spirits, right, you know, traditions are

449
00:26:11,560 --> 00:26:16,080
Speaker 5: ingrained in your spirits. And so that's that's slow work

450
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Speaker 5: to to to get people to be receptive to something else.

451
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Speaker 5: And so I would make it clear like, hey, I'm

452
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Speaker 5: celebrating Quansa. I'm here to you know, at the Christmas celebration.

453
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Speaker 5: You know, yes, but you know I would inject a

454
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Speaker 5: bit of Quansa, you know, knowledge into every event, because

455
00:26:36,200 --> 00:26:38,520
Speaker 5: how else would anyone know unless you tell them, right,

456
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Speaker 5: And so now I can I can say that right now,

457
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Speaker 5: I have nieces who grew up watching me do that,

458
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Speaker 5: who are telling me that they are celebrating Quansa. Now

459
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Speaker 5: they're implementing Kuanza for their children. They're not celebrating Christmas,

460
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Speaker 5: they're celebrating Quansas, you know, and they.

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Speaker 9: Started doing Yeah.

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Speaker 3: But my question to you, though, my question is when

463
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Speaker 3: you told when you told your family members that you

464
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Speaker 3: were celebrating course or you were not going to celebrate course,

465
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Speaker 3: what was their reaction?

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Speaker 5: Well, their first reaction was why not? Why would you

467
00:27:15,840 --> 00:27:20,600
Speaker 5: like really, okay, that's this is strange, okay, you know,

468
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Speaker 5: but they respected it, you know, because you when you are,

469
00:27:27,520 --> 00:27:30,800
Speaker 5: when you marry yourself to what you say you're convicted to,

470
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Speaker 5: people respect it.

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Speaker 12: You know.

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Speaker 5: And and with time they began to respect it more

473
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Speaker 5: because over time they you know, they would I would

474
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Speaker 5: get them to come to the Quaniti events also, and

475
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Speaker 5: they would say, oh, this is this is fun. You

476
00:27:44,600 --> 00:27:47,679
Speaker 5: know you are actually I don't know, Quanza could be

477
00:27:47,720 --> 00:27:50,600
Speaker 5: late to be like this, you know, like what like

478
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Speaker 5: what is this? You don't get you don't get that.

479
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Speaker 5: You know, with Christmas you get the exact same program

480
00:27:59,080 --> 00:28:05,800
Speaker 5: every year, you know, and surrounding the Nativity, and so

481
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Speaker 5: you know, not to put that down, but you get

482
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Speaker 5: the same programming every year surrounding the same thing. When

483
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Speaker 5: we know, you know, those who know anything about the

484
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Speaker 5: socists know that the true, the true Nativity, right, the

485
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Speaker 5: true Nativity is about you know, coming through those days

486
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Speaker 5: the twenty fourth, the twenties first through the twenty fourth, right,

487
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Speaker 5: you are shedding that which no longer serves you, and

488
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Speaker 5: the light on the twenty fourth, the light is rising

489
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Speaker 5: within you. You are who is being reborn.

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Speaker 8: You are.

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Speaker 3: Let me let me jump in here and ask brother

492
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Speaker 3: Saint God question too, because you know, brother Saint God,

493
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Speaker 3: what about the children? Because I hear this from folks

494
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Speaker 3: who celebrate Quanta and but they always celebrate Christmas as well.

495
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Speaker 3: They say, oh, it's just for the children. It's for

496
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Speaker 3: the children because the children expected because the peer pressure

497
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Speaker 3: it with their friends, so they expect the Christmas tree

498
00:29:03,120 --> 00:29:05,880
Speaker 3: and all that kind of stuff. So they acquiesced to

499
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Speaker 3: the chill. They wanted the chilling to fe be happy

500
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Speaker 3: and don't really want to push quans on them call.

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Speaker 4: I had no problem. When you when you return to

502
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Speaker 4: your African tradition, some things start to happen. I had

503
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Speaker 4: no problem finding out the truth about so called Christmas.

504
00:29:22,600 --> 00:29:25,040
Speaker 4: When I did find the truth out, I began to

505
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Speaker 4: tell the truth to my children. And one of the

506
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Speaker 4: things my children said, you know, because my old oldest

507
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Speaker 4: daughter Nadira went to Toto Nation House, and one of

508
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Speaker 4: the things that they always shared with me, I like

509
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Speaker 4: Kuonsa because it's seven days, not one day, and so

510
00:29:40,200 --> 00:29:44,440
Speaker 4: that's that's a big plus. But not only that, all

511
00:29:44,480 --> 00:29:50,120
Speaker 4: those seven days were were were relicated around basic principles

512
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Speaker 4: and family. So as they got used to that, they

513
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Speaker 4: preferred Kwanza over the holiday Christmas. And then they learned learned,

514
00:30:00,520 --> 00:30:03,200
Speaker 4: like I learned what that is all about. And so

515
00:30:03,280 --> 00:30:05,920
Speaker 4: I actually told them that the twenty fifth career was

516
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Speaker 4: born on the twenty fifth, not necessarily who you've been told.

517
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Speaker 4: So I told them the truth. And when they learned

518
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Speaker 4: the truth, they moved on. So consequently they've grown now

519
00:30:14,960 --> 00:30:17,440
Speaker 4: and they passed that on to their children. But it

520
00:30:18,400 --> 00:30:23,320
Speaker 4: took renewing ourselves as African people, because everybody likes to

521
00:30:23,320 --> 00:30:25,560
Speaker 4: come together with family and have a good time. But

522
00:30:25,600 --> 00:30:28,920
Speaker 4: these so called holidays that Arugu or the European world

523
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Speaker 4: had put on us, we found out all false holidays

524
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Speaker 4: and they represent something different than what it appears they represent.

525
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Speaker 4: And so you mentioned about ashra kways and the history

526
00:30:39,880 --> 00:30:42,960
Speaker 4: is out there. But the point about it is Kwansa

527
00:30:43,440 --> 00:30:48,720
Speaker 4: was a longer time period. It was a more African

528
00:30:48,800 --> 00:30:54,360
Speaker 4: cultural celebration and a good time to come together. And

529
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Speaker 4: you learn from it and got to you got to party,

530
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Speaker 4: to dance, and you know, you had to wean the

531
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Speaker 4: young youth father thinking they're supposed to get gifts from

532
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Speaker 4: some some fantasy spot. You know, I told my children

533
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Speaker 4: straight up when I when I when I raised them

534
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Speaker 4: when they were celebrating Christmas, your gifts are coming from

535
00:31:11,760 --> 00:31:15,320
Speaker 4: our labor, from what we're doing. But once they started

536
00:31:15,360 --> 00:31:18,040
Speaker 4: celebrating Kwanza, we used to figure out a way how

537
00:31:18,080 --> 00:31:20,760
Speaker 4: to give them gifts that are more important, like books.

538
00:31:20,920 --> 00:31:24,440
Speaker 4: And I heard of medical say how important it was

539
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Speaker 4: with her getting the gift of Tony Browner. These are

540
00:31:27,120 --> 00:31:29,840
Speaker 4: gifts to help renew your spirit. So I don't want

541
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Speaker 4: to take too much more time because I know me

542
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Speaker 4: here for a couple of hours, but it's a lot

543
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Speaker 4: more than I'd like us to cover in terms of

544
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Speaker 4: the actual specifics around uh celebrations and renewing of Quansa,

545
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Speaker 4: because the reality is now, I've been dealing with Kwansa

546
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Speaker 4: for a long time, and once you learn the energy

547
00:31:49,320 --> 00:31:53,240
Speaker 4: about the winter solstice and then Kwansa, why would you

548
00:31:53,320 --> 00:31:57,760
Speaker 4: celebrate a pagan or false holiday. But some of our people,

549
00:31:57,840 --> 00:32:00,480
Speaker 4: you have to bring them around, and they'll come around

550
00:32:00,600 --> 00:32:03,080
Speaker 4: on their own when they see the light, just like

551
00:32:03,160 --> 00:32:05,800
Speaker 4: you do when you're raising your consciousness and getting back

552
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Speaker 4: to your aflicanity.

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Speaker 3: All right, hold that thought right there at twenty six

554
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Speaker 3: minutes away from the top of the family A brother

555
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Speaker 3: Saint God's got a panel here discussing Quanta. What are

556
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Speaker 3: your thoughts? Eight hundred four five zero seventy eight seventy six.

557
00:32:17,960 --> 00:32:20,760
Speaker 3: Sister Atilla has not said anything so far, being quiet,

558
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Speaker 3: Sister a Ta, let's go to you your thoughts so far?

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Speaker 6: With the conversation you've heard, I'm sure good morning, good morning,

560
00:32:27,000 --> 00:32:29,040
Speaker 6: good morning, And I would like to take just a

561
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Speaker 6: quick moment to introduce myself. I too, am a DC native.

562
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Speaker 6: I currently serve as an assistant principle in a very

563
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Speaker 6: highness middle school I'm also the creator of hood Smart.

564
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Speaker 6: At Bobiston Gore shared thank you, and also the creator

565
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Speaker 6: of the Illuminates Your Black Brilliance Awards, which is an

566
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Speaker 6: extension of the Hood Smart initiative that celebrates the brilliance

567
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Speaker 6: and resilience of our youth and so our And when

568
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Speaker 6: I say our, I've partnered with my sister Awa and

569
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Speaker 6: some know her as Rohnda and she'll join us hopefully

570
00:33:04,160 --> 00:33:07,760
Speaker 6: a little bit later in Boba Jua. And there's so

571
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Speaker 6: many connecting threats here. We too came together as a

572
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Speaker 6: result of Nation House, which Boba spoke about. Our children

573
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Speaker 6: attended Nation House, which again is an African independent school

574
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Speaker 6: here in the district of Columbia, and so our institutions,

575
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Speaker 6: whether it's Nation House, the u n I, a Adosti

576
00:33:30,440 --> 00:33:34,840
Speaker 6: conquerrand there's so many of our grassroots organizations here that

577
00:33:35,040 --> 00:33:38,800
Speaker 6: really grounded us. And so I really want to share

578
00:33:38,920 --> 00:33:43,760
Speaker 6: that now we see generations of African people here who

579
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Speaker 6: have this level of clarity and who continues to carry

580
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Speaker 6: the torch. And so when we hear from the Holly

581
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Speaker 6: Girls a little bit later, that's the next generation who

582
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Speaker 6: are are going to pick up the mansho and do

583
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Speaker 6: the work. My daughter Nia Lacy the next generation who's

584
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Speaker 6: going to do the work. And so I'm really proud

585
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Speaker 6: of what we have been able to produce here in

586
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Speaker 6: the DMD because we had who are now our elders

587
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Speaker 6: who really did that work to raise the consciousness of

588
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Speaker 6: their children and now their children's children, and so I'm

589
00:34:15,320 --> 00:34:18,880
Speaker 6: really really proud about that. And so we come together

590
00:34:19,000 --> 00:34:23,560
Speaker 6: and this year we are celebrating Nia, which means purpose.

591
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Speaker 6: And so our Kuonza program is a little interesting because

592
00:34:27,040 --> 00:34:30,879
Speaker 6: we tend to attract young people and families who are

593
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Speaker 6: being introduced.

594
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Speaker 5: To Kwanta for the first time.

595
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Speaker 6: And what we've learned is that is that experience that

596
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Speaker 6: it ignites their awareness and cultural consciousness, which is the

597
00:34:41,680 --> 00:34:45,759
Speaker 6: whole point, right, and so we are super excited. Our

598
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Speaker 6: Quanza program will happen on Nia Nights, which is December thirtieth,

599
00:34:50,640 --> 00:34:53,759
Speaker 6: at the Highestville here for those of their local bus

600
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Speaker 6: boys and poets, and it's a celebration. We have a

601
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Speaker 6: really good time, and it's also partly an extension of

602
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Speaker 6: our Illuminates Your Black Brilliance Award ceremony, which brings together

603
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Speaker 6: hundreds of young people every year and we celebrate the

604
00:35:10,520 --> 00:35:15,000
Speaker 6: brilliance and resilience of young people. Because it's African people,

605
00:35:15,040 --> 00:35:18,799
Speaker 6: we understand the importance of our ancestors, and so we

606
00:35:18,960 --> 00:35:22,440
Speaker 6: offer awards, but that are in the spirit of an

607
00:35:22,480 --> 00:35:25,880
Speaker 6: ancestor and interesting enough, going back to it's just the.

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Speaker 3: Hold that thought right now, I let you finish in

609
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Speaker 3: the moment because we are to step aside and get

610
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Speaker 3: caught up with the latest news. Family just waking up

611
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Speaker 3: is twenty three minutes away from the top of that that.

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Speaker 3: It's just the two of the brother semo Baia is

613
00:35:36,280 --> 00:35:40,120
Speaker 3: a similar panel of the celebrating folks. So celebrating quansa.

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Speaker 3: Whant they find out in your when you started celebrating quansa?

615
00:35:43,560 --> 00:35:45,799
Speaker 3: If you do celebrate quansa. If you don't, let us know.

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Speaker 3: Reach out to us at eight hundred four or five

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Speaker 3: zero seventy eighth seventy six and we take your phone

618
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Speaker 3: calls after the news.

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Speaker 13: It's next.

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Speaker 14: Fourteen fifty wol.

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Speaker 11: Good morning, folks. I'm Earl Kirk. Here's the latest from

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Speaker 11: newswe dot com. The National Environmental Education Foundation says the

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Speaker 11: cost of Christmas is bigger than retail.

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Speaker 15: The holiday generates about twenty five million tons of garbage

625
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Speaker 15: in the US and that is clogging our landfills. It's

626
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Speaker 15: packaging boxes, wrapping paper, about thirty eight thousand miles of

627
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Speaker 15: discarded ribbon along with fifteen million trees. There are programs

628
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Speaker 15: to help. The tree can be mulched as long as

629
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Speaker 15: you strip it of decorations. If you can scrunch wrapping paper,

630
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Speaker 15: it can be recycled, and food waste should be tossed

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Speaker 15: in the green bin. I'm Bretan.

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Speaker 11: Police are trying to figure out what happened to a

633
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Speaker 11: man found dead on the Fairfax County Parkway. Someone spatted

634
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Speaker 11: the man's body in the median near Old Plains Road

635
00:37:08,560 --> 00:37:11,720
Speaker 11: around nine to forty five Tuesday. Warring coups found signs

636
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Speaker 11: of trauma on the man's body, but they don't know

637
00:37:13,719 --> 00:37:16,200
Speaker 11: if he was hit by a vehicle. They're asking anyone

638
00:37:16,239 --> 00:37:19,480
Speaker 11: with info to give them a call. The man arrested

639
00:37:19,520 --> 00:37:22,279
Speaker 11: for shooting two West Virginia National Guard members in DC

640
00:37:22,520 --> 00:37:25,439
Speaker 11: is now facing federal charges. The twenty nine year old

641
00:37:25,480 --> 00:37:29,000
Speaker 11: is accused of killing specialist Sarah Beckstrom and badly wounding

642
00:37:29,040 --> 00:37:32,560
Speaker 11: staff Sergeant Andrew Wolf the day before Thanksgiving. The suspect

643
00:37:32,640 --> 00:37:36,000
Speaker 11: pleaded not guilty to local murder, assault and weapons charges

644
00:37:36,040 --> 00:37:39,240
Speaker 11: earlier this month, but now he's facing two federal charges

645
00:37:39,280 --> 00:37:42,880
Speaker 11: of transporting firearms between states. The suspect is next to

646
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Speaker 11: in court in January. Students in Montgomery County schools are

647
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Speaker 11: having their lunch debts erased thanks to a big donation.

648
00:37:50,400 --> 00:37:53,440
Speaker 11: Dark Cars has donated two hundred thirty thousand dollars to

649
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Speaker 11: pay down the lunch debt of families who receive reduced

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Speaker 11: price meals. Santo will be gliding into Old Town, Alexandria

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Speaker 11: today on a pair of water skis. The fortieth annual

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Speaker 11: Waterskiing Santa Show is today at one at the Old

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Speaker 11: Town Waterfront. The event raises money for the Lake of

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Speaker 11: the Woods Adaptive Water Sports Foundation, a group that helps veterans,

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Speaker 11: adults and kids with disabilities. Hornets Down the Wizards one

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Speaker 11: twenty six, one o nine. I'm Earl Kirk. When you're

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Speaker 10: Now back to the Carl Nelson Show.

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Speaker 3: And Grand Rising Family. Thanks for starting your Thursday with us.

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Speaker 3: This is Wednesday. Actually all the days of mixed up

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Speaker 3: that happens on the holiday. You guys don't understand that

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Speaker 3: sixteen minutes away from the top of the are though,

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Speaker 3: brother as Sango by As assembled a panel to discuss

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Speaker 3: Kwansa and how they celebrate Quanta and what are they

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Speaker 3: doing this year for Kwansa. You want to join us

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Speaker 3: and tell us what you're doing for Kwanta when you

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Speaker 3: first found out about Quansa and why you celebrate Quanja.

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Speaker 3: You can reach us at eight hundred four or five

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Speaker 3: zero seventy eight seventy six before we go back to them, though,

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Speaker 3: let me just remind you. Coming up later this morning,

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Speaker 3: you're going to speak with Kwanza creator Dotr Milana Krenga,

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Speaker 3: and tomorrow clinical psychologist doctor Jeremy Fox is going to

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Speaker 3: be here as well. So if you are in the DMV,

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Speaker 3: make sure you keep you ready a lot to fourteen

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Speaker 3: fifty w L if you're in Baltimore or on ten

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Speaker 3: ten WLB. For we left were speaking with Sister Ataa.

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Speaker 3: So Sister Atayl, I'll let you finish your thought, then

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Speaker 3: let's talk to the young ladies.

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Speaker 6: Yes, so I think I kind of paused where I

681
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Speaker 6: was showing the thread between what Boba Olbi is Sister

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Speaker 6: Dominica has been doing in their foundation where we are today,

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Speaker 6: and so I would speaking to the different experiences that

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Speaker 6: folks who join us will have, and one of those

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Speaker 6: experiences is that they will meet our student Award recipients

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Speaker 6: for the fifth annual Elimination of Black Brilliance Award. And

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Speaker 6: what's really unique about our awards program is that each

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Speaker 6: award is presented in the spirit of an ancestor, and

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Speaker 6: along with the Youth Awardy, we also have a living legend.

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Speaker 6: And I wanted to speak to the Excellence and Education Award,

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Speaker 6: which was presented in the spirits of Baba Ajay, who

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Speaker 6: was a co founder of a Nation House African independent school,

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Speaker 6: which has been spoke about a lot so far. This morning,

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Speaker 6: my daughter attending Nation House O bespoke to attending Nation House,

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Speaker 6: and so it's just a full circle. And I'm really

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Speaker 6: excited again that we get to now pass down this

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Speaker 6: information and for those who come to and join our

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Speaker 6: excuse me quanta program, who is really learning this information

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Speaker 6: for the first time right to the next generation. But

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Speaker 6: I want to go back to the Holly Girls because

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Speaker 6: I want to make a really important point, because the

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Speaker 6: whole point of Hood's marked, the whole point of the

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Speaker 6: Illumination Black Brilliance Awards. The whole point of us celebrating

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Speaker 6: Kwansa in this way is to really raise the consciousness

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Speaker 6: of our young people. And so I really want the

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Speaker 6: listeners to understand what happens when we as African people

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Speaker 6: make a conscious decision, when we're very deliberate around how

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Speaker 6: we raise our children and what they are supposed to,

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Speaker 6: especially when it comes to African culture. Just being really

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Speaker 6: clear around who we are as African people, because the

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Speaker 6: entire point is to raise the consciousness right of our children.

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Speaker 6: But when you have an opportunity to interact with the

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Speaker 6: Holly Girls, you are going to understand why.

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Speaker 4: This is important.

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Speaker 6: You're going to through the conversations here, the gracefulness, right repect,

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Speaker 6: the cultural groundedness that they had, and the fact that

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Speaker 6: as young people they are producing which I know their

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Speaker 6: parents are want to speak more to, but this is

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Speaker 6: really important to me. They are producing music, our creativity

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Speaker 6: that uplifts our people in our community extensies. They're positive,

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Speaker 6: high vibrational messages and that is the entire point. And

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Speaker 6: that is the entire point, And so I really want

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Speaker 6: us as we move into quantities and as we're moving

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Speaker 6: through the winsor sosis to really keep that in mind,

725
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Speaker 6: because there is an absolute force that has I'm not

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Speaker 6: even going to say trying, that has taken over the

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Speaker 6: spirit and the soul of our children. And so those

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Speaker 6: of us who have been fortunate enough to be raised

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Speaker 6: in conscious communities or who weren't introduced to the conscious

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Speaker 6: community until we became adults, it doesn't matter. We have

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Speaker 6: a responsibility to do this work, and we have a

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Speaker 6: greater responsibility to make sure that our young people right

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Speaker 6: are interacting with us in the community and the culture

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Speaker 6: in a way that raises their vibrations. And so I

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Speaker 6: can say definitively that that is the work that we

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Speaker 6: are all doing that are here on this call. We

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Speaker 6: are working for the next generation because it's really really important.

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Speaker 6: In Kwanza it's a great.

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Speaker 5: Time to do that.

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Speaker 6: And no, it's not an alternative to Christmas or any

741
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Speaker 6: other religious holiday, because it's not a religious holiday. It's

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Speaker 6: Williams in the.

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Speaker 10: Lissence of times.

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Speaker 3: Just tell you, let's let's bring these young ladies grand

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Speaker 3: rising sisters, and please introduce yourself when you speak, and

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Speaker 3: tell us when you first heard about Kwanta. Who's wont

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Speaker 3: to speak first.

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Speaker 5: Hello, can you will hear me?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 5: Your name, Hi, my name is Kaya Holly.

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Speaker 6: Hello, my name is Holly. Hello, my name is Arianna Holly.

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Speaker 6: And my name is Suna for Holly.

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Speaker 3: Oh wow, you got four other there. I didn't know

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Speaker 3: he had so many young ladies on their brother, but

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Speaker 3: you did something magnificent here produced for four young ladies.

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Speaker 7: I give all the credit to my wife.

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Speaker 3: That's amazing because you know what they say that the

758
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Speaker 3: sons will always go to the wife, but the daughters

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Speaker 3: always stay with with the fathers. So I just I

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Speaker 3: know you know that already women rule, but let me

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Speaker 3: let me so young ladies. Let me talk to you

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Speaker 3: for these young ladies. So when you speak, just mentioned

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Speaker 3: your names. And because because I thought it was too

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Speaker 3: on the see on the line, it's more of you.

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Speaker 3: But that's great.

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Speaker 12: Uh.

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Speaker 3: When did you guys first hear about quantat and how

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Speaker 3: did how did we and each one of you can tell,

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Speaker 3: you know, take a turn and explain. How did you

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Speaker 3: know deal with Quanta? And how did you explain to

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Speaker 3: your friends who were still celebrating Christmas? You know that

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Speaker 3: you celebrate Quanta. How did you guys stay with that?

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Speaker 3: Who wants to go first.

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Speaker 5: I don't mind going first.

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Speaker 12: Ti.

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Speaker 5: My name is Taya Okay, so first hearing about Kwanda,

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Speaker 5: I don't think I can honestly say a definitive date

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Speaker 5: because growing up in my household, we never celebrated Christmas,

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Speaker 5: so it was just Kwanza from the beginning period. And

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Speaker 5: in our family growing up, we were the only family

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Speaker 5: amongst any other immediate family that celebrated Quanta period. So

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Speaker 5: I was aware of Christmas in the facts that the

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Speaker 5: rest of my cousins and you know, aunts and uncles

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Speaker 5: and everyone else and grandparents all celebrated Christmas. But I

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Speaker 5: just also think the way we were so entrenched in it,

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Speaker 5: in the fact that our parents, you know, they did

787
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Speaker 5: Quanta events, and they brought us to all the events.

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Speaker 5: We were at Emojaite, we were at Oujaman night, we

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Speaker 5: were at Kuchishaka Leia and night, we were at all

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Speaker 5: all of the events. I did not believe there was

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Speaker 5: a holiday better than Kwanza, honestly. And I have to

792
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Speaker 5: agree with Baba Singor Bay earlier when he said that

793
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Speaker 5: his children said, well Quanta has seven days. You know,

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Speaker 5: I felt the same way. I was like, I was

795
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Speaker 5: like Christmas is only one day, like it comes and

796
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Speaker 5: it's gone and then it's over and that's it, you know.

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Speaker 5: But I get to go to events every night. I

798
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Speaker 5: was like my parents, they and them, and like my godmoms,

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Speaker 5: my god fathers, they all they throw a Kwanza event,

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Speaker 5: you know, and it's music and it's dancing and you know,

801
00:46:39,000 --> 00:46:42,080
Speaker 5: and it's it's lively, you know, and it made me

802
00:46:42,239 --> 00:46:46,319
Speaker 5: feel proud and excited, like I couldn't wait for the

803
00:46:46,360 --> 00:46:48,920
Speaker 5: holidays every year, and I just I felt like it

804
00:46:48,960 --> 00:46:50,919
Speaker 5: was better, you know, I said, this is more fun,

805
00:46:51,000 --> 00:46:54,160
Speaker 5: this is more interactive, and even in terms of the

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Speaker 5: gifting process, because yes, it's not the same in terms

807
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Speaker 5: of Christmas, where you know, the parents are they're just

808
00:47:01,960 --> 00:47:04,640
Speaker 5: buying any and everything that the children want. Its purely

809
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Speaker 5: just for making sure they're satisfied with some material item.

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Speaker 5: And it's not to say that my parents didn't buy

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Speaker 5: us gifts. They they would they would get us gifts.

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Speaker 5: But one of the main things that no matter what,

813
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Speaker 5: every year, it was made very very clear that it's

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Speaker 5: important to also give something from the heart. So we

815
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Speaker 5: looked forward to doing that. We would make things with

816
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Speaker 5: our own two hands, whether that was here, I'm going

817
00:47:32,960 --> 00:47:36,120
Speaker 5: to go create an art piece for you, you know, or

818
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Speaker 5: I'm going to write this poem down or letter to you,

819
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Speaker 5: or I'm going to make you some jewelry or you

820
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Speaker 5: know anything. It's just you had to do something from

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Speaker 5: the heart. You know, you had to do something from

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Speaker 5: the heart. One one of the gifts always had.

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Speaker 7: To be.

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Speaker 3: Somebody Okay, I'm sorry, go ahead, it's just no problem.

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Speaker 5: But yeah, you had to do something from the heart.

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Speaker 5: You also had to give something that, yeah.

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Speaker 3: Somebody please if you're not speaking, because we're getting the

828
00:48:17,640 --> 00:48:21,560
Speaker 3: feedback here, so go ahead, okay.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, so you had to give something from the heart,

830
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Speaker 5: and you also had to give something that was knowledge

831
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Speaker 5: based always, you know. And for us, we looked forward

832
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Speaker 5: to those gifts just as much as we were looking

833
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Speaker 5: forward to anything else. And a lot of the times,

834
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Speaker 5: the things my parents got us something that when they

835
00:48:39,440 --> 00:48:41,879
Speaker 5: did give us gifts, it was like something that had

836
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Speaker 5: to do with our true interests for our lives. Like

837
00:48:45,160 --> 00:48:47,600
Speaker 5: we're artists from music artists, so they always made sure

838
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Speaker 5: they got us something that would like in terms of

839
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Speaker 5: like regular material items, it would be something that also

840
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Speaker 5: with enriched the things that we really wanted to do

841
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Speaker 5: with our lives. You know this question though that makes sense.

842
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Speaker 3: Yeah, let me ask you. There's a question six minutes

843
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Speaker 3: away from the top of the are did your friends,

844
00:49:04,640 --> 00:49:07,440
Speaker 3: your peer groups, and your families who don't celebrate quantity?

845
00:49:07,600 --> 00:49:09,440
Speaker 3: They kind of look at you like you was like

846
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Speaker 3: you kind of strange, like the kind of strange they

847
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Speaker 3: almost celebrate Christmas? So how do you deal with that?

848
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Speaker 5: Of course, I well, I mean I grew up in

849
00:49:18,480 --> 00:49:21,759
Speaker 5: a very tight knit a Pan African community. So a

850
00:49:21,800 --> 00:49:24,400
Speaker 5: lot of my friends that I went to school with

851
00:49:24,440 --> 00:49:26,920
Speaker 5: were also going to Pan African school grew up in

852
00:49:26,920 --> 00:49:28,960
Speaker 5: Pan Afcan schools, so they knew like the people that

853
00:49:29,000 --> 00:49:31,120
Speaker 5: I really grew up with. But as me and my

854
00:49:31,320 --> 00:49:34,920
Speaker 5: older sister especially started going to like public schools like

855
00:49:35,040 --> 00:49:36,960
Speaker 5: all of those friends, they thought we were weird.

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Speaker 6: They were like, y'all don't celebrate Christmas.

857
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Speaker 5: And but again, I think I just also was raised

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Speaker 5: with such a I don't want to say it was almost.

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Speaker 3: Okay, somebody's got their phone over a game. So because

860
00:49:54,280 --> 00:49:56,520
Speaker 3: we're getting feedback, you guys, you gotta gotta be at

861
00:49:56,520 --> 00:49:59,640
Speaker 3: your phone because it's not it's not gonna work out

862
00:49:59,680 --> 00:50:01,279
Speaker 3: well to each other.

863
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Speaker 4: Yeah, well, yeah.

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Speaker 3: We're gonna may have to drop some lives because it's

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Speaker 3: it's not coming over well on the air. Five away

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Speaker 3: from the top there, I'll tell you what can we

867
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Speaker 3: step away go to the commercials there earlier and then

868
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Speaker 3: we can figure this out. Eight hundred four five zero

869
00:50:21,320 --> 00:50:23,400
Speaker 3: seventy eight seventy six. We've got to check the traffic

870
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Speaker 3: and weather not different cities. Family, We got a panel,

871
00:50:26,080 --> 00:50:27,840
Speaker 3: got a bunch of folks on us, and we're getting

872
00:50:27,840 --> 00:50:29,880
Speaker 3: some feedback here with the phones where everybody being so

873
00:50:29,960 --> 00:50:33,279
Speaker 3: close together giving us this stories about Quanta. Have they

874
00:50:33,280 --> 00:50:36,200
Speaker 3: started celebrate Kwansa, what it was like for them, how

875
00:50:36,200 --> 00:50:38,239
Speaker 3: their family dealt with it, and what are they doing

876
00:50:38,239 --> 00:50:40,719
Speaker 3: for Kwansa twenty twenty five. You two can join this

877
00:50:40,760 --> 00:50:43,120
Speaker 3: conversation if you can get in it. Eight hundred four

878
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Speaker 3: five zero seventy eight seventy six. We'll take your phone

879
00:50:46,560 --> 00:50:48,760
Speaker 3: calls after the trafficking weather update that's next.

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00:51:00,400 --> 00:51:59,719
Speaker 16: M Good morning to you on this Christmas Eve, and

881
00:51:59,760 --> 00:52:02,560
Speaker 16: of looks like we've got a couple of situations outside.

882
00:52:02,560 --> 00:52:05,480
Speaker 16: We start off in Northern Va and a messy accident

883
00:52:05,480 --> 00:52:08,560
Speaker 16: that we actually watching here on sixty six eastbound between

884
00:52:08,560 --> 00:52:11,480
Speaker 16: Prince William Parkway and looks like Sutley Road. The two

885
00:52:11,800 --> 00:52:14,480
Speaker 16: right lanes are actually blocked out there. Traffic is a mess.

886
00:52:14,640 --> 00:52:19,759
Speaker 16: Also another accident here are sixty six express lanes here eastbound.

887
00:52:19,320 --> 00:52:20,680
Speaker 17: Moving over toward Sutley Road.

888
00:52:20,760 --> 00:52:23,240
Speaker 16: Looks like the left lane is blocked here and traffic

889
00:52:23,400 --> 00:52:25,520
Speaker 16: is a little slow as you approach out in Maryland.

890
00:52:25,520 --> 00:52:27,239
Speaker 16: Looks like the Ottle Loop of the belt Where is the

891
00:52:27,239 --> 00:52:30,759
Speaker 16: scene of an accident here on the Capitol Beltway. And

892
00:52:30,800 --> 00:52:33,080
Speaker 16: this is just after Georgia Avenue. Moved to the right.

893
00:52:33,120 --> 00:52:36,280
Speaker 16: Show that traffic is actually back there from University Boulevard.

894
00:52:36,400 --> 00:52:38,160
Speaker 17: There's debris across.

895
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Speaker 16: All lanes and so please be careful as you move

896
00:52:41,239 --> 00:52:43,840
Speaker 16: around this morning. Taking a look at your forecast for

897
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Speaker 16: this Christmas Eve, and looks like sunny today and huis

898
00:52:46,920 --> 00:52:49,719
Speaker 16: in the little fifties for tonight mostly cloudy and a

899
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Speaker 16: slight chance of rain after midnight and Lowe's in the

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Speaker 16: mid thirties. Dray Johnson on News Talk fourteen fifty AM

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Speaker 16: WOL where information is power fourteen to fifty WOL.

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Speaker 14: At worldwide at w o l DC news dot com.

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908
00:53:20,040 --> 00:53:22,680
Speaker 18: the hosts and guests and do not necessarily reflect the

909
00:53:22,760 --> 00:53:26,319
Speaker 18: views of Urban One Incorporated, Radio One or any of

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Speaker 18: its subsidiary companies.

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Speaker 1: You've fucking with the most submission, the Carl Nelson Show, You've.

912
00:53:38,000 --> 00:54:05,960
Speaker 2: Fucking with the most submission.

913
00:54:02,960 --> 00:54:05,400
Speaker 3: And Grand Rising Family, thanks for staying in with us

914
00:54:05,480 --> 00:54:08,799
Speaker 3: on this Wednesday morning when it's come my days mixed

915
00:54:08,840 --> 00:54:11,800
Speaker 3: up again. This is the twenty fourth day of December.

916
00:54:11,840 --> 00:54:14,080
Speaker 3: Brother Saying Goo by a Gavia. Do you've heard Brother

917
00:54:14,120 --> 00:54:16,880
Speaker 3: Saying Go on this program several times? Well, he's assembled

918
00:54:17,360 --> 00:54:20,040
Speaker 3: a panel here to talk about Quanta and getting their

919
00:54:20,239 --> 00:54:23,960
Speaker 3: responses when they first started recognizing Kwansa having to go,

920
00:54:24,840 --> 00:54:27,400
Speaker 3: their friends and their families react because some folks, you know,

921
00:54:27,520 --> 00:54:29,759
Speaker 3: most of us, I would dare to say, did not

922
00:54:29,880 --> 00:54:32,000
Speaker 3: start out. Many of us, the young people did, but

923
00:54:32,120 --> 00:54:37,040
Speaker 3: some of us hold the cats. We you know, observe Christmas.

924
00:54:37,200 --> 00:54:41,040
Speaker 3: Many of us still do. And as we've indicated from

925
00:54:41,080 --> 00:54:43,640
Speaker 3: the panel that there's nothing wrong with celebrating Christmas. You

926
00:54:43,680 --> 00:54:45,960
Speaker 3: can celebrate Christmas and also Quanta as well. And for

927
00:54:46,000 --> 00:54:47,799
Speaker 3: the folks who are traveling now, I always gotta tell

928
00:54:47,800 --> 00:54:51,280
Speaker 3: folks are traveling today, please download one of our apps

929
00:54:51,400 --> 00:54:53,200
Speaker 3: from one of our stations and then take us with

930
00:54:53,280 --> 00:54:54,960
Speaker 3: you for the ride. And if you can get in,

931
00:54:55,080 --> 00:54:56,359
Speaker 3: just give us a call and want to hear from

932
00:54:56,400 --> 00:54:58,720
Speaker 3: you how you celebrate Quanta. What are you doing for quansa?

933
00:54:59,040 --> 00:55:01,799
Speaker 3: A telephone numbers told Free Source of Worldwide. It's eight

934
00:55:01,920 --> 00:55:05,319
Speaker 3: hundred and four five zero seventy eight seventy six. So

935
00:55:05,400 --> 00:55:07,040
Speaker 3: let's go back to one of the Holly sisters now,

936
00:55:07,040 --> 00:55:09,960
Speaker 3: were telling us about her thoughts. So when her friends, well,

937
00:55:09,960 --> 00:55:12,160
Speaker 3: they thought about her. They thought it a little strangely

938
00:55:12,320 --> 00:55:15,280
Speaker 3: she celebrated Kwanza, well, they were celebrating Christmas.

939
00:55:18,040 --> 00:55:22,759
Speaker 5: Yes again, my name is Taya Maati kumb Holly of

940
00:55:22,800 --> 00:55:23,680
Speaker 5: the Holly Girls.

941
00:55:23,719 --> 00:55:25,520
Speaker 9: And yeah, as I was.

942
00:55:25,520 --> 00:55:29,560
Speaker 5: Well, I left off my friend once I started going

943
00:55:29,560 --> 00:55:32,840
Speaker 5: to once I started going to public school, my friends

944
00:55:32,840 --> 00:55:36,160
Speaker 5: that I made there, they definitely thought me and my

945
00:55:36,239 --> 00:55:39,239
Speaker 5: older sister at the time, they thought it was strange.

946
00:55:39,520 --> 00:55:42,000
Speaker 5: They thought it was very strange. It was unheard of.

947
00:55:42,120 --> 00:55:44,520
Speaker 5: It was not the norm for anyone that we went

948
00:55:44,719 --> 00:55:47,560
Speaker 5: that we knew because we were going to Susar Chavez,

949
00:55:48,280 --> 00:55:52,719
Speaker 5: their Parkside campus off Minnesota Avenue, off Kenilworth Avenue. So

950
00:55:52,920 --> 00:55:56,040
Speaker 5: they over on that side, they didn't know nothing about

951
00:55:56,160 --> 00:55:58,480
Speaker 5: Kwanza and they thought it was strange that we didn't

952
00:55:58,520 --> 00:55:59,400
Speaker 5: celebrate Christmas.

953
00:55:59,400 --> 00:56:00,799
Speaker 9: Well, they were like, no regular.

954
00:56:00,560 --> 00:56:05,760
Speaker 5: Christmas gifts, no tree, you know, none of those classic things,

955
00:56:05,840 --> 00:56:12,520
Speaker 5: you know. We weren't going to church, you know, or

956
00:56:12,560 --> 00:56:14,000
Speaker 5: any of those things.

957
00:56:13,640 --> 00:56:16,120
Speaker 3: You know, And that's interesting. I'll tell you what. In

958
00:56:16,160 --> 00:56:19,280
Speaker 3: the instance of time, though, let's move on to one

959
00:56:19,320 --> 00:56:21,880
Speaker 3: of the other sisters, because you mentioned something interesting. You

960
00:56:21,960 --> 00:56:23,560
Speaker 3: just mentioned we weren't going to church. So let's talk

961
00:56:23,560 --> 00:56:25,719
Speaker 3: to another one of your sisters. Just mentioned your name

962
00:56:25,760 --> 00:56:28,040
Speaker 3: and respond to the question that I'm going to post

963
00:56:28,040 --> 00:56:29,520
Speaker 3: to you right now, because still say, say, if you

964
00:56:29,520 --> 00:56:32,040
Speaker 3: guys didn't go to church, so obviously some of your

965
00:56:32,040 --> 00:56:34,160
Speaker 3: friends who look like, oh that you know, they're kind

966
00:56:34,160 --> 00:56:36,840
Speaker 3: of strange. How long did did you internalize that or

967
00:56:36,880 --> 00:56:40,080
Speaker 3: did you did you wish to celebrate Christmas? Because you know,

968
00:56:40,120 --> 00:56:42,640
Speaker 3: they told you all this stuff about Christmas. So let's

969
00:56:43,000 --> 00:56:44,240
Speaker 3: let's talk to another sister.

970
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Speaker 6: Hello, my name is Statistic. You Samowi Holly the Holly Girls,

971
00:56:51,600 --> 00:57:03,720
Speaker 6: And honestly, I did not personally feel weird, orn't bad

972
00:57:03,840 --> 00:57:08,440
Speaker 6: about the fact that we didn't celebrate Christmas or that

973
00:57:08,520 --> 00:57:10,719
Speaker 6: we you know, we were doing something different, and as

974
00:57:10,760 --> 00:57:17,360
Speaker 6: time went on, our friends became interested. It was something

975
00:57:17,400 --> 00:57:19,920
Speaker 6: that we did every year. It was something that it

976
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Speaker 6: wasn't just me and my family. As you Washington, DC

977
00:57:24,760 --> 00:57:29,960
Speaker 6: has a very strong Pan African community, right, So the

978
00:57:30,120 --> 00:57:34,560
Speaker 6: friends who I made in high school and middle school

979
00:57:34,680 --> 00:57:37,000
Speaker 6: who are not a part of that community, we brought

980
00:57:37,000 --> 00:57:39,880
Speaker 6: the men. We said, hey, this is what we're doing

981
00:57:39,920 --> 00:57:42,720
Speaker 6: over here. And as time went along they became a

982
00:57:42,720 --> 00:57:45,240
Speaker 6: part of that community as well. They enjoyed it.

983
00:57:45,280 --> 00:57:50,560
Speaker 5: They wanted to be engaged in the in the Quanta.

984
00:57:50,240 --> 00:57:55,760
Speaker 6: Programs or attend in that way. So yes, I hope

985
00:57:55,800 --> 00:57:56,800
Speaker 6: I answered that properly.

986
00:57:56,960 --> 00:58:01,320
Speaker 3: Yeah, let's speak to another one Holly Girls as well.

987
00:58:01,400 --> 00:58:05,000
Speaker 3: Now what do you like? This runs some questions for you.

988
00:58:05,040 --> 00:58:07,960
Speaker 3: What do you like most about Quanta?

989
00:58:09,800 --> 00:58:14,440
Speaker 6: Okay, my name is Arianna Strings of the Holly Girls.

990
00:58:14,480 --> 00:58:17,080
Speaker 6: Oh Man to two is what I like most about Quanta?

991
00:58:17,160 --> 00:58:20,880
Speaker 6: Would be probably, oh, a very difficult question to answer,

992
00:58:20,960 --> 00:58:26,040
Speaker 6: but let me just try. Well, for starters, growing up also,

993
00:58:26,320 --> 00:58:28,040
Speaker 6: just like my other sisters, I've been doing this my

994
00:58:28,200 --> 00:58:31,560
Speaker 6: entire life, so spinning it with family, you know what,

995
00:58:31,680 --> 00:58:33,800
Speaker 6: I would just gonna sound cliche, but sitting it with

996
00:58:33,840 --> 00:58:36,080
Speaker 6: family is my favorite part of Quanta. I mean, you know,

997
00:58:36,160 --> 00:58:37,960
Speaker 6: we had all the seven days of going out to

998
00:58:38,000 --> 00:58:41,840
Speaker 6: different events and seeing other friends in the community, you know,

999
00:58:42,440 --> 00:58:46,000
Speaker 6: learning a lot about history, and it was wonderful, you know,

1000
00:58:46,160 --> 00:58:50,560
Speaker 6: just like implementing the values. But honestly that I think

1001
00:58:50,600 --> 00:58:53,000
Speaker 6: it's the very it's the very last day of Quanta

1002
00:58:53,040 --> 00:58:55,560
Speaker 6: that you're supposed to spend with family exchange gifts or whatever.

1003
00:58:55,600 --> 00:58:58,280
Speaker 6: Growing up, that was my favorite day because well I've

1004
00:58:58,280 --> 00:59:01,200
Speaker 6: always been very close with my family, but that always

1005
00:59:01,200 --> 00:59:04,760
Speaker 6: felt was so nice because us will meet. Growing up,

1006
00:59:04,840 --> 00:59:07,960
Speaker 6: me my sisters would spend that day making our handmade gifts.

1007
00:59:08,040 --> 00:59:11,400
Speaker 6: We would draw photos, or I would create things out

1008
00:59:11,400 --> 00:59:14,720
Speaker 6: of legos, or or I would make things out of

1009
00:59:14,840 --> 00:59:17,480
Speaker 6: like you know, construction paper or whatever. I would do

1010
00:59:17,520 --> 00:59:19,880
Speaker 6: those types of things, and it was always really fun

1011
00:59:19,920 --> 00:59:22,880
Speaker 6: when I would then exchange those handmade gifts with my family.

1012
00:59:23,800 --> 00:59:27,120
Speaker 6: That last day of quantas like, was always my favorite part.

1013
00:59:27,640 --> 00:59:29,760
Speaker 3: Got you six after the top of our family, we

1014
00:59:30,040 --> 00:59:32,040
Speaker 3: guessed that some of the Holly girls, my brother Saning

1015
00:59:32,040 --> 00:59:34,880
Speaker 3: Goo Baya's assemblar panel of talk to us about Quanta,

1016
00:59:34,880 --> 00:59:37,400
Speaker 3: how they celebrate Quansa when they first heard about Quansa.

1017
00:59:37,520 --> 00:59:39,520
Speaker 3: Let's speak to another one of the Holly systems again.

1018
00:59:40,000 --> 00:59:43,040
Speaker 3: A question for you is the uh do you think

1019
00:59:43,080 --> 00:59:46,040
Speaker 3: because you guys seem like a very tight knit family,

1020
00:59:46,440 --> 00:59:48,640
Speaker 3: do you think you could say you'd have the same

1021
00:59:48,920 --> 00:59:51,600
Speaker 3: zest for Quanta if you fire will your same energy

1022
00:59:51,600 --> 00:59:54,400
Speaker 3: for Kwansa if your family was not a tight ni

1023
00:59:54,560 --> 00:59:56,840
Speaker 3: because not all families are tight nameing you guys have

1024
00:59:56,960 --> 00:59:59,560
Speaker 3: something special. Let me just tell you right now. We

1025
00:59:59,560 --> 01:00:01,640
Speaker 3: got fami. These people not even speaking to each other,

1026
01:00:01,680 --> 01:00:03,880
Speaker 3: you know what I'm talking about, and the order you

1027
01:00:04,040 --> 01:00:08,120
Speaker 3: only see each other. You know that at funerals or holidays.

1028
01:00:08,400 --> 01:00:10,920
Speaker 3: So do you think if you, if you guys were

1029
01:00:11,000 --> 01:00:14,640
Speaker 3: not so closely, you could still appreciate Quansa.

1030
01:00:15,760 --> 01:00:19,120
Speaker 6: Yes, Hi, it's just me speaking my assasim blest and

1031
01:00:19,200 --> 01:00:22,439
Speaker 6: after me laing Holly, I just go by Sene for Holly.

1032
01:00:22,240 --> 01:00:27,240
Speaker 5: Usually, but honestly, it's specifically.

1033
01:00:26,560 --> 01:00:28,360
Speaker 6: Growing up in the community that we grew up in,

1034
01:00:28,400 --> 01:00:31,360
Speaker 6: but also with my family. If we weren't as tight

1035
01:00:31,440 --> 01:00:35,040
Speaker 6: knit I really don't think we would kwans would be

1036
01:00:35,120 --> 01:00:38,000
Speaker 6: what it is in our family because of the fact

1037
01:00:38,000 --> 01:00:41,919
Speaker 6: that I feel like the whole, you know, foundation of

1038
01:00:42,120 --> 01:00:46,120
Speaker 6: Quanta is genuinely bringing community and bringing people together as

1039
01:00:46,120 --> 01:00:49,680
Speaker 6: a whole, and I feel like if that piece was missing,

1040
01:00:50,000 --> 01:00:54,160
Speaker 6: it would be hard. I mean, especially, you know, growing

1041
01:00:54,240 --> 01:00:56,800
Speaker 6: up in DC and having that community and then coming

1042
01:00:56,960 --> 01:01:02,240
Speaker 6: to California and moving to California first three years.

1043
01:01:01,960 --> 01:01:03,240
Speaker 5: Were a little hard because of.

1044
01:01:03,200 --> 01:01:07,440
Speaker 6: The fact that we weren't in DC anymore, and you know,

1045
01:01:07,560 --> 01:01:11,280
Speaker 6: it's Quansa is everywhere in DC and in California. It's

1046
01:01:11,280 --> 01:01:15,240
Speaker 6: a Durrassic difference, you know, and especially meeting people and

1047
01:01:15,280 --> 01:01:19,800
Speaker 6: then meeting friends and and a lot of them one

1048
01:01:20,360 --> 01:01:24,160
Speaker 6: weren't even as connected with their families as I am

1049
01:01:24,280 --> 01:01:27,240
Speaker 6: with mine, and tow they celebrated Christmas, so they were

1050
01:01:27,240 --> 01:01:31,600
Speaker 6: looking at me sideways, you know. But I also, I

1051
01:01:31,640 --> 01:01:36,000
Speaker 6: don't know, I think my I was fortunate enough to

1052
01:01:36,040 --> 01:01:41,760
Speaker 6: be raised and and such a with such a strong

1053
01:01:41,800 --> 01:01:47,800
Speaker 6: foundation within our family, and it's it's continuously enlightening and

1054
01:01:47,840 --> 01:01:52,400
Speaker 6: continuously uplifting, and we honestly kind of hold each other

1055
01:01:52,560 --> 01:01:56,280
Speaker 6: in a way, and I think that it would be

1056
01:01:56,600 --> 01:02:02,160
Speaker 6: it would be harder, a lot harder to really be

1057
01:02:02,600 --> 01:02:05,560
Speaker 6: in that as much as we are if that was missing.

1058
01:02:05,560 --> 01:02:10,760
Speaker 6: But I will say for people that don't have such

1059
01:02:10,840 --> 01:02:14,360
Speaker 6: a strong foundation within family or community or whatever, like,

1060
01:02:15,680 --> 01:02:18,760
Speaker 6: we are always here and you know, and the community

1061
01:02:18,800 --> 01:02:21,720
Speaker 6: is always here. And you know that's why I'm very

1062
01:02:21,720 --> 01:02:24,880
Speaker 6: big on chosen family. Not every family is blood, you

1063
01:02:24,920 --> 01:02:27,800
Speaker 6: know what I mean. And that's okay. And you know,

1064
01:02:28,120 --> 01:02:29,000
Speaker 6: especially when you.

1065
01:02:29,000 --> 01:02:29,480
Speaker 19: Need to.

1066
01:02:31,000 --> 01:02:36,480
Speaker 6: Need that that that certain bond, it's so important. It's

1067
01:02:36,520 --> 01:02:39,640
Speaker 6: so important, and that support system is so important and

1068
01:02:40,600 --> 01:02:42,720
Speaker 6: it'll always be there in Kwanza. And I think that's

1069
01:02:42,720 --> 01:02:43,880
Speaker 6: something that I'll always admire.

1070
01:02:44,680 --> 01:02:48,400
Speaker 3: Yeah, well said, I thank you for sharing that with us.

1071
01:02:50,640 --> 01:02:53,680
Speaker 4: Go ahead, by the single. I just want to chime

1072
01:02:53,760 --> 01:02:55,920
Speaker 4: in here and just just share a little bit about

1073
01:02:56,840 --> 01:02:58,560
Speaker 4: especially family. It's important.

1074
01:02:58,960 --> 01:02:59,120
Speaker 5: Uh.

1075
01:02:59,280 --> 01:03:01,760
Speaker 4: The U and I a ACL has been a host

1076
01:03:01,760 --> 01:03:04,000
Speaker 4: in NIA and as you said, as I told you earlier,

1077
01:03:04,000 --> 01:03:06,120
Speaker 4: that many NEA knights and I'll mention them, but I

1078
01:03:06,200 --> 01:03:08,840
Speaker 4: just want to let people know before we go back

1079
01:03:08,880 --> 01:03:11,240
Speaker 4: to Sister I Tia and talk a little more about

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Speaker 4: other events on NIA Nite. Your listeners are very familiar

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Speaker 4: with the BACH the coalition that we're in the Bethesda

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Speaker 4: African Cemetery Coalition. So this year again like last year,

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Speaker 4: we will be at Macedonia Baptist Church at fifty one

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Speaker 4: to nineteen River Road, Bethesda, Maryland on that side of

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Speaker 4: the d C on the thirtieth from six pm to

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Speaker 4: nine pm. And every year we honor ancestors, especially ancestors,

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Speaker 4: but we honor elders and these awards this year and

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Speaker 4: I'm just gonna be quick so we can move forward.

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Speaker 4: De Garvey twenty twenty five NEA Awards go to none

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Speaker 4: other than Brother Tiari Cousel And for those that don't

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Speaker 4: know Tiari causel they should know. He's one of the

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Speaker 4: major African centered martial artists worldwide to deal with Koopie,

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Speaker 4: Ghana and Gumi. And then we also have Sister Oza

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Speaker 4: Zinger who is a very very positive sister who's in

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Speaker 4: many many institutions, but particularly a Doossi the African Dosboro

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Speaker 4: Ancestral Commemoration. And then we also honoring Kenneth Carroll who

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Speaker 4: is one of the most powerful poet and spoken word

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Speaker 4: artists of the DC area. And then we also are

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Speaker 4: honoring a brother from the AA p r P who

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Speaker 4: goes all the way back with us no longer lives

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Speaker 4: in DC. Brother Bambozi, who's a very powerful brother, worked

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Speaker 4: with Kwame Terray. Then we also honoring sister Yuri Hudgens,

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Speaker 4: who is very very powerful sister, also one of the

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Speaker 4: founding sisters of Adossi and involved with Kacoran and a

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Speaker 4: whole litany of things. We're also honoring Evergreen Productions, which

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Speaker 4: is a poet a spoken word group. And then we're

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01:04:49,840 --> 01:04:53,120
Speaker 4: also honoring brother Wayne Young, who does a magazine here

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Speaker 4: in the DC area. Many people may know of him.

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Speaker 4: And the last two Mary Gria, sister Maysa Gara, who

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Speaker 4: knows that lives in the DC area, but one of

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01:05:01,760 --> 01:05:04,400
Speaker 4: the most creative artists of all time, did a lot

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Speaker 4: of images for Odossi and many many groups. We're honoring her.

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Speaker 4: And then last we're honoring brother Keith Easton, another powerful brother.

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Speaker 4: So I wanted to shout them out because every year

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Speaker 4: we've given about fifty to sixty seventy awards over the

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01:05:18,600 --> 01:05:21,720
Speaker 4: last several years, and we like to honor people and

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01:05:21,720 --> 01:05:24,240
Speaker 4: give them flowers while they're hear All of these people

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Speaker 4: are instrumental in the Pan African cultural community of Washington,

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Speaker 4: d C. So I want to let people know. Also

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Speaker 4: Reveini to Bayo and Sister Marsha out of Bayo, who

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Speaker 4: has been fighting to address the issue of the cemetery

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Speaker 4: in Bethesda that has been desecrated, and we don't play.

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Speaker 4: When you desecrate our ancestors, we don't play. You're desecrating

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Speaker 4: us little girls who are buried in that cemetery. So

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Speaker 4: call your listeners, are very familiar with them. That's where

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Speaker 4: we're hosting our Quansa this year. They'll be candle lighting,

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01:05:52,520 --> 01:05:56,120
Speaker 4: they'll be a feast, they'll be Outstanding Community Service Awards.

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Speaker 4: Everygreen Production Group perform African drumming, sin the Marsha Gozi

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Speaker 4: Coleman out of Bayo and Reverend out of Bayo and

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Speaker 4: Baba Mosi the President. We will be doing that. So

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Speaker 4: I've made on give up information on how you can

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Speaker 4: contact us. But I'm gonna stop right there because I

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01:06:13,280 --> 01:06:15,280
Speaker 4: love hearing from my young people. Because if we we're

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01:06:15,320 --> 01:06:18,760
Speaker 4: not for our ancestors, not for our elders, staying the course,

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01:06:18,800 --> 01:06:22,280
Speaker 4: focusing on returning to our traditional greatness, the youth who

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01:06:22,320 --> 01:06:25,160
Speaker 4: are our not just our future, they are our president.

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Speaker 4: And Sister Atiya who hopefully we're going to go back

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Speaker 4: to now. Also had some other special guests coming on

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Speaker 4: and I want to get everybody opportunity because this is

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Speaker 4: a family affair, not just tight knit families, but extended

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Speaker 4: family because our things stretch all the way to sierle On, Kenya, Gambia, Ghana, Nigeria, Tanzania,

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Speaker 4: a Zania, South Africa where they all will be doing Kwansa.

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01:06:54,760 --> 01:06:58,200
Speaker 4: So Kwanza is not American holiday. It's an African holiday

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01:06:58,280 --> 01:07:00,840
Speaker 4: for all Africans around the world. Up right there, call,

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01:07:01,120 --> 01:07:04,920
Speaker 4: and let's listen to some of our young brothers.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, brother brother saying fourteen After that time, do we

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01:07:09,520 --> 01:07:11,280
Speaker 3: get all the Holly girls out first?

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Speaker 4: I think you heard from all four of them. I'm

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01:07:14,400 --> 01:07:16,680
Speaker 4: not sure. If not, you know, they can come on back.

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Speaker 3: Then.

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Speaker 6: Hello, Yes you did speak to all four of us.

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01:07:22,960 --> 01:07:25,400
Speaker 6: But we will also have the opportunity to just talk

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01:07:25,440 --> 01:07:28,760
Speaker 6: about do Jima joint when that time is appropriate.

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Speaker 5: Please let us to know.

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Speaker 4: Well you go ahead, now, go ahead now, and then

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01:07:32,120 --> 01:07:35,720
Speaker 4: we'll go Tia and talk about Nea Knight that she's

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01:07:35,760 --> 01:07:38,560
Speaker 4: hosting bringing in new people. See see call. You have

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01:07:38,600 --> 01:07:42,040
Speaker 4: to understand it's a consistency. Also, there's a Nea program

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01:07:42,120 --> 01:07:46,840
Speaker 4: being held in Baltimore at ever at Everyone's Place, where

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Speaker 4: Tony Browner will be there on NIA Knight. Also last

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Speaker 4: but not least, uh the Everlasting Life. We'll also host

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Speaker 4: the NIA program hosted by Ay. So there's plenty of

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01:07:56,680 --> 01:07:59,960
Speaker 4: places for people to go to celebrate not only Nia Knight,

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01:08:00,080 --> 01:08:03,040
Speaker 4: but every night there's a children party. Hopefully we'll get

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01:08:03,040 --> 01:08:04,760
Speaker 4: into some of that. And I know you got doctor

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01:08:04,800 --> 01:08:07,440
Speaker 4: Karinga coming on. He can address some of the critical

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01:08:07,480 --> 01:08:11,400
Speaker 4: issues that we're talking about around christmasson Kwanza, et cetera.

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Speaker 4: But anyway, let's let's let's move forward. If we can

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Speaker 4: call to a tear all right in your thoughts.

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Speaker 7: All we h Before the Holly Girls mentioned Ujima, I

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01:08:24,640 --> 01:08:26,880
Speaker 7: just want to just give him a little back history

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Speaker 7: really quick of their event based on the event that

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Speaker 7: we've been doing. My wife and I a f a

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01:08:34,840 --> 01:08:39,920
Speaker 7: Menekai pepsuit a Fee Soul and friends House of Ryan

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01:08:40,080 --> 01:08:42,799
Speaker 7: friends have been doing and originally we called a twenty

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Speaker 7: something collective, have been doing a Quanzi event Ujima Knight

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01:08:47,320 --> 01:08:52,400
Speaker 7: for thirty plus years every Ujima Knight, and as young people,

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Speaker 7: we wanted to do something that was a little different

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Speaker 7: initially than what other Quanzi events we're going on in

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01:08:58,760 --> 01:09:01,519
Speaker 7: the city. We want to to offer music, you want

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01:09:01,560 --> 01:09:04,160
Speaker 7: to offer poetry, you want to offer bands, you want

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01:09:04,240 --> 01:09:10,960
Speaker 7: to offer hip hop, and that's who did we have

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Speaker 7: a little right.

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Speaker 3: We're getting the feedback again, so so hold that thought

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01:09:13,880 --> 01:09:16,200
Speaker 3: right there. Sixteen minutes at the top of the I'll

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01:09:16,320 --> 01:09:18,400
Speaker 3: try and fix that feedback. This doesn't sound good on

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01:09:18,439 --> 01:09:20,960
Speaker 3: the air we got if you're just checking in the

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Speaker 3: family on this Wednesday morning, Brother Saying, Go bay is

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Speaker 3: as semilar panel discussing Quanta, how they celebrate Quanta, what

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Speaker 3: they're doing for Quanta this year, how they started celebrating Quanta,

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Speaker 3: and what are your thoughts you took in getting on

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01:09:33,760 --> 01:09:36,080
Speaker 3: this conversation. Reach out to us at eight hundred four

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Speaker 3: five zero seventy eight seventy six and we'll take your

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01:09:39,120 --> 01:09:41,519
Speaker 3: phone calls. After the short break, we'll take all your calls.

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Speaker 14: Next fourteen fifty w O L. Kils Now back to

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Speaker 14: the Karl Nelson Show.

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Speaker 3: And Grand Rising Family. Thanks for starting your Wednesday with

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Speaker 3: us this Christmas Eve for some folks. Twenty minutes after

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Speaker 3: the top of the hour, brother Saying, Go Baye. Garvey

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01:11:13,360 --> 01:11:15,960
Speaker 3: is a similar panel of folks who celebrate kuans and

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01:11:15,960 --> 01:11:17,599
Speaker 3: they give them us some of the history how they

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01:11:17,640 --> 01:11:20,439
Speaker 3: started celebrating Quanti, When did they recognize Kwanza? Well, their

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01:11:20,439 --> 01:11:22,760
Speaker 3: thoughts about Quansa because all of a sudden, you know

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01:11:22,840 --> 01:11:26,040
Speaker 3: some of us who's who celebrated Christmas and some still

1205
01:11:26,080 --> 01:11:29,679
Speaker 3: sell us who celebrate Christmas. You can still celebrate Kwanza.

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01:11:29,720 --> 01:11:32,320
Speaker 3: And that's the thought for the day. But before we left,

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Speaker 3: the sister Atia was going to join us. So it's

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Speaker 3: sister are tears. She's an educator by trade. Sister a

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Speaker 3: tea your thoughts.

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Speaker 6: Yes, I'm here, Thank you so much.

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01:11:40,160 --> 01:11:40,599
Speaker 5: Baba.

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Speaker 6: So I would like to bring in Baba Jua, who

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01:11:44,200 --> 01:11:48,719
Speaker 6: is one of my partners. If he's on the Callbajua,

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Speaker 6: are you here?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, he's there, I'm not here and he's not responding.

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Speaker 6: Okay, So well I'm not sure, but so I can

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Speaker 6: continue to move forward. And so, yes, we are celebrating

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Speaker 6: Nea Knight. And as I said before, we will be

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Speaker 6: introducing our youth awardies from our fifth annual Illuminature Black

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Speaker 6: Brilliance Awards. We will have a panel discussion which is

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Speaker 6: a staateful for our Quanta Knight and this year our

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Speaker 6: topic will be how do Black youth use their brilliance

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Speaker 6: and resilience to restore and uplift our communities? And so

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Speaker 6: this panel discussion is really important because we really want

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Speaker 6: to get our children thinking about how do they use

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Speaker 6: their talents to uplift their community. We know that unfortunately,

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Speaker 6: our music has been hijacked and so much of the

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01:12:47,000 --> 01:12:49,880
Speaker 6: popular music, the music that we hear on the radio

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Speaker 6: or the music that unfortunately our children are attracted to,

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Speaker 6: it's very low vibrational and there are these messages that

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Speaker 6: really keep our children from elevator. And so that is

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Speaker 6: a conversation that we have while we have so many

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01:13:04,160 --> 01:13:06,960
Speaker 6: young people and elders alike in the room and so

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01:13:07,040 --> 01:13:11,080
Speaker 6: we really pushed them to stretch their thinking around. So

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Speaker 6: we recognize your brilliance and we recognize your resilience, but

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Speaker 6: how do you use those talents to then uplift your community?

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Speaker 6: And so we're really excited for this year's panel topic.

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Speaker 6: We have Koyaba Dance Theater who will be for their

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01:13:26,439 --> 01:13:29,600
Speaker 6: children's company will be performing this year. We'll have a

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01:13:29,640 --> 01:13:35,760
Speaker 6: fan fashion show where we are highlighting local African of

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01:13:35,800 --> 01:13:41,160
Speaker 6: course designers and so we're really excited. We'll have vendors

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01:13:41,920 --> 01:13:45,479
Speaker 6: and we're just really excited to bring people together to

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01:13:45,680 --> 01:13:49,559
Speaker 6: really raise the vibrations of our community and to have

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01:13:49,640 --> 01:13:53,439
Speaker 6: conversations and interactions where we just get to enjoy each

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01:13:53,479 --> 01:13:54,759
Speaker 6: other as African people.

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Speaker 3: All right, let's say brother Ju, I could get in here.

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01:13:57,520 --> 01:13:58,799
Speaker 3: He's online six, Brother.

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Speaker 12: Jua, good morning. Can I be hurt?

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01:14:02,160 --> 01:14:04,280
Speaker 3: You can be heard? Go ahead? Brother? Your thought?

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01:14:04,479 --> 01:14:04,919
Speaker 12: Perfect?

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01:14:05,720 --> 01:14:05,920
Speaker 7: Oh?

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01:14:05,920 --> 01:14:09,040
Speaker 12: Perfect? No, Mama Tea was speaking to it. You know

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01:14:09,080 --> 01:14:11,599
Speaker 12: the Quanda event that we're putting on a bus boys

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01:14:11,640 --> 01:14:13,599
Speaker 12: in Hyattsville on knee and night.

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Speaker 3: Are you there? I think we may have lost three

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Speaker 3: minutes after the top of the hour.

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Speaker 13: Brother.

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Speaker 3: Oh, let's go to brother Obi. Brother Obi, Yeah, fill

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01:14:29,800 --> 01:14:32,000
Speaker 3: us in and tell us what you know because you

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01:14:32,040 --> 01:14:35,479
Speaker 3: said quantita. Like many of us adults, we came to

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01:14:35,720 --> 01:14:39,080
Speaker 3: the quanza game later in life because we already we

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01:14:39,120 --> 01:14:42,160
Speaker 3: already was observing Christmas because of our parents. What do

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01:14:42,200 --> 01:14:44,800
Speaker 3: you think people who who celebrate Kwanza, what do you

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01:14:44,840 --> 01:14:48,360
Speaker 3: think they missed the most for not celebrating and who

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01:14:48,479 --> 01:14:51,120
Speaker 3: just celebrate quans exclusively and not Christmas anymore? What do

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Speaker 3: you think they missed the most about Christmas?

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Speaker 7: That's a fantastic question for the crowd. Nelson, I really

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01:14:59,520 --> 01:15:01,760
Speaker 7: appreciate it question, you know what, To be honest with you,

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Speaker 7: I think most of us, except for our children for example,

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Speaker 7: and other people's children, who were raised exclusively on Quansa.

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Speaker 7: If you weren't raised exclusively on Quansa, of course you

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Speaker 7: got amazing memories probably of being young, probably of being

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01:15:18,120 --> 01:15:21,639
Speaker 7: around a tree, the anticipation of seeing gifts and all

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01:15:21,680 --> 01:15:25,840
Speaker 7: that kind of thing. You know, lights in your house,

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01:15:26,360 --> 01:15:29,880
Speaker 7: lights outside of your house. You know, warm moments that

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01:15:30,000 --> 01:15:34,760
Speaker 7: you have at any family gathering, and Christmas in particular,

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01:15:35,400 --> 01:15:39,240
Speaker 7: you know, there was a very powerful commercialization, commercials the

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01:15:39,280 --> 01:15:42,920
Speaker 7: whole world outside your door things to be doing Christmas,

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Speaker 7: and you're doing quansas. So it takes you have to

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01:15:45,720 --> 01:15:49,439
Speaker 7: be brave and bold to do Quansa. And so I

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01:15:49,439 --> 01:15:52,559
Speaker 7: think the idea of not being a part of the

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01:15:52,880 --> 01:15:56,400
Speaker 7: popular trend of the rest of the world, with that

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01:15:56,560 --> 01:16:00,400
Speaker 7: excitement that you still might feel from your childhood going on,

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01:16:00,840 --> 01:16:03,000
Speaker 7: that's probably the biggest thing that you missed. You miss

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01:16:03,479 --> 01:16:08,480
Speaker 7: being detached from that reality, that excitement that everybody seems

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01:16:08,800 --> 01:16:13,120
Speaker 7: to have. But with Kwanza, like my daughter said, you know,

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Speaker 7: there's seven days of excitement. There's new community, there's new ideas,

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01:16:17,479 --> 01:16:20,760
Speaker 7: there's new concepts, there's you know that, there's these principles

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Speaker 7: and so we regnite and create that same warmth and

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01:16:23,800 --> 01:16:27,719
Speaker 7: light and feeling in our in our own house, uh,

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Speaker 7: you know through QUANSA.

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Speaker 3: Let me jump in and ask you this, brother, because

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Speaker 3: you mentioned commercialization, are you concerned that Quanta may soon

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Speaker 3: be commercialized, you know, having quants of these rappers are

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01:16:40,080 --> 01:16:42,280
Speaker 3: having the kind of quands of parties of that that

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01:16:42,640 --> 01:16:45,040
Speaker 3: when we see them doing now for King Day and

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01:16:45,080 --> 01:16:48,519
Speaker 3: the stores having quants of sales, is that a concern

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Speaker 3: to you? And maybe it's a better question for doctor Korrenger,

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Speaker 3: but what are your thoughts.

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Speaker 7: I do see people trying to take advantage of it

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01:16:56,400 --> 01:16:59,760
Speaker 7: in that way. I haven't seen that kind of success

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01:17:00,240 --> 01:17:03,439
Speaker 7: in a major way. I've definitely seen different, you know,

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01:17:03,600 --> 01:17:06,960
Speaker 7: brands try to jump on the Quantita train to a degree,

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01:17:07,040 --> 01:17:08,880
Speaker 7: I think they don't know what to do with it. Yet.

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01:17:09,000 --> 01:17:13,200
Speaker 7: I'm not concerned because we on the grassroots level, you know,

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01:17:13,520 --> 01:17:17,519
Speaker 7: we really champion this on a real way year after

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Speaker 7: year after year after year, and we really live it.

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Speaker 7: So I don't see it being commercialized right now in

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01:17:26,360 --> 01:17:29,320
Speaker 7: that way, I would not mind. And there are things

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Speaker 7: that that we wanted that we're gonna do as far

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Speaker 7: as having different quantity events and different kinds of media

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Speaker 7: that popularize it more to specifically to black people. But

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Speaker 7: our whole aim is that that popularizing comes back to

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Speaker 7: the black community economically, and you know that kind of way,

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01:17:50,080 --> 01:17:52,639
Speaker 7: you know, as you popular lies it because we want

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Speaker 7: We would love for more Black people in America and

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01:17:54,880 --> 01:17:57,080
Speaker 7: more Black people in Africa, and more Black people everywhere

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01:17:58,560 --> 01:18:02,559
Speaker 7: to celebrate and be a part of the Kwanza holiday.

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01:18:02,840 --> 01:18:04,560
Speaker 7: That would be a fantastic thing. I mean, can you

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01:18:04,600 --> 01:18:07,320
Speaker 7: imagine the whole world if the whole world was celebrating

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01:18:07,560 --> 01:18:10,920
Speaker 7: and living seven principles of Kwanza every day, that would

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01:18:10,920 --> 01:18:15,479
Speaker 7: be absolutely amazed, you know, and they'd be energized and

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Speaker 7: the courage to buy black that.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, because we have that feedback after that. Top there.

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Speaker 3: Thank you, brother Obi, Brother ju Ju is back, Brother

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01:18:27,479 --> 01:18:29,320
Speaker 3: ju are yes?

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Speaker 12: Can I be hurt?

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01:18:30,720 --> 01:18:31,479
Speaker 3: You surely? Can?

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Speaker 12: Oh?

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Speaker 4: Perfect? All right?

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Speaker 12: Thank you for having me back. Brother Carl. What question

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01:18:37,120 --> 01:18:38,040
Speaker 12: am I responding to?

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01:18:38,200 --> 01:18:38,400
Speaker 4: Now?

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01:18:41,240 --> 01:18:44,040
Speaker 3: Beat me? I forgot I'll be honest with you.

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Speaker 12: No, it's all good, so I'll jump in. So I

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01:18:46,400 --> 01:18:48,760
Speaker 12: was talking with Sister Tia, and you know we are

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01:18:48,800 --> 01:18:50,840
Speaker 12: we are doing that Quanta event at bus Boys in

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Speaker 12: Hyattsville on me and night, and as the other Bober

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01:18:53,960 --> 01:18:57,519
Speaker 12: spoke to their many different things that are happening around

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Speaker 12: the DC area for Quanta, So it's a lot of

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01:18:59,840 --> 01:19:01,840
Speaker 12: ways to plug in. I think for us, one of

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Speaker 12: the things that we're bringing to the table is an

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Speaker 12: opportunity for our young people between fifteen and like twenty

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01:19:08,880 --> 01:19:11,120
Speaker 12: four to kind of offer their gifts and their talents

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Speaker 12: to the community, be recognized to that. It's intergenerational, so

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01:19:15,479 --> 01:19:18,400
Speaker 12: as little kids, there's people in their twenties and thirty,

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Speaker 12: there's elders there, and it's an opportunity for those young

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01:19:21,840 --> 01:19:24,920
Speaker 12: people who are are doing creative things to kind of

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01:19:25,040 --> 01:19:27,800
Speaker 12: stay connected, stay connected to the elders, they connected to

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Speaker 12: their community, and be reminded of their responsibility to do

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Speaker 12: something to uplift African people.

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Speaker 3: Gotcha sounds our great Dale twenty eight After the top

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01:19:36,800 --> 01:19:40,439
Speaker 3: they up BILLI Saint Gore. You assemble this panel together?

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01:19:40,920 --> 01:19:43,040
Speaker 3: What was the what's the premise? What do you think

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01:19:43,280 --> 01:19:44,880
Speaker 3: listeners should get out of the conversation?

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Speaker 4: This morning, longevity and consistency. And as I said earlier

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01:19:49,520 --> 01:19:53,920
Speaker 4: and even way before kwans manifested, we were doing these

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01:19:54,000 --> 01:19:57,800
Speaker 4: kind of celebrations around harvest and first fruits. And of

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01:19:57,800 --> 01:20:02,160
Speaker 4: course doctor Karinga will will speak more specifically to that,

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Speaker 4: but I would say to you, Kaul that it's re

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01:20:05,479 --> 01:20:09,920
Speaker 4: africanizing ourselves in the Western hemisphere and around the world

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01:20:10,200 --> 01:20:14,400
Speaker 4: and reconnecting with Africa. The reason I assembled this group

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Speaker 4: together today is to demonstrate to the world that there's

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Speaker 4: a legacy going on. There's a tribute to our ancestors,

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01:20:21,920 --> 01:20:24,439
Speaker 4: there's a tribute to the elders, and most of all,

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Speaker 4: there's a tribute of reaching to our youth so we

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01:20:27,120 --> 01:20:30,840
Speaker 4: can redirect their energy under so that they understand with

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01:20:30,920 --> 01:20:33,720
Speaker 4: their electricity that they do not have to listen to

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01:20:34,800 --> 01:20:38,840
Speaker 4: negative music or negative vibrations coming into them. They can

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Speaker 4: accacuate positive and Quansa is not something that is just

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Speaker 4: celebrated at the end of the year. I want to

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Speaker 4: stress that again Quanza three sixty five. Every day, every

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01:20:50,680 --> 01:20:55,479
Speaker 4: day all throughout the year, we should practice then guzahsaba.

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Speaker 4: And if we do that, as Obi said, we got

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Speaker 4: millions already around the world that celebrate Kwansa. But it's

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Speaker 4: not just about the celebration. It's about renewing your energy

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01:21:06,160 --> 01:21:12,799
Speaker 4: around just like the winter solstice is a time to revive, renew, restore, meditate,

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01:21:12,920 --> 01:21:17,120
Speaker 4: go in and check out internally what you're doing with yourself,

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01:21:17,240 --> 01:21:20,080
Speaker 4: improve upon yourself and prepare for the new sun and

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Speaker 4: the new year. Well it's great time because that segues

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Speaker 4: right into Kwansa. And so doctor Karinga and others were

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01:21:27,720 --> 01:21:31,840
Speaker 4: motivated by our ancestors to build something that would bring

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Speaker 4: us more back to our africanity and our African culture

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01:21:35,520 --> 01:21:39,440
Speaker 4: and our unity. So the Nguza Saba, those seven principles

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01:21:39,880 --> 01:21:44,439
Speaker 4: are principles that everybody should live by all the time.

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01:21:44,920 --> 01:21:52,599
Speaker 4: So what you do when you say unity kuji chakaala, ujima, ujama, miya,

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01:21:52,920 --> 01:21:57,360
Speaker 4: kumba and imani is you're renewing your spirit with the

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01:21:57,479 --> 01:22:00,200
Speaker 4: tradition of our ancestors all the way back to ain't

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Speaker 4: you comment? So we are figning ourselves with the new

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01:22:03,439 --> 01:22:07,760
Speaker 4: sun that comes in today, in fact or tomorrow when

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01:22:07,800 --> 01:22:11,000
Speaker 4: the new sun comes in. We have restored ourselves. We

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01:22:11,040 --> 01:22:13,400
Speaker 4: have looked back at our past. We have gotten rid

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01:22:13,439 --> 01:22:16,120
Speaker 4: of some of our shortcomings and our negatives, dropped them

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Speaker 4: aside and become more conscious of building and going forward.

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Speaker 4: So that's why this panel today is together just to

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01:22:23,000 --> 01:22:27,320
Speaker 4: show it's not just about the elders who are holding

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Speaker 4: the culture together, to you hold the culture together. And

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01:22:30,680 --> 01:22:33,120
Speaker 4: you know, I've been practicing kwanta for a long time,

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Speaker 4: even long before I got into Unia. But if you

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01:22:36,360 --> 01:22:41,320
Speaker 4: look at that, you are the purpose you in Ia.

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01:22:41,400 --> 01:22:45,400
Speaker 4: So Garvey, and even before Garvey, they were practicing and

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01:22:45,479 --> 01:22:47,760
Speaker 4: Gussar but they might not have called it Kwansa, but

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Speaker 4: they were practicing positive principles to bring us back together again.

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01:22:51,280 --> 01:22:54,360
Speaker 4: So thanks to doctor Karinga and others, they have bought

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01:22:54,400 --> 01:22:57,479
Speaker 4: that forward in nineteen sixty six and now we're continuing it.

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01:22:57,520 --> 01:23:00,719
Speaker 4: So here's twenty twenty five. Look at what has happened

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01:23:00,760 --> 01:23:03,280
Speaker 4: with sister Atia, look at what has happened with brother

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01:23:03,320 --> 01:23:07,680
Speaker 4: Obie A Medica and the children of them. They are

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01:23:07,760 --> 01:23:10,400
Speaker 4: practicing and carrying it forward. So I just want to

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01:23:10,400 --> 01:23:13,240
Speaker 4: give hope to everybody. But I want everybody to understand

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Speaker 4: as we close today, the Winner Solstice is very important,

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01:23:18,160 --> 01:23:21,400
Speaker 4: very very important to look to the sky and look

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01:23:21,439 --> 01:23:25,479
Speaker 4: inside yourself and think about building something positive for the future.

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Speaker 4: I'm gonna stop right there, car because we've got a

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Speaker 4: lot of other people that.

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Speaker 3: Have, yeah, twenty eight away from the top of the

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Speaker 3: half a family, and I want to speak to brother

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01:23:32,960 --> 01:23:36,240
Speaker 3: Obie's better half, if you will, because I got to

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01:23:36,280 --> 01:23:39,040
Speaker 3: ask her of the question, how do we maintain keeping

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Speaker 3: the seven principles alive throughout the year? I mean, we

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01:23:41,400 --> 01:23:43,080
Speaker 3: talk about it, and we talk about for the seven

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01:23:43,120 --> 01:23:48,080
Speaker 3: days of Quasla, but ideally, doctor Krank beleiast, we should

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01:23:48,160 --> 01:23:51,840
Speaker 3: keep this the seven days in engaging the seven principles

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01:23:51,960 --> 01:23:53,760
Speaker 3: throughout the entire year. How can we do that?

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Speaker 5: Yes, yes, Baba again, my name is am in a

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01:23:58,439 --> 01:24:02,439
Speaker 5: concept suit, Holly. The way that we do that is by,

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01:24:02,880 --> 01:24:06,839
Speaker 5: just like Barba said, consistently practicing it in Guzu Sabas

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Speaker 5: throughout the year. One of the beautiful things about Kwanta

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01:24:10,600 --> 01:24:14,640
Speaker 5: is the seven principles. You can take those seven principles

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01:24:14,720 --> 01:24:18,000
Speaker 5: and apply them to yourself and practice them and apply

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01:24:18,120 --> 01:24:21,400
Speaker 5: it to everything, apply it to your family. If everyone

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01:24:21,720 --> 01:24:27,000
Speaker 5: practiced it in Guzuo Sabers throughout the year, we would

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01:24:27,000 --> 01:24:30,320
Speaker 5: definitely be a better people. We'd be better off as

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01:24:30,400 --> 01:24:34,320
Speaker 5: a as a nation, as a nation, because you'd be

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01:24:34,479 --> 01:24:41,000
Speaker 5: consistently cultivating yourself. Everyone will be consistently cultivating themselves, you know,

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Speaker 5: throughout throughout the entire year. You know, Ujima you mean

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01:24:45,320 --> 01:24:52,680
Speaker 5: you know Umoja, you know unity fujisakalia, you know, come on,

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Speaker 5: you can how.

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Speaker 3: Would and ask you is you do you think? Because

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01:24:55,600 --> 01:24:59,720
Speaker 3: you know, we've been trying to find a unifying issue here,

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01:24:59,760 --> 01:25:03,519
Speaker 3: but all black people can celebrate and get get around

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01:25:03,520 --> 01:25:05,519
Speaker 3: and you know, approve it. I think one of your

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01:25:05,560 --> 01:25:08,040
Speaker 3: daughters or it might have been Obi brother Obie said

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01:25:08,040 --> 01:25:11,240
Speaker 3: that he likes to everybody celebrate Quanta. But you know,

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01:25:11,520 --> 01:25:13,840
Speaker 3: first I'd like to see all Black people celebrate Quanta

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01:25:13,920 --> 01:25:17,200
Speaker 3: because we and this goes throughout the diaspora, because you know,

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01:25:17,360 --> 01:25:19,760
Speaker 3: we've been colonized. Some of us speak French, some of

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01:25:19,800 --> 01:25:25,000
Speaker 3: these speak Portuguese, Portuguese, some speak English, and some still

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01:25:25,040 --> 01:25:29,080
Speaker 3: reside with their native dialects. So we looking for unified

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01:25:29,120 --> 01:25:31,680
Speaker 3: force and since we can't do it through the language,

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01:25:32,080 --> 01:25:35,080
Speaker 3: uh Kahili is what they're trying to push on most forces.

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01:25:35,080 --> 01:25:37,200
Speaker 3: But a lot of the African nations are pushing back

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01:25:37,240 --> 01:25:41,080
Speaker 3: on speaking Keswaili. But I think this is an issue

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01:25:41,280 --> 01:25:44,799
Speaker 3: an era here Quanta with we all of us can celebrate, say.

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Speaker 5: You exactly, we can all celebrate Kwanta and we can

1456
01:25:49,000 --> 01:25:52,800
Speaker 5: all implement those principles into our personal lives in order

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01:25:52,840 --> 01:25:55,840
Speaker 5: to cultivate ourselves as individuals so that we may come

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01:25:55,880 --> 01:25:59,840
Speaker 5: together as a unified force. We have to come to

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01:25:59,840 --> 01:26:02,600
Speaker 5: get as a as a unified force. That is what

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01:26:02,680 --> 01:26:05,760
Speaker 5: African needs. That is what we here need here in

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01:26:05,800 --> 01:26:09,599
Speaker 5: America and throughout the entire diaspora. We need to unite

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01:26:10,000 --> 01:26:13,720
Speaker 5: as one people so that we can rise us and

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01:26:13,800 --> 01:26:17,320
Speaker 5: be great. You know, we must do that.

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Speaker 3: It's just that too. As an educated how much of

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01:26:22,520 --> 01:26:25,040
Speaker 3: how much leeway do you have to pass on the

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01:26:25,520 --> 01:26:28,840
Speaker 3: seven pins of Quanja to your students still if you're

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Speaker 3: still teaching.

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Speaker 6: That's a phenomenal question. And I did want to mention

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01:26:33,439 --> 01:26:37,120
Speaker 6: that our team, we are all educators, and so this

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Speaker 6: work is very dear and serious for us.

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Speaker 9: We are all.

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Speaker 6: Educators and and we are pretty much in places where

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01:26:45,720 --> 01:26:48,599
Speaker 6: our children need the most help. And so I think

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01:26:48,680 --> 01:26:53,680
Speaker 6: that I think the last administration with them being so

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01:26:53,880 --> 01:26:56,680
Speaker 6: loose with so many things, and we won't go into that,

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01:26:57,160 --> 01:27:00,160
Speaker 6: but it it opened a way for us to be

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01:27:00,200 --> 01:27:03,919
Speaker 6: able to really speak clearly and freely about our culture,

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01:27:04,000 --> 01:27:08,840
Speaker 6: and so absolutely we as much as we can, we

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01:27:08,920 --> 01:27:12,639
Speaker 6: introduce the seven Principles, because again, like the sister said,

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Speaker 6: it's a lifestyle, right, these are principles that we can

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Speaker 6: all live by and stand on. And so as much

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01:27:19,240 --> 01:27:23,760
Speaker 6: as possible, I speak to the principles being Guzusaba. Our

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01:27:23,880 --> 01:27:28,839
Speaker 6: students are thirsty, they're open, they recognize that there's something missing,

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01:27:29,320 --> 01:27:32,920
Speaker 6: and so what I'm experiencing now more so than ever,

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01:27:33,200 --> 01:27:36,760
Speaker 6: is that our children are hungry and they want to

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01:27:36,840 --> 01:27:40,640
Speaker 6: know this information. They they're thirsty for it because they

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01:27:40,720 --> 01:27:43,680
Speaker 6: recognize that what they are being exposed to is not

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01:27:43,760 --> 01:27:46,559
Speaker 6: making them them their best self, and so they're looking

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01:27:46,600 --> 01:27:47,120
Speaker 6: for things.

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Speaker 9: They're looking for, right, just.

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01:27:48,680 --> 01:27:50,280
Speaker 3: Hold that thought right there, I let you finish it.

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01:27:50,360 --> 01:27:51,880
Speaker 3: On the other side, we gotta step aside and get

1493
01:27:51,880 --> 01:27:53,720
Speaker 3: caught up in the ladies' news, trafficking weather in a

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01:27:53,760 --> 01:27:56,040
Speaker 3: different cities. It's twenty three minutes away from the top

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01:27:56,080 --> 01:27:58,679
Speaker 3: of our family. Just checking in a brother brother Saint

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Speaker 3: Gobaya is a similar panel discuss quansa what are your thoughts?

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Speaker 3: Hit us up at eight hundred four five zero seventy

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Speaker 3: eight seventy six and ticket phone calls after the news,

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Speaker 3: trafficking weather. That's next.

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Speaker 10: Fourteen fifty wol.

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Speaker 11: Good morning, folks on Earl Kirk. Here's the latest from

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Speaker 11: newswe dot com Norad. We'll be tracking Santa again this

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Speaker 11: Christmas Eve. Sarah Walters reports. The annual tradition started by accident.

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Speaker 20: In nineteen fifty five. The folks at Norad and Colorado

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Speaker 20: were working a typical night shift when Air Force Colonel

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Speaker 20: Harry Shop received a phone call from a child. The

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Speaker 20: boy had called a number he saw in a newspaper ad,

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Speaker 20: promising he'd reach Sanna directly, but the number was wrong,

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Speaker 20: and instead he called the military. Shoop was no Scrooge

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Speaker 20: and entertained all calls from kids that night, beginning a

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Speaker 20: new tradition. I'm Sarah Walters.

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Speaker 11: A DC cop is in the hospital after being hit

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Speaker 11: by a vehicle on I six ninety five near the

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Speaker 11: Third Street Tunnel. The officer was reportedly on foot when

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Speaker 11: he was hit in the eastbound lanes last night. The

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Speaker 11: driver involved did remain at the scene and also suffered

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Speaker 11: an injury. The MPD's Major Crash Unit is investigating. DC

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Speaker 11: police looking into a shooting at a home in Southeast

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Speaker 11: Officers responded to Savannah Terrace around two Tuesday afternoon and

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Speaker 11: found a wounded man who wasn't breathing when he was

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Speaker 11: taken to the hospital. No word diet on a possible

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Speaker 11: suspect or motive. A man is heading to prison for

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01:29:44,720 --> 01:29:47,640
Speaker 11: a deadly twenty twenty three shooting in Dumfries. Twenty three

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Speaker 11: year old Kenyana Oglesby took a deal Monday where he

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01:29:50,600 --> 01:29:53,120
Speaker 11: pleaded guilty to a second degree murder charge and was

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Speaker 11: sentenced to forty years in prison. Oglesby admitted to firing

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01:29:56,640 --> 01:29:58,920
Speaker 11: shots and a group of teens during an argument at

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01:29:58,920 --> 01:30:01,679
Speaker 11: a townhouse that killed three year old girl and injured

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Speaker 11: four others. The Washington Regional Alcohol Program is teaming with

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Speaker 11: Lyft to offer free rides home between ten pm and

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01:30:09,000 --> 01:30:12,200
Speaker 11: four am now through New Year's Day. A special code

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Speaker 11: is posted on the program's website. The Commanders are hosting

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01:30:16,160 --> 01:30:19,080
Speaker 11: the Cowboys at one tomorrow afternoon. It might be a

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01:30:19,080 --> 01:30:21,760
Speaker 11: tough game for Washington. This is still unclear who's going

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01:30:21,800 --> 01:30:25,040
Speaker 11: to start a quarterback. In other news, punter Trusway was

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Speaker 11: the team's only player chosen for the Pro Bowl. Hornets

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Speaker 11: down the Wizards one twenty six, one oh nine I'm

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Speaker 11: Earl Kirk. When you're looking for news for Black America,

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Speaker 11: go to newswe dot com.

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Speaker 16: Yeah, good morning, It's brought to you by Tiny Big

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Speaker 16: Out the law officer Richid Klin. We're watching an accident

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01:30:40,760 --> 01:30:43,080
Speaker 16: out in the BW Parkway north bound just after four

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01:30:43,080 --> 01:30:46,000
Speaker 16: to ten. Looks like Faija and Eamassa on the scene.

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Speaker 16: Also looks like an accident on Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway.

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01:30:50,040 --> 01:30:53,599
Speaker 16: This is right at Virginia Avenue northwest. Also an accident

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01:30:53,640 --> 01:30:56,680
Speaker 16: that we watching and looks like sixty six eastbound and

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01:30:56,760 --> 01:30:59,719
Speaker 16: the two right lanes remain blocked moving towards Prince.

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Speaker 17: William park Way over in northern VA.

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Speaker 16: Looks like two vehicles are involved and one has overturned.

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Speaker 17: Were ended car wrecked.

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01:31:06,720 --> 01:31:09,599
Speaker 16: Insurance companies playing games call one eight hundred hurt one

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Speaker 16: two three big Al Fights to get you paid. Attorney

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Speaker 16: big Al is the law firm of Richard Klein. Taking

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Speaker 16: a look at your Christmas Eve forecasts, and it looks

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01:31:17,520 --> 01:31:20,639
Speaker 16: like sunny today and his in the low fifties. Tonight,

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01:31:20,720 --> 01:31:23,360
Speaker 16: mostly cloudy, a slight chance of rain after midnight, with

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Speaker 16: loads in the mid thirties. For Christmas Day, mostly cloudy

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Speaker 16: and the thirties percent chance of rain and hising the

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Speaker 16: fifties Dray Johnson for news Star fourteen fifty am WOL

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Speaker 16: Where Information Is Power.

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Speaker 14: Now back to the Carl Nelson Show.

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Speaker 3: And Grand Rising Family. Thanks for staying with us on

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Speaker 3: this Wednesday morning. We're sixteen minutes away from the top

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Speaker 3: of the hour with a panel assembled by Brother Singo

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01:32:11,400 --> 01:32:15,040
Speaker 3: by It discussing Quanta tell us when they started celebrating Quansa,

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01:32:15,640 --> 01:32:17,920
Speaker 3: how it changed their lives. What are your thoughts? Reach

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Speaker 3: out to us at eight hundred four five zero seventy

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Speaker 3: eight seventy six and join the conversation. Before we do

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Speaker 3: that there, let me just remind you. Coming up later

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01:32:25,000 --> 01:32:28,320
Speaker 3: this morning, we're going speak with Quansa creator, doctor Milana Kurenga,

1571
01:32:28,520 --> 01:32:31,599
Speaker 3: and tomorrow we're going to speak with clinical psychologist doctor

1572
01:32:31,640 --> 01:32:33,439
Speaker 3: Jeromy Fox, and many of you know him from his

1573
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Speaker 3: best selling workbook Addicted to White The Oppressed in League

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01:32:36,640 --> 01:32:39,479
Speaker 3: with the Oppressor, a shame based alliance. So both these

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Speaker 3: scholars are going to be here over the next two days,

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Speaker 3: so make sure you tell all your friends tune in there.

1577
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Speaker 3: If they're on the road again, tell them to download

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Speaker 3: the app from any of found stations and take that

1579
01:32:49,680 --> 01:32:51,960
Speaker 3: with us so they can check us out today and

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01:32:52,120 --> 01:32:54,479
Speaker 3: tomorrow and dry safely with you if you're on the

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01:32:54,840 --> 01:32:57,200
Speaker 3: behind the wheel. This morning before we left, we speaking

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Speaker 3: with Sister A Tea in Washington, DC. So it Sister Tea,

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Speaker 3: I'm making let you finish your thoughts, thank you so.

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Speaker 6: Much, and I'm going to pass the course to bout

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01:33:04,760 --> 01:33:09,280
Speaker 6: the juwah baba juwas because we are all educators.

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Speaker 12: And yeah, yeah, yeah, And I've been an educator for

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01:33:12,560 --> 01:33:15,920
Speaker 12: about twenty five years and quantum practitioner in my whole life.

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Speaker 12: And the question you asked around like education, I think

1589
01:33:18,800 --> 01:33:20,080
Speaker 12: a lot of it has to do with what your

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01:33:20,120 --> 01:33:22,760
Speaker 12: positionality is in the school and what the underlying philosophy

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01:33:22,800 --> 01:33:24,400
Speaker 12: is at the school. So you know, when I was

1592
01:33:24,439 --> 01:33:28,960
Speaker 12: in Philadelphia, we used inkkuza saba every day, so there

1593
01:33:29,000 --> 01:33:31,880
Speaker 12: was the principal every day that the kids were to

1594
01:33:32,040 --> 01:33:34,200
Speaker 12: recite so that they knew the definition of the principle,

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01:33:34,600 --> 01:33:37,240
Speaker 12: and then we talked about how we would practice that

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01:33:37,280 --> 01:33:40,680
Speaker 12: principle every day. When I moved from Philadelphia to d C,

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01:33:41,400 --> 01:33:44,000
Speaker 12: that that that philosophy is not embedded in the school,

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01:33:44,080 --> 01:33:46,360
Speaker 12: because that's not like a norm, right, And so for me,

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01:33:46,560 --> 01:33:48,680
Speaker 12: part of it was how do I bring that to

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01:33:48,840 --> 01:33:52,439
Speaker 12: my students and in that environment was super oppressive and

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01:33:52,479 --> 01:33:55,760
Speaker 12: so for me, it was more like putting up a

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01:33:55,800 --> 01:33:57,719
Speaker 12: Quantita table in the corner of the room and having

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01:33:57,720 --> 01:34:00,080
Speaker 12: the kids ask questions about it on what I and

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01:34:00,280 --> 01:34:04,920
Speaker 12: now I do like Kwanza celebrations for the kids, just

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01:34:04,960 --> 01:34:06,920
Speaker 12: to walk them through this is how you celebrate, this

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01:34:06,960 --> 01:34:08,160
Speaker 12: is what you do, This is how you set up

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01:34:08,160 --> 01:34:10,639
Speaker 12: the table, this is what these things mean. So it's

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01:34:10,640 --> 01:34:13,880
Speaker 12: more about exposure, but I think it depends on the

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01:34:13,920 --> 01:34:16,439
Speaker 12: school you're in, You're in the position that you have

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Speaker 12: within the school, and your ability to bring whatever you

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01:34:19,200 --> 01:34:22,160
Speaker 12: can to just let people know what quantum is the

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01:34:22,200 --> 01:34:26,120
Speaker 12: importance of it to African people. I think another thing

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Speaker 12: that was mentioned is that emphasizing it's not religious, because

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01:34:29,080 --> 01:34:31,760
Speaker 12: a lot of times there's confusion around that and that

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01:34:31,800 --> 01:34:33,599
Speaker 12: can be a block for some people if they if

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01:34:33,600 --> 01:34:37,800
Speaker 12: they associate Kwanta with any particular religion and they're saying

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01:34:37,840 --> 01:34:40,160
Speaker 12: I'm not that if they're Christian or Muslim or any

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01:34:40,200 --> 01:34:42,280
Speaker 12: other religion, then it can be a block that I'm

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Speaker 12: practicing that. So that's a that's a point of emphasis too.

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Speaker 3: All right, thirty away from the topic, Let's go back

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01:34:48,360 --> 01:34:51,439
Speaker 3: to the hollyod girls again and when you speak, just

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01:34:51,640 --> 01:34:54,719
Speaker 3: you know, just mention your name. What are your plans

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Speaker 3: for this year's at Kwanza?

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Speaker 5: Hello, Hi, this is at Combe Holly again. All right. So,

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01:35:05,200 --> 01:35:08,599
Speaker 5: like my parents said, this event was created by them

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01:35:08,720 --> 01:35:12,360
Speaker 5: and our godmothers and fathers and it's been going for

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01:35:12,400 --> 01:35:17,720
Speaker 5: over thirty years now, which is just amazing, and we're

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01:35:17,720 --> 01:35:21,360
Speaker 5: excited to be well one having the torch passed to

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01:35:21,439 --> 01:35:24,439
Speaker 5: us and to you know, carry this and take it

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01:35:24,520 --> 01:35:32,160
Speaker 5: into its next stages. So basically, keeping in the spirit

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01:35:32,360 --> 01:35:40,040
Speaker 5: of Ujima being collective work and responsibility, we also felt

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01:35:40,080 --> 01:35:44,679
Speaker 5: to create a space for people this year to feel

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01:35:44,680 --> 01:35:48,960
Speaker 5: free to tap into their joy and really engage in

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01:35:49,000 --> 01:35:52,479
Speaker 5: community and activity and connect and support black businesses at

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01:35:52,520 --> 01:35:57,640
Speaker 5: the same time. So while traditionally over the years the

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01:35:57,680 --> 01:36:04,000
Speaker 5: event has been perferer formance focus the entirety of the event,

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01:36:05,000 --> 01:36:08,360
Speaker 5: this year will be the first ever Ujima Joint Kwanda

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01:36:08,400 --> 01:36:13,320
Speaker 5: Party immersive experience. So what you can expect is you'll

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01:36:13,600 --> 01:36:16,839
Speaker 5: still get the traditional things like the candle lighting and everything,

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01:36:16,840 --> 01:36:19,479
Speaker 5: but you'll also see you'll see some performances of like dance,

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01:36:19,640 --> 01:36:25,679
Speaker 5: poetry as well as singers. But then we're also going

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01:36:25,720 --> 01:36:28,400
Speaker 5: to have a moment after that where we open it

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01:36:28,479 --> 01:36:32,200
Speaker 5: up and it turns into a full like and it's

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01:36:32,240 --> 01:36:34,479
Speaker 5: a part of the immersive experience. It turns into a

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01:36:34,520 --> 01:36:39,719
Speaker 5: full party. Because you always hear about, you know, Christmas parties,

1646
01:36:39,720 --> 01:36:43,120
Speaker 5: that's like a very common idea is just basic Christmas parties. Right,

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01:36:43,200 --> 01:36:46,120
Speaker 5: So we were like, Okay, how come we've never been

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01:36:46,200 --> 01:36:51,080
Speaker 5: invited to a Kwanda party experience where you can enrich

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01:36:51,120 --> 01:36:55,320
Speaker 5: your mind, learn about the seven principles, share knowledge as

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01:36:55,360 --> 01:37:00,880
Speaker 5: well as let loose and really celebrate together as a community.

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01:37:01,880 --> 01:37:06,000
Speaker 5: The fact that we survived and thrived through another year here,

1652
01:37:06,240 --> 01:37:09,479
Speaker 5: you know, as we bring in the new year, we

1653
01:37:09,560 --> 01:37:12,719
Speaker 5: really wanted to create that space. So that's what we'll

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01:37:12,760 --> 01:37:16,840
Speaker 5: be doing this year. It will be DJ all Night

1655
01:37:17,000 --> 01:37:21,040
Speaker 5: through local DJ Blacks and Jackson, so shout out to

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01:37:21,080 --> 01:37:25,880
Speaker 5: him and it'll be Yeah, it'll just be a really

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01:37:25,880 --> 01:37:29,920
Speaker 5: really beautiful, beautiful experience. I'm gonna have to pass it

1658
01:37:29,960 --> 01:37:32,200
Speaker 5: over to my sister and Sarda so she can like

1659
01:37:32,280 --> 01:37:37,240
Speaker 5: continue to speak about the event fort.

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Speaker 3: And tell us if it's going to be live streamed

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01:37:38,040 --> 01:37:40,120
Speaker 3: as well, so folks listening around the country can can

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Speaker 3: check it out.

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Speaker 5: Yes, hell.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, can you hear me?

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Speaker 3: Sure?

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01:37:49,320 --> 01:37:55,639
Speaker 6: Okay, okay, wonderful Hi. Yes, this is Satamui Holly. As

1667
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Speaker 6: my sister said, yes, we will be having the Ujima

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01:37:59,760 --> 01:38:02,599
Speaker 6: Joint Quanta Party and Immersive Experience, and yes it will

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01:38:02,640 --> 01:38:06,400
Speaker 6: be live streamed on Zoom. The information is online as

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01:38:06,400 --> 01:38:09,400
Speaker 6: well as within the Quanta calendar. And just as my

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01:38:09,479 --> 01:38:11,920
Speaker 6: sister said, I just wanted to reiterate that for so

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Speaker 6: many families, this has been a challenging year. So in

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01:38:16,479 --> 01:38:19,520
Speaker 6: the spirit of Oujima, which is collective work and responsibility,

1674
01:38:19,560 --> 01:38:22,160
Speaker 6: we felt responsible for creating a space that allowed people

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01:38:22,160 --> 01:38:24,840
Speaker 6: to lean into their joy, their love for community and

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01:38:24,880 --> 01:38:27,640
Speaker 6: celebrate not only what we persevered through this year, but

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01:38:27,760 --> 01:38:30,400
Speaker 6: also celebrate the year ahead, but the principles of Quanta

1678
01:38:30,439 --> 01:38:32,760
Speaker 6: at the center. So we just want to open the

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01:38:32,760 --> 01:38:35,960
Speaker 6: doors to not only enjoy entertainment, but also support black businesses,

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01:38:36,000 --> 01:38:38,160
Speaker 6: to the vendors that will be there, and connect with

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01:38:38,200 --> 01:38:42,439
Speaker 6: conscious community and ultimately just this party. You know, have

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01:38:42,520 --> 01:38:45,360
Speaker 6: a good time and I'm going to pass it along

1683
01:38:45,400 --> 01:38:49,840
Speaker 6: to my sister Arianna his This is Arianna sharing, So

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Speaker 6: feel free to join us this Sunday, December twenty eighth,

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01:38:52,920 --> 01:38:56,160
Speaker 6: at seven pm at the New Cultural Cafe at Studio

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Speaker 6: W inside the Etistical Church of the Atonement. The address

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01:39:00,760 --> 01:39:04,960
Speaker 6: is five O seven three East Capitol Street, Southeast, Washington,

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01:39:05,040 --> 01:39:07,799
Speaker 6: d C. And again, if you cannot make it in person,

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Speaker 6: that is completely fine. You can join us via zoom.

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Speaker 6: It will still be a blast you've promised. And also

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01:39:16,240 --> 01:39:20,240
Speaker 6: this is just an EPs speaking hello. Also, if anyone

1692
01:39:20,280 --> 01:39:23,519
Speaker 6: would like to support us, they can. They can by

1693
01:39:23,920 --> 01:39:28,519
Speaker 6: donating by zell at Ujima Joint at gmail dot com

1694
01:39:28,680 --> 01:39:33,519
Speaker 6: or through cash app at the Ujima Joint. And if

1695
01:39:33,520 --> 01:39:36,639
Speaker 6: you have any further inquiries, you can call or text

1696
01:39:36,680 --> 01:39:40,960
Speaker 6: us at two O two formed nine two one seven

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Speaker 6: zero two, or you can email us at Ujima Joint

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Speaker 6: at gmail dot com. Thank you. Yeah, And we also

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Speaker 6: just wanted to reiterate that this this entire event as

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01:39:53,240 --> 01:39:56,840
Speaker 6: our and from the beginning when our father I brought

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01:39:56,880 --> 01:40:00,479
Speaker 6: our parents originally created it, and before they passed the

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01:40:00,520 --> 01:40:02,879
Speaker 6: quest to us, it has always been in love offering.

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01:40:03,400 --> 01:40:08,479
Speaker 6: It has always been something that we are just doing

1704
01:40:08,520 --> 01:40:11,320
Speaker 6: from the heart. Everything is volunteered, the people who come

1705
01:40:11,400 --> 01:40:15,080
Speaker 6: and put it together, the acts the performers, everyone is

1706
01:40:15,120 --> 01:40:19,200
Speaker 6: coming to give something to the community. So at the

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01:40:19,240 --> 01:40:21,639
Speaker 6: heart of it this is this is a love offering.

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Speaker 6: This is something that we want to do to just

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Speaker 6: uplift and show love and support our community.

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Speaker 5: Right back in again, this is tie On my Auntie

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01:40:36,000 --> 01:40:38,760
Speaker 5: cum Holly, and I just want to also say in

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01:40:38,800 --> 01:40:41,200
Speaker 5: the spirit of what my sister and Sara just mentioned

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01:40:41,240 --> 01:40:43,719
Speaker 5: about giving back and the fact that this has always

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01:40:43,760 --> 01:40:47,400
Speaker 5: been a free event that includes everyone who has helped

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01:40:47,479 --> 01:40:50,439
Speaker 5: us from and who's helping put it together. That means

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01:40:50,640 --> 01:40:56,840
Speaker 5: from locations to you know, volunteers, everyone that has helped

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01:40:56,880 --> 01:40:59,000
Speaker 5: put this event together over the years. It's all been

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01:40:59,040 --> 01:41:01,519
Speaker 5: through love off friends and that continues. This year was

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01:41:01,560 --> 01:41:04,080
Speaker 5: not just us helping to put this event on, but

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01:41:04,160 --> 01:41:12,840
Speaker 5: also the Lydia's sisters, our fee souls daughters Soyini, Sharawhah Makaida,

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01:41:13,240 --> 01:41:17,320
Speaker 5: as well as the Zulu girls you know, our uncle

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01:41:17,360 --> 01:41:22,160
Speaker 5: Juansa Zulu's daughters Amaya and Anaya. And we are so

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01:41:22,280 --> 01:41:24,840
Speaker 5: grateful to have the legacies that are a part of

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01:41:24,960 --> 01:41:27,880
Speaker 5: from the parents who helped with the original event with

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01:41:28,000 --> 01:41:30,439
Speaker 5: along as our parents, but the legacies the children that

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01:41:30,479 --> 01:41:32,320
Speaker 5: are just like us to be a part of this

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01:41:32,680 --> 01:41:35,320
Speaker 5: to help with this event because us as girls, me

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01:41:35,360 --> 01:41:36,880
Speaker 5: and my sisters, we grew up a part of the A.

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01:41:36,960 --> 01:41:41,240
Speaker 5: Sarah sat society practicing comedic philosophy, and at the root

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01:41:41,560 --> 01:41:44,920
Speaker 5: of that philosophy is always having a view of the

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01:41:44,960 --> 01:41:48,759
Speaker 5: whole and considering how what you do affects the world

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01:41:48,760 --> 01:41:50,920
Speaker 5: around you and the people within your community and the

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01:41:50,920 --> 01:41:54,720
Speaker 5: people in your home. So that's why it's so important

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01:41:54,760 --> 01:41:56,960
Speaker 5: that we throw an event that's free for the community,

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01:41:57,000 --> 01:42:00,240
Speaker 5: where people can come out and celebrate and you know,

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01:42:00,479 --> 01:42:03,880
Speaker 5: really feel like they're at home. Because in a world

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01:42:03,920 --> 01:42:06,760
Speaker 5: where every everything costs money, everything can cost money every

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01:42:06,800 --> 01:42:09,960
Speaker 5: single day, why can't we give back. There's no reason

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01:42:10,000 --> 01:42:12,680
Speaker 5: not to. There's no reason we shouldn't. It's even more

1740
01:42:12,720 --> 01:42:17,000
Speaker 5: imperative that we do right now because people need that

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01:42:17,000 --> 01:42:20,600
Speaker 5: sense of community and they need that space to express themselves,

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01:42:20,600 --> 01:42:23,760
Speaker 5: to feel free. And we're very proud to be a

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01:42:23,800 --> 01:42:27,800
Speaker 5: part of this legacy and two and to do this

1744
01:42:28,760 --> 01:42:33,120
Speaker 5: work because ultimately it's it's not it's not hard work,

1745
01:42:33,200 --> 01:42:36,439
Speaker 5: it's it's it's for the love of Kwanza and for

1746
01:42:36,520 --> 01:42:39,800
Speaker 5: the love of our people, and we're very proud to

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01:42:39,840 --> 01:42:40,360
Speaker 5: be a part of this.

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01:42:40,760 --> 01:42:41,679
Speaker 9: We really really.

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01:42:41,479 --> 01:42:43,479
Speaker 5: Are and I just wanted to say one more time

1750
01:42:43,560 --> 01:42:46,400
Speaker 5: because in terms of the live stream, I just wanted

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01:42:46,439 --> 01:42:49,320
Speaker 5: to give those are All the information for this event

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01:42:49,760 --> 01:42:57,479
Speaker 5: is on uh line and on on both Facebook and

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01:42:57,640 --> 01:43:02,920
Speaker 5: Instagram under Hollygirls at Hollygrowth. You will be able to

1754
01:43:02,920 --> 01:43:06,479
Speaker 5: find all the information on Instagram and Facebook and the

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01:43:06,560 --> 01:43:09,759
Speaker 5: zoom id number. I just want to say this seven

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01:43:09,920 --> 01:43:14,920
Speaker 5: nine one two six zero five one three one and

1757
01:43:15,479 --> 01:43:18,519
Speaker 5: all of the businesses that you'll see helping put this on.

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01:43:18,720 --> 01:43:22,240
Speaker 5: It is being hosted by het Ra, but they're all

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01:43:22,280 --> 01:43:25,080
Speaker 5: black owned businesses, including the vendors that will be there

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01:43:25,240 --> 01:43:28,880
Speaker 5: all black owned. The location black owned. So please come

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01:43:28,880 --> 01:43:31,920
Speaker 5: out and support this event. It's a free event, so

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01:43:32,680 --> 01:43:35,120
Speaker 5: come through. We have some free raffles we're giving away

1763
01:43:35,720 --> 01:43:38,240
Speaker 5: all kinds of really amazing things happening throughout the night,

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01:43:38,360 --> 01:43:40,879
Speaker 5: so you don't want to miss this, all right.

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01:43:40,680 --> 01:43:43,000
Speaker 3: Thank you and thank all of you for showing up

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01:43:43,000 --> 01:43:46,960
Speaker 3: this morning and sharing your thoughts about Quanta. Brother Shan

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01:43:47,040 --> 01:43:48,680
Speaker 3: go before we go, Let you guys go.

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01:43:48,800 --> 01:43:52,360
Speaker 4: Anything you want to add h Yes, you can also

1769
01:43:52,439 --> 01:43:57,400
Speaker 4: go to the Kwanza DC dot org calendar. You can

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01:43:57,520 --> 01:44:01,439
Speaker 4: also we're going on the near Knight. We're streaming that

1771
01:44:01,520 --> 01:44:04,679
Speaker 4: as well, and you'll be able to do that by

1772
01:44:04,880 --> 01:44:07,519
Speaker 4: going to either Facebook or you know you can go

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01:44:07,600 --> 01:44:10,200
Speaker 4: to the u NIA Division three thirty dot org and

1774
01:44:10,200 --> 01:44:13,360
Speaker 4: get information. So we are live streaming that because our

1775
01:44:13,400 --> 01:44:16,400
Speaker 4: people from all over even in Africa will be tuning in.

1776
01:44:17,280 --> 01:44:19,160
Speaker 4: Last but not Lease. If you ever want to call

1777
01:44:19,280 --> 01:44:22,280
Speaker 4: me to get any other detailed information, you call two

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01:44:22,320 --> 01:44:24,720
Speaker 4: O two two five six two five one eight. I

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01:44:24,800 --> 01:44:28,280
Speaker 4: want to also held up Union Temple. Union Temple can

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01:44:28,320 --> 01:44:32,320
Speaker 4: be called at two O two six seven eight eight

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01:44:32,400 --> 01:44:35,880
Speaker 4: eight to two. They're doing every day at Union Temple

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01:44:35,920 --> 01:44:38,920
Speaker 4: as well. And as of more than enough QUANS events.

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01:44:39,040 --> 01:44:41,719
Speaker 4: Last but not least on Koji Chocolate Lea for Self

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01:44:41,720 --> 01:44:45,120
Speaker 4: Determination for people that have children ages three to twelve

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01:44:45,240 --> 01:44:47,920
Speaker 4: years old, that's where you should start. Come to the

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01:44:47,960 --> 01:44:52,920
Speaker 4: fifty sixth annual QUANSA Children's Party, which is gonna be

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01:44:53,000 --> 01:44:58,000
Speaker 4: located at twenty one twelve Varnham Street Northeast at that

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01:44:58,160 --> 01:45:01,479
Speaker 4: church there. It's gonna be plenty of fun and it

1789
01:45:01,520 --> 01:45:04,960
Speaker 4: goes from twelve noon to three pm. So got little

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01:45:05,000 --> 01:45:08,120
Speaker 4: children from ages three to twelve and you can bring

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01:45:08,120 --> 01:45:10,760
Speaker 4: your older children as well, and adult are welcome. The

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01:45:10,840 --> 01:45:13,880
Speaker 4: fifty six annual Kwansi Children's Party will be held there.

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01:45:14,120 --> 01:45:17,439
Speaker 4: Kuji Chaka live self determination. It's best to start early,

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01:45:18,000 --> 01:45:20,719
Speaker 4: just like the Holly Girls say they got it early.

1795
01:45:21,120 --> 01:45:23,400
Speaker 4: A lot of young people who get it early, they

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01:45:23,520 --> 01:45:26,120
Speaker 4: understand it clearly as they grow up and they pass

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01:45:26,200 --> 01:45:28,800
Speaker 4: it on. So I want to thank everybody for joining us.

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Speaker 4: Thank you Carl, and we say to everybody end today,

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01:45:33,000 --> 01:45:37,080
Speaker 4: you'll win a solstice with a meditation that everything is

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01:45:37,120 --> 01:45:41,040
Speaker 4: going to be better for African people, north, southeast and

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Speaker 4: west of the world. Meditate on that and let's make

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01:45:43,680 --> 01:45:46,439
Speaker 4: it happen as you claim it. We can attain it.

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01:45:46,520 --> 01:45:49,280
Speaker 4: One God, one aim, one definitely one Africa.

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Speaker 3: All right, thank you brother saying God. Thank everybody who

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01:45:52,360 --> 01:45:55,400
Speaker 3: joined us this morning too many. Top of the our

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01:45:55,439 --> 01:46:01,599
Speaker 3: family again and say this never come back with doctor

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Speaker 3: Corenga eight five zero seventy eight seventy sixth and I'm

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01:46:06,320 --> 01:46:07,920
Speaker 3: gonna call to speak to doctor Green if you'd like

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01:46:07,960 --> 01:46:09,800
Speaker 3: to have a conversation with me, and we'll taking calls

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Speaker 3: after the traffic weather it's next.

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Speaker 16: But traffic on this Christmas even we're still watching an accident.

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01:46:39,960 --> 01:46:43,080
Speaker 16: This is out on sixty six eastbound in northern VA.

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01:46:43,800 --> 01:46:46,479
Speaker 16: And this is in Manassas. We've been watching this accident

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Speaker 16: for the last hour or so, moving towards Prince William Parkway.

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Speaker 17: It's a mess out there.

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01:46:50,200 --> 01:46:52,759
Speaker 16: An accident has been cleared out on sixty six Express

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01:46:52,840 --> 01:46:56,519
Speaker 16: lanes eastbound moving towards Sutley Road. An accident to report

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01:46:56,560 --> 01:46:58,639
Speaker 16: to you as we stay in northern Va on George

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01:46:58,720 --> 01:47:02,400
Speaker 16: Mason Drive, moving over towards Leesburg Pike. And accident has

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Speaker 16: been cleared from the BW Parkway here a northbound just

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01:47:05,160 --> 01:47:08,000
Speaker 16: after four ten out in Prince George's County. That is

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01:47:08,040 --> 01:47:11,160
Speaker 16: some good news. But an accident on two seventy northbound.

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01:47:11,560 --> 01:47:14,719
Speaker 16: This is in Rockville. Actually in the three left lanes

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01:47:14,720 --> 01:47:17,679
Speaker 16: are blocked. And this is right at West Montgomery Avenue.

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01:47:18,040 --> 01:47:19,960
Speaker 16: This is out in Rockville. Taking a look at your

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Speaker 16: forecast for this Christmas Eve and Sonny and Hyes will

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01:47:24,240 --> 01:47:27,080
Speaker 16: actually go up in the lower fifties for tonight, mostly

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01:47:27,120 --> 01:47:29,600
Speaker 16: cloudy and a slight chance of rain after midnight and

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Speaker 16: Loewe's in the mid thirties. Dray Johnson on News Talk

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Speaker 16: fourteen fifty am WOL where Information is Powered.

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Speaker 14: W two four zero DJ w mmj HD three, w

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Speaker 14: DCJFM HD three at worldwide at w ol dcnews dot com.

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Speaker 18: The views and opinions expressed in this program are those

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Speaker 18: of the hosts and guests and do not necessarily reflect

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Speaker 18: the views of urb and One Incorporated, Radio One or

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Speaker 18: any of its subsidiary companies.

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Speaker 1: You're fucking with the Most submiss the Carl Nelson Show.

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01:48:14,200 --> 01:48:16,600
Speaker 13: You're fucking with the most submissive.

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01:48:16,960 --> 01:48:41,439
Speaker 3: Yourself and Grand Rising family, thanks for rolling with us

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01:48:41,479 --> 01:48:44,639
Speaker 3: on this Wednesday morning. Our next guest is the founder

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01:48:44,680 --> 01:48:49,000
Speaker 3: of Quanta, doctor Milana Karenga, Grand Rising and Harbarry Ghane.

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Speaker 3: Doctor Krenga, welcome back to the program.

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Speaker 9: Appreciate the invitation and the opportunity to discuss the issues with you.

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01:49:01,439 --> 01:49:03,960
Speaker 9: Let me just start off by thanking you for being

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01:49:04,040 --> 01:49:08,200
Speaker 9: so consistent and old point all these years for us

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01:49:08,600 --> 01:49:11,640
Speaker 9: and our people. It's so important for it. Thank you

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01:49:11,680 --> 01:49:12,080
Speaker 9: so much.

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01:49:12,120 --> 01:49:12,320
Speaker 7: Carl.

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Speaker 3: Let me just tell the family, because people just think

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01:49:15,320 --> 01:49:18,680
Speaker 3: that doctor Karenga is just created Quanta. Doctor kreng is

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01:49:18,680 --> 01:49:22,760
Speaker 3: one of our top scholars family. I'm quite sure if

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01:49:22,760 --> 01:49:24,439
Speaker 3: he's still a professor and chair of the Department of

1854
01:49:24,479 --> 01:49:29,519
Speaker 3: African Studies of the cal State. Long are okay, okay,

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01:49:29,920 --> 01:49:32,479
Speaker 3: So you're retirement until the next week. Then you'll you'll

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01:49:32,520 --> 01:49:34,679
Speaker 3: you're finished, okay, And I'll talk.

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01:49:34,560 --> 01:49:37,000
Speaker 9: To you about that in a minute. But finish, I

1858
01:49:37,120 --> 01:49:37,519
Speaker 9: tell you.

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01:49:37,600 --> 01:49:39,479
Speaker 3: Yeah. Let me share with the family because you know,

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01:49:40,040 --> 01:49:43,000
Speaker 3: as I mentioned, doctor Kurenga is definitely one of our

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01:49:43,040 --> 01:49:45,160
Speaker 3: top scholars. As you know, he's the creator of the

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01:49:45,160 --> 01:49:48,519
Speaker 3: Pan African cultural holiday Quansa and the Angoos of Sabbath,

1863
01:49:48,520 --> 01:49:50,800
Speaker 3: which is the seventh principle. It's also the author and

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01:49:51,200 --> 01:49:55,360
Speaker 3: of the authority of text titled Quanta, a Celebration of Family,

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01:49:55,360 --> 01:49:58,800
Speaker 3: Community and Culture. An active at scholar, is chair of

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01:49:58,840 --> 01:50:02,640
Speaker 3: the organization US and then National Association of kawah Eda Organizations,

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01:50:02,680 --> 01:50:05,519
Speaker 3: and executive director of the African American Cultural Center and

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01:50:05,560 --> 01:50:08,960
Speaker 3: the COWEDA Institute of Pan African Studies. Also co chair

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01:50:09,000 --> 01:50:12,200
Speaker 3: of the Black Community Clergy and Labor Alliance the bc

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01:50:12,479 --> 01:50:15,719
Speaker 3: c l A. DoD Karrenga is the also the author

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Speaker 3: of numerous scholarly articles and books, including Essays Unstruggled, Position

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01:50:20,240 --> 01:50:24,160
Speaker 3: and Analysis, cowa EDA and Questions of Life and Struggle.

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01:50:24,400 --> 01:50:27,680
Speaker 3: Maat the Moral Ideal of Ancient Egypt, A Study of

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01:50:27,720 --> 01:50:33,520
Speaker 3: Classical African Ethics, Introduction to Black Studies, fourth edition, Huisha,

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01:50:34,600 --> 01:50:39,040
Speaker 3: The Sacred Wisdom of Asian Africa, who Efa The Ethical Teachings,

1876
01:50:39,280 --> 01:50:42,559
Speaker 3: and he's currently writing a major work on the social

1877
01:50:42,600 --> 01:50:46,080
Speaker 3: and ethical philosophy of Malcolm X, title The Liberation Ethics

1878
01:50:46,080 --> 01:50:51,080
Speaker 3: of Malcolm X, Critical Consciousness, Moral Grounding and Transformative Struggle.

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Speaker 3: Doctor Karrenger is the recipient of numerous awards for scholarship,

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Speaker 3: leadership and service, including the Paul Robinson Zora'neil Houston Award

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01:50:59,720 --> 01:51:03,439
Speaker 3: for Scholarly Work of African World Culture and the C. L. R.

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01:51:03,600 --> 01:51:07,400
Speaker 3: James Award for Outstanding publication of scholarly works that advanced

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01:51:07,400 --> 01:51:10,920
Speaker 3: the discipline of African Africanist Studies and Black Studies, and

1884
01:51:10,960 --> 01:51:15,120
Speaker 3: also the Presidential Award for Exemplary Service for Outstanding contributions

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01:51:15,439 --> 01:51:17,360
Speaker 3: to the field of Black Studies, all of this from

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01:51:17,400 --> 01:51:20,000
Speaker 3: the National Council of Black Studies. It's also the subject

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01:51:20,120 --> 01:51:22,640
Speaker 3: of a book by doctor Malefia Santi, another one of

1888
01:51:22,640 --> 01:51:26,960
Speaker 3: our top scholars, this title Milana Karrenga An Intellectual Portrait.

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01:51:27,640 --> 01:51:31,360
Speaker 3: Doctor Karengis also wrote the Manifesto for the million Man

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01:51:31,439 --> 01:51:33,960
Speaker 3: March the Minster Falcone. When decided to have that march,

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01:51:33,960 --> 01:51:35,959
Speaker 3: one of the first person you called was doctor Kurenga

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01:51:36,200 --> 01:51:38,160
Speaker 3: just to lay at the agenda for the march. So

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Speaker 3: doctor Krenga again, Abarigani, and welcome back to the program, Buddie.

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Speaker 9: I'm so glad again to be here. And I am

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Speaker 9: still Professor and Chair of the Department of Africana Statistic

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01:51:49,680 --> 01:51:52,680
Speaker 9: cal State University, Long Beach. And at the end of

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01:51:52,680 --> 01:51:55,960
Speaker 9: the year, I stepped away. But as I said to

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01:51:56,280 --> 01:52:03,600
Speaker 9: the audience the Department and College Health retirement reception for me,

1899
01:52:03,640 --> 01:52:07,519
Speaker 9: and I told that, look, I'm not really retiring because

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01:52:07,560 --> 01:52:10,599
Speaker 9: I don't have a career. I have a life vocation.

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01:52:11,000 --> 01:52:13,639
Speaker 9: You retire from a career, but mine is a life

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01:52:13,760 --> 01:52:16,519
Speaker 9: vocation and so I'm not going to retire. What I'm

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01:52:16,520 --> 01:52:21,360
Speaker 9: going to do is step away into another special space

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01:52:21,600 --> 01:52:25,599
Speaker 9: which already exists. My organization, African American Coach Center US

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01:52:26,080 --> 01:52:28,120
Speaker 9: and all the other things I do and I will

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01:52:28,240 --> 01:52:32,000
Speaker 9: continue to do right just like I'm doing that teach

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01:52:32,160 --> 01:52:36,080
Speaker 9: It's like I'm doing lecturing national and international and local

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01:52:36,560 --> 01:52:40,559
Speaker 9: and building on and organizing in the community, building on

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01:52:41,080 --> 01:52:44,799
Speaker 9: the legacy left me by the ancestors. I would continue

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01:52:44,880 --> 01:52:48,760
Speaker 9: to do that all the way up. And so I

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01:52:48,840 --> 01:52:51,040
Speaker 9: just think it's very important for us to know that

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01:52:51,360 --> 01:52:55,000
Speaker 9: that the struggle continues, and I'm a constant soldier. That's

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01:52:55,040 --> 01:52:58,080
Speaker 9: part of my name. If I stop that, I wouldn't

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01:52:58,120 --> 01:53:00,680
Speaker 9: know myself. I know myself about what I do. So

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01:53:00,800 --> 01:53:03,759
Speaker 9: my line is my first name given to me by

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01:53:04,160 --> 01:53:06,800
Speaker 9: the people in my organization mean master teach it. So

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01:53:06,880 --> 01:53:10,160
Speaker 9: I must keeat and I must create works that I

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01:53:10,200 --> 01:53:12,639
Speaker 9: can teach. I can share with others so they can teach.

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Speaker 9: My second name, given to me also by the movement

1920
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Speaker 9: is in wazet conscious soldier. Right, So I'm going to

1921
01:53:19,880 --> 01:53:23,120
Speaker 9: always be struggle. I'm all wa it's going to reaffirm

1922
01:53:23,600 --> 01:53:28,839
Speaker 9: our people's radical refusal to be defeated. And they're victorious conscious,

1923
01:53:28,840 --> 01:53:31,639
Speaker 9: they're looking for victory and fighting for victory and will

1924
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Speaker 9: of course achieve it. And then finally, my last name,

1925
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Speaker 9: which I took myself, is Kurenga keep other tradition. I

1926
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Speaker 9: enjoy studying and constructing and reconstructing, going back sank Cofort

1927
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Speaker 9: almost intellectual archaeology, going all the way back and bringing

1928
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Speaker 9: forth for my culture the best of what it means

1929
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Speaker 9: to be African and human and speaking our special culture

1930
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Speaker 9: truth to the world, making our own unique contribution to

1931
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Speaker 9: how we reconceive this country and the world and reconstruct

1932
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Speaker 9: it in a more human way. So I'm continuing to

1933
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Speaker 9: struggle and are continuing the work. Thank you so much.

1934
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Speaker 3: You know doctor current A, Brother Tony Brown, and doctor

1935
01:54:16,720 --> 01:54:21,000
Speaker 3: Lefia Sante. I'm leaning on them to find our next

1936
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Speaker 3: set of scholars. They say they're out there, young people

1937
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Speaker 3: because a lot of our scholars like me and you.

1938
01:54:27,240 --> 01:54:30,000
Speaker 3: I don't con say myself but a scholar, but we're

1939
01:54:30,080 --> 01:54:32,440
Speaker 3: up there. We're getting up there in age and we

1940
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Speaker 3: need to pass on this information to the younger generation.

1941
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Speaker 3: Both brother Tony and Brother Malefia are very optimistic about

1942
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Speaker 3: our future. They say there's a lot of young people

1943
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Speaker 3: coming up who are going to take We're going to

1944
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Speaker 3: pass the baton to them. Are you in agreement with that?

1945
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Speaker 3: In your area, you've seen a lot of young people

1946
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Speaker 3: that come up that we could identify as some of

1947
01:54:52,720 --> 01:54:54,000
Speaker 3: our top scholars.

1948
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Speaker 9: Yes, I think so. One of the things I wanted

1949
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Speaker 9: to say about you is you what we call an

1950
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Speaker 9: activist intellectual. The difference between a scholar and an intellectual's

1951
01:55:05,360 --> 01:55:11,120
Speaker 9: a scholar spends time doing research and a discipline study

1952
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Speaker 9: within a certain discipline like that. But an intellectual is

1953
01:55:15,520 --> 01:55:20,040
Speaker 9: a person that deals with ideas and thinks deeply about

1954
01:55:20,080 --> 01:55:24,240
Speaker 9: those ideas and does the kind of study that here

1955
01:55:24,400 --> 01:55:28,560
Speaker 9: she needs in order to master those ideas and share

1956
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Speaker 9: them with the people. So you like an organic intellectual, activist, intellecture,

1957
01:55:33,280 --> 01:55:35,880
Speaker 9: that's what we would call that. That's very important. Before

1958
01:55:35,920 --> 01:55:38,480
Speaker 9: I said no, the difference between an intellecture and a scholar.

1959
01:55:38,520 --> 01:55:42,360
Speaker 9: So that Haiji Malcolm was an intellectuor he wasn't a scholar,

1960
01:55:42,640 --> 01:55:46,880
Speaker 9: but he was a master intellectual. And so in terms

1961
01:55:46,920 --> 01:55:51,600
Speaker 9: of young people, you know, uh, I take I take

1962
01:55:51,640 --> 01:55:56,720
Speaker 9: their position. I take moles in Tony's position, doctor Scien

1963
01:55:56,840 --> 01:56:02,240
Speaker 9: and doctor Broughder's position that future is good in the

1964
01:56:02,280 --> 01:56:06,800
Speaker 9: hands of young people that are involving. In fact, a

1965
01:56:06,920 --> 01:56:11,600
Speaker 9: molefic doctor sciente has trained many, if not most, of

1966
01:56:11,640 --> 01:56:14,360
Speaker 9: these people that out there. Certainly I shouldn't say most,

1967
01:56:14,400 --> 01:56:17,280
Speaker 9: but many many. I don't want to overstake, but he

1968
01:56:17,400 --> 01:56:21,560
Speaker 9: has trained those people in his classes. He's given them

1969
01:56:21,560 --> 01:56:26,040
Speaker 9: the African centered basis for doing what they need to do.

1970
01:56:26,360 --> 01:56:30,400
Speaker 9: Certainly I have done this, my colleague, Professor Amen Ra

1971
01:56:31,280 --> 01:56:34,520
Speaker 9: at cal State. I mean, he's done hundreds and hundreds

1972
01:56:34,680 --> 01:56:38,320
Speaker 9: of people, given them the basis for building. It's up

1973
01:56:38,360 --> 01:56:41,520
Speaker 9: to them now. And I take the position with none

1974
01:56:41,560 --> 01:56:46,360
Speaker 9: of Frians for known that each generation must discover its

1975
01:56:46,360 --> 01:56:50,760
Speaker 9: mission and have been discovered, either fulfill it or betray it.

1976
01:56:51,040 --> 01:56:53,280
Speaker 9: So it's up to them. It's in their hands. But

1977
01:56:53,360 --> 01:56:56,200
Speaker 9: we have faith in them, and we believe that they

1978
01:56:56,280 --> 01:57:00,800
Speaker 9: will continue the struggle. Keep the faith and the line,

1979
01:57:00,880 --> 01:57:03,360
Speaker 9: and those are the three things I'm always looking for

1980
01:57:03,600 --> 01:57:08,240
Speaker 9: continuing the struggle. Is their scholarship, and is their work,

1981
01:57:08,280 --> 01:57:12,880
Speaker 9: their research to teaching the pediculture all directed toward the

1982
01:57:12,960 --> 01:57:17,160
Speaker 9: liberation and upliftment of our peoples. Continuing the struggle? Do

1983
01:57:17,240 --> 01:57:21,400
Speaker 9: they keep the faith? Reaffirm what we say in our

1984
01:57:21,480 --> 01:57:26,080
Speaker 9: organization us that our people have this radical refusal to

1985
01:57:26,120 --> 01:57:28,320
Speaker 9: be defeated. Do they have that? And do they have

1986
01:57:28,440 --> 01:57:32,040
Speaker 9: what Molefic caused, the victorious consciousness right that we're going

1987
01:57:32,120 --> 01:57:34,840
Speaker 9: to win regardless. You know, So all the time we

1988
01:57:34,960 --> 01:57:39,240
Speaker 9: end our our meeting by saying that we got to

1989
01:57:39,240 --> 01:57:43,879
Speaker 9: believe in you know, the righteousness and victory of our struggle.

1990
01:57:43,880 --> 01:57:45,760
Speaker 9: I mean that's key there. We start with the belief

1991
01:57:45,800 --> 01:57:48,480
Speaker 9: in our people right, but we end with the belief

1992
01:57:48,840 --> 01:57:51,800
Speaker 9: in the righteousness and victure of our struggle, and so

1993
01:57:51,920 --> 01:57:56,080
Speaker 9: our scholarship, our intellectual work, must be joined with a

1994
01:57:56,200 --> 01:57:59,880
Speaker 9: practical work to expand the realm of freedom and just

1995
01:58:00,120 --> 01:58:05,200
Speaker 9: this equality and other goods that we see as indivisible,

1996
01:58:05,520 --> 01:58:07,600
Speaker 9: inclusive and shared goods in the world.

1997
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Speaker 3: All right, twelve minutes at the top of that, our

1998
01:58:10,240 --> 01:58:12,000
Speaker 3: family call up a couple of friends sell them. Doctor

1999
01:58:12,040 --> 01:58:14,800
Speaker 3: Korrenga's on the radio, and they learn a lot about

2000
01:58:14,920 --> 01:58:17,000
Speaker 3: Quanza how and he's going to share with us and

2001
01:58:17,000 --> 01:58:19,440
Speaker 3: I let's have the question straight up, doctor Krenga, how

2002
01:58:19,440 --> 01:58:20,880
Speaker 3: did you come up with the ij How do you

2003
01:58:20,920 --> 01:58:22,000
Speaker 3: conceive of Kwanza?

2004
01:58:23,680 --> 01:58:27,720
Speaker 9: I created Quansa in the context of the Black Freedom movement,

2005
01:58:28,440 --> 01:58:34,160
Speaker 9: And what I wanted to do is to let me

2006
01:58:34,200 --> 01:58:36,120
Speaker 9: just say when I said in the context of the

2007
01:58:36,160 --> 01:58:40,400
Speaker 9: Black freedom it been in nineteen sixty five. I began

2008
01:58:40,640 --> 01:58:45,760
Speaker 9: to think about joining the movement full times. So I

2009
01:58:45,800 --> 01:58:49,840
Speaker 9: was working on my doctorate at UCLA. I left UCLA

2010
01:58:50,360 --> 01:58:54,000
Speaker 9: and I began to organize it again to you know,

2011
01:58:54,120 --> 01:58:57,400
Speaker 9: found my own organization. But even before I was out

2012
01:58:57,440 --> 01:59:00,680
Speaker 9: of UCLA. I belonged to a group called the After

2013
01:59:00,760 --> 01:59:04,760
Speaker 9: American Association, and I did a lot of my preliminary

2014
01:59:04,800 --> 01:59:08,480
Speaker 9: work and thinking of doing that time. And then I

2015
01:59:08,560 --> 01:59:11,920
Speaker 9: left UCLA working on my doctorate. I came back, of course,

2016
01:59:12,360 --> 01:59:15,760
Speaker 9: and finished my doctorate at USIU, and then I got

2017
01:59:15,760 --> 01:59:19,360
Speaker 9: a second one at usc and the second one was

2018
01:59:19,400 --> 01:59:23,080
Speaker 9: of course in Martian ethics. That's what my dissertation was on.

2019
01:59:23,520 --> 01:59:27,280
Speaker 9: But anyhow, I came out and I asked myself rich.

2020
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Speaker 9: But I, of course to this question that doctor Mary

2021
01:59:31,680 --> 01:59:35,120
Speaker 9: mccloudmanth throw in grade. She said, knowledge is the prime

2022
01:59:35,760 --> 01:59:37,880
Speaker 9: need of the hour. People want to know. What are

2023
01:59:37,920 --> 01:59:40,880
Speaker 9: you going to do with your knowledge? And she said

2024
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Speaker 9: it's up to us, those who know, to discover the

2025
01:59:44,840 --> 01:59:48,560
Speaker 9: dawn and then share it with our youth and the

2026
01:59:48,600 --> 01:59:52,280
Speaker 9: masses of our people who needed most. So I first

2027
01:59:52,320 --> 01:59:57,360
Speaker 9: I created Quansa for that to contribute to the movement.

2028
01:59:57,720 --> 02:00:03,520
Speaker 9: And so Quansa became in that concept first of all,

2029
02:00:03,520 --> 02:00:07,960
Speaker 9: an act of freedom, second, an instrument of freedom, third

2030
02:00:08,000 --> 02:00:12,280
Speaker 9: a celebration of freedom, and force a practice of freedom.

2031
02:00:12,800 --> 02:00:16,280
Speaker 9: It was actual freedom. It is actual self determination. Right.

2032
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Speaker 9: We didn't go to the local government or the bounty,

2033
02:00:20,520 --> 02:00:24,120
Speaker 9: city government, county government, state government, or federal government and

2034
02:00:24,320 --> 02:00:28,480
Speaker 9: ask them we have a holiday, or to recognize our holiday.

2035
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Speaker 9: You know, that's vulnerable and it doesn't represent self determination

2036
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Speaker 9: on one level or one lever. I understand it. So

2037
02:00:34,080 --> 02:00:35,920
Speaker 9: I don't want to put it day on. But I'm

2038
02:00:35,960 --> 02:00:39,280
Speaker 9: just saying, look at what's happening now. Because they gave

2039
02:00:39,360 --> 02:00:41,560
Speaker 9: it to you, then they can say we're not to

2040
02:00:41,600 --> 02:00:44,600
Speaker 9: celebrate that anymore, right, So no, you have to do

2041
02:00:44,680 --> 02:00:47,120
Speaker 9: it yourself. And then the final nts. You know, black

2042
02:00:47,120 --> 02:00:50,440
Speaker 9: people are going to celebrate the holidays. Even if the

2043
02:00:50,760 --> 02:00:54,920
Speaker 9: Europeans recognize it and say that's a national holiday. They

2044
02:00:55,000 --> 02:00:57,520
Speaker 9: have to do what we did with Conset, go on

2045
02:00:57,600 --> 02:01:01,840
Speaker 9: and celebrate it regardless. Right. The fiant right be self

2046
02:01:01,880 --> 02:01:05,920
Speaker 9: determination second principle right, and so I did it as

2047
02:01:05,960 --> 02:01:10,720
Speaker 9: an act of self determination. We authorize ourselves second. So

2048
02:01:10,920 --> 02:01:14,720
Speaker 9: it was not only an active freedom, it was an

2049
02:01:14,720 --> 02:01:17,600
Speaker 9: instrument of freedom. We use it as a time to

2050
02:01:17,720 --> 02:01:21,560
Speaker 9: raise black consciousness. We said black is not just color,

2051
02:01:21,840 --> 02:01:25,560
Speaker 9: it's also culture and consciousness. And the consciousness comes from

2052
02:01:25,560 --> 02:01:28,520
Speaker 9: the culture, the will to liberate the people, the will

2053
02:01:28,600 --> 02:01:31,720
Speaker 9: to uplift the people, and to talk about what it

2054
02:01:31,840 --> 02:01:35,120
Speaker 9: means to be African in the world right, and to

2055
02:01:35,200 --> 02:01:39,560
Speaker 9: realfirm our sacredness, our soulfulness, our resilience, our resource forul

2056
02:01:39,600 --> 02:01:42,080
Speaker 9: it more than any other time. You know, Black people

2057
02:01:42,160 --> 02:01:46,280
Speaker 9: do that around quansam right. They become defiant around quinsa.

2058
02:01:46,360 --> 02:01:49,280
Speaker 9: You know what I mean. People got there, how we

2059
02:01:49,400 --> 02:01:52,520
Speaker 9: got ours? You know, that's how they think about it.

2060
02:01:52,560 --> 02:01:57,280
Speaker 9: And so it became an instrument of freedom by raising

2061
02:01:57,520 --> 02:02:03,120
Speaker 9: consciousness cultural consciousness, but political consciousness, the will to struggle

2062
02:02:03,400 --> 02:02:07,480
Speaker 9: and the will to reaffirm the beauty of being Black,

2063
02:02:07,600 --> 02:02:12,200
Speaker 9: the beauty of being African, and also the responsibility of

2064
02:02:12,200 --> 02:02:15,280
Speaker 9: being African in the world. Third, it became a celebration.

2065
02:02:15,480 --> 02:02:18,480
Speaker 9: Everybody knows this is a raise of freedom. Freedom from

2066
02:02:19,120 --> 02:02:24,080
Speaker 9: self restriction, self restraint, self doubt, self condemnation. That's why

2067
02:02:24,080 --> 02:02:26,440
Speaker 9: I always tell people, not just on your show, but

2068
02:02:26,480 --> 02:02:30,000
Speaker 9: everybody show, don't come on here talking about how bad

2069
02:02:30,040 --> 02:02:33,120
Speaker 9: black people. We can talk problems, but don't generalize. Don't

2070
02:02:33,120 --> 02:02:34,120
Speaker 9: call a problem.

2071
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Speaker 3: Black, right and hold up thought Right there, doctor Kreng,

2072
02:02:36,320 --> 02:02:37,760
Speaker 3: we got to step aside for a few months. How did

2073
02:02:37,800 --> 02:02:39,720
Speaker 3: you pick it up? And we come back? Family just

2074
02:02:39,800 --> 02:02:41,760
Speaker 3: joined us seventeen minutes at the top of that with

2075
02:02:41,960 --> 02:02:45,280
Speaker 3: Kwansa creator, doctor Malana Karrenga. Doctor Krenga is explaining to

2076
02:02:45,360 --> 02:02:48,000
Speaker 3: us and sharing with us how we created Kwanza. What

2077
02:02:48,040 --> 02:02:50,040
Speaker 3: are your thoughts? Eight hundred and four or five zero

2078
02:02:50,200 --> 02:02:52,920
Speaker 3: seventy eight seventy six Speak to doctor Karrenga and we'll

2079
02:02:52,960 --> 02:02:53,720
Speaker 3: take the phone calls.

2080
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Speaker 14: Mag fourteen fifty wol Now back to the Carl Nelson Show.

2081
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Speaker 3: And Grand Rising family. Thanks for rolling with us on

2082
02:03:52,280 --> 02:03:55,040
Speaker 3: this Wednesday morning with our guest, the doctor Milana Kranka.

2083
02:03:55,200 --> 02:03:57,800
Speaker 3: Dr Krank of course created Quansa before we left to

2084
02:03:57,920 --> 02:04:00,480
Speaker 3: tell us the steps he took to create the So,

2085
02:04:00,520 --> 02:04:02,240
Speaker 3: doctor Craner, I'll make you continue your thoughts.

2086
02:04:03,240 --> 02:04:06,520
Speaker 9: Yes. So I was talking about the first reason that

2087
02:04:06,640 --> 02:04:09,200
Speaker 9: I created concent in a contact, and it was in

2088
02:04:09,240 --> 02:04:12,560
Speaker 9: the context of the Black freedom movement. And notice I

2089
02:04:12,640 --> 02:04:15,360
Speaker 9: didn't say the civil rights movement. I know it was

2090
02:04:15,400 --> 02:04:19,680
Speaker 9: in the Black power phase of the Black freedom movement.

2091
02:04:19,880 --> 02:04:23,760
Speaker 9: Black Treatom movement had two phases, one the civil rights

2092
02:04:23,800 --> 02:04:27,440
Speaker 9: phase nineteen fifty five to sixty five and then the

2093
02:04:27,440 --> 02:04:31,280
Speaker 9: Black Power phase nineteen sixty five to nineteen seventy five.

2094
02:04:31,760 --> 02:04:35,440
Speaker 9: And I created Quncent in the Black power phase of

2095
02:04:35,480 --> 02:04:39,520
Speaker 9: the Black freedom movement. So the whole stress on freedom,

2096
02:04:39,920 --> 02:04:42,440
Speaker 9: we have to keep that in mind that this was

2097
02:04:42,440 --> 02:04:46,280
Speaker 9: a time Black people were struggling for freedom, and so

2098
02:04:46,320 --> 02:04:50,440
Speaker 9: I wanted the holiday to reflect that. And so the

2099
02:04:50,480 --> 02:04:54,040
Speaker 9: first thing I did was leave to create to contribute

2100
02:04:54,160 --> 02:04:57,839
Speaker 9: to that struggle. And I was saying that it became

2101
02:04:58,000 --> 02:05:02,120
Speaker 9: then first and active freedom, we've covered that. Second, I

2102
02:05:02,160 --> 02:05:05,760
Speaker 9: said it was issrument of freedom, active freedom, self determination.

2103
02:05:05,880 --> 02:05:09,000
Speaker 9: We didn't ask anyone, We're establish it as issuing of

2104
02:05:09,080 --> 02:05:12,640
Speaker 9: freedom and conscious raising. And third, it became a celebration

2105
02:05:12,760 --> 02:05:16,240
Speaker 9: of freedom. And that's when we, you know, celebrate ourselves

2106
02:05:16,240 --> 02:05:21,120
Speaker 9: by singing ourselves, dancing ourselves, narrative telling, the narratives, the

2107
02:05:21,160 --> 02:05:24,280
Speaker 9: sacred narratives we know is our history. Telling that on

2108
02:05:24,320 --> 02:05:27,880
Speaker 9: a local family level, but also on the world level.

2109
02:05:28,120 --> 02:05:31,360
Speaker 9: I mean, that's the beauty of that, to talk about ourselves,

2110
02:05:31,400 --> 02:05:35,960
Speaker 9: to focus on ourselves without excuse apology, right, because our

2111
02:05:35,960 --> 02:05:40,440
Speaker 9: struggle had always been two aspects to it, the struggle

2112
02:05:40,520 --> 02:05:43,840
Speaker 9: to be ourselves, to free ourselves. And we know we

2113
02:05:43,880 --> 02:05:46,640
Speaker 9: can't free ourselves if we don't be ourselves. But we

2114
02:05:46,680 --> 02:05:50,120
Speaker 9: can't fully be ourselves until we fully free ourselves. So

2115
02:05:50,200 --> 02:05:54,080
Speaker 9: it was always interrelated. So we celebrate and sing ourselves.

2116
02:05:54,120 --> 02:05:57,560
Speaker 9: You know that everyone knows the celebration part. But the

2117
02:05:57,680 --> 02:06:00,720
Speaker 9: last is the practice, and that is by pract the

2118
02:06:00,800 --> 02:06:05,040
Speaker 9: practice of freedom, and that is practicing in Guzo Saba.

2119
02:06:05,240 --> 02:06:09,520
Speaker 9: You know the seven principles that we say that if

2120
02:06:09,520 --> 02:06:12,520
Speaker 9: we could just practice some of the principles some of

2121
02:06:12,560 --> 02:06:15,280
Speaker 9: the time, especially most of the time, a whole new

2122
02:06:15,400 --> 02:06:19,280
Speaker 9: change would come into our lives. People always ask me, now,

2123
02:06:19,320 --> 02:06:22,040
Speaker 9: how can we make this a year long celebration by

2124
02:06:22,120 --> 02:06:25,960
Speaker 9: practice and the principles? I say every day, Raise up

2125
02:06:26,000 --> 02:06:30,760
Speaker 9: these principles, practice them, take them as moral imperative, something

2126
02:06:30,800 --> 02:06:34,720
Speaker 9: you have to do. Because unity is a moral value.

2127
02:06:34,960 --> 02:06:38,600
Speaker 9: To be in unity with your family, members, with your friends,

2128
02:06:38,880 --> 02:06:42,880
Speaker 9: right to be in unity, to struggle to bring a

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Speaker 9: good world into being. That's a moral imperitive. That's a

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Speaker 9: command from us from the beginning. Speak truth, do justice.

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Speaker 9: All of these require what unity? You need unity, you

2132
02:06:55,960 --> 02:07:00,360
Speaker 9: need community, you need family, you need organization, and so

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Speaker 9: practice these. The second reason I created Quncent in this

2134
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Speaker 9: context of the Black freedom movement was to reaffirm our

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Speaker 9: rootedness in African culture. Now, why would I stress that,

2136
02:07:13,800 --> 02:07:17,640
Speaker 9: because as you know, during this period, we were trying

2137
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Speaker 9: to get back to black We wanted to find out

2138
02:07:21,280 --> 02:07:23,280
Speaker 9: what is the best of what it means to be

2139
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Speaker 9: African and human in the world, right, And so we

2140
02:07:27,880 --> 02:07:30,960
Speaker 9: say the first step forward is a step back. And

2141
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Speaker 9: we had to do that, as I've said so many times,

2142
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Speaker 9: because we were lifted out of our history and culture

2143
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Speaker 9: by the holocaust of enslavement and made a footnote and

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02:07:40,200 --> 02:07:44,960
Speaker 9: forgotten casualty in Europe's history. They made us absentees of

2145
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Speaker 9: our own history. I repeat, they made us absentees of

2146
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Speaker 9: our own history. Even though we were creating history. It

2147
02:07:50,960 --> 02:07:54,840
Speaker 9: wasn't for ourselves, it was for them. They finished us

2148
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Speaker 9: in their own formula. And so this was to break

2149
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Speaker 9: that out, to break that change, you know, and you

2150
02:08:01,240 --> 02:08:07,600
Speaker 9: remember our philosophic power Eater, which is an ongoing sentences

2151
02:08:07,640 --> 02:08:12,000
Speaker 9: of the best of African sensibility, thought, and practice in

2152
02:08:12,160 --> 02:08:15,880
Speaker 9: constant exchange with the world. We argue that the key

2153
02:08:16,040 --> 02:08:20,640
Speaker 9: crisis and challenging Black life is a cultural crisis again

2154
02:08:20,960 --> 02:08:24,000
Speaker 9: with this continent. And we say, until we free our

2155
02:08:24,000 --> 02:08:28,280
Speaker 9: hearts and minds, right, we can't be free people. We

2156
02:08:28,360 --> 02:08:33,880
Speaker 9: can't physically free ourselves, politically economically free ourselves. We must

2157
02:08:33,880 --> 02:08:38,720
Speaker 9: free ourselves culturally and thus has the right values, the

2158
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Speaker 9: values that are dignity affirming, life enhancing and world preserving.

2159
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Speaker 9: In the tradition of our ancestors, dignity affirming, we have

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Speaker 9: to respect ourselves as images of the divine and as

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Speaker 9: bearers of dignity and hearing word in its concepts we

2162
02:08:58,320 --> 02:09:01,000
Speaker 9: introduce first before anyone mean, I got proved of me.

2163
02:09:01,160 --> 02:09:03,320
Speaker 9: I did this case of work on it right, so

2164
02:09:03,680 --> 02:09:06,160
Speaker 9: we know that. But even before we knew that, we

2165
02:09:06,320 --> 02:09:09,480
Speaker 9: knew that we were equal to everybody else. But what

2166
02:09:09,560 --> 02:09:12,960
Speaker 9: we've done is scholars is just put this down here

2167
02:09:12,960 --> 02:09:15,600
Speaker 9: and say this is it. Here's where it comes from.

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Speaker 9: This is the earliest understanding of it. Dignity affirm and

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Speaker 9: respecting ourselves. Second, all of that is have to be

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Speaker 9: life enhancing. Does it contribute to the protection and promotion

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Speaker 9: of our lives? And if it doesn't do that, why

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02:09:30,720 --> 02:09:33,560
Speaker 9: do we have it? And so the other one in

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Speaker 9: world preserving that African people, a world historical, a world

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Speaker 9: encompassing community of people. And we have to think, as

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Speaker 9: Hygie Malcolm old us in world encompassing ways, and we

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Speaker 9: have to think about preserving the very earth we live on,

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Speaker 9: and that's becoming more and more important as you see,

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Speaker 9: not just in terms of the environment as you know,

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Speaker 9: like trees and forests, but the environment is in terms

2180
02:10:00,560 --> 02:10:07,800
Speaker 9: of like how the European puts materials in our community,

2181
02:10:08,000 --> 02:10:13,920
Speaker 9: killing us, giving us premitu asthma, et cetera. And now

2182
02:10:13,960 --> 02:10:17,320
Speaker 9: they're putting the AI databases in that which are doctor too.

2183
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Speaker 9: But I don't want to get past what I'm saying.

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Speaker 9: But I'm saying it had to be world preservant. We

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Speaker 9: have to respect the world, and I would like to

2186
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Speaker 9: get back to that if we get a chance. And then,

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Speaker 9: of course the third reason I created quins in the

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Speaker 9: context of freedom is give us a time where we

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Speaker 9: all over the world as African people could come together,

2190
02:10:36,400 --> 02:10:39,879
Speaker 9: reaffirm the bonds between us, and meditate on the awesome

2191
02:10:39,920 --> 02:10:42,640
Speaker 9: meaning of being African in the world. What does it

2192
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Speaker 9: mean to be the elders of humanity? What does it

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Speaker 9: mean to be the fathers and mother is not only

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Speaker 9: a humanity but of human civilization. To have introduced some

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Speaker 9: of the basic disciplines of human knowledge in the now valley?

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Speaker 9: What does that mean? That's a challenge to us to

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Speaker 9: continue the struggle for excellence for achievement. Right, That's why

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Speaker 9: one of the reasons we study our history is not

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Speaker 9: only to learn this lessons and absolved his spirit and

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Speaker 9: practice that morality of remembers, but also to identify, extract

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Speaker 9: and emmilay the models of excellence and achievement of our ancestors.

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Speaker 9: And so this gives us when we study thattween go

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02:11:25,680 --> 02:11:29,920
Speaker 9: and stress being African in the world, it also is

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Speaker 9: a time and Africanism. Right, Quanta has united us a

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Speaker 9: car more than any other celebration or culture event or

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Speaker 9: philosophy of principle that I know. I mean, it's unique.

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Speaker 9: It comes across religion, cuts across class, across political persuasion,

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Speaker 9: cross generations. I mean it really unites important and it

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Speaker 9: unites us in a Pan African way. This is a

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Speaker 9: basis for Pan africansm This is one of the most

2211
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Speaker 9: important significance of this is that it gives us a

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Speaker 9: time to reaffirm the beauty, the dignity, the sacredness, the soulfulness,

2213
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Speaker 9: the resisis and resource of our people. And finally, I

2214
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Speaker 9: created Quanta to introduce in Ghuzosaba, you know, and other

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Speaker 9: community and values. And that say community and values. I

2216
02:12:26,480 --> 02:12:30,600
Speaker 9: mean values that stress and strengthen family, community and culture.

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Speaker 9: And of course the hon Hindo on which the old

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Speaker 9: holiday turn are the Ghuzusava the seventh principles. And that's

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Speaker 9: one of the main reasons I created Quanta is to

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Speaker 9: introduce these values. That's why the holiday had seven days.

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Speaker 9: That's why I had to find a holiday in Africa

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Speaker 9: that was like that, that that seventh days. And of

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Speaker 9: course the scholarship led me do and course in uh

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Speaker 9: in in uh Zulu land. Uh So if you if

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Speaker 9: you look at a Zulu land and you see of

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Speaker 9: course in course swarma, then you can see that this

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Speaker 9: celebration of first truits is a motto for for it.

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Speaker 9: And you know, this is why it's so sad to

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Speaker 9: see people trying to you don't give the attribute attribute

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Speaker 9: my creation to somebody else or something to the ancestors

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Speaker 9: or a little girl, this person in this place, or that.

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Speaker 9: They don't they don't have the basis for that, they

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Speaker 9: don't have the intellectual basis, they don't the culture basis

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02:13:37,400 --> 02:13:40,200
Speaker 9: and inguish the base it and so it's just sad

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02:13:40,280 --> 02:13:42,320
Speaker 9: to see that. But you know, we can talk about

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Speaker 9: that later because some of the things I think we

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02:13:44,680 --> 02:13:48,920
Speaker 9: need to do is always protect uh the integrity of

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Speaker 9: the beauty and expansive meaning of Quanta. So those are

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Speaker 9: the four basic reasons I created Quanta. I know it's

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Speaker 9: much more extensive, but those are just out line of it.

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Speaker 9: So the first reason, of course, to contribute to the movement.

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Speaker 9: The second was to return us to our culture and

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Speaker 9: to reaffirm that we rooted in African culture, not just

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Speaker 9: African continental because that was important for us because we

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02:14:14,920 --> 02:14:17,680
Speaker 9: were dodging against it, but rooted in the best of

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Speaker 9: our culture, continental and di Aspirin, ancient and modern. And

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Speaker 9: third that it was to give us a time when

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02:14:27,400 --> 02:14:31,680
Speaker 9: we as African people could come together, reaffirm the bonds

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Speaker 9: between us and meditate on the awesome meaning of being

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Speaker 9: African in the world. And wanted to stress again how

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Speaker 9: beautiful this is that all over the world, on every

2252
02:14:43,040 --> 02:14:46,960
Speaker 9: continent in the world, it will celebrate quind Sile. Not

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02:14:47,120 --> 02:14:50,520
Speaker 9: because it was advertised by the dominant society, but because

2254
02:14:50,520 --> 02:14:55,240
Speaker 9: Black people took it, valued it and used it to

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Speaker 9: ground their lives, centered themselves and direct their lives toward

2256
02:15:00,400 --> 02:15:04,200
Speaker 9: good and expansive end. And finally I created Quantita. Of

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Speaker 9: course to introduce the Ghuzotsava and to reaffirm the importance

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02:15:08,760 --> 02:15:12,280
Speaker 9: of them and other community and values, values that stress

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02:15:12,400 --> 02:15:19,160
Speaker 9: and strengthen family, community and culture. That's a definition of

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Speaker 9: quant a celebration of family, community and culture.

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Speaker 3: Got you twenty nine minutes away from the top now

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Speaker 3: with doctor Milana krengk Doctor krek can you tell us

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Speaker 3: about it in Google Solad? How did you come up

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Speaker 3: with those principles?

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Speaker 9: Again? Studying long term? You know, my specialization and college

2266
02:15:40,160 --> 02:15:46,240
Speaker 9: was African politics, African culture, African studies. And I asked

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Speaker 9: myself in studying these cultures because I liked them when

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02:15:49,200 --> 02:15:51,920
Speaker 9: I learned them. It was a long long way from

2269
02:15:51,960 --> 02:15:57,080
Speaker 9: what Europe said, long way from the Tarzan Tarzan presentation, right,

2270
02:15:57,720 --> 02:16:00,080
Speaker 9: And I liked them, and I asked myself, how how

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02:16:00,080 --> 02:16:04,560
Speaker 9: all do these cultures ground themselves? What is the social

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02:16:04,600 --> 02:16:08,080
Speaker 9: glue that pose them together, gives them their few men,

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02:16:08,840 --> 02:16:14,240
Speaker 9: caring in the humanistic characteristic, their depths and beauty. And

2274
02:16:14,320 --> 02:16:17,680
Speaker 9: for me it turned out to be their collective values.

2275
02:16:18,400 --> 02:16:23,840
Speaker 9: There is the stress and strengthen family and community and

2276
02:16:23,880 --> 02:16:26,680
Speaker 9: you know, like you know usually we said in the

2277
02:16:26,800 --> 02:16:30,200
Speaker 9: movement for a long time, using em beauty he says,

2278
02:16:31,280 --> 02:16:33,800
Speaker 9: at the heart of community and values, of this stress

2279
02:16:33,840 --> 02:16:36,600
Speaker 9: and which is right? I am because we are and

2280
02:16:36,680 --> 02:16:40,640
Speaker 9: because we are therefore I am. But I wanted to

2281
02:16:40,720 --> 02:16:44,240
Speaker 9: say that I wanted to stress and we do and

2282
02:16:44,360 --> 02:16:51,520
Speaker 9: how relationship right that when we talk, just think every

2283
02:16:51,520 --> 02:16:56,000
Speaker 9: identity we have is a relationship. I'm a teacher, I'm

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02:16:56,040 --> 02:17:01,959
Speaker 9: a father, I'm a husband, a brand, all of these

2285
02:17:02,080 --> 02:17:05,560
Speaker 9: say relationship. That's not a name I can call myself

2286
02:17:05,720 --> 02:17:09,400
Speaker 9: that doesn't involve a relationship. And so we said, it's

2287
02:17:09,520 --> 02:17:14,160
Speaker 9: how we understood community and values, communal values, is that

2288
02:17:14,200 --> 02:17:19,440
Speaker 9: we say we are related and we relate. Therefore we are.

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02:17:20,480 --> 02:17:26,320
Speaker 9: We come into existence in relationship. I came into a

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02:17:27,000 --> 02:17:31,560
Speaker 9: relationship to my mother and father force, but also to

2291
02:17:31,720 --> 02:17:36,959
Speaker 9: my grandparents and great grandparents, et cetera, my ancestors. I

2292
02:17:37,040 --> 02:17:41,720
Speaker 9: come into being in relationship my sisters and brothers. I

2293
02:17:41,840 --> 02:17:46,680
Speaker 9: come in relationship to the future. I'm in relation to

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02:17:46,760 --> 02:17:49,360
Speaker 9: the past, I'm in relationship to the president, and I'm

2295
02:17:49,360 --> 02:17:53,240
Speaker 9: in a relationship to the future as an African person. Right,

2296
02:17:53,879 --> 02:17:57,400
Speaker 9: So what I wanted to do was to stress this

2297
02:17:57,640 --> 02:18:00,720
Speaker 9: togetherness what I call in my and I'd like to

2298
02:18:00,720 --> 02:18:04,000
Speaker 9: discuss that with you later. On the article for my

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02:18:05,160 --> 02:18:10,120
Speaker 9: annual Founder Funds of Message. As I say, it's a

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02:18:10,320 --> 02:18:14,480
Speaker 9: sacred togetherness. Yes, this is a sacred principle. When it's

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02:18:14,520 --> 02:18:20,720
Speaker 9: good and beautiful and mutually beneficial for everyone, that's sacred

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02:18:20,760 --> 02:18:24,400
Speaker 9: to us. And so the seven principles became. People say

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02:18:24,600 --> 02:18:28,440
Speaker 9: why seven? Well, because seven is a sacred you know

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02:18:28,879 --> 02:18:32,160
Speaker 9: word brought me a number in African culture and many

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02:18:32,360 --> 02:18:34,959
Speaker 9: African cultures, and so I thought that would be good.

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02:18:34,959 --> 02:18:38,120
Speaker 9: But also because it's manageable, right, and I wanted to

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02:18:38,200 --> 02:18:42,560
Speaker 9: stress that the sacredness of and also the manageability. Some people,

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02:18:42,600 --> 02:18:45,280
Speaker 9: so why didn't have ten? Well, you know we got ten,

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02:18:45,360 --> 02:18:47,440
Speaker 9: and other cultures you can say that. I mean, I

2310
02:18:47,520 --> 02:18:50,800
Speaker 9: have no problem with dan, but I wanted seven. At

2311
02:18:50,840 --> 02:18:53,360
Speaker 9: the seven spoke to it and you could manage it.

2312
02:18:53,600 --> 02:18:56,920
Speaker 9: And then I had to choose things that were most

2313
02:18:56,959 --> 02:18:59,920
Speaker 9: important to the movement. What is most important to the movement.

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Speaker 9: Remember that I created this context of the Black freedom movement,

2315
02:19:03,440 --> 02:19:06,600
Speaker 9: and that's another thing. But this is an intellectual constructure.

2316
02:19:06,680 --> 02:19:10,560
Speaker 9: It's not an invention, right, It's an intellectual construction that

2317
02:19:10,760 --> 02:19:16,080
Speaker 9: takes years of study and of contemplation and reasoning about

2318
02:19:16,120 --> 02:19:19,080
Speaker 9: what is good, what is best to answer the questions

2319
02:19:19,240 --> 02:19:22,840
Speaker 9: before you ask me to answer them in the times

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02:19:22,879 --> 02:19:27,640
Speaker 9: that I'm great. So I put unity first, Umoja right,

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02:19:28,040 --> 02:19:33,120
Speaker 9: because without umoja unity, nothing else is possible. Life is

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02:19:33,160 --> 02:19:36,920
Speaker 9: not possible without unity of the male and female coming

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02:19:36,920 --> 02:19:41,000
Speaker 9: together with us, coming together, family is not possible. Without

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02:19:41,160 --> 02:19:45,200
Speaker 9: coming together, community is not possible. Friendship is not possible.

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Speaker 9: So that becomes an important point, and the movement is

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02:19:48,920 --> 02:19:54,400
Speaker 9: not possible, and victory is not possible without our togetherness.

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02:19:54,800 --> 02:20:01,360
Speaker 9: Feeling the good life is not possible without emoja. Put

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02:20:03,560 --> 02:20:09,200
Speaker 9: emney last. That's the foundation. Because without faith, even if

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02:20:09,240 --> 02:20:13,840
Speaker 9: we start, we cannot continue. Even if we start to

2330
02:20:13,879 --> 02:20:16,600
Speaker 9: build a family, we lose faith in each other. We

2331
02:20:16,640 --> 02:20:19,879
Speaker 9: build friendship, we lose faith in each other. We lose

2332
02:20:19,959 --> 02:20:24,520
Speaker 9: a hope that is a companion of faith. Hey, how

2333
02:20:24,600 --> 02:20:29,200
Speaker 9: do how do we sustain our unity? I believe in

2334
02:20:29,280 --> 02:20:31,520
Speaker 9: our people. I believe in the people, in our organization.

2335
02:20:31,560 --> 02:20:36,680
Speaker 9: I believe in my house, Timorial, my wife, my companion,

2336
02:20:36,720 --> 02:20:40,080
Speaker 9: in all things good, beautiful and sacred. She believes in me.

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Speaker 9: That's everlasting. That's it. If I hold onto that faith,

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Speaker 9: that's it. That's the basis of the love. Faith. Love,

2339
02:20:48,200 --> 02:20:51,920
Speaker 9: love produces that faith producer love. Love produces faith, and

2340
02:20:51,959 --> 02:20:54,039
Speaker 9: so I think it's very important for us to see

2341
02:20:54,040 --> 02:20:57,959
Speaker 9: it self determination well, even if we're unified, and we're

2342
02:20:57,959 --> 02:21:01,000
Speaker 9: not unified, on the basis of our own culture, our

2343
02:21:01,040 --> 02:21:05,880
Speaker 9: own self, understanding our own self, definition, our own self, naming,

2344
02:21:06,000 --> 02:21:10,120
Speaker 9: our own self, creating our own self speaking, Hey, what

2345
02:21:10,240 --> 02:21:10,680
Speaker 9: do we have?

2346
02:21:11,640 --> 02:21:12,160
Speaker 4: What we have?

2347
02:21:12,360 --> 02:21:16,400
Speaker 9: A carckage of Europe run into Sweden asked how do

2348
02:21:16,520 --> 02:21:19,200
Speaker 9: we go forward? How do we raise our children? How

2349
02:21:19,240 --> 02:21:21,280
Speaker 9: do we what color should I have be? You know

2350
02:21:21,320 --> 02:21:23,920
Speaker 9: what I mean? We can't do that. You know, one time,

2351
02:21:24,920 --> 02:21:27,720
Speaker 9: you can remember Caul. One time we had to study

2352
02:21:27,800 --> 02:21:31,640
Speaker 9: by doctors Maimy and Kenneth Clark. We know many doctor

2353
02:21:31,680 --> 02:21:35,879
Speaker 9: Kennet Clark, that doctor Maimi Clark, his wife was very

2354
02:21:35,879 --> 02:21:40,440
Speaker 9: instrumental in the study that helped produce the nineteen fifty

2355
02:21:40,440 --> 02:21:48,400
Speaker 9: four UH decision that ended the segregation in the Brown

2356
02:21:48,440 --> 02:21:52,080
Speaker 9: decision in the segregation in education and then led to

2357
02:21:52,480 --> 02:21:56,080
Speaker 9: desegregation else play. And one of the arguments he made

2358
02:21:56,120 --> 02:21:58,240
Speaker 9: was he did a study on the children, and the

2359
02:21:58,360 --> 02:22:02,000
Speaker 9: children when they were asked what doll they want, the

2360
02:22:02,000 --> 02:22:05,240
Speaker 9: little girl said the yellow haired dog. That's who she

2361
02:22:05,320 --> 02:22:08,120
Speaker 9: thought was pretty irrelevant, right, that's who she wanted to be, Like,

2362
02:22:08,800 --> 02:22:12,120
Speaker 9: you can't use that anymore because now it's not just

2363
02:22:12,400 --> 02:22:15,760
Speaker 9: a little girl, it's a little boy and the father

2364
02:22:15,959 --> 02:22:19,560
Speaker 9: and the mother. So what's going on? Black people? We

2365
02:22:19,680 --> 02:22:21,680
Speaker 9: have to be self determined, not just in the way

2366
02:22:21,720 --> 02:22:24,280
Speaker 9: we call our air, but in the way we do

2367
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Speaker 9: our lives.

2368
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Speaker 3: Hold I thought right there, Doctor karank we gotta step

2369
02:22:28,840 --> 02:22:31,120
Speaker 3: aside for another short break. I'll let you finish your

2370
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Speaker 3: thought on the other side. Family, YouTube can join us,

2371
02:22:33,280 --> 02:22:35,520
Speaker 3: and we're speaking of doctor Koran. Can reach out to

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Speaker 3: us at eight hundred and four or five zero seventy

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Speaker 3: eight seventy six and we'll take your phone calls next.

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Speaker 17: Fourteen.

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Speaker 10: Come now back to the Carl Nelson Show.

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Speaker 3: And Grand Rising family. Thanks for staying with us on

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Speaker 3: this Wednesday morning. I guess there's ones I created dots,

2378
02:23:58,800 --> 02:24:02,280
Speaker 3: Milana Kranker. Quanta starts tomorrow, and tell us how we

2379
02:24:02,360 --> 02:24:05,320
Speaker 3: created Quanta and all the different aspects of Quanta before

2380
02:24:05,320 --> 02:24:07,160
Speaker 3: we go back to the element. Just remind you. Coming

2381
02:24:07,200 --> 02:24:10,040
Speaker 3: up tomorrow, we're going to speak with clinical psychologist doctor

2382
02:24:10,120 --> 02:24:12,720
Speaker 3: Jeromi foxing or in best for his best selling work

2383
02:24:12,720 --> 02:24:15,320
Speaker 3: book Addicted to White, The oppressed in league with the

2384
02:24:15,320 --> 02:24:18,480
Speaker 3: oppressor shame based alliance, Doctor Crank. Before we left, you

2385
02:24:18,520 --> 02:24:21,600
Speaker 3: were talking about the adultist Kenneth Clark and the hair.

2386
02:24:21,800 --> 02:24:24,520
Speaker 3: But before we get there, though, why did you choose

2387
02:24:24,760 --> 02:24:28,200
Speaker 3: Keith swahiely most of these words. That's left all of

2388
02:24:28,280 --> 02:24:31,360
Speaker 3: us scrambling to go to find out the real meanings

2389
02:24:31,400 --> 02:24:33,600
Speaker 3: behind some of these words. So if you can tell

2390
02:24:33,640 --> 02:24:37,160
Speaker 3: us about the key Swile aspect then because that's everything's

2391
02:24:37,200 --> 02:24:39,879
Speaker 3: based in Keith Swaily and then tell us and pick

2392
02:24:39,920 --> 02:24:43,720
Speaker 3: it up again with ango saba okay boe.

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Speaker 9: Appreciate what you said saying it's an excellent question. Appreciate

2394
02:24:48,600 --> 02:24:52,200
Speaker 9: what you've said and answer by saying correctly, Karl, the

2395
02:24:52,320 --> 02:24:58,439
Speaker 9: reason I choose Swahili is because it's the most widely

2396
02:24:58,600 --> 02:25:05,480
Speaker 9: spread African language, and uh i, it's a Pan African language,

2397
02:25:05,840 --> 02:25:09,360
Speaker 9: and I had for years been Uguan for that to

2398
02:25:09,440 --> 02:25:15,120
Speaker 9: become not only our language end diaspa, but also the

2399
02:25:15,200 --> 02:25:20,440
Speaker 9: continent's major language. And finally, of course, the African Union

2400
02:25:20,520 --> 02:25:23,400
Speaker 9: began to use that as one of its major languages.

2401
02:25:23,480 --> 02:25:30,360
Speaker 9: And even now people have spread throughout African countries like

2402
02:25:30,440 --> 02:25:35,600
Speaker 9: South Africa, Gambia of making it part of the elementary education,

2403
02:25:36,120 --> 02:25:38,959
Speaker 9: early education, so it's really good to see that. And

2404
02:25:39,000 --> 02:25:43,400
Speaker 9: of course recently a few years ago, I got an

2405
02:25:43,480 --> 02:25:51,280
Speaker 9: award from International Swahili Organization UH for my work in it.

2406
02:25:51,800 --> 02:25:55,640
Speaker 9: I used to teach Swahili on TV early in the morning,

2407
02:25:55,800 --> 02:25:58,800
Speaker 9: seven am, right, I taught you the night school, and

2408
02:25:58,879 --> 02:26:02,160
Speaker 9: of course I taught you that in the university. And

2409
02:26:02,240 --> 02:26:06,160
Speaker 9: I think it's important because we're not I don't claim

2410
02:26:06,560 --> 02:26:08,840
Speaker 9: I'm not a person that goes and looks for my

2411
02:26:09,160 --> 02:26:12,760
Speaker 9: DNA with ethnic group, and I don't live other people

2412
02:26:12,760 --> 02:26:15,000
Speaker 9: for doing that. I think people should do that. It's

2413
02:26:15,200 --> 02:26:18,960
Speaker 9: part of re establishing our relationship, right, But I don't.

2414
02:26:19,000 --> 02:26:23,400
Speaker 9: I claim the whole of Africa as our homeland and heritage,

2415
02:26:23,400 --> 02:26:26,800
Speaker 9: our historical homeland and heritage, all the people my relatives,

2416
02:26:26,800 --> 02:26:30,720
Speaker 9: so I don't need a specific ethnic group all of

2417
02:26:30,720 --> 02:26:34,160
Speaker 9: the Africans of my relatives. So I wanted to build

2418
02:26:34,240 --> 02:26:37,640
Speaker 9: that in the context of Quanja. That's the Pan African

2419
02:26:37,640 --> 02:26:41,080
Speaker 9: dimension to it, right, So I'm stressing again the Pan

2420
02:26:41,200 --> 02:26:45,240
Speaker 9: African thing. And also I wanted to have an African

2421
02:26:45,320 --> 02:26:48,160
Speaker 9: language that we used. You know a lot of people

2422
02:26:48,240 --> 02:26:51,720
Speaker 9: have languages right that they use even if they come here.

2423
02:26:51,959 --> 02:26:55,920
Speaker 9: You know, they still speak their language, they have some relationship.

2424
02:26:56,040 --> 02:26:58,240
Speaker 9: They might not even know the whole language, but can't

2425
02:26:58,240 --> 02:27:01,520
Speaker 9: speak the whole language, but somebody he does, and somebody

2426
02:27:01,600 --> 02:27:04,680
Speaker 9: knows the word, you know. So I just think that

2427
02:27:04,760 --> 02:27:07,480
Speaker 9: it was important. I thought then and I continue to

2428
02:27:07,480 --> 02:27:12,720
Speaker 9: think it's important for us to reaffirm our Africanists in

2429
02:27:12,760 --> 02:27:16,000
Speaker 9: every way we can, and to have an African language,

2430
02:27:16,400 --> 02:27:19,200
Speaker 9: you know, that's important. Continent an African language as well

2431
02:27:19,240 --> 02:27:22,039
Speaker 9: as our own African language evonics, right, But I didn't

2432
02:27:22,040 --> 02:27:24,160
Speaker 9: even know that was an African language that later. I mean,

2433
02:27:24,400 --> 02:27:27,959
Speaker 9: scholarship shows that the people who did the work any bonics,

2434
02:27:27,959 --> 02:27:30,880
Speaker 9: showed that that was a language, a rule governed speech.

2435
02:27:31,320 --> 02:27:33,600
Speaker 9: So it's ours. It's an African language. But I met

2436
02:27:34,120 --> 02:27:37,920
Speaker 9: early African language on the continent, continent Africans, so that

2437
02:27:38,000 --> 02:27:40,760
Speaker 9: I thought that was part of creating the holiday, right,

2438
02:27:41,200 --> 02:27:45,280
Speaker 9: reaffirming our relationship. And remember now, for a long time,

2439
02:27:45,280 --> 02:27:47,720
Speaker 9: we didn't even want to identify with African. Now when

2440
02:27:47,720 --> 02:27:50,680
Speaker 9: we first came, we did because our oldest one of

2441
02:27:50,760 --> 02:27:53,760
Speaker 9: our oldest institution, if not the oldest institution. His name

2442
02:27:53,959 --> 02:27:59,320
Speaker 9: African methodistis church not colored people, right, not Negro but

2443
02:27:59,520 --> 02:28:04,160
Speaker 9: African right. But the European, you know, drove us away

2444
02:28:04,160 --> 02:28:08,560
Speaker 9: from that, you know, by these Tarzanic presentations of Africa right.

2445
02:28:08,680 --> 02:28:11,840
Speaker 9: So our thing was to get back to the source,

2446
02:28:11,920 --> 02:28:14,600
Speaker 9: return to the source, get back to black and that

2447
02:28:14,760 --> 02:28:17,480
Speaker 9: was part of it. And you know it, really it

2448
02:28:17,520 --> 02:28:21,120
Speaker 9: is good for people to learn. And another thing, the

2449
02:28:21,240 --> 02:28:25,320
Speaker 9: European writes book called books with Dummies. We should never

2450
02:28:25,440 --> 02:28:28,960
Speaker 9: do that. We should never assume Black people can't learn.

2451
02:28:29,800 --> 02:28:32,400
Speaker 9: We're the first learners. We're the first human learners, right,

2452
02:28:32,760 --> 02:28:36,240
Speaker 9: So we can't claim such a magnificent civilization. And every

2453
02:28:36,240 --> 02:28:39,200
Speaker 9: time we talk about ourselves, we talk about ourselves in diminished,

2454
02:28:39,200 --> 02:28:43,240
Speaker 9: our pathological ways. We was real firm, our dignity, our beauty,

2455
02:28:43,280 --> 02:28:48,400
Speaker 9: our greatness, a capacity to create progress, to make history,

2456
02:28:49,200 --> 02:28:52,000
Speaker 9: and to open up a new future for not only us,

2457
02:28:52,080 --> 02:28:54,959
Speaker 9: but for the whole world. So that's that's how I think.

2458
02:28:55,080 --> 02:28:59,560
Speaker 9: And and and it's global. And and one of another

2459
02:28:59,640 --> 02:29:03,680
Speaker 9: thing is I chose Swahili and another African language, and

2460
02:29:03,720 --> 02:29:07,800
Speaker 9: I use other African language like Zulie. I used them

2461
02:29:08,200 --> 02:29:13,520
Speaker 9: because they contain communal concepts I need. I needed those

2462
02:29:13,560 --> 02:29:17,160
Speaker 9: communal concepts I needed. I knew it Ujima, I needed

2463
02:29:17,200 --> 02:29:22,160
Speaker 9: these that are specifically from Africa, and that stressed the

2464
02:29:22,280 --> 02:29:27,959
Speaker 9: Communitearian aspect of our lives, the collective uh aspect of

2465
02:29:28,000 --> 02:29:30,320
Speaker 9: our lives. You know, one of the things about Nina

2466
02:29:31,680 --> 02:29:36,360
Speaker 9: Hydia Malcolm xicin Nina Martin Luther King, doctor Martin Luther King,

2467
02:29:36,879 --> 02:29:40,440
Speaker 9: is that they stressed out togetherness. Usually doctor King did

2468
02:29:40,440 --> 02:29:43,039
Speaker 9: it on a world level, but he also did it

2469
02:29:43,080 --> 02:29:46,800
Speaker 9: on a racial level, that we needed unity. He always

2470
02:29:46,840 --> 02:29:49,360
Speaker 9: talked about that all of our people, that me and

2471
02:29:49,480 --> 02:29:53,200
Speaker 9: mclaver Thom talked about us in terms of being a community,

2472
02:29:53,240 --> 02:29:57,400
Speaker 9: a world historical people, right, and sometimes when we talk

2473
02:29:57,440 --> 02:30:00,000
Speaker 9: about us that we talk about ourselves in ghetto wives

2474
02:30:00,040 --> 02:30:03,000
Speaker 9: pathological terms, and we don't need to do that. Some

2475
02:30:03,000 --> 02:30:05,560
Speaker 9: people do that, not all people, but enough for us

2476
02:30:05,560 --> 02:30:08,720
Speaker 9: to be concerned about that. We have to see ourselves

2477
02:30:08,959 --> 02:30:13,240
Speaker 9: as a world historical people. Now a Hydi, Malcolm said. Now,

2478
02:30:13,560 --> 02:30:17,039
Speaker 9: one of the things I noticed about Swahilia, again talking

2479
02:30:17,080 --> 02:30:20,840
Speaker 9: about an expansive identity that comes from these languages, is

2480
02:30:20,879 --> 02:30:25,280
Speaker 9: that we have in Swahili two words for people. One

2481
02:30:25,320 --> 02:30:28,640
Speaker 9: is watch to, which means human being, and the second

2482
02:30:28,680 --> 02:30:31,760
Speaker 9: one is wild and wingle, which means world being. So

2483
02:30:31,879 --> 02:30:36,680
Speaker 9: it shows us an expanded identity of ourselves to be

2484
02:30:36,760 --> 02:30:40,320
Speaker 9: a world being. That's a responsibility for the whole earth.

2485
02:30:41,280 --> 02:30:44,400
Speaker 9: We're supposed to care for the earth, and we're supposed

2486
02:30:44,440 --> 02:30:46,879
Speaker 9: to be good relatives to the earth. You remember when

2487
02:30:46,879 --> 02:30:50,720
Speaker 9: I was talking earlier about relationships, Well, out of that

2488
02:30:50,879 --> 02:30:55,800
Speaker 9: comes our imperitive and ethical imperitive. That's a moral obligation,

2489
02:30:56,000 --> 02:31:01,280
Speaker 9: ethical imperitive, moral obligation, our moral obligation to be good relatives,

2490
02:31:01,440 --> 02:31:05,480
Speaker 9: good relatives to our families, to our friends, and even

2491
02:31:05,520 --> 02:31:09,120
Speaker 9: to the earth. To be relative, a good relative to water,

2492
02:31:09,640 --> 02:31:14,520
Speaker 9: to animals, to forests, and feel right to the earth itself.

2493
02:31:14,959 --> 02:31:17,240
Speaker 9: That's that's a whole different kind of concept. I can't

2494
02:31:17,600 --> 02:31:21,400
Speaker 9: I can't do just to it speaking English. I need

2495
02:31:21,440 --> 02:31:24,000
Speaker 9: a Swahili word for that. I need Zulu for that,

2496
02:31:24,120 --> 02:31:26,400
Speaker 9: I need your but for that, I need other African

2497
02:31:26,440 --> 02:31:30,640
Speaker 9: languages for that. Right that helps me to conceptualize right,

2498
02:31:31,440 --> 02:31:34,680
Speaker 9: I'm a serious scholar, you know. That's just it's like

2499
02:31:34,720 --> 02:31:37,160
Speaker 9: what di I have said, I should say that not

2500
02:31:37,320 --> 02:31:40,600
Speaker 9: a sheckout to that DV said about the difference between

2501
02:31:40,720 --> 02:31:44,760
Speaker 9: him studying Egypt as a scholar and the Dilo tips.

2502
02:31:45,160 --> 02:31:48,000
Speaker 9: I just wanted to take trips to it Egypt and

2503
02:31:48,320 --> 02:31:51,960
Speaker 9: talk about things that are not so like we moved it. Uh,

2504
02:31:52,120 --> 02:31:56,680
Speaker 9: the pyramid blocks with the mind, all that kind of limitation.

2505
02:31:57,640 --> 02:32:02,360
Speaker 9: There's a mathematics there, right, there's a physics there. There's

2506
02:32:02,360 --> 02:32:05,080
Speaker 9: a trigger knowledge there. We have to find it. We

2507
02:32:05,200 --> 02:32:07,199
Speaker 9: have to hold it up and use it as models.

2508
02:32:07,520 --> 02:32:12,279
Speaker 9: And so I say go back to Africa and not Hydimacam.

2509
02:32:12,320 --> 02:32:14,960
Speaker 9: You know, I'm very employenced by him. And he said,

2510
02:32:15,360 --> 02:32:17,600
Speaker 9: we've got to go back to Africa. And even we

2511
02:32:17,640 --> 02:32:21,240
Speaker 9: don't go physically, we have to go back philosophically and culturally.

2512
02:32:21,800 --> 02:32:24,920
Speaker 9: And I have done that, and that's what is important

2513
02:32:25,000 --> 02:32:27,720
Speaker 9: to me. I'm an African person. I'm always going to

2514
02:32:27,800 --> 02:32:30,760
Speaker 9: come into the room, sit at the table at African.

2515
02:32:30,879 --> 02:32:34,120
Speaker 9: I'm not gonna erase my identity. I'm not going to

2516
02:32:34,200 --> 02:32:36,920
Speaker 9: lose it in a larger category. Even when I do

2517
02:32:36,959 --> 02:32:39,640
Speaker 9: a larger category, I'm going to always have it African.

2518
02:32:39,840 --> 02:32:43,560
Speaker 9: If I say human, I mean human as African, because

2519
02:32:43,600 --> 02:32:47,440
Speaker 9: I believe not just Africans but all people that for this,

2520
02:32:48,360 --> 02:32:51,640
Speaker 9: each people and culture is a unique and equally valid

2521
02:32:52,080 --> 02:32:55,360
Speaker 9: and valuable way of being human in the world. This

2522
02:32:55,560 --> 02:32:58,240
Speaker 9: is my way of being human. African. I don't need

2523
02:32:58,280 --> 02:33:00,400
Speaker 9: to explain that away. I don't need to just the

2524
02:33:00,480 --> 02:33:04,600
Speaker 9: buy under fear right. And I come to bring my

2525
02:33:05,240 --> 02:33:09,160
Speaker 9: special culture truth, to speak it and to use it

2526
02:33:10,080 --> 02:33:14,920
Speaker 9: right in ways that helped to reconceive and reconstruct this

2527
02:33:15,120 --> 02:33:19,560
Speaker 9: country and the world in the most beautiful, expansive but

2528
02:33:19,720 --> 02:33:23,360
Speaker 9: really we say, in the most ethically effective and expansive ways.

2529
02:33:24,959 --> 02:33:27,680
Speaker 3: Yeah, add away from the top. Now you talked about

2530
02:33:27,720 --> 02:33:30,480
Speaker 3: the Angusasaba, you dealt with the first person. Are you

2531
02:33:30,560 --> 02:33:32,600
Speaker 3: still were on the first principles? So I'll let you

2532
02:33:32,680 --> 02:33:33,440
Speaker 3: continue on that.

2533
02:33:34,520 --> 02:33:37,360
Speaker 9: And I was saying the second principle was and I

2534
02:33:37,400 --> 02:33:42,880
Speaker 9: really would like to share some of my UH Annual

2535
02:33:42,879 --> 02:33:46,560
Speaker 9: founders crins of message with you. And when I finished this,

2536
02:33:46,640 --> 02:33:49,560
Speaker 9: I'll finish this real quick so I can listen into that.

2537
02:33:49,879 --> 02:33:52,080
Speaker 9: So you know, if I look at the principles of

2538
02:33:52,200 --> 02:33:55,400
Speaker 9: self determination, I was saying, how could we be free

2539
02:33:55,560 --> 02:33:59,160
Speaker 9: and not be self terminated? Self determination means so more

2540
02:33:59,240 --> 02:34:02,680
Speaker 9: you mean to strive for and maintain units in the family, community, nation,

2541
02:34:03,160 --> 02:34:06,640
Speaker 9: and race right and by extension, the whole world, because

2542
02:34:06,680 --> 02:34:09,960
Speaker 9: we're world historical people, world and Thompson people. The second

2543
02:34:09,959 --> 02:34:14,680
Speaker 9: self determination means to define ourselves, to name ourselves, right,

2544
02:34:14,760 --> 02:34:17,560
Speaker 9: to create for ourselves and to speak for ourselves. We

2545
02:34:17,640 --> 02:34:20,840
Speaker 9: have to be able to do that, otherwise we're not

2546
02:34:20,959 --> 02:34:25,560
Speaker 9: fool people. Right. We have to be able to express ourself,

2547
02:34:26,040 --> 02:34:29,560
Speaker 9: to be confident in ourselves, to be confident that there

2548
02:34:29,600 --> 02:34:34,440
Speaker 9: is no idea in humanity that cannot be expressed through

2549
02:34:34,560 --> 02:34:38,560
Speaker 9: and in African culture that's not I mean, we got

2550
02:34:38,600 --> 02:34:41,199
Speaker 9: to take that position, right. I don't care what science

2551
02:34:41,440 --> 02:34:45,080
Speaker 9: it is, I don't care what subject it is. African

2552
02:34:45,240 --> 02:34:48,360
Speaker 9: culture is sufficient in itself and we can borrow from

2553
02:34:48,400 --> 02:34:51,480
Speaker 9: the world, but we can't be borrowed by the world.

2554
02:34:51,800 --> 02:34:55,080
Speaker 9: We can absorb, but we must not be absorbed. We

2555
02:34:55,200 --> 02:35:00,000
Speaker 9: must have our own particularity in the face of universe.

2556
02:35:01,080 --> 02:35:03,959
Speaker 9: So all great messages, I've said this before, I want

2557
02:35:04,000 --> 02:35:06,680
Speaker 9: to say it again. All great messages, whether it's some

2558
02:35:06,720 --> 02:35:09,800
Speaker 9: of the religion, or whether it's Kawe the philosophy or

2559
02:35:09,840 --> 02:35:14,320
Speaker 9: the principles Duso Saba, they have both a particular and

2560
02:35:14,480 --> 02:35:18,720
Speaker 9: universal character to us. They start in a certain people

2561
02:35:19,200 --> 02:35:23,200
Speaker 9: like Christianity or Judaism or Buddhism or Hinduism, or the

2562
02:35:23,320 --> 02:35:28,800
Speaker 9: Native American culture, maya religion or Hopey. They start in

2563
02:35:28,840 --> 02:35:32,840
Speaker 9: the people, but they not only speak to the best

2564
02:35:32,879 --> 02:35:36,680
Speaker 9: of what it means to be that people for us African,

2565
02:35:37,440 --> 02:35:39,600
Speaker 9: but also the best of what it means to be human.

2566
02:35:40,400 --> 02:35:44,199
Speaker 9: So when we talk about self determination, it's an African value,

2567
02:35:44,560 --> 02:35:47,520
Speaker 9: but it's so human value. But we can't just say

2568
02:35:47,520 --> 02:35:51,640
Speaker 9: it's human. And one of the things that's really bothered

2569
02:35:51,720 --> 02:35:56,280
Speaker 9: some to me sometimes is how the dominant society makes

2570
02:35:56,360 --> 02:36:00,320
Speaker 9: some Africans always have to say Quansas for everybody known,

2571
02:36:00,440 --> 02:36:04,640
Speaker 9: quasa for black people. Other people can learn from it, right,

2572
02:36:05,120 --> 02:36:08,280
Speaker 9: and it can be for them, But guess what it's

2573
02:36:08,280 --> 02:36:12,560
Speaker 9: for African people. Nobody tried to say Judaism is not Judaism.

2574
02:36:13,760 --> 02:36:16,360
Speaker 9: Nobody's trying to say single Dama is not single Toma,

2575
02:36:16,720 --> 02:36:19,880
Speaker 9: not for the Mexican. Nobody's trying to say Chinese New

2576
02:36:20,000 --> 02:36:23,440
Speaker 9: Year is not for Chinese. Oh, it's what we don't

2577
02:36:23,480 --> 02:36:26,480
Speaker 9: have to explain that, right, But for some reason they

2578
02:36:26,560 --> 02:36:31,039
Speaker 9: make us want to say something that lets them in.

2579
02:36:31,200 --> 02:36:34,760
Speaker 9: That's why they change the movement from the Black freedom

2580
02:36:34,800 --> 02:36:37,200
Speaker 9: movement to the civil rights. Then everybody can get off

2581
02:36:37,240 --> 02:36:40,720
Speaker 9: in there, right, but it does something to us. This

2582
02:36:40,920 --> 02:36:45,879
Speaker 9: is our contribution to expanding the realm of human freedom.

2583
02:36:46,160 --> 02:36:48,720
Speaker 9: Not only in this country but the whole world, and

2584
02:36:48,760 --> 02:36:50,880
Speaker 9: we have to understand it. But let me go to

2585
02:36:50,879 --> 02:36:54,640
Speaker 9: the names Ujima. Can we really practice who moja without

2586
02:36:54,640 --> 02:36:58,440
Speaker 9: practicing Fujima or moji? Becomes simpler principle if it doesn't

2587
02:36:58,440 --> 02:37:00,600
Speaker 9: become a practice, and if it's real, it must become

2588
02:37:00,640 --> 02:37:05,880
Speaker 9: a practice and it becomes a practice in Ujima. Working together, right, right,

2589
02:37:06,360 --> 02:37:09,840
Speaker 9: that's what we must do, work together to build and

2590
02:37:09,879 --> 02:37:13,080
Speaker 9: maintain our community together and make our brothers and sisters

2591
02:37:13,120 --> 02:37:16,480
Speaker 9: problems our problem and to solve them together. And said

2592
02:37:16,480 --> 02:37:19,959
Speaker 9: oo Jaman for opertyep economy to be able to maintain

2593
02:37:20,000 --> 02:37:22,400
Speaker 9: our sorece shops and other business and the problem from there,

2594
02:37:22,520 --> 02:37:26,200
Speaker 9: this is the product principle. Oh what shared work and

2595
02:37:26,320 --> 02:37:30,400
Speaker 9: shared well us we must be able to enjoy the

2596
02:37:30,520 --> 02:37:34,480
Speaker 9: wealth we create in this country despite of capitalism. We

2597
02:37:34,600 --> 02:37:39,000
Speaker 9: must create free space where and transform the society where

2598
02:37:39,040 --> 02:37:42,160
Speaker 9: people have an inclusive and shared good for the work

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02:37:42,240 --> 02:37:46,000
Speaker 9: they do. Right, that's just basic. Right And then of

2600
02:37:46,040 --> 02:37:49,920
Speaker 9: course Nia, you know, to make our collective vocation the

2601
02:37:49,920 --> 02:37:53,680
Speaker 9: building and developing our community in order to restore our

2602
02:37:53,720 --> 02:37:57,080
Speaker 9: people to their judicial greatness. And we know that greatness

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02:37:57,160 --> 02:38:01,320
Speaker 9: is not simply knowing knowledge and technology and all that,

2604
02:38:01,600 --> 02:38:04,760
Speaker 9: because who see are the sacred text of ancient agent said,

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02:38:05,120 --> 02:38:07,920
Speaker 9: the wives are known by their wisdom, but the greater

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02:38:08,040 --> 02:38:11,560
Speaker 9: known by their good deeds. So we want greatness by

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02:38:11,640 --> 02:38:15,600
Speaker 9: doing good deeds. Doing good deeds in every field you in.

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02:38:15,920 --> 02:38:18,199
Speaker 9: So if it's in science good, it's a medicine good,

2609
02:38:18,360 --> 02:38:22,120
Speaker 9: if it's in teaching good, if it's just serving good. Right,

2610
02:38:22,360 --> 02:38:27,760
Speaker 9: But do service for the people, even Nana, uh that,

2611
02:38:27,920 --> 02:38:30,279
Speaker 9: Martin Luther King said, everybody can be great because everybody

2612
02:38:30,320 --> 02:38:34,600
Speaker 9: can serve, So serve right. But let your knowledge be

2613
02:38:34,720 --> 02:38:37,920
Speaker 9: in service of the people, right, and let it be

2614
02:38:38,080 --> 02:38:40,720
Speaker 9: in service of making a new world, as nan a

2615
02:38:41,080 --> 02:38:44,480
Speaker 9: doctor Mary McLeod Bethune told us, see ourselves as world

2616
02:38:45,040 --> 02:38:50,160
Speaker 9: encompassing people, she said, and realize that our task is

2617
02:38:50,200 --> 02:38:53,720
Speaker 9: to remake the world. It is nothing less than this, right,

2618
02:38:54,240 --> 02:38:57,680
Speaker 9: and then we move from that to goomber to do

2619
02:38:57,720 --> 02:38:58,000
Speaker 9: all that.

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Speaker 3: We got to step aside a few moments. I'll let

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Speaker 3: two minutes away from the top of the family. I

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02:40:13,360 --> 02:40:16,119
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02:40:16,120 --> 02:40:19,520
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Speaker 3: And Grand Rising Family. Thanks for staying with us on

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Speaker 3: this Wednesday morning with I guess the doctor Milana Krenka

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Speaker 3: the Creative Quanta. Before we left, doctor Krengo's running down

2642
02:41:04,840 --> 02:41:07,959
Speaker 3: these seven principles, then Google Saba of Quanta. I think

2643
02:41:08,000 --> 02:41:12,080
Speaker 3: we stopped at Comba creativity, okay.

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02:41:11,920 --> 02:41:14,080
Speaker 9: Boy, and then the last one is and then I

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02:41:14,080 --> 02:41:17,920
Speaker 9: would like to go to my and you found its quantimistic.

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02:41:18,240 --> 02:41:20,360
Speaker 9: But the last one of course, is faith, and we

2647
02:41:20,480 --> 02:41:23,560
Speaker 9: talked about that as a basis to believe with all

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02:41:23,600 --> 02:41:27,120
Speaker 9: our hearts in our people. Notice we start with the people,

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02:41:27,560 --> 02:41:31,039
Speaker 9: and our people are parents, our teachers, our leaders, and

2650
02:41:31,160 --> 02:41:35,880
Speaker 9: the righteousness and victory of our struggle. That's very important

2651
02:41:35,959 --> 02:41:38,760
Speaker 9: to believe in our people. Right. You know, we can

2652
02:41:38,800 --> 02:41:40,680
Speaker 9: say I believe in myself, but if you don't believe

2653
02:41:40,680 --> 02:41:43,000
Speaker 9: in your people, you don't really believe in yourself. And

2654
02:41:43,000 --> 02:41:44,800
Speaker 9: if you don't believe in your people, we can't have

2655
02:41:44,879 --> 02:41:48,840
Speaker 9: a moja. We can't have self determination by ourself. That's

2656
02:41:48,840 --> 02:41:53,120
Speaker 9: just voga individualism imagining. You can have a culture by yourself.

2657
02:41:53,200 --> 02:41:57,160
Speaker 9: You have a culture inside a people, a people producers

2658
02:41:57,200 --> 02:42:00,760
Speaker 9: a culture. And as I said before, the great challenge

2659
02:42:00,760 --> 02:42:06,080
Speaker 9: to us is the culture crisis and challenge. The great

2660
02:42:06,320 --> 02:42:09,480
Speaker 9: crisis and challenge for us as a culture crisis and

2661
02:42:09,560 --> 02:42:13,640
Speaker 9: challenge how to break the monopoly that the pressor has

2662
02:42:13,680 --> 02:42:16,360
Speaker 9: on so many of our mind. We say, until we

2663
02:42:16,520 --> 02:42:19,879
Speaker 9: break the monopoly that the pressure has on so many

2664
02:42:19,879 --> 02:42:24,520
Speaker 9: of our mind, liberation is not only impossible, it's unthinkable.

2665
02:42:24,560 --> 02:42:28,200
Speaker 9: You don't even see it as a rejected possibility. You

2666
02:42:28,200 --> 02:42:30,879
Speaker 9: don't even consider it. And so I think it's very

2667
02:42:30,879 --> 02:42:34,200
Speaker 9: important for it. And so Panza, I just want to say,

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02:42:34,280 --> 02:42:37,119
Speaker 9: Quantita gives us a chance to talk about this. You see,

2669
02:42:37,200 --> 02:42:40,200
Speaker 9: it frames a whole different kind of conversation, right, It's

2670
02:42:40,240 --> 02:42:45,720
Speaker 9: a conversation that's like expansive, right, and it's beautiful and

2671
02:42:45,760 --> 02:42:49,879
Speaker 9: it's reaffirming for black people. Nothing negative here, right, nothing

2672
02:42:49,920 --> 02:42:55,040
Speaker 9: about black people this or that. Black people rising grand

2673
02:42:55,120 --> 02:42:57,840
Speaker 9: rising as you say. Oh, and so I wanted to

2674
02:42:58,040 --> 02:43:01,119
Speaker 9: say that my annual Every year I give an annual

2675
02:43:01,360 --> 02:43:05,440
Speaker 9: Founder's Quanta message, and this year this title practicing the

2676
02:43:05,520 --> 02:43:10,200
Speaker 9: Seven Principles in dimly lit times, lifting up the light

2677
02:43:10,400 --> 02:43:14,160
Speaker 9: and hearing the dawn and others start out by wishing

2678
02:43:14,520 --> 02:43:19,120
Speaker 9: for African people throughout the world. African community chanties our quanta,

2679
02:43:19,560 --> 02:43:21,920
Speaker 9: Happy Quncer. That's why he lived again. It is our

2680
02:43:22,040 --> 02:43:27,959
Speaker 9: quancett and we bring and send greetings of celebration, solidarity,

2681
02:43:28,360 --> 02:43:32,080
Speaker 9: and continuous struggle for an inclusive and shared good in

2682
02:43:32,120 --> 02:43:35,879
Speaker 9: the world. And we also wish, especially for our people

2683
02:43:36,280 --> 02:43:39,320
Speaker 9: and for all other press and struggling peoples of the world,

2684
02:43:39,800 --> 02:43:44,720
Speaker 9: the shared and indivisible goods of freedom, justice and peace,

2685
02:43:45,320 --> 02:43:48,720
Speaker 9: which can only be achieved and enjoyed and passed on

2686
02:43:49,080 --> 02:43:54,680
Speaker 9: to the future through righteous and relentless struggle. Also in

2687
02:43:54,760 --> 02:43:59,440
Speaker 9: the Kawd of Mantan harvest celebration tradition of our honored ancestors,

2688
02:43:59,760 --> 02:44:03,640
Speaker 9: we wish for African people all and all the peoples

2689
02:44:03,640 --> 02:44:07,480
Speaker 9: of the world all the good that Heaven grants, the

2690
02:44:07,560 --> 02:44:11,160
Speaker 9: earth produces, and the waters bring forth from their death.

2691
02:44:11,800 --> 02:44:16,560
Speaker 9: Oh chap, I say heady again. This year's annual theme

2692
02:44:16,680 --> 02:44:20,840
Speaker 9: is practicing the civil principle in dimly lit times lighting

2693
02:44:21,120 --> 02:44:24,240
Speaker 9: lifting up the light hair in the dawn. So what

2694
02:44:24,280 --> 02:44:27,920
Speaker 9: does it mean dimly lit time? To speak of dimly

2695
02:44:27,959 --> 02:44:30,440
Speaker 9: lit times is to talk of the thick fog of

2696
02:44:30,560 --> 02:44:35,720
Speaker 9: falsehood and fear, chaos and confusion and uncertainty that has

2697
02:44:35,800 --> 02:44:40,240
Speaker 9: emerged in this historical moment and has settled heavily over

2698
02:44:40,280 --> 02:44:43,440
Speaker 9: this land and our community. Indeed, they to speak of

2699
02:44:43,520 --> 02:44:47,800
Speaker 9: the rise of authoritarian and anti democratic governments and practice it,

2700
02:44:48,240 --> 02:44:53,760
Speaker 9: and an increased levels of mean spiritedness, human alienation from others,

2701
02:44:54,120 --> 02:44:59,480
Speaker 9: an official and unofficial violence of various kinds, including livestream

2702
02:44:59,600 --> 02:45:03,279
Speaker 9: genus side. And then to speak two of the giving

2703
02:45:03,400 --> 02:45:05,960
Speaker 9: of the light and life of the heart and mind.

2704
02:45:06,400 --> 02:45:10,480
Speaker 9: Imagine that dimming the light and life of the heart

2705
02:45:10,520 --> 02:45:15,240
Speaker 9: and the mind. That is to say, cultivation of narrow

2706
02:45:15,400 --> 02:45:21,160
Speaker 9: and uncritical mind and constricted a constricted heart, which embrace

2707
02:45:21,320 --> 02:45:26,080
Speaker 9: illusions as real life, embracing illusions as real life, and

2708
02:45:27,040 --> 02:45:30,640
Speaker 9: creating a diminished capacity for the people to fight through

2709
02:45:30,680 --> 02:45:35,959
Speaker 9: the fall, to rast rightfully reason, and to conscientiously demonstrate

2710
02:45:36,480 --> 02:45:42,160
Speaker 9: moral sensitivity to others, especially those who are different and vulnerable,

2711
02:45:42,640 --> 02:45:45,920
Speaker 9: those who we can can't defend themselves. That's who people

2712
02:45:46,280 --> 02:45:50,600
Speaker 9: ounce on, right, That's Trump, That's that in y'aw. All

2713
02:45:50,680 --> 02:45:54,000
Speaker 9: of these people pounce on the different and the vulnerable,

2714
02:45:54,440 --> 02:45:58,480
Speaker 9: but they don't act by themselves. The people support them. Right.

2715
02:45:59,200 --> 02:46:03,680
Speaker 9: And when we talk about this about tarrying the dawn,

2716
02:46:04,440 --> 02:46:07,200
Speaker 9: we talk about what none of doctor Martin Luther King

2717
02:46:07,720 --> 02:46:12,000
Speaker 9: asserted during his time. He said, we'll confronted with the

2718
02:46:12,040 --> 02:46:15,000
Speaker 9: fierce urgency of now. That's a beautiful phrase if you

2719
02:46:15,040 --> 02:46:18,879
Speaker 9: listen to the firce urgency of now, and this, he said,

2720
02:46:18,959 --> 02:46:22,320
Speaker 9: calls not just for delay or in decisions, but rather

2721
02:46:22,400 --> 02:46:27,000
Speaker 9: for immediate and sustained, vigorous and positive action. There's that

2722
02:46:27,240 --> 02:46:31,879
Speaker 9: positivity again. We've got to be positive, right, And yes,

2723
02:46:32,200 --> 02:46:37,680
Speaker 9: we're living and celebrating Carnza. This year again in difficult, dangerous, demanding,

2724
02:46:37,720 --> 02:46:40,840
Speaker 9: and humanly lit time. But as the sun sets, black people,

2725
02:46:41,040 --> 02:46:43,959
Speaker 9: it also rises, and it drives away the shadows and

2726
02:46:44,000 --> 02:46:47,080
Speaker 9: gymnasts and darkness and lights up the world. And the

2727
02:46:47,120 --> 02:46:49,600
Speaker 9: best of our culture tells and teaches us that we

2728
02:46:49,680 --> 02:46:53,119
Speaker 9: must be the light. We must be the light, I repeat,

2729
02:46:53,360 --> 02:46:56,000
Speaker 9: we must be the light that drives away the shadows,

2730
02:46:56,000 --> 02:46:59,119
Speaker 9: gymnas and dugness and opens a way to the good

2731
02:46:59,160 --> 02:47:03,000
Speaker 9: world want and deserve. Indeed, the lessons of our history

2732
02:47:03,000 --> 02:47:06,440
Speaker 9: and our sense of our own humanity tell us we

2733
02:47:06,520 --> 02:47:09,879
Speaker 9: must defy the darkness, and the darkness make us not

2734
02:47:09,959 --> 02:47:13,480
Speaker 9: just the darkness, but the darkness make us also those

2735
02:47:13,520 --> 02:47:17,840
Speaker 9: that seek to dispirit and diminish us. And we must demonstrate,

2736
02:47:18,200 --> 02:47:21,880
Speaker 9: as I said earlier, a radical refusal to be defeated

2737
02:47:21,959 --> 02:47:25,160
Speaker 9: or dispirited in any way. Following in the footstop of

2738
02:47:25,160 --> 02:47:27,440
Speaker 9: our hundred answers, we must, in the midst of the

2739
02:47:27,560 --> 02:47:31,480
Speaker 9: deepest darkness hanging over us, lift up the light that

2740
02:47:31,680 --> 02:47:36,520
Speaker 9: lasts and dare to herd the dawn only achieved, I repeat,

2741
02:47:36,760 --> 02:47:40,440
Speaker 9: in righteous and relentless struggle for an inclusive and shared

2742
02:47:40,520 --> 02:47:43,959
Speaker 9: good in the world. Our sacred teachers of our ancestors

2743
02:47:44,040 --> 02:47:47,320
Speaker 9: tell us in the earliest of our sacred writing, that

2744
02:47:47,400 --> 02:47:50,920
Speaker 9: who see U quote, it is wrong to walk upside

2745
02:47:51,000 --> 02:47:53,520
Speaker 9: down in darkness, And we must come forth today and

2746
02:47:53,560 --> 02:47:56,680
Speaker 9: bring forth to my eard the light of truth and justice,

2747
02:47:56,760 --> 02:48:00,160
Speaker 9: righteous and good, which is within us. For surely it

2748
02:48:00,240 --> 02:48:03,240
Speaker 9: is within us that they said, and this teaching of

2749
02:48:03,320 --> 02:48:06,440
Speaker 9: the light and the good within us. Find this voice

2750
02:48:06,480 --> 02:48:09,800
Speaker 9: and practice in every place, I said, every place and

2751
02:48:09,920 --> 02:48:14,360
Speaker 9: theory of our history. Therefore, non doctor W. W. Du

2752
02:48:14,400 --> 02:48:18,320
Speaker 9: Bois relates in the sacred narrative of our people that

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Speaker 9: even during the holocaust of enslavement, in the darkest of days, nights,

2754
02:48:23,160 --> 02:48:27,120
Speaker 9: and centuries, our people sang to sunshine. That's the words

2755
02:48:27,120 --> 02:48:30,680
Speaker 9: of you, sang to sunshine. What does this mean? It

2756
02:48:30,720 --> 02:48:34,320
Speaker 9: means they embraced in evidence the radical refusal to be

2757
02:48:34,440 --> 02:48:39,520
Speaker 9: dispirited or defeated. Indeed, they became the sunshine themselves. They

2758
02:48:39,560 --> 02:48:43,360
Speaker 9: became the sunshine they sang to each day, regardless of

2759
02:48:43,400 --> 02:48:46,560
Speaker 9: the weather and the evil and human inhuman way of

2760
02:48:46,600 --> 02:48:51,080
Speaker 9: the oppressor, they sensed and saw a great light lifted

2761
02:48:51,200 --> 02:48:54,959
Speaker 9: up within them, and they lifted it up and called

2762
02:48:55,000 --> 02:48:59,280
Speaker 9: it freedom. They thought their children to remember freedom, to

2763
02:48:59,360 --> 02:49:03,840
Speaker 9: reimagine freedom and to Cherry's freedom, and together they moved

2764
02:49:04,000 --> 02:49:09,360
Speaker 9: and marched irresistibly and irreversibly towards it and brought us

2765
02:49:09,440 --> 02:49:13,160
Speaker 9: to this day. And if which honor that tradition as

2766
02:49:13,160 --> 02:49:17,840
Speaker 9: a living, uplifting and liberating tradition, then we too must

2767
02:49:17,840 --> 02:49:22,640
Speaker 9: sing to sunshine irregardless. Indeed, we too must embody him,

2768
02:49:22,680 --> 02:49:26,080
Speaker 9: be the sunshine that calls forth the day and harries

2769
02:49:26,160 --> 02:49:29,600
Speaker 9: the down a new don black people and a new

2770
02:49:29,680 --> 02:49:33,920
Speaker 9: day of inclusive freedom, justice, and others shared human goods

2771
02:49:34,160 --> 02:49:39,519
Speaker 9: through our continued and expanded work, our service, our sacrifice,

2772
02:49:39,959 --> 02:49:44,119
Speaker 9: and our relentness, our righteous and relentness struggle, and clearly

2773
02:49:44,200 --> 02:49:47,080
Speaker 9: during the Black freedom movement, also our people dare to

2774
02:49:47,160 --> 02:49:50,480
Speaker 9: drive away the darkness and darkness makers and lift up

2775
02:49:50,520 --> 02:49:53,640
Speaker 9: the light. This is overwhelmingly evident in the life and

2776
02:49:53,680 --> 02:49:58,200
Speaker 9: struggle history of non Afana Louhima and her co combatants

2777
02:49:58,240 --> 02:50:01,240
Speaker 9: in our liberation struggle. Y'all remember that one of her

2778
02:50:01,320 --> 02:50:04,560
Speaker 9: favorite songs was this Little Light of Mine, And she

2779
02:50:04,760 --> 02:50:08,680
Speaker 9: sank the sunshine, and she sank for freedom, singing this

2780
02:50:08,800 --> 02:50:12,680
Speaker 9: little light of mine. I'm gonna let it shine, I've

2781
02:50:12,720 --> 02:50:15,959
Speaker 9: got the light of freedom. I'm gonna let it shine

2782
02:50:16,480 --> 02:50:18,360
Speaker 9: everywhere I go.

2783
02:50:18,800 --> 02:50:19,000
Speaker 4: Hey.

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02:50:19,600 --> 02:50:23,120
Speaker 9: So this was a resilient and audacious defiance of the

2785
02:50:23,240 --> 02:50:27,360
Speaker 9: darkness right and the darkness makers to singing and being.

2786
02:50:27,520 --> 02:50:30,840
Speaker 9: They our people were singing and being sunshine in the

2787
02:50:30,879 --> 02:50:34,760
Speaker 9: midst of the darkness around them, and audaciously bearing witness

2788
02:50:34,840 --> 02:50:38,720
Speaker 9: to their stent fast faith, their undiminishing hope, and their

2789
02:50:38,720 --> 02:50:43,560
Speaker 9: relentless resistion to evil, injustice and oppression. But let us

2790
02:50:43,600 --> 02:50:49,040
Speaker 9: also remember, as Nana Haidi Malcolm taught us, he emphasized

2791
02:50:49,080 --> 02:50:52,760
Speaker 9: the importance of the light of self knowledge. That light

2792
02:50:52,840 --> 02:50:57,600
Speaker 9: within us is also a call to know ourselves right,

2793
02:50:58,160 --> 02:51:01,480
Speaker 9: to have knowledge of ourselves in each other, as we

2794
02:51:01,560 --> 02:51:05,160
Speaker 9: also study and learn the ways and wisdom of the world.

2795
02:51:05,680 --> 02:51:07,840
Speaker 9: So we must know the ways and wisdom of the world,

2796
02:51:07,920 --> 02:51:12,160
Speaker 9: but we must know ourselves. If not everybody we win,

2797
02:51:12,360 --> 02:51:15,040
Speaker 9: we will lose another one. And if we don't know

2798
02:51:15,240 --> 02:51:20,800
Speaker 9: ourselves are the enemy or the oppressor everybody we fight,

2799
02:51:20,920 --> 02:51:24,400
Speaker 9: we'll lose. Right, So Haiji Malcolm tells us and teach

2800
02:51:24,520 --> 02:51:27,960
Speaker 9: us quote, we need more light about each other. Light

2801
02:51:28,120 --> 02:51:33,560
Speaker 9: creates understanding, Understanding creates love, Love creates patience, and patients

2802
02:51:33,640 --> 02:51:38,480
Speaker 9: creates unity. And that is a unity. We need to repair,

2803
02:51:38,640 --> 02:51:42,359
Speaker 9: renew and remake the world. In the practice of Quanta,

2804
02:51:42,520 --> 02:51:46,160
Speaker 9: in the candle lighting ceremony, we follow in the footsteps

2805
02:51:46,240 --> 02:51:49,240
Speaker 9: of our ancestors and we lift up the lasting light

2806
02:51:49,320 --> 02:51:52,440
Speaker 9: of the Ghuzo Shabah born in and out of the

2807
02:51:52,480 --> 02:51:56,040
Speaker 9: Black Freedom movement. As I said before, Quansa stresses our

2808
02:51:56,080 --> 02:51:59,800
Speaker 9: ongoing struggle to be ourselves and to free ourselfs and

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02:51:59,800 --> 02:52:03,000
Speaker 9: to achieved was shared African and human good and the

2810
02:52:03,040 --> 02:52:05,920
Speaker 9: well being of the world and all in it. It's

2811
02:52:05,920 --> 02:52:10,160
Speaker 9: a harvest celebration, so it's environmentally or in it. It's

2812
02:52:10,200 --> 02:52:14,879
Speaker 9: a world encompacing holiday. Therefore, enlightening each candle, we are

2813
02:52:14,959 --> 02:52:18,280
Speaker 9: committing to lifting up the light and hearing the dawn

2814
02:52:18,600 --> 02:52:23,520
Speaker 9: by practicing the Guzosaba, as our freedom songs say, everywhere

2815
02:52:23,560 --> 02:52:26,800
Speaker 9: we are and everywhere we go, and we must do

2816
02:52:26,840 --> 02:52:30,400
Speaker 9: this in liberating and uplifting way. In this way we

2817
02:52:30,480 --> 02:52:34,320
Speaker 9: honor the ancient African imperitive from the Husa that says

2818
02:52:34,520 --> 02:52:37,920
Speaker 9: we must bear witness to truth and set the skills

2819
02:52:37,959 --> 02:52:41,920
Speaker 9: of justice in their proper place, especially among the voiceless

2820
02:52:42,000 --> 02:52:46,080
Speaker 9: and the vulnerable, the downtriden, the devalued, and their press

2821
02:52:46,440 --> 02:52:49,560
Speaker 9: allSome tasks, as I said earlier, is a world in change,

2822
02:52:49,560 --> 02:52:53,240
Speaker 9: in assignment that was given to us by non document

2823
02:52:53,320 --> 02:52:57,080
Speaker 9: Macavit doom And she says, our task is to remake

2824
02:52:57,120 --> 02:53:00,600
Speaker 9: the world. It is nothing less to that that, and

2825
02:53:00,640 --> 02:53:03,520
Speaker 9: that we must be a source of sunlight that gives

2826
02:53:03,560 --> 02:53:06,640
Speaker 9: the shared goodness of light and life and warmth to

2827
02:53:06,680 --> 02:53:09,560
Speaker 9: the world. That's the beauty of that analogy of sun.

2828
02:53:09,920 --> 02:53:13,400
Speaker 9: The sun gives light, life and warmth to the world.

2829
02:53:13,920 --> 02:53:17,440
Speaker 9: And she and our ancestors all tell us we must

2830
02:53:17,440 --> 02:53:21,119
Speaker 9: be that son that brings the goodness of light, of

2831
02:53:21,160 --> 02:53:24,039
Speaker 9: life and wart to the world. And that means it

2832
02:53:24,120 --> 02:53:28,039
Speaker 9: calls first for or moja unity, a sacred togetherness of

2833
02:53:28,080 --> 02:53:31,440
Speaker 9: our people in the small and large circles of our life,

2834
02:53:31,720 --> 02:53:35,120
Speaker 9: the solidarity of humanity, and the profound sense of oneness

2835
02:53:35,400 --> 02:53:38,959
Speaker 9: with the world and with all in it, which jagulari

2836
02:53:39,040 --> 02:53:43,880
Speaker 9: of self determination. It tells us and our and urges

2837
02:53:44,000 --> 02:53:46,920
Speaker 9: us to respect the right of every people to be

2838
02:53:47,080 --> 02:53:50,920
Speaker 9: free control their destiny and daily life, and make their

2839
02:53:50,959 --> 02:53:55,720
Speaker 9: own unique contributions to history and humanity, whether in Haiti, Sudan,

2840
02:53:55,879 --> 02:54:01,000
Speaker 9: the Democratic Republic of Congo, Palestine, and anywhere else in

2841
02:54:01,040 --> 02:54:07,320
Speaker 9: the world. And ujima elective work and responsibility means our conscious,

2842
02:54:07,360 --> 02:54:11,080
Speaker 9: shared efforts and obligation to conceive, beal, and sustain the

2843
02:54:11,120 --> 02:54:13,920
Speaker 9: good world we all want and deserve to live in

2844
02:54:14,360 --> 02:54:18,840
Speaker 9: and leave for future generations who come after. And the

2845
02:54:18,920 --> 02:54:23,199
Speaker 9: task calls for and requires ujama coaptive economic shared work

2846
02:54:23,240 --> 02:54:27,080
Speaker 9: and shared wealth. They don't inshlt with and concern for

2847
02:54:27,160 --> 02:54:29,440
Speaker 9: the well being of each other and the well being

2848
02:54:29,520 --> 02:54:33,320
Speaker 9: of the world, especially concerned for the most vulnerable and

2849
02:54:33,480 --> 02:54:37,760
Speaker 9: own our right to share echoedly and responsibility in the

2850
02:54:37,879 --> 02:54:42,120
Speaker 9: natural and creative good of the world. Neal purpose means

2851
02:54:42,120 --> 02:54:45,440
Speaker 9: the liberation and upliftment of our people and our shared

2852
02:54:45,480 --> 02:54:48,880
Speaker 9: fundamental meaning and mission of human life, and that is

2853
02:54:48,920 --> 02:54:52,240
Speaker 9: to create and increase good in the world and for

2854
02:54:52,360 --> 02:54:55,640
Speaker 9: the world, and not let any good be lawed. That's

2855
02:54:55,640 --> 02:54:59,280
Speaker 9: the beautiful averse from the odu Ephi that says, let's

2856
02:54:59,320 --> 02:55:06,039
Speaker 9: do things with joy, for surely humans are divinely created

2857
02:55:06,480 --> 02:55:10,600
Speaker 9: to bring good into the world and not let any

2858
02:55:11,160 --> 02:55:15,480
Speaker 9: good be lost. I'm sorry. Humans are divinely chosen, chosen

2859
02:55:15,840 --> 02:55:18,959
Speaker 9: to bring good into the world and not let any

2860
02:55:18,959 --> 02:55:22,279
Speaker 9: good be last and not chosen. The word is anyond

2861
02:55:22,440 --> 02:55:25,400
Speaker 9: means human being and chosen one. So everybody is chosen,

2862
02:55:25,480 --> 02:55:28,800
Speaker 9: not just one group, not one people, but all humans

2863
02:55:28,800 --> 02:55:31,560
Speaker 9: are chosen, and they've chosen, not over and against anyone,

2864
02:55:31,760 --> 02:55:35,840
Speaker 9: but chosen with everyone to do one thing to bring

2865
02:55:35,879 --> 02:55:39,039
Speaker 9: good into the world. Take whatever career you have, whatever

2866
02:55:39,160 --> 02:55:42,360
Speaker 9: vocation you have, and use it to bring good into

2867
02:55:42,360 --> 02:55:46,240
Speaker 9: the world. And then Coombra. Creativity is i shot shared

2868
02:55:46,240 --> 02:55:49,280
Speaker 9: obligations to do all we can to constantly repair, renewed,

2869
02:55:49,400 --> 02:55:52,320
Speaker 9: and remake the world, making it more beautiful and beneficial

2870
02:55:52,600 --> 02:55:56,480
Speaker 9: than we inherited. And finally, eminding faith is the shared

2871
02:55:56,520 --> 02:56:02,040
Speaker 9: belief and confidence in the good and in ourselves rooted

2872
02:56:02,080 --> 02:56:05,480
Speaker 9: in the sacred teachings of our honored ancestors like Nana

2873
02:56:05,800 --> 02:56:10,480
Speaker 9: Howard Therminal, Nana Grin Brooks, and Nana Nanny Bearers. And

2874
02:56:10,520 --> 02:56:14,640
Speaker 9: they tell us. Nana Herod Howard Therman tells her, we'll

2875
02:56:14,720 --> 02:56:18,280
Speaker 9: people who ride the storm and remain intact. Nana Grin

2876
02:56:18,280 --> 02:56:21,800
Speaker 9: Brooks tells us, we'll people who conduct our blooming in

2877
02:56:21,840 --> 02:56:25,440
Speaker 9: the noise and whip of the whirlwind. And Nana Nani

2878
02:56:25,480 --> 02:56:28,520
Speaker 9: Bearers tells us we are people that specialize in the

2879
02:56:28,560 --> 02:56:33,320
Speaker 9: holy impossible. Now, given this, Black people, what dark or

2880
02:56:33,640 --> 02:56:38,320
Speaker 9: dimly lit time can truly dispirit us. What makers and

2881
02:56:38,400 --> 02:56:41,720
Speaker 9: demons of the dark can defeat us or divert us

2882
02:56:41,760 --> 02:56:45,039
Speaker 9: from our commitment to bring good into the world, to

2883
02:56:45,120 --> 02:56:49,320
Speaker 9: be free, to be ourselves and free ourselves. Who can

2884
02:56:49,400 --> 02:56:52,480
Speaker 9: do that to us? If we continue to struggle, keep

2885
02:56:52,560 --> 02:56:57,840
Speaker 9: the faith and hold the line regardless and irreversibly. That's

2886
02:56:57,920 --> 02:57:02,000
Speaker 9: essentially my message for this quins right and.

2887
02:57:01,959 --> 02:57:03,880
Speaker 3: Hold that thought right there. Doctor Kerengo got to step

2888
02:57:03,920 --> 02:57:05,920
Speaker 3: aside for a few moments eighteen minutes after the top

2889
02:57:05,959 --> 02:57:08,800
Speaker 3: of our family just joined us. I guess this Quansa

2890
02:57:08,879 --> 02:57:11,560
Speaker 3: creator dotr Karengo will take your calls. And also before

2891
02:57:11,560 --> 02:57:13,240
Speaker 3: we take the call, so doctor Kring, will we come

2892
02:57:13,240 --> 02:57:16,040
Speaker 3: back tell us about the lighting of the candles the canar,

2893
02:57:16,120 --> 02:57:18,160
Speaker 3: How did that come about in the sequence in which

2894
02:57:18,200 --> 02:57:21,120
Speaker 3: one has to do that to celebrate Quansa family. You

2895
02:57:21,160 --> 02:57:23,080
Speaker 3: two can get in on this discussion. Reach out to

2896
02:57:23,160 --> 02:57:25,920
Speaker 3: us at eight hundred four or five zero seventy eight

2897
02:57:26,120 --> 02:57:28,199
Speaker 3: seventy six and we'll take your phone calls.

2898
02:57:27,840 --> 02:57:58,200
Speaker 14: Next fourteen fifty wol.

2899
02:58:05,200 --> 02:58:07,600
Speaker 10: Now back to the Carl Nelson Show.

2900
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Speaker 3: And Grand Rising family. Thanks for sticking with us on

2901
02:58:31,000 --> 02:58:34,240
Speaker 3: this Wednesday morning. Here I guess is doctor Milana Krenka,

2902
02:58:34,320 --> 02:58:37,400
Speaker 3: doctor Crank created quansafore go to the phone, though, doctor Krenka,

2903
02:58:37,879 --> 02:58:40,440
Speaker 3: part of the celebration of Quansa is the canara and

2904
02:58:40,600 --> 02:58:43,280
Speaker 3: the candles. Can you share that with How are we

2905
02:58:43,360 --> 02:58:44,680
Speaker 3: supposed to use.

2906
02:58:44,520 --> 02:58:49,280
Speaker 9: That process now as sacha for that? That's so much

2907
02:58:49,840 --> 02:58:56,760
Speaker 9: so the seven candles represent the seven principles. So when

2908
02:58:56,879 --> 02:59:00,920
Speaker 9: we light them, we're lifting up the light that last

2909
02:59:01,440 --> 02:59:06,240
Speaker 9: of those principles. These are moral principles and in the

2910
02:59:06,240 --> 02:59:08,920
Speaker 9: sacred teachers of our ancestors, and then we see it

2911
02:59:08,920 --> 02:59:11,520
Speaker 9: it said, we're given that which endures in the midst

2912
02:59:11,600 --> 02:59:15,040
Speaker 9: of that which is overthrown, and that which endures in

2913
02:59:15,080 --> 02:59:18,720
Speaker 9: the midst of that which is overthrown, or our fundamental

2914
02:59:18,920 --> 02:59:24,760
Speaker 9: moral principles speaking truth, doing justice, practicing o mojo and

2915
02:59:24,840 --> 02:59:28,760
Speaker 9: self determination, being free as a free people, et cetera.

2916
02:59:29,080 --> 02:59:31,959
Speaker 9: So I think it's very important for us to understand

2917
02:59:32,000 --> 02:59:36,080
Speaker 9: that the lighting is lifting up the light that lasts,

2918
02:59:36,360 --> 02:59:40,600
Speaker 9: and the light that lasts of these moral principles and

2919
02:59:40,720 --> 02:59:47,720
Speaker 9: practices by which we ground ourselves, center ourself and direct

2920
02:59:47,800 --> 02:59:51,959
Speaker 9: our lives toward good and expansive end. So the seven

2921
02:59:53,080 --> 02:59:58,760
Speaker 9: candles have colors black, red, and green. One black for

2922
02:59:58,840 --> 03:00:04,440
Speaker 9: the people, three black for struggle, and three dream for

2923
03:00:04,560 --> 03:00:08,360
Speaker 9: the future. That is forcing struggle, and so there are

2924
03:00:08,480 --> 03:00:11,920
Speaker 9: lessons from that. How we light the candles and the

2925
03:00:12,120 --> 03:00:18,519
Speaker 9: order we light them is a lesson in priority and importance.

2926
03:00:19,160 --> 03:00:22,480
Speaker 9: So the first candle we light is the black candle.

2927
03:00:22,680 --> 03:00:25,960
Speaker 9: That means we put black people first. Right, if we

2928
03:00:26,000 --> 03:00:28,920
Speaker 9: can do other things, you know, we can talk about struggle,

2929
03:00:28,959 --> 03:00:30,760
Speaker 9: we can talk about the future, but if we don't

2930
03:00:30,760 --> 03:00:33,960
Speaker 9: put the people at the center of all we do

2931
03:00:34,040 --> 03:00:37,680
Speaker 9: as the priority in all we do. Hey, who are

2932
03:00:37,720 --> 03:00:43,080
Speaker 9: we right? So first the people, second the struggle. It

2933
03:00:43,280 --> 03:00:52,840
Speaker 9: teaches us the essentiality of struggle, that without struggle. And

2934
03:00:52,920 --> 03:00:57,800
Speaker 9: I usually struggle here as striving and confrontational struggle at

2935
03:00:57,840 --> 03:01:02,119
Speaker 9: the same time. And I want to introduce the concept

2936
03:01:02,200 --> 03:01:06,480
Speaker 9: of resistance. Kau Kawidi is my philosophy of Court kauitera

2937
03:01:06,600 --> 03:01:10,240
Speaker 9: conception of resistance which has three points to it. Usually

2938
03:01:10,280 --> 03:01:13,000
Speaker 9: when we think about resistance, call we think of just

2939
03:01:13,040 --> 03:01:16,560
Speaker 9: opposing opposition, and we must have that, we must So

2940
03:01:16,800 --> 03:01:22,760
Speaker 9: it has three parts opposition, affirmation, and aspiration, not just opposition.

2941
03:01:23,000 --> 03:01:25,800
Speaker 9: Certainly we must have opposition to our pressor and all

2942
03:01:25,879 --> 03:01:30,040
Speaker 9: forms of a pressent, internal and externally. Right. Second, though,

2943
03:01:30,400 --> 03:01:33,200
Speaker 9: we must affirm the people. It's the second aspect is

2944
03:01:33,240 --> 03:01:37,320
Speaker 9: not simply opposition, but it's affirmation, affirmation of our people,

2945
03:01:37,720 --> 03:01:41,520
Speaker 9: of our sacredness, our soulfulness, our resilience, our resourcement, are

2946
03:01:41,520 --> 03:01:46,720
Speaker 9: capacity to create progress, and our radical refusal to be defeated.

2947
03:01:47,000 --> 03:01:50,160
Speaker 9: We've got the positive. That's why I always take quositas

2948
03:01:50,200 --> 03:01:52,879
Speaker 9: of time for the positive. Right, why did we go

2949
03:01:52,959 --> 03:01:56,680
Speaker 9: from here? And then the third is resistance is not

2950
03:01:56,760 --> 03:02:02,320
Speaker 9: only opposition and affirmation, it's also aspiration, an active aspiration

2951
03:02:02,720 --> 03:02:06,600
Speaker 9: to create a new world as less as Muhammad said,

2952
03:02:06,600 --> 03:02:09,120
Speaker 9: a new Earth and a new Us. How do we

2953
03:02:09,640 --> 03:02:14,360
Speaker 9: create a new world, a new people, a new humanity,

2954
03:02:14,560 --> 03:02:17,880
Speaker 9: as a nano phenone said, a new world, a new

2955
03:02:17,920 --> 03:02:20,440
Speaker 9: man to bring into being, he said, a new man

2956
03:02:20,520 --> 03:02:23,240
Speaker 9: and woman, a new human being, in other words, a

2957
03:02:23,280 --> 03:02:25,760
Speaker 9: new human being. How do we do that? And we

2958
03:02:25,800 --> 03:02:27,320
Speaker 9: have to struggle and we're at the heart of that.

2959
03:02:27,680 --> 03:02:30,879
Speaker 9: So when we like the talent, we show first the

2960
03:02:30,959 --> 03:02:34,800
Speaker 9: black the priority of the people, second the red decentiality

2961
03:02:34,840 --> 03:02:38,760
Speaker 9: of struggle, and third the possibility. And we like the

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Speaker 9: green character calendar, we demonstrating the possibility and promise of

2963
03:02:43,520 --> 03:02:48,160
Speaker 9: a good future forged and righteous and religious struggle. So

2964
03:02:48,600 --> 03:02:52,160
Speaker 9: the people, the struggle and the future, right. And so

2965
03:02:52,200 --> 03:02:54,440
Speaker 9: that's how we like, and we like from inside, you

2966
03:02:54,480 --> 03:02:58,000
Speaker 9: know why, because every same tarts within. Even when we

2967
03:02:58,080 --> 03:03:01,920
Speaker 9: talk about transforming the world, we must transform ourselves in

2968
03:03:02,000 --> 03:03:06,040
Speaker 9: the process and practice. That's how a man offent On says.

2969
03:03:06,080 --> 03:03:08,600
Speaker 9: You know, decolonization is not just the leaving of the

2970
03:03:08,760 --> 03:03:12,520
Speaker 9: white troops or the colonials, right. This means not on

2971
03:03:12,600 --> 03:03:16,040
Speaker 9: the end of that, but the end of the decolonized person.

2972
03:03:16,440 --> 03:03:18,840
Speaker 9: I mean, at the end of the colonized person, we

2973
03:03:19,000 --> 03:03:22,680
Speaker 9: must decolonize the person to colonized the mind in our heart, right.

2974
03:03:23,120 --> 03:03:25,960
Speaker 9: And so here we have the priority of the people,

2975
03:03:26,520 --> 03:03:31,000
Speaker 9: the sentiality of struggle, and the possibility of promise of

2976
03:03:31,080 --> 03:03:35,240
Speaker 9: a good future that is forged by the people in

2977
03:03:35,400 --> 03:03:38,600
Speaker 9: righteous and relentless struggle. So that's the beauty of this right.

2978
03:03:38,920 --> 03:03:41,600
Speaker 9: And that's why they don't say it's invented. It's an

2979
03:03:41,680 --> 03:03:45,560
Speaker 9: intellectual creation, right. And sometimes when we just learn it

2980
03:03:45,640 --> 03:03:48,360
Speaker 9: and we don't do what you're doing now asking the

2981
03:03:48,440 --> 03:03:52,120
Speaker 9: details of it, we think it's just lighting candles. It's

2982
03:03:52,160 --> 03:03:55,040
Speaker 9: not just lighting them some people might think that. For

2983
03:03:55,200 --> 03:03:58,720
Speaker 9: those who think deeper, they know and have read the book,

2984
03:03:59,160 --> 03:04:02,760
Speaker 9: they know that there's a beauty in this and there's

2985
03:04:02,760 --> 03:04:08,680
Speaker 9: a thoughtfulness that went into producing this that has warmed

2986
03:04:08,680 --> 03:04:13,280
Speaker 9: the heart and affected the minds of millions of Africans

2987
03:04:13,320 --> 03:04:17,119
Speaker 9: throughout the world, African community. And that's a beautiful thought

2988
03:04:17,240 --> 03:04:21,920
Speaker 9: and a beautiful achievement. And I thank our people for

2989
03:04:22,680 --> 03:04:25,720
Speaker 9: embracing this holiday making it real. Of course, I think

2990
03:04:25,800 --> 03:04:32,320
Speaker 9: my organization US who sheltered this idea that I put

2991
03:04:32,400 --> 03:04:36,360
Speaker 9: forward and helped you protect and promoted to teach it

2992
03:04:36,440 --> 03:04:39,440
Speaker 9: to others who then tart it around the world.

2993
03:04:41,240 --> 03:04:43,160
Speaker 3: Twenty had after the top of the hour, Bob is

2994
03:04:43,160 --> 03:04:46,000
Speaker 3: calling us from Buffalo. He's online for Grand Rising. Bob,

2995
03:04:46,040 --> 03:04:47,600
Speaker 3: your question for doctor Karenka.

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03:04:48,920 --> 03:04:53,160
Speaker 8: Yeah, blissed love of family Southeasiana. Doctor Krinda, thank you

2997
03:04:53,280 --> 03:04:55,440
Speaker 8: very much for all that you've done and all that

2998
03:04:55,520 --> 03:04:57,879
Speaker 8: you will do. And I thank you for all the time.

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Speaker 8: Thank you blessed both with your presence during the Quanta seasons.

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03:05:02,920 --> 03:05:06,080
Speaker 8: It has helped us and enlighten us. We've grown from

3001
03:05:06,120 --> 03:05:10,520
Speaker 8: individual celebrations to the city wide celebration. We celebrate all

3002
03:05:10,520 --> 03:05:16,720
Speaker 8: the way long the Aguza Saba. I learned it as

3003
03:05:16,840 --> 03:05:20,280
Speaker 8: the seven Principles of nation building, and I was wondering

3004
03:05:20,360 --> 03:05:23,240
Speaker 8: if people now call it or refer to it as

3005
03:05:23,280 --> 03:05:27,000
Speaker 8: the seven Principles of Kwanza. But I still hold on

3006
03:05:27,080 --> 03:05:30,640
Speaker 8: to the nation building aspect of it. And one of

3007
03:05:30,640 --> 03:05:34,800
Speaker 8: the aspects of Quanta that I most appreciate is the

3008
03:05:34,800 --> 03:05:39,520
Speaker 8: in gathering of the people, and I love that. But

3009
03:05:40,920 --> 03:05:45,080
Speaker 8: to skate my question quickly, can you speak to two

3010
03:05:45,200 --> 03:05:51,119
Speaker 8: other workers warriors that we've lost this year, Jimmail Olamin

3011
03:05:51,680 --> 03:05:54,280
Speaker 8: and Asadakor could you say something about their life and

3012
03:05:54,640 --> 03:05:55,400
Speaker 8: look leg see.

3013
03:05:57,640 --> 03:06:02,480
Speaker 9: Thank you so much, brother Bob and scientif On. Greetings

3014
03:06:02,480 --> 03:06:07,480
Speaker 9: to the brothers and sisters of Buffalo, and we wish

3015
03:06:07,520 --> 03:06:10,959
Speaker 9: for them and all our people blessings without numbering, all

3016
03:06:11,000 --> 03:06:15,280
Speaker 9: good things without aim, and the quinds of blessing, that

3017
03:06:15,400 --> 03:06:19,760
Speaker 9: you have all the good that Heaven grants, the earth produces,

3018
03:06:20,160 --> 03:06:23,400
Speaker 9: and the water spring forth from their death through the

3019
03:06:23,480 --> 03:06:28,120
Speaker 9: seven principles Bob, or the seven principles of Kwa velocity,

3020
03:06:28,480 --> 03:06:32,280
Speaker 9: out of which I created. Both the quins are ended

3021
03:06:32,920 --> 03:06:35,560
Speaker 9: seven principles, or they can do so, savag so you

3022
03:06:35,640 --> 03:06:40,760
Speaker 9: can say there are seven principles of nation building. People

3023
03:06:40,840 --> 03:06:45,160
Speaker 9: say there are seven principles of family building. People say

3024
03:06:45,240 --> 03:06:50,200
Speaker 9: there are seven principles of organizing our people into a

3025
03:06:50,280 --> 03:06:54,720
Speaker 9: self conscious social force. Those are descriptions of what you

3026
03:06:54,800 --> 03:06:57,600
Speaker 9: can use them for. But if we talk about the

3027
03:06:57,640 --> 03:07:01,599
Speaker 9: origin of them, they are part of chow eat philosophy,

3028
03:07:01,959 --> 03:07:08,560
Speaker 9: a larger philosophy informs and undergirds the seven principles. So

3029
03:07:08,879 --> 03:07:13,600
Speaker 9: as we teach the seventh principles, we teach cow eater philosophy. Right,

3030
03:07:14,000 --> 03:07:17,199
Speaker 9: So it's the seven principles of cow eater philosophy first,

3031
03:07:18,000 --> 03:07:21,720
Speaker 9: And as I defined the coro eater philogy, I created

3032
03:07:21,800 --> 03:07:26,600
Speaker 9: the beginning in my uh college days, my university day,

3033
03:07:27,120 --> 03:07:29,920
Speaker 9: and I continued it and deepened it, of course in

3034
03:07:29,959 --> 03:07:33,480
Speaker 9: the midst of struggle, because that's where we uh. You know,

3035
03:07:36,120 --> 03:07:40,920
Speaker 9: thought informs practice, but practice also informs thought. So the

3036
03:07:40,920 --> 03:07:43,720
Speaker 9: more I practiced, the more I could see things that

3037
03:07:44,240 --> 03:07:47,959
Speaker 9: I needed to see and to expand our understanding of

3038
03:07:48,040 --> 03:07:52,080
Speaker 9: these things. So the seven principles of cow cow we eating,

3039
03:07:52,120 --> 03:07:58,840
Speaker 9: seven principles of uh uh nation building uh oh seven

3040
03:07:58,879 --> 03:08:01,920
Speaker 9: principle co we eat, the seven cornsa seven principle of

3041
03:08:02,000 --> 03:08:04,800
Speaker 9: nation building, and whatever else you want to say, that's

3042
03:08:04,840 --> 03:08:07,000
Speaker 9: positive and good. You can say that you know, you

3043
03:08:07,040 --> 03:08:12,000
Speaker 9: can use it for that you said you liked the activities,

3044
03:08:12,040 --> 03:08:16,120
Speaker 9: And what Bob is talking about is the fire fundamental

3045
03:08:16,959 --> 03:08:21,879
Speaker 9: organizing activities of the First Truth celebrations that we still

3046
03:08:21,959 --> 03:08:27,720
Speaker 9: use that were practiced in ancient African celebrations. And of

3047
03:08:27,760 --> 03:08:32,480
Speaker 9: course our ancestors and elders, the force, you know, came

3048
03:08:32,520 --> 03:08:37,119
Speaker 9: together first as an end gathering to reinforce the bonds

3049
03:08:37,160 --> 03:08:42,120
Speaker 9: between us as people. Second, they came together to give

3050
03:08:42,240 --> 03:08:46,920
Speaker 9: special reverence to create it, and creation to give thanks

3051
03:08:46,959 --> 03:08:50,800
Speaker 9: for the harvest of the good that they had gathered

3052
03:08:50,800 --> 03:08:54,480
Speaker 9: from the furtive fields of our lands, the fruitful fields

3053
03:08:54,560 --> 03:08:59,920
Speaker 9: of our lives, right, and the gains from our hard

3054
03:09:00,080 --> 03:09:05,040
Speaker 9: in difficult but victorious struggles. Right. And then of course

3055
03:09:05,120 --> 03:09:09,680
Speaker 9: they came together to commemorate the past, right, to raise

3056
03:09:09,760 --> 03:09:15,480
Speaker 9: and praise the names and sustain practices of our ancestors,

3057
03:09:15,600 --> 03:09:19,600
Speaker 9: and to recommit ourselves to the dignity firming and life

3058
03:09:19,680 --> 03:09:23,800
Speaker 9: nance and views and values that they left to grounding grindness.

3059
03:09:23,800 --> 03:09:26,960
Speaker 9: So they not only came to commemorate the path, but

3060
03:09:27,000 --> 03:09:32,120
Speaker 9: they came to also recommit themselves to the best of

3061
03:09:32,120 --> 03:09:36,080
Speaker 9: our values. And that's what we do doing quantity not

3062
03:09:36,120 --> 03:09:39,520
Speaker 9: only the in Guzo sobig, but commit ourselves to the truth,

3063
03:09:40,680 --> 03:09:46,640
Speaker 9: to justice, right, to appropriate propriety, to harmon into balance,

3064
03:09:46,680 --> 03:09:50,920
Speaker 9: to reciprocity, to righteous order. You know, values that stress

3065
03:09:50,959 --> 03:09:55,360
Speaker 9: and strengthen family, community, and culture. Values that tell us

3066
03:09:55,400 --> 03:09:58,520
Speaker 9: to speak and speak truth, do and demand justice, reflect

3067
03:09:58,560 --> 03:10:01,880
Speaker 9: our elders and our ancestry, cherish and challenge our children.

3068
03:10:02,280 --> 03:10:04,760
Speaker 9: Here for the poor and vulnerable among us, have a

3069
03:10:04,840 --> 03:10:11,039
Speaker 9: rightful relationship with the environment, constantly struggle against evil, injustice

3070
03:10:11,080 --> 03:10:15,320
Speaker 9: and oppression, and always praise, pursue and raise up to good.

3071
03:10:16,080 --> 03:10:20,920
Speaker 9: And finally, the fifth activity after you know number one,

3072
03:10:21,000 --> 03:10:25,520
Speaker 9: of course, and gathering of the people, special reverence for creating, creation,

3073
03:10:26,120 --> 03:10:31,920
Speaker 9: commemoration of the past, recommitment to our highest values. Is

3074
03:10:32,040 --> 03:10:36,880
Speaker 9: celebration of good. The good of family, community, and culture,

3075
03:10:37,440 --> 03:10:40,600
Speaker 9: the good of loving kindness and care, the good of

3076
03:10:40,640 --> 03:10:43,959
Speaker 9: respect for ourselves and others, the good of life and

3077
03:10:44,040 --> 03:10:47,400
Speaker 9: the good of love, the good of sharing together, the

3078
03:10:47,480 --> 03:10:52,800
Speaker 9: gift of nature of field and forest, water, river, rock,

3079
03:10:53,440 --> 03:10:57,560
Speaker 9: extreme just the beauty of things. You know, this is

3080
03:10:57,879 --> 03:11:00,720
Speaker 9: and first of all, the beauty by people, or the

3081
03:11:00,879 --> 03:11:04,280
Speaker 9: sacredness of our people, the soulfulness of our people, the

3082
03:11:04,360 --> 03:11:07,160
Speaker 9: resilience and resourcefulness of our people. I can't say that

3083
03:11:07,360 --> 03:11:13,800
Speaker 9: too often because I need for us to always affirm myself.

3084
03:11:14,120 --> 03:11:18,000
Speaker 9: As we oppose the evil that would undermine us, we

3085
03:11:18,080 --> 03:11:24,080
Speaker 9: at the same time affirm ourselves and demonstrate our aspiration

3086
03:11:24,800 --> 03:11:28,119
Speaker 9: for a new world and a new people, a new

3087
03:11:28,560 --> 03:11:33,360
Speaker 9: human being in the world. Now. In terms of Jamil,

3088
03:11:33,920 --> 03:11:39,600
Speaker 9: I knew Jamia uh a mom Jamir Abdullah Allah mean,

3089
03:11:40,360 --> 03:11:42,840
Speaker 9: and we used to say let rap rap right, that

3090
03:11:43,040 --> 03:11:46,160
Speaker 9: was his struggle name. We can call him rap because

3091
03:11:46,200 --> 03:11:49,320
Speaker 9: their struggle name. The other name, the European name. I

3092
03:11:49,440 --> 03:11:52,920
Speaker 9: never knew it, but I knew rap, right. I say

3093
03:11:52,959 --> 03:11:55,280
Speaker 9: it now, of course, but I never knew it. And

3094
03:11:55,360 --> 03:11:59,720
Speaker 9: so UH we UH honor him uh And as I

3095
03:11:59,760 --> 03:12:06,240
Speaker 9: say said about Malcolm Haijia Malcolm and I him and

3096
03:12:06,879 --> 03:12:14,400
Speaker 9: aside to court nanad Nana imam Jamat, I mean we

3097
03:12:14,520 --> 03:12:18,440
Speaker 9: are of the best in ourselves. No Nana, I'm uh

3098
03:12:19,240 --> 03:12:24,720
Speaker 9: uh Jamil. I mean we met when he came uh

3099
03:12:24,560 --> 03:12:27,600
Speaker 9: uh first to U U hu the rally we had

3100
03:12:28,200 --> 03:12:33,160
Speaker 9: UH commemorator and celebrating to watch revolt, the August revolt

3101
03:12:33,440 --> 03:12:37,360
Speaker 9: because Uh we invited the major leaders to come and

3102
03:12:37,400 --> 03:12:39,920
Speaker 9: they came in and he was one of them uh

3103
03:12:40,280 --> 03:12:43,840
Speaker 9: in sixty seven and we had a large parking lot.

3104
03:12:43,959 --> 03:12:46,520
Speaker 9: We put we stood on the back of a truck

3105
03:12:46,760 --> 03:12:50,039
Speaker 9: made made a black fork. We spoke and wrapped, rapped,

3106
03:12:50,080 --> 03:12:54,760
Speaker 9: of course, and we became very good colleagues and comrades

3107
03:12:54,800 --> 03:12:59,360
Speaker 9: and struggle. And I mentioned the name of uh Nina,

3108
03:13:00,080 --> 03:13:03,199
Speaker 9: I mean Halifu, who is one of our founding members

3109
03:13:03,480 --> 03:13:08,040
Speaker 9: who made good friendship with him and with Guami to

3110
03:13:08,200 --> 03:13:14,560
Speaker 9: ray Nay. And I'm writing this month. I'm writing for

3111
03:13:14,840 --> 03:13:17,600
Speaker 9: my next column. I write a weekly column for the

3112
03:13:17,720 --> 03:13:23,080
Speaker 9: Sentinel uh here in Los Angeles. Every week I write

3113
03:13:23,120 --> 03:13:25,640
Speaker 9: a column for this and my column this week is

3114
03:13:25,640 --> 03:13:31,920
Speaker 9: on Nana Imam Jamil, and it's titled the mo the Mujahi,

3115
03:13:32,160 --> 03:13:36,160
Speaker 9: the Shahid and Imam Jamil I mean, so I say

3116
03:13:36,240 --> 03:13:39,560
Speaker 9: about him, he was a soldier, a constant soldier. Mujahid

3117
03:13:39,680 --> 03:13:43,720
Speaker 9: mean righteous warrior, righteous soldier in uh Islam and in

3118
03:13:44,000 --> 03:13:48,520
Speaker 9: uh Airba. Shahid means martyr for the cause, one who

3119
03:13:48,520 --> 03:13:53,720
Speaker 9: bears witness uh to uh the divine witness for his

3120
03:13:53,879 --> 03:13:57,199
Speaker 9: people and for this struggle. And so I give him.

3121
03:13:59,160 --> 03:14:01,560
Speaker 3: Our last break. Twenty three minutes away from the top day.

3122
03:14:01,560 --> 03:14:03,320
Speaker 3: I'll let you finish up when we get back. And

3123
03:14:03,360 --> 03:14:05,280
Speaker 3: also a tweeter wanted to know why you use the

3124
03:14:05,360 --> 03:14:07,720
Speaker 3: term none if you can explain that for us as

3125
03:14:07,720 --> 03:14:10,480
Speaker 3: well a family, heso can get it on this discussion

3126
03:14:10,480 --> 03:14:13,520
Speaker 3: with dtor Milana Karrenga, the creator of Kwanza reach out

3127
03:14:13,520 --> 03:14:16,200
Speaker 3: to us at eight hundred four five zero seventy eight

3128
03:14:16,400 --> 03:14:17,960
Speaker 3: seventy six and we take your phone calls.

3129
03:14:18,160 --> 03:14:46,000
Speaker 14: Thanks fourteen fifty wold.

3130
03:14:52,240 --> 03:14:54,640
Speaker 10: Now back to the Carl Nelson Show.

3131
03:15:15,480 --> 03:15:18,080
Speaker 3: And Grand Rising family. Thanks for rolling with us on

3132
03:15:18,120 --> 03:15:20,800
Speaker 3: this Wednesday morning and Christmas Eve for some folks celebrating

3133
03:15:20,879 --> 03:15:23,600
Speaker 3: Christmas if not if we still love you and celebrating

3134
03:15:23,680 --> 03:15:26,560
Speaker 3: Quanja as well. And I guess is the creative concent

3135
03:15:26,640 --> 03:15:28,680
Speaker 3: doctor Milana Kurenga. Before we go back to him, let

3136
03:15:28,760 --> 03:15:30,520
Speaker 3: me just remind you tomorrow we're going to be joined

3137
03:15:30,520 --> 03:15:34,200
Speaker 3: by a clinical psychologist, doctor jerome E. Fox. You know

3138
03:15:34,280 --> 03:15:36,360
Speaker 3: him from his best selling workbook Addicted to White The

3139
03:15:36,400 --> 03:15:39,360
Speaker 3: Oppressed in League of the Oppressor, a shame based alliance.

3140
03:15:39,640 --> 03:15:42,560
Speaker 3: So uh Doctr Krank, I'll let you finish responding to

3141
03:15:42,959 --> 03:15:45,320
Speaker 3: I think it was Bob's call from Buffalo. He wanted

3142
03:15:45,360 --> 03:15:45,960
Speaker 3: to talk about.

3143
03:15:46,320 --> 03:15:50,320
Speaker 9: Uh, yeah, yeah, And so the question you asked before

3144
03:15:50,360 --> 03:15:53,200
Speaker 9: you left is I should say, Nana is our con

3145
03:15:53,800 --> 03:15:59,840
Speaker 9: for someone worthy of respect, high honor, and uh you know,

3146
03:16:00,000 --> 03:16:02,840
Speaker 9: some people use it for live people, but in our

3147
03:16:02,920 --> 03:16:06,480
Speaker 9: organization US, we use it mainly for people who've made

3148
03:16:06,560 --> 03:16:10,039
Speaker 9: transition and ascension. And so we say that for those

3149
03:16:10,240 --> 03:16:14,440
Speaker 9: who the ancestors, We use that for ancestors. So I say,

3150
03:16:14,720 --> 03:16:20,840
Speaker 9: Nana Jamil alamein, Nana Assachi Shakur. So I was getting

3151
03:16:20,840 --> 03:16:22,400
Speaker 9: ready to go too long on this, so let me

3152
03:16:22,440 --> 03:16:25,360
Speaker 9: just sum up what I think about them. I say

3153
03:16:25,400 --> 03:16:29,840
Speaker 9: it most. They are major freedom fighters in our history,

3154
03:16:30,120 --> 03:16:34,880
Speaker 9: in our long and beautiful history of righteous and relentless struggle.

3155
03:16:35,200 --> 03:16:38,120
Speaker 9: And I honor them, and our organization honors them for

3156
03:16:38,280 --> 03:16:44,439
Speaker 9: one their commitment to their struggle, second their record of struggle,

3157
03:16:44,920 --> 03:16:48,200
Speaker 9: and third their service to the people and love of

3158
03:16:48,240 --> 03:16:52,199
Speaker 9: the people that is shown by their service and struggle

3159
03:16:52,440 --> 03:16:55,080
Speaker 9: for the people. And I'd like to honor each of

3160
03:16:55,160 --> 03:17:00,640
Speaker 9: them with one of the signature quotes from them. First,

3161
03:17:00,680 --> 03:17:04,560
Speaker 9: let me take uh uh Nana Asata Chakot.

3162
03:17:04,640 --> 03:17:04,920
Speaker 12: First.

3163
03:17:05,200 --> 03:17:07,840
Speaker 9: She says, it is our duty to fight for freedom.

3164
03:17:08,160 --> 03:17:10,840
Speaker 9: It is our duty to win we must love each

3165
03:17:10,840 --> 03:17:13,760
Speaker 9: other and support each other. We have nothing to lose

3166
03:17:14,080 --> 03:17:16,840
Speaker 9: but our change, and so that's a lesson here.

3167
03:17:17,320 --> 03:17:22,240
Speaker 21: We are obligated, morally obligated to struggle, and that's central

3168
03:17:22,360 --> 03:17:25,480
Speaker 21: to their lives, to her life, into the life of

3169
03:17:25,640 --> 03:17:28,080
Speaker 21: Nana Jama uh Aman.

3170
03:17:29,120 --> 03:17:35,080
Speaker 9: All of them did very much for h Jamia, Nana

3171
03:17:35,160 --> 03:17:39,240
Speaker 9: Jamil Alami or Imam Jamil, Imam Jamel of course had

3172
03:17:39,280 --> 03:17:41,280
Speaker 9: a chance to work in the country and do more,

3173
03:17:41,680 --> 03:17:45,200
Speaker 9: but also Asacha made a contribution and left to some

3174
03:17:45,480 --> 03:17:50,800
Speaker 9: model of dedication, discipline and psychophight that both of them had,

3175
03:17:50,840 --> 03:17:53,400
Speaker 9: and we honored them. And the one I wanted to

3176
03:17:53,440 --> 03:17:56,760
Speaker 9: live for. The quote I want to use for a

3177
03:17:56,840 --> 03:18:01,320
Speaker 9: mom jamiel h Nana in mom Jamil is that he says,

3178
03:18:01,840 --> 03:18:05,600
Speaker 9: you know that we must never expect justice from our

3179
03:18:05,720 --> 03:18:10,200
Speaker 9: pressure while I was struggling to in fact extract justice.

3180
03:18:10,320 --> 03:18:12,880
Speaker 9: He reminds me of not an Aphil of Randolph and

3181
03:18:12,959 --> 03:18:17,440
Speaker 9: said that freedom is not given right, it's one, and

3182
03:18:17,800 --> 03:18:22,840
Speaker 9: justice is not granted, it's extracted. And so he believes that,

3183
03:18:22,959 --> 03:18:26,920
Speaker 9: and he says, I in a country as oppressive and

3184
03:18:27,080 --> 03:18:32,000
Speaker 9: evil as this, there's only three places for a righteous

3185
03:18:32,240 --> 03:18:37,520
Speaker 9: and committed person that is on the battlefield, fighting the enemy,

3186
03:18:37,840 --> 03:18:41,280
Speaker 9: in a seal, imprisoned by the enemy, or in the

3187
03:18:41,280 --> 03:18:44,360
Speaker 9: grave free from the enemy. So it's a struggle to

3188
03:18:44,400 --> 03:18:48,800
Speaker 9: the death. And he became a shahid, a martyr, a

3189
03:18:48,920 --> 03:18:52,039
Speaker 9: witness to the faith, a witness for his people, a

3190
03:18:52,120 --> 03:18:58,000
Speaker 9: witness to the world right, dying in prison on a

3191
03:18:58,080 --> 03:19:01,800
Speaker 9: trumptive choice. And we and we also, I wanted to

3192
03:19:01,800 --> 03:19:04,760
Speaker 9: say about the Cuban people. I really respect them for

3193
03:19:05,000 --> 03:19:10,000
Speaker 9: not caving in to the white man demanding putting two million,

3194
03:19:10,080 --> 03:19:15,199
Speaker 9: three million whatever meetians own Nona as Sacha Shoku's head

3195
03:19:15,520 --> 03:19:19,080
Speaker 9: and asking people to buck and bow and bend over

3196
03:19:19,720 --> 03:19:22,120
Speaker 9: to serve him. So that was a good thing. And

3197
03:19:22,160 --> 03:19:25,040
Speaker 9: I do want to run past that. We have a

3198
03:19:25,080 --> 03:19:27,640
Speaker 9: lot of respect for the Cuban people and for the

3199
03:19:27,680 --> 03:19:32,039
Speaker 9: struggle they weighed against them peerless and continue to weigh

3200
03:19:32,160 --> 03:19:37,320
Speaker 9: overwhelming odds. So yeah, I honor both of these soldiers.

3201
03:19:38,160 --> 03:19:39,560
Speaker 9: Thank you so much for the question.

3202
03:19:40,240 --> 03:19:42,240
Speaker 3: Fourteen away from the top of the Cliff's calling us

3203
03:19:42,280 --> 03:19:45,280
Speaker 3: some Connecticut these online five grand rising Cliff, your question

3204
03:19:45,360 --> 03:19:46,080
Speaker 3: for doctor.

3205
03:19:45,879 --> 03:19:51,000
Speaker 19: Karenga, grandprising brother Carl and grandfathers and doctor Korenger. Let's

3206
03:19:51,000 --> 03:19:53,240
Speaker 19: just taking my call. Listen, I think you said it's

3207
03:19:53,240 --> 03:19:55,680
Speaker 19: a very profound and that's what I'm experiencing myself on

3208
03:19:55,680 --> 03:19:56,520
Speaker 19: a personal level.

3209
03:19:56,560 --> 03:19:58,080
Speaker 9: Then I have an end with a question.

3210
03:19:58,640 --> 03:20:02,280
Speaker 19: But when I look at white Christian nationalists and look

3211
03:20:02,320 --> 03:20:06,000
Speaker 19: at white Christians and then they're celebrating this Christmas, even

3212
03:20:06,080 --> 03:20:08,960
Speaker 19: Mega people. So I'm saying to myself, how can I

3213
03:20:09,000 --> 03:20:13,320
Speaker 19: celebrate a holiday in which people that hate us, particularly Trump,

3214
03:20:13,959 --> 03:20:17,040
Speaker 19: you know, especially Trump, you know, that celebrate the same

3215
03:20:17,040 --> 03:20:19,879
Speaker 19: holidays and why as we as black people celebrate the

3216
03:20:19,879 --> 03:20:23,200
Speaker 19: same holiday. So that's why I'm so thankful, you know.

3217
03:20:23,240 --> 03:20:26,800
Speaker 19: And as I span black radio stations, everybody's married Christmas,

3218
03:20:26,840 --> 03:20:30,280
Speaker 19: the whole nine yards, even white conservative So it just

3219
03:20:30,320 --> 03:20:32,760
Speaker 19: doesn't make sense. So I want to thank you on

3220
03:20:32,800 --> 03:20:36,200
Speaker 19: a personal level for giving something that's unique to us

3221
03:20:36,200 --> 03:20:39,120
Speaker 19: as a black people. So I know Mega people ain't

3222
03:20:39,160 --> 03:20:42,800
Speaker 19: gonna celebrate Kwanza. I know Trump ain't gonna celebrate Kwansa.

3223
03:20:43,240 --> 03:20:45,600
Speaker 19: As matter of fact, I'm end with this, And this

3224
03:20:45,640 --> 03:20:48,959
Speaker 19: is my question because if they think that they are

3225
03:20:49,000 --> 03:20:51,840
Speaker 19: they claim to have a God, then it's obvious to

3226
03:20:51,879 --> 03:20:54,760
Speaker 19: me that we have a different God. So give me

3227
03:20:54,840 --> 03:20:59,039
Speaker 19: your answer to do we as a black people. Do

3228
03:20:59,160 --> 03:21:02,800
Speaker 19: we have a guy that's separate from white people? And

3229
03:21:02,879 --> 03:21:04,240
Speaker 19: what's is or its name?

3230
03:21:04,520 --> 03:21:05,080
Speaker 7: Can you do that?

3231
03:21:09,240 --> 03:21:12,959
Speaker 9: Oh? Hang up, listen to your response. Yeah, this is

3232
03:21:13,080 --> 03:21:15,080
Speaker 9: this is a hard way. Now let me let me

3233
03:21:15,120 --> 03:21:18,440
Speaker 9: tell you this though, specially what you said. If I'm saying,

3234
03:21:18,480 --> 03:21:23,600
Speaker 9: kret Kwansa is a cultural holiday that unites all of

3235
03:21:23,680 --> 03:21:30,040
Speaker 9: us uh in spite of our religious differences, our political difference,

3236
03:21:30,120 --> 03:21:37,000
Speaker 9: our class difference, aging generational differences, right, our ability differences, UH,

3237
03:21:37,200 --> 03:21:42,240
Speaker 9: nationality differences, et cetera. So I don't want us to

3238
03:21:42,360 --> 03:21:46,280
Speaker 9: attack other people's faith. That's that's a big mistake in

3239
03:21:46,280 --> 03:21:49,480
Speaker 9: the six is. Though we were very critical of white Christians,

3240
03:21:49,640 --> 03:21:54,240
Speaker 9: but we didn't keep saying white Christiangy. We said Christianity.

3241
03:21:54,640 --> 03:21:56,720
Speaker 9: And I don't want us to do that. I want

3242
03:21:56,800 --> 03:22:00,480
Speaker 9: us to make a distinction between how we practice Christianity,

3243
03:22:00,560 --> 03:22:05,560
Speaker 9: which black Christians have done and progressive Black Christians and

3244
03:22:05,640 --> 03:22:09,440
Speaker 9: radical Black Christians have done. And I want to make

3245
03:22:09,480 --> 03:22:13,840
Speaker 9: a distincion between that our Christian Black Christianity and white

3246
03:22:13,920 --> 03:22:18,280
Speaker 9: christianswer white Christianity. When we met, it wasn't enslavery in Christianity.

3247
03:22:18,280 --> 03:22:22,280
Speaker 9: In fact, this is hijia. Malcolm and messenger Mohammed or

3248
03:22:22,360 --> 03:22:25,040
Speaker 9: the first first message of Mohammad gives him credit, and

3249
03:22:25,240 --> 03:22:29,000
Speaker 9: he taught Malcolm and Jijia. Malcolm then made his own

3250
03:22:29,080 --> 03:22:31,960
Speaker 9: understanding of this, right. But it was the mess with

3251
03:22:32,000 --> 03:22:36,480
Speaker 9: Mohammed at first problematized Christianity in a way it had

3252
03:22:36,560 --> 03:22:43,680
Speaker 9: never been problematized and called for another interpretation of Jesus. Right.

3253
03:22:44,280 --> 03:22:46,800
Speaker 9: Not only did they begin to say Jesus was black,

3254
03:22:47,120 --> 03:22:52,039
Speaker 9: but they talked about Jesus teaching liberation as instead of enslavement.

3255
03:22:52,400 --> 03:22:56,520
Speaker 9: If you remember, the Christians enslaved us, and the Christians

3256
03:22:56,560 --> 03:23:01,560
Speaker 9: taught us a catechism of enslavement. And as nana E.

3257
03:23:01,720 --> 03:23:05,600
Speaker 9: Franklin Praiser said, the questions went like this, what is

3258
03:23:06,600 --> 03:23:09,680
Speaker 9: my duty to God? It is my duty to my Master?

3259
03:23:10,040 --> 03:23:13,680
Speaker 9: How do I serve God by serving my Master? Why

3260
03:23:13,720 --> 03:23:17,600
Speaker 9: am I in this condition because I'm an evil being?

3261
03:23:17,840 --> 03:23:21,920
Speaker 9: Et said, So we had to fall out of that

3262
03:23:22,360 --> 03:23:25,959
Speaker 9: a liberational response, right, and so we had to take

3263
03:23:26,280 --> 03:23:30,720
Speaker 9: a liberation of theology. That's the beginning of liberation theology,

3264
03:23:31,440 --> 03:23:35,280
Speaker 9: as spoken by turn None in that Turner right, noe

3265
03:23:35,280 --> 03:23:39,160
Speaker 9: a hero tell me none a here tell me say

3266
03:23:39,280 --> 03:23:41,160
Speaker 9: I don't let the white people tell me how to pray.

3267
03:23:41,280 --> 03:23:44,320
Speaker 9: I pray to God myself and I pray that God

3268
03:23:44,480 --> 03:23:47,560
Speaker 9: will help me to be strong to fight for the

3269
03:23:47,560 --> 03:23:51,320
Speaker 9: freedom of my people. And I also pray that if

3270
03:23:51,320 --> 03:23:55,120
Speaker 9: the white man don't change, that God would take him

3271
03:23:55,160 --> 03:23:58,400
Speaker 9: off the planet. Right. This was her prayer. Right, So

3272
03:23:58,480 --> 03:24:02,600
Speaker 9: that's a little different. By still a Christian. The Christianity

3273
03:24:02,680 --> 03:24:05,080
Speaker 9: to my mother and father is altogether different. It's not

3274
03:24:05,160 --> 03:24:09,560
Speaker 9: a prosperity gospel, right, That's that's acting as we do

3275
03:24:09,959 --> 03:24:13,800
Speaker 9: as our pressor our presser cannot be our teacher. The

3276
03:24:13,959 --> 03:24:17,240
Speaker 9: Christianity I remember came up in and was a part of,

3277
03:24:18,400 --> 03:24:24,359
Speaker 9: was the Christianity for the dispossessed, the devalue, the degraded,

3278
03:24:24,640 --> 03:24:29,800
Speaker 9: the downtriden. And it was always taught that we my

3279
03:24:29,920 --> 03:24:35,440
Speaker 9: mother and father taught me to do for the phrases

3280
03:24:35,480 --> 03:24:39,120
Speaker 9: from Matthew the least among us, and that's how they

3281
03:24:39,160 --> 03:24:42,600
Speaker 9: said Jesus would judge us how we treat the least

3282
03:24:42,640 --> 03:24:45,600
Speaker 9: among us, And now we say the most vulnerable. So

3283
03:24:45,720 --> 03:24:49,720
Speaker 9: let's talk about the positive of Black Christianity. Don't get

3284
03:24:49,720 --> 03:24:51,280
Speaker 9: off of that, because what I want us to do

3285
03:24:51,520 --> 03:24:55,400
Speaker 9: is talk about the ethics. Do our people believe in

3286
03:24:56,200 --> 03:25:00,280
Speaker 9: speaking truth, doing justice? See I do I want argue

3287
03:25:00,320 --> 03:25:03,400
Speaker 9: about God? I mean that, howd you Malcolm said that?

3288
03:25:03,520 --> 03:25:05,720
Speaker 9: Peeples said, keep the religion in the closet. We come

3289
03:25:05,760 --> 03:25:07,920
Speaker 9: out here, let's talk about the problem of black people.

3290
03:25:08,160 --> 03:25:10,720
Speaker 9: Now he brought his religion. He knows that the Christians

3291
03:25:10,720 --> 03:25:13,160
Speaker 9: he's talking to got their religion. What he meant is,

3292
03:25:13,320 --> 03:25:16,440
Speaker 9: let's not ugle over theology. Let's not argue about God,

3293
03:25:16,520 --> 03:25:21,000
Speaker 9: and let's show our good words by the ethical things

3294
03:25:21,040 --> 03:25:23,680
Speaker 9: we do in the world. What are we doing to

3295
03:25:23,760 --> 03:25:27,560
Speaker 9: help the people? Do we speak truth? Do we do justice?

3296
03:25:27,840 --> 03:25:30,760
Speaker 9: Do we care for the poor and avulnerable? Do we

3297
03:25:30,800 --> 03:25:34,120
Speaker 9: have a rightful relationship with them? Involve Do we honor

3298
03:25:34,560 --> 03:25:37,199
Speaker 9: our elders and our answers? Do we cherish and challenge

3299
03:25:37,200 --> 03:25:40,440
Speaker 9: our children? Right? Do we do that? Do we oppose

3300
03:25:40,560 --> 03:25:45,360
Speaker 9: evil and justice and oppression? And do we always raise

3301
03:25:45,400 --> 03:25:49,440
Speaker 9: their praise and pursue the good? That's what I'm looking for, right?

3302
03:25:49,760 --> 03:25:52,160
Speaker 9: And so we can call God by many names. You

3303
03:25:52,160 --> 03:25:54,960
Speaker 9: know I got I got many names before God in

3304
03:25:55,000 --> 03:26:00,320
Speaker 9: my scholarship and text for African people, for example, Ama

3305
03:26:00,840 --> 03:26:04,599
Speaker 9: in the dogone this is this is real there, Jesus

3306
03:26:04,320 --> 03:26:10,480
Speaker 9: and Jehovah and you always right, oh do Mari and

3307
03:26:10,600 --> 03:26:15,280
Speaker 9: then in for tradition from kulukulu uh in the Zulu tradition.

3308
03:26:15,560 --> 03:26:18,360
Speaker 9: I know them all, I said it right, I don't.

3309
03:26:19,120 --> 03:26:22,680
Speaker 9: Those names are just different names for God. But if

3310
03:26:22,720 --> 03:26:25,920
Speaker 9: they believe that this is God, and this is God

3311
03:26:25,959 --> 03:26:30,240
Speaker 9: of the whole universe, right, right, then I accept that.

3312
03:26:30,400 --> 03:26:32,360
Speaker 9: I just want to see what they do with it, right,

3313
03:26:32,440 --> 03:26:34,320
Speaker 9: That's what I want to do. I wouldn't see their

3314
03:26:34,360 --> 03:26:39,080
Speaker 9: work the good words. What do they do to bring

3315
03:26:39,120 --> 03:26:42,360
Speaker 9: good into the world. That's that's my Jestey, And do

3316
03:26:42,480 --> 03:26:46,480
Speaker 9: they do things that are three criteria I've said it earlier.

3317
03:26:46,879 --> 03:26:51,320
Speaker 9: Are they dignity affirming of the human person right, respect

3318
03:26:51,360 --> 03:26:57,160
Speaker 9: and dignity this inherent worthiness? Second, are they legendhancing? And

3319
03:26:57,280 --> 03:27:01,840
Speaker 9: third or they were preserving? How did they help the

3320
03:27:02,000 --> 03:27:10,000
Speaker 9: world to survive this own slot by imperist capitalists, warmongers

3321
03:27:10,040 --> 03:27:14,560
Speaker 9: and other people who are anti human and anti nature.

3322
03:27:16,120 --> 03:27:20,240
Speaker 9: That's the issue. Asanto Doo, Thanks so much for the question.

3323
03:27:20,480 --> 03:27:21,160
Speaker 9: It was a good one.

3324
03:27:22,280 --> 03:27:24,680
Speaker 3: Yeah. Seven away from the top y. There's a question

3325
03:27:24,800 --> 03:27:26,560
Speaker 3: somebody sent you a couple of days when they found

3326
03:27:26,560 --> 03:27:28,480
Speaker 3: out you were coming on It says, how do we

3327
03:27:28,720 --> 03:27:31,800
Speaker 3: keep quanca from being co opted and revised by others

3328
03:27:31,840 --> 03:27:34,000
Speaker 3: outside the black community or the black family.

3329
03:27:35,200 --> 03:27:38,879
Speaker 9: Gibel. You know, the best way is to practice it right.

3330
03:27:39,320 --> 03:27:42,280
Speaker 9: So I think there are several things that are important here.

3331
03:27:43,760 --> 03:27:47,360
Speaker 9: So we have to start from this position to defend

3332
03:27:47,520 --> 03:27:54,440
Speaker 9: and promote the integrity, the beauty and expansive meaning of Quanta.

3333
03:27:55,600 --> 03:28:00,200
Speaker 9: We've got to study black people. We kids just then

3334
03:28:00,360 --> 03:28:05,840
Speaker 9: practicing said sixty seven or eight whatever. You can't do that.

3335
03:28:05,920 --> 03:28:08,280
Speaker 9: Sometimes people say they did it in sixty five, which

3336
03:28:08,320 --> 03:28:10,920
Speaker 9: of course is not so because it was just in

3337
03:28:10,959 --> 03:28:15,160
Speaker 9: an organization that that. Well, first Quanta didn't come to

3338
03:28:15,920 --> 03:28:18,520
Speaker 9: sixty six. It was sixty five the principal. So you know,

3339
03:28:18,600 --> 03:28:20,520
Speaker 9: you got to get the day straight. But the main

3340
03:28:20,560 --> 03:28:23,600
Speaker 9: thing is read and get you know, even if you

3341
03:28:23,600 --> 03:28:27,120
Speaker 9: don't have time or don't want to again't read the

3342
03:28:27,160 --> 03:28:31,360
Speaker 9: whole book, which you're good. Go to our website, the

3343
03:28:31,480 --> 03:28:36,000
Speaker 9: official Consit website to study it. It's outline. It's just

3344
03:28:36,080 --> 03:28:40,160
Speaker 9: short versus a summary. It's the answer to regular questions

3345
03:28:40,160 --> 03:28:45,440
Speaker 9: even like this. To study that, then ask yourself, how

3346
03:28:45,560 --> 03:28:49,720
Speaker 9: do you protect integrity? Now you're asking that about commercial

3347
03:28:49,840 --> 03:28:53,039
Speaker 9: all that, But you have to defend it right. You

3348
03:28:53,120 --> 03:28:56,680
Speaker 9: have to defend it. The first thing, don't allow people

3349
03:28:57,320 --> 03:29:02,600
Speaker 9: to rewrite the original meaning of the principles. For example,

3350
03:29:03,320 --> 03:29:06,520
Speaker 9: the meaning of emoja is to strive for a maintain

3351
03:29:07,080 --> 03:29:10,960
Speaker 9: unit in the family, community, nation of race. You got

3352
03:29:11,000 --> 03:29:14,600
Speaker 9: to say that. You can say something about explain it later,

3353
03:29:15,120 --> 03:29:18,879
Speaker 9: but don't change that, because that's what's united us, that's

3354
03:29:18,879 --> 03:29:23,000
Speaker 9: the common thing. It's like if the Christians would change

3355
03:29:23,680 --> 03:29:26,440
Speaker 9: the tak Commandments, if I can say that, or if

3356
03:29:26,560 --> 03:29:31,080
Speaker 9: the Buddhists changed the Eightfold Path the wording No, you

3357
03:29:31,160 --> 03:29:34,680
Speaker 9: can explain it, but don't change the original text because

3358
03:29:34,720 --> 03:29:36,879
Speaker 9: that's what we're going to talk about, and then we

3359
03:29:36,920 --> 03:29:40,959
Speaker 9: can show the expansive meaning of each of those right. Right.

3360
03:29:42,400 --> 03:29:46,120
Speaker 9: Sometimes I saw one time that person took out to

3361
03:29:46,160 --> 03:29:51,000
Speaker 9: make our brothers and sisters problems for oujima and solve

3362
03:29:51,040 --> 03:29:54,160
Speaker 9: them together and put to solve the problems of the community. No,

3363
03:29:54,640 --> 03:29:59,080
Speaker 9: it's important that inclusiveness brother and sister for a lot

3364
03:29:59,160 --> 03:30:02,320
Speaker 9: of reasons. First, they're racing the brothers, right, but also

3365
03:30:02,760 --> 03:30:06,600
Speaker 9: for a long time the sisters weren't considered equal, and

3366
03:30:06,640 --> 03:30:10,240
Speaker 9: so we've got to always foreground brother and sister creating

3367
03:30:10,240 --> 03:30:13,160
Speaker 9: a good world. We won male and female creating a

3368
03:30:13,240 --> 03:30:16,320
Speaker 9: good world we all want and then all human beings. Right,

3369
03:30:16,480 --> 03:30:19,480
Speaker 9: But that's the model, so you can add to it.

3370
03:30:19,600 --> 03:30:22,959
Speaker 9: You can say, look, and also I think this is

3371
03:30:23,000 --> 03:30:26,000
Speaker 9: speaking to all humans. Right. You can say that afterwards,

3372
03:30:26,040 --> 03:30:31,480
Speaker 9: but first say what the what the discussion is the

3373
03:30:31,520 --> 03:30:35,640
Speaker 9: second thing we have to resist the air in hand

3374
03:30:36,160 --> 03:30:42,000
Speaker 9: and highlands and handmaidens attempt to recreate a to create

3375
03:30:42,040 --> 03:30:47,199
Speaker 9: a false narrative of who created Quanta right back. People's

3376
03:30:47,360 --> 03:30:50,920
Speaker 9: like saying, my life didn't create Quansas Alight, somebody else

3377
03:30:51,000 --> 03:30:54,080
Speaker 9: did it. The ancestors did it, a little girl did it,

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Speaker 9: the person somewhere in the mayor. They're just going off

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Speaker 9: into it. And then it's not that people, But it

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Speaker 9: could great if you don't say, look, first of all,

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Speaker 9: this is wrong. The first reason this shouldn't happen because

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Speaker 9: it's false. That's the first reason checond It denies the

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Speaker 9: excellence and uniqueness of my achievement. Years of research and

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Speaker 9: study right and and and imagining right and conceiving something

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Speaker 9: of value and beauty that means of people have embraced.

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Speaker 9: It took years to do that. It took language learning,

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Speaker 9: culture learning, right as it say.

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Speaker 3: I gotta cut you there, because it's just flat out

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Speaker 3: of time. But I want to thank you. Thank you

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Speaker 3: for what you've done, thank you for creating Quanta and

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Speaker 3: beyond that, what you've done for our folks. If you've

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Speaker 3: been on the front line, and you're still on the

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Speaker 3: front line. So just we appreciate you, brother.

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Speaker 9: Thank you, Thank you. Continue to struggle, keep the space

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Speaker 9: and hold the line and practice the principles.

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Speaker 3: Thanks so much, doctor Milana Kranka. That's it for the day.

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Speaker 3: Family classes dismissed. Stay strong, stay positive, and he says,

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Speaker 3: please stay healthy. We'll see you tomorrow morning, six o'clock

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Speaker 3: right here in Baltimore on ten ten WLB, Also on

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