Light your Black candle
Because its the 1st Day of Kwanzaa!
Black candle, placed right in the middle of red and green candles in Kinara, is lit on the very first day of the festival. It marks the commencement of the festive season. The person who takes the responsibility to light the candle makes a statement about the first principle i.e. Umoja (oo-MOH-jah) or unity. All the family members should listen to the statement and understand it in a way that all of them can explain the doctrine and its meaning. At times that particular member shares a passage or poem which is related to their lives and the principle in some way or the other.
The Umoja (Unity cup) filled with fruit juice is passed to all the members present in that congregating spot(you can substitute a 40oz Cobra Malt likker if you want to)
Some of the families use a Unity cup for every member present where as some just like to keep a Unity cup in the centre of the Kwanzaa table. After the ceremony of sharing fruit juice is over, the candles are turned off till the very next day.
So light your candle and drink up that grape drank it is the day to celebrate Unity!
Black candle, placed right in the middle of red and green candles in Kinara, is lit on the very first day of the festival. It marks the commencement of the festive season. The person who takes the responsibility to light the candle makes a statement about the first principle i.e. Umoja (oo-MOH-jah) or unity. All the family members should listen to the statement and understand it in a way that all of them can explain the doctrine and its meaning. At times that particular member shares a passage or poem which is related to their lives and the principle in some way or the other.
The Umoja (Unity cup) filled with fruit juice is passed to all the members present in that congregating spot(you can substitute a 40oz Cobra Malt likker if you want to)
Some of the families use a Unity cup for every member present where as some just like to keep a Unity cup in the centre of the Kwanzaa table. After the ceremony of sharing fruit juice is over, the candles are turned off till the very next day.
So light your candle and drink up that grape drank it is the day to celebrate Unity!
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I celebrate Christmas, but thanks anyway 0 -
Come on man you have to get into the spirit of this made up commie celebration. 0 -
Sam, Sam, you know the real background (and commies who invented it) of this seditious, farcical, BS doesn?t matter. Come on bro, it?s all about the ?400 year old man? and the ?experience?. Reality plays no part init at all. (Can?t do green font on my phone.) 0 -
Just like Festivus from that episode of Seinfeld way back when![:)]
I believe that there is an entire multitude celebrating Festivus each year and take it seriously![:0]
When I see BLACK candles, I think of witchcraft and devil worship.0 -
Unless you are black, this is cultural appropriation. 0 -
Because it?s the first day of Kwanza!
I will drink a beer this evening to commemorate.
Most likely it will be a Porter or Stout to keep with the spirit of things.0 -
Good read- don't miss the comments
https://www.nj.com/opinion/index.ssf/2016/12/kwanzaa_fake_news_about_a_fake_holiday_that_i_debu.html0 -
I spent a lot of time in Africa and I asked several people what was Kwanzaa and did they celibrate it.
All but had never heard of it, the who had, had spent time in the uSA.
In Swahili Kwanzaa means to go before or go ahead.
mj, I am fully aware of the origins of the holiday but thanks for posting that link it was interesting.
Now go light your candle, get you mug out and fill it with some fruit drink like a tequila sunrise and celebrate umojia[:D]0 -
Those native drinks remind me of the saliva spit into coconut shells and fermented into fizzy lifting juice![:D]
After a few of those, you can celebrate just about anything that pops into your head! Bang a drum and sing Kwando, Kwando, Kwando all night long. [:D]0 -
Damn... me without a 40 of Old E. 0 -
Thought UMBOJA was an unix based operating system for windows? 0
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