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The Thatch and the Spark: Reclaiming Kuumba within Kujichagulia

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The Thatch and the Spark: Reclaiming Kuumba within Kujichagulia https://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-thatch-and-the-spark--72513557 "The rain falls on every roof, but it stays longest on the one that is well thatched." Pull up a chair on the porch, family. Let’s sit with that ancestral medicine for a minute. Right now, we are standing firmly on a day of Kuumba (Creativity) , positioned directly in the middle of a week of Kujichagulia (Self-Determination) , all while navigating the larger cycle of Ujima (Collective Work) . That is a potent, heavy alignment. It is an ancestral algorithm designed to remind you exactly who you are before the world told you who you had to be. Look at our collective journey as Black people in America. We have never lacked Kuumba . We took the scraps left at the back of the house and turned them into soul food. We took a language meant to chain us and bent it into blues, jazz, hip-hop, and gospel. Our creativity is a global currency that the entire ...
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Collective Kujichagulia

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  Great Kujichagulia to all my Kuji born out their: "Umoja in motion (collective work and responsibility)" We are looking at Kujichagulia today through the marvelous principle of Ujima. For those new to the journey, and to remind the old heads Ujima means collective work and responsibility. We teach within Gye-Nyame that Ujima is Umoja in motion. Today let's look at the power of a collective, which is a group that pulls together to accomplish a goal. Now let's imagine that they collectively focus on defining their world, or bringing it close to home,redefining their world. What type of changes could this collective bring about? "Gye-Nyame Journey has already put this into motion , by redefining the day" Kujichagulia as we saw last week is strong on defining the world, and since we are in the week of Ujima I believe that it is appropriate for me to call on our collective to start to redefine the world that we are in. Using our collective thought power to resh...
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