Kuumba

Habarigani

Kuumba.....Creativity

Well this is what it's all about isn't it. The fact is that we have the potential, the gift and indeed the responsibility to be creative and we are, just look around.
Despite the contradictions and the seemingly overwhelming challenges we still rise.
However one problem, is that others often seem to benefit more from our creativity more than we do. Our talents regularly, going to those who would exploit us.

So the principle of creativity, being used to uplift our community is a fundamental requirement for our liberation, restoration and transcendence.
The system of global domination, needs us, we don't need it. If we would only trust and dare to reconnect with our true identity.
Try this, envision what possibilities obtain when our humanity is unbound.
We would define for ourselves what purpose is and mobilize our creativity to bring forth a vision rooted in our essence.
As the brother, Bunny Wailer noted in an interview on WRFG in the ATL, " We who are the original man, have no business copying anyone".
Or Dr Martin Luther King Jnr., (paraphrasing) observing that if all we will do is be a carbon copy of oppression, we may as well stop fighting against it.
I take that to mean that we have to create our own world...Kujichagulia.
No one will teach us, it is not in their curriculum, the system has no clue and really, our self-knowledge is our responsibility.
Take a serious look at our history and observe, how against overwhelming odds we bent but were never broken and still we rose.
So goes the flight of the Phoenix.
In summary, I would like to appreciate two precious forces in our lives, that which conceives us, and that which nourishes us into fruition. In my opinion, reproduction, sex, is potentially, the most sacred encounter between humans, and the bringing forth and nourishing of life, is the ultimate expression of our being and becoming...our creativity.
Western culture and some from the east, have turned this sacred duty, into an obscenity, characterized the creative act of love as a sin, then used it to oppress us, commercialized it and now sells sex back to us.
In the era of the crime, the terror of slavery, imagine how debase a system, supposedly commissioned by the white man's god, or others ( according to their own pronouncements), a system that violated the womb of the African woman, used it as playground for their depravity.
But ultimately to use the children produced as chattel for a machine with one singular aim...profit over all. Then like today, greed rules.
The essential purpose of our creativity, to bring forth the future, with love and integrity was thus subverted, during the MAAFA and it's legacy.
Some now look with scorn on the very process that created us all.
The sordid legacy lingers in obscenities, so freely hurled around, defiling motherhood and is a violent affront to our humanity.
I believe that in expressions of our creativity, we must with deep appreciation honor our sisters, women who permit us to share in this divine creative process.
Not only do they stand at the gateway of our entrance to the world, they are the gateway through which our tomorrows enter.
The scope of our human capacity will be in full effect, only when we affirm, the value of this offering, as we all entered through this loving expression of creativity, that is the African woman.

Kuumba