Most African leaders, who have decided to go that extra hundred or thousand miles, to make sure that the rights and dignity of African people, at home and abroad, are preserved and respected, are normally harrassed, persecuted, prosecuted and imprisoned, in order to silence them, and get them out of circulation from among their people.They are usually called names like radicals, insurrectionist, insurgents, trouble makers and various other names, in order to discredit them in the presence of their people. Open the flood gates of your memories and you will realize, that the Colonial masters would always find ways and means to imprison people, who stand up against their ruling state of downpression.

The article which you posted, related to us some unpleasant circumstances, which took place among two African liberation movements in the past,
when individual members of both organizations quarelled, and caused the result of serious tragedies. Have you ever met Dr Maulana Karenga, and talk to him, during your life time, or, are you just going by what was writen in this New York Times?
It is said here that Kwanzaa has only gained popularity, since the New York Times ran their first article, covering the festival on December 24, 1971, and recently the Postal Service released a Kwanzaa stamp Hallmark too, has begun to market the holiday.

First of all you should give credit where credit is due, you or others, are mistakenly, giving credit to the New York Times, for causing the popularity of Kwanzaa, as a result of the article which they ran about Kwanzaa First Fruit Celebration in 1971, and you and others, are also giving credit to the Postal Service, for causing the popularity of Kwanzaa, by releasing a Kwanzaa stamp. Let me inform you all, that the credit for the advancement and popularity of Kwanzaa, among African people, belongs to African people at home and abroad, since it was only African people who struggled along, with this great African Value System since 1966, even when they were being resisted, mocked and jeered, by those who just could not understand, that this was an African thing. The credit for the growing popularity of Kwanzaa, truly belongs to Dr. Maulana Karenga and African people at home and abroad, and I want you to think about this mistake, which was posted saying otherwise, and think about it seriously.

These people at the New York Times are business people, they are into doing business, they are not into making Kwanzaa popular by running a article on Kwanzaa, they only run articles on a subject, when they find that it is news worthy, and will make their news paper more popular. For your information, they only run that article, because they had discovered, with great surprise, that Kwanzaa had become more wide spread, than they had anticipated. The same goes for the Postal Services, they are also a business arena, and they only released that Kwanzaa stamp, because they had realized, that Kwanzaa is spreading wider and faster, among African people everywhere, and that there was no way that they could lose, if they invested on a Kwanzaa Stamp, considering how fast and wide Kwanzaa was spreading among African people everywhere.

In closing, I would like you to tell this audience, what do you think of the works of Dr. Maulana Karenga today as we speak, what do you think of what he is doing now? I do not think that he is in prison now, and I do think that he is teaching black African studies at a University. Do you have an opinion on what he is doing now?
Can you find a positive article to post about his positive works which he is presently involved in?
Just open the flood gates of your memories and post to us, some thing positive about this man's works, which he is presently involved in.
Again I send many oceans of blessings and self determination to African people everywhere.
ONE BLACK LOVE ONE BLACK HEART
Baba Ras Marcus.