By Bashir Akinyele In the past two weeks, community activists and peace workers have been conducting aggressive anti-violence maneuvers in the streets of Newark, NJ. Outrage with the uptick in senseless community violence in the city in recent weeks, community activists and the city’s peace workers hosted Massive Stop The Violence March and Rally in […]
By Bashir Muhammad Akinyele
“Culture is a weapon in the face of our enemies” – Amílcar Cabral (He was one of Afrika’s foremost anti-colonial leaders)
Some of us are still on the revolutionary path to liberated ourselves from White and Arab cultural domination. Therefore, some of us do not celebrate any European or Arab holidays. However, we know that many of us in the Afrikan world community celebrate European and Arab holidays. This is because of the centuries of slavery, colonialism, apartheid, and the invasions of the Afrkan world by non Afrikan people. Generations of Black people were forced to practice non Afrikan cultural holidays, such as Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter, Halloween, and Valentine’s Day. Black life has been, and still is, culturally dominated by Europeans and Arabs in the new millennium.