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Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, May I have your attention please? The
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Speaker 1: show starts in seven life eight seven, six, five, four,
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Speaker 1: three few.
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Speaker 2: One go, And how the persons prepare for this time
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Speaker 2: of great reflection? And what is it joy to the
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Speaker 2: world that the Lord has come? And speaking of light,
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Speaker 2: and that whole idea where everyone is now looking up
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Speaker 2: for the star, the star that we need, the Star
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Speaker 2: of David, the star that guided the three kings in
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Speaker 2: that version of our history where they came to the
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Speaker 2: illuminated light the Christ died one. And I say these
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Speaker 2: things as I'm looking forward to what are some of
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Speaker 2: the ways in which we're going to be bringing some
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Speaker 2: of the knowledge systems that we're bringing together and highlighting
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Speaker 2: a greeting Sister Queen Sette to Johnson, It's always a
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Speaker 2: joint privilege to have you join tune in, and I
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Speaker 2: pray that some of the information is useful for those
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Speaker 2: that may already know, share it with others that are
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Speaker 2: not as informed, and for those that already desire to
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Speaker 2: perceive things in this one dimensional mentform. I'm gonna ask
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Speaker 2: you to just bear with me, be a little more humble,
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Speaker 2: and tune into another dimension of some of the things
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Speaker 2: that would be shared. And I'm going to start with
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Speaker 2: a particular piece that comes from that comes from a
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Speaker 2: publication that most people may not be that familiar with.
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Speaker 2: It's called Could Be There, and it's the word, Sounds
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Speaker 2: and Poems of Vaughn Benjamin, one of the founders of
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Speaker 2: the Midnight Band, coming out of Saint Croix, Virgin Islands,
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Speaker 2: representing the Caribbean, the Americas, the world. When he wrote this,
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Speaker 2: this was back in you know, this was a copy
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Speaker 2: written in two thousand and five. From that time brought
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Speaker 2: the Benjamin moved into being known as formally as Akabecca,
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Speaker 2: and I think, you know, Profound left the earthplane all
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Speaker 2: too soon, not quite this on the eve of fifteen
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Speaker 2: years and brought so much through the music, using reggae
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Speaker 2: as a tool not just as a weapon in fighting,
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Speaker 2: but as a weapon for healing and a weapon for
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Speaker 2: growth and edification. And so this publication, which I'm not
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Speaker 2: sure that my blurred background will let you see, but
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Speaker 2: paulute right, I think it's a classic piece. It's a
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Speaker 2: collection of his spoken word and some of the illustrations
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Speaker 2: that can support the energy of our people and I
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Speaker 2: and I think it's important that some of them. There
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Speaker 2: was a particular piece I was going to read, but
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Speaker 2: then I shifted from that. But strong for goodness sake?
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Speaker 2: Which one is that I'm going to pull from the
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Speaker 2: fear above my heart slowly trickled into my blood stream,
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Speaker 2: comped to all areas of my being prual, existential, injection, practice,
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Speaker 2: suspension African know by self, but I do so where
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Speaker 2: to with a foot too big for the shoe, foot
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Speaker 2: on fire shoelace with wire, I squeezed my wip into
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Speaker 2: the depth of a pit of hangers on that slowly
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Speaker 2: crime and punishment, oh to destroy consequence change is my
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Speaker 2: daylight and board with think, strain and pipe by night.
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Speaker 2: Prerequences seldom hit a developing force. So from scratching with force,
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Speaker 2: the least and the most wide awake, strong for goodness sake?
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Speaker 2: And again this is the work of Alcaebecca and one
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Speaker 2: of his publications and tired entitled Let's get that name
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Speaker 2: right full if we may, I think I can get
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Speaker 2: almost the whole piece, so you can see, Okay, we're
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Speaker 2: gonna get there. We're doing blurs for a reason. And
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Speaker 2: the idea here is that this is a wonderful opportunity
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Speaker 2: for us to use poetry prose various persons, literary celebrations.
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Speaker 2: You know, I'm gonna keep putting a couple of things.
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Speaker 2: Our god So Sea Scrolls and this is again a
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Speaker 2: collection of poetry by the honorable scholar originally from Africa,
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Speaker 2: doctor Donna ban Kuavon, who is a professor at the
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Speaker 2: University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras and provides his work.
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Speaker 2: This is one of the current works Sorry god So
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Speaker 2: Sea Scrolls, and I'm really grateful that he shared it
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Speaker 2: with me, and I'm looking forward to its submission of
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Speaker 2: a prepared invited to prepare a review for the Caribbean Writer,
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Speaker 2: one of the stellar publications that comes out of the
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Speaker 2: University of the Virgin Islands through the College of Liberal
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Speaker 2: Arts and Social Scientists, that I will get an opportunity
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Speaker 2: to offer a review of this phenomenal almost like enchanting
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Speaker 2: collection of poetic verse. And I think it's powerful because
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Speaker 2: he dedicated this particular work into the loving memory of
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Speaker 2: his late uncle, the most Reverend Gregory Yevodon Pierre Vallen,
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Speaker 2: who became an ancestor in twenty twenty two. Born in
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Speaker 2: nineteen thirty three, he was the Archbishop emeritus of tamalai
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Speaker 2: In and I just think it's it's important that persons
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Speaker 2: to get a chance you. I like holding books, unlike
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Speaker 2: some people that just like the scroll or listen to them.
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Speaker 2: I like holding books. I like how they feel. I
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Speaker 2: think I am two steps off of being a bibliopile
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Speaker 2: just the order of publications. I'm the person that will
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Speaker 2: go to the library when they're tossing out out of
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Speaker 2: circulation or no longer useful so called. I don't think
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Speaker 2: anything that's published is just unuseful. But I'm the one
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Speaker 2: that would go and collect some of those publications because
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Speaker 2: I know that it's important to expand your knowledge. It
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Speaker 2: enhances your ability to be wise and not just a
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Speaker 2: book learner. So I'm going to use the piece that
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Speaker 2: he shared that's around marooned sirens, and his pieces are
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Speaker 2: pretty powerful, and I'm gonna do this one and then
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Speaker 2: heavy metal growth at Nepro Hills. So I would like
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Speaker 2: to make sure I share maroon sireens here evenings reveal
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Speaker 2: stone darings, thorn bushes fortify savannahs, yet waves whitewash my
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Speaker 2: bones on ever receding corals as maroon flutes, pierce the air,
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Speaker 2: recall lula sirens of Napoon, men on rooftops, let fly
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Speaker 2: our arrows, scare away those hungry to sell under the
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Speaker 2: baubob At Salaga, under this vaubab at Barra, and here
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Speaker 2: under this eight hundred year old k puk At barber,
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Speaker 2: guide my hairs about regrets, untimy from hardened hearts. Guide
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Speaker 2: me through hollowed, crooked trees and rocky moss, smooth gateways
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Speaker 2: to fantasy barests. Where am away to my flesh straws
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Speaker 2: at bulu? Or is it ulu again? And that is
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Speaker 2: Maroon's signings a piece written by doctor Donovan Kuagon in
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Speaker 2: his recent twenty to Antipole collection and publication entitled Sargasso
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Speaker 2: Sea Squeals. It's a beautiful ethology poetry, and I just
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Speaker 2: would like for the persons in the back of the
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Speaker 2: grove not to make this a class session, but just
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Speaker 2: there was a couple of terms that were used that
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Speaker 2: he has notations for here and you mentioned roumbula of bumbula.
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Speaker 2: It's a short flute was used to draw attention to
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Speaker 2: the presence of slave raiders and to rally them to
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Speaker 2: fight in the town of Nacom, Upper Eastern region of Ghana.
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Speaker 2: I think it's important to know these things and what
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Speaker 2: were the tools, how did our ancestors communicate and engage
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Speaker 2: as repair so the persons do not continue with that
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Speaker 2: mythical element. But there were people that actually wanted to transfer, sell,
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Speaker 2: purchase humans for chattel and slavement. That's not yeah, good humanity.
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Speaker 2: The other term that was referenced in here was the
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Speaker 2: name of some of these towns, like in Nakon, a
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Speaker 2: gong Ja town in the Savannah region of Ghana where
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Speaker 2: a famous slave market was erected to sell captives from
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Speaker 2: as far away as Mami to Ashanti slave merchant HM.
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Speaker 2: So see, there's a lot of history of knowledge behind
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Speaker 2: the words side of the poetic cust which is why
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Speaker 2: I like holding the book, turning the pages, meaning the Paabo,
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Speaker 2: not just scrolls fos fs Rose Rose Voswold, but just
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Speaker 2: only listening to it. The other piece that's here a
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Speaker 2: well known Casina town in the Upper East region, at
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Speaker 2: Salara in the Upper East region at the Gada border
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Speaker 2: with Burkina Faso with a slave market in the nineteenth century.
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Speaker 2: And then they speak of one of the Barbara it's
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Speaker 2: one of the oldest trees in Corousal at Barber right,
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Speaker 2: And I just think it's really important to know, you know,
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Speaker 2: we have these trees, We've got these kick these all
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Speaker 2: on centuries old trees got throughout the Caribbean, and sometimes
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Speaker 2: we actually forget, we actually forget that we have them
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Speaker 2: in our midst and just walk by without any reverence,
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Speaker 2: any memory, without even a moment of pause and reflection.
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Speaker 2: And how many have walked by, climbed, lean on, sheltered
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Speaker 2: themselves under during the rain, these trees marvelous thought. And
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Speaker 2: then he makes a reference again to different places and
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Speaker 2: cure us out. Obviously these are places that have influenced
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Speaker 2: his work, his literary work throughout the Caribbean space. And
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Speaker 2: then the towns like Woolu Is the towns in the
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Speaker 2: Upper West region of Ghana where the people erected border
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Speaker 2: walls against slave raiders and successfully resisted the Zambahama and
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Speaker 2: Mandai slave raiders. And I think it's important to know
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Speaker 2: that there's a lot more history that comes with this,
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Speaker 2: just in terms of the great works that are presented
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Speaker 2: herein and I think like the one that really fascinated me,
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Speaker 2: and I'm going to read this one, and this will
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Speaker 2: be my last poetic piece from this collection. Salista Maria.
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Speaker 2: For those that remember Hurricane Maria and her Hurricane Irma
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Speaker 2: dancing through the Caribbean and leaving devastation beyond measure in
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Speaker 2: their wakes in twenty seventeen, just bree salask Maria. I
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Speaker 2: too would have loved to salsa with Maria, but was
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Speaker 2: held captive by Irma's pennel. So there I was chained
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Speaker 2: ankle deep in a porcelain tub of water filled to
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Speaker 2: force style the future if this forced death dance of
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Speaker 2: wind and water would burst these ancient pe x lines
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Speaker 2: and leave me stranded with rumbling vowel, So I stood
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Speaker 2: pinned to my bind your window, desperate month drawn to
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Speaker 2: suicide beings. Yet Maria steps up Irma's moves, whistled warrior
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Speaker 2: songs and danced flamenko ed mahoganies to the concrete flung
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Speaker 2: place trees to the ground. Slowly, all others are carried
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Speaker 2: along along the cry of drowned gulevrons. In this flood,
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Speaker 2: without an arc of tomorrow, we never see this kyanehats
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Speaker 2: up where John Wick wind miss off the sign pulls
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Speaker 2: pulls points downward and reads mangled against resurrection and anger. Suddenly,
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Speaker 2: at the crossroads to Hope, a sniggering emperor, draped in despair, grins, squints,
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Speaker 2: slam dunks, bounty selects. You wipe away your shocked tears
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Speaker 2: stampede or charman ultra. Now you stare at the dry
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Speaker 2: toilet tank of hope. There are no more rainbows and face.
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Speaker 2: Only the whimper of a song stretches the wind pipe,
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Speaker 2: and you crumble in a pool of gurgling, and then
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Speaker 2: the crash of falling trees, the flying blasts, silence, and
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Speaker 2: a pool, and that is south again. This is from
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Speaker 2: the collections our Gosso Sea Scrolls, published and gifted to me.
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Speaker 2: I think it's really cool. I get a kick out
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Speaker 2: of this. Of the appreciation is shared by doctor Dina
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Speaker 2: Bakua bon As I said, earlier professor at the University
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Speaker 2: of Prink over your pay and also a phenomenal author
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Speaker 2: of poet try anthologies and collections and reviews and much more.
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Speaker 2: There we go. We've had an opportunity to look at
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Speaker 2: some things from the literary space. And as we speak,
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Speaker 2: and you'll notice that once my eyes go up a
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Speaker 2: little bit. I'm hearing all of the executive, security and
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Speaker 2: Military support service entities that are arriving from the air
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Speaker 2: and to the shores of Saint Croix, the cultural capital
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Speaker 2: of the Virgin Islands of the United States, as the
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Speaker 2: annual visitation of President Joe Biden during our Christmas festival
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Speaker 2: season here in Saint Croix has commenced, or shall I say,
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Speaker 2: has continued, and things will be quite different as he
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Speaker 2: visits family and friends and a visit to different parts
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Speaker 2: of this new, relatively new National Heritage area. Yes, Saint
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Speaker 2: Croi is a National Heritage Area, and maybe before I
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Speaker 2: continue on, I should take a moment and share what
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Speaker 2: is a National Heritage area because some people keep telling me,
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Speaker 2: and I'm pausing right here because I think it's important
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Speaker 2: that persons know it's not a national park, even though
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Speaker 2: the purview and some of the parameters fall under the
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Speaker 2: National Park Service, more specifically the Department of the Interior,
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Speaker 2: which may change. However, I think it's important to know.
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Speaker 2: By you can easily go to the NPS dot gov
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Speaker 2: site and just in the subject area in the search area, rather,
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Speaker 2: you can put in heritage areas and it will give
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Speaker 2: you some information on National Heritage Areas, but I like
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Speaker 2: to use this as a time to share some information.
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Speaker 2: National heritage areas are places where historic, cultural, and natural
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Speaker 2: resources combined to form cohesive, nationally important landscapes. Unlike national parks,
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Speaker 2: national heritage areas are large lived in landscapes. Consequently, national
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Speaker 2: Heritage area entities collaborate with communities to determine how to
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Speaker 2: make heritage relevant to local interests and needs. In nineteen
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Speaker 2: eighty four, the first National Heritage Area, Illinois and Michigan
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Speaker 2: Canal National Heritage Area, was signed to law by President
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Speaker 2: Ronald Reagan. In his dedication speech, Reagan referred to National
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Speaker 2: Heritage areas as a new kind of national park that
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Speaker 2: married heritage, conservation, recreation, and economic development. Noticed those three pieces, heritage, conservation, recreation,
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Speaker 2: and economic development. So it's not to say that the
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Speaker 2: resources in the lands will never be developed. It's just
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Speaker 2: to make sure that there is a cohesiveness between heritage, conservation,
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Speaker 2: recreation and economic development. And then in January of twenty
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Speaker 2: twenty three, President Biden signed the National Heritage Areas Act
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Speaker 2: PL One seventeen dashed three three nine into law, and
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Speaker 2: the law established the National Heritage Area system, a statutory
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Speaker 2: framework for the National Park Services role in its administration,
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Speaker 2: and in twenty twenty three, seven National Heritage Areas were designated,
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Speaker 2: bringing the total in the United States to sixty two.
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Speaker 2: Let me make sure I have that right. I believe
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Speaker 2: sixty two. And what's amazing is that Saint Current National
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Speaker 2: Heritage Area is listed. And I think that that's really
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Speaker 2: powerful because it while the feature photograph shows it's very
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Speaker 2: interesting Christianstead in Saint Croix and kind of featured to
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Speaker 2: the front, is the actual National Park Services Christian Stead
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Speaker 2: Heritage Site. That's a conversation that will bring to mind
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Speaker 2: a why variety because it is managed by our Virgin
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Speaker 2: Islands State Historic Preservation Office, and it is also something
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Speaker 2: that is connected to the multiple industries that are happening
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Speaker 2: here in Saint Fruid and some of the sites of interest,
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Speaker 2: and I realized the one that should have been at
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Speaker 2: the top, but this is in alphabetical order, is the
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Speaker 2: Maroon Ridge area that the people know as the Maroons
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Speaker 2: Sanctuary Lens. And in light of what I just read
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Speaker 2: in the poetic verse, those Maroons, that energy of persons
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Speaker 2: of African ascent and ancestry that never accepted enslavement in
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Speaker 2: any porn and would run away even if it costs
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Speaker 2: their lives and that of their family, the children, their
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Speaker 2: loved ones. It's important to know that that area of
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Speaker 2: that land is being protected. So the historic sites of
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Speaker 2: interests are listed here, and this will mean not that
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Speaker 2: much to people that don't know Saint Crost. So I'll
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Speaker 2: just kind of focus on the Buck Island Reef National Monument,
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Speaker 2: the christian Stead National Historic Site, the christian Stead National
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Speaker 2: Historic District, the Estate Diamond Crusion Rum Factory, the Estate
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Speaker 2: Little Princess, the Nature Conservancy Estate Mount Washington is State
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Speaker 2: Wind Plantation Museum. We tend to just stay at State
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Speaker 2: Wind Museum and delete Plantation because we know most of
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Speaker 2: these estates and the great houses or plantation sites. The
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Speaker 2: Fort Frederick National Historic Landmark Site, the Frederickstead National Historic District,
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Speaker 2: the Freed Installed Moravian Mission Site and other churches, Government House,
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Speaker 2: the Green Key National Wildlife Refuged, the the Wetts Family Estate.
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Speaker 2: At a state level range, of course, as I said,
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Speaker 2: Maroon Ridge, the Salt River Bay National Historical Park and
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Speaker 2: Ecological Preserve, Columbus landing Site, even though Columbus didn't land
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Speaker 2: there in fourteen ninety three. He tried, though, and the
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Speaker 2: Talana women chased them away, left one survivor to go
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Speaker 2: back and tell him don't come back. Sandy Point National
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Speaker 2: Wild Refuge, Southgate Coastal Reserves, Saint Croix Eastern Marine Park,
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Speaker 2: Saint George Village Botanical Garden. They refer to it as
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Speaker 2: the Estate Saint George National Historic District. And then it
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Speaker 2: speaks of notable people, and most people here won't say
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Speaker 2: that the notable person is Christopher Columbus, just so we
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Speaker 2: know that, but that's listed here. But also pre marry
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Speaker 2: the leader of the Great Firebran in eighteen seventy eight
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Speaker 2: in Saint Croix Cheneral butto and David Hamilton Jackson. Interesting
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Speaker 2: that they lived in two different eras and impacted two
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Speaker 2: different things, with General Buddo being instrumental to being thrust
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Speaker 2: for freedom and liberation in mid eighteen hundreds, whereas David
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Speaker 2: Hamilton Jackson, a labor leader, a judge, a lawyer much more,
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Speaker 2: was instrumental to the first newspaper, free newspaper, we should say,
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Speaker 2: being started here, and also being instrumental to labor rights
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Speaker 2: and principled governance here in the Virgin Islands, and that
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Speaker 2: was in the late eighteen hundreds of early nineteen hundreds,
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Speaker 2: about like nineteen fifteen was around the time that they
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Speaker 2: started the liberty payper Alexander Hamilton as quiet as it's kept,
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Speaker 2: while being born in Nivas, another Caribbean island with mixed heritage,
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Speaker 2: let's speak, Frank Alexander Hamilton, you know, really instrumental to
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Speaker 2: the economic treasury system in the United States of America,
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Speaker 2: was taught and tutored here in Virgin Islands in his
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Speaker 2: younger years by a Nigerian mathematician just who was free.
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Speaker 2: And I think it's important for people who know that
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Speaker 2: in his influence here in Saint Croix. There's the grounds
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Speaker 2: where his mother was buried. You know where he lived,
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Speaker 2: we know where he worked in different parts of Saint
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Speaker 2: Croix before you know, maturing and going off into the
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Speaker 2: United States in America and its colonial era, in its
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Speaker 2: early colonial era, Peter Benson and then of course the
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Speaker 2: NBA All Star Ultra Award winning phenomenal basketball player Tim
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Speaker 2: Duncan you know, had his humble beginnings here in Saint Croix.
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Speaker 2: And so I shared that so that persons can be
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Speaker 2: on top of the game of knowing what is a
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Speaker 2: national heritage era because sometimes when people say that you
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Speaker 2: just say nha, people even though you're saying nha, totally
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Speaker 2: different thing, they'll think that it's just another national park.
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Speaker 2: And while we have national parks here in the Virgin
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Speaker 2: Islands with the Virgin Islands National Park System in Saint
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Speaker 2: John as well as Hassle Island right outside of Saint
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Speaker 2: Thomas proper, and then here in Saint Croix, you've got
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Speaker 2: three distinct spaces about island, Christian Stead Historic Site and
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Speaker 2: Salt River. As I've mentioned, there's a lot to learn,
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Speaker 2: a lot to share, a lot to grow from. So
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Speaker 2: we're looking forward to being able to share a little
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Speaker 2: bit more to highlight a variety of comments and reflections
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Speaker 2: and so forth. The other part that I think is
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Speaker 2: really important that's been happened, and I always, like, you know,
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Speaker 2: I like I pull different literature to make sure that
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Speaker 2: I'm not just speaking off the cup. There is a
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Speaker 2: book by one of our esteemed ancestresses, her name U
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Speaker 2: Lali see Rivera, and not only does she live to
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Speaker 2: be a centenarian, she was a phenomenal educator cultural story
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Speaker 2: what we referred to as the tradition Bevera and had
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Speaker 2: this recollection of her Crusion girlhood. I love how she
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Speaker 2: put it growing up on Saint Croix. Recollections of a
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Speaker 2: Crusian Girlhood, and it had some of the best love songs.
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Speaker 2: I have my version that Okay, I guess they don't
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Speaker 2: want you to see this right now, but it's fine,
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Speaker 2: but mine is signed by her. It was really important
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Speaker 2: to learn from such a great not just the storyteller,
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Speaker 2: but agrill, someone that could express from family line, the
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Speaker 2: family line and family line, and who was connected to who,
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Speaker 2: and who came from which part of the earth. It
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Speaker 2: was just amazing to listen to this elder woman's in
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Speaker 2: her life space and how she went from student to
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Speaker 2: becoming a teacher, and then her love of teaching on
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Speaker 2: the elementary level. And then of course all of her
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Speaker 2: favorite hymnals are inside of her books. So she shared
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Speaker 2: with us a little bit about right, I want to
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Speaker 2: use what they called Christmas second Day as a part
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Speaker 2: and highlighted this to story. At Christmas we were free
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Speaker 2: for two days and only the most necessary chores had
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Speaker 2: to be done. We had all our time for play
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Speaker 2: to enjoy our dolls and toys, work on arts and crafts,
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Speaker 2: or do whatever we chose. Oh, those were beautiful days.
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Speaker 2: On Christmas second day, some people know it is Boxing Day,
29:58
Speaker 2: and other vernaculars is the opening of Kwanza, the pitticul
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Speaker 2: of emotion. On Christmas second Day there was the masquerade
30:07
Speaker 2: or mako Jumbi. We had a beautiful picket fence of
30:11
Speaker 2: a kind I have never seen since. I remember standing
30:15
Speaker 2: by the fence looking out. When one of the devil
30:19
Speaker 2: men came to the fence. I tried to run away,
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Speaker 2: but my foot caught on a picket and he latched
30:26
Speaker 2: at me with his whip. Before system, now fast time,
30:29
Speaker 2: we were allowed to look at the masquerade through the
30:31
Speaker 2: picket fence. Not long after she came, she had it
30:35
Speaker 2: torn down and replaced with a wall. At those old masquerades,
30:41
Speaker 2: every masquerader had a whip, which was just a thin
30:44
Speaker 2: piece of stick ordinately decorated. There would be such a
30:48
Speaker 2: lot of masqueraders going from street to street and stopping
30:51
Speaker 2: to perform their acts at the houses where people were gathering.
30:54
Speaker 2: The audience would throw their pennies or give them food.
30:57
Speaker 2: I ensure the masqueraders enjoyed them as much as the
31:01
Speaker 2: people they entertained, and thinking back on it now, I
31:05
Speaker 2: think the money they collected helped to pay for their costumes,
31:08
Speaker 2: some of which were quite elaborate. One member of the
31:12
Speaker 2: masquerade troop is responsible for collecting the money, and no
31:15
Speaker 2: matter which masquerader picked up the money, it was always
31:18
Speaker 2: given to this designated person. Later the money would be
31:21
Speaker 2: divided up among the musicians and members of the true
31:25
Speaker 2: And I reread that portion because she has a whole
31:27
Speaker 2: section in here on how Christmas Festival like its orientation.
31:32
Speaker 2: She was alive to see it before it was known
31:34
Speaker 2: as Saint Croix Christmas Festival, not about that, And for
31:39
Speaker 2: the few years that they were trying to have a carnival,
31:42
Speaker 2: which doesn't necessarily happen around this time because our neighboring
31:45
Speaker 2: sister Island of Saint Thomas after Lent they have carnival
31:50
Speaker 2: which is more in harmony with what is historically accurate
31:56
Speaker 2: and culturally correct. And so with that, I'm gonna go
32:00
Speaker 2: to my next little segment. And the other day people
32:04
Speaker 2: were asking, you know, what is the solstice? What does
32:07
Speaker 2: that mean? And how do we begin to have a
32:10
Speaker 2: conversation around the winter solstice and not make it seem
32:14
Speaker 2: like we're downgrading anyone else's time of celebration. And so
32:19
Speaker 2: I always express to my viewers and my listeners that
32:24
Speaker 2: for those that desire to know, it's easy to find out.
32:28
Speaker 2: You just would like to make sure that you bet
32:31
Speaker 2: the information that is presented to you, because we do
32:35
Speaker 2: have persons that will misrepresent our truths and persons that
32:43
Speaker 2: will overlook some of the things that we highlight. So
32:49
Speaker 2: I want to use a piece that's from some of
32:51
Speaker 2: the teachings of it still amongst this elder I knew
32:58
Speaker 2: him is very strong, you know, coming out of Central America,
33:01
Speaker 2: coming into the US as a young person, as much
33:05
Speaker 2: younger person, and we know him as Shechem or Shechem
33:09
Speaker 2: some will say ra Unfer i'man. And he has a
33:14
Speaker 2: very wide, extensive set of publications around ancient legacies, African
33:20
Speaker 2: traditions and just ways that we can live in harmony
33:24
Speaker 2: and be able to extend a good, healthy, well balanced lifestyle.
33:34
Speaker 2: Some may remember him as one of the founders of
33:40
Speaker 2: I should say the continuum of the assar Set Society.
33:46
Speaker 2: And with that, I'm going to just read this portion
33:48
Speaker 2: on the significance of December twenty fifth and ancient traditions
33:53
Speaker 2: as well as what takes place leading up from the
33:57
Speaker 2: twenty first during the winter soctis and at the midnight
34:02
Speaker 2: hour on the very first minute of the twenty fifth
34:04
Speaker 2: of December, the birth of the sun is commemorated. Beginning
34:09
Speaker 2: on the twenty first, the period of sunlight and each
34:13
Speaker 2: day increased, Thus the sun appeared to have been born
34:17
Speaker 2: again from the short periods of daylight in the preceding months.
34:23
Speaker 2: At this time, the sun was in the zodiacal sign
34:27
Speaker 2: of Capricorn, which was known as the stable, so the
34:32
Speaker 2: infant sun was said to have been born in a stable.
34:37
Speaker 2: Shining brightly on the meridian was Sirious, the star from
34:41
Speaker 2: the east, while rising in the east was Virgo the Virgin.
34:47
Speaker 2: The line of the horizon passing to Hosento. To the
34:51
Speaker 2: right of Sirius was Orion, with three stars in his belt.
34:58
Speaker 2: These stars lie in a line and point towards Syrians,
35:03
Speaker 2: and in ancient times they were known as the three Kings.
35:09
Speaker 2: And again that's from the work of rah Nephi Amenka.
35:14
Speaker 2: I think it's important that persons gets a chance to
35:19
Speaker 2: hear or seriously some of them. And I'm sure you're
35:23
Speaker 2: hearing the jets that are flying over. Like I said,
35:26
Speaker 2: this is an ongoing commencement piece. I think it's also
35:30
Speaker 2: critical for persons to just have an idea when we
35:33
Speaker 2: speak of the sun and the lighted one and illumination,
35:36
Speaker 2: and some will say Jesus, some will say Jesus, some
35:40
Speaker 2: say and the Chosen Son, some will say Elisha. You know,
35:45
Speaker 2: there's a number of names that are given to the Christ,
35:49
Speaker 2: the One, the Cuoste, right, And it's a powerful teaching
35:53
Speaker 2: because again English is not our original language. So it's
35:57
Speaker 2: really important when we're looking at ancestral legacy materials resources,
36:02
Speaker 2: scriptural texts, scrolls, paper, et cetera, that we take our
36:07
Speaker 2: time to understand the idioms and the context and how
36:11
Speaker 2: they're written when they were written, versus trying to make
36:14
Speaker 2: it seem like it was written today only now, right,
36:18
Speaker 2: because these are things that are millennia upon millennia owned.
36:23
Speaker 2: So there's another part less significant when we speak of
36:25
Speaker 2: the ancient chemetic legacy or the Nile Valley Happy Valley
36:30
Speaker 2: civilization legacy. And I quote again in Egypt Kemmen over
36:35
Speaker 2: five thousand years ago. The birthday of the sun as
36:39
Speaker 2: Row is celebrated in the temples on the twenty fifth
36:43
Speaker 2: of December. It was the first day to lengthen most
36:46
Speaker 2: obviously after December twenty first, the shortest day of the year,
36:50
Speaker 2: to the day of the winter solstice. And disunderstand it
36:54
Speaker 2: people of kemment, especially the ancestral Chemictuye, not the ones
36:58
Speaker 2: with the decline, that were busy the worshiping outside of
37:04
Speaker 2: the infinite source and putting power and read at the
37:08
Speaker 2: forefront of you know, having fabulous temples and so forth
37:13
Speaker 2: built for them at the cost of the lives of
37:16
Speaker 2: the people. But I'm talking about when they was still
37:18
Speaker 2: the restoration of humanity and that humanity was in balance
37:22
Speaker 2: and that there was truth, just disorder, reciprocity, balanced, divine
37:26
Speaker 2: righteousness and army. That my odd right, that was going
37:30
Speaker 2: on because it wasn't always in the decline, but Chemites
37:34
Speaker 2: they've always believed in one supreme God, Deity, infinite Source, Creator,
37:42
Speaker 2: most High, or rather an expression of divine life force,
37:47
Speaker 2: and that stated in the book coming Forth from Darkness
37:51
Speaker 2: into Light. We know it is the pro tem rule,
37:53
Speaker 2: the really messed up title that they used for that book.
37:58
Speaker 2: And you'll see why many people may read this scriptural
38:01
Speaker 2: text that predates many other scriptural texts, and you can
38:05
Speaker 2: still find the teachings inscribed and stone, sometimes as deep
38:09
Speaker 2: as eight in's just in depth carvings. And that is
38:14
Speaker 2: the Egyptian Book of the Dead. See, if somebody calls
38:18
Speaker 2: a book anything, the Book of the Dead could be Egyptian,
38:21
Speaker 2: a Syrian, American for that matter. You're not really inclined.
38:25
Speaker 2: They're motivated to read that. When someone says coming forth
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Speaker 2: by light and today, or this is a book on
38:32
Speaker 2: the divine principles of life, you'd be more motivated to
38:36
Speaker 2: read that. However, in the Pertin room was revised six
38:43
Speaker 2: thousand years ago. Notice what the term here is it
38:45
Speaker 2: was revised, which means it existed more than six thousand
38:50
Speaker 2: years ago, because it was revised six thousand years ago.
38:54
Speaker 2: And I just think it's important that the spirit of
38:56
Speaker 2: life from the Creator exists in all things. Therefore we
39:00
Speaker 2: honor this manifestation of the Creator's life force raw in
39:04
Speaker 2: the sun. So see that gives a different take on Christmas,
39:08
Speaker 2: and a different take on illumination, and a different take
39:11
Speaker 2: on how we look at the cutosk or the Christ,
39:14
Speaker 2: the principle and the one just as just to provide
39:19
Speaker 2: some context, so that sometimes when persons, you know, I
39:22
Speaker 2: used to remember, you know, I grew up in a
39:23
Speaker 2: household where we didn't deal with man made obligatory revision,
39:27
Speaker 2: and so that way it looked a little different to
39:30
Speaker 2: many people. And I think it's important that there's also
39:34
Speaker 2: around this time you have people doing like cutost observances
39:39
Speaker 2: from the Winners Solstice coming into the beginning of the
39:42
Speaker 2: New year. We have persons that are celebrating doing positive
39:49
Speaker 2: reinforcing work in our respective communities and a really beautiful, loving,
39:55
Speaker 2: engaging way. I think it's really important that people that
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Speaker 2: don't know take a minute and learn, learn some principles
40:05
Speaker 2: that will help you in the long run. Learn some
40:09
Speaker 2: elements of what I'm about to share around Kwanza for
40:13
Speaker 2: those persons that are not familiar with Kwa and z Aa,
40:19
Speaker 2: Kuanza and Kwanza is a observance series of holy days,
40:26
Speaker 2: and it's really important that persons are comfortable and how
40:34
Speaker 2: we bring all of this together because people will think
40:41
Speaker 2: that Quanta is a black Christmas, and that's not what
40:44
Speaker 2: it is at all. Christmas has a very different grounding
40:49
Speaker 2: and meaning and it has grown to have different manifestations.
40:54
Speaker 2: So some people may not do the tree. Some people
40:57
Speaker 2: may not have an angel at the top of a tree.
41:00
Speaker 2: Some people don't do gifts until they are traumatized economically,
41:05
Speaker 2: some persons don't know all the Christmas carols, and then
41:09
Speaker 2: some of us know all the Christmas carols and never
41:11
Speaker 2: celebrate Christmas. How about that? And just because of hearing
41:14
Speaker 2: it over and over again and the frequency, and then
41:18
Speaker 2: no one has a problem with joy to the world.
41:21
Speaker 2: The Lord has come, Let Earth receive her King. I'm
41:25
Speaker 2: just nobody has a problem with that. That's something that
41:28
Speaker 2: we should welcome because we're talking about peace and prosperity
41:32
Speaker 2: and love and ultimately those other virtues you know, of
41:36
Speaker 2: respect and virtuousness and harmony. We're doing a lot of
41:41
Speaker 2: things that are supportive and within the realm of Quansa
41:47
Speaker 2: as an African American and holiday. And I want to
41:52
Speaker 2: make sure I specify that there's a well manifestation of
41:56
Speaker 2: Quansa that is very grounded and what came forth in
41:59
Speaker 2: the sixty coming out of the Civil rights and the
42:02
Speaker 2: Black Power movements, and not just giving African children an
42:07
Speaker 2: alternative to Christmas, but authentically using it as a time
42:11
Speaker 2: for our young people and not so young people to
42:15
Speaker 2: have intergenerational engagements with our families, our brothers and our
42:20
Speaker 2: sisters and our communities. So I want to use using
42:24
Speaker 2: a book here Quansa from Holiday to every Day, a
42:27
Speaker 2: complete guide for making qualms a part of your life
42:29
Speaker 2: by a new ancestress who didn't even Niteifa Angaza. May
42:37
Speaker 2: she rise of power and be respected for the great
42:40
Speaker 2: work that she's given. And I speak of this because
42:45
Speaker 2: I think it's important that she went around the country
42:48
Speaker 2: and around the Americas, from Canada to the South South America,
42:54
Speaker 2: reaching out to know and also in Eurasia in certain
42:58
Speaker 2: parts of Africa to find out where the Kwanta celebrations
43:03
Speaker 2: were being hosted in health. I think it's really important
43:08
Speaker 2: that what she has done for us is provided a combination,
43:15
Speaker 2: if you will, of what Kwanza represents. So she speaks
43:20
Speaker 2: of these fundamentals and I'm gonna use it from two
43:24
Speaker 2: different sources. So, Yes, it's the African American holiday. Yes
43:29
Speaker 2: it is observed from December twenty sixth to January firs.
43:34
Speaker 2: And yes, there are specific principles for each day from
43:38
Speaker 2: the twenty sixth to the first, and there are activities
43:42
Speaker 2: that are done each day, and the whole idea is
43:45
Speaker 2: to keep the community, keep our families, keep our individuals
43:51
Speaker 2: within our families, and those that are supportive of our societies,
43:58
Speaker 2: you know, and support frian upliftment, and support African unity
44:05
Speaker 2: and self determination. You see where we're going into the principle,
44:08
Speaker 2: So let me pause there. So there's seven principles. They
44:12
Speaker 2: refer to them as the Anguzo Saba, and I encourage
44:16
Speaker 2: persons to look for the film The Black Candle. The
44:20
Speaker 2: Black Candle is a up to date most actually dated now,
44:25
Speaker 2: but at the time it came it was produced in
44:29
Speaker 2: nineteen ninety one. For the reason Roman it was produced
44:34
Speaker 2: in two thousand and eight. I'm so glad that I'm
44:36
Speaker 2: catching myself because I wanted to see if I can
44:38
Speaker 2: find the actual link for everybody, for everybody to hear.
44:44
Speaker 2: But I think it's important to know that the young,
44:48
Speaker 2: well not that young now, but Mka Sante the second
44:52
Speaker 2: people were saying mk A Sante junior back then. He
44:55
Speaker 2: produced a film called The Black Candle and it gives
44:59
Speaker 2: a very it's a wonderful film to give a comprehensive
45:02
Speaker 2: understanding of Kwanza and the way that it has been
45:06
Speaker 2: practiced or not in the Americas and the rest of
45:10
Speaker 2: the world. So I encourage persons to look for The
45:13
Speaker 2: Black Candle and a very near future. I know it's
45:19
Speaker 2: a dated film. I'm sure that there's others that are
45:22
Speaker 2: more current, but I feel that you can I know
45:26
Speaker 2: that there's a version of The Black Candle on Vimeo.
45:29
Speaker 2: I believe that you can also get it through Amazon,
45:33
Speaker 2: and somebody may have it inside of the other platforms
45:37
Speaker 2: where you can be with. If you have an issue
45:39
Speaker 2: finding it, just email me at oz speaks at gmail
45:42
Speaker 2: dot com and by that time I will have the
45:44
Speaker 2: link for you so that you can see, you know,
45:48
Speaker 2: get a chance to see the full movie. It's I
45:51
Speaker 2: think it's important for people to get an idea of
45:56
Speaker 2: what Kwansa is and right because I'm pretty sure that
46:01
Speaker 2: you can see it on Amazon does have it available,
46:04
Speaker 2: but I know that there was another space that provide
46:09
Speaker 2: on YouTube that someone had the movie for free. I
46:13
Speaker 2: believe even with a complex p L e X is
46:16
Speaker 2: another option that you could use as well. But The
46:20
Speaker 2: Black Candle does a variety of things that they be
46:24
Speaker 2: useful for persons that want. It's a very engaging documentary
46:30
Speaker 2: that shows how Kwanza helps to celebrate the African American experience,
46:37
Speaker 2: and not just from a space of enslavement and colonization,
46:40
Speaker 2: but from a space of royality and the regal humanitarian
46:46
Speaker 2: values that are integral to the African community globally. Right,
46:52
Speaker 2: So I think it's really important that you can find
46:54
Speaker 2: that kind of information out but in the meantime, in
46:56
Speaker 2: between times while we go through system on God's's publications.
47:02
Speaker 2: The seven principles of Quanta, as I mentioned earlier, being guzosima.
47:08
Speaker 2: December twenty sixth, day one. The principle is eumoja in
47:15
Speaker 2: English its unity to keep us, so that we're dealing
47:17
Speaker 2: with unification within our communities, within our families, within ourselves,
47:23
Speaker 2: within our places of work, worship, and recreation, and that
47:27
Speaker 2: we're always focusing on to the best of our ability, family, community, nation,
47:33
Speaker 2: and our African ethnicity being celebrated and honored, not watered down,
47:39
Speaker 2: not sanitized, but celebrated and honored. December twenty seventh, day two.
47:46
Speaker 2: The quantu principle is kuji Jagualiyah. I'll say that's slower
47:50
Speaker 2: pu ge chi gu liah, just like how its spelled
47:55
Speaker 2: kuchi jagualia, right, And that in English is self determination
48:00
Speaker 2: just being able to decree and define ourselves our names,
48:06
Speaker 2: our power, our businesses, our entrepreneurial elements, for ourselves, speak
48:12
Speaker 2: for ourselves, share our own voice, tell our own truth,
48:16
Speaker 2: and do it unconditionally and unapologetically, and not with the
48:23
Speaker 2: vibration of antagonizing or harming anyone else, but just elevating
48:29
Speaker 2: ourselves to the point of positivity and the restoration of
48:34
Speaker 2: our humanity. December twenty eighth, day three. The Quanta principle
48:43
Speaker 2: is ujima. Ujima means collective work and responsibility, which is
48:48
Speaker 2: self explanatory because we're talking about the maintenance and the
48:52
Speaker 2: sustainable building, not just building, but the sustainable, comprehensive, collective,
49:03
Speaker 2: cooperative collaborative. Keep using those words engagement, engagements that keeps
49:11
Speaker 2: our community together so that we can make our sisters
49:16
Speaker 2: and brothers affairs and problems ours in the space of
49:21
Speaker 2: helping one another, not in the space of criticizing and
49:24
Speaker 2: tearing down each other. No craps in the barrel in
49:28
Speaker 2: the bucket for this one, right, So the whole idea
49:31
Speaker 2: is that we begin to solve things together. So here
49:35
Speaker 2: we go. December twenty ninth, day four. The quans of
49:42
Speaker 2: principle is ujama. Ujama means cooperative economics. We've already led
49:50
Speaker 2: ourselves into that one, building and maintaining and sustainably organizing
49:56
Speaker 2: and strengthening our own businesses, our own entrepreneurial efforts, whether
50:02
Speaker 2: it's a shop, a school, a not for profit organization,
50:08
Speaker 2: of philanthropic support, syst all of that so that we
50:12
Speaker 2: can profit from these things together. Day five, December thirtieth.
50:20
Speaker 2: The quans of principle is nea purpose. We're making sure
50:25
Speaker 2: that our collective works and responsibilities and buildings and developments
50:33
Speaker 2: within our community restore our people to their sacred and
50:37
Speaker 2: sovereign spaces of authority and engagement that restore love, that
50:42
Speaker 2: restore harmony, that restore my eyt. Remember what my iut
50:47
Speaker 2: is truth, just disorder, reciprocity, balance, divine righteousness, and harmony.
50:53
Speaker 2: But that mud Day six, December thirty first, the quans
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Speaker 2: of principle is koumba, and koumba in English close translation
51:08
Speaker 2: is creativity. And this is where we do all that
51:12
Speaker 2: we can, in all the ways that we can to
51:16
Speaker 2: keep the creative force, the creative source, the creative engagements,
51:22
Speaker 2: the innovations at the center of the work that we're
51:26
Speaker 2: doing for self, family, community, nation, society, humanity, and the
51:35
Speaker 2: plant kingdom and the mineral kingdom and the animal Kingdom.
51:39
Speaker 2: I'm gonna say that all of that is part of
51:43
Speaker 2: that creativity day seven January that I get I did
51:50
Speaker 2: it right yes day seven January first is the principle,
51:58
Speaker 2: the quans of principle of Imani and Imani is faith.
52:04
Speaker 2: And this is where people deal with their beliefs that's
52:08
Speaker 2: in their heart for their people and the in its source,
52:11
Speaker 2: and for our parents and for our teachers, and for
52:14
Speaker 2: our elders and all of the people, and our leaders
52:18
Speaker 2: that are our leaders, not misleaders, not appointed misfits that
52:25
Speaker 2: claim to be leaders, but the leaders that authentically and
52:30
Speaker 2: with humanitarian flair and grace lead our people them there
52:37
Speaker 2: we're looking for righteousness and victory in our struggle, and
52:42
Speaker 2: faith for some is only tied to believing things authentic
52:50
Speaker 2: and grounded. Faith for others is knowing beyond belief, but
52:59
Speaker 2: knowing So again, we've covered those in Guzosava those from
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Speaker 2: December twenty sixth through January first. Those principles Day one
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Speaker 2: Eumoja Unity, Day two, Kuji Jakulia Self Determination, Day three
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Speaker 2: Ujima Collective work and Responsibility, Day four, Ujama Cooperative Economics,
53:29
Speaker 2: Day five, Nia Purpose, Day six Koumba Creativity, and Day
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Speaker 2: seven Imani Faith. And then knowing that in the midst
53:41
Speaker 2: of all of this, as we get ready to close,
53:46
Speaker 2: I pulled from yet another publication. I know this felt
53:48
Speaker 2: like it was a lesson planned, but no, I just
53:51
Speaker 2: figured that it would be important to give persons some
53:54
Speaker 2: resources that they can leave from this session and just
54:00
Speaker 2: check out on your own. You'll have a little bit
54:02
Speaker 2: of time while you're celebrating with family, friends and loved
54:06
Speaker 2: ones to keep our focus and to keep my charge
54:13
Speaker 2: in my So I'm using another publication, a pretty comprehensive
54:18
Speaker 2: one called the Spiritual Warriors Are Healers. The Spiritual Warriors
54:24
Speaker 2: are Healers. And this is by doctor Infandishi, Jihuchis katten
54:30
Speaker 2: Hiro Hassan Selim, doctor Infandisi, m f U and d
54:36
Speaker 2: I s Hi. If you just remember doctor Infandisi, you
54:40
Speaker 2: can google him, Google Scholar, Snapchat, Instagram, x Facebook and
54:49
Speaker 2: you can find doctor Infandish and in his chapter. He
54:54
Speaker 2: has a total chapter here on Kwanza, a re Africanization
54:58
Speaker 2: ritual which is very different point of departure than just
55:02
Speaker 2: making it look like a black Christmas and putting up red,
55:05
Speaker 2: black and green and a canara. And I want to
55:10
Speaker 2: make sure that people know a canara and African kwansa
55:13
Speaker 2: canara is very different than a Jewish knica symbol. I
55:21
Speaker 2: think it's really important to remember that when we talk
55:25
Speaker 2: about that energy of the knowledge that comes with that
55:29
Speaker 2: and the prosperity that comes with that. So I'd like
55:32
Speaker 2: to just take a moment very quickly and share those
55:35
Speaker 2: I talked about in Guzzosava. But I also would be
55:39
Speaker 2: remiss if I excluded the common values and practices that
55:45
Speaker 2: are connected to Kwanta as well. And in his book
55:48
Speaker 2: he highlights and then doctor Finici's work, he speaks of
55:53
Speaker 2: the harvesting, reverence, commemtion, recommitment, and celebration. So it's not
56:07
Speaker 2: you just come together just to celebrate. It's like you're
56:10
Speaker 2: doing a report of everything you've done from December twenty
56:14
Speaker 2: sixth last year to December twenty sixth this year, and
56:18
Speaker 2: what and those are the people that are part of
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Speaker 2: your celebration. Those are the people that you're doing your
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Speaker 2: feast with. Those are the people that each day you're
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Speaker 2: highlighting a particular principle of quass to share it. So
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Speaker 2: on e Modia, we're gonna do what were the things
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Speaker 2: that we did together that support a unity through the year,
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Speaker 2: and celebrate that on the second day kuji Jagalia, where
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Speaker 2: we're honoring self determination. What are the things that we've
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Speaker 2: been involved in collectively from last year to know to
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Speaker 2: then celebrate and highlight and make it a reunion if
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Speaker 2: you will, to celebrate that, Okay, and then you continue
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Speaker 2: forward all the way to Bemani faith on the seventh
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Speaker 2: day and usual the other seventh days where the gifts
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Speaker 2: the zawadi usually handmade things, things that are grown in
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Speaker 2: your yard, things that you've crafted yourself, things that you've
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Speaker 2: created and put together for yourself, creative baskets, foods, preparing
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Speaker 2: food together, playing traditional games together. Those types of things
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Speaker 2: are the zawadi the gifts. But again it's harvesting, reverence, commemoration,
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Speaker 2: recommitment and celebration. And in the new year, we will
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Speaker 2: spend some time and perhaps on our special December thirty
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Speaker 2: first broadcasts here with the Crew podcast as we close
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Speaker 2: out the twenty twenty four year prepare for season three
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Speaker 2: in twenty twenty five. It'll give people an opportunity to
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Speaker 2: really know truth to power and to speak on what
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Speaker 2: do you really going to resolve to do differently to
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Speaker 2: improve not only the quality of your life, the quality
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Speaker 2: I usually would have a guest, but I realized I
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