Kwanzaa 2018
b'KWANZAA IS A FESTIVALOF HARVEST AND celebration\\xa0\\xa0 of the Good,\\xa0\\xa0 the\\xa0\\xa0 shared good, the shared goodof field and forest, of fruit tree and flower, the shared good of wind and waters, rainfall and riverflow, of life and all\\xa0 living\\xa0 things,\\xa0 in\\xa0 a\\xa0 word,\\xa0 the\\xa0 shared\\xa0 good of the world in all its wonderful abundance.\\n\\nAt the very heart and center of the celebration\\n\\nof Kwanzaa is the ethical imperative and so-cial\\xa0 obligation\\xa0 of\\xa0 the\\xa0 cooperative\\xa0 creation and sharing of an inclusive Good. This prin-\\n\\nciple and related practice are rooted in itsan-cient\\xa0 origins the\\xa0 African\\xa0 harvest\\xa0 and\\xa0 the\\n\\ncommunitarian\\xa0 worldview\\xa0 and\\xa0 way\\xa0 of\\xa0 life that undergirded and informed it. The ancient roots of Kwanzaa in the shared African har-vest\\xa0 and\\xa0 the\\xa0 celebration\\xa0 of\\xa0 it,\\xa0 immediately bring to mind the sacred teachings given to us by\\xa0 our\\xa0 honored\\xa0 ancestors\\xa0 in\\xa0 the\\n\\nOdu\\xa0 Ifa which\\xa0 tells\\xa0 and\\xa0 teaches\\xa0 us\\xa0 we\\xa0 are\\xa0 to\\xa0 con-stantly strive and struggle to bring good into\\n\\nthe\\xa0 world,\\xa0 share\\xa0 it\\xa0 and\\xa0 not\\xa0 let\\xa0 any\\xa0 good\\xa0 be loss DR MAULANA KARENGA'