No KKKolonizers, Still Thankful

I am so damn thankful. It would be ridiculous for me not to acknowledge how thankful I am to be where I am at, to be doing the work that I am doing, to have people around me that I love and love me. I can’t bring myself to say no to the idea of thanksgiving, because in the truest sense and really the way I was introduced to what thanksgiving means, is rooted in my Afrikan traditions.

I grew up hearing thanksgiving wasn’t a day but a lifestyle; an everyday way to honor God and the people around you. See while for many thanksgiving is about one day out of the year to make time for and celebrate their family, thanksgiving is a practice that Afrikan and Indigenous People have lived by for centuries.

Eating together, sharing, taking time to reflect on what one should be thankful for; those are key components to how we should be living. Those are also practices that our People have done long before kkkolonization, so why should we allow europeans to prevert our thinking, culture and values? As Ture says, “the first need of a free people is to define their own terms.” So why are we still allowing kkkolonizers to define anything for us?

Since the beginning of euro-kkkolonial imperialism we have accepted their definitions of everything: nigger, Black, religion, and more. But what that does is erase the history of our People, it takes away any contribution our People have made to the world and the understanding of those things, as we are adopting our enemy’s ideology. But I believe now is the time for us to reclaim…