Unity – Umoja (oo-MO-jah) – To strive for and maintain unity in the family, community, nation and race.

When Karenga, the creator of Kwanzaa made the first principle, the race he speaks of here is not the human race but the BLACK race.  This is a major reason why none of us should have anything to do with Kwanzaa because the first principle makes it clear that unity is determined by the color of one’s skin.  Not any other common factor.

Karenga made those intentions quite clear in his first book on Kwanzaa when he said:

“The key crisis in the Black life is…the critical lack of a coherent system of views and values that would give them a moral, material and meaningful interpretation of life.”  (page 20 in my book, The Truth About Kwanzaa)

Because of believing that Black people lack values for morality that could provide a meaningful life (a slap in the face of our God, and the atoning death and resurrection of Jesus Christ and His book of values to us, the Bible), Karenga created his own system of values called the seven principles or the Nguzo Saba.

So he starts with principle one in unity.  Of course for the Christian, there can be no true unity if there’s no agreement in how to be unified. How we believe in God is the first and unifying point in how we should live. If we don’t agree with that, then there is no true unity:

14Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness? 15What harmony is there between Christ and Belial? What does a believer have in common with an unbeliever? 16What agreement is there between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said: “I will live with them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be my people.” 17“Therefore come out from them
and be separate, says the Lord.  2 Corinthians 6:14-17

We are to separate ourselves from anything that is not of God. He doesn’t mean to find a place to live separately from unbelievers, but not to participate in ungodly things.  The first principle of Kwanzaa is just the beginning of eye-opening reasons why Kwanzaa is urged to be forsaken by anyone calling themselves a Christian.

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More about Kwanzaa in the eBook:  The Truth About Kwanzaa

© 2009, Carlotta Morrow. All rights reserved.

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