| As we celebrate Kwanzaa this year and
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| | a community is reborn. Bankers live with
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| every year, let's also remember the 7
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| | engineers, students, and nurses who heal
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| principles of Kwanzaa and how they can
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| | wounds and bring them back to health -
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| help to build, sustain and revive the
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| | when they can return to bring back their
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| communities affected by the victims of
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| | talents
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| Hurricane Katrina. I and others that I
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| | to cause the economy to grow, study to
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| know have special ties with New Orleans
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| | become doctors, and engineer power
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| after being raised in southeast Texas -
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| | supplies, cars, sewing machines, and
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| with New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Lake
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| | other tools to stimulate our communities
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| Charles and other cities in Lousiana
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| | to life.Ujamaa means Cooperative
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| being a stones throw away from our back
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| | Economics, where we put our pennies
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| yard. As such I feel that the 7
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| | together to make dollars, dollars to make
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| principles of Kwanzaa need to be an
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| | hundreds, thousands and millions - sooner
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| essential part of rebuilding the
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| | than if we all went our separate ways.Nia
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| communities of our next door neighbors as
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| | in english means Purpose - why we are all
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| a true testament to the spirit of
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| | together in this one place, in this one
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| Kwanzaa.Habari gani, the daily greeting
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| | country, on this continent, this planet,
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| is Swahili for 'What is the News' - to
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| | this galaxy - to have a single purpose.
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| keep our community's collective mind on
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| | Together.Kuumba is creativity - creating
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| the rebuilding of the communities
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| | bricks without straw, feeding families on
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| affected by the hurricanes. So that they
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| | bread and peanut butter, teaching
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| are not forgotten in our prayers and
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| | children with paper, pencil and wisdom.
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| efforts as we go about our daily lives
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| | Rebuilding a community that was once a
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| and that their lives are returned to
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| | group of people together from
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| them. Our people throught history have
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| | nothing.Imani is Faith - 'The Just shall
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| weathered many times where communities
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| | live by faith'. Live and keep going when
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| were
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| | you have nothing but you own life to show
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| destroyed by natural and unnatural
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| | that you are alive. 'Now faith is the
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| forces and we have always returned and
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| | substance of things hoped for, the
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| rebuilt to become better and
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| | evidence of things unseen'. We have to
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| brighter.Umoja means Unity and that one
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| | have hope that our communities can be
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| word signifies the strength of what has
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| | rebuilt, and see them being rebuilt even
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| given us the means of rebuilding,
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| | when there may not be anyone listening to
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| reinforcing and reinventing our
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| | our cries of help to rebuild.If ever the
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| communities from ashes, whirlwinds,
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| | principles of Kwanzaa have more meaning
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| floods, wars and other types of
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| | and need to be not only recited but
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| destruction.Kujichagulia means
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| | practiced, rehearsed and applied it is in
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| Self-Determination, the spirit that
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| | this year when those 7 principles seem to
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| survives when everything else has been
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| | be needed the most.Daviyd Peterson:
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| taken away by whatever means. The same
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| | 10-year consultant, instructor, trainer
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| spirit that uses broken bricks, even
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| | of digital divide solutions for home and
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| bricks without straw to build again and
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| | business.
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| again to give our children a community to
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| | Helps African American and minority SME
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| grow up and foster their own spirit of
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| | bridge the digital
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| Self-Determination.Ujima means Collective
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| | divide by becoming wireless Small
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| Work, when carpenters live with bakers
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| | Business Enterprises
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| and seamstresses who feed and clothe them
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| | Offices (SBEs).
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| while they build one home at a time until
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