***Being "woke" is keeping the big picture in mind, as we navigate neo-colonialism (neo simply means new and colonialism means the economic and cultural power of one group against a distinct people. e.g. America, the former enslavers of Blacks and indigenous people.)
A Look at the December Holidays
Christmas (Dec 25): Christian holiday celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ, with traditions of trees, lights, and gift-giving.(Critique: it’s not really Y’Shua’s (Jesus’s) birthday, but it bolsters year-end economic bottom lines for corporations thru massive consumer consumption.)
Kwanzaa (Dec 26 - Jan 1): A cultural celebration of African-American heritage, focusing on unity, family, and community, with principles like Umoja (unity) and feasts (Karamu). (Critique: celebrated during the same period as Xmas to awaken a critical analysis amongst Black people surrounding the commercialism of Xmas, and the need for unity and cultural awareness in our community.)
Hanukkah (8 days, varies): Celebrates the Maccabean's (a priestly family of Jews) revolt against the Greeks and the Greek cultural influence over them, in the 2nd century. It involves lighting the menorah candles and eating oil-fried foods. (Critique: deemed emblematic of the white European cultural grab of Black history. While inter-mixing of Black/Caucasian people did occur over the millennia, resulting in Caucasian-looking modern Jews, the current Ashkenazi deleting of the Black Hebrew roots, of the religion and culture, is vilified (critiqued) by woke Blacks -- e.g. Movies, often financed by Jews, ignore the primary source realities of the Chaldeans, Persians, Babylonians, and Egyptians prior to the emergence of whites.) Sources of Black history are evidence-based depictions and Gen. 10:6... ., the table of nations, Ham's descendants -- Gen. 10:22 Shem and the Elamites, who were the Persians, where the Chaldeans and Abraham derived.
Thing is, Christmas has fallen victim to the demands of capitalism! And sadly, the moment Hallmark Cards saw the profit potential of Kwanzaa, the celebration started losing its spiritual meaning! I remember attending very private & tight knit Kwanzaa gatherings in Harlem & Brooklyn in the mid-90s, and how uplifting the experience was; then Kwanzaa critics, like Henry Louis Gates, started writing opinion pieces putting down the celebration. Ever since, part of the celebration started losing its appeal. Also, the growing commercialism of Kwanzaa became a turn off to many.
One positive development: in terms of ancient Black Hebrew roots, its no longer a taboo subject as social media - including YouTube, TikTok etc - continue to give voice to those exposing such suppressed bits of history. Let's see how long the power elites are gonna tolerate or allow such discussions. The truth is an offense to some.
Right Les, Christmas has become a commercialize festival of consumption, but that doesn't make it any less illegitimate or any less harmful in my opinion. Christmas is really a holiday celebrating the western civilisation, thats what it is, more than anything else. And as such appropriately its based entirely on lie upon lie, fabrication upon fabrication, and on the complete mutilation of historical and prophetic reality.
Christmas is about upholding the foundational false narrative of the West. A narrative that has been responsible of the spilling of oceans of bloods. In reality Christmas is a holiday celebrating the triumph of Jesus's enemies who succeded in corrupting his message and his mission--> Not to mention the lie about his date of birth, and they keep celebrating a festival that Jesus himself would have prohibited.
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Nothing to disagree with here!
Thing is, Christmas has fallen victim to the demands of capitalism! And sadly, the moment Hallmark Cards saw the profit potential of Kwanzaa, the celebration started losing its spiritual meaning! I remember attending very private & tight knit Kwanzaa gatherings in Harlem & Brooklyn in the mid-90s, and how uplifting the experience was; then Kwanzaa critics, like Henry Louis Gates, started writing opinion pieces putting down the celebration. Ever since, part of the celebration started losing its appeal. Also, the growing commercialism of Kwanzaa became a turn off to many.
One positive development: in terms of ancient Black Hebrew roots, its no longer a taboo subject as social media - including YouTube, TikTok etc - continue to give voice to those exposing such suppressed bits of history. Let's see how long the power elites are gonna tolerate or allow such discussions. The truth is an offense to some.
Not to mention the lie about his date of birth, and they keep celebrating a festival that Jesus himself would have prohibited. 
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