[AnAmericanMother]

How about "The Pledge" - straight from Marcus Garvey, BTW:

WE PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE RED, BLACK, AND GREEN, OUR FLAG, THE SYMBOL OF OUR ETERNAL STRUGGLE, AND TO THE LAND WE MUST OBTAIN; ONE NATION OF BLACK PEOPLE, WITH ONE GOD OF US ALL, TOTALLY UNITED IN THE STRUGGLE, FOR BLACK LOVE, BLACK FREEDOM, AND BLACK SELF-DETERMINATION

If that's a "harvest festival", I'm the Queen of Sheba.

[tcuoohjohn]

Well...Ya Know..That may have been Karenga's desire but he failed. I have attended Kwanzaa festivals on three occasions and never heard such a Marcus Garvey Pledge. Now perhaps my hosts, an civil engineer and a school teacher cleverly deleted the diabolical marxist-collectivist rant from the rituals with the intent of later dancing arround a tricolor flag with AK-47's and machetes but I kinda doubt it. The current Kwanzaa liturgical forms don't contain that either. Now I suspect that there may be those who would wish to turn Kwanzaa into a political ritual both on the right and the left. They have both failed fortunately.

[cyborg]

Some people just don't get it do they?