I chose this topic because slavery and the gap of knowledge, wisdom, and understanding, associated with the slave trade and colonialism (the development of a new dictatorship), fractured our existence as Africans in America. This episode focuses on our inability (whether forced or voluntarily) to speak on a tradition or traditions we can explain to other ethnic groups. KWANZAA did not reach the masses as Maulana Karenga intended. He recognized that African Americans should have/needed a tradition, with meaning and purpose, to be able to celebrate and explain. Are we too fractured to agree on our existence?