Posted on 12/28/2010 7:25:09 AM PST by jmaroneps37
On the day before Christmas in 1971 the New York Times ran an article about a new “holiday” called Kwanzaa that was invented by a Black separatist named Ron Everett. Everett now uses the made up “African” name Maulana Ron Karenga to show the world he wants nothing to do with White America.
That Mr. Karenga was in a California prison doing a one to ten year stretch for illegally imprisoning and maiming two Black women he thought were plotting to kill him meant nothing to the Times. They didn’t want to talk about how their new hero had been certified as a paranoid schizophrenic by a court, so they didn’t.
Karenga calls his new “holiday” Kwanzaa, a Swahili phrase meaning “first fruits” because he maintains it is a harvest festival. The truth, however, has a very different ring. Kwanzaa is Karenga’s answer to Christmas. He would like nothing better than to see Kwanzaa actually become the “Black Christmas” he has always fantasized about.
In his 1977 book on Kwanzaa, Karenga said “[it]…was chosen to give a Black alternative to the existing holiday and give Blacks an opportunity to celebrate themselves and history, rather than simply imitate the practice of the dominant [White] society.”
Upon hearing of the new “holiday”, a young unknown Al Sharpton commented that Kwanzaa “would perform the valuable service of “de-whitizing” Christmas.” The idea that Kwanzaa is a harvest festival is bogus. Harvests don’t happen in December, not even in Karenga’s make believe version of Africa.
The closest thing to a Kwanzaa like festival in Africa is the Yam Festival held yearly in Ghana and Nigeria at the beginning of August, yet Kwanzaa is celebrated each year between December 26 and January 1.
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The best explanation I heard for Kwanzaa is by Shirley Q. Liquor.
If you hear anyone say “Happy Kwanzaa” please correct them immediately, and say “THE CORRECT GREETING IS HAPPY HOLIDAYS, YOU SHOULD SAY THAT”.
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Two can play that game.
WRONG!!!
If the phrase “Merry Christmas” dies it means that all Christians have been assassinated including ME. I use Merry Christmas even if someone else doesn't not!
I´m Noahchide, I guess. But I say ¨Merry Christmas¨ to everyone I encounter, and that would include any ROPers. If they don´t like it, that´s just too bad.
“But I say ¨Merry Christmas¨ to everyone I encounter, and that would include any ROPers. If they don´t like it, that´s just too bad.”
I don’t think “Merry Christmas” is as upsetting to Muslims as it is to atheists, since Muslims do recognize Jesus in some form at least. I even took a cab ride on Christmas day from a Muslim gentleman who put on Christmas music on the radio and commented on how much he liked the songs because they were very calming!
There already is Black History Month and MLKing Jr’s birthday, if you need a black pride/history celebration.
I just finished an audiobook about King’s assassination and the hunt for his killer. King—not sure but he may have been a registered Republican, going back to Lincoln’s civil rights moves—was seen as a non-violent man who was pushing for civil rights, etc.—in his last months was trying to organize a bit sit-in in Wash DC which would have caused disruptions. It was almost like “blacks got their civil rights, but now they’re still poor...” As the author (Hampton Sides) talked about King’s movement, later picked up by others etc., it almost sounded more like the yes-we-can-get-the govt to spend big bucks message of Obama. King may have been a Republican (again, not sure) for civil rights and morals but sounded like a moonbat at the end
Anyway you do have MLK Day etc (I remember the move to make MLK Day a holiday, and Stevie Wonder did a “Happy Birthday” song in celebration)
On the second day of Kwanzaa Karenga gave to me
Two Jaily birds,
And a Marxist in a red tree.
On the third day of Kwanzaa Karenga gave to me
Three Dixie Chicks.
Two Jaily birds,
And a Marxist in a red tree.
On the fourth day of Kwanzaa Karenga gave to me
Four Lenin busts.
Three Dixie Chicks,
Two Jaily birds,
And a Marxist in a red tree.
On the fifth day of Kwanzaa Karenga gave to me
Five fel-on-ies.
Four Lenin busts,
Three Dixie Chicks,
Two Jaily birds,
And a Marxist in a red tree.
On the sixth day of Kwanzaa Karenga gave to me
Six Castro jumpsuits.
Five fel-on-ies,
Four Lenin busts,
Three Dixie Chicks,
Two Jaily birds,
And a Marxist in a red tree.
On the seventh day of Kwanzaa Karenga gave to me
Seven Mao pajamas,
Six Castro jumpsuits,
Five fel-on-ies,
Four Lenin busts
Three Dixie Chicks,
Two Jaily birds,
And a Marxist in a red tree.
Merry Christmas won’t die as long as my office is open.
With our patients. we deploy “Merry Christmas” early and often throughout Decemeber, and are still using it today.
After all, December 25th is just the FIRST day of CHRISTmas.
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