Posted on 12/22/2013 5:36:37 AM PST by bigtoona
Magic 8 Ball says: “Very likely.”
First a bit of history. Kwanzaa was concocted in 1966 by a black supremacist communist named Maulana Karenga (aka: Robert McKinley Everett) as an alternative to the white European holiday of Christmas.
Kwanzaa, the Swahili word for “harvest” is as phony as it’s creator’s adopted name. No such celebration ever existed in Africa, in fact, during the time of the so-called ‘African harvest festival’ here in America it’s the middle of the growing season in Africa. Apparently geography wasn’t one of Karenga’s strong suits.
In 2006 Karenga maintained that his invented holiday is celebrated worldwide by 28 million people. However, a 2004 poll found that only about 4.7 million blacks planned to observe the holiday here in the US and only 12 million worldwide. In 2011 that number dropped to 2 million and this year it’s estimated that only 250,000 will be taking part.
It’s interesting to note that the Obama family who, despite their claims of being Christian, don’t celebrate Christmas and despite their political leanings, they don’t celebrate Kwanzaa either. In fact the only holiday that the Obama’s routinely pay respects to is Ramadan by throwing a yearly White House dinner to mark the end of the Muslim month of fasting. Draw your own conclusions.
I have some theories why Kwanzaa never caught on with mainstream blacks here in the US. To start with many older blacks are decidedly Christian. Secondly, Christmas is fun, the lights, the festivities, the gifts. Thirdly, for those younger secular blacks so enured to the hip-hop culture, the idea of sitting around contemplating hard work and personal responsibility leaves much to be desired, especially when they have video games like ‘Grand Theft Auto’ sitting under the tree.
The bottom line is that there is nothing contrived by Communists that ever stands the test of time. Largely this is because everything about Communism violates human nature and commonsense.
Read more at http://blurbrain.com/is-kwanzaa-fading-away/#mFpcVzzuQOvhyTlj.99
Screwed up the title when I was pasting whoops
Sadly the school administrators in my part of PA are riding it strong.
Karenga also did 10 years for torturing a pair of women that he was convinced were trying to turn him into the police.
The only thing I know about qwanza, comes through a recording of someone named Shirley Q. Liquor.
LOL!!
Ron Karenga was my professor at Cal State
I hadn’t thought about that, but you’re right. Plus, I haven’t seen an kwanza crap on TV commercials or in stores, either.
Yep, only an obese homosexual transvestite could perform in blackface and mock black culture like "Shirley" does.
Oh no!! What will I do with the Kwanzaa wrapping paper that my husband accidentally purchased 10 years ago? (which is a bit odd as kwanzaa is not suppose to be about gift giving & commercialism)
About 10 years ago, my husband realized at 6pm on Christmas Eve, that there was no wrapping paper left for him to wrap my gifts (I do all the rest days before), so at 6pm, on December 24th, he sets out on a journey to find some.
After driving around for an hour, the only store that he could find at the time that was open and still had wrapping paper was a now-defunct K-Mart on the borders of New Haven, CT. So, he heads into the frenzied mass of last minute shoppers a highly diverse crowd, and grabs anything that looks like wrapping paper fro the almost empty holiday section and heads to the long lines at the checkout.
When he get to the checkout lines, he’s deciding between two long lines and something told him to get into the slightly longer line, which, as you will see in a minute, is a good thing. As the line slowly snakes to the cashiers, a fight breaks out behind my husband as two black women with shopping carts full of gifts get into an argument over who cut ahead of who in line.
So the store manager goes over and tries, unsuccessfully, to calm the situation down. In the meantime, my husband is one person away from the cashier, when he notices that the cashier in the line that he almost got into has taken the money from the customer that she was ringing out, but heads over to help the hapless store manager and the two angry black women before she gives the customer back his change. So, this poor guy is left standing at the register, somewhat bewildered.
At that point, the cashier who was about to ring out my husband’s wrapping paper turns to the poor guy and says “Oh, she’s having an affair with him.” (meaning the now AWOL cashier and the being-attacked-by-both-black-women manager). I guess that was suppose to make the guy feel better about not receiving his change.
So, my husband pays for the wrapping paper and hightails it on out of there just as the police were arriving. When he gets home, it’s 9PM and I’m worried about what may have happened to him as his quick trip to the store has turned into a 3 hour tour (this was prior to cellphone texting days). As he’s telling me his tale, I look at the wrapping paper and I tell him, “That’s not Christmas wrapping paper.” And he said “It was all they had left in the holiday section.” At first, we thought it might have been Hanukkah paper because of the 7 candles, but the color was black and green and red, not blue and silver. I finally said, “That’s Kwanzaa wrapping paper.” Sure enough, on the label, “Kawnzaa paper.”
Anyway, we still have the paper and my husband’s adventures that night have become part of our family history!
That was a very interesting story! Thanks. And Merry Christmas to you!
Kwanzaa was concocted in 1966 by a black supremacist communist named Maulana Karenga (aka: Robert McKinley Everett)... the Swahili word for “harvest” is as phony as it’s creator’s adopted name. No such celebration ever existed in Africa, in fact, during the time of the so-called ‘African harvest festival’ here in America it’s the middle of the growing season in Africa... It’s interesting to note that the Obama family who, despite their claims of being Christian, don’t celebrate Christmas and despite their political leanings, they don’t celebrate Kwanzaa either. In fact the only holiday that the Obama’s routinely pay respects to is Ramadan by throwing a yearly White House dinner to mark the end of the Muslim month of fasting.IOW, ramadan is the new kwanzaa. Thanks bigtoona.
I said the other day that it has been such a good season without all that kwanzza hooey.
More people celebrate Festivus than Kwanzaa.
I looked for Kwanzaa cards in Walgreens a few years ago but could not find them after their being there just a few years earlier. We can live without Kwanzaa...even the explanation of it yields a headache...
Charles Martel!
Green Beans, sir!
bttt
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.
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