Posted on 12/26/2017 7:49:39 AM PST by PROCON
self contradictory: a holiday for blacks that has unity as one of its principles
Thank John and Yoko for the inspiration.
Black Folks have Kwanza and Festivus is for the rest of us.
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 ’Lectric cords.
Two Jaily birds,
And a Marxist in a red tree.
On the fourth day of Kwanzaa Karenga gave to me
Four Lenin busts.
Three ’Lectric cords,
Two Jaily birds,
And a Marxist in a red tree.
On the fifth day of Kwanzaa Karenga gave to me
Five Golden pliers.
Four Lenin busts,
Three ’Lectric cords,
Two Jaily birds,
And a Marxist in a red tree.
On the sixth day of Kwanzaa Karenga gave to me
Six Castro jumpsuits.
Five Golden pliers,
Four Lenin busts,
Three ’Lectric cords,
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 Golden pliers,
Four Lenin busts
Three ’Lectric cords,
Two Jaily birds,
And a Marxist in a red tree.
That is true. Chanukkah is a minor holiday on a par with Purim, yet it's been blown up into a major holiday to the point that non-Jewish calendars always include it, even as they completely ignore Shavu`ot and Sukkot (and Purim, which has never become the "Jewish St. Patrick's Day").
This is for several reasons. First, the solar new year (winter solstice) is a universal celebration and lies at the heart of many of the holidays that have been celebrated at this time of year. Chrstmas itself is actually a relatively minor chrstian holiday (the really big chrstian holiday is the other one . . . the one that often falls around Pesach). Yet it is chrstmas that has become the great annual celebration marking the turning of another year. "Pascha" falls in spring, which isn't nearly the marker in the year that December is. So the solar new year inflated chrstmas into a major holiday just as chrstmas later inflated Chanukkah into a major holiday.
Another reason is that the origins of Chanukkah are not to be found in Protestant versions of the chrstian bible. This makes it a holiday that the "rednecks" didn't learn about in Sunday school, and secular but identitarian Jews get to instruct those graduates in a post-Biblical holiday.
Finally, the war to restore unadulterated Torah observance bears a false but superficial resemblance to modern post-"enlightenment" struggles for "religious freedom" (ie, total religious relativism). Actually, the origins of Chanukkah took place within a totally Theocratic context, not one of modern multiculturalism. Plus even more than the Greeks, the Chashmonaim fought against liberal Hellenistic Jews in what was primarily a Jewish civil war (fundamentalists vs. liberals, and the fundamentalists were the good guys). The war begian when Mattityahu, Judah's father, saw a fellow Jew "exercising his right" to worship in a forbidden manner, at which point he (Mattityahu) cut his head off. Not exactly the best start for a story allegedly about integrating neighborhoods or coming to realize that all religions are equally fairy tales.
I once cynically described American liberal Jews' Chanukkah as being the celebration of the anniversary of when Thomas Jefferson received the "Bill of Rights" on Mt. Rushmore.
At any rate, it's a very minor holiday. The only real commandment connected with it is lighting the lights and publicizing the miracle. There are additions to the `Amidah (the main Jewish prayer) and the prayer after meals, but in the same places that the Purim additions occur, and not the place where special prayers are inserted for the actual Torah-authorized holidays.
Oh, and there is a special Torah reading each day, with Hallel recited each morning. But that's about it. It doesn't have a tractate of the Mishnah dedicated to it like Purim does.
“From my observations Kwanzaa is dead.”
As long as there exists white, liberal grade school teachers, Kwanzaaaaaaa will continue to exist. If ever you feel the urge to send a stupid, white, liberal female a gift, go to Amazon and pick out a nice soldering iron or vise. She won’t understand the gesture because she’s stupid as a rock, but the gift will be Kwanzaaaaa correct.
...but it helps, as the write will now demonstrate...
All it takes is a kind heart and an open mind willing to learn the history of the holiday that celebrates African-American culture...
...and therefore White people will never understand Kwanzaa, because of that whole "kind heart and open mind"thing...
If your goal is to castigate Whites for being racist, it's usually not a good idea to write an article which is so transparently gushing both racism and condescension. It tends to diminish the contrast you're attempting to draw.
If I recall correctly, Kwanzaa is a holiday conceived by a Communist and former Black Panther member/sympathizer, and basically designed to indoctrinate and initiate Blacks into the wonders of Marxism—as seen through an Afro-themed prism of community identity and entitlement.
In otherwords, a bunch of Communist gobbledygook...
Thank you so much for finding that.
I was a young man when I made that, new to FR.
I had just met the woman who would become my wife!
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