Posted on 12/26/2014 4:24:10 PM PST by Nachum
Nobody does it better. When he let’s that one rip...it brings tears to your eyes.
I’m all for Kwanza— now practice it in the black communities.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhrJFbiW_Qs
All 27 of you.
From Wikipedia...”Co-operative economics is a field of economics that incorporates socialist economics, co-operative studies, and political economy...”
IIRC, 0bama spoke at one time of the idea that “he becomes more successful when his ‘brother’ does...”
It sounded tribal.
Great idea with the wrapping paper. Jokes that take patience can be the best jokes of all.
Oh. That’s just lovely.
and then there’s Festivus, for the rest of us
I've got a lot of problems with you people!
Right here....and if you don't like the Kwanzaa designs, there's always black Santa!
I wish they had wished us a “Merry Festivus” instead. At least that celebration has some meaning.
It's even funnier now that I know it was intended as a serious feature on a national cooking show.
I watched the whole thing, and it appeared that nothing was made with any love or care. Storebought cake, smear on storebought icing. Fill in the hole with storebought pie filler. Stick in candles. Ta-da!
Maulana Karenga created Kwanzaa in 1965 as the first specifically African-American holiday. According to Karenga, the name Kwanzaa derives from the Swahili phrase matunda ya kwanza, meaning “first fruits of the harvest”. The choice of Swahili, an East African language, reflects its status as a symbol of Pan-Africanism, especially in the 1960s, although most East African nations were not involved in the Atlantic slave trade that brought African people to America.
Kwanzaa is a celebration that has its roots in the black nationalist movement of the 1960s, and was established as a means to help African Americans reconnect with their African cultural and historical heritage by uniting in meditation and study of African traditions and Nguzo Saba, the “seven principles of African Heritage” which Karenga said “is a communitarian African philosophy”.
During the early years of Kwanzaa, Karenga said that it was meant to be an “oppositional alternative” to Christmas. However, as Kwanzaa gained mainstream adherents, Karenga altered his position so that practicing Christians would not be alienated, then stating in the 1997 Kwanzaa: A Celebration of Family, Community, and Culture, “Kwanzaa was not created to give people an alternative to their own religion or religious holiday.”
Many African Americans who celebrate Kwanzaa do so in addition to observing Christmas.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwanzaa
Maybe they should Africa and celebrate it with some real Africans.
Oh, thats right, it’s not African, it’s only for racist useful idiot blacks in the USA.
Don’t beat me massa! It’s Kwanza, please don’t beat me Massa Obamma!!!
And happy bullstalin fraud day to you too, Mister Obama.
I have an ‘09 Kwanzaa assigned to me at work. We purchased the car with about 40 something thousand miles and I have
had no problems except a wheel bearing we recently had to replace. We are up to 145K mi and they are talking replace-
ment car for me and shifting this ride to the general in-
ventory. Huh? What? Oh, crap......never mind.
Kwanza is only worthy in scrabble but it’s not in my old dictionaries
Does anyone know ANYONE who actually celebrates Kwanzaa?
I’ve lived and worked among African American folks all my life; they all celebrate Christmas, but I’ve never heard a thing about Kwanzaa from them.
JT
Post Holiday sales are occurring before Qwanza or New Year’s.
We all KNOW what “holiday” they refer too (the one that shall not be named).
http://abcnews.go.com/Lifestyle/best-post-holiday-sales-miss/story?id=27832546
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