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Kwanzaa: More Than a Black Person's Holiday
Luke "Non-white TEA partiers are like Concentration Camp Kapos" Visconti's DiversityInc ^ | 17 Dec

Posted on 12/27/2010 8:15:37 AM PST by flowerplough

Lubna Muhammad has celebrated Kwanzaa for more than 30 years.

"Kwanzaa is more than a holiday--[it's] a culture that should be applied to everyday life," says Muhammad, owner of Top Shelf Plus in Newark, N.J.

Muhammad says she began observing Kwanzaa because she felt its core message spoke to both her culture and spirit.

"When you go to work, you need umoja every day--that's unity. You need unity with your coworkers," she says.

Muhammad isn't alone. More than 30 million people in America celebrate Kwanzaa, according to a spokesperson from the African American Cultural Center.

Kwanzaa, which means "first fruits of the harvest" in Swahili, was created in 1966 by Dr. Maulana Karenga, a ...

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To: flowerplough
kwanzaa Pictures, Images and Photos
61 posted on 12/27/2010 9:35:29 AM PST by Snickering Hound
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To: raybbr
Scary, but I did actually sit and listen to a bunch of liberals - academic typesdiscuss "collecting" friends in their group.

As in: "Let's see so-and-so is gay, check. So-and-so is black, check." and so on.

I'm not sure if I was more disgusted, or more terrifed that people actually think that way.

62 posted on 12/27/2010 9:38:22 AM PST by wbill
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To: flowerplough

Kwanzaa; the only thing the celebration is missing is the Jim Jones kool-aid.


63 posted on 12/27/2010 9:47:24 AM PST by cougar_mccxxi
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To: cougar_mccxxi

I quit celebrating Kwanzaa because it has become too commercialized.


64 posted on 12/27/2010 9:58:53 AM PST by Busywhiskers ("Once you have wrestled, everything else in life is easy" -Dan Gable)
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To: Busywhiskers

Good one.


65 posted on 12/27/2010 10:04:54 AM PST by cougar_mccxxi
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To: YankeeReb

Im still laughing


66 posted on 12/27/2010 10:07:47 AM PST by al baby (Hi Mom REMEMBER FREE REPUBLIC IN YOUR WILL. I DID)
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To: Maceman

PDOOMA (Puh-dooma)......’pulled directly out of my ass’....used it a hundred times at least - even in meetings when referring to guesstimates.... because it didn’t match exactly what I wrote isn’t a problem. I’d assumed our FRiends here could figure it out....


67 posted on 12/27/2010 10:09:47 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: flowerplough
Kwanzaa, which means "first fruits of the harvest" in Swahili, was created in 1966 by Dr. Maulana Karenga

Or as his mother called him, "Ron."

68 posted on 12/27/2010 10:12:52 AM PST by denydenydeny (Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views, beyond the comprehension of the weak-Adams)
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To: Squidster

“10% of the population celebrates Kwanzaa?”

I think about 10% of the population is comprised of white, female, elementary school teachers. So that sounds about right to me.


69 posted on 12/27/2010 10:18:35 AM PST by ModelBreaker
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To: flowerplough

Sadly, George Bush sent yearly ‘Kwanzaa Greetings’ to the ‘millions who celebrated it around the world’.


70 posted on 12/27/2010 10:19:11 AM PST by lacrew (Mr. Soetoro, we regret to inform you that your race card is over the credit limit.)
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To: All
Instead of Kwanzaa, I prefer:

Weasel Stomping Day
(Invented by Weird Al Yankovich)

Faces filled with joy and cheer
What a magical time of year
Howdy Ho! It's Weasel Stomping Day

Put your Viking helmet on
Spread that mayonaisse on the lawn
Don't you know it's Weasel Stomping Day

All the little girls and boys
Love that wonderful crunching noise
You'll know what this day's about
When you stomp a weasel's guts right out

So, come along and have a laugh
Snap their weasely spines in half
Grap your boots and stomp your cares away
Hip hip hooray, it's Weasel Stomping Day

People up and down the street
Crushing weasels beneath their feet
Why we do it, who can say?
But it's such a festive holiday

So let the stomping fun begin
Bash their weasely skulls right in
It's tradition, that makes it okay

Hey everyone, it's Weasel Stomping
We'll have some fun on Weasel Stomping
Put down your gun, it's Weasel Stomping Day
Hip Hip Hooray, it's Weasel Stomping Day

71 posted on 12/27/2010 10:43:36 AM PST by rlmorel ("If this doesn't light your fire, Men, the pilot light's out!"...Coach Ed Bolin)
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To: Baynative

Sandra Lee is the main squeeze (and presumed reason for the break up w/Kerrie Kennedy) of one Mr. Cuomo. Hmm...where have we heard that name before.

That is about the lamest cake (and she puts dinner tapers on it!!!) that I have ever seen. Ready made angelfood cake; store bought icing (embellished w/cocoa and cinammon—that part is actually sorta ok); but then there is applie pie filling; ACORNs and pumpkin seeds.

Ewww.


72 posted on 12/27/2010 10:47:13 AM PST by PennsylvaniaMom ('We are coming out of our trance, we are coming out of our nightmare...' <3Michele Bachmann)
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To: HamiltonJay

Ron Karenga is a vicious thug who invented a socialist holiday.


73 posted on 12/27/2010 4:13:36 PM PST by jimfree (In 2012 Sarah Palin will continue to have more relevant quality executive experience than B. Obama.)
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To: Seruzawa

Hard to engage in boko-maru online...


74 posted on 12/27/2010 6:51:41 PM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: raybbr

Look at the body language in those pictures. The people on the ‘outside’ of the grouping are looking around the two in the middle, as if they are sharing a joke the center two just don’t get...


75 posted on 12/27/2010 6:53:57 PM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: tacticalogic

Actually, the Feast of First Fruits for the Jewish is Yom HaBikkurim, celebrated on Nisan 16, day after the Sabbath, or May 10,11 in 2011.

Also see 1Cor 15:20-21.

Kwanzaa is just a cheap counterfeit substitute for the real thing.


76 posted on 12/27/2010 7:01:26 PM PST by Cvengr (Adversity in life and death is inevitable. Thru faith in Christ, stress is optional.)
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