A couple days ago I was thinking the same thing.
Hard to believe 1966 was 50 years ago. Yikes!
Phony holiday invented by a thug felon.
Kwanzaa—the African tradition that even Africans don’t practice.
I worked with a nurses aid from Nigeria, she said that she had never heard of Kwanzaa till she came over here. She thought it was stupid.
Is that with the metal pole and airing of grievances?
‘Twas the night before Kwanzaa And all through the ‘hood,
Maulana Karenga was up to no good.
He’d tortured a woman and spent time in jail.
He needed a new scam that just wouldn’t fail.
(”So what if I stuck some chick’s toe in a vice?
Nobody said revolution was nice!”)
The Sixties were over. Now what would he do?
Why, he went back to school — so that’s “Dr.” to you!
He once ordered shootouts at UCLA
Now he teaches Black Studies just miles away.
Then to top it all off, the good Doctor’s new plan
Was to get rid of Christmas and piss off The Man.
Karenga invented a fake holiday.
He called the thing Kwanza. “Hey, what’s that you say?
“You don’t get what’s ‘black’ about Maoist baloney?
You say that my festival’s totally phony?
“Who cares if corn isn’t an African crop?
Who cares if our harvest’s a month or two off?
Who cares if Swahili’s not our mother tongue?
A lie for The Cause never hurt anyone!
“Umoja! Ujima! Kujichagulia, too!
Collectivist crap never sounded so cool!
Those guilty white liberals — easy to fool.
Your kids will now celebrate Kwanzaa in school!”
And we heard him exclaim as he drove out of sight:
“Happy Kwanzaa to all, except if you’re white!”
Kathy Shaidle
It is only alive in the minds of young, white, single grade school teachers.
Perhaps the anti-Kwanzaa column Ann Coulter reposts every December has done its work. Myself, I don’t see how people can get excited about a holiday “tradition” that is younger than me.
Crap!! I forgot to paint Meth om my doorposts.
It just doesn’t feel like Kwanzaa without watching the famous holiday classic, “Sandra Lee Bakes A Kwanzaa Cake”.
It also kicked off in numerous malls through the country - at least 9.
A “holiday” with a body count.
On a similar note, how old is Burning Man?
It’s another one of the left’s Pet Rock phenomena just as ‘gay marriage’ and putting Timmy in the girls’ showers are.
It was a racial thumb in the eye with all its affected cod-Swahili names and fatuous objectives.
The internet, for all its faults, allowed people to discover the shady origins and the unreconstructed communist behind Kwanzaa.
The first black president made a few half hearted swipes at promoting it but he puts more effort into Eid and Ramadan (wink wink) than the fakery of Kwanzaa.
And, as usual, nobody asked black Americans directly what they thought about this separate but equal ‘holiday.’ Turns out they are just as fond of Christmas as we are and resisted the usual leftist attempt to balkanize them.
They can hold the annual parade in a driveway, with plenty of room left over.