Posted on 12/13/2011 4:10:24 AM PST by txradioguy
BLACKS IN AMERICA have suffered an endless series of insults and degradations, the latest of which goes by the name of Kwanzaa. Ron Karenga (aka Dr. Maulana Ron Karenga) invented the seven-day feast (Dec. 26-Jan. 1) in 1966, branding it a black alternative to Christmas. The idea was to celebrate the end of what he considered the Christmas-season exploitation of African Americans.
According to the official Kwanzaa Web site -- as opposed, say, to the Hallmark Cards Kwanzaa site -- the celebration was designed to foster "conditions that would enhance the revolutionary social change for the masses of Black Americans" and provide a "reassessment, reclaiming, recommitment, remembrance, retrieval, resumption, resurrection and rejuvenation of those principles (Way of Life) utilized by Black Americans' ancestors." Karenga postulated seven principles: unity, self-determination, collective work and responsibility, cooperative economics, purpose, creativity and faith, each of which gets its day during Kwanzaa week. He and his votaries also crafted a flag of black nationalism and a pledge: "We pledge allegiance to the red, black, and green, our flag, the symbol of our eternal struggle, and to the land we must obtain; one nation of black people, with one G-d of us all, totally united in the struggle, for black love, black freedom, and black self-determination." Now, the point: There is no part of Kwanzaa that is not fraudulent.
Begin with the name. The celebration comes from the Swahili term "matunda yakwanza," or "first fruit," and the festival's trappings have Swahili names -- such as "ujima" for "collective work and responsibility" or "muhindi," which are ears of corn celebrants set aside for each child in a family. Unfortunately, Swahili has little relevance for American blacks. Most slaves were ripped from the shores of West Africa. Swahili is an East African tongue.
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My professor at Cal State Long Beach invented it.
Why don't we put them in chains and let them crawl into the hold of a ship to really get a feeling of history that doesn't have anything at all to do with them? It's 2011 and this is america.
I’m dreaming of a white Kwanzaa....
I started posting this around Christmas 5 years ago when my daughter came home from school with a book she had to read about Kwanzaa.
It was also about the time I started seeing Happy Kwanzaa banners hanging in the PX alongside Merry Christmas.
I did a quick Google search and this article from the late great Tony Snow came up.
I’ve been posting it ever since.
I think Kwanzaa is sort of dying out. For a few years there, it was on all the kids’ shows and in the stores. Turned out nobody was celebrating it except for a few white liberal college professors and they were spending money. Granted I don’t watch Good Morning America or the Today show (where they usually promote this sort of idiocy), but I don’t hear Kwanzaa getting much air time these days.
December 10, 2011 at 1:00 am
Kick-starting Kwanzaa
http://www.detnews.com/article/20111210/METRO/112100347/1409/metro/Kick-starting-Kwanzaa
“We are a culture that likes to share good things with the world,” said Wayne County Commissioner Bernard Parker, D-Detroit, who lit seven Kwanzaa candles while explaining the history and purpose of the holiday to the crowd.
“We all came from Africa, which means we are all Africans. Kwanzaa is open to all people of all faiths and races.”
Kwanzaa, which means “first fruit,” was established in 1966 by Maulana Karenga, a professor of African studies.
Held between Dec. 26 and Jan. 1, each day celebrates one of seven principles: unity, self-determination, collective work and responsibility, cooperative economics, purpose, creativity and faith.
Outside the auditorium, a dozen vendors offered African-themed clothing, jewelry, books and CDs.
Among the vendors were Norm and Terri Satchell, who offered an eclectic variety of Kwanzaa and Christmas gifts.
“We also sell Santa Claus, but he’s a black Santa,” said Terri Satchell with a laugh.
“We have Christmas wrapping paper, but we also have Kwanzaa wrapping paper and paper with African animals on it.”
Maybe I’ve just learned to tune it out — and, of course, I never listen to TV — but it seems that Kwanzaa fever has diminished in recent years. Maybe the fact that blacks never really celebrated it had something to do with it. Guilty whites just wished they did (for some reason).
Happy RamaHanaKwanzMas!
I remember at my daughters “Winter Concert” at school they saluted all celebrations including Kwanzaa. Her school only had one black boy so he had to sing the Kwanzaa part. He’s a nice kid and he said it was embarrassing to him because he doesn’t celebrate it AND he was forced to stand out from the rest “like a freak”.
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Please define exactly what you mean by 'we' and 'them'.
LOL!
LOL! Too true.
Kwanzaa is to Christmas what Rap is to music.
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