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The TRUTH About Kwanzaa
Jewish World Review ^ | Dec. 31, 1999 | Tony Snow

Posted on 12/13/2011 4:10:24 AM PST by txradioguy

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1 posted on 12/13/2011 4:10:29 AM PST by txradioguy
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12 Days Of Kwanza
2 posted on 12/13/2011 4:15:09 AM PST by Dallas59 (President Robert Gibbs 2009-2011)
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To: txradioguy

My professor at Cal State Long Beach invented it.


3 posted on 12/13/2011 4:15:36 AM PST by struggle
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The whole concept is stupid and backwards.

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.

4 posted on 12/13/2011 4:17:29 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: txradioguy

I’m dreaming of a white Kwanzaa....


5 posted on 12/13/2011 4:21:22 AM PST by pbmaltzman
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To: pbmaltzman; All

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.


6 posted on 12/13/2011 4:25:34 AM PST by txradioguy (Republicans Don't Need A Back Bench...They Need a BACKBONE!)
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7 posted on 12/13/2011 4:33:14 AM PST by TSgt (Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.)
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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.


8 posted on 12/13/2011 4:37:37 AM PST by old and tired
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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.”


9 posted on 12/13/2011 4:43:07 AM PST by TSgt (Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.)
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To: struggle

The real story.

http://exposingtheleft.blogspot.com/search?q=that+kwazy


10 posted on 12/13/2011 5:18:24 AM PST by traderrob6
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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).


11 posted on 12/13/2011 5:28:35 AM PST by BfloGuy (The final outcome of the credit expansion is general impoverishment.)
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Happy RamaHanaKwanzMas!


12 posted on 12/13/2011 5:44:39 AM PST by Vor Lady (Everyone should read The Importance of the Electoral College by Geo. Grant)
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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”.


13 posted on 12/13/2011 5:52:09 AM PST by albie
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14 posted on 12/13/2011 5:53:08 AM PST by icwhatudo ("laws requiring compulsory abortion could be sustained under the constitution"-Obama official)
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To: Sacajaweau
Why don't we put them in chains....

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Please define exactly what you mean by 'we' and 'them'.

15 posted on 12/13/2011 5:53:49 AM PST by moose-matson (I keep it in my head)
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To: pbmaltzman

LOL!


16 posted on 12/13/2011 5:58:48 AM PST by Bigg Red (In this Advent season: Prepare ye the way of the Lord.)
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To: txradioguy
Kwanzaa =

17 posted on 12/13/2011 6:04:21 AM PST by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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LOL! Too true.


18 posted on 12/13/2011 7:29:57 AM PST by Vor Lady (Everyone should read The Importance of the Electoral College by Geo. Grant)
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Futurama Kwanzaa song
19 posted on 12/13/2011 7:36:17 AM PST by whd23 (Every time a link is de-blogged an angel gets its wings.)
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To: txradioguy

Kwanzaa is to Christmas what Rap is to music.


20 posted on 12/13/2011 7:38:50 AM PST by liberalh8ter
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