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