[Beck_isright]

I just got through eating Kwanza pie, Kwanza cake, Kwanza turkey and drinking Kwanza wine and beer. I'm offended by this article.

P.S...What the hell is Kwanza?

[rintense]

I tried to explain Kwanzaa to my best friend's 5 year-old, who obviously heard about it in the public schools. She asked me, in the innocent way only a 5 year old can, what Hanukkah and Kwanzaa are. I explained Hanukkah, but Kwanzaa was bit hard. She then amazed me by saying that all three are the same as Christmas. *SIGH* What in the world are the public schools teaching?

[F16Fighter]

Dubya would proclaim "warm and fuzzy feelings all over" for Festivus should the Costanzas lean towards voting for him.

[blau993]

My Kwanzaa sucked. My village was too busy putting up Christmas lights and getting ready to welcome children home from college.

[JoeFromSidney]

Unfortunately, Kwanzaa has come to be treated as a quasi-religious holiday by the Politically Correct.

[Willie Green]

I know the celebration officially ended 10 days ago, but...
Back on Dec. 20 – a full six days before onset of this very spiritual weeklong rite

Huh?

Kwanzi ended 10 days ago but December 20 was 6 days before it started?

What calendar is HE looking at?

[Richard-SIA]

Q. Why did Bush issue a proclamation on Kwanzaa?

A1. He's trying hard to alienate conservatives and lose the election?
A2. He has too many PC a**-****'s advising him?
He is unaware of the facts regarding this phony "holiday", or knows about them but does not care so long as he thinks pandering to the radical left will buy him a few votes.

Sucking up to socialist, advocating a new "amnesty" for illegals, promising to sign new "gun control" if it reaches his desk, etc.

Explain to me again WHY I should remain a republican?
My disenchantment is exceeded only by my disgust at the perverse threats masquerading as logical arguments, used in attempting to bully me in to staying with the party!

[lizma]

Kwanzaa = American Communist Christmas.

torturing two black women by whipping them with electrical cords and beating them with a karate baton after stripping them naked. He placed in the mouth of one of the victims a hot soldering iron, also scarring her face with the device. He put one of her big toes in a vise, and detergent and running water in both of their mouths.

Dang my son's school had a multi-cultural winter festival last year with a Kwanzaa booth, granted no one was thrilled about it but it would have been priceless to present the teachers with this info.

[RightWhale]

It starts 26 Dec. Habari gani.

[jackbill]

The seven-day observance, beginning Dec. 26 and ending Jan. 1, serves as a special time to recognize and reaffirm the Nguzo Saba, or Seven Principles, of African culture. These are unity, self-determination, collective work and responsibility, cooperative economics, purpose, creativity and faith."

As I type this, the murder rate in Baltimore for 2003, so far, is 264. By far, the perps and the victims are African-Americans.

Happy Kwanza.

[tcuoohjohn]

Because GWB Is a Politician.. When you win by 575 votes anybody who is anything gets a nod.

Now...the distinction between a 'legitimate' holiday and a 'bogus ' one is merely numbers. If you have 500 adherents you are dangerous a cult. If you have 5,000 adherents you are a "misguided cult" if you have 50,000 adherents you are a cult like religion" 500,000 adherents and you are an' Emerging religion" 5,000,000 adherents and presidents and congressmen will say " Happy Uoogla Baramabam" if that is what you call your celebrations.

[Vinnie_Vidi_Vici]

In keeping with the spirit of Kwanzaa, I mugged a wino and offered up his Muscatel in a ritual sacrifice to "Jobu"

[FreedomCalls]

I haven't had any problems at all with my Kwanzaa since I switched to boxers from briefs.

[Texas Eagle]

He is a convicted felon – sentenced five years after inventing Kwanzaa for torturing two black women by whipping them with electrical cords and beating them with a karate baton after stripping them naked. He placed in the mouth of one of the victims a hot soldering iron, also scarring her face with the device. He put one of her big toes in a vise, and detergent and running water in both of their mouths.

Is that why Kwanzaa is 6 days long?
One day to commemorate the whipping with electrical cords.
One day to commemorate the beating with a baton.
One day to commemorate the placing of a hot soldering iron in the mouth.
One day for scarring the face with a soldering iron.
One day for placing toes in a vice.
One day for running water and detergent in the mouth.

[cardinal4]

These are unity, self-determination, collective work and responsibility, cooperative economics, purpose, creativity and faith."

Where in Africa are any of these tenets practiced?

[South40]

'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!"

[John Beresford Tipton]

I wasn't able to concentrate on celebrating Kwanza,
I was too busy working with my accountants a toting up my reparations.

[fourhorsemen]

I missed Kwanza, I was busy celebrating Festivus. The airing of grievences was particulary good this year.

[Redwood71]

I, personally, didn't harvest a thing. Not a Kodak moment.

[ikka]

Which of the Seven Days of KrazyKwanzaa do you get to:

Install the Eternally Spinning Wheel Rims on your Escalade?

Cook the Prophet's Own baby back ribs?

Invoke the Thunderous Music (aka the Rite of Boom Boom?) which is usually played from eitehr a 45-pound boom box or from the trunk area of your 1989 Civic?

Just asking...