[Mr_Pacific]

Didn't President Bush acknowledge this "holiday" last year?

[MotleyGirl70]

I think Bush did this year too.

Lots of Kwanza and Jacko threads tonight. Not that there's anything wrong with that.

[TrebleRebel]

These seven principles are listed in what language, exactly? Zulu, Swahili, or what?

[Eala]

It's December 26th. Christmas is over.

For some of us, it's only beginning. The period leading up to Christmas Eve, that's Advent. We are now early in the 12 Days of Christmas.

[SpaceBar]

Kwanzaa for dummies.

[Neever]

kwaanza. No caps needed for this one. The biggest piece of bovine excrement ever to enter the lexicon.

If it wasn't for PC, this cr*p wouldn't stand a chance.

[TontoKowalski]

My father gets in a big ole huff about Kwanzaa. He thinks the whole thing is a scam... well, so do I, but he gets really irate about it.

Anyway, while at the store today, they had all sorts of Christmas stuff... giftwrap and the like... on big time sale. I got a Kwanzaa giftbag, and now I have to wait a whole year to use it on my Dad's gift.

But I will have the absolute BEST time waiting to "whammy" him!

[Free ThinkerNY]

Ujamaa (Cooperative Economics) To build and maintain our own stores, shops and other businesses and to profit from them together.

Al(the SNL joker)Sharpton expressed this principle when he described the white,Jewish store owner in the Freddy's Massacre case as a "white interloper." Another princple of Kwanzaa should be: "Don't become your own enemy."

[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!"

[auntdot]

If anyone wants to learn more about Kwanzaa's very dubious origins and historical inconsistencies then please read this great article written by Tony Snow.

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/tony/snow123199.asp