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The Kwanzaa Hoax
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| September-October 2000
Posted on 11/23/2005 1:24:45 PM PST by OldArmy94
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To: OldArmy94
Statement: "The Kwanzaa Hoax"
Response. No not a hoax, simply expected silliness.
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posted on
11/23/2005 3:29:04 PM PST
by
AEMILIUS PAULUS
(It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
To: Mikey_1962
Blacks, in America, are among the strongest of Christians, so why would devout Christians want to celebrate anything by the Birth of Christ aka Christmas -- this or any holiday season? Granted there is a certain number who have become Muslim, but they would celebrate the Muslim holidays, not a phony holiday.
To: traderrob6
Wait just a dog gone moment. Go back and re-read your comment... to me that signals defeatism and that we've given up... I prefer to think we've just begun to fight and we will defeat the ACLU and their ilk.
To: beckett
I've seen it celebrated in LA CA.
I didn't know what the hell was going on.
Typically celebrated by the "Black Power" type crowd - the black racists. Especially the middle class types, enjoying the benefits of quotas etc.
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posted on
11/23/2005 3:38:36 PM PST
by
Mr. Rational
(God gave me a brain and expects me to use it)
To: cgbg
One of my recent favorite essays on the "holiday" pointed out two items I hadn't seen before. First, no culture in the world celebrates "harvest" at this time of year. It is the solstice, for heaven's sake. Second is the "custom" of giving each child and ear of corn, symbolic of something or another. Trouble is, there was no corn in Africa. Corn came from the New World. But, Hallmark makes a buck or two, so, it will live forever I guess.
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posted on
11/23/2005 3:42:59 PM PST
by
TN4Liberty
(American... conservative... southern.... It doesn't get any better than this.)
To: sgtbono2002
Scientology at least serves a socially useful purpose--it separates fools from their money. ;-)
46
posted on
11/23/2005 3:49:29 PM PST
by
cgbg
(MSM and Democratic treason--fifty years and counting...)
To: beckett
"Black Americans don't observe Kwanzaa."
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While working in Harlem through the 90's, I found the large red ribbons (supposedly a Kwanzaa decoration) quite prevelent on residences.
47
posted on
11/23/2005 4:06:49 PM PST
by
Roccus
To: Roccus
48
posted on
11/23/2005 4:09:33 PM PST
by
Roccus
To: OldArmy94
I see Kwanzaa as being useful.
It keeps the kooks out of my holiday!
49
posted on
11/23/2005 4:10:55 PM PST
by
The Duke
To: CPaleocon
CPaleocon
Since Nov 18, 2005
What a waste of internet space.
Perhaps like that between your ears?
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posted on
11/23/2005 4:11:39 PM PST
by
oh8eleven
(RVN '67-'68)
To: OldArmy94
It's pronounced "Con-zaa"
51
posted on
11/23/2005 4:13:14 PM PST
by
tophat9000
(lose 3000 in an hour and you want to fight, lose 2000 in 2 years and you want to run !???)
To: Arizona Carolyn
To: brooklin
Festivus is the best holiday. Wal Mart's got a pole sale starting Friday. But ya gotta complain to get one.
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posted on
11/23/2005 4:30:20 PM PST
by
Focault's Pendulum
(I'm not a curmudgeon!!!! I've just been in a bad mood since '73)
To: OldArmy94
Corporate America embraces Kwanzaa. CEOs are no better than Congress Critters.
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posted on
11/23/2005 4:30:43 PM PST
by
evolved_rage
(Please sir, drop more daisy-cutters.)
To: OldArmy94
This was on the front page of the New York Times, wasn't it? ;-)
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posted on
11/23/2005 4:54:30 PM PST
by
tarawa
To: Roccus
Here in south Florida, where black families truly typical of nationwide black sensibilities live, Kanzaa is almost unknown. And I'm saying that having interacted with the black community a good deal.
Harlem is not a typical black community. The academics and poseurs I referred to in my original post, and a black middle class very touchy about appearing sufficiently black and left, inhabit the place.
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posted on
11/23/2005 5:00:47 PM PST
by
beckett
(Amor Fati)
To: beckett
"Harlem is not a typical black community..."
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Ooookaaay.
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posted on
11/24/2005 5:03:30 AM PST
by
Roccus
To: dawn53
To: cripplecreek
I don't understand your post.
To: robertpaulsen
"I don't understand your post."
The gyro pilot in the mad max movies also said "no matter where you go, there you are."
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posted on
11/24/2005 8:00:15 AM PST
by
cripplecreek
(Never a minigun handy when you need one.)
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