[cgbg]

I love Kwanzaa threads. They are an annual holiday treat.

What else can you say about an African holiday that virtually noone in Africa celebrates because Africa has a wide variety of cultures--and there is no "African" winter solstice holiday.

Meanwhile the whites in the mass media think it is the ultimate diversity holiday. If I were an American black I would be very angry about this.

[TN4Liberty]

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.