Posted on 11/30/2005 11:52:57 PM PST by Exton1
Happy Festivus!
I just went to a local mall and saw a Kwanzaa banner along side the Chanukah and Christmas banners. The local grocery stores have a Kwanzaa section, and, of course, the greeting card industry has their contributions. As long as businesses can make a buck from Kwanzaa, it will keep showing up year after year.
Funny! Reminds me of a time many years ago when I was working at McDonalds in Miami. A British tourist family had come for breakfast, and an adorable little boy with a strong accent asked, "Mummy, what's an English muffin?"
Guess that Jesus wasn't born in a Kwanzaa hut after all.
I would also help if the President wouldn't give it recognition in White House ceremonies!!!
Every year I have to rant somewhere on how this is a fake holiday.
This is just Kwazy.
As a teacher, I've never done anything on it. Frankly, I have no idea exactly what it's all about. I do have time to have a little Christmas party and teach, but not to celebrate everyone's version of whatever under the sun.
Please don't remind us of this racist nonsense.
I was quite content to "forget it".
Karenga and "kwanzaa" represent an interesting ideological quandary. Originally Karenga was a rightwing nationalist--sort of the Black Revilo P. Oliver (Oliver was also a radical scientific materialist opposed to traditional religion). However, because at a certain point Marxist strategy dovetailed with Black nationalism he was able to become a "Marxist," which is supposedly what he is today.
The Left has been morphing into a Third World national socialist movement for some time. It seems that the old USSR is no longer the model for Third World Leftists, but that World War II-era fascist Japan fits the bill more easily, and indeed the Left (originally as anti-Japanese as it was anti-Nazi) has been moving into a revisionist position on the Pacific phase of World War II for some time. In fact, during the War Japan (though allied with Nazi Germany) posed as the great defender of people of color, and there were Black leftists in America (like Adam Clayton Powell) as well as rightwing Black nationalists (like Elijah Muhammad) who agreed with them.
Fascism and Nazism both originated among people with an inferiority complex. Italy was divided and partly under foreign rule until 1861. Germany was not a unified nation until a decade later. Because the nations were new and felt inferior to older nations, because they lagged behind in colonies and empire-building, and because they felt humiliated at being at least partially subject to foreign rule they reacted with a psychotic nationalism. Is this not similar to the inferiority complex many American Blacks have that has led them to fantasies of "Pan-Africanism," of a vast continent with a greater diversity of population than Europe somehow being a single great nation containing "one people?"
The Old Left might have eventually come to realize that their indulgence of Third World nationalism didn't gibe with their core philosophy. The contemporary Left, however seems to have switched traded Marx for Mussolini and Kita Ikki as core philosophers, however much lip service they still pay him.
Pinging wideawake and cyborg to get your opinion.
Please see my post #52 above. Any thoughts?
One can only imagine the public outcry if some lunatic white guy invented a holiday where white people "celebrate themselves."
.....especially if said holiday was recognized by the White House.
When he's older, he will ask for tarts, or perhaps tea and strumpets..
good points... I suppose it's someone's right to celebrate kwanzaa if they want. I told petronski that white liberals are probably celebrating it more than black people. His holiday is completely godless and very communistic.
Yep. I've answered someone's ping and that's all I have to say. I commented on kwanzaa a lot in the past but there's only so many times I can say what I say *LOL*
It is totally bogus fake religious activity
Thanks for the link!
It's the lest we could do.
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