I believe today is "Heinekanza", when you can
pick up all those post-Xmas specials...
Posted on 12/26/2005 11:33:44 AM PST by ncountylee
CHICAGO, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- The largest annual Kwanzaa celebration of African-American culture in the United States began Monday at Malcolm X College in Chicago.
Ayoka Samuels, a consultant for the college's Kwanzaa committee said a major misconception is that about the seven-day festival is that it's meant to be "the black Christmas," the Chicago Sun-Times said.
Samuels said many who celebrate it do substitute it for Christmas, and if gifts are exchanged, they must be either educational or a symbol of African heritage.
Maulana Ron Karenga, now a professor of black studies at California State University, Long Beach, created Kwanzaa in 1966 as a way to restore a sense of connection with African culture.
Each of the seven nights is devoted to a particular community value: unity, self-determination, collective work and responsibility, cooperative economics, purpose, creativity and faith.
Part of the ceremony is the lighting of seven red, black and green candles, symbolizing sacrificed blood, race and Mother Africa, the Oakland Tribune said.
In Buffalo, N.Y., Denise Renfro said she is proud of the changes in her 10-year-old son since he entered Rites of Passage, an after-school program centered around Kwanzaa principles.
"He brings home good grades, likes school and has never gotten into serious trouble," she said
The KKK could not have devised a better plan for the African American community's failure than to embrace this crap.
Maybe because this so-called "holiday" originates as a total lie from a criminal marxist as a mockery to America and Christmas. Does THAT make it legitimate to you??
Nevermind the President merely repeated the lies about a "Kwanzaa" that is fake and fraudulent.
Since when has the President's job description called for him to "celebrate" every fake kooky "holiday" because a 10,000 "group of Americans" celebrate it? And did JFK "celebrate "Ramadan"??
But then again, as a proud self-vowed atheist, your slant on this issue would be...different.
""President Bush is offering greetings to a group of Americans who celebrate Kwanzaa. Why would he not?...He's just doing his job."
Maybe because this so-called "holiday" originates as a total lie from a criminal marxist as a mockery to America and Christmas. Does THAT make it legitimate to you??"
Whether it is legitimate to me, or to you, is beside the point, really. It is celebrated by US Citizens, in some numbers. The President of the United States sends greetings to all sorts of groups on all sorts of occasions.
This year, he sent Christmas, Chanukah, Ramadan, and Kwanzaa greetings. He also sends greetings to organizations who are celebrating historical anniversaries, to our military, as with the Marines' celebration this year.
It's his job. He sends greetings to all sorts of folks.
He sends greetings to China. It's his job.
You don't like Kwanzaa. I don't either. That's irrelevant. The President sent greetings. You have a beef with him on that score? Write him a letter, explaining your problem with it. You'll get a nice letter back from the White House, which will probably not make you feel any better, and President Bush will never see your letter.
Kwanzaa is insignificant, in the large picture, and should simply be ignored, except for these formula greetings that all Presidents send out to all sorts of groups.
It's not news. It's boring.
Here's a list of all the proclamations sent out under the President's name for 2005. I'm sure you can find some others that will annoy you:
I believe today is "Heinekanza", when you can
pick up all those post-Xmas specials...
I wonder if people get so upset when he offers greetings on St. Patrick's Day? Or Bastille Day? Or Cinco De Mayo?
Most of the people who celebrate those don't know what they mean, either. Americans just like parties.
Moral Absolutes Ping.
Everyone should know what Kwanzah really is. Lots of info in this thread. Just in case this article isn't linked yet:
The TRUTH about Kwanzaa [repost of excellent 2001 article]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1547274/posts
The truth about Kwanzaah or whatever the heck it is should be broadcast far and wide. To equate an invented non-existent mental device, created by a madman felon, with real Holy days, is sick.
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LOL! Stockholders maybe?
Earlier this week, President Clinton issued a formal White House proclamation celebrating the first day of Kwanzaa. His announcement began with some claptrap about preserving "what we value of our past," and Kwanzaa being a "wonderful example" with its "focus on the values that have sustained African-Americans through the centuries."
Except for the small historical detail that Kwanzaa was invented in 1966 amidst the madness of the multicultural '60s by a black radical stooge of the FBI, Ron Karenga, a.k.a. Dr. Maulana Karenga. Karenga was a founder of United Slaves, a violent nationalist rival to the Black Panthers and a dupe of the FBI.
In what was probably ultimately a foolish gamble, during the violent '60s, the FBI encouraged the most offensive black nationalist organizations in order both to discredit and split the left. The more preposterous the organization, the better. Karenga's United Slaves was perfect. Despite public perception blending the black activists of the '60s, the Black Panthers did not hate whites and did not seek armed revolution. That was the trope of Karenga's United Slaves. In the annals of the American '60s, Karenga was the Father Gapon, stooge of the czarist police.
Whether Karenga was a willing dupe, or just a dupe, remains unclear. Interestingly though, in an 1995 interview with Ethnic NewsWatch, Karenga matter-of-factly explained that the forces out to get O.J. Simpson for the "framed" murder of two whites included: "the FBI, the CIA, the State Department, Interpol, the Chicago Police Department" and so on. (He further noted that "the evidence was not strong enough to prohibit or eliminate unreasonable doubt" -- an interesting standard of proof.) Karenga should know about FBI infiltration.
Also, in the category of the-gentleman-doth-protest-too-much, back in the '70s, Nigerian newspapers were claiming that many American black radicals were CIA operatives. Karenga leapt in to denounce the idea publicly, saying, "Africans must stop generalizing about the loyalties and motives of Afro-Americans, including the widespread suspicion of black Americans being CIA agents."
There is no question now that the FBI fueled the bloody rivalry between the Panthers and United Slaves, leading in one outburst to the shooting of Panther Al "Bunchy" Carter on the UCLA campus by Karenga's United Slaves. Karenga himself served time, a useful stepping-stone for his current position as a black studies professor at California State University at Long Beach.
Kwanzaa itself is a lunatic blend of schmaltzy '60s rhetoric, black racism and Marxism. Indeed, the seven "principles" of Kwanzaa praise collectivism in every possible arena of life -- economics, work, personality, even litter removal ("Kuumba: Everyone should strive to improve the community and make it more beautiful.") It takes a village to raise a police snitch.
Asked to distinguish Kawaida, the philosophy underlying Kwanzaa, from "classical Marxism" in the 1995 interview, Karenga basically said that under Kawaida, we also hate whites. While taking the "best of" -- I'm not making this up -- "early Chinese and Cuban socialism," Kawaida practitioners believe one's racial identity "determines life conditions, life-chances and self-understanding." There's a happy Horatio Alger story for you.
Coincidentally, the seven principles of Kwanzaa are the very same seven principles of the Symbionese Liberation Army, another charming invention of the Least-Great Generation. In 1974, Patricia Hearst, kidnap victim-cum-SLA revolutionary, posed next to the banner of her alleged captors, a seven-headed cobra. Each snake head stood for one of the SLA's revolutionary principles (and this sounds like Saturday Night Live's send-up of the second presidential debate in which George Bush rattled off an endless series of Nigerian names): Umojo, Kujichagulia, Ujima, Ujamaa, Nia, Kuumba and Imani -- precisely the seven "principles" of Kwanzaa.
With his Kwanzaa greetings, President Clinton is saluting the intellectual sibling of the Symbionese Liberation Army, killer of housewives and police, and the founder of United Slaves, who were such lunatics that they shot Panthers for not being sufficiently violent -- all with the FBI as their covert ally. It's as if David Duke invented a holiday called "Anglica," and the president of the United States issued a presidential proclamation honoring the synthetic holiday. People might well stand up and take notice if that happened.
Liberals have become so mesmerized by the hegemonic multicultural nonsense that they have forgotten the real history -- the violence, the Marxism, the insanity. Most absurdly, for leftists anyway, is that they have forgotten the FBI's tacit encouragement of this murderous black nationalist cult founded by the father of Kwanzaa. United Slaves were proto-fascists, walking around in dashikis, blowing away Black Panthers and adopting invented "African" names. (That was a big help to the black community: How many boys named "Jamal" currently sit on death row?)
Now the "holiday" concocted by these violent stormtrooper stooges of the FBI is a "tradition," a celebration of the "value of our past." This is not a tradition. This is a '60s psychosis grafted onto black community, while the Christian leaders at the forefront of the civil rights movement are washed out of the picture.
Here's one from 2002. I couldn't find this year's St. Paddy's Day Greeting
Presidential Message: St. Patrick's Day
I am pleased to send warm greetings to all those celebrating St. Patrick's Day.
On this day, millions of people in Ireland and throughout the world will gather to commemorate the life of Patrick, patron saint of Ireland. From his days as a slave in Ireland to his work as a missionary years later, St. Patrick demonstrated a courage, commitment, and faith that won the hearts and minds of the Irish people. St. Patrick's Day also serves as a time for people of Irish descent from all traditions and religions to honor their native land and shared heritage.
This celebration is particularly important in the United States, as we recognize the contributions of the millions of Irish-Americans who immigrated to our shores from the earliest years of our Republic. They dedicated themselves to the challenges of building America and achieved success and prosperity. The industry, talent, and imagination of the Irish have enriched our economy and culture. Their strong record of public service has fortified our democracy. And their devotion to family, faith, and community has strengthened our country's character.
On St. Patrick's Day, Americans from every background join in celebrating the rich culture of the Irish and our continued friendship with the people of Ireland. Laura joins me in sending our best wishes for a memorable celebration.
GEORGE W. BUSH
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And on a humorous note... |
Cinco de Mayo Greeting from 2000
Cinco de Mayo Message
I am pleased to send warm greetings to all those gathered to celebrate Cinco de Mayo.
May 5th marks the triumph of the spirit of freedom for the people of Mexico. The victory of General Ignacio Zaragoza and his Mexican troops over the superior French forces at the Battle of Puebla served as a stirring reminder of the determination to win the fight for Mexico's freedom from foreign intervention. The Cinco de Mayo display of courage and purpose is a source of pride for all freedom-loving people.
We Americans cherish our deep historical, cultural, economic, and, in many cases, family ties with Mexico and Latin America. Cinco de Mayo cele-brations remind us how much Hispanics have influenced and enriched the United States. Hispanic Americans contribute to the shared traditions that are part of our history, including entrepreneurship, a sense of com-munity where neighbor helps neighbor, faith, and love of family. On this special day, I encourage Americans to reaffirm the ties of culture and friendship we share with the people of Mexico and with Hispanic Americans.
As you enjoy the day with parades, folkloric dancing, and other festive activities, Laura joins me in sending best wishes for a joyous celebration.
George W. Bush
LOL!! Well...yeah...
Someone needs to get creative and come up with a white trash version/counterpart to this. Do it as a spoof; it would be mainstream shortly.
geesh. Makes one wonder. If you are fighting a WOT, how many things do you sign or read, that a so called trusted subordinate puts under your nose? Who does his subordinates pander to?
I still think Bush needs an education from the many many African-Americans who refuse to celebrate this mockery to their roots.
"geesh. Makes one wonder. If you are fighting a WOT, how many things do you sign or read, that a so called trusted subordinate puts under your nose? Who does his subordinates pander to?
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Oh, he reads them all, at least these proclamations and greetings things. Why would he not.
Spiff,
Why was your post pulled? It was going great and was very interesting.
Is the monitor who pulled it a Bushbott?
Thank you.
nice
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