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
Thanks for looking.
The reason Kwanzaa gets bashed around these parts is not because it's associated with black people, but because its founder is a violent criminal, a liar, and a Marxist. ....and yeah, conservatives typically don't take a shine to those types.
1) Where's St Patrick's Day on that list?
2) What is "cooperative economics"?
3) Is this a holiday for African Americans? What about just plain Africans? Are white people born on the continent of Africa but live in the U.S.A African American's? What about black people living in Europe? Wasn't there some dopey FNC info-babe that said the "roits in France were in the Muslum areas and not French-African-Americans"?
Nice propaganda piece. Human beings are very good at finding creative ways to reject Christ.
I used to joke that Kwanzaa was a holiday celebrated mostly by white newspaper editors but it looks like it's gaining some traction. What is important about Kwanzaa is not whether its founder was a marxist or a criminal or even that it is a blatantly racist and racial separatist holiday, it's that the establishment, from the newspapers to the President have no problem with publicly embracing it. Anti-racism is a racist code-phrase for anti-white, a complete moral and intellectual fraud.
Don't believe this for a second. You know as well as I do that black bashing is chic on this board.
but because its founder is a violent criminal, a liar, and a Marxist.
And most of the founding fathers owned slaves and wrote slavery into the constitution. Does that make the U.S. bad?
and yeah, conservatives typically don't take a shine to those types.
Conservatives love David Horowitz. And no one is asking you to shine to the man. You don't have to celebrate Kwanzaa. I don't celebrate it. If a person does celebrate it, it is their business. They are no threat to me. Folks should just stop the lies. It's not anti-religion and the website states that no one is expected to give up their faiths. It's not Marxist in that there is nothing political about it. Members of a community cooperating by choice and without government involvement is not Marxist in my book. The folks in my community will come together and pool resources to build a community center, a wall around the subdivision, etc. That is not Marxism. That is a community doing for itself. Plus, their numbers are so small, that it doesn't deserve the attention other than it being an excuse to black bash.
Dirk Thompson, a Christian and conservative fill-in talk show host for WTVN 610 AM in Columbus, Ohio just read an article that reveals the truth about this false religion. I applaude his courage but I feel for his career. 610 is fairly conservative but I think there are powers here in Columbus that will not stop until they have his job - regardless of the truth.
"You know as well as I do that black bashing is chic on this board."
Not really. What gets bashed on this board is two-bit phony baloney political correctness.
What is cooperative economics? I really wonder. Is it marxist?
I've seen more statements by many of the Founding Fathers expressing similar abhorrance of slavery. I don't know the percentage of how many owned slaves; but not all did. I would like to know how many. Washington freed all of his in his will.
"It is much to be wished that slavery may be abolished. The honour
of the States, as well as justice and humanity, in my opinion,
loudly call upon them to emancipate these unhappy people.
To contend for our own liberty, and to deny that blessing to
others, involves an inconsistency not to be excused." --John Jay
"[Y]our late purchase of an estate in the colony of Cayenne, with
a view to emancipating the slaves on it, is a generous and noble
proof of your humanity. Would to God a like spirit would diffuse
itself generally into the minds of the people of this country;
but I despair of seeing it." --George Washington
I'd like to see a little proof of that.
>>>But of course, we know that the attention given to Kwanzaa from these posters (which probably promotes it) is strengthened because it is associated with the most disdained minority in the country. Any idea, action, opinion, etc. related to black Americans that isn't complete subservience to Conservative/Republican ideals is immediately used as a childish excuse to degrade black people as has been shown in this thread and a thousand others<<<
Oh, fer Pete's sake! Did you bring your little violin to this thread?
WAAAAAAAAAH! They rained on my Kwanzie! I AM A VICTIM! Alert the press!
Quick, call Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton!!! Tell them to bring Looterguy along. And Cindy Sheehan.
Oh, the Humanity!!!!
Very good.....LOL !
Well done .......:o)
Bashing the criminal founder and his "principles" is not "black bashing." If some white dude with a similar (criminal/Marxist) background invented a new religion that was getting this much press I assure you the criticism around here would be just as enthusiastic. ....perhaps even moreso.
"Conservatives love David Horowitz."
Horowitz is a former Marxist who's now a conservative. ....not exactly the equivalent of Karenga (to understate the matter).
"If a person does celebrate it, it is their business."
Never stated or suggested otherwise.
Actually the violin should be given to the posters here since while they are crying the blues, folks who celebrate Kwanzaa continue to do so without impediment.
"Any idea, action, opinion, etc. related to black Americans that isn't complete subservience to Conservative/Republican ideals is immediately used as a childish excuse to degrade black people as has been shown in this thread and a thousand others."
I concur with this sentiment. I've been a member of this board for 7 years (5 under my current user name) and the rhetoric has only gotten worse in the past few years. It's hard justifying/rationalizing being a black conservative when I see what passes as conservatism on this board . . . Christian conservatism at that!
Marxism is an economic theory.
He's not playing.
What do you have against engineers? Too high of an IQ for your taste?
George Washington: "there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do, to see a plan adopted for the abolition of it."
John Adams: "Every measure of prudence, therefore, ought to be assumed for the eventual total extirpation of slavery from the United States…. I have, through my whole life, held the practice of slavery in …abhorrence."
Benjamin Franklin: "Slavery is …an atrocious debasement of human nature."
James Madison: "We have seen the mere distinction of colour made in the most enlightened period of time, a ground of the most oppressive dominion ever exercised by man over man."
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.