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
That's the public schools--blank stares and blank minds.
Good for you for removing your children from a hostile environment.
and democrats, socialists and very probably traitors..
"The political and economic philosophy of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in which the concept of class struggle plays a central role in understanding society's allegedly inevitable development from bourgeois oppression under capitalism to a socialist and ultimately classless society."
Well, goes to prove you can find support for any bizarity on the web.
Marxism deals with the ownership of the means of production. It is anti-capitalist. The political approach is not particulary relevant. Although it projects that once it is place the state (politics) disappears.
It's hell isn't it? Black posters on more liberal boards used to cut and paste comments from here and throw it in my face when I argued that blacks should vote Republican. Sometimes I couldn't even respond.
Merry Christmas FRiend!!
Its a religion of pieces. By the way, does this Kwanza inventor have an connection to black Islam in the US?
Thank you! I'll add them to my file.
All of that political correctness just makes your head spin when you think about it, doesn't it? But then, you have to remember, PC has precious little to do with thinking.
HE'S ONLY TEN!! Just wait.
Great thread. Thanks for posting the link.
"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!"
I've been on this board since 1999, and I'm still amazed at the pretentious phony race-baiting of hypocrites like you who feign "conservatism," then cry "racism" when marxist criminals and their lies and phony African "holidays" are exposed.
You aren't interested in truth, or even "Christian conservatism" at that. You are FOS.
2Shade, I'm pretty satisifed with my position on this. I know its more politically correct to be tolerant when our President panders to race hustlers like he did with the Kwanza announcement, but I still think that you give public respect only to things that deserve public respect. Kwanza isn't one of those things.
The President continues to be wrong, and, alas, so do you.
Happy Kwanza.
And soldering irons
Actually I have a graduate level degree in engineering and have worked quite successfully for a number of decades as an engineer including hiring, and having to fire those that have proven to be incompetent in order to avoid accidents, explosions, etc., etc.
If you had bothered to read the thread I am criticizing those who claim 'engineers' are too smart to bother with learning how to think, write and express themselves clearly, accurately, and succinctly.
You shouldn't display you own ignorance so proudly. On the other hand, it may very well be your most prominent attribute.
Sorry partner. It is the likes of you who race bait constantly on this board. Black conservatives don't go around posting threads to ridicule whites. Black conservatives don't have their posts deleted on a regular basis here. Folks like youself go around calling blacks racists every chance you get, yet can't accept when you are called out on your race baiting and disrespect. Folks like yourself are the judgemental hypocrites that give conservatism a bad name.
Strom Thurmand was a segregationist who never renounced his segregationist past. How much hell has he caught on these boards?
You are nothing but another Internet-enabled pompous ass.
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