Posted on 12/27/2005 3:00:20 PM PST by indcons
Kwanzaa, the African-American and pan-African celebration of family, community and culture, began with festivities of music, spoken words, togetherness and more throughout the region yesterday.
This year's theme, "A Season of Celebration, Meditation and Recommitment," was heralded yesterday at places such as the Boys and Girls High School in Brooklyn, where members of the Kwanzaa Collective gave out awards to those who had best exemplified the holiday's principles, to individual homes, where families lit the first candle on the kinara, or candle holder.
"People interested in their culture want to celebrate the good about family, community and culture, which is what Kwanzaa represents," said Dr. Segun Shabaka, chairman of the New York chapter of the National Association of Kawaida Organizations, who was en route to the Brooklyn festivities.
Kwanzaa, which means "first fruits" in Swahili, will span seven days, ending on New Year's Day. Each day, one of the holiday's seven guiding principles, ranging from unity and self-determination to creativity and collective work and responsibility, is celebrated.
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Time to get the hoses and soldering iron down from the attic.
I'm going to celebrate Kwanzaa by donning a pith helmet and wandering around South Central with a machete.
Kwanzaa is the bastardized version of Hannakuh and Christmas mixed together.
Well, don't expect the residents to call you "Bwana".
Karenga is called Maulana Karenga in the leftist circles. Maulana is a term used by muslims for their religious leaders and I wonder if kwanzaa is a front for islam.
LOL
The first twenty-two characters of your post are correct.
An excellent article.....thanks for posting it.
A huge crowd of 150 (according to MSM) gathered in Denver to kick off this immensely popular "holiday."
From FReeper andyk's link in post #7:
"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."
How touching!! More "tolerence" from West Coast liberals
I can't wait for the after Kwanzaa sales.
Yeah, you got it. Collective.
Just kinda gives ya a warm fuzzy holiday feeling doesnt it?
Well this is absolutely the most racist FR thread I've seen since Katrina hit New Orleans. Some really insecure people here. Does this kind of stuff make people feel better? Weird.
No problem. There are a bunch of good articles here on the FR. This one from Coulter is just one that I happened to remember to bookmark when I read it a few years ago. It's sad and amazing how Karenga is treated as some kind of hero.
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