Most people would consider this child abuse!
Posted on 12/27/2006 8:22:12 AM PST by King of Florida
Pauline Foster's advice to her 11-year-old daughter, Nanyamka Graham, was simple: Shake it and smile.
The two Lauderhill residents were part of the nearly 100 performers at the Kwanzaa celebration at Broward County's Main Library in Fort Lauderdale Tuesday night.
Kwanzaa, an African-American holiday that celebrates family, community and culture, began Tuesday and ends Jan 1. Each day focuses on a different principle, and Tuesday's was unity. This year is the holiday's 40th anniversary.
''It's a family gathering,'' said 11-year-old performer Tameka Lewis, decked out in a bright pink costume. ``We learn about our black brothers and sisters and ancestors.''
Tameka and her twin sister, Shameka, performed five dances and did some drumming.
Organizer Marguerita Gayle, of The Roots and Culture Dance Ensemble, remembered celebrating Kwanzaa as a child.
``Our children need to understand and to learn about their heritage. We, the parents, must take the responsibility to continue educating our children and our community of who we are, where we are from and why we are here.''
The program included the singing of the black national anthem, African and Caribbean dances and a spoken word performance.
Performers ranged in age from 3 to 60.
Mistress of ceremonies Sista Idya told the roughly 300 attendees gathered at the Main Library's auditorium a folktale about an African mother who walked across the ocean to find her children in Jamaica, Haiti and America.
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AKA "rap".
"The program included the singing of the black national anthem,"
Oh, jeez.
http://christocentric.com/Kwanzaa/whatiskw.htm
The Truth about Kwanzaa
"Black national anthem," huh. I've got a problem with their definition of "unity."
Let's be accurate here. It said "roughly 300". It could very well have been 200 or less.
Wonder what the history books will say about Kwanzaa 1400 years from now. /s
Most people would consider this child abuse!
The first 35 years were celebrated by only two black souls. One of them was actually only 1/8th but that's goood enough to celebrate in a colorful costume.
These man made religions don't hold up very well. Kwanzaa, Communism, global warming.
"...and a spoken word performance.
AKA "rap"."
AKA "crap".
He put a hot soldering iron in the mouth of one of the women and hung another from a vise attached to her big toe.
the torture and abuse took palce over the course of several days.
"We got more people at my son's Christmas Show (at a Catholic School) - funny - no mention in the press about that."
The media is who celebrates Kwanzaa. As I've said on other threads, I've liven in areas where the black population is 50-75% for the majority of my life. I've never seen anything Kwanzaa related in real life.
Media and politically driven BS. Meant for one purpose, to divide.
Did they get a white person to sing it in their own interpretive style?
"I've got a problem with their definition of "unity.""
LOL! There's a little club not far from where I work called "Just Us".
It was held at a library. It seems a library could hardly be that big. I bet the MSM counted the MSM.
Then again it might have been one reporter stuck with the find-something-to-fill-empty-space beat.
With names like those, it must be left over hippies.
"Did they get a white person to sing it in their own interpretive style?"
I can see it now, Pat Boone does the "Black National Anthem", Vegas Style!!
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