Posted on 12/09/2007 11:27:31 AM PST by ICE-FLYER
Merry Christmas & Happy Hanukkah!
I’m with you there. Shall we start with the airing of grievances ?
The Only two that count.
Doesn’t that family look so ready for Kwanzaa!? Hilare.
I think it is fostered mainly by universities and government agencies trying to be politically correct.
Happy fruits, bro.
Swahili (or Kiswahili) is spoken mainly in the Tanzania-Kenya region of Africa...it is a Bantu language which does belong to the Niger-Congo family, but very few ancestors of African Americans came from the east coast regions where Swahili is spoken. Wolof, Ewe, Ibo, Malinke, Yoruba, Twi, Fulani and other languages of West Africa are more likely to have been spoken by the ancestors of African Americans.
Kwanzaa is a 1960’s American invention.
Feel free to assign motives at will.
you are correct sir....El Grito is September 16th. That is Mexican Independence day... the Cinco de Mayo was about two loser armies fighting for the #1 draft position in the world's history of fighting.
the f'ing loser Army for France, fighting the loser Army from Mexico.
the French solidified there position by getting their a##es handed to them by Mexicans at Puebla.
One of my grandfathers fought with Madero and then helped Villa and Carranza. After Carranza was killed my grandpa immigrated to the U.S. and became a citizen. Murder was the way most of the elections and local politics was run.
We all laughed when Cinco de Mayo started getting popular, cause it's just like celebrating the battle of Yorktown or some other great battle in American history, but has very little to do with Mexican independence day.
typical liberal cr#p. It's just a day made to sell beer and Tex-Mex food. yum, yum.
Good one!!
I’ll tell you what’s really funny...is when an american asks you: “is cinco de mayo this weekend or next weekend?” or “what day is cinco de mayo?”. I invariably hear someone say this every year around the end of march.
Also what’s funny is when I hear some americans grumbling about the mexican culture taking over america and using cinco de mayo as evidence. Thats akin saying the proliferation of chinese resaurants is proof the chinese are taking over.
btw, in case you didn’t already know, american chinese food is nothing like what a real chinese person eats in china. When I was in grad school, a phd student from china begged me to take him to get chinese food his first week in america. He said he heard so much about american chinese food back home and really wanted to try some to see how good it was. He liked it, but thought it was a little too sweet. But he explained to me that kind of food is not available in china. He also never seen a fortune cookie before and thought it was the stupidest thing he’d ever heard of. Also, he’d never seen bamboo disposable chop stix before. In china they are always plastic.
There was also an egyptian phd student eating with us. He had never had chinese food either. The funniest part of the whole experience for me was watching the egyptian’s reaction when the chinese guy started eating with chop sticks. He reacted as if he was sitting next to an alien from mars or something.
Willie mon dat is a keeper !
It's pure, multicultural, politically-correct B.S.
East and West African culture are very different.
Yeah, and a lot of Americans have no clue what Dec. 7 is either.
Yes, but I don't think the Afro-centrists will admit that--they construct an idealized African culture supposedly shared by all Africans (which never existed in real life), and attribute anything praiseworthy elsewhere to African influence. For example, Aristotle stole his ideas from the library of the black Egytpian pharaohs, etc., and the Olmecs were really Africans who brought the idea of pyramids with them, that sort of thing.
Africa probably has more diversity of human DNA and human culture than any other continent (although maybe not as much linguistic diversity as Asia).
Props to you for the motivational poster that pushes the limits of good taste. You are my “fake motivational poster mentor”.
Trying to point out the unoriginality of stealing from other religions to populate your own. In retrospect not that funny; I'll try harder next time.
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