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Springfield launches Kwanzaa 2011 celebration
The Republican ^
Posted on 12/28/2011 4:05:32 AM PST by matt04
For an half hour Tuesday, Jeremiah Anderson served as one of Mayor Domenic J. Sarno aides, helping him launch the citys official celebration of Kwanzaa.
Jeremiah, 11, of Springfield, was one of several dozen young people attending the City Hall ceremony recognizing Kwanzaa, the seven-day holiday that celebrates African-American community, family and culture.
As Sarno stood at the podium, reading a proclamation, Jeremiah stood by his side. At the mayors invitation, Jeremiah finished the proclamation, winning applause from the crowd and the mayor.
The holiday which runs from Dec. 26 to Jan. 1 was first celebrated in 1966 by Maulana Karenga, a black studies professor at California State University. The holiday is modeled after ancient and modern harvest celebrations in Africa, and the name Kwanzaa is derived from a Swahili phrase meaning first fruits.
Springfield resident Keyana Jones explained the seven principles of Kwanzaa: unity, self-determination, collective work, cooperative economics, purpose, creativity and faith.
(Excerpt) Read more at masslive.com ...
TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: kwanzaa; springfield
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posted on
12/28/2011 4:05:40 AM PST
by
matt04
To: matt04
This is a beautiful celebration of the diversity of America.
How #@&% stupid; the Ku Klux Klan couldn’t have further removed black America from the mainstream if they tried.
To: matt04
The 55 year-old idiocy of a clown named Ron Everett continues.
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posted on
12/28/2011 4:17:21 AM PST
by
muir_redwoods
(No wonder this administration favors abortion; everything they have done is an abortion)
To: matt04
Heck, I thought the article was about this Springfield:
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posted on
12/28/2011 4:22:26 AM PST
by
109ACS
(If this be Treason, then make the most of it. Patrick Henry, May 1765)
To: matt04
Assachusetts? What a surprise.
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posted on
12/28/2011 4:23:49 AM PST
by
who knows what evil?
(G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
To: matt04
Maulana Karenga, a black studies professor at California State University makes up a holiday and the chumps follow it.
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posted on
12/28/2011 4:24:10 AM PST
by
Vaduz
To: matt04
Those that celebrate this pagan demonism will not like what Saint Peter tells them when their time comes.
LLS
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posted on
12/28/2011 4:26:15 AM PST
by
LibLieSlayer
(ONWARD CHRISTIAN SOLDIERS!)
To: matt04
Springfield resident Keyana Jones explained the seven principles of Kwanzaa: unity, self-determination, collective work, cooperative economics, purpose, creativity and faith. We saw some of those principles in action at the Mall of America the other night...
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posted on
12/28/2011 4:26:48 AM PST
by
who knows what evil?
(G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
To: matt04
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posted on
12/28/2011 4:34:49 AM PST
by
mc5cents
To: Vaduz
From what I remember this guy had a different name, and was in prison for rape, when he made up this holiday. He did it because he hated what he considered was the "white" American Christmas celebration. Later he changed his name to Karenga. Where the idea of him being a professor came from, I can only imagine...probably from the mind of some liberal journalist who wanted to spread a lie. Of course, when Kawanza gained some popularity, the media never mentioned that it had been thought up by a jailbird - as a protest against Christmas.
And who ever heard of a celebration of the harvest...in any country...in the winter? The whole thing is a joke, including the stolen idea of lighting candles like during the Jewish celebration of Hanukkah.
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posted on
12/28/2011 4:37:45 AM PST
by
CitizenM
(Obama's legacy will be to be remembered as The architect of the decline of the USA)
To: who knows what evil?
Springfield resident Keyana Jones explained the seven principles of Kwanzaa: unity, self-determination, collective work, cooperative economics...How do "self-determination" and "collective work, cooperative economics" reconcile? They are antithetical!
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posted on
12/28/2011 4:38:24 AM PST
by
BillGunn
(Bill Gunn for Congress district one rep. Massachusetts)
To: matt04
Will there be any fried giraffe on a stick?
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posted on
12/28/2011 4:41:08 AM PST
by
albie
To: matt04
At least they aren’t shooting each other, which has become a sort of sport in Springfield.
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posted on
12/28/2011 4:43:22 AM PST
by
Vermont Lt
(I just don't like anything about the President. And I don't think he's a nice guy.)
To: matt04
...the seven principles of Kwanzaa: unity, self-determination, collective work, cooperative economics, purpose, creativity and faith.
Comment #15 Removed by Moderator
To: matt04
6 candles surround one candle in the middle of the, what is that thing called that looks like a menorah? A Kwanorrah?
Maybe it signifies a welfare queen and the 6 fathers of her children.
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posted on
12/28/2011 4:49:03 AM PST
by
N. Theknow
(Kennedys=Can't drive, can't ski, can't fly, can't skipper a boat, but they know what's best for you.)
To: CitizenM
Yuur right it was the jailbird who started it.
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posted on
12/28/2011 5:01:20 AM PST
by
Vaduz
To: matt04
The article's one sentence on the origins of "Kwanzaa" is a work of total censorship and propaganda - requiring the following correction:
The holiday... was first celebrated invented in 1966 by Maulana Karenga, a black studies professor at California State University radical, separatist and convicted violent felon*.
*Note: According to the NYTime's own (certainly reluctant) admission the substance of the offense was as follows: "Deborah Jones, who once was given the title of an African queen, said she and Gail Davis were whipped with an electrical cord and beaten with a karate baton after being ordered to remove their clothes. She testified that a hot soldering iron was placed in Miss Davis' mouth and placed against Miss Davis' face and that one of her own big toes was tightened in a vice. Karenga, head of US, also put detergent and running hoses in their mouths, she said.
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posted on
12/28/2011 5:06:52 AM PST
by
drpix
To: matt04
These morons just come out of a COMA??????????????????
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posted on
12/28/2011 5:08:20 AM PST
by
Doc Savage
("I've shot people I like a lot more,...for a lot less!" Raylan Givins)
To: matt04
I thought they had celebrated Kwanza at the mall when they rioted over the Micheal Jordan Tennis shoes.
You mean that wasn’t Kwaanza.? It was an all black festival.
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posted on
12/28/2011 5:09:48 AM PST
by
Venturer
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