[WOBBLY BOB]

only elementary public school teachers.

[Flycatcher]

Kwanzaa, a holiday created in 1966 by Maulana Karenga, black nationalist and current chair of Africana studies at California State University, Long Beach

That's odd.

The article fails to mention that Karenga served time in prison for brutally torturing women.

Hmmm...

[Pollster1]

"Kwanzaa has more definition of life -- Christmas is just presents."

I am at a loss for words.

[bert]

The inlaws of Akeem Joffer whose queen happens to be their daughter kiss up to Zamunda customs. They are believed to celebrate Kwanzaa and decorate for it at McDowell’s hamburger restaurants across the country.

[Inyo-Mono]

I have never met, nor known of anyone who celebrates Kwanzaa.

[Baynative]

[DoughtyOne]

Ronald McKinley Everett AKA

Maulana Karenga

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maulana_Karenga

Conviction for assault

In 1971, Karenga “was sentenced to one to ten years in prison on counts of felonious assault and false imprisonment”.[11] One of the victims gave testimony of how Karenga and other men tortured her and another woman. The woman claimed to have been stripped and beaten with an electrical cord. Karenga’s former wife, Brenda Lorraine Karenga, testified that he sat on the other woman’s stomach while another man forced water into her mouth through a hose.

A May 14, 1971, article in the Los Angeles Times described the testimony of one of the women:

“Deborah Jones, who once was given the Swahili 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 vise. Karenga, head of US, also put detergent and running hoses in their mouths, she said. They also were hit on the heads with toasters.”

Karenga explained his actions by saying that one of the women he had tortured had attempted to assassinate him, but he had no evidence.[11][12][13] He was imprisoned at the California Men’s Colony, where he studied and wrote on feminism, Pan-Africanism and other subjects. The Us organization fell into disarray during his absence and was disbanded in 1974. After he petitioned several black state officials to support his parole on fair sentencing grounds, it was granted in 1975.

[Hot Tabasco]

only 35 percent of respondents currently observe Kwanzaa, an African-American holiday

I wouldn't say that. I've seen scores of Kwanzaa celebrating shoppers at malls across the nation, especially when the Michael Jordan shoes came out...........

[Old Sarge]

Who Actually Celebrates Kwanzaa?

Hate-whitey racists.

[TexasTransplant]

I just ran out of Qwanza wrapping paper this year ... it is always a hoot to get the Thank you letters after Christmas

TT

[Nevadan]

Check out this brief news clip on the recent Kwanzaa parade in LA. My guess is that the only people who showed up to see the parade had family members participating. http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2011/12/26/kwanzaa-parade-preps-underway-on-crenshaw-boulevard

[rawhide]

obamma recognized this year, but not Christmas I’ve been told.

[KarlInOhio]

Kwanzaa is passe? I guess I'll just have to use my soldering iron, vise and extension cord for home repairs. Maybe I can use my Kwanzaa karate baton for for staking up tomato plants next summer (which I will water with my Kwanzaa hose).

[Wurlitzer]

The same people who buy into this communist fantasy are same ones who have been hoodwinked for decades to stay on the dumbocrap plantation.

[FormerACLUmember]

People who were actually born in Africa are really offended by the phony Kwanza. The Simpsons had a comment on this:

[Doulos1]

Kwanzaa = a turd splash!

[eyedigress]

Idiots that hate Christianity and the rise of American Exceptionalism.

[ronnie raygun]

Playcate, give them what they want. If Mohammed can make up a religion from a pagan moon god so can the blacks make up a holiday of harvest to offset the honkie Christmas.

[Lancey Howard]

Reader poll result suggests the holiday may be past its prime

It's a shame.
Wishing your friends and relatives a "Happy Kwanzaa" with a straight face followed by a quick chuckle always draws a few laughs.