Posted on 12/25/2014 5:20:22 AM PST by rktman
I will not be shooting any Black Panthers this week because I am Kwanzaa-reform, and we are not that observant. Kwanzaa, celebrated exclusively by white liberals, is a fake holiday invented in 1966 by black radical/FBI stooge, Ron Karenga – aka Dr. Maulana Karenga, founder of United Slaves, the violent nationalist rival to the Black Panthers. In the annals of the American ’60s, Karenga was the Father Gapon, pawn of the czarist police.
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Festivous has more trakshun...
We celebrate black Festivus-we air grievances and then go out and loot a liquor store!
We shouldn’t knock Kawanza. It is after all celebrated by the President of Africa.
She’s wrong about the Panthers. The ones I knew professed Marxism, wore Mao and Che buttons, and even held out Kim Il Sung as a model revolutionary. They advocated violent overthrow of the US government.
They thought of themselves as the revolutionary vanguard, and even held a convention to formulate and announce their “revolutionary peoples’ constitution.”
Mary-——the crack-addicted, unwed mother of Jesus...went to Bethlehem....where she was told by a Republican innkeeper (who also was in the tea party) that there was “NO ROOM” at the inn. Because there was no Democratic Party in those days...Mary was forced to sleep in a manger—like an animal......the end
I don’t criticize FR much but the only place I hear about that so called holiday is here. I’m black and I work in dc for a mostly black company...no one talks about it. If its not a dead idea its dying fast so lets just stop beating this dead horse.
Amen!
I knew a white liberal teacher who celebrated in their classroom.
A perfect description of a fake holiday.
I’m hoping for a soldering iron or extension cord in my kwanzaa stocking this year.
I hadn’t thought about it much, but you are right. I don’t recall it being celebrated anywhere lately.
Then you might want to check this out. It's far from "dead" or a "FreeRepublic-only" entity.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwanzaa
In 2004, BIG Research conducted a marketing survey in the United States for the National Retail Foundation, which found that 1.6% of those surveyed planned to celebrate Kwanzaa. If generalized to the US population as a whole, this would imply that around 4.7 million people planned to celebrate Kwanzaa in that year.[16] In a 2006 speech, Ron Karenga asserted that 28 million people celebrate Kwanzaa. He has always claimed it is celebrated all over the world.[1] Lee D. Baker puts the number at 12 million.[17] The African American Cultural Center claimed 30 million in 2009.[18] In 2011, Keith Mayes said that 2 million people participated in Kwanzaa.[18]According to University of Minnesota Professor Keith Mayes, the author of Kwanzaa: Black Power and the Making of the African-American Holiday Tradition, the popularity within the US has "leveled off" as the black power movement there has declined, and now between half and two million people celebrate Kwanzaa in the US, or between one and five percent of African Americans. Mayes adds that white institutions now celebrate it.[7]
The holiday has also spread to Canada, and is celebrated by Black Canadians in a similar fashion as in the United States.[15] According to the Language Portal of Canada, "this fairly new tradition has [also] gained in popularity in France, Great Britain, Jamaica and Brazil", although this information has not been confirmed with authoritative sources from these countries.[19]
In Brazil, in recent years the term Kwanzaa has been applied by a few institutions as a synonym for the festivities of the Black Awareness Day, commemorated on November 20 in honor of Zumbi dos Palmares,[20][21] having little to do with the celebration as it was originally conceived.
In 2009, Maya Angelou narrated the documentary The Black Candle, a film about Kwanzaa.
LOL!
Or if you don’t trust Wikipedia, call up your browser on your favorite News aggregator (e.g. news.google.com) and search on “kwanzaa”.
Well what about Festivus, that’s a Holiday to some folks also.
It was being pushed a few years back quite heavily. To mention it is to lampoon the effort that the elites make try to engineer reality.
Remember that song with the lyrics, "...lying to the races...."? They tell one race what the other one is supposed to believe and vice versa. That's how they create the turmoil required to keep them in power.
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