So This Is Kwanzaa

Newsmax.com ^ | Monday, Dec. 17, 2001 | Lynn Wooley

[X-USAF]

"US" v. "THEM". What ever happened to we?

[imperator2]

The mental defectives are taking over. Because they HAVE A BIG MOUTH!!

[Dimensio]

I wish that we could ban Kwanzaa!

This would imply that Kwaanza had some attribute that should be feared. Better to let it run and let anyone with a brain examine the practice to see it as the joke that it is.

[sweetliberty]

Kwanza offends me!

Seems Everybody Is Offended By Christmas

[r9etb]

The militant past of the creator is now ignored in favor of the so-called seven principles of Nguza Saba – principles such as unity, family and self-determination ....

Seems a rather counterproductive little piece: the intent here seems to be to condemn the seven principles -- which even the author would appear to support -- because the fellow who made up the "holiday" was a ring-tailed SOB.

One begins to wonder whether there's really all that much philosophical space between the views of Ron Everett and Lynn Wooley..... Of course, it is a NewsMax piece.

[Tourist Guy]

*yawn* must be a slow news day at newsmax

Festivus for the rest of us!

[JMJ333]

Nine years after Kwanzaa was invented, he decided to moderate his views and became a Marxist. In 1979, he was hired to run the Black Studies Department at Cal State Long Beach, in all likelihood, the first ex-con to do so.

How appropriate! I bet he fit right in!

[Lucky2]

My six year old saw a Rugrat Kwanzaa show and asked me what Kwanzaa is. Not knowing I told her they worship plants. I was joking of course but now I think I may have been correct. The guy who created it has the brain of a carrot!
P.S. I will not allow her to watch such a silly show and I turned it off as soon as I was aware of what she was watching.

[GuillermoX]

racist article...

[Key]

This is what the founder, Ron Karenga, said about Kwanzaa in a Washington Post interview:

"People think it's African, but it's not. I came up with Kwanzaa because Black people wouldn't celebrate it if they knew it was American. Also, I put it around Christmas because I knew that's when a lot of Bloods are partying."

In my daughters grade 2 class at school there was a big poster explaining Hanukkah, and another explaining Kwanzaa (minus the fact that the founder was in jail for torture when he invented it).......there was nothing about Christmas.

[FreedomPoster]

And it's racist ipso facto because it criticizes an element of American black culture? You'll have to do better than that. Now, if you just forgot to close your sarcasm tag, here, let me do it for you: < /sarcasm>

[Osprey]

Kwanzaa is a joke.

An invented PC holiday that the liberals promote to appease their base.

Their is no religious meaning to Kwanzaa.

[Bella_Bru]

Got my Festivus pole set up. Are you ready for the "Airing of Grievances"?

[anniegetyourgun]

Kwanzaa was established by a sadist. That makes him a "sexual minority" and therefore a "victim."

[NoClones]

'..."black cultural leader"? '

The phrase 'black racist' comes to mind.

[katana]

racist article...

Baloney. If you can refute the facts mentioned in the article, have at it. If not, then I guess you have nothing relevant to offer, do you.

Quick comparison: A holiday based on belief in a virgin giving birth to the bringer of peace to mankind vs. a holiday created from whole cloth by an ex-con abuser of women. You make the choice.

[Tourist Guy]

...Are you ready for the "Airing of Grievances"?

Everytime I logon to FR I'm ready ;)

[section9]

The thing about Kwanzaa is that it was hijacked by commericial interests. The "holiday" is a boon for greeting card companies in search of a new market.

It's a scam. Any ideological movement that came out of the campuses during the sixties is a scam. Period.

Be Seeing You,

Chris