Fisher-Price Web Site: "Tradition & Meanings" For Kwaanza, Hanukkah, But Ignores Christmas

FisherPrice.com (The Toy Company's Web Site) ^ | 11/22/02 | Recovering_Democrat

[Consort]

We wish you a Merry Tet, we wish you a Merry Tet, we.....

[RnMomof7]

That is the way it is in America..last Christmas the White House had a religious Hanukkah celebration in the Whitehouse, the Muslems had a prayer service in the White House and the President read a story on how loving Allah is to a bunch os Islamic kids...BUT it was a secular White House Christmas...The name of Jesus was never spoken during the Whitehouse celebration..no reading the Christmas story to Christian kids..it was a secular tree lighting and santa story

Get used to it.In America today Christ is like the crazy aunt in the attic.Her family is pandered to at election time..other than that the powerful prefer to ignore the man the day is named for

I will freep Fisher Price ,a formerly American Company,and tell them I want Christmas explained..but they do not want us to think of Christ..we are supposed to think of Santa..after all this is business and Christ only got three gifts ..Santa has a bag full

[Spiff]

As bad as it is for Fisher-Price to promote in any way a racist, marxist observance invented by a convicted felon gangleader responsible for having 3 members of a rival gang gunned down - Fisher-Price does have some good Christmas and Christian products. They are also a VeggieTales licensee and make several VeggieTales products.

Fisher-Price Little People Christmas PlaySet

[RnMomof7]

I wrote them a nice note and respectfully asked them to add a history of Christmas link to the site

I told them I have been buying their products for **years:>)

They are a local company. BEFORE the production move to Mexico they were a large employer in WNY.

This is a Leap Pad Christmas for my Grandkids..I have not purchased ONE Fisherprice toy ..that is the first time in ** years:>)

[RnMomof7]

I wrote them a nice note and respectfully asked them to add a history of Christmas link to the site

I told them I have been buying their products for **years:>)

They are a local company. BEFORE the production move to Mexico they were a large employer in WNY.

This is a Leap Pad Christmas for my Grandkids..I have not purchased ONE Fisherprice toy ..that is the first time in ** years:>)

[RnMomof7]

sorry internet burp

[Mike-o-Matic]

Subtle. LOL!

[ppaul]

FReep 'em!
Politely, of course.

[Moonmad27]

Interesting list o' links. When I was a kid in Texas in the mid-1960's, an elderly black man told my mother that in the black neighborhood the big day wasn't Christmas -- it was the week after, when they all took advantage of the Christmas sales, that their own belated Christmas took place. I always figure that, if this was a habit outside of Texas among the black communities, this was why Karenga got the idea to put his made-up traditional harvest festival right after Christmas. Seeing people fall for Kwanzaa saddens me; most people don't have any sense of history or culture other than the revisionist one taught today, despite the fact that most articles at least mention the holiday was invented in 1965. Maybe for kids now, that SEEMS like ancient history!

[lds23]

Very good!

[rmlew]

Gag.
Kwanzaa is a communist holiday.
Perhaps it is good that they ignore Christmas.
They butchered Hanukah. Besides it is an intensly anti-multicultural holiday. It was about the Israelites liberating Judean and cleansing it of Greek-Syrian influence and collaborators.

[evolved_rage]

a series bogus holiday

[stainlessbanner]

Wow, Spiff - nice list. Thanks for the info.

[WOSG]

Kwanzaa IS A fake holiday!! It was invented in the 1960s by an anti-christian leftist, a Black Panther.

This is from Mike Savage column:

This is what the founder himself, Ron Karenga, had to say about Kwanzaa in a Washington Post interview of many years ago: "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."

http://www.newsmax.com/articles/?a=2000/1/1/51109

FIsher-Price should be freeped about this. Black Americans should be outraged that they've been conned and the media perpetrates the con.

[Terridan]

No they don't realize it, or its affliation to the murdering black panther member. You'd be suprised! Our elementary school principal had no idea this wasn't african, and has since removed it from mention on the calender. All the libral teachers were shocked! Such sheeple!!!

[Snidely Whiplash]

I think I'll give FP the benefit of the doubt on this one, and assume that they didn't post the Christmas story where they did the others out of some sense that virtually everyone in the USA knows the deal about the holiday's origins. I don't see why they can't move that page Recovering_Democrat posted to where the rest of the stuff is, though. If you gotta dig for it, it may as well not be there.

I also wanted to echo the folks who grumped about trend of of cryptically referring to Christmas generically as a "holiday." You know the drill - shopping at the mall or whatever December 23 - Hanukkah is over (most years) so no confusion possible there - and the clerk tells you "Have a Nice Holiday!" Acquaintances, co-workers tell you the same thing. It's like...huh? What holiday are you referring to? People do that to me, I say, "Yeah - Merry Christmas!" Sheesh.

Snidely

[Lion Den Dan]

This anti-Christian model seems all pervasive. While I am not a religeous person, I decided to send Christmas Cards this year, the first in over 30 years. I wanted Christmas Cards, not holiday or seasons greetings. You know the kind, with shepherd, angles, wise men and baby Jesus on them. I was amazed at how far I had to hunt and how narrow the selection. Halmark provided results but my regular suppliler of paper, VIKING, only offered seasons greetings.

[Houmatt]

Kwanzaa's Kwap!

[rogue yam]

Aw, man, doesn't it seem like Kwanzaa bashing starts earlier and earlier every year. Why, when I was a kid we never started slagging this idiotic, made-up, Marxism-with-a-monorah crap until the day after Thanksgiving.

[RodgerD]