So This Is Kwanzaa

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

[Fresh Wind]

black cultural leader

Seems pretty accurate to me.

[Bella_Bru]

Yes, FR is a rather large Festivus gathering....

[Wrigley]

Better start your own thread with that one.

Serenity Now!

[dfwgator]

The "holiday" is a boon for greeting card companies in search of a new market.

Also for the USPS with their stamp as well. I saw on TV a piece about the controversy about the Islamic stamp, heck why don't you see any pieces about the Kwanzaa stamp and the controversy about that?

[DoctorMichael]

The-Truth-behind-the-lies-type Bump.

[homeschool mama]

What a swell guy, huh?

I'm offended by Kwanzaa.

[The Duke]

"Kwanzaa" is to holidays what "Ebonics" is to language - A BAD Joke!!!

[astounded]

Quote:"Check out almost any appointment calendar and you'll find it duly noted on Dec. 26 that "Kwanzaa begins." Wrong. My 2001 VFW calendar does not duly note the start of this phony "celebration".

[goodieD]

Having talked to a few African friends, (people who were actually BORN in Africa), I've been told that back home, they view Kwanzaa as a big joke. They see most so-called "african-americans" who attempt to embrace Africa in this way as woosies who wouldn't survive one day in their homeland. "They don't have a clue" is the most common refrain. The biggest laugh I get is when a white African friend of mine introduces herself as African to liberal American blacks.... drives them crazy!

[machman]

What do you have planned for this year's "Feats of Strength"?

[homeschool mama]

***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. ***

I sure hope there's more to this story. Did you inquire why Christmas was blacklisted? Take action? Do tell!

[exmarine]

KWANZZA: One more bogus religion in a sea of bogus religions in this pluralistic land.

[homeschool mama]

huh?

[Lazamataz]

Festivus.

During the last few weeks in December when Festivus takes place, families and friends get together at the dinner table and have something called "the Airing of Grievances". Durning this time, we share with family and friends all the ways they had disappointed over the past year.

After the Airing of Grievances, we get together right in the same night to do something called "Feats of Strength". This is where the head of the household tests his/her strength with another friend or family member. The great honour is given out to a different person each year.

Then it is time to erect the Festivus pole. No, it is not a tree. It is a pole, with no decorations. Tinsel is very distracting so there are no decorations. The pole is tall, silver, hollow, long, skinny, and heavy.

[bootyist-monk]

[bootyist-monk]

See above.

[Bella_Bru]

Ok, let's make a Festivus For the Rest of Us thread.

[pabianice]

Quackzaa.