[RightWhale]

Habari gani, y'all. WTC911 put a damper on all kinds of childishness and foolishness. It's Christmas and that is international. It's intercontinental. Merry Christmas to Christians, Merry Christmas to Jews, Merry Christmas to Buddhists, Merry Christmas to Hindus, Merry Christmas to Muslims, Merry Christmas to Red Chinese, and Merry Christmas to jiveword of the day Brothers of Hue.

[Sub-Driver]

the first group that comes to mind is the NEA.........

[Terry Mross]

Don't know if anyone has said this or not, by my wife and I celebrate FESTIVUS FOR THE REST-OF-US.

[mafree]

Vanity: Does ANYBODY actually celebrate Kwanzaa?

I DO, I DO!!!

[hardhead]

Remember in 'Miracle on 34th Street' where the lawyer dumped the mail on the judge's desk addressed to Santa Claus, and the judge declared Santa was real because the United States Postal Service recognized him as such?

Well, my dear friends, our present day United States Postal Service has issued a Kwanzaa stamp. Ergo, it must be a real holiday! (out damn sarcasm, out I say)

[tcuoohjohn]

Sure they do...we call it Thanksgiving. Kwanzaa is just a late comer to the harvest festival tradition with a bit of African twang to it.

If you go to Britain they don't have Thanksgiving but something very much like it.In Britain churches celebrate harvest festivals when the wheat has been cut and the apples have been picked. The churches are decorated in flowers and greenery. Fruit and vegetables are also put on display, with a loaf of bread in the middle. Sometimes a plough might be bought into the church for blessing so as the next years harvesting will be plentiful.

In Britain a corn dolly is created by plaiting the wheat stalks to create a straw figure. The corn dolly is kept until the Spring. This was done as people believed that the corn spirit lived in the wheat and as the wheat was harvested, the spirit fled to the wheat which remained. By creating the dolly the spirit is kept alive for the next year and for the new crop. Sometimes these dollies are hung up in the barn or sometimes in the farmhouse or even in the church. In Spring the dolly would be ploughed back into the soil. There are many types of corn dolly. Kwanzaa merely echoes the harvest festival.

It underscores the pagan roots to all our religious rituals.

[oyez]

My black friends don't Kwanzaa. In fact most consider it pagan.

[JoeSchem]

I was in Target a couple years ago. They had Kwaanza celebration kits. I have never seen them anywhere else, and they occupied a very small portion of shelf space. I suspect that white liberal school teachers buy them (reimbursed by the school, of course!) to indoctorinate their classes in multiculturalism.

[aruanan]

Vanity: Does ANYBODY actually celebrate Kwanzaa?

For all people may claim to the contrary, I bet at least 80% of those "celebrating" Kwanzaa are doing it with "anti-White Christmas" or a feeling of separation in mind--basically as a means of reaction. At least those are my impressions by living on Chicago's South Side and just a matter of blocks from Calypso Louie's house to the north and his shrine to the south (the giant green crescent visible from my window).

[rdb3]

From those I know from Raleigh/Winston-Salem/Fayetteville, NC, to Atlanta, to Memphis, at home in Cleveland to Chicago to here in Dallas, I know not one person who actually celebrates Kwanzaa.

Not one.

Kwanzaa only remains alive due to the left-wing media. That's it.

[FreedomCalls]

Every time I take a shower, I always wash my Kwanzaa.

[jackbill]

Merry Christmas.

What is Kwanza?

[sandydipper]

I do.

[moodyskeptic]

Ron Everett, aka Karenga, cobbled together a cynical, phony African "celebration" which is really a transparent protest of mainstream America. It is not African.

I know black Africans, as both business acquaintences and as musicians (great musicians!) they are not angry and depressed like militant American blacks. The Africans I know are hard working family types who are conservative and full of good nature. They don't understand the afro-American culture, and insist their own kids speak well and practice discipline.

They would not be caught dead celebrating Quanzaa. Quanzaa insults African blacks by pretending to have African roots.

[Robert Drobot]

Kwanzaa! Kazawana! Zawnkaa!

Kowabunga! What's the password?

[Robert Drobot]

Pass this on to JPII. The Vatican is looking for any and all pagan rituals to include in their heretical attempt to be the leader of a demonic inspired 'we all pray to the same god' religion.