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The popularity of Kwanzaa can be best determined by the sale of stamps at the post office.

The Virgin Mary has Kwanzaa beat out by a mile.

For your education

I can't be the only one to think it both ironic, and appropriate, that Kwanzaa means "first fruits".

Oh goody - another Kwanzaa thread. Another excuse for me to post my KounterKwanzaa Link List. Read it and add your own links.

Kwanzaa Links

We Wish You A Phony Festival - Report (Canadian Magazine)

So This Is Kwanzaa - Newsmax.com

Ann Coulter on Kwanzaa - TownHall.Com

Mona Charen on Kwanzaa - Jewish World Review

Tony Snow on Kwanzaa - Jewish World Review

The TRUE Spirit of Kwanzaa - The New American magazine

The Story of Kwanzaa - The Dartmouth Review

The Truth About Kwanzaa - A Christian Viewpoint

A Momentary Loss of Reason - Binghamton Review

Kwanzaa & The White House - NY Post Editorial, 1997 (Freerepublic.com thread)

Michael Savage on Kwanzaa - NewsMax

Ron Karenga - Dialog from the Black Radical Congress - December 1999

Happy Kwanzaa - FrontPage Magazine - Link may not work, if it doesn't click here for the Free Republic thread.

I'm Dreaming of a White Kwanzaa - LewRockwell.com - Link may not work, if it doesn't click here for the Free Republic thread.

Letter to Editor - Ypsilanti Courier

What is Kwanzaa? - File Passed Around On Internet About Kwanzaa

Happy Kwanzaa by Patrick S. Poole

Ron Everett (aka. Maulana Karenga) / US Links

The Black Panthers and the Police: A Pattern of Genocide? - NEW YORKER MAGAZINE - February 13, 1971 (Includes great detail of the murders committed by Karenga's thugs)

PBS Interview with black radical Ron Everett (aka Maulana Karenga) - the guy that invented Kwanzaa while in prison for torturing two young women

US, the organization the Ron Everett founded in 1965, the organization that murdered 5 members of the rival Black Panther Party, is back - well it was back in 1995, but they haven't updated their website since then. Their website is here.

Afrocentrism Links

Clarence Walker Encourages Black Americans to Discard Afrocentrism

Pride & Prejudice by Dinesh D'Souza, Vol. 6, American Enterprise, 09-01-1995, pp 51 (Google Cached Version)

Fighting Fiction With Fact by Mary Lefkowitz (Google Cached Version)

Fallacies of Afrocentrism - Grover Furr

The Skeptics Dictionary - Afrocentrism

The Skeptics Dictionary Review of Mary Lefkowitz' Book "Not Out Of Africa"

Review of Mary Lefkowitz' Books on Afrocentrism Myth "Not Out Of Africa" and "Black Athena Revisited"

The Trap of Ethnic Identity - New York Times - Jan 1997

AFROCENTRISM The Argument We're Really Having

One more unholy holiday.

but the cards look..... so nice....
and 'happy'!

Kwanzaa is doubtless intended to exalt, but does it really succeed mostly in bringing belittlement? The obvious answer is yes. If there were a Eurocentric "holiday" like this, most of the black people in America would be screaming their heads off about this foolishness, and rightly so. But white people restrict themselves at most to politely snickering under their breath (except in rare places like Free Republic where people can sound off about almost any topic they wish). That spells C-O-N-D-E-S-C-E-N-S-I-O-N.

FESTIVUS-for the rest of us.

I kid you not, my 9 y.o. daughter just came in and asked me "What's Kwanzaa? Why don't we do it?" And she was born in Russia. Sheesh. (FWIW, she was homeschooled for 3 years and now attends a private school. TV. That's where she heard it.)