Happy Kwanzaa

FrontpageMagazine ^ | Tuesday, December 24, 2002 | By Paul Mulshine

[JohnHuang2]

Tuesday, December 24, 2002

Quote of the Day by Jonathon Spectre

[jospehm20]

Is this the holiday that George's Dad made up in Seinfeld?

[RLK]

Happy Kwanzaa!

... Up yours.

[driftless]

It's the same as if David Duke made up a holiday for Whites called Klanza.

[.45MAN]

Great article, it seems that it's origen and history are fading. Sometime in the near future this will be a 1500 year old tradition.. Another great stride for selective history and another tier of razor wire for the fence between the white non-hyphenated american minority and the hyphenated majority....

[Miss Marple]

In our country people are free to make up whatever holiday they wish, and if they can get enough popular support (i.e. Mother's Day) then it becomes legitimate.

HOWEVER, what drives me nuts is the press acting like this is an AFRICAN holiday, and doing all sorts of features about African cooking for Kwanza, African customs, etc. like this is a holiday that came over from Africa. If they would just acknowledge that this is a made-up holiday, I would not get so aggravated.

Until then, I am running MY made-up holiday concurrently with Kwanza. MY holiday (inspired by the Danish side of my family) is "The Nine Nights of the Nordic Lights." It is one day longer than Kwanza, and the food will be better.

[johnny7]

Yes... Kwanzaa is much like Festivus without the wrestling.

[grania]

In our country people are free to make up whatever holiday they wish, and if they can get enough popular support (i.e. Mother's Day) then it becomes legitimate.

It doesn't become a legitimate holiday until the companies producing greeting cards and candy make a substantial profit from it.

[metesky]

You racist Bushbot, you!
;O)

Seriously, can I... may I... dare I say it on this thread... YES!

Merry Christmas!

[xJones]

What irritates the #### out of me is that newspapers like the Dallas Morning News (the major newspaper in Texas) write articles with photos and treat this like a serious event. It's not, but it's so PC and "multicultural".

[Miss Marple]

Well, that goes with the territory, doesn't it? If there isn't enough popular support, then there isn't profit for the greeting card industry.

Hallmark has made a concerted effort to push "Grandparents' Day," but so far it is seen as a marketing device.

[GodBlessRonaldReagan]

MY holiday (inspired by the Danish side of my family) is "The Nine Nights of the Nordic Lights." It is one day longer than Kwanza, and the food will be better.

Who's bringing the lutefisk?

[BlueLancer]

"MY holiday (inspired by the Danish side of my family) is "The Nine Nights of the Nordic Lights." It is one day longer than Kwanza, and the food will be better."

I'll bring the roåst Møøse and cheese platter.

[Cagey]

Yes... Kwanzaa is much like Festivus without the wrestling.

"Many Christmases ago, I went to buy a doll for my son. I reached for the last one they had, but so did another man. As I rained blows upon him, I realized there had to be another way."

"What happened to the doll?"

"It was destroyed. But out of that a new holiday was born... A Festivus for the rest of us!"

- Frank Costanza and Kramer, in "The Strike"

"At the Festivus dinner, you gather your family around and tell them all the ways they have disappointed you over the past year."

"And is there a tree?"

"No. Instead, there's a pole. Requires no decoration. I find tinsel distracting."

"Frank, this new holiday of yours is scratching me right where I itch."

- Frank and Kramer, in "The Strike"

[johnny7]

"No. Instead, there's a pole. Requires no decoration.

Frank Costanza was a unique individual.

Do we wear cruise clothes to a Kwanzaa fest?

I hate to be over or under-dressed. HA!

[Valin]

I REFUSE to celebrate a holiday that is NOT(at least) older than I am.
Merry Christmas, Happy Chanukkah To one and all!

[sauropod]

ping for print

[livius]

Talk about enforcing multiculturalism, I was in my local Post Office last week when a young black woman came in and asked the clerk where the Christmas stamps were. The clerk, also black, told her that the Kwanzaa stamps were on a rack against the wall. She asked again for the Christmas stamps, and he kept shouting across, "No, move your hand down a little, you'll find the Kwanzaa stamps right there." The poor woman was clearly embarrassed, since by now everybody in the PO was looking at her, and she just grabbed the packet of stamps, put her money down and scurried out the door - without the Christmas stamps she had originally come in for, but with a fresh pack of Kwanzaa stamps, which she clearly had not wanted.

First of all, you have to understand that this particular P.O. branch is obviously a festering swamp of racial hatred, stirred up by a very surly older black clerk who makes no secret of his hatred of whites and his expectation that all other blacks, whether employees or patrons, will join him in this. It was very disturbing seeing the clerk virtually force this young woman to buy "Kwanzaa" stamps, but I suspect it happens a lot, and many blacks are being strong-armed into giving up Christmas in favor of a racial non-holiday.