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Kwanzaa: More Than a Black Person's Holiday
Luke "Non-white TEA partiers are like Concentration Camp Kapos" Visconti's DiversityInc ^
| 17 Dec
Posted on 12/27/2010 8:15:37 AM PST by flowerplough
Lubna Muhammad has celebrated Kwanzaa for more than 30 years.
"Kwanzaa is more than a holiday--[it's] a culture that should be applied to everyday life," says Muhammad, owner of Top Shelf Plus in Newark, N.J.
Muhammad says she began observing Kwanzaa because she felt its core message spoke to both her culture and spirit.
"When you go to work, you need umoja every day--that's unity. You need unity with your coworkers," she says.
Muhammad isn't alone. More than 30 million people in America celebrate Kwanzaa, according to a spokesperson from the African American Cultural Center.
Kwanzaa, which means "first fruits of the harvest" in Swahili, was created in 1966 by Dr. Maulana Karenga, a ...
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To: flowerplough
Yep, its a rapist, racist black persons holiday.
To: flowerplough
>> When you go to work, you need umoja every day
Oh please. How many Kwanzaa aficionadoes actually go to work?
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posted on
12/27/2010 8:18:47 AM PST
by
Nervous Tick
(Trust in God, but row away from the rocks!)
To: flowerplough
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posted on
12/27/2010 8:20:00 AM PST
by
RckyRaCoCo
(I prefer liberty with danger to peace with slavery, IXNAY THE TSA!)
To: Nervous Tick
“Oh please. How many Kwanzaa aficionadoes actually go to work?”
What? Selling crack doesn’t count?
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posted on
12/27/2010 8:22:06 AM PST
by
Doctor 2Brains
(If the government were Paris Hilton, it could not score a free drink in a bar full of lonely sailors)
To: flowerplough
Even black people don’t celebrate Kwanzaa so why should we?
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posted on
12/27/2010 8:22:15 AM PST
by
struggle
((The struggle continues))
To: flowerplough
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posted on
12/27/2010 8:23:02 AM PST
by
cripplecreek
(Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
To: flowerplough
10% of the population celebrates Kwanzaa? That means 30 million of our nation’s 41 million blacks celebrate Kwanzaa?
This is utter BS.
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posted on
12/27/2010 8:23:22 AM PST
by
Squidster
To: Nervous Tick
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posted on
12/27/2010 8:23:23 AM PST
by
Vaquero
(BHO....'The Pretenda from Kenya')
To: flowerplough
It’s a made-up, BS, communist distraction from Christmas.
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posted on
12/27/2010 8:23:46 AM PST
by
MeganC
(January 20, 2013 - President Sarah Palin)
To: flowerplough
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posted on
12/27/2010 8:23:49 AM PST
by
Christian Engineer Mass
(Capitol Hill operator 866-727-4894 toll free. Just say which Representative/Senator you want to spea)
To: flowerplough
Yeah. It’s the day Che’ comes in his slay being pulled by his Marxdeer, Adolf, Josef, Vlad, Karl, Chomsky, Alinsky, Osama, Muhammod and Saddam.
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posted on
12/27/2010 8:24:14 AM PST
by
FlingWingFlyer
(Merry Christmas to all of my FReeper FRiends!)
To: flowerplough
More people probably celebrate Festivus.
To: Doctor 2Brains
>> What? Selling crack doesn’t count?
Hey, maybe “umoja” is yet another street name for “crack”!
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posted on
12/27/2010 8:25:28 AM PST
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Nervous Tick
(Trust in God, but row away from the rocks!)
To: RckyRaCoCo
How you like some nuts on your brown pudding?
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posted on
12/27/2010 8:26:05 AM PST
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Christian Engineer Mass
(Capitol Hill operator 866-727-4894 toll free. Just say which Representative/Senator you want to spea)
To: Christian Engineer Mass
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posted on
12/27/2010 8:27:21 AM PST
by
cripplecreek
(Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
To: Christian Engineer Mass; All
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posted on
12/27/2010 8:29:51 AM PST
by
SpaceBar
To: flowerplough
.....was created in 1966 by Dr. Maulana Karenga, a ... A quaint colloquialism for "pulling something directly out of your ass". Or, as I frequently call it, PDOOMA.
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12/27/2010 8:31:24 AM PST
by
Gaffer
To: flowerplough
More Than a Black Person's Holiday?It is a commercial 'holiday' - dreamed up by a convict and kept alive by people who like to dress up in what they think are clothes their ancestors might have worn......just another boondoggle geared to making money for those that keep this faux 'belief' alive.
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12/27/2010 8:31:55 AM PST
by
yoe
To: flowerplough
Personally, I practice Bokononism. The FR therefore is my main Granfaloon.
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posted on
12/27/2010 8:32:42 AM PST
by
Seruzawa
(If you agree with the French raise your hand - If you are French raise both hands.)
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