Posted on 12/24/2016 8:34:04 AM PST by Oldpuppymax
This article was originally posted in December of 2011 on the Coach is Right website. It remains as true today as it was then.
This year those of us who cherish the phrase “Merry Christmas” have started to say “Merry Christ-mas” to reinsert the name Christ into the greeting. Here’s a reminder of how we started to lose “Merry Christmas” 40 years ago.
On the day before Christmas in 1971, the New York Times ran an article about a new “holiday” called Kwanzaa that was invented by an America-hating, Black separatist named Ron Everett. Everett now uses the made up “African” name Maulana Ron Karenga to show the world he wants nothing to do with White America.
That Mr. Karenga was in a California prison doing a one to ten year stretch for illegally imprisoning and maiming two Black women he thought were plotting to kill him meant nothing to the Times. They didn’t want to talk about how their new hero had been certified as a paranoid schizophrenic by a court, so they didn’t.
Karenga called his new “holiday” Kwanzaa, a Swahili phrase meaning “first fruits” because he says it is a harvest festival. This is a lie. Kwanzaa is Karenga’s answer to Christmas. He would like nothing better than to see Kwanzaa actually become the “Black Christmas” he has always fantasized about.
In his 1977 book on Kwanzaa, Karenga said it “…was chosen to give a Black alternative to the existing holiday and give Blacks an opportunity to celebrate themselves and history, rather than simply imitate the practice of the dominant [White] society.”
Upon hearing of the new “holiday” a young unknown Al Sharpton commented that Kwanzaa “would perform the valuable service of “de-whitizing” Christmas.”
The idea that Kwanzaa is a harvest festival is...
(Excerpt) Read more at thecoachsteam.com ...
I’m still trying to actually find, here in uber liberal Northern California, with many friends who work for the government even, ANY incident of anyone, anywhere facing any type of opprobrium for saying ‘Merry Christmas’.
“A ‘schizophrenic felon’ and ‘Al Sharpton’ did!”
Repetitively redundant over n over agin n agin !
One of the best statements I ever read about this nonsensical “holiday” was by someone here on FR: The only people who celebrate Kwanzaa are white, female elementary school teachers.
Kwanzaa is Ghetto Festivus.
I remember that post too.
“I’m still trying to actually find, here in uber liberal Northern California, with many friends who work for the government even, ANY incident of anyone, anywhere facing any type of opprobrium for saying ‘Merry Christmas’.”
I am in Northern CA too, and I’ve not heard of anyone being criticized for saying Merry Christmas.
And to be honest, I never paid attention to when people started to say Happy Holidays. But, I started to get grumpy about people saying it to me a few years ago.
Alot of employers in the service industry dictate that Happy Holidays be used...it may be invisible to you as a customer, but the employee may be under strict orders not to say Merry Christmas.
That’s a perfect illustration from The Simpsons.
No nation in Africa recognizes Kwanzaa.
Maybe so. I know I was wished “Merry Christmas” a Starbucks, Peet’s Coffee and aJC Penney employee recently... i think “Happy Holidays” is not exactly recent :-)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7aivTkmH8g
Futurama, actually. Same guy that does The Simpsons, though.
Good link in the article for more info about this made up holiday:
http://www.weirdrepublic.com/episode27.htm
I'm not happy with them forbidding their employees from responding to a customer's 'Merry Christmas' with a 'Merry Christmas!' of their own.
Actually, a good way to respond to someone who says “Happy Holidays” is to say “Happy HOLY Days” to you, too!
Or blandly as ‘which holidays are those?’
ask!
June Teenth? LOL
Did you forget “old maid”?
I bagged groceries as a teen in ‘64-’65. I remember the lady manager telling us to say “Seasons Greetings”. What a crock.
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