Posted on 12/24/2016 7:29:42 AM PST by rktman
Most black kids are probably saying, What is this ‘Kwanzaa’ crap? Gimme some Christmas presents!
‘Twas the night before Kwanzaa And all through the ‘hood,
Maulana Karenga was up to no good.
He’d tortured a woman and spent time in jail.
He needed a new scam that just wouldn’t fail.
(”So what if I stuck some chick’s toe in a vice?
Nobody said revolution was nice!”)
The Sixties were over. Now what would he do?
Why, he went back to school — so that’s “Dr.” to you!
He once ordered shootouts at UCLA
Now he teaches Black Studies just miles away.
Then to top it all off, the good Doctor’s new plan
Was to get rid of Christmas and piss off The Man.
Karenga invented a fake holiday.
He called the thing Kwanza. “Hey, what’s that you say?
“You don’t get what’s ‘black’ about Maoist baloney?
You say that my festival’s totally phony?
“Who cares if corn isn’t an African crop?
Who cares if our harvest’s a month or two off?
Who cares if Swahili’s not our mother tongue?
A lie for The Cause never hurt anyone!
“Umoja! Ujima! Kujichagulia, too!
Collectivist crap never sounded so cool!
Those guilty white liberals — easy to fool.
Your kids will now celebrate Kwanzaa in school!”
And we heard him exclaim as he drove out of sight:
“Happy Kwanzaa to all, except if you’re white!”
Kathy Shaidle
I taught at an all black high school in Mississippi, and you’re right - no blacks celebrate Kwanzaa.
It's definitely dreaming.
Calc II? Or an elective?
Yet we have white suburban public school teachers not questioning this or refusing to celebrate it
Mandatory “Multiculturalism” class you had to take to graduate. You had to take one “cultural elective” and I took 20th century film or something, and one “self-understanding” class like world religions, human sexuality, or multiculturalism. I took multiculturalism, which was headed by four minority professors of each minority (black, Latino, Native American, and Asian) and he was the black one. Never said a word about Kwanzaa as far as I can remember.
That sux. What time frame was this? Mr. Kwaanza is 75, so it could have been anywhere from the 60’s to last year. I’m curious.
Late 90’s. I think he was dean of the Black Studies Department.
I feel your pain.
Or, I think I do. What did you think of the course?
It was OK, just a lot of blame white people rhetoric
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