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The TRUTH about Kwanzaa [FR Flashback]
Jewish World Review / Free Republic ^
| 12/31/1999
| Tony Snow
Posted on 12/26/2007 12:56:57 PM PST by sionnsar
BLACKS IN AMERICA have suffered an endless series of insults and degradations, the latest of which goes by the name of Kwanzaa.
Ron Karenga (aka Dr. Maulana Ron Karenga) invented the seven-day feast (Dec. 26-Jan. 1) in 1966, branding it a black alternative to Christmas. The idea was to celebrate the end of what he considered the Christmas-season exploitation of African Americans.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: kwanzaa
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posted on
12/26/2007 12:56:57 PM PST
by
sionnsar
To: sionnsar
Until this posting, I have not seen nor even heard the “word” Kwanzaa this season.
2
posted on
12/26/2007 12:58:27 PM PST
by
theDentist
(Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll.)
To: theDentist
I have not seen nor even heard the “word” Kwanzaa this season. Does it have something to do with a 'Pole' and having strong feet?
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posted on
12/26/2007 1:01:37 PM PST
by
AU72
To: sionnsar
Oh, yeah, Karenga was such an upstanding person with high morals and exemplar values, NOT!
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posted on
12/26/2007 1:02:22 PM PST
by
mtbopfuyn
(I think the border is kind of an artificial barrier - San Antonio councilwoman Patti Radle)
To: sionnsar
I’d like to open a big can of diversity sensitivity training on my (other religion) neighbors. They started a major remodel on the condo under us on Christmas Eve. And today, the day after Christmas, shut off our water... along with continuing to take up the tile flooring.
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posted on
12/26/2007 1:08:22 PM PST
by
pops88
(geek chick over 40)
To: AU72
or a short attention span
6
posted on
12/26/2007 1:08:56 PM PST
by
theDentist
(Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll.)
To: AU72
Does it have something to do with a 'Pole' and having strong feet?Nah, that would be Festivus.
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posted on
12/26/2007 1:09:52 PM PST
by
NeoCaveman
(If higher cigarette taxes discourage smoking, what...do higher Income Taxes discourage? - massgopguy)
To: sionnsar
To: sionnsar
I wonder if those that celebrate Kwanzaa get pissed at all the after-holiday sales that started today.
9
posted on
12/26/2007 1:12:22 PM PST
by
icwhatudo
(The rino borg...is resistance futile?)
To: theDentist
Our PBS station had something about cooking a Kwanzaa feast this afternoon. It was mostly New Orleans/Cajun/Creole fare.(yummy!)
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posted on
12/26/2007 1:12:28 PM PST
by
OCC
To: traderrob6
Avi Nelson, sitting in for Howie Carr, said that the Wikipedia page on Kwanzaa was heavily edited over the last 24 hours.
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posted on
12/26/2007 1:12:59 PM PST
by
massgopguy
(I owe everything to George Bailey)
To: traderrob6
Extraordinary Parody!
Thanks
12
posted on
12/26/2007 1:15:19 PM PST
by
skeptoid
To: theDentist
Yep, I think the whole Kwanzaa thing has pretty much peaked.
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posted on
12/26/2007 1:19:35 PM PST
by
dfwgator
(11+7+15=3 Heismans)
To: theDentist
My kids came home from school with bracelets that had kwanzaa beeds on them. I am wary of it, but since I know my school, I know they aren’t pushing anyting on them. After asking them, they didn’t even know what it meant.
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posted on
12/26/2007 1:20:21 PM PST
by
vpintheak
(Like a muddied spring or a polluted well is a righteous man who gives way to the wicked. Prov. 25:26)
To: theDentist
Now that you mention it......neither did I.
Amazingly, I’ve never met a black person that celebrates it either....must be SOME out there, but I’ve yet to find one.
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posted on
12/26/2007 1:24:35 PM PST
by
ElectricStrawberry
(1/27 Wolfhounds...cut in half during the Clinton years.)
To: AU72
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posted on
12/26/2007 1:29:25 PM PST
by
rawcatslyentist
(Smithers hand me that icecream scoop. This isn't rocket science, it's brain surgery.)
To: sionnsar
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posted on
12/26/2007 1:30:46 PM PST
by
yldstrk
(My heros have always been cowboys--Reagan and Bush)
To: sionnsar; martin_fierro
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posted on
12/26/2007 1:32:37 PM PST
by
JRios1968
(Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will. - Ben Stein)
To: theDentist
And the guy tacked on another “a” to the Swahili word just so that it would contain seven letters, which was the number of members in the original “congregation”.
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posted on
12/26/2007 1:33:10 PM PST
by
soupcon
(l)
To: All
Kwanzaa sounds more like a “Hate Whitey” festival. Its like celebrating “James Earl Ray Day” for white supremacists
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posted on
12/26/2007 1:33:58 PM PST
by
UCFRoadWarrior
(Duncan Hunter for President: Lets Build That Border Fence)
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