All kinds of free services being featured at an ethnic festival? Usually I see these kinds of events as a day to see the culture, food and music of the group being celebrated.
I’d be a bit put back if a Slovak festival featured such a menu of freebies, I don’t know what the feeling of African Americans are about this?
The festival organizers are basically saying that seeking free medical care and screening is a very important part of black culture.
F Kwaanza
Worse than Festivus.
If you’d posted this earlier, we could have had a FR meetup down there. And if we’d taken full wallets, we could have ‘given back’ to the community by walking from the rail station.
Time for the feats of laziness........
Free my butt!
Anybody know who pays for this? I read the article but it's not clear.
Never mind. Apparently it is sponsored by companies who get "free advertising" in return. See here.
Great place for Kwanzaa shopping. Stock up on the bootleg videos and computer games.
As long as they insist on separate holidays celebrating themselves collectively and presenting themselves as collective victims and refusing to believe in the power of the individual, they will remain at the bottom of the social heap. After a while, the most tolerant people start to lose patience and will view them collectively as they wish.
Except for blacks, of course.
"We've moved from symbolism to substance," said John Wiley Price, a Dallas County Commissioner and KwanzaaFest's founder. "We still subscribe to the original principles of education and emancipation..."
"Emancipation"??
Hey Homes - in between the shrimp cocktail and the Chablis, and have you checked out the brutha in the White House yet?
Demonstrate your "principle" by stuffing it in the glove compartment of your pimp-mobile, then drive yo bad @ss across the ocean back to Mother Africa, you fraud.
Kwänzâá is when everyone gets to be Welfare Queen for a day.