Posted on 09/17/2012 4:38:29 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
BARRINGTON, R.I. (AP) — Barrington's school calendar now includes all major Christian, Jewish and Muslim holidays to promote better understanding of different faiths.
Students won't be able to get a day off on all the holidays, which now include Eid al-Adha, Kwanzaa, Three Kings Day, Orthodox Easter and the Lunar New Year. But the calendar recognizes each of the holidays.
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I cant even pronounce that without sounding like I’m drunk.
What religion is Kwanzaa?
How is Kwanzaa a religious holiday?
Communism and black liberation theology
I was once a fir tree ... not a Christmas tree, Jean Anderson had THAT part ... probably because she was a first grader with baby bumps ... I digress.
Anyway, we made hats and props and had rehearsals and ... well .. we LOVED the time off from reed'n. rit'n an 'rithm'tic.
So
With all of these "holidays" ... does anyone even crack a book?
I wonder how many people in Rhode Island celebrate it.
Kawanza was started by a criminal.
I can live with a school not having any official holidays. However, I think the school should have it built within their policy to allow each individual student to take a certain number of days off throughout the school year, so they are free to practice the dictates of their faith.
Yup,got one to ten in a California prison for assaulting two women,at least one of whom claimed to have been tortured.His defense was that one of the women was trying to "assassinate" him (according to wikipedia,at least).
This was posted on FR in 2002 and I used it back then to enlighten our local news media which had mentioned it along with Christmas one news night, as “Happy Kawanzaa.”
Posted in 2002 on a news blog
Kawanzaa
Posted on 1/10/02 1:42 AM Pacific by JohnHuang2
Back on Dec. 20 – a full six days before onset of this very spiritual weeklong rite – President Bush sent “warm greetings to all who are celebrating Kwanzaa.” It gave me a warm and fuzzy feeling all over – even though I don’t personally celebrate this sacred event.
Why did Bush issue a proclamation on Kwanzaa? Well, he explained that this important holiday was established in 1966 as an African-American celebration of “family, community and culture. The seven-day observance, beginning Dec. 26 and ending Jan. 1, serves as a special time to recognize and reaffirm the Nguzo Saba, or Seven Principles, of African culture. These are unity, self-determination, collective work and responsibility, cooperative economics, purpose, creativity and faith.”
Bush continued: “Kwanzaa provides an opportunity for people of African heritage regardless of their religious background or faith, to come together and to show reverence for their Creator and creation, to commemorate the past, to recommit to high ideals, and to celebrate the good life. These life-affirming traditions take on particular resonance this year, as the United States and the world face new challenges to peace. As individuals, families and communities take part in this celebration of unity and enduring values, I extend best wishes to people throughout the globe for a wonderful and memorable Kwanzaa.”
Touching, moving, multi-cultural.
Bush was correct in pointing out that this new high holy day is a very recent invention. There are few holidays we can actually attribute to one man’s vision. Kwanzaa is such a holiday – coined by Ron Karenga in 1966.
Who was Ron Karenga?
Glad you asked.
He is a convicted felon – sentenced five years after inventing Kwanzaa for torturing two black women by whipping them with electrical cords and beating them with a karate baton after stripping them naked. He placed in the mouth of one of the victims a hot soldering iron, also scarring her face with the device. He put one of her big toes in a vise, and detergent and running water in both of their mouths.
But that wasn’t the beginning of the bizarre and violent behavior of Karenga, the patron saint of Kwanzaa – not by a long shot.
Just about the time he was dreaming up this new holiday, he was also inventing a new political movement on the campus of UCLA. That movement was called “black cultural nationalism.” His group was called United Slaves. And it was defined mainly by violent confrontations with the Black Panthers at UCLA. Two of his followers shot dead two members of the Panthers in 1969.
But no sooner did Karenga get out of prison on the torture charges in 1975 than all was forgotten about his criminal and violent past. He was proclaimed Saint Karenga. Four years later, he was running the Black Studies Department at California State University in Long Beach.
How did he get that job in academia with his record?
Glad you asked again.
Paul Mulshine, who has done an admirable job of chronicling Karenga’s history for FrontPagemag.com, has a theory.
Karenga had a jailhouse conversion.
No, he did not become a born-again Christian. He did not renounce violence. He did not even repudiate his past. But he did become a Marxist.
And, while becoming a Christian might have disqualified him for a role in the world of the modern U.S. university, a conversion to Marxism was perceived as a sign of rehabilitation. The one-time psychopath had seen the light.
In conclusion, I hope this little cultural and history lesson helps you see the light – about Kwanzaa. It’s being taught to your kids in your government schools. It’s become a commercial bonanza in black communities through the United States. And, now, even the president of the United States is praising it as a legitimate holiday.
Good grief. What’s wrong with America?
Barrington is the Moonbat capital of RI!
Moron’s
It is... Marxism is your religion:
On the first day of Kwanzaa Karenga gave to me
A Marxist in a red tree.
On the second day of Kwanzaa Karenga gave to me
Two Jaily birds,
And a Marxist in a red tree.
On the third day of Kwanzaa Karenga gave to me
Three Dixie Chicks.
Two Jaily birds,
And a Marxist in a red tree.
On the fourth day of Kwanzaa Karenga gave to me
Four Lenin busts.
Three Dixie Chicks,
Two Jaily birds,
And a Marxist in a red tree.
On the fifth day of Kwanzaa Karenga gave to me
Five fel-on-ies.
Four Lenin busts,
Three Dixie Chicks,
Two Jaily birds,
And a Marxist in a red tree.
On the sixth day of Kwanzaa Karenga gave to me
Six Castro jumpsuits.
Five fel-on-ies,
Four Lenin busts,
Three Dixie Chicks,
Two Jaily birds,
And a Marxist in a red tree.
On the seventh day of Kwanzaa Karenga gave to me
Seven Mao pajamas,
Six Castro jumpsuits,
Five fel-on-ies,
Four Lenin busts
Three Dixie Chicks,
Two Jaily birds,
And a Marxist in a red tree.
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