The TRUTH about Kwanzaa

Jewish World Review ^ | Dec. 31, 1999 | Tony Snow

[Lancey Howard]

Excellent! This column, along with Ann's column about Kwanzaa from a few years ago, are all you really need to know about that phony baloney "celebration".

[word_warrior_bob]

Great post, all of these things seem like they're designed to build a "black America" seperate from the traditions of the U.S.

No matter how far we've progressed, there's always the BUT as if to discount how great it is to live in the U.S.

This discounting and non-embracement of this great country is totally counter-productive, and don't think that when people doing business and hiring see the name LaQuisha and Tupac, etc. worry that Uh-Oh, I am going to have to deal with someone with a huge chip on their shoulder who complains about everything and that every thing that is not perfect to them is decried as racist and will file a lawsuit or demand sensitiviy training at the drop of a hat.

I can tell you that I have dealt with many blacks like this and no matter what you do for them they will find something to go berserk about. I think a large part of this is the cultural brainwashing that goes on in the black community.

At some point you have to realize that a lot of people just SUCK! I'm white as the driven snow and people have tried to take advantage of me and screw me in every way possible, that's life. Too many black people think this treatment is because they're black, it's 99% of the time not, some people just SUCK.

[sionnsar]

BTTT

[4woodenboats]

I’ll raise that BTTT one bookmark

[Sherman Logan]

A look at Mr. Everett makes it pretty clear that he has a number of Europeans in his personal genetic woodpile.

[SaxxonWoods]

“We pledge allegiance to the red, black, and green, our flag, the symbol of our eternal struggle,...”

If the struggle will never end, there can be no victory coming. That wouldn’t get me very excited to pledge allegiance.

[TexanToTheCore]

Kwanzaa seems to be dying out rapdily. This is only the second reference that I have seen this Chrstmas season.

Actually, I have seen a lot more references to Festivus (the holiday for the rest of us), because it is simply silly. Airing of Grievances, Feats of Strength, etc.

I wouldn’t get too wkred up about it.

[45semi]

Interesting...
Says the official Kwanzaa Information Center:
"red, or the blood, stands as the top of all things.
We lost our land through blood; and we cannot gain it except through blood.
We must redeem our lives through the blood.
Without the shedding of blood there can be no redemption of this race."
The Kwanzaa Information Center also notes that the flag
"has become the symbol of devotion for African people in America
to establish an independent African nation on the North American Continent."

[rovenstinez]

I think I will celebrate Kwanzaa here in Mexico with some hot tamales, a piñata, some fire crackers, putting Baby Jesus in the Nacimiento, and anyone want to join in the Posada, needs to bring along some hot chocolate, and some hot punch. Tis a season to be Jolly...not Gay.

[sionnsar]

[rlmorel]

Good article by the departed Tony Snow...and his reference to the excellent book: "Out of America: A Black Man Confronts Africa".

That said, I must wish everyone a Happy Kwanzaa :

[RipSawyer]

“No amount of truth will sell in the black community.”
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Unfortunately true. I have yet to talk to a black person who didn’t think that Abraham Lincoln was a Democrat! If you correct them on that then they come back to the lie that the current Republican party is the old Democrat party and vice versa. They will never admit that one of their heroes is a Republican. Of course this does not apply to all, only maybe ninety percent. I am just reporting my observations folks, I am not actually a white racist but neither will I go along with absurdities to be politically correct.

[bigtoona]

Martin Luther King was a republican too..

[RipSawyer]

“Cavemen had more common sense.”
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Absolutely, they had to to survive, had they embraced the kind of upside down and bass ackwards thinking that passes for intelligence today they would have starved in short order. Imagine, “Don’t kill that fish, it may be an endangered species.” Don’t eat that meat it will raise your cholesterol and cause you to have a heart attack. Don’t make clothing or shelters out of furs and skins, let the animals live. Don’t carry spears and stone knives, you will only kill yourself with them or someone will take them away from you and kill you with them. If someone attacks you scream for the police, they will be there within hours.

It’s a damned good thing they DID have more common sense than modern Americans or we wouldn’t be here.