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So This Is Kwanzaa
Newsmax.com ^ | Monday, Dec. 17, 2001 | Lynn Wooley

Posted on 12/18/2001 6:07:56 AM PST by X-USAF

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To: X-USAF
Kwanzaa will soon follow Bring Your Daughter to Work Day down the toilet of irrelevance here in America.
41 posted on 12/18/2001 7:01:53 AM PST by Alberta's Child
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To: homeschool mama
I only saw this yesterday while working there as a class room monitor..(someone who goes in when there is NO teacher available....) I'm hoping that this is a part of the unit on Traditions, and they haven't studied Christmas, yet.... If so, they have 4 more days to get the Christmas poster up!

I promptly went home, got our old Christmas tree and some decorations, hauled it to the school (shoved aside their display on the KORAN, that mentioned Allah every second word!!!!!!!) and set the tree up in the lobby.

The secretaries smiled and said, "Thank you."

I'm going back in today at noon as the lunch room supervisor....let's see what happens!

42 posted on 12/18/2001 7:04:57 AM PST by Key
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To: X-USAF
The language of Kwanzaa is Swahili which is spoken only in East Africa. All the slaves came from West Africa so none of this makes any sense to their descendents. The inventor probably didn't know this.

I ran into someone who made a distinction between a Jamaican and an "African-American", as if the Jamaican was descended from ancestors who came from some other place than Africa. Strange what words do to perceptions of difference.

43 posted on 12/18/2001 7:12:12 AM PST by JeanLM
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To: Scratch shooter
Actually Ramadan goes on the lunar cycle so it will move back through the calendar. 10 years ago it was in April, 20 years from now August? (I don't have an Arabic calendar handy.) Anyone outthere have an Arabic Calendar?
44 posted on 12/18/2001 7:15:57 AM PST by Conan the Librarian
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To: Key
Agree. Kwanzaa is a pseudo 'holiday' created by an anti-American socialist. Its focus is directed to 'empower' the mental midgets, grey cell lacking and uneducated nitwits crawling amongst us to continue their hate against America.

All one has to know is the political backgroud of its founder. This is not a racist comment. It's a fact.

46 posted on 12/18/2001 7:24:50 AM PST by Mustang
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To: Dimensio
let anyone with a brain examine the practice to see it as the joke that it is...

I'm waiting for South Park to do a Kwanzaa-themed show.
47 posted on 12/18/2001 7:27:28 AM PST by balrog666
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To: GuillermoX;katana
Galileo was declared a heretic by the church for saying the earth revolved around the sun. That he made a statement of fact was irrelevant; he countered church dogma and by definition committed heresy.

This article is racist by the same definition. Any statement or group of words that refutes liberal orthodoxy is, by definition, racism. Facts are irrelevent; it's the dogma that matters.

48 posted on 12/18/2001 7:30:38 AM PST by tjg
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To: X-USAF
Here's the song from last year ----- CLICK, SING, AND MOCK
49 posted on 12/18/2001 7:34:15 AM PST by doug from upland
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To: Tourist Guy
Festivus for the rest of us!

I put my pole up yesterday. Tommorrow I will tell the story of the Festivus Miracle.

50 posted on 12/18/2001 7:37:40 AM PST by Clemenza
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To: X-USAF
Here is a funny tid-bit: The word Kwanzaa is from the African language Swahili. I believe it means "Unity" (don't hold me to that)

Swahili is spoken in eastern Africa.

Less then 5% of American blacks can trace thier roots to eastern Africa. The reason, is that the slave trade took place on the western portion of the continent.

But what the hay! This German/Swede gets as drunk as an Irishman on St. Pats.

51 posted on 12/18/2001 7:42:58 AM PST by francisandbeans
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To: Scratch shooter
Christmas is already under brutal attack by the media and PC marxists, and I doubt it will survive in any form we'd recognize.

Well, except for the giant economic push for holiday gift buying giving.

52 posted on 12/18/2001 7:51:39 AM PST by lewislynn
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To: X-USAF
US vs. THEM is now LIBERAL vs. CONSERVATIVE....there is no WE...PERIOD. Melting pot no more...jus a seething, simmering stew.

If I was soooo unhappy in a country, I would LEAVE..like I will leave if Hillary becomes President. Why don't the blacks go make a super country in Africa where everybody is alike? This isn't racist, but it will appear to be so to some.

53 posted on 12/18/2001 7:52:08 AM PST by Ann Archy
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To: X-USAF
Somebody on another thread said it's like wearing tartan lederhosen to celebrate European-ness
54 posted on 12/18/2001 7:53:07 AM PST by Virginia-American
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To: Key
ROFLOL. I appreciate your spirit!
55 posted on 12/18/2001 7:57:11 AM PST by homeschool mama
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To: X-USAF
I am actually quite surprised. Here in Minnehopeless, I have yet to see any commercial expressions of this artificial holiday. I have been to various specialty stores during my feverish shopping sprees, (including Hallmark) and I have not seen any Kwanzaa hype or BS anywhere. Perhaps the commercial interests have awakened to the fact that it isn't selling. If it doesn't sell, there is little need to hype it.

Semper Observant

56 posted on 12/18/2001 8:11:42 AM PST by Trident/Delta
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To: X-USAF
Got this from the black avengers website. All of Shirly Q Liquor's stuff is pretty funny

On the first day of Kwanza... my childrens asked me, "mamm, what is Kwanzaa for, anyway?"

On the second day of Kwanzaa... some lady bothered me. I cursed her out and I say "no, I don't wan't no Olan Mills pictures and quit calling here!"

On the third day of Kwanzaa... I went out to the store. I needed beer and cigarets but they was closed, so I smashed out the windows, did a drive-by and cursed em all out.

On the fourth day of Kwanzaa... I turned on the t.v. Young and the Restless, All of My Children, One Day to Live, and then "Oprah" at 4 o'clock.

On the fifth day of Kwanzaa... My check came in the mail. AFDC! "Thank you Lord" I said, "come on kids, let's go to the store for some collard greens, hamhocks and some cheese."

On the sixth day of Kwanzaa... the police rang the bell. They served a warrant, I nearly passed out! But it wa ok, som woman had said I stole her wigs, but I told em all I was gonna give em back anyway.

On the seventh day of Kwanzaa... I poured myself a drink. I drank 40 ounces, got really full then lost my mind. I drove down the street cursing out everyone I saw. Then I bashed the Cadilac upside a Dairy Queen.

On the eighth day of Kwanzaa... I bought a TV Guide... not much had happened. I was hungover from a bad headache from Schiltz Malt Liquor Bull. I tried to stay home and be quiet, take my nerve pills... you can just feel Kwanzaa in the air.

On the nineth day of Kwanzaa... I painted all my nails. Two shades of purple, one shade of turquoise, throwed on some glitter, did em up real nice... I had looked good! Then I drove on down to Popeye's, bought me some chicken and I stayed home and looked at t.v.

On the tenth day of Kwanzaa... Shoplifting was the thing. 10 Now or Laters, 9 little candies, 8 cans of tuna fish, 7 little niknaks, 6 pack of Budweiser, 5 Lee Press-On Nails, 4 pieces of gum, 3 large fries, 2 days back in jail... it was Kwanzaa, so what the hell?

On the eleventh day of Kwanzaa... I got out on parole. I rolled a big joint, went down to church and talked all out of my head. Got happy and shouted, passed out and hollered. They called 911 and the Lord set me free! Gave my testimony, stepped on home, didn't even remember where I stayed, I woke up real hungry and confused.

On the twelfth day of Kwanzaa... My childrens gathered around me. Lincoln, Alow vera, Gyne-Lotrimin, LemonJello, OrangeJello, Tinactin, Tempasia, KMartina, Fallopia, Shi'Thead, Shameka-Vonquishia, Salmonella, Chlamydia Champagne, Democtorius, Saskatoon, Cheeto and Skuketia... And it had really started to feel more like it was getting near Kwanza

57 posted on 12/18/2001 8:35:33 AM PST by BurFred
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58 posted on 12/18/2001 8:51:00 AM PST by Atticus
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To: Atticus
Are the Smiths the most politically correct family in America, or what?


59 posted on 12/18/2001 10:03:31 AM PST by Atticus
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To: X-USAF
I can't let a Kwanzaa thread go by without posting my (newly updated) KounterKwanzaa Link List.

Kwanzaa Links

So This Is Kwanzaa - Newsmax.com

Ann Coulter on Kwanzaa - TownHall.Com

Mona Charen on Kwanzaa - Jewish World Review

Tony Snow on Kwanzaa - Jewish World Review

The TRUE Spirit of Kwanzaa - The New American magazine

The Story of Kwanzaa - The Dartmouth Review

The Truth About Kwanzaa - A Christian Viewpoint

A Momentary Loss of Reason - Binghamton Review

Michael Savage on Kwanzaa - NewsMax

Ron Karenga - Dialog from the Black Radical Congress - December 1999

Happy Kwanzaa - FrontPage Magazine - Link may not work, if it doesn't click here for the Free Republic thread.

I'm Dreaming of a White Kwanzaa - LewRockwell.com - Link may not work, if it doesn't click here for the Free Republic thread.

Letter to Editor - Ypsilanti Courier

What is Kwanzaa? - File Passed Around On Internet About Kwanzaa

Happy Kwanzaa by Patrick S. Poole

Ron Everett (aka. Maulana Karenga) / US Links

PBS Interview with black radical Ron Everett (aka Maulana Karenga) - the guy that invented Kwanzaa while in prison for torturing two young women

US, the organization the Ron Everett founded in 1965, the organization that murdered 5 members of the rival Black Panther Party, is back - well it was back in 1995, but they haven't updated their website since then. Their website is here.

Afrocentrism Links

Clarence Walker encourages black Americans to discard Afrocentrism

Fallacies of Afrocentrism - Grover Furr

The Skeptics Dictionary - Afrocentrism

The Trap of Ethnic Identity - New York Times - Jan 1997

AFROCENTRISM The Argument We're Really Having



60 posted on 12/18/2001 1:37:46 PM PST by Spiff
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