[SBprone]

A lot of people who call themselves African-American claim to take pride in their African heritage, but most of them show a surprising lack of interest in the history and cultures of Africa itself. Africa is a very interesting continent, but all it takes is a little bit of reading to dispel modern myths such as Kwanza.

To find comfort in such myths you have to deny history, research and learning itself. Strange that the myth of Kwanza should be perpetuated in a school classroom, of all places!

[Spiff]

A lot of people who call themselves African-American claim to take pride in their African heritage, but most of them show a surprising lack of interest in the history and cultures of Africa itself. Africa is a very interesting continent, but all it takes is a little bit of reading to dispel modern myths such as Kwanza. To find comfort in such myths you have to deny history, research and learning itself. Strange that the myth of Kwanza should be perpetuated in a school classroom, of all places!

Kwanzaa is a nostalgia for a history that never happened and a culture that never existed, a desire for a failed system of collective economics that has left millions dead in its wake, and a misguided hope for a racially divided nation that should never exist