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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: txradioguy on December 13, 2012, 02:27:41 AM
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BLACKS IN AMERICA have suffered an endless series of insults and degradations, the latest of which goes by the name of Kwanzaa.
Ron Karenga (aka Dr. Maulana Ron Karenga) invented the seven-day feast (Dec. 26-Jan. 1) in 1966, branding it a black alternative to Christmas. The idea was to celebrate the end of what he considered the Christmas-season exploitation of African Americans.
According to the official Kwanzaa Web site -- as opposed, say, to the Hallmark Cards Kwanzaa site -- the celebration was designed to foster "conditions that would enhance the revolutionary social change for the masses of Black Americans" and provide a "reassessment, reclaiming, recommitment, remembrance, retrieval, resumption, resurrection and rejuvenation of those principles (Way of Life) utilized by Black Americans' ancestors."
Karenga postulated seven principles: unity, self-determination, collective work and responsibility, cooperative economics, purpose, creativity and faith, each of which gets its day during Kwanzaa week. He and his votaries also crafted a flag of black nationalism and a pledge: "We pledge allegiance to the red, black, and green, our flag, the symbol of our eternal struggle, and to the land we must obtain; one nation of black people, with one G-d of us all, totally united in the struggle, for black love, black freedom, and black self-determination."
Now, the point: There is no part of Kwanzaa that is not fraudulent. Begin with the name. The celebration comes from the Swahili term "matunda yakwanza," or "first fruit," and the festival's trappings have Swahili names -- such as "ujima" for "collective work and responsibility" or "muhindi," which are ears of corn celebrants set aside for each child in a family.
Unfortunately, Swahili has little relevance for American blacks. Most slaves were ripped from the shores of West Africa. Swahili is an East African tongue.
To put that in perspective, the cultural gap between Senegal and Kenya is as dramatic as the chasm that separates, say, London and Tehran. Imagine singing "G-d Save the Queen" in Farsi, and you grasp the enormity of the gaffe.
Worse, Kwanzaa ceremonies have no discernible African roots. No culture on earth celebrates a harvesting ritual in December, for instance, and the implicit pledges about human dignity don't necessarily jibe with such still-common practices as female circumcision and polygamy. The inventors of Kwanzaa weren't promoting a return to roots; they were shilling for Marxism. They even appropriated the term "ujima," which Julius Nyrere cited when he uprooted tens of thousands of Tanzanians and shipped them forcibly to collective farms, where they proved more adept at cultivating misery than banishing hunger.
Even the rituals using corn don't fit. Corn isn't indigenous to Africa. Mexican Indians developed it, and the crop was carried worldwide by white colonialists.
The fact is, there is no Ur-African culture. The continent remains stubbornly tribal. Hutus and Tutsis still slaughter one another for sport.
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/tony/snow123199.asp
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But it is their own holiday! :whatever:
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Enquiring DUmmie union minds want to know.....how many paid holidays do they get for Kwanzaa? ....and/or overtime pay?
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I just heard that my granddaughter's pre-school holiday program has some kind of Kwanzaa song in addition to Rudolph the RNR and the dirndl song. For the most part the people living near me aren't even aware that there is a Kwanzaa (even spell check has it added); the city my daughter lives in looks to be requiring it to be recognized.
Might as well get Festivus to be officially recognized and celebrated. It's just as meaningful as Kwanzaa.
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I just heard that my granddaughter's pre-school holiday program has some kind of Kwanzaa song in addition to Rudolph the RNR and the dirndl song.
As much as I love the way the beer tent Frauleins look in dirndl at German fests, I suspect you mean 'Dredl.'
:-)
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As much as I love the way the beer tent Frauleins look in dirndl at German fests, I suspect you mean 'Dredl.'
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Oh, shite! You're correct and I appreciate it. As I was.