The thing that galls me the most is that Karenga could have placed his 6-day "festival" during any week of the year, but he put it at the same time of year as the major Christian and Jewish holy days, to imply that it's equivalent.

Sort of a We don't need your lousy Christian and Jewish feasts, we have our own black holiday!

If you notice, now all the PC idiots refer to the Holidays: Christmas, Chanukka, Kwanzaa...as if they are all equivalent. Of course they are equal....Christmas and Chanukkah celebrate historic interactions with God, and Kwanzaa celebrates...uh.....African customs! 

It's all the same, right???

Thanks, Warner for putting this out.  It is very fitting at this time of year to expose this fraud for what it is.  I got into an argument with a poster at another site about a year ago and did a lot of research and came up with the same conclusions.  This is the biggest joke of a supposed "sacred" holiday that ever existed.  The man is morally bankrupt and lives off the proceeds of the poor souls who flock to his lunatic rantings. 

"The future is not set.  There is no fate but what we make for ourselves."

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My daughter came home from her daycare center one day and she happily mentioned Kwanzaa (we are white).  I had heard this story and I jumped out of my skin and told my daughter we don't celebrate Kwanzaa as it's not for our culture. 

We went to a daycare center party where I dressed up as Santa Claus and  they were singing holiday songs, no Christmas songs, but lo and behold they had a Kwanzaa song and a Hanukkah song.  A black father standing next to me said, "I don't like this at all.  Whatever happened to Christmas?"  I agreed with him.

I complained to the center director that Kwanzaa was a made up holiday and the guy who started it was a convicted felon.  At least Christmas and Hannukah had over 2,000 years of tradition.  She mumbled about separation of church and state in a federal government facility.  I asked her why it was okay to offend Christians?  She then said I was lying about Kwanzaa and I got the usual "You're a racist" nonsense.  I walked away.  

Funny thing, the other dad, asked me what happened and backed me up.  He gave it to her as well.

Tom

It is much worse when you realise that by celarating this made up holiday with made up traditions that have nothing to do with Africa it further separates Blacks from the rest of scociety. Unlike Kwanzaa Christmas, a national holiday, is about the birth of a Savior for ALL MANKIND. Hanukka is the Jewish festival of lights. It is another in a long line of Jewish holidays that celibrates and re-enforces the Jewish traditions and that the Jews are Gods chosen people. Jesus was a jew and celabrated all the Jewish holidays and festivals himself. All Christans should also respect the Jewish traditions as they are from which Christianity has sprung.

Western civilization has much to thank the Jews and Christans for. Without them all of our laws and culture would have been worse for it. The Monks during the dark ages were  responsible for saving much of what had been learned before. Remeber all the references we see in modern culture of Scribes huddled over desks copying book after book. This was done to help preserve, not destroy knowledge. I could go on and on.

All of these facts about Christmas and Hanukka are reasons why all of us should be gratefull, even if you are an athiest. These particular religous celebrations are more inclusive in thier universal messages. Now we have Kwanzaa which is designed to separate one portion of U.S. Citizens from the rest. It was invented by a dubious person at best. Even if we were to give the benifit of the doubt to its creator the result has been a worsening of American Culture. We have demeaned signifigant and historical holidays and glorified that which should be repudiated.

...Kwanzaa, but I decided it didn't have as much meaning as "Festivus", so I've switched my allegance. I put the Pole up yesterday, I've already prepped the meatloaf, and I've got my list of grievances already written. Good times in the Keyser household!

"Kwanzaa" and the Steinfeld (isn't that Jewish?) make-believe from TV "festivus" are fakes. 

You want to see "silly" over nothing, Go to ANY U.S. military base or installion, anywhere in mid to late December.  You'd think Kwanzaa was as important a holiday as Thanksgiving!  There are "speical" Kwanzaa themed gifts available at the Exchanges, and "special" foods at the Commissaries.  The Child Care Centers have speical programs that the children rehearse and practice (but I never heard or saw a strictly "christian" one for Christmas). 

Special Religious Services at the Chapels and other ways to single out a "made-up" holiday.

There is always someone, some "expert" that is brought on base in the first part of December to "teach families" about the observances and practices of this "important" holiday.

Yep, October would have been a BETTER month to celebrate the harvest.  Heck, (American) Thanksgiving in November is abit late for a harvest festival, it really is the "opening act" for Christmas.

To place it RIGHT AFTER the Celebration of the Nativity of Christ, smacks of something that I can't post.

I have no trouble with the "neo-pagans" and their celebrations of Yule or Winter Solstice, those are REAL events, with celebrations that "pre-date" Christianity.

Maybe someday Kwanzaa might be a real holiday, but not while it's being forced upon us, by a tiny segment of the population. Only when ALL Americans are "welcomed" to the table and it's place as a anti-Christmas celebration is abdicated, will it happen.

Funny how all my educated black friends do not celebrate Kwanzaa, since most are Christians or at least believe in God, nor did they vote for Obama, because of his positions on abortion and homosexuality.  Kwanzaa is just another type of black liberation theology that does absolutely nothing to liberate.  Instead it enslaves blacks, like Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton and Jeremiah Wright, to the idea of victimhood.  Bill Cosby and others have spent years trying to get the black culture to drop their victimhood, but illiterate, socialists blacks whose jobs depend on keeping them enslaved, like those so called reverends mentioned above, want and need them there to keep their pocketbooks lined.  Time to wake up blacks and take back your society and culture from these dollar driven "activists" and get on with your life.  The only thing you are victim to is their greed and your ignorance.  Merry Christmas.

Kwanzaa...LOL..what a joke!

Not a real word, not a real anything.  It's as if a six year old told their six year old friends.."let's make up a holiday for us only"!

Karenga (another made up nothing) is a jive talking phoney baloney. 

I wonder why the Chronicle didn't mention that Karenga was an FBI informant against the black panthers? Oh yeah, worked with the evil American Federal Government!  He did it to save his own worthless hide.  I guess that never came up in the conversation.

As far as the Chronicle, it's the major newspaper in my area, which I quit buying years ago.  It is owned by the Hearst Corp. As dishonest a corporation as ever there was  in this country.

Guys, come on,  Karenga was just showing his followers what to expect if they went back to Africa when he tortured his followers.  After all it is a staple of most of the African nations, murder, rape, torture, all in a days work.  Look at Somalia, Chad, Sudan, Mozambique, Rowanda, etc.

"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquillity of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you."

Kwanzaa is a delusion made up by a documented psychopath. 

Karenga was kicked out of the Black Panthers for being too crazy for them. 

Karenga was a founder of United Slaves, the US referred to by WTH.  Obama and Rev. Wright's Black Liberation Theology is a tame version compared to the United Slaves "value" system. 

Karenga most likely directed two of his US comrades to murder rival Black Panthers after being insulted by the BP's.

Interesting tidbit about United Slaves is that they and the Symbionese Liberation Army, the same folks that Patty Hearst was "involved" with in the 1970's, share the same seven principles.  Delightful, no?

Two women followers of Karenga were kidnapped/held against their will, restrained, tortured with electrical cords, a vice, soldering iron, and Karenga himself made them drink some sort of household cleaner and stuck a garden hose in their mouths to force the cleaner down into their stomaches.  Basically, the psychopath US male members believed in the complete subjugation of females.  So much for idealism in the (criminal) movement.

Not surprisingly, UCLA hired the self-proclaimed Marxist for its Black Studies department.  I'm sure UCLA would live to have Bill Ayers too to shore up the radical, crazytrain, American-hating racial professorship disparity.

President Bush's recognition of this flimflam "holiday" in a national address is an embarrasment on par with his Harriet Miers and illegal immigration disasters. 

For more, read Ann Coulter's article, the Wiki, and here.

Me - born and raised in East Africa (Kenya, Tanzania) and I'm here to tell you that this assinine excuse of a holiday is about as African as I am (unless Norway has been given honorary status as an African state...?).  

For one thing, all the words he's trying to use, and their tortured applications, are in Swahili which is a made-up language and belongs to no tribe.  It is composed of a lot of Arabic-origin words and although the structure is Bantu, it really is no older than the spice trade which is when it was developed to enable the traders to communicate with the natives. 

The idiot who manufactured this so-called holiday just wanted a bogus excuse to party between Christmas and New Year and I am so nauseated by the whole idea of it that I'd really like to pinch his head. 

Maybe I appreciate the hankering for roots or a common culture but believe me, the only constant in the African culture that I can remember is tribalism.  Beyond that, sorry - unity (ujamaa) is a dream still unfulfilled.

Me - "The libs/dems of today are the Quislings of former years.  The cowards who would vote a fraud into office in exchange for handouts from the devil."

...lying, murderous pedophile back in the 7th Century, is it any real surprise that they would willingly embrace a "holiday" founded by a low-life, scum-bag rapist and torturer?

After all, Islam went right to war against Western civilization not long after it was founded, and Kwanzaa seems to carry essentially the same disdain toward our way of life.

To the corrupt MSM, anything that denigrates Western culture is just fine by them, and should be promoted at every possible opportunity.

-Dave

Merry Christmas everybody!

Unfortunately, President Bush has given recognition and best wishes to the phony delusion known as Kwanzaa again this year.

Since 2001, Bush has vaulted this abomination to national political recognition.  IIRC, even Slick Willy did not give official lip service to this "holiday".

Bush's "compassionate conservative" inclusion of the Karega flimflam is one of the few things I feel dissappointment with Bush.  Even the Harriet Miers debacle does not rise to this level - at least SCOTUS candidates are put through the Senate wringer before made official.  What in the world was George thinking back in 2001?

What's next, official recognition of Scientology and the Moonies?