Is Kwanzaa Dead?

6 Responses to “Is Kwanzaa Dead?”

1. 
   Fast Eddie
   December 25th, 2008 at 10:53

   We might survive the loss of Kwanzaa, but let us pray that Festivus will still be celebrated. The dance around the Festivus pole and then the traditonal dinner followed by the ritual exchanging of insults is my favorite part.

2. 
   DavidL
   December 25th, 2008 at 11:16

   We might survive the loss of Kwanzaa, but let us pray that Festivus will still be celebrated. The dance around the Festivus pole and then the traditonal dinner followed by the ritual exchanging of insults is my favorite part.

   Isn’t there some rule against Festivus prayers?  I migbt try to find some empiral data on the relative popularity of the various holidays.

3. 
   Bithead
   December 25th, 2008 at 11:57

   I, for one find it passing strange that it should be declared dead, the very year that Obama makes it into the White House.  I find Ann Coulter made quite a bit of sense eight years back:

   Kwanzaa itself is a lunatic blend of schmaltzy ’60s rhetoric, black racism and Marxism. Indeed, the seven “principles” of Kwanzaa praise collectivism in every possible arena of life — economics, work, personality, even litter removal (“Kuumba: Everyone should strive to improve the community and make it more beautiful.”) It takes a village to raise a police snitch.

   Asked to distinguish Kawaida, the philosophy underlying Kwanzaa, from “classical Marxism” in the 1995 interview, Karenga basically said that under Kawaida, we also hate whites. While taking the “best of” — I’m not making this up — “early Chinese and Cuban socialism,” Kawaida practitioners believe one’s racial identity “determines life conditions, life-chances and self-understanding.” There’s a happy Horatio Alger story for you.

   Coincidentally, the seven principles of Kwanzaa are the very same seven principles of the Symbionese Liberation Army, another charming invention of the Least-Great Generation. In 1974, Patricia Hearst, kidnap victim-cum-SLA revolutionary, posed next to the banner of her alleged captors, a seven-headed cobra. Each snake head stood for one of the SLA’s revolutionary principles (and this sounds like Saturday Night Live’s send-up of the second presidential debate in which George Bush rattled off an endless series of Nigerian names): Umojo, Kujichagulia, Ujima, Ujamaa, Nia, Kuumba and Imani — precisely the seven “principles” of Kwanzaa.

   So, what is it, then, that President Bush hailed, today, then?

   Exactly what Ann says, all those years ago:

   With his Kwanzaa greetings, President Clinton is saluting the intellectual sibling of the Symbionese Liberation Army, killer of housewives and police, and the founder of United Slaves, who were such lunatics that they shot Panthers for not being sufficiently violent — all with the FBI as their covert ally. It’s as if David Duke invented a holiday called “Anglica,” and the president of the United States issued a presidential proclamation honoring the synthetic holiday. People might well stand up and take notice if that happened.

   Liberals have become so mesmerized by the hegemonic multicultural nonsense that they have forgotten the real history — the violence, the Marxism, the insanity. Most absurdly, for leftists anyway, is that they have forgotten the FBI’s tacit encouragement of this murderous black nationalist cult founded by the father of Kwanzaa. United Slaves were proto-fascists, walking around in dashikis, blowing away Black Panthers and adopting invented “African” names. (That was a big help to the black community: How many boys named “Jamal” currently sit on death row?)

   Now the “holiday” concocted by these violent stormtrooper stooges of the FBI is a “tradition,” a celebration of the “value of our past.” This is not a tradition. This is a ’60s psychosis grafted onto black community, while the Christian leaders at the forefront of the civil rights movement are washed out of the picture.

   by the way, Ann has an updated article posted in Human Events today on this subject. 

   One can only wonder, if the reported death of the holiday didn’t occur because people have begun to figure out just what it was they were celebrating. 

   There are certainly, as you suggest, David, a number of meanings that can be easily attached to Christmas.  However, I would hasten to point out to you that it to be Christmas, it has to start with Christ, however you perceive him to be.  Else, why celebrate such on or near the 25th of December?  Why not June 17th? Be a lot warmer.

   The thing that sticks in my mind about this more than anything else, is the insistence of breaking away from traditional American culture, while declaring their replacements as equals or superior.  It strikes me that so many people are so very desperate to tie themselves onto something that is not additional American culture that they are willing to tie themselves onto anything that passes by… Kwanzaa, Festivus, what-have-you, all because , seemingly, being anti American is “cool”.  It means being accepted in certain circles.

   Notice the groups that and documents as having started this monstrosity.  Now ask yourself; would these groups benefit from the dilution and ultimate destruction of the unique American culture? 

4. 
   DavidL
   December 25th, 2008 at 17:03

   “The thing that sticks in my mind about this more than anything else, is the insistence of breaking away from traditional American culture, while declaring their replacements as equals or superior. It strikes me that so many people are so very desperate to tie themselves onto something that is not additional American culture that they are willing to tie themselves onto anything that passes by… Kwanzaa, Festivus, what-have-you, all because , seemingly, being anti American is “cool”. It means being accepted in certain circles”

   Equal is a mathmatical concept.  It is not relevant in the study culture, biology or society.  In life, no two groups or ideas are equal.

   As to the idea of superior, or inferior, that can not be juded without context.  Is a camel superior to a fish?  It is in a desert, buyt not in an ocean.

5. 
   Bithead
   December 26th, 2008 at 0:01

   Equal is a mathematical concept. It is not relevant in the study culture, biology or society. In life, no two groups or ideas are equal.

   Well, exactly so.  Where things start getting tangled is when we start imposing government on culture, biology, and society.  The that time alone is that when law gets applied to these, invariably, one group ends up being more equal than the rest to paraphrase Mr. Orwell.

   At the risk of getting into a long discussion again about the government’s role vis’a’vie the society, and culture, let me just say that the problems start when government starts trying to make all cultures equal, as opposed to making all people equal before the law.

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