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No, but it's an African one, and we must remove race and culture from the picture, too.

b/c you know . . . we're all just human beings [/quote]

Kwanza is most certainly not an 'African one', you best Wikipedia that one, you are in for a bit of an education on the absolute stupidity of that 'holiday'.
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You're right that Kwanzaa isn't an African holiday, any more than Christmas (for example) is a European holiday.

But I honestly don't understand why Kwanzaa is stupider than any other holiday (Christmas, for example).[/quote]

While a some Europeans celebrate Christmas, kwanza isn't celebrated in Africa. It is an American made holiday.[/quote]

I am PP who mentioned Africa.  Kwanzaa is rooted in African tradition.  So while it's NOT tied to any African nation specifically, it celebrates harvest feasts.  completely NOT European-based

from the History Channel, as Wiki is not my thing . . .

http://www.history.com/topics/holidays/kwanzaa-history

[quote]Dr. Maulana Karenga, professor and chairman of Black Studies at California State University, Long Beach, created Kwanzaa in 1966. After the Watts riots in Los Angeles, Dr. Karenga searched for ways to bring African-Americans together as a community. He founded US, a cultural organization, and started to research African “first fruit” (harvest) celebrations. Karenga combined aspects of several different harvest celebrations, such as those of the Ashanti and those of the Zulu, to form the basis of Kwanzaa.[/quote][/quote]

Dr. Maulana Karenga, aka Ronald Everett had his political opponents murdered and for fun kidnapped stripped and tortured women. As to Kwanzaa, Ronald said; “People think its African, but it’s not. I came up with Kwanzaa because black people in this country wouldn’t celebrate it if they knew it was American. Also, I put it around Christmas because I knew that’s when a lot of bloods would be partying.”

What, no history being taught on the history channel these days??

For those of you who find Kwanzaa and Christmas equivalent as they are 'made up' holidays are nothing but intolerant, close-minded bigots… but what else is new from liberalism??[/quote]

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