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On the First Day of Kwanzaa my true love gave to me....
Posted on 12/26/18 at 12:01 pm
Posted on 12/26/18 at 12:01 pm
Merry Holidays everyone. I hope all is well.
Today is the first official day of Kwanzaa.This joyous holiday is an important part of the Foundation we call America. Today is part one of information that I have personally collected over the years of this very special day i would like to share.
Thank you so much for all the positive feedback I received on yesterday, and maybe you can gain a better understanding of Kwanzaa and discuss it over dinner with the family this evening.
Kwanzaa (/'kw??n.z?/) is a celebration held in the United States and in other nations of the African diaspora in the Americas and lasts a week. The celebration honors African heritage in African-American culture and is observed from December 26 to January 1, culminating in a feast and gift-giving.[1] Kwanzaa has seven core principles (Nguzo Saba). It was created by Maulana Karenga and was first celebrated in 1966–67.
American Black Power activist and secular humanist Maulana Karenga, also known as Ronald McKinley Everett, created Kwanzaa in 1966, as a specifically African-American holiday,[2] in a spirit comparable to Juneteenth. According to Karenga, the name Kwanzaa derives from the Swahili phrase matunda ya kwanza, meaning "first fruits of the harvest".[3] A more conventional translation would simply be "first fruits". The choice of Swahili, an East African language, reflects its status as a symbol of Pan-Africanism, especially in the 1960s, although most of the Atlantic slave trade that brought African people to America originated in West Africa.[4][5]
First fruits festivals exist in Southern Africa, celebrated in December/January with the southern solstice, and Karenga was partly inspired by an account he read of the Zulu festival Umkhosi Wokweshwama.[6] It was decided to spell the holiday's name with an additional "a" so that it would have a symbolic seven letters.[7]
Kwanzaa is a celebration with its roots in the black nationalist movement of the 1960s. Karenga established it to help African Americans reconnect with their African cultural and historical heritage by uniting in meditation and study of African traditions and Nguzo Saba, the "seven principles of African Heritage", which Karenga said "is a communitarian African philosophy". For Karenga, a major figure in the Black Power movement of the 1960s and 1970s, the creation of such holidays also underscored an essential premise "you must have a cultural revolution before the violent revolution. The cultural revolution gives identity, purpose and direction."[8]
During the early years of Kwanzaa, Karenga said it was meant to be an alternative to Christmas. He believed Jesus was psychotic and Christianity was a "White" religion that Black people should shun.[9] As Kwanzaa gained mainstream adherents, Karenga altered his position so practicing Christians would not be alienated, then stating in the 1997 Kwanzaa: A Celebration of Family, Community, and Culture, "Kwanzaa was not created to give people an alternative to their own religion or religious holiday."[10] Many African Americans who celebrate Kwanzaa do so in addition to observing Christmas.[11]
Today is the first official day of Kwanzaa.This joyous holiday is an important part of the Foundation we call America. Today is part one of information that I have personally collected over the years of this very special day i would like to share.
Thank you so much for all the positive feedback I received on yesterday, and maybe you can gain a better understanding of Kwanzaa and discuss it over dinner with the family this evening.
Kwanzaa (/'kw??n.z?/) is a celebration held in the United States and in other nations of the African diaspora in the Americas and lasts a week. The celebration honors African heritage in African-American culture and is observed from December 26 to January 1, culminating in a feast and gift-giving.[1] Kwanzaa has seven core principles (Nguzo Saba). It was created by Maulana Karenga and was first celebrated in 1966–67.
American Black Power activist and secular humanist Maulana Karenga, also known as Ronald McKinley Everett, created Kwanzaa in 1966, as a specifically African-American holiday,[2] in a spirit comparable to Juneteenth. According to Karenga, the name Kwanzaa derives from the Swahili phrase matunda ya kwanza, meaning "first fruits of the harvest".[3] A more conventional translation would simply be "first fruits". The choice of Swahili, an East African language, reflects its status as a symbol of Pan-Africanism, especially in the 1960s, although most of the Atlantic slave trade that brought African people to America originated in West Africa.[4][5]
First fruits festivals exist in Southern Africa, celebrated in December/January with the southern solstice, and Karenga was partly inspired by an account he read of the Zulu festival Umkhosi Wokweshwama.[6] It was decided to spell the holiday's name with an additional "a" so that it would have a symbolic seven letters.[7]
Kwanzaa is a celebration with its roots in the black nationalist movement of the 1960s. Karenga established it to help African Americans reconnect with their African cultural and historical heritage by uniting in meditation and study of African traditions and Nguzo Saba, the "seven principles of African Heritage", which Karenga said "is a communitarian African philosophy". For Karenga, a major figure in the Black Power movement of the 1960s and 1970s, the creation of such holidays also underscored an essential premise "you must have a cultural revolution before the violent revolution. The cultural revolution gives identity, purpose and direction."[8]
During the early years of Kwanzaa, Karenga said it was meant to be an alternative to Christmas. He believed Jesus was psychotic and Christianity was a "White" religion that Black people should shun.[9] As Kwanzaa gained mainstream adherents, Karenga altered his position so practicing Christians would not be alienated, then stating in the 1997 Kwanzaa: A Celebration of Family, Community, and Culture, "Kwanzaa was not created to give people an alternative to their own religion or religious holiday."[10] Many African Americans who celebrate Kwanzaa do so in addition to observing Christmas.[11]
Posted on 12/26/18 at 12:04 pm to Cbo83
I'll just sit over here and not participate in a "holiday" invented by a dude that like to sexually abuse women with a karate baton.
Posted on 12/26/18 at 12:05 pm to Cbo83
The NPC’s got the Kwanzaa memo.
Posted on 12/26/18 at 12:07 pm to Cbo83
A rack of ribs and a 40-ounce.
ETA: I know of exactly zero black people who actually celebrate this alleged "holiday."
ETA: I know of exactly zero black people who actually celebrate this alleged "holiday."
This post was edited on 12/26/18 at 12:11 pm
Posted on 12/26/18 at 12:09 pm to Cbo83
nationalism has nothing to do with race
Americans of all races are a nation
Americans of all races are a nation
Posted on 12/26/18 at 12:09 pm to Tchefuncte Tiger
What's wrong with ribs and a quatro?
Posted on 12/26/18 at 12:11 pm to Cbo83
quote:
Cbo83
I'll give you credit for one thing. If nothing else, you've at least come up with a fairly unique way to race-bait & troll this board.
One honest question, though. Since everything about you from your general mindset to your self-identity is so incredibly Afro-centric, why don't you just move to Africa? I mean, in Africa you could almost exclusively live amongst the race of people about whom you are so obsessed. Why wouldn't you want to move there?
Is it because you prefer to live where you can enjoy all the advantages which were created by a predominantly European-American culture while you are constantly exclaiming the greatness of your own people?
Just trying to keep it real, home boy.
This post was edited on 12/26/18 at 12:15 pm
Posted on 12/26/18 at 12:14 pm to Cbo83
quote:
Today is the first official day of Kwanzaa.This joyous holiday is an important part of the Foundation we call America.
A cult created by a racist that went to prison for torture and false imprisonment of women. Yeah, you celebrate you garbage...
Posted on 12/26/18 at 12:14 pm to KCT
If it's so bad not living in the mother land, why not just go there?
I'm sure Bamarep and a couple of baws will pitch in for a plane ticket, but you have to tear up your passport and renounce your citizenship when you get there to never return.
Deal?
I'm sure Bamarep and a couple of baws will pitch in for a plane ticket, but you have to tear up your passport and renounce your citizenship when you get there to never return.
Deal?
Posted on 12/26/18 at 12:24 pm to Cbo83
I know a lot of blacks, and every single one would laugh at me or be pissed if I wished them a happy kwanza.
Posted on 12/26/18 at 12:26 pm to Cbo83
At least you know your place.
Posted on 12/26/18 at 12:26 pm to Cbo83
Haha, downvotes are from people who were expecting thigh-slapping racist jokes.
Posted on 12/26/18 at 12:27 pm to Cbo83
quote:57 posts
Cbo83
OK, whose alter is this??
Posted on 12/26/18 at 12:27 pm to Cbo83
quote:I know another way to help them reconnect with their African heritage....
Karenga established Kwanzaa to help African Americans reconnect with their African cultural and historical heritage
Posted on 12/26/18 at 12:33 pm to LSURussian
Posted on 12/26/18 at 12:40 pm to vl100butch
quote:
Shirley Q Liquor 12 days of Kwanzaa
very politically incorrect, but funny
Posted on 12/26/18 at 12:40 pm to Cbo83
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American Black Power activist and secular humanist Maulana Karenga, also known as Ronald McKinley Everett, created Kwanzaa in 1966, as a specifically African-American holiday
Well God bless you. It almost makes you think that if David Duke created Kornbread Krismas for whitey, the media would help make people aware of it, downplay all the sick shite he's done, and promote the "holiday" every chance they get.... almost.
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