This is a sham of a holiday created by a Marxist woman beater. For some reason it continues to be treated like it's a legitimate traditional holiday, but it has no actual roots in Africa and the damn thing isn't even as old as the Rubber Soul album.
Oh well light up your menorah... I mean kinara.
What's with the vehement Kwanzaa hate? It's just as made up as Christmas, Valentines Day, and Easter... yet I don't see such visceral hatred for those celebrations.
I'm not suggesting you guys are racist, but if you tweaked the color scheme of this page I'd think I was reading Stormfront.org.
Seriously, nobody actually celebrates Kwanzaa, so calm the fuck down about it.
And Himuro... don't be such an Uncle Tom. Like, really bro. Stop.
How does Kwanzaa fight ignorance?
What are black people?
I'm not an uncle Tom, it's the truth. Kwanzaa, even more so than other holidays, is a total farce.
HEY WE SHOULD CELEBRATE OUR AFRICAN ORIGINS.
That's great and all, but please don't act as if all of Africa speaks one language and that we're all from one tribe. Kwanzaa is a holiday that fights ignorance with even more ignorance.
Your parents most likely haven't been to Africa, ditto to your grandparents, and yourself so holidays like Kwanzaa are a total joke. You are not African. Just how the people who have Irish blood in them for generations aren't technically Irish. What's done is done, and you can't change the past so stop acting as if you're an African deity.
If no one else celebrates it, how am I an uncle Tom? Get your head together and your dick out of your ear. I give it shit because it's fucking stupid and it exists.
Will Smith aint black. Hes just dark skinned.
Can't he bash shit he views as stupid without his race being used as a lens?
edit: why wouldn't he want his acceptance televised?
Im blacker than Will Smith.
Im blacker than Will Smith.
Im blacker than Will Smith.
You're a fucking dumbass.
TBS is right: it's as made-up as any other holiday, and it's just another excuse to celebrate. No reason to pick on it over, say, Christmas!
What is the point of Kwanzaa again?
Is an Irishman in Boston going out and celebrating St. Patrick's day absurd because he hasn't been to Ireland? Is an Italian in NY participating in Columbus Day stupid because he himself has never sailed across the Atlantic? Is a German in Philly an idiot for celebrating Oktoberfest because he's never been to Germany? Are my Chinese friends stupid for celebrating Chinese New Year because they've never been to China themselves?
I don't celebrate Kwanzaa but I don't bash it at the behest of white people. That's straight up coonery right there.
TBS is right: it's as made-up as any other holiday, and it's just another excuse to celebrate. No reason to pick on it over, say, Christmas!
Clearly all holidays are made up however that doesn't mean we have to respect and celebrate every holiday that's contrived by some fruit loop woman beater. Yes Christmas is just a mishmash of various secular, pagan, and Christian traditions, but they have organically combined over hundreds of years into a holiday that most people in the West celebrate and love. I don't see how Kwanza can be considered to be on equal footing. If I created some bullshit European holiday called Fonzie I don't think that would fly with anyone.
First off the problem with your example is that Kwanza isn't an African holiday, it was created by an American. In contrast the Chinese New Year is a genuine Chinese holiday with thousands of years of tradition. And yes Drinky tradition is important criterion for distinguishing between holidays. Do you respect Abserdamderdum? No because I just made it up. All holidays start from nothing, but because they share a similar beginning, does not mean they should be afforded similar respect.TBS is right: it's as made-up as any other holiday, and it's just another excuse to celebrate. No reason to pick on it over, say, Christmas!
Clearly all holidays are made up however that doesn't mean we have to respect and celebrate every holiday that's contrived by some fruit loop woman beater. Yes Christmas is just a mishmash of various secular, pagan, and Christian traditions, but they have organically combined over hundreds of years into a holiday that most people in the West celebrate and love. I don't see how Kwanza can be considered to be on equal footing. If I created some bullshit European holiday called Fonzie I don't think that would fly with anyone.
You missed his point. Just because a bunch of Chinese-American folk who have never been to China celebrate the new year doesn't mean white people should do their whole LOL U HYPOCRITES WHAT A DUMB HOLIDAY schtick -- since the reasons for ANY holiday are arbitrary, suddenly choosing to bash one because it's recent in creation is likewise stupid. Holidays hafta start somewhere. PEACE.
I don't respect Kwanzaa. I also have no problem with people publically celebrating it. I do have a problem with honkies using it as the poster child for "what's wrong with them silly negroes" and "why can't they just observe our arbitrary seasonal holiday instead".
Is an Irishman in Boston going out and celebrating St. Patrick's day absurd because he hasn't been to Ireland?Yes. And I say this as someone who is Irish and whose grandparents were born in Ireland. Useless holidays are just excuses to have fun in some way you already like doing.
Who here celebrates Kwanzaa?
Because I don't! In fact, no black person I know celebrates that bs.
What is the point of Kwanzaa again?
What in the name of Ronald Reagan is a "question-beggar" -- is that some sort of newfangled Drudge-speak? Is it a Glenn Reynolds-ism? The patois of the freeper?
As I read this again...Who here celebrates Kwanzaa?
Because I don't! In fact, no black person I know celebrates that bs.
What is the point of Kwanzaa again?
:lol :lol :lol Himu, that's hilarious. Don't ever change.