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    Quote Originally Posted by ThatOwlWoman View Post
    (Please, no one tell Dark Scab that a lot of us celebrate the winter solstice too. Shhh....)
    That's divisive, I'm telling!

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    The irony of some Reichwinger whining about a holiday being "divisive" -- while their masters at Fox whip them into a frenzy over the fake War on Xmas.
    "Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals." -- Mark Twain

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dark Soul View Post
    Only a lib would think that a holiday invented to separate cultures is cool lol.
    Kwanzaa affects me much less than the bullshit surrounding Christmas. Probably the same for most people.

    Except for assholes of your stature.
    Last edited by domer76; 12-15-2019 at 08:39 AM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Celticguy View Post
    The funny part is that Africans have taken to celebrating this manufactured holiday !
    Cinco de Mayo
    St. Patricks Day
    Columbus Day
    Mardi Gras
    Thanksgiving
    Christmas

    All either manufactured or celebrated by outsiders.

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    Quote Originally Posted by StoneByStone View Post
    Poor baby. Those Leftists are making you cry again.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dark Soul View Post
    Since this anti-Christmas bullshit holiday will be upon us again soon I'd like to remind the libs here exactly why it is bullshit.


    Lynn Woolley
    NewsMax.com
    Monday, Dec. 17, 2001
    You don't like the current slate of holidays that we celebrate here in
    America? Then why not create one of your own? That's exactly what Ronald
    Everett did back in 1966. He named it "Kwanzaa."
    Since then, many people have embraced this new holiday. Check out almost any
    appointment calendar and you'll find it duly noted on Dec. 26 that "Kwanzaa
    begins." Stroll through your local card and party store and you'll find
    Kwanzaa items.
    You can even look it up in the World Book Encyclopedia, where you'll find a
    nifty little article that says Kwanzaa was created by "a black cultural
    leader." And those who celebrate it will often tell you that it's not just
    for African Americans.
    They're not telling you the whole story; in fact, it's doubtful that they
    even know the origins of Kwanzaa. Few people do, because the voluminous
    amount of ink expended on Ronald McKinley Everett most often refers to him
    as Dr. Maulana Karenga and rarely examines his past.
    However, the story of Ron Everett, aka Dr. Karenga, has been told - notably
    in a Dallas Morning News article from Dec. 26, 1996, and in David Horowitz's
    late publication, Heterodoxy, in the December 1999 issue.
    The story behind the holiday and the man who created it is most interesting.
    Forget the notion that Kwanzaa is a holiday for all people. Dr. Karenga
    states that he created it at the height of the black liberation movement as
    part of a "re-Africanization" process - "a going back to black."
    Dr. Karenga, still just "Ron Everett" at the time, was heavily involved in
    the black power movement. He started an organization called US. The letters
    have nothing to do with "United States" but mean simply "US," as opposed to
    "THEM."
    He dropped the Everett name, adopted the Swahili one, which means "master
    teacher," shaved his head, and began wearing traditional African clothing.
    US members, similarly attired, often clashed with other black militant
    groups such as the Black Panthers. The fighting was about which group would
    control the new Afro-American Studies Center at UCLA.
    There were incidents involving beatings and shootings, including one in 1969
    in which two US members shot and killed two Black Panthers. Dr. Karenga had
    other run-ins with the law, including charges that he abused women.
    In 1971, he was convicted of assaulting female members of US, and he served
    time in prison. An LA Times snippet describes the torture of the women as
    involving a hot soldering iron placed in the mouth of one, while the other's
    toe was mashed in a vice.
    Dr. Karenga says that he is the victim; he was quoted in the News: "All the
    negative charges are in fact disinformation and frame-ups by the FBI and
    local and national police."
    One thing that's interesting to note about the inventor of Kwanzaa:
    Practically all of his crimes were committed against black people. And yet,
    today, he is simply known as an academic who created a holiday for cultural
    unity.
    Nine years after Kwanzaa was invented, Dr. Karenga decided to moderate his
    views and became a Marxist. In 1979, he was hired to run the Black Studies
    Department at Cal State Long Beach, in all likelihood, the first ex-con to
    do so.
    And so this is Kwanzaa. The militant past of the creator is now ignored in
    favor of the so-called seven principles of Nguza Saba - principles such as
    unity, family and self-determination that could have come from Bill
    Bennett's "Book of Virtues." The word "Kwanzaa" is Swahili, meaning
    something like "fresh fruits of harvest."
    No one remembers the part about "re-Africanization" or the sevenfold path of
    blackness that Dr. Karenga once espoused. Hardly anyone remembers the
    shootings, the beatings,the tortures and the prison terms that were once the
    center of his life. It's just not PC to bring that sort of stuff up now that
    Kwanzaa is commercialized and making big bucks.
    Dr. Karenga does his part to promote the holiday and forget the past. In
    December, he goes on his annual "Kwanzaa circuit" of speeches and
    appearances. And he writes.
    Remember that little article in the World Book Encyclopedia that legitimized
    Dr. Karenga as a "black cultural leader"? You guessed it - he wrote the
    article himself.
    Happy Kwanzaa.
    I just checked, and it's not noted on my smartphone calander. So, that's good, lol.

    Every life matters

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dark Soul View Post
    Since this anti-Christmas bullshit holiday will be upon us again soon I'd like to remind the libs here exactly why it is bullshit.


    Lynn Woolley
    NewsMax.com
    Monday, Dec. 17, 2001
    You don't like the current slate of holidays that we celebrate here in
    America? Then why not create one of your own? That's exactly what Ronald
    Everett did back in 1966. He named it "Kwanzaa."
    Since then, many people have embraced this new holiday. Check out almost any
    appointment calendar and you'll find it duly noted on Dec. 26 that "Kwanzaa
    begins." Stroll through your local card and party store and you'll find
    Kwanzaa items.
    You can even look it up in the World Book Encyclopedia, where you'll find a
    nifty little article that says Kwanzaa was created by "a black cultural
    leader." And those who celebrate it will often tell you that it's not just
    for African Americans.
    They're not telling you the whole story; in fact, it's doubtful that they
    even know the origins of Kwanzaa. Few people do, because the voluminous
    amount of ink expended on Ronald McKinley Everett most often refers to him
    as Dr. Maulana Karenga and rarely examines his past.
    However, the story of Ron Everett, aka Dr. Karenga, has been told - notably
    in a Dallas Morning News article from Dec. 26, 1996, and in David Horowitz's
    late publication, Heterodoxy, in the December 1999 issue.
    The story behind the holiday and the man who created it is most interesting.
    Forget the notion that Kwanzaa is a holiday for all people. Dr. Karenga
    states that he created it at the height of the black liberation movement as
    part of a "re-Africanization" process - "a going back to black."
    Dr. Karenga, still just "Ron Everett" at the time, was heavily involved in
    the black power movement. He started an organization called US. The letters
    have nothing to do with "United States" but mean simply "US," as opposed to
    "THEM."
    He dropped the Everett name, adopted the Swahili one, which means "master
    teacher," shaved his head, and began wearing traditional African clothing.
    US members, similarly attired, often clashed with other black militant
    groups such as the Black Panthers. The fighting was about which group would
    control the new Afro-American Studies Center at UCLA.
    There were incidents involving beatings and shootings, including one in 1969
    in which two US members shot and killed two Black Panthers. Dr. Karenga had
    other run-ins with the law, including charges that he abused women.
    In 1971, he was convicted of assaulting female members of US, and he served
    time in prison. An LA Times snippet describes the torture of the women as
    involving a hot soldering iron placed in the mouth of one, while the other's
    toe was mashed in a vice.
    Dr. Karenga says that he is the victim; he was quoted in the News: "All the
    negative charges are in fact disinformation and frame-ups by the FBI and
    local and national police."
    One thing that's interesting to note about the inventor of Kwanzaa:
    Practically all of his crimes were committed against black people. And yet,
    today, he is simply known as an academic who created a holiday for cultural
    unity.
    Nine years after Kwanzaa was invented, Dr. Karenga decided to moderate his
    views and became a Marxist. In 1979, he was hired to run the Black Studies
    Department at Cal State Long Beach, in all likelihood, the first ex-con to
    do so.
    And so this is Kwanzaa. The militant past of the creator is now ignored in
    favor of the so-called seven principles of Nguza Saba - principles such as
    unity, family and self-determination that could have come from Bill
    Bennett's "Book of Virtues." The word "Kwanzaa" is Swahili, meaning
    something like "fresh fruits of harvest."
    No one remembers the part about "re-Africanization" or the sevenfold path of
    blackness that Dr. Karenga once espoused. Hardly anyone remembers the
    shootings, the beatings,the tortures and the prison terms that were once the
    center of his life. It's just not PC to bring that sort of stuff up now that
    Kwanzaa is commercialized and making big bucks.
    Dr. Karenga does his part to promote the holiday and forget the past. In
    December, he goes on his annual "Kwanzaa circuit" of speeches and
    appearances. And he writes.
    Remember that little article in the World Book Encyclopedia that legitimized
    Dr. Karenga as a "black cultural leader"? You guessed it - he wrote the
    article himself.
    Happy Kwanzaa.
    not everyone follows the made up idolatry of the three in one deadman god on two sticks and eats his flesh and drinks his blood either figuratively or literally , that's sick insane crap

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    Quote Originally Posted by domer76 View Post
    Kwanzaa affects me much less than the bullshit surrounding Christmas. Probably the same for most people.

    Except for assholes of your stature.
    X-mas has become the most commercialized obnoxious time of the year. The annoying redundant music in every store and the most garish decorations like those huge inflatable snowmen which make me want to grab a hatpin and go on a deflating spree.

    But most of all because of the all the phony Christians like the Trump supporters who would crucify Jesus of he returned and had the audacity to preach the gospel.
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    Christmas IS a time of year full of rich irony. Imagine worshiping a child whose parents became refugees after His birth, strangers in a strange land, because they were threatened by their own countrymen who wanted to kill Him. These worshipers want to spend billions of their own $$ to build a wall to keep out similar refugees fleeing violence and death in their homelands. These worshipers fear and loathe the refugees because they are poor, brown, and speak a foreign language -- much like their infant god's parents. The difference of course is that Mary and Joseph didn't try to escape to safety in America. They were taken in by former enemies in Egypt, of all places.
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    Quote Originally Posted by guno View Post
    not everyone follows the made up idolatry of the three in one deadman god on two sticks and eats his flesh and drinks his blood either figuratively or literally , that's sick insane crap
    We have ones like you that think they are the real Israelite's but have no problem killing innocent Jewish people and cops. STFU coward.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ThatOwlWoman View Post
    Christmas IS a time of year full of rich irony. Imagine worshiping a child whose parents became refugees after His birth, strangers in a strange land, because they were threatened by their own countrymen who wanted to kill Him. These worshipers want to spend billions of their own $$ to build a wall to keep out similar refugees fleeing violence and death in their homelands. These worshipers fear and loathe the refugees because they are poor, brown, and speak a foreign language -- much like their infant god's parents. The difference of course is that Mary and Joseph didn't try to escape to safety in America. They were taken in by former enemies in Egypt, of all places.
    That is without a doubt the most convoluted, confused post you have made on here yet. And you have had some doozies.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cinnabar View Post
    X-mas has become the most commercialized obnoxious time of the year. The annoying redundant music in every store and the most garish decorations like those huge inflatable snowmen which make me want to grab a hatpin and go on a deflating spree.

    But most of all because of the all the phony Christians like the Trump supporters who would crucify Jesus of he returned and had the audacity to preach the gospel.
    The pressure for useless gift buying starts at Halloween. People are pressured to buy worthless shit with money they don’t for people who don’t need it nor want it. Look at the commercials for cars and jewelry, as if that’s a ‘normal’ gift.

    People are rushed, tense, angry and lonely. One can only listen to Feliz Navidad so many times before going postal.

    Dec. 26 is one of my favorite days of the year.

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    Quote Originally Posted by domer76 View Post
    The pressure for useless gift buying starts at Halloween. People are pressured to buy worthless shit with money they don’t for people who don’t need it nor want it. Look at the commercials for cars and jewelry, as if that’s a ‘normal’ gift.

    People are rushed, tense, angry and lonely. One can only listen to Feliz Navidad so many times before going postal.

    Dec. 26 is one of my favorite days of the year.
    What I find very amusing is that after the phony Christians have their midnight mass and open the crappy presents it's back to business as usual but if you heed the words of "The Twelve days of Christmas"...what happened to the other eleven days? lol

    Celebrating the birth a of a guy who there is no archeological proof of on a day which was likely not actually his day of birth with customs that are Pagan. Go figure.
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    Quote Originally Posted by domer76 View Post
    Kwanzaa affects me much less than the bullshit surrounding Christmas. Probably the same for most people.

    Except for assholes of your stature.
    Poor baby. Those Christians are making you cry again.

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    Quote Originally Posted by guno View Post
    not everyone follows the made up idolatry of the three in one deadman god on two sticks and eats his flesh and drinks his blood either figuratively or literally , that's sick insane crap
    This thread is about Kwanzaa, duh.

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