Is Kwanzaa a racist holiday?
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2011/ ... nd_kwanzaa
In the same way that the song "White Christmas" is racist
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Maybe not, but the guy who made it up out of whole cloth 40 years ago is a real piece of work.
Maulana Karenga
A May 14, 1971, article in the Los Angeles Times described the testimony of one of the women:
"Deborah Jones, who once was given the Swahili title of an African queen, said she and Gail Davis were whipped with an electrical cord and beaten with a karate baton after being ordered to remove their clothes. She testified that a hot soldering iron was placed in Miss Davis' mouth and placed against Miss Davis' face and that one of her own big toes was tightened in a vise. Karenga, head of US, also put detergent and running hoses in their mouths, she said. They also were hit on the heads with toasters."
Karenga explained his actions by saying that one of the women he had tortured had attempted to assassinate him, but he had no evidence.
Maulana Karenga
A May 14, 1971, article in the Los Angeles Times described the testimony of one of the women:
"Deborah Jones, who once was given the Swahili title of an African queen, said she and Gail Davis were whipped with an electrical cord and beaten with a karate baton after being ordered to remove their clothes. She testified that a hot soldering iron was placed in Miss Davis' mouth and placed against Miss Davis' face and that one of her own big toes was tightened in a vise. Karenga, head of US, also put detergent and running hoses in their mouths, she said. They also were hit on the heads with toasters."
Karenga explained his actions by saying that one of the women he had tortured had attempted to assassinate him, but he had no evidence.
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I prefer Yule - at least, one of the New Age versions...
It starts on the Winter Solstice (Dec. 21, 2011), and lasts 10 days (the "Yule-Tithe" or Yuletide) to New Year's Eve (Dec. 31, 2011). It begins with a bonfire, singing, eating of cakes, drinking of ales, and dancing to ward off the cold and darkness (in the northern climes). Gifts may be exchanged. People may go from house to house to make music in exchange for more cakes and ales, as well as donations of cash and food for the poor. Decorations remind us of the coming spring (bright, shiny, fruit-like objects hanging from trees, for example).
At the end, there is one final countdown, and more bonfires are lit, more cakes and ales are consumed, and more gifts are exchanged. This is also the day when people get engaged to be married or "Bound" to each other - the actual wedding may take place immediately, or sometime within the coming year.
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Okay, so I'm making this up from a hodge-podge of Pagan traditions and secular practices. But where does the above description say anything about what you should believe?
So let us eat, drink, and make merriment! Have a safe and joyous Yule, y'all!
As I've understood it, the holiday was created by people who wanted a specifically African-American holiday to flaunt in contrast to Christmas and Hanukkah.
It's origins doesn't even go back what...20 years?
Not that new traditions can't be brought into being, but it's roots are in ethnic exclusivity, which, if I go back to the P.C. garbage drilled into my head at college, is supposed to be a bad thing.
I suppose something is only racist if a white person does it, right?
Its not racist.
Its just dumb and inane.
The purpose of the holiday was to assert Black pride.
Which is perfectly fine.
But it doesnt succeed in that end.
It manages to be antichristian( so it excludes the god fearing of any skin color) without even being authentically Pagan ( so you neither have your cake nor eat it).
Its a contrived paganism that has nothing to do with real African traditions.
It tries to be a Black version of Yule but ends up being an Afrocentric parody of Channukka thats niether fish nor fowl.
Blacks per capita are more fervently christian than whites so rejecting christmas in the name of Black nationalism doesnt make any sense.
Subsaharan cultures didnt need a midwinter festival of lights so looking to Black Africa for an alternative midwinter holiday to christmas is pointless to begin with.
Which is perfectly fine.
Is it alright to assert White pride then (if it doesn't have supremacist overtones)? If not, why not?
It might be okay, but in the past it got taken to violent extremes, like the snowman above, or the Nazis. We have certain White ethnic things we celebrate, like St. Patrick's Day. or Swedish Day.
That's not really an ethnic thing, though, is it? It's really an Irish-American (more so than in Ireland itself) expression of their sense of Irish heritage. It will be a multiracial celebration soon.
Which is perfectly fine.
Is it alright to assert White pride then (if it doesn't have supremacist overtones)? If not, why not?
In a country where Whites are a minority and have been kept for centuries in slavery by non whites- followed by a centurey of descrimination by the same nonwhites and were severed from their European roots- and were severed from all sense of having a European heritage-then- in that case it would be fine to assert "White pride".
In England or the USA where Whites are the ruling group and the majority its absurd to even ask if its "alright to assert white pride- if it doesnt have supremist overtones" because in that situation any assertion of "White pride" would be an assertion of White supremacy.
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