John Zmirak with a great essay on Kwanzaa the holiday that the “tenured black separatist and FBI informer Maulana (Ron) Karenga pulled out of his orifice.” Not to mention convicted felon and torturer. Like everything Zmirak writes it is funny and educational.
Kathy Shaidle writes Kwanzaa: my part in its downfall
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I don’t care for Taki. All he does is write about all the sex he used to have when he was young but every now and then a really good article slips into the magazine.
In a previous post on other blog I was accused of “drinking”, for establishing a parallelism between:
1) USCCB reneges (bi-locates) Rome’s clear condemnation of abortion doers, covering up the STILL ON!!!! distribution of the Eucharist, to their intellectual-formal authors (lawmakers), and asks your $$$.
2) USAID reneges of this ample-clear evidence: condoms promote AIDS + teen pregnancies, and keeps asking for your billions of tax-dollars.
Now The Black Comedy of Kwanzaa, adds YET ANOTHER story of censorship, with a humorous perspective, to what I see as a MAJOR problem in our Catholic media, to be addressed in order to avoid splitting Catholics who STILL think (thanks to USCCB, not Rome), that Biden, Pelosi, Kennedy, Kerry, etc., Holy Communions are OK.
To see the parallel with your USAID tax dollars, please look this stuff from my friend Harvard’s Professor E. Green:
http://www.northbynorthwestern.com/2008/04/8287/south-africa/
Cordially
According to Taki, Kwanzaa was created by a convicted felon. So what? There are many contributions to the American culture by less than noble people.
Keep in mind most of the 35 million American of African descent have no traditions of their ancestry. Most don’t even know their original ethnic background.
Are we just supposed to just ‘get over it’?
By the way, where is your objection to other Americans celebrating traditions of their ethnic background? Or, should they discard theirs also?
All Americans should be proud Americans. That does NOT mean we should all look, act and celebrate the same!
I’m black and I’ve never celebrated kwanza and I don’t know any friends or family who have either.