Comments on: Like, who cares who invented Kwanzaa?

By: pgm1962

pgm1962 — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 00:39:40 +0000

remember….members of the mafia used to do ‘good deeds’ for the communities as well. Do we ‘ignore’ there scummy nature?….NO!!!…people like this do these things not because they care about the people, but because they are trying to build up there own stature with the people so they can achieve there own selfish objectives.

By: Black Jack

Black Jack — Sun, 01 Jan 2006 22:47:44 +0000

Hell, I’ll pipe down and join the happy talk chorus if Karenga would take the principles of Kwanzaa seriously.

By: Dana

Dana — Fri, 30 Dec 2005 16:39:50 +0000

I don’t dispute the fact that doing something good every once in a while makes a bad person something other than a bad person; Dr Karenga is bad news. But that doesn’t mean that Kwanzaa has to be defined as bad because its “creator” is a bum.

Was Dr Karenza trying to create a “black Christmas.” We’ve seen that happen with the elevation of Hannukah, a relatively minor Jewish holiday, simply because it falls close to Christmas, so that Jews don’t feel “left out” during the general holiday season; if Dr Karenga picked this time to get a bump off of Christmas, that was smart marketing.

Of course, Christmas falls when it does because Constantine needed help in transforming a pagan empire into a Christian one, and by selecting an already celebrated holiday (the Saturnalia/Winter Solstice holiday) it became an easier conversion; we don’t have any real information as to the exact birthday of our Lord, and, in effect, it really doesn’t matter that we don’t.

The Kwanzaa holiday is a made up one, no doubt about that. And Dr Karenga is an unlovely person (at best). But that doesn’t make Kwanzaa a bad thing.

After all, how much better would our inner cities be (and I’m thinking of Philadelphia, and its slightly better than one murder a day rate) if blacks really did take Kwanzaa and its principles seriously?

By: Aviatrix

Aviatrix — Fri, 30 Dec 2005 16:38:03 +0000

“How many observe Christ’s birth-day! How few, his
precepts! ”

– Benjamin Franklin (Poor Richards Almanack, 1743)

By: Black Jack

Black Jack — Fri, 30 Dec 2005 04:46:04 +0000

Now hold on here. I’m the one who gets to say what my position is, and I say that even if bad people occasionally do something good, it doesn’t change the fact they are bad people.

Recall that stubborn Italian despot in WW2 who made the trains run on time. Which was a good thing, but he was and still is considered a bad guy. But, generally speaking, I too want to give credit where it’s earned. So, if a bad guy does a good thing, fine, and I’ll leave it at that.

However, I don’t accept that Kwanzaa is a good thing, it’s bogus. Something simple minded folks can do to persuade themselves they’re getting in touch with their ethnicity. It’s Karenga’s effort to get jolly old Saint Nick all decked out in a Holiday Afro. Kwanzaa puts money in Karenga’s pocket while it makes Black folks look silly.