I grew up amongst southern blacks, at no point have I ever been sheltered from black people. At most I can think of for Kwanzaa was black teachers being woke and wearing some African garb and talking about it one day when I was in school. I never even heard of black families gathering for it.
If they give gifts for it, they certainly didn't to their kids. Jewish kids in grade school would rub their Hanukkah presents in your face, so the way I see it if the black kids weren't getting Kwanzaa gifts because they would have done the same.
Nobody celebrates Kwanzaa except, as you say, elementary school teachers, and uber-woke black people just for show.
The holiday was created by a black supremacist rapist in 1966, he even called Jesus a "psycho"... and the woke PC brigade jumped on it as a way to try and make the Christmas season less overtly Christian.
Grew up in the ghetto around blacks and have never met a single one that even knew what Kwanza was outside of hearing people ask them about it. To this day I know no living person that even knows someone that celebrates Kwanza.
And ironically enough, Christmas is the exact opposite. Christianity managed to attach itself to the pagan/nature-based winter solstice holiday of a multitude of isolated pre-christian European cults and brought them all together under a common umbrella of Christmas, which unified them.
I will never not repeat this Kwanzaa story from a black guy I know.
It's the 90's, he's about 10 years old. It's late november. His mom makes some new friends. She gets very involved with them. Then she tells her three kids that this year, instead of Christmas, they're going back to their roots and celebrating Kwanzaa. It will be all the same fun and toys, everything will be great.
The house gets filled with african themed decor. They spend the whole afternoon putting it up. When it's done, they sit back and admire their Kwanzaa'd up home.
...And feel absolutely nothing.
It hits his mother like a lightning bolt. They have zero connection to anything in sight. It means nothing to them. At all. It's an ugly, foreign mess of unfamiliarity. They are Americans. They are christians.
In less than an hour, everything is tossed and and the christmas decorations go up instead. Everyone is immediately happy.
His mom's new 'friends' are never heard about again.
There's a great lesson about identity politics in that story. You have a lot more in common with your neighbor than with someone halfway around the world, despite the leftist doctrine that people with the "same skin color" are inherently connected and people with different skin color are culturally different.
Man Best Buy really started sucking dick hard for their ESG rating a few years back. My local one employs nothing but fresh-off-the-boat pakis and indians. Even if you wanted to buy something you can't understand them.
Memory Express still seems okay, at least my local one.
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That's the best part! Jeoux Kwanzaa, bretheren!
I grew up amongst southern blacks, at no point have I ever been sheltered from black people. At most I can think of for Kwanzaa was black teachers being woke and wearing some African garb and talking about it one day when I was in school. I never even heard of black families gathering for it.
If they give gifts for it, they certainly didn't to their kids. Jewish kids in grade school would rub their Hanukkah presents in your face, so the way I see it if the black kids weren't getting Kwanzaa gifts because they would have done the same.
Nobody celebrates Kwanzaa except, as you say, elementary school teachers, and uber-woke black people just for show.
The holiday was created by a black supremacist rapist in 1966, he even called Jesus a "psycho"... and the woke PC brigade jumped on it as a way to try and make the Christmas season less overtly Christian.
https://canadafreepress.com/article/holiday-reminder-kwanzaa-was-created-by-a-rapist-and-torturer
I too have never seen anyone celebrate kwanzaa except for teachers and black characters on TV sitcoms.
Grew up in the ghetto around blacks and have never met a single one that even knew what Kwanza was outside of hearing people ask them about it. To this day I know no living person that even knows someone that celebrates Kwanza.
Kwanza is literally a fake holiday that celebrates something that doesnt exist. There is no unified African culture, they all hate each other's guts.
And ironically enough, Christmas is the exact opposite. Christianity managed to attach itself to the pagan/nature-based winter solstice holiday of a multitude of isolated pre-christian European cults and brought them all together under a common umbrella of Christmas, which unified them.
I will never not repeat this Kwanzaa story from a black guy I know.
It's the 90's, he's about 10 years old. It's late november. His mom makes some new friends. She gets very involved with them. Then she tells her three kids that this year, instead of Christmas, they're going back to their roots and celebrating Kwanzaa. It will be all the same fun and toys, everything will be great.
The house gets filled with african themed decor. They spend the whole afternoon putting it up. When it's done, they sit back and admire their Kwanzaa'd up home.
...And feel absolutely nothing. It hits his mother like a lightning bolt. They have zero connection to anything in sight. It means nothing to them. At all. It's an ugly, foreign mess of unfamiliarity. They are Americans. They are christians.
In less than an hour, everything is tossed and and the christmas decorations go up instead. Everyone is immediately happy.
His mom's new 'friends' are never heard about again.
There's a great lesson about identity politics in that story. You have a lot more in common with your neighbor than with someone halfway around the world, despite the leftist doctrine that people with the "same skin color" are inherently connected and people with different skin color are culturally different.
Man Best Buy really started sucking dick hard for their ESG rating a few years back. My local one employs nothing but fresh-off-the-boat pakis and indians. Even if you wanted to buy something you can't understand them.
Memory Express still seems okay, at least my local one.
Nothing says "Cooperative Economics" like buying some chinese made shit from a multinational retail chain.
There are more people who celebrate Festivus than Kwanzaa.
The only time I saw Kwanzaa celebrated was in elementary school and PBS lol
Fesitivus is a more legitimate holiday.
Let the Airing of the Grievances begin!