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War on Kwanzaa! Wisc. Sen. Blasts ‘Racist’ ‘Hardcore Left-Winger’ Holiday

Jan. 1, 2013 7:45pm Becket Adams

Republican Sen. Glenn Grothman Calls Kwanzaa a Fake Holiday Created by the Hardcore Left Wing

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Created by “racist” college professors in the 1960′s, Kwanzaa is a holiday that “almost no black people today care about” and it only exists because it’s being kept alive by “hardcore left-wingers,” or so says Sen. Glenn Grothman (R-Wisc.), according to Patch.

“Why must we still hear about Kwanzaa?” the senator asked in a press release. “Why are hard-core left wingers still trying to talk about Kwanzaa — the supposed African-American holiday celebration between Christmas and New Year’s?”

Needless to say, Democrat party leaders were quick to condemn Sen. Grothman’s “absolutely jaw-dropping” comments.

“Senator Grothman seems to outdo himself every time he opens his mouth,” said treasurer of the county Democratic Party Meg Moen. “His recent press release about Kwanzaaa was absolutely jaw-dropping. Not only does Senator Grothman seem to find his inherit racism acceptable, he implores people to follow his lead and question a holiday that African-Americans have been celebrating for years.”

Robinson Burrell III lights the candle representing Kwanzaa principle of Ujima(collective work and responsibility) during the annual Kwanzaa Celebration at the Benjamin Banneker Historical Park and Museum on December 28 in Catonsville, Md. (Photo by Mark Gail/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

“He, as usual, blames progressives and teachers, for respecting all traditions, and having the audacity to include every holiday and tradition that occurs around this time every year,” she added.

“That press release is absolutely disgusting and drips with disdain for African-Americans and, therefore, I am calling on him to retract his statements.”

At the heart of the senator’s criticism is Kwanzaa’s founder, Maulana Karenga.

Karenga founded the weeklong African-American holiday in the mid-1960s and then went on to start “Organization Us,” a black nationalist group rivaling the infamous Black Panthers.

“He served time in prison in 1971 following a trial during which a female member of the group said he beat her and another woman with an electrical cord,” Patch notes.

Sen. Grothman says Kwanzaa needs to be “slapped down.”

“Of course, almost no black people today care about Kwanzaa — just white left-wingers who try to shove this down black people’s throats in an effort to divide Americans,” the release reads.

“Irresponsible public school districts such as Green Bay and Madison … try to tell a new generation that blacks have a separate holiday than Christians,” it adds.

The statement continues, claiming Karenga “didn’t like the idea that Christ died for all of our sins, so he felt blacks should have their own holiday — hence, Kwanzaa.”

The Wisconsin senator concludes by urging his fellow Wisconsinites to search for better role models for children and students.

“With tens of millions of honorable black Americans in our country’s past, we should not let a violent nut like Karenga speak for them,” the statement reads.

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azsun
Posted on January 1, 2013 at 8:41pm
I am not worried about it at all. Soon the Black Americans will be out numbered and out voted by all the illegals soon to be legal. And if I recall there is hard blood in most places between the 2. So the Black Americans need to have something since soon they will be in the back of the bus again.

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- forthepeople
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 8:47pm
  I to have been amused watching the black jet passed ( blown ) by the Hispanics and Asians in society , lets face it one cannot legislate smart !
  
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- oldguy49
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 9:10pm
  again………………TERM LIMITS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  
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- Kregneva
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 9:25pm
  The entire GOP was “fooled” in November, is it not time we take off the gloves?
  
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- redfish52
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 9:26pm
  I am a white person who has lived in the South all my life. I have many black friends and I have never, ever heard one of them mention Kwanzaa…we have said Merry Christmas to each other and I have been to their churches during the Christmas Season and I promise Kwanzaa has never come up…its always Praise the Lord and may God Bless You. I think Kwanzaa just might be what some of the more “enlightened” possible West Coast Black American’s believe in…which is fine…this is America.
  
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- Paulhgreenbay
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 9:41pm
  I live in the part of town (Yes we have a LARGE pop. up here) that was taken over by Mexicans and you don’t know how right you are. Some my not like or are a little biased against whites but most HATE another the other ethnicity. Hispanics surpassed the other ethnicity as the most number of minorities around 2009 I think. I hear the stories about their brutality against black gangs in So-Cal, yikes! I know there are many illegal Mexicans but they sure can work their ass off in all the manufacturing facilities I have been to. I had many good black friends growing up in Florida and in the Army, it’s a shame the direction black culture took coming out of the mid-eighties. Look at the GD president and first lady and who they surround themselves with. Performers with a self-destructive attitudes. Aside from happy-rap most of what is left in hip-hop/rap is about as useful as anarchist death metal is to whites. Meanwhile the latinos in my area are listening to jovial loving music talking about corazon this corazon that. I’m all across the board but you get my point.I digress, after hearing Glenn talk about Kwanzaa and researching it on my own, I have to ask people that bring it up if they know what it is all about. When I tell them Karenga originally said that it was meant to be an alternative to Christmas, that Jesus was psychotic, and that Christianity was a white religion which black people should shun, they look at me like I’m bat-**** crazy.
  
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- SendTheMeteors
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 9:50pm
  Well, the right certainly are colorful, if you’ll pardon the expression. Obviously that not literally true as polls show.
  
  But when he complains about being forced to hear about Kwanza, I guess it was a little like what the protagonist in A Clockwork Orange was subjected to: he was strapped to a chair, his eyes and ears held open by mechanical devices, and forced to watch Kwanza celebrations.
  
  He suggests Americans “treat Kwanzaa with the contempt it deserves before it becomes a permanent part of our culture.” He has also said that having MLK day as a Federal Holiday is “an insult to all the other taxpayers around the state.” I guess he means white people.
  
  I wonder how he feels about Cinco de Mayo?
  
  Of course he’s not the racist! Everybody else is. He doesn’t seem too supportive of free speech though.
- HappyConservative
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 10:10pm
  “Kwanzaa” is indeed a leftist so-called holiday invented a few years ago. It’s a made-up holiday by the left and blacks…..Hmmm.I’m thinking of inventing my own holiday celebration right around the traditional Christmas – I’m a huge dog lover!..
  So can we please have a “Blessed Dogmas” running from December 20th to december 30th to celebrate our beloved dogs? While we are making up holidays?
  
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- HappyConservative
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 10:22pm
  @Sendinthemeteors
  
  I am flabbergasted. I have yet to see a post on here that you have not replied to. I hate liberals. I hate barry. But I don’t spend every waking moment on leftist blogs et al. In fact I don’t waste one moment of my time on a site that is so inherently opposed to my core beliefs. Yet here you are, day in , day out, morning noon and night spouting your leftist crap. Surely you have better things to do. This is totally suspect. Are you a plant?
  
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- Walkabout
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 11:10pm
  forthepeople
  There ain’t a thing wrong with most black Americans except for the Democrats & black ranchers like Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton & Louis Farahkhan.
  
  By listening to those people & the Democrat Party black hold themselves back professionally & intellectually.
  
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- Taquoshi
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 11:22pm
  Kwanzaa has seven core principles (Nguzo Saba): Unity, self-determination, collective work and responsibility, cooperative economics, purpose, creativity, and faith.
  
  Unfortunately, there is no indication that those principals are to be used in a positive way, but it doesn’t take much to see how they can easily be used in a negative way.
  
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- SendTheMeteors
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 11:45pm
  HappyConservative, “Kwanzaa” is indeed a leftist so-called holiday invented a few years ago.”
  
  I think somebody came up with the holiday 50 years ago. That’s a “few years?” Doesn’t matter. It’s not a Federal, or State holiday, nobody gets off of work. People who want to celebrate black cultural heritage during those days do, those who don’t, don’t. Frankly I read a lot of news and, unlike this guy, don’t recall hearing the word “Kwanzaa” even once this year before reading this thread.
  
  Help me out here HappyConservative. How have you been negatively affected by celebrations of Kwanzaa, if you, in fact ever heard the word in the last month? How does this celebration hurt you? Why are you offended? Are you also offended by Cinco de Mayo? That’s a celebration of Mexican heritage. Are you also offended by Jewish holidays? Which are okay, and which are not?
  
  Why should it bother you that him offering a different view on the slant this website gives to every issue? Honestly, I think it’s because you, like most people, find it uncomfortable to find yourself challenged on fundamental issues, like the right of minorities or any group to celebrate however they like in the free country without having politicians tell them which celebrations are acceptable, and which should be condemned. For support of my idea, see the Constitution of the United States.
  
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- Ghandi was a Republican
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 1:16am
  ood point. Blacks are on there way to becoming 3rd class citizens. If you know any Latinos you know that they will say “There goes the neighborhood” when a Black moves near. It is highly discouraged. I don’t know any Whites like that. But there you have it– The World the progressives have successfully loophole their base into.
  Years from now the story will be told alongside Manhattan being bought for trinkets and beads.
  
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- RabidPatriot
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 1:54am
  I live in a leftist state. My children go to school in a district that is more than 99% white. There is no holiday that they learn more about than Kawanza. Since it is not a religious holiday, they teach it day after day. They have learned songs and traditions. My kids have been brain washed to believe that it is a highly important tradition in America. Retraining has not been easy.
  
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- Independent4233
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 2:41am
  “I too have been amused watching the black jet passed ( blown ) by the Hispanics and Asians in society , lets face it one cannot legislate smart !”
  
  You’ve got it exactly right.
  
  I’ve been pointing that out for 6 years now, because I was sick and tired of reading and hearing every single black talking head blame whites for their failures, when I knew full well they fail, because they’re the least intelligent people in this country today….as a group. How is it they regard our historical heroes? “Dead white men,” isn’t it?
  
  Hispanics are smarter and have MUCH better attitudes and work ethics. The same is true of Asian Indians. Oriental Asians are a WHOLE LOT smarter, and have an excellent work ethic.
  
  They keep the weak whites and others in line by screaming racist for pointing things like this out.
  
  It doesn’t work on people who couldn’t give a rat’s ass what they’re called and challenge then to produce facts in opposition to what is claimed…..but they never do….. or they drum up some kind of lie some radical leftist concocted, because he’s afraid of riots if the truth is admitted.
  
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- Balzy
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 3:39am
  guys, plz quit talking about all blacks when you say crap like this. Yeah yeah I’m tired of hearing others get away with being anti-white all day every day too. But i honestly don’t care anymore, this pathetic back and forth bickering is getting SO OLD. You know it ****** you off just THINKING there are whites out there voting for Barry. How do you think they feel?! Look I’ve been pulled into the same game, seeing whites and blacks that i like being called racists, bigots, and ‘not one of us’ REALLY starts getting to me coming from these liberal parasites. I’ll agree with them on one thing, we AREN’T one of them! So let’s stop acting like them and start seeing everyone as PEOPLE.
  
  not a statistic…
  
  onto this story, even Karenga’s former wife said he did some CREEPY stuff. Obviously they needed our country divided, so they covered up how he really was. typical libs, always quick to point out faults in the opposition. Of course they’ll defend THEIR people for nearly 4 decades… not only that but make them out to be heroes. Just goes to show how pathetically little you actually gain from public school these days, compared to what all they COULD teach us.
  
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- Balzy
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 4:08am
  @meteors
  
  I don’t believe anyone was talking about condemning this holiday, I could be wrong. I for one, want to know the truth about how a holiday was created. If it was created by a person who truly wanted goodness, was he at least a good person when he created it?! Was he associated with people that felt the same way? If someone who was affiliated with the kkk came up with a holiday, would you defend that too? I’m sry dude, but i’m not falling for the same crap all over again. Do I want to force people to stop celebrating kwanza? Of course not, but i want them to know the truth about it.
  
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- CABERNETQHS
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 9:00am
  @Happyconservative
  You are so right…on the kwanza B.S. and on meteor. I refuse to read his/her rancid remarks. The reason you are not on liberal sites stirring the pot is most likely you have a job/family/hobbies
  (ie… a life) whereas meteor obviously is miserable and except for feeding his cat, this is where he seeks entertainment or redemption. Take it from me, you will remain a happy conservative if you just ignore the spoiled child.
  
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- 9111315
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 9:42am
  @sendthemetors
  
  So you say Senator Grothman is a racist? Fine. Who cares!
  
  Nice way to work in reference to A Clockwork Orange. Although, I kinda missed your point in relation to Asian grain supplies.
  
  Some racist guy says Kwanzaaa is fake. Many other responses testify that they have never met any black people who celibrate Kwanzaaaa. It only seems to be the Leftist who promote Kwanzaaaaa. Do you celibrate Kwanzaaaaaa? Are you black or a Leftist?
  
  Oh, Leftist. So, if someone calls a Leftist holiday fake, they are a racist?
  
  Lots of fun Mexican Drinks. Seems to be celebrated my many in the U.S. just to have fun. Maybe you don’t believe in Mexican Independence. Racist!
  
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- monitor
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 10:06am
  They all vote the same … for freebies and anything that harms whitey.
  
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- jhrusky
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 11:01am
  @ oldguy49
  
  “again………………TERM LIMITS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
  
  Agreed… that’s a small starting point, but a point every common-sense person should be able to get behind. There’s a petition someone just started on the white house page about just that — it needs signatures.
  
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- Mil-Dot
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 1:22pm
  What’s crazy is that no one knows for sure what gender SendtheMeteors is. I have asked a couple of times but I get no answer. No that is funny. How would you like to be so ambiguous that one cannot even ascertain what sex a poster is? Lol
  
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- Mil-Dot
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 1:49pm
  A single phrase describes SendtheMeteors-”brainwashed white guilt”. That is it in a nutshell. I agree with HappyCon, how can a person even stomach hanging out on a site where the people have diametrically opposed viewpoints day after day after week after month…? I can only surmise that it is because her/his/its mother or father paid no attention to it and this is a good way to get people to respond to her/him/it. I still cannot understand why he/she/it does not clarify what gender it is. She appears to be a semi-attractive female, but, I am just guessing. I wish somebody, especially Send could clear this up for us.
  
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- Wolf
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 5:36pm
  @ Send… “…I wonder how he feels about Cinco de Mayo?…”
  
  And what should Americans say about it? It’s the fifth of May BFD. Nothing special about it so far as Americans are concerned, and very little special about it with Mexicans, for that matter.
  
  As for kwanzaa- who cares? If there was a day celebrating white people, you can bet the liberals and coons would be all over it, though. Screw kwanzaa.
  
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Superanyu
Posted on January 1, 2013 at 8:39pm
Walkabout————-I think Kwanzaa is a dumb celebration-just as I think Christmas is———-what I am trying to convey is that once again you got a Republican Politicians in Wisconsin saying extremely racist comments that basically if you dont do or think exactly as he does you are evil. Even if he doesnt like the holiday-fine he has that right but dont come out and just make open racist comments about it.

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- americagreat
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 8:52pm
  Yes and the holiday in question wasn’t created by a racist either.
  
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- Walkabout
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 11:01pm
  1. The holiday was created by a racist.
  
  2. The state senator should leave well enough alone & worry about finances.
  
  3. The sham holiday will die of its’ accord.
  
  4. What is real, are traditions like jumping the broom. Those traditions should be kept even in mixed race families. They are part of history & they were not created by some 1960′s radical who beat women..
  
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- Walkabout
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 11:13pm
  Superanyu
  
  Walkabout————-I think Kwanzaa is a dumb celebration-just as I think Christmas is
  ***
  Don’t try to be a sociologist or anthropologists, you will fail. You don’t get the whole breaking bread together or the Gift Economy.
  
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- Exrepublisheep
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 12:27am
  Why even bring it up? Who is he trying to pacify/irritate?
  
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- Mil-Dot
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 1:25pm
  But in your book it is okay for Dem progs to say nasty things about conservatives though right? Typical 2 faced commie hypocritical crap.
  
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- Kregneva
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 8:33pm
  Walkabout is a team of non-Americans, ask them if it’s true!
  
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- Sgt_Ski
  Posted on January 3, 2013 at 9:36am
  ALERT!
  
  This is not a religion but rather an indoctrination into collectivist thinking. Collectivism being the basis for Marxism/Communism/Socialism. Our country was founded on Individualist principles being that power is granted to the government from the people for the protection of their unalienable rights.
  
  Religion in School = NO
  Collectivist Indoctrination in School = CELEBRATION
  
  Oh, and if it’s a black “holiday”…can’t touch this.
  
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blanco5
Posted on January 1, 2013 at 8:38pm
I will never acknowledge or respect a holiday born out of hatred of white people.

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- jungle J
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 8:52pm
  thank you.
  
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- DEPORTOBAMA
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 9:48pm
  Agree 100%—well-said
  
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- toiletclogga
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 9:58pm
  And that is why I will never recognize the Democrat National Convention!
  
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- drs1969
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 11:12pm
  I’m guessing Dignified is High Yellow.
  
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- Mil-Dot
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 1:27pm
  DRS,
  It’s “high yeller”. The ones that got to work up on the hill in the big house because they were the offspring of the slave owner and a slave. Just messing with you and explaining the origin. Nice work brother.
  
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OldSurfRat
Posted on January 1, 2013 at 8:37pm
I don’t agree with what this fool is saying only because I feel the same way when someone pulls this crap with Christmas.

However I think this is a sign of the times because of the continuous in your face attitude from so called black leaders, affirmative action, calling a crime a hate crime, using the racist label as a stick to beat someone with just because they disagree with you and the old standby “I am victim of the system”.

Don’t think this is going to get any better until people realize that your skin color does not give you more or less rights than another no matter what color you are.

Judge a person by their character and not their color and you will find a life long freind.

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- GENEPAGLIARI
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 9:21pm
  You are fine with what you say for the most part. The only part with which we have exception is the premise that kwanza is on an even footing with Christmas. Kwanza is man made.
  Sure, we realize some say the same of Christmas as Christ was a man. He is also God. Whether the date we celebrate His birth is accurate or not is of no importance. What is important is that we honor Him. Kwanza leads people away. It is purely secular. Christ came and bled for all. The mere fact that the dates are concomitant is divisive. Kwanza is seemingly harmless save its excluding nature… It is screaming “Oh no, not you. Christmas is not for you. You have kwanza versus salvation. Salvation is not for you; how dare you presume to be worthy.”
  In actual fact, none are worthy. Only through Christ’s grace are we able to be saved. Not by works nor by associations nor by birth nor color of skin. Solely by the covering of the Blood.
  Skip kwanza, it is a hoax. Don’t let the wool be pulled over your eyes.
  SALVATION IS FOR ALL WHO SEEK IT AND HIM.
  
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- Mil-Dot
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 1:31pm
  The Rat is right. But the fact is that blacks DO have more rights than snowmen. That is a fact. I am sick of it too. They are the “protected ones”. How would you like to have a reputation so bad that you have to be singled out for “protection” so that you won’t be held accountable for your actions? No that is a badge of honor, let me tell you.
  
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CONTUMACY
Posted on January 1, 2013 at 8:34pm
Maybe his new year resolution was to be honest this year. Won’t last long probably.

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GENEPAGLIARI
Posted on January 1, 2013 at 8:33pm
All kwanza is about is more segregation. The most elemental military strategy…divide and conquer. All the people in power want to do is divide, divide, divide. We need to be rid of all of them. None have our best interest at heart. What they truly out for is themselves. We trust them to represent us and all they do is trample on our constitution and our rights, unalienable rights, GOD given rights. Off with their

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Superanyu
Posted on January 1, 2013 at 8:32pm
There is not a single thing about the founding of America that has anything to do with Christianity or any other form of religion. Thus the seperation of church and state. I find it amusing that people who hate countries that use theology as a way to produce laws (Saudi Arabia) want nothing more than to make a country that is ruled by theology? Pot callign the kette black——–you should have God rule your country but only if he is a white God?

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- americagreat
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 8:50pm
  You should go back and read history again and not the filtered stuff.
  
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- Pete
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 8:58pm
  From the Declaration of Independence:
  
  We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness
  
  Here is an abstract from a Heritage Foundation article that I think is helpful:
  
  Did America have a Christian Founding? This disputed question, far from being only of historical interest, has important implications for how we conceive of the role of religion in the American republic. Mark David Hall begins by considering two popular answers to the query—“Of course not!” and “Absolutely!”—both of which distort the Founders’ views. After showing that Christian ideas were one of the important intellectual influences on the Founders, he discusses three major areas of agreement with respect to religious liberty and church–state relations at the time of the Founding: Religious liberty is a right and must be protected; the national government should not create an established church, and states should have them only if they encourage and assist Christianity; and religion belongs in the public square. In short, while America did not have a Christian Founding in the sense of creating a theocracy, its Founding was deeply shaped by Christian moral truths. More important, it created a regime that was hospitable to Christians, but also to practitioners of other religions.
  
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- MisterSarcastic
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 9:49pm
  Superduper
  You either wrote that to stir the pot or you’re an idiot. Either way I’m not bothered.
  
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- Dismayed Veteran
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 1:25pm
  Pete
  
  You are partially correct. But, in 1790, Congress had long debates as to whether or not Jews and Irish could considered citizens. At that time citizenship was only confered on white male property owners.
  
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GoodStuff
Posted on January 1, 2013 at 8:32pm
It’s the dumbest holiday in history. Good for the Senator.

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ADarkSkinAmerican
Posted on January 1, 2013 at 8:29pm
Shout out to Sen. Glenn Grothman of Wisconsin. He is right. Kwanzaa is something the left-wingers are using to continue a divide in this country. So kudos to the Senator.

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- CatB
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 8:34pm
  Exactly! Time to put an end to politically correct foolishness.
  
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- Superanyu
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 8:36pm
  Did walkabout jsut admit that Christianity is a black religion and it is wrong to waterboard?-lol
  
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- civilwarcometh
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 8:38pm
  Watch how many leftys post on here calling white people racist. lol. Facts get in their way alot…
  
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- civilwarcometh
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 8:40pm
  But Catb Bill Mahr wouldn’t have a show then….
  
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- bava
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 8:40pm
  I’m a liberal. On the left. Do I get to decide if Kwanaa is a real holiday? Do you? My personal opinion is no. But the same thing was said about Christ a long, long time ago. Don’t judge. Judging is what destroyes us. Happy New Year.
  
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- RepubliCorp
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 8:57pm
  BAVA…….. Don’t judge? BS! time to draw a line in the sand as to what is wrong. The commie left only wants the right to shut-up. We wont!
  
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- revron
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 9:27pm
  Kwanzaa is to religion what global warming is to politics; a tool progressive humanists use to turn americans from traditional values toward globalism.
  
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- Walkabout
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 11:39pm
  Superanyu
  Did walkabout just admit that Christianity is a black religion and it is wrong to waterboard?-lol
  ***
  The Semitic people are classified as Caucasian. They are not classified as West Africa, Nilotic or East African. So they are not black. However, they are not Indo-European either; I have no problem with that.
  You on the other hand are starting to seem trollish. With your dismissive attitude toward Christmas, I am guessing “in your face” atheist as well. The waterboarding comment came out of left field. So you are pretty well bracketing what you are. Very well painted.
  
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- Mil-Dot
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 1:39pm
  Kwansa is a “watering down” mechanism. By piling all this baloney holiday on or near Christmas it attempts to dilute the quality of the season that so many snowmen hold dear. To make it more “commercial” and less meaningless.
  
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- Mil-Dot
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 1:43pm
  Correction “meaningful”. Sorry
  
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Fitzzz
Posted on January 1, 2013 at 8:26pm
Will the Post Office be closed ??????

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- flyoverbob
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 8:34pm
  If it’s not then you cant call it a real holiday
  
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- GENEPAGLIARI
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 9:37pm
  OOPS! Thought you meant closed for good. As in cost-saving measure. As in the gov’t trying to do what the private sector is better equipped and qualified to do.
  
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- drs1969
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 10:22pm
  Maybe not, but all the black ‘gold brickers’, who work there, will demand a paid day off and will get it!
  
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Superanyu
Posted on January 1, 2013 at 8:17pm
Wow another politcal leader in Wisconsin saying something super racist? This seems to be the trend now. I geuss anybody who does not think, look, act, or do exactly as the rich white man says , then it is a horrible thing? I dont think Kwanzaa is a real holiday either but to say someone can not celebrate there own personal heritage traditions they way they wont without racist attacks-seriously what .why doesnt this guy just put a white hood on say what he really thinks?

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- Walkabout
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 8:28pm
  “Maulana Karenga created Kwanzaa in 1966 as the first specifically African-American holiday. Karenga said his goal was to “give Blacks an alternative to the existing holiday” -wiki
  
  The existing holiday, Christmas, created by people from the Middle East. So how is this the whiteman putting the blackman down? Christianity did not originate among Europeans. You do know that Superanyu? Don’t you? Maybe?
  
  “In 1971, Karenga was sentenced to one to ten years in prison on counts of felonious assault and false imprisonment.[16] One of the victims gave testimony of how Karenga and other men tortured her and another woman. The woman described having been stripped and beaten with an electrical cord. Karenga’s estranged wife, Brenda Lorraine Karenga, testified that she sat on the other woman’s stomach while another man forced water into her mouth through a hose.” -wiki
  
  Superanyu is Karenga your hero?
  
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- flyoverbob
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 8:31pm
  Yes and something else,I can’t beleive there is a black dating website.How damn racist is that?
  
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- civilwarcometh
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 8:35pm
  Look at who and why this became a holliday in the first place you racist….
  
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- Doug_Huffman
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 8:37pm
  How can you associate the Klan with republicans?
  
  Read the Nathan Bedford Forrest interview in The Sun. “Civil War Threatened in Tennessee.” September 3, 1868: 2. and The Charleston Daily News. “A Talk with General Forrest.” September 8, 1868: 1.
  In an 1868 newspaper interview, Forrest stated that the Klan’s primary opposition was to the Loyal Leagues, Republican state governments, people like Tennessee governor Brownlow and other carpetbaggers and scalawags. He argued that many southerners believed that blacks were voting for the Republican Party because they were being hoodwinked by the Loyal Leagues.
  
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John 1776
Posted on January 1, 2013 at 8:14pm
I don’t think I have ever met someone who celebrates it, and I live near Philadelphia.

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- dublinthewagons
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 8:33pm
  Its a paid holiday. Just look at the people that celebrate it cashing their welfare checks and spending food stamps
  
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- KickinBack
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 8:43pm
  I’ve never heard of it until the African Relations department (which doesn’t employ any white people…talk about diverse!) at the University I worked at would toss up posters everywhere…And nobody still cared.
  
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Ron Staiger
Posted on January 1, 2013 at 8:13pm
Christianity was good enough for the first Africans to come to this country but their descendents are too uppity for this “white” religion so let them all join cults like islam and make up their own celebrations. Perhaps Christianity is just too difficult for them to comprehend so they made up something simple like kwaanza

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- woodyee
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 8:21pm
  Read the story, Ron Staiger – Kwanzaa is what is used by WHITE LIBERALS to further divide or populace. I know of NO ONE in my community that practices Kwanzaa – do you?
  
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- Superanyu
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 8:21pm
  Christianity was good enough for the first Africans that came to this country> well first of all they didnt just come here I think they were brought against there will and Christianity was good enough for them because they had no choice, it also was forced on them against there will. It seems not much has change in 400 years of white tyranical rule that anybody of color should only do white man says-but oh wait who is the most powefull man in the world right now——-hmmmmmm so maybe you arent agaisnt Kwanzaa just scared of a black man
  
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- SovereignSoul
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 8:32pm
  “Christianity was good enough for the first Africans to come to this country”…after the slave owners beat them for observing their ‘dangerous’ African religious beliefs
  
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- mercenary4freedom
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 11:02pm
  Superanyu
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 8:21pm
  Christianity was good enough for the first Africans that came to this country> well first of all they didnt just come here I think they were brought against there will and Christianity was good enough for them because they had no choice, it also was forced on them against there will. It seems not much has change in 400 years of white tyranical rule that anybody of color should only do white man says-but oh wait who is the most powefull man in the world right now——-hmmmmmm so maybe you arent agaisnt Kwanzaa just scared of a black man
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  Although they were forced here from their native Africa, I’ll bet a dollar to a donout that even after their ancestors unfortunate suffering as slaves they are now thankful to be here. I doubt any of them would want to have been born & had to survive in Liberia, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan etc. I wouldn’t wish that place on anyone no matter what race.
  
  Years ago I thought Kwanza was some Christain tradition straight from Africa, but know knowing it was made up by some Black Panther seperatist to further divide, I have to agree with the Senator. Kwanza is about as useless as **** on a boar hog.
  
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Eternal
Posted on January 1, 2013 at 8:13pm
Kwanzaaaaah! Is not about Christ.

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- Superanyu
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 8:22pm
  Neither is Christmas for 99% of the people in the world, who only go to chruch or act like a Christian one day out of the year
  
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- Balzy
  Posted on January 6, 2013 at 10:22am
  yea sure, just like the occupiers are the 99% BAHAHAHA
  
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barber2
Posted on January 1, 2013 at 8:12pm
Guess if after all of these years and the Affirmative Action / anti-discrimination legislation they still consider themselves ” African-Americans,” we can still have Kwanzaa . Sad that they don’t consider themselves fellow Americans, rather than ” African – Americans.” Remember that young Obama was still haunted by ” dreams of his father.” Is this some form of survival guilt ? The issue is values, not skin color. Sad that the Chicago radicals have played the race issue to garner division, rather than stressing the value issue to unite America. But, that isn’t the goal of the anti-capitalist Chicago radicals.

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Doug_Huffman
Posted on January 1, 2013 at 8:09pm
At Senator Grothman’s state website to send my thanks for the truth about Kwanzaaa, I also found “It’s time to legalize fresh raw milk in the dairy state.”

μολων λαβέ molṑn labé ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒE “From my cold, dead hands” works for me.

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Patriot Z
Posted on January 1, 2013 at 8:08pm
kwanza was founded by racist black militants FOR racist black militants….so whats wrong and calling it what it is? libs need to quit pretending that this is some long lost tradition, valentines day is more tradition than kwanza. and if left wingers want to denouce christmas as materialistic then by right they have to do it for qwanza…leftwingers only want respect for anti american and anti christian traditions and hiolidays. any person with a brain and intelligens cannot intelligently look at the world and say everything is the same and everything is equal. the only reason they do it is either blind stupidity or an agenda…or r both…

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- pragmaticpatriot
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 9:45pm
  it is what it is. A lie will circle the globe before the truth has time to put its pants on…. the truth is progressives have won the language war, now the holiday war. We that believe that believe in Christ- or at least right and wrong need to pass the truth on to our kids and not let them win the war on our children
  
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Kupo
Posted on January 1, 2013 at 8:07pm
Whether or not it’s true it was a pretty stupid thing to say. No good can come of it but plenty of bad can.

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- Desertcatn
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 11:21pm
  That’s the trouble today, it is supposed to be better not to speak out about wrong in our country, it is why we are losing our country! I’m thankful for the people with enough integrity to speak out, God bless them!
  
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Gregb
Posted on January 1, 2013 at 8:06pm
why? should every American create his/hers own holliday. This is a stupid as the taxes that we are faced with from this communist dictatorship

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shiv-man
Posted on January 1, 2013 at 8:05pm
Kwanzaa us just another thing the blacks use to set themselves apart from the rest of society. They’ve been using slavery for decades as a reason to get liberal thinkers to pity them. Enough already. BET, Black Panthers, ACORN, Rainbow Push, etc. Anything to get others to give them a free ride. And a free ride is exactly what they’ve been getting since MLK took a bullet.

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- woodyee
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 8:13pm
  Read the story, Shiv-man; Kwanzaa is what is used by WHITE LIBERALS to further divide or populace. I know of NO ONE in my community that practices Kwanzaa – do you?
  
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- The-Monk
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 8:30pm
  @woodyee
  
  Did you get my posts about your earlier questions?
  
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thegreatcarnac
Posted on January 1, 2013 at 7:58pm
He is right. Kwanza is leftist and not American. It is a ‘made-up’ celebration by a jailbird radical. The left will scream discrimination because it is their holiday that they have picked for the blacks. They will tell you that it is from Africa. It is not. They will tell you that it corresponds to something Africans always did. They are liars. It is just another leftst vehicle to divide blacks from everyone else. If people want to celebrated it ….I could care less. Just remember…it is a fake religion made up by a black radical fresh out of the penetentiary. It is made to push the blacks further out of the mainstream. If they want it….;fine.

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- Shamrock241
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 9:38pm
  Give it a thousand years and Radical Kwanza will be as popular and violent as Radical Islam.
  
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Rayblue
Posted on January 1, 2013 at 7:57pm
The Kwanzaa Kliff.
Time is running out.
Armageddon for certain this time. No doubt about it. Crisis mode. Oh, the humanity.

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- YAHSHUARULES
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 8:07pm
  All part of the agenda to CHANGE our history, fundamentally transform America in a way that can’t be changed back. Identity Politics with “ism’s” behind every agenda:
  https://vimeo.com/52009124
  If America goes down, the free world will go down with it and it will be finished for a very, very long time…
  
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- Rayblue
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 9:15pm
  The harvest of providence it assumes to promise.
  It’s simply a degradation of any ritual requiring an offering for a blessing.
  A washing of the linen of Regla de ocha.
  
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TIMEBOMB
Posted on January 1, 2013 at 7:57pm
Kwanzaa is our favorite holiday to celebrate me and the first cow sitting around the campfire and my wife consuming the entire hog all by herself. You don’t want to get in between the first cow and her hog I’ll tell ya that not even with my SS men,it’s too dangerous. I digress though yes Kwanzaa just because the holiday was made up by a convicted murderer doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be celebrated.So gather round the campfire and enjoy the hog on this most felonious of holidays!

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- barber2
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 8:16pm
  Hey, Bomb: What name did you previously post under before your December 29 “resurrection ” as TimeBomb ?? Sure am tired of all of you radicals doing the ” Jason Levin ” bit here on the Blaze.
  
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- TIMEBOMB
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 8:26pm
  You can have three guesses go.
  
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- Walkabout
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 8:31pm
  User Profile: TIMEBOMB
  
  Member Since: December 29, 2012
  
  Timebomb a.k.a leftist troll
  
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- Walkabout
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 8:33pm
  TIMEBOMB
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 8:26pm
  
  You can have three guesses go.
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  Leftists troll flippant & in your face as always.
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  http://www.theblaze.com/users/timebomb/
  
  User Profile: TIMEBOMB
  
  Member Since: December 29, 2012
  
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- The-Monk
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 8:34pm
  @barber2
  
  Timebomb is doing OK. It’s pretending to be Obama and telling it as it is.
  
  He’s pretty funny if you read between the lines.
  
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- dublinthewagons
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 8:39pm
  Bomb: would you pass me the bisquits and butter please?
  
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- TIMEBOMB
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 8:54pm
  The Monk is wise indeed and not just because the monk complimented me,because you’re correct about me.Walkabout and Barber 2 I’ve agreed with you many times.
  
  Dublinthewagons You’re addressing your ruler,I hope you’re seated so when you pass out you don’t hit your head. Do you have a glass of water nearby? You’re in my presence and I know you’re extremely nervous so just take a deep breath,you’ll be fine remember I care about you. Oh yes Biscuits and butter,I will only allow crumbs to my subjects,three day old of course.Back away slowly.
  
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- barber2
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 9:20pm
  Monk: Sorry I missed the humor ( which I value almost as much as honesty ) …Especially in this new age of the Obama Chicago radicals ! Happy New Year
  
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- Walkabout
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 11:04pm
  Sorry TIMEBOMB
  
  I fell for it hook line & sinker. :/
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 7:42am
  Hi MONK, Have to agree with you and now look forward to my daily dose of TIMEBOMB. Makes for some very funny reading.
  
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LIBSALWAYSLIE
Posted on January 1, 2013 at 7:55pm
kwanza IS a fake holiday started by a RACIST idiot with no ability to see the truth. It has zero merit, zero value and zero credibility. kwanza is nothing.

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- Superanyu
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 8:26pm
  Neither is Christmas———–celebrating the birth of a mythological person does not hold much merit or meaning either?
  
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- Walkabout
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 8:30pm
  Kwanzaa created by a black nationalist in 1966.
  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwanzaa
  
  Created by a black nationalist who liked to torture women!
  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maulana_Karenga
  
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- dublinthewagons
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 8:31pm
  Amen
  
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- DIgnified
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 10:27pm
  Agreed. A mythical man commandeering another mythological celebration has the same credibility as Kwanzaa. The whole ‘my point of view is all that matters to everyone. and everyone’s points of view matter not to me’ got you a dying party in utter dysfunction, being held together by bonding hatred of a few items you neither understand nor wish too.
  
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- drs1969
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 11:18pm
  RE; Dignified
  The Rep party is dying because it has pandered too much to fools. RINO’s are democrat lite. RINO Romney received 3 million less votes than Palin and her RINO. Whites know they have no one to stand up for them.
  You can call me racist all you want. Thank You. I’m not a fool.
  
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woodyee
Posted on January 1, 2013 at 7:54pm
Kwanzaa? Any of my grandchildren come home wanting to celebrate Kwanzaa, I’m sending them on a one-way trip to Africa…

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- Superanyu
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 8:29pm
  Whats wrong with Africa? I was born and raised there and lived a fantastic life, and have never myself or known anyone who celebrates Kwanzaa? Kwanza is not even known in Africa and for those who do know about it, it is a joke. So making any comments about Africa just because of its connection to people of color is not only racist-it is just ignorant.
  
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- barber2
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 9:15pm
  SUPER; The African emigrants I have met in America are hard working , positive, and capitalistic . They are very different from the angry , revenge seeking , ” African-Americans” that the Chicago radicals have been inflaming.
  
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- drs1969
  Posted on January 1, 2013 at 11:24pm
  Re: barber2
  Give them a generation in the ‘public indoctriation facilites’ and they will behave the same way. Guaranteed.
  
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- loriann12
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 8:52am
  @barbar….the immigrants from Africa that I have met are also the most polite people I’ve met.
  
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