The founding Fore Fathers of America were all Criminals. They were all White Supremacist but I bet that all of you naysayers believe in the Constitution that they wrote.
You love George Washington but Washing was a White Supremacist.
Thomas Jefferson is a known pedophile along with the rest of those "slave masters" that raped 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 year old girls. That was common with your Fore Fathers but you love America Don't you. Well we love Kwanzaa and we love the founder Maulana Karenga.
2006-12-29 05:43:43 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Kwanzaa
Two things:
1. This question is in responce to other posts about Kwanzaa that I have read where no one answers the question. All they do is rag on the founder.
2. Can someone please tell me one thing that I said that is Racist!!!
2006-12-30 04:25:13 · update #1
Life is all about decisions. The way your life goes is about the decisions you make. The decision to spew hate and "rage". The decision to stay in a country that treats you so poorly. The decision to allow anger at your situation hold you hostage all your life. The decision to sit back and complain bitterly about circumstances instead of getting up and trying to do some good in this world.
2006-12-29 22:50:09 · answer #1 · answered by T 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Um, does it bother you that you didn't even discuss Maulana Karenga's reasons for creating the holiday? Or that you didn't mention why the holiday means so much to you and how it effects your life? Or even why anyone else should bother celebrating it? You know instead of standing up for the holiday, like you ment to do you just made yourself look like a pompous, racist asss.
Incidently, it was the "white supremacist pedofile" bullshit that everyone is protesting. Name me one hero without a flaw... just one. Sure, the birth of democracy came from people who struggled with the very ideals behind the language they used. But their hypocrasy is what freed you and what caused them to free their slaves, and what caused freedman's village, African American businesses, colleges, hospitals, spirituals, gospel, jazz, blues, The Tuskegee Airmen, Sidney Poiter, James Baldwin, Black poets and writers, etc. Our culture is rooted in the eloquent expression of our oppression. So yeah, if there we're no slave masters, you wouldn't even have Hip-Hop.
2007-01-02 17:11:53 · answer #2 · answered by klnichollsrn 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Thanks for your response on my question regarding whether we should celebrate it. THIS question brings up some great points. The people we laud as heroes have faults just like the rest of us. Tragically, they often have even bigger faults than the rest of us. Does this mean their big ideas should be ignored? I personally don't think so. Their ideas should be praised, but maybe they shouldn't be considered heroes. I wouldn't want to say that one of the people I respect and admire is a pedophile. I also wouldn't want to completely dismiss the Constitution.
Now for the bigger question- where in the world can you buy a kinara?
2006-12-29 06:48:52 · answer #3 · answered by elizabeth_ashley44 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Kwanzaa is a wonderful concept, Why don't you get "Your People" to follow it? Speaking of criminals, do you know what percentage of the incarcerated males in this country happen to be black? I guess you could always blame George Washington or Thomas Jefferson for all your problems, take the easy way out.
2006-12-31 13:49:16 · answer #4 · answered by PNSGUY 5 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Many white people are stupid. Always talking about something that they have no knowledge and understanding of, such as Kwanzaa. Kwanzaa was created by a black man. Hopefully in a hundred years white people won't try to claim that they created Kwanzaa and then it will become a white celebration. Much the same way they claim the African Egyptian history, by claiming that the original Egyptians were white people instead of them being black people from Africa. The white man is the devil. The devil has the nerve to fix his face to tell my people, "Go back to Africa!" I would but, the white man .poisoned Africa too...spread through contamination of vaccines: hepatitis B in New York City, and the smallpox vaccine in Africa... contaminated with AIDS virus deliberately...so, you go back to Europe devil.
2006-12-31 01:01:40 · answer #5 · answered by Jesus 1 · 2⤊ 3⤋
I find it amazing in this day and age that racism is still rampant in our country. Until we all embrace an attitude of tolerance there will be NO peace. So I suggest starting with yourself....re-read your question, think about it seriously, who is being racist here? I understand that black people have gone through trails and tribulations that should never have happened but it did. My own people....jews and indians....have also endured horrible fates but I don't stand here bashing others because of it. Learn tolerance and teach it to your kids otherwise the hate, the racism, will continue forever.
2006-12-29 05:56:42 · answer #6 · answered by ruthbeckersc 3 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Just think what this country would be like if those so called WHITE SUPREMISTS hadn't brought Africans to this country in large quantities...No peanut butter! *sob) NO HIP HOP!! NO RAP!! NO PANTS HANGING UNDER YOU HIND PARTS! No OJ, no MIKEY JACKSON. No James Brown (sob), no MOTOWN (sob). I would have never gotten to know a beautiful friend in Debbie Hammond (sob....she is with our Lord). I could go on and on but eventually some nit wit would point at me and scream RACIST BIGOTTED PIG!
2007-01-01 05:31:32 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The point of Kwanzaa isn't racism or hatred of white people. Instead it celebrates unity, self-determination, collective work and responsibility, cooperative economics, personal goal-setting, creativity, and faith. You ask why other people don't discuss the seven guiding principles, yet you seem to completely ignore them yourself. It's good to be proud of your heritage, but it's more important to be a productive member of the greater society in which you live.
2006-12-29 06:30:48 · answer #8 · answered by dmb 5 · 4⤊ 3⤋
If Kwanzaa is such a great holiday, why don't we get the day off of work, like Christmas or the 4th of July???
PS: Your post confirms that you don't have to be white to be a racist...
2006-12-29 05:54:55 · answer #9 · answered by Sean T 5 · 5⤊ 4⤋
Nice rant, Dick. Whats your point? What does 200 year old history have to do with Kwanzaa? Maybe you should drop the "I'm a victim" attitude, and tell everyone about kwanzaa?
2006-12-29 05:49:28 · answer #10 · answered by twjones1029 2 · 8⤊ 4⤋