[quote=“jdsmith”]I propose a Holiday, a worldwide event that all RACES, PEOPLES AND CREEDS can particpate in to celebrate our common economic heritage!!!
And I will call it SATURDAY![/quote]
Me likee. I’ll take two.
[quote=“Dragonbones”][quote=“jdsmith”]I propose a Holiday, a worldwide event that all RACES, PEOPLES AND CREEDS can particpate in to celebrate our common economic heritage!!!
And I will call it SATURDAY![/quote]
Me likee. I’ll take two.[/quote]
Actually I think it’s called New Year’s 
You’re a surprise yourself. 
hehehe. Well, now my black history books have to be written. :s
I think because of the African “themes” , meaning the wearing of dashikis(well back in the day they did), and having African printed table clothes and items, some people may contribute it to being “African”.
[quote=“Namahottie”][quote=“Dragonbones”][quote=“jdsmith”]I propose a Holiday, a worldwide event that all RACES, PEOPLES AND CREEDS can particpate in to celebrate our common economic heritage!!!
And I will call it SATURDAY![/quote]
Me likee. I’ll take two.[/quote]
Actually I think it’s called New Year’s [/quote]
That sucks as it makes me like 2028 years old. :raspberry:
I propose this “Staurday” fall at the end or near the end of each week so that working people world wide and homemakers alike can spill and chill in local, foreign and mutlicultural marketplaces to releave stress via the barter exchange of “monetary units” in the form of “paper currency” for good and services. The normal and quite common practice of this is a proven way to release immediate stress from the body, and despite more pressure when the bills finally arrive, not to worry as a new “Saturday” will shortly arrive!
My motto for this wonderous day of days will be a fill in the blank:
I NEED A NEW _____________________!!! To be screamed upon entrance into the shopping destination!
Of course there’s a lot of parties around Kwanzaa. That’s why he scheduled it for after Christmas–because “a lot of the bloods were having parties around that time.”
Ever wonder why it’s spelled with two A’s at the end? Some weird feature of Swahili? No… it seems that in the early days, the bloods had seven children in the group. And they were going to do this play in which each kid held up a sign with one of the letters of KWANZA on it, except there was one letter too few. So they changed the spelling!
If you like Kwanzaa, you’ll LOOOVE
It’s celebrated on Dec. 23rd, by the way, so be sure to ask off work!
[quote=“Screaming Jesus”]Of course there’s a lot of parties around Kwanzaa. That’s why he scheduled it for after Christmas–because “a lot of the bloods were having parties around that time.”
Ever wonder why it’s spelled with two A’s at the end? Some weird feature of Swahili? No… it seems that in the early days, the bloods had seven children in the group. And they were going to do this play in which each kid held up a sign with one of the letters of KWANZA on it, except there was one letter too few. So they changed the spelling!
If you like Kwanzaa, you’ll LOOOVE
It’s celebrated on Dec. 23rd, by the way, so be sure to ask off work![/quote]
Now Kwanzaa can be linked to an LA gang? Oh lord, your conspiracy minds are working in overdrive. 
No, no–it was jus the argot of the times. Today he’d probably say “the brothers” or “my homies” or some even jauntier term.
Nobody denies that the holiday was artificially created. So was Festivus. In fact, so was Christmas.
So what’s the big deal? It’s just a holiday.
[quote=“Chris”]Nobody denies that the holiday was artificially created. So was Festivus. In fact, so was Christmas.
So what’s the big deal? It’s just a holiday.[/quote]
Yes, Indeed.
Hockey was artifically created, but who bitches about that?
As long as said holiday does not involve violence, who really cares, unless of kors it’s an obvious attempt at propaganda style displacement.
Shame, Shame.
All Holidays are made up to celebrate/ mourn/ remember/ promote something. So how is one any more a fraud than another?
I know many people who would consider Christmas a fraud.
I, for one, think Columbus Day should be done away with.
Me too. I never got a day off on Columbus Day. :raspberry:
um…happy solstice. the days’ll be getting longer. have a beer. carry some mistletoe in your pocket and steal kisses from pretty girls.
[quote=“jdsmith”]I propose a Holiday, a worldwide event that all RACES, PEOPLES AND CREEDS can particpate in to celebrate our common economic heritage!!!
And I will call it SATURDAY![/quote]
Could you talk to my employer about this Saturday holiday thing? I assume it’s a national holiday so I should be getting paid double time for having to work it, right?
Just how are black americans going to identify with their so called african identity? What a load of bollocks.
They are americans with american values. They could go and try living in some of the African countries. Rwanda, Congo, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Nigeria. Perhaps they would feel more African then and feel that oneness of the pan african community.
Let’s see I’m from good old German stock. Maybe I should start October Fest at home to help me identify with being German.
Fortunately 25th December is just another working day for most you folks here. Christmas is another holiday with lost meaning foisted upon us all.
Just how are black americans going to identify with their so called african identity? What a load of bollocks.
They are americans with american values. They could go and try living in some of the African countries. Rwanda, Congo, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Nigeria. Perhaps they would feel more African then and feel that oneness of the pan african community.[/quote]
I never really got that it was about getting in touch with an african identity, althought the celebration means something different for everyone. 
Why not, Chicagoans who claim to be of Irish heritage take over the streets of Chicago every March 17th for St. Paddy’s day. And I can bet most have never been to Ireland. 
True 
It’s just an excuse to get shitfaced. Rather funny when a black american turns up cliaming to have been of Irish stock I guess.
True It’s just an excuse to get shitfaced. Rather funny when a black american turns up cliaming to have been of Irish stock I guess. [/quote]
I guess you would the one to be laughing in my face then?
True It’s just an excuse to get shitfaced. Rather funny when a black american turns up cliaming to have been of Irish stock I guess. [/quote]
I guess you would the one to be laughing in my face then?[/quote]
Only if you’d believe my mother is Irish
“Rather funny when a black american turns up cliaming to have been of Irish stock I guess.”
Uh, Phil Lynott, Samantha Mumba and the “Black Irish” of the Caribbean, anyone? Hell and if he, Chen Shuei Bien or for that matter Frank Finckelheim from the corner of third and fourth Avenue (sorry if I’m mucking up my American street geography) Anywheresville whose ancestors never caught so much as a glimpse of a shamrock want to come to St Patrick’s day parade (invented by the Americans along with green beer, it’s only in the last few decades that they had parades in Ireland) and have a good time it’s fine by me and I’m sure, most of the other Irish real and imagined in the world. Anyway, we’ve all supposed to have come out of Africa a long time ago…