What is Kwanzaa and who actually still celebrate it?

Kwanzaa is a unique African American celebration with focus on the traditional African values of family, community responsibility, commerce, and self-improvement. Kwanzaa is neither political nor religious and despite some misconceptions, is not a substitute for Christmas. It is simply a time of reaffirming African-American people, their ancestors and culture. Kwanzaa, which means "first fruits of the harvest" in the African language Kiswahili, has gained tremendous acceptance. Since its founding in 1966 by Dr. Maulana Karenga, Kwanzaa has come to be observed by more than18 million people worldwide, as reported by the New York Times. When establishing Kwanzaa in 1966, Dr. Karenga included an additional "a" to the end of the spelling to reflect the difference between the African American celebration (kwanzaa) and the Motherland spelling (kwanza).

Kwanzaa is based on the Nguzo Saba (seven guiding principles), one for each day of the observance, and is celebrated from December 26th to January 1st.

About 18 million African American celebrate it every year.

Just Google it and you will come to know about the details of weak-long African Holiday, Kwanzaa.

It's a completely made up holiday.

It's an African harvest holiday which doesn't exist in Africa because:

1. It was invented by an American.

2. There are no December harvests in Africa.

The holiday was created in 1966 by an afro-centrist in California named Ron Everett who was born in Maryland. He intended it specifically to displace Christmas, part of the "white man's religion". Not only did he make up an African holiday, he gave himself an African name, Ron Karenga, and an African title, Maulana, which means "Master Teacher."

Everett chose the word "Kwanzaa" (which is part of a Swahili phrase meaning 'first fruits') because most black Americans were descended from slaves in West Africa. This ignorant fool didn't understand that Swahili is spoken in East Africa, thousands of miles away. According to one writer, "this makes about as much sense as having Irish-Americans celebrate St. Patrick's Day by speaking Polish."

Actually, a better analogy would be a member of a Boston Irish street gang creating a holiday for Scottish-Americans to worship a Celtic snowman deity, in Polish, in July.

The paranoid Everett, believing that some of his followers were trying to poison him, kidnapped, tortured, and sexually molested two women who were part of his organization.

When I say "torture" I don't mean the liberal view of torture such as turning off/on an air conditioner, sleep deprivation, or letting people gag on a few drops of water (i.e. water boarding). Ron Everett and his accomplices stripped the women naked, whipped them with electrical cords, and beat them with a wooden baton. Everett and his friends crushed their toes in a vice and put a hot soldering iron into the mouth of one woman and against the face of the other. They poured detergent down their throats and put hoses with running water into their mouths. Everett was convicted and sentenced to 10 years in prison, but was released in less than 5 years.

The ignorant masses take their marching orders from a paranoid, idiotic, hateful, violent, racist, convicted felon and we're all supposed to dance to his tune for the sake of diversity.

Blacks, especially American blacks, have made enormous contributions to society. Their struggle to survive and eventually thrive despite slavery and oppression is both noble and admirable. But creating a history of lies, holidays of division, a culture of violence, dependency, and corruption, and a philosophy of hatred is no way to lift people up. Vietnamese immigrants, speaking no English, who came to America floating on the roof of their houses have achieved more success in less time with no fewer challenges or prejudices, and they required no government handouts nor violent political movements to achieve it.

People who do not believe as you do, celebrated it. Closed minded, much?

In case you are actually interested: www.officialkwanzaawebsite.org