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   From: dcook@jmb.com   
      
   This year those of us who cherish the phrase “Merry Christmas”   
   have started to say “Merry Christ-mas” to reinsert the name   
   Christ into the greeting. Here’s a reminder of how we started to   
   lose “Merry Christmas” 40 years ago.   
      
   On the day before Christmas in 1971 the New York Times ran an   
   article about a new “holiday” called Kwanzaa that was invented   
   by an America-hating Black separatist named Ron Everett. Everett   
   now uses the made up “African” name Maulana Ron Karenga to show   
   the world he wants nothing to do with White America.   
      
   That Mr. Karenga was in a California prison doing a one-to-ten   
   year stretch for illegally imprisoning and maiming two Black   
   women he thought were plotting to kill him meant nothing to the   
   Times. They didn’t want to talk about how their new hero had   
   been certified as a paranoid schizophrenic by a court, so they   
   didn’t.   
      
   Karenga called his new “holiday” Kwanzaa, a Swahili phrase   
   meaning “first fruits” because he says it is a harvest festival.   
   This is a lie. Kwanzaa is Karenga’s answer to Christmas. He   
   would like nothing better than to see Kwanzaa actually become   
   the “Black Christmas” he has always fantasized about.   
      
   In his 1977 book on Kwanzaa, Karenga said it “…was chosen to   
   give a Black alternative to the existing holiday and give Blacks   
   an opportunity to celebrate themselves and history, rather than   
   simply imitate the practice of the dominant [White] society.”   
      
   Upon hearing of the new “holiday,” a young unknown Al Sharpton   
   commented that Kwanzaa “would perform the valuable service of   
   “de-whitizing” Christmas.”   
      
   The idea that Kwanzaa is a harvest festival is bogus.   
      
   Harvests don’t happen in December, not even in Karenga’s make   
   believe version of Africa. The closest thing to a Kwanzaa-like   
   festival in Africa is the Yam Festival held yearly in Ghana and   
   Nigeria at the beginning of August, yet Kwanzaa is celebrated   
   each year between December 26 and January 1.   
      
   A 1978, Washington Post article included this Karenga admission   
   about his “holiday.” “People think it’s African, but it’s not. I   
   came up with Kwanzaa because black people in this country   
   wouldn’t celebrate it if they knew it was American. Also, I put   
   it around Christmas because I knew that’s when a lot of bloods   
   (blacks) would be partying.” Imagine if a White person had   
   written that!   
      
   When the “traditional Kwanzaa holiday” was added to the mix,   
   along with “Merry Christmas and “Happy Hanukkah,” feckless   
   merchants who would willingly celebrate Hitler’s birthday if   
   they thought it would boost sales, folded and “Happy Holidays”   
   grew by the year. Exactly when this happened is difficult to   
   pinpoint, but after the Bush White House recognized Kwanzaa in   
   2002 the battle was lost.   
      
   Based on the lack of endless “Happy Kwanzaa” TV ads from “Your   
   friends at…” Kwanzaa may be losing some momentum. Let’s pray it   
   is gone by this time next.   
      
   http://www.westernjournalism.com/who-killed-the-phrase-merry-   
   christmas/#8y57YwEeiKRPEYaz.97   
                              
      
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