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I happened to come across this press release this morning and all I could do was shake my head. Here is a small excerpt:

“Keeping Kwanzaa Sacred is Paramount to Keeping Christ in Christmas”

The non-profit organization, the African American Holiday Association (AAHA) stands in solidarity with Christian efforts waged to keep the name of Christ in pageants and holiday parades in order to keep the spirituality of Christmas from falling deeper into commercialization, paramount to AAHA’s on-going campaign to “keep Kwanzaa Sacred” from commercial exploitation (more..).

After much protesting with very little results, many of the white student organizations on the campus of Cal-Berkley in the 1960’s began to be drawn to the militancy of the Black Panther Party. These organizations saw not only the unwavering inner strength that these black people possessed, but they were the only group that was willing to stand up to the police toe to toe WITH GUNS. These white student organizations began to morph their message with the struggle of black people figuring that they too could be heard through this outspoken mouthpiece. It worked! Since then, liberals have been using the black cause to get out their message. This is why to this day, they will just about in most cases portray themselves (non-black liberals) as the oppressed party. This is also why they will use people like Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson and others to make the case for liberals. It is always in the end that issues of the black community are rarely solved.

The AAHA is using this same tactic in trying to validate Kwanzaa. As I pointed out in the last posting (More Fodder for the Left: Kwanzaa—PLEASE READ), Kwanzaa is far from being a sacred holiday. This move only further proves the point that I raised in that piece: That most blacks do not celebrate this holiday; therefore, this liberal organization must morph its message in order to find relevantly. If black liberalism is so driven to reconnect blacks here in America with African culture, why then can we not just ask the many Africans that have moved (and still are in droves) to this country what holidays do they celebrate? Surely they can reconnect us to motherland since they have just come from there. If this holiday is all about Africa, then why not include real, 1st generation Africans? This also further proves the point that I raised in an earlier piece how liberalism always feels the need to speak for others who are perceived to be oppressed (please read Tarzan: The father of white liberalism.[Although I am addressing the ideology of white liberalism in that piece, the same thing applies to this situation]).

Blacks who wish to celebrate Kwanzaa should never be denied the right to do so. But we are fall into great error when we attempt to compare this celebration (again, whose foundations are explained in More Fodder for the Left: Kwanzaa) with organized religion. Culture and religion are two totally different things and should never be compared.