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you'll read that the origins of Kwanzaa lie in "the first harvest celebrations of Africa," ... but there is no explanation of why any ancient Egyptians or Nubians might have held harvest festivals around the time of the winter solstice,
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You know, kind of like Jesus was born in April but centuries later the church decided to celebrate his birthday around the winter solstice to compete with pagan religions celebrating at that time of year.
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Karenga's formula for celebrating Kwanzaa requires the use of two ears of maize -- but maize is a New World plant, and it wasn't known at all in ancient Africa.
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Did you know that Jesus and Santa never even met??
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True believers can purchase ears of maize and other Kwanzaa equipment (e.g., candles and seven-holed candle-holders and straw mats) from the University of Sankore Press, a company in Los Angeles. This outfit evidently is controlled by Us and serves as Us's marketing unit. It isn't a university press, and its name is a mockery. The so-called University of Sankore was an aggregation of Islamic schools that flourished at Timbuktu in the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries. No University of Sankore exists today.
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Also, Santa's suit is only red because the Coca-Cola logo is red, and Rudolph was a Montgomery Ward ad campaign. Look it up. Good thing no one else has ever tried to make money off of holidays, right?
Yes, Kwanzaa is completely fabricated and bastardized from a bunch of different sources that have no real connection to each other. And the only way it is any different from other holiday "traditions" is it was made up relatively recently in 1966. Give it another couple hundred years, and people will be bitching about some newfangled holiday that doesn't have nearly the gravitas and importance of, say, Kwanzaa.