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Wisconsin State Senator Glenn Grothman is not backing down on his characterization of Kwanzaa. In a press release titled “Why Must We Still Hear About Kwanzaa?,” he accused “hard-core left wingers” of using the holiday, celebrated by African-Americans in late December, as a way to divide the country.
Grothman claimed “almost no black people today care about Kwanzaa,” and he directly went after the creator of the holiday, Maulana Karenga, and teachers who talk about it as “real” with their students.
Originally posted by slapjacks
reply to post by TLomon
I understand this. I'm not sticking up for the holiday, because personally I don't observe it.
Look at Thanksgiving for instance. How did that become a holiday and what were the prior actions that led to the holiday? yet a good chunk of people in the US celebrate it.
Originally posted by slapjacks
reply to post by Rezlooper
"Thanksgiving Day" was first proclaimed by the Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1637 to commemorate the massacre of 700 men, women and children who were celebrating their annual Green Corn Dance. Those attacks were brought out by the English and Dutch and the day after the attacks the governor of Massachusetts bay colony labeled the day as Thanksgiving.