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The Biden-Harris regime sent out nearly identical greetings in succession: at 9 a.m. on Christmas Day, there was “Merry Christmas from the Biden-Harris Administration!” Exactly three hours later, we got “The Biden-Harris Administration wishes you and your loved ones a Happy Hanukkah!” Then at 10 a.m. on Dec. 26, there came “Happy Kwanzaa from the Biden-Harris Administration!” Accompanying each were cheesy but serviceable clip-art illustrations. Presidential administrations have sent out these kinds of pro-forma greetings for many years; nevertheless, the insidious nature of what the Biden-Harris regime was doing here should not be overlooked.
It’s perfectly reasonable for this White House or any other administration to send out Christmas and Hanukkah greetings, but Kwanzaa? Besides Kamala Harris, who celebrates Kwanzaa, anyway? There were recent celebrations in Brooklyn and Staten Island, as well as in Minneapolis, South Bend, Ind., and a few other places, but these are all the more noteworthy for being unusual. Despite herculean establishment media efforts, Kwanzaa still hasn’t become part of the American mainstream holiday tradition.
The New York Times tacitly admitted this failure on Friday, when it ran a doggedly upbeat but quixotic piece entitled “Yes, Kwanzaa Is Made Up. That’s Why It’s Great.” The subhead elaborated on the Paper of Record’s desperation: “There’s something uniquely American in both its wanton borrowing from existing tradition and its naked admission of artificiality.” Yeah, sure, that’s it.
The author of the Times article, Ismail Muhammad, recalls ruefully: “When I told other kids that my family celebrated Kwanzaa, I was met with slack-jawed incomprehension or, worse, gimlet-eyed ridicule, before being asked the inevitable question: Isn’t that a made-up holiday? And when I went away to college in New York, I found that Kwanzaa was something of a joke among my classmates.” It’s easy to feel for him, but it was his parents who put him in that position by insisting on celebrating a holiday fashioned out of whole cloth in 1966 by a man who was convicted of torturing two women.
Nevertheless, the Biden-Harris regime’s calculation here is obvious: it sends out Christmas greetings to court the vote of Christians, including the cultural Christians who make up a considerable portion of the American electorate. It sends out Hanukkah greetings to try to take the sting out of its craven betrayal of Israel and to keep leftist Jews pulling the lever for Democrat candidates. And it sends out Kwanzaa greetings in order to affirm its support for the black American community and to try to keep too many black voters from realizing how the Democrats have used and betrayed them over the years.
Yet it isn’t just politics as usual. The felonious inventor of Kwanzaa himself, Ron Karenga, admitted the truth in, of all places, the Washington Post back in 1978: “People think it’s African. But it’s not. I wanted to give black people a holiday of their own. So I came up with Kwanzaa. I said it was African because you know 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!”
There it is: “I wanted to give black people a holiday of their own.” Now just imagine if, say, David Duke had cooked up some fake holiday that he said originated in Scandinavia and explained: “I wanted to give white people a holiday of their own.” The Biden-Harris regime certainly wouldn’t be sending out greetings for that; instead, it would probably sic Merrick Garland on anyone who dared to celebrate such a holiday and open files on them as suspected “white supremacist terrorists.”
In endorsing Kwanzaa, however, the Biden-Harris regime is endorsing the racial division, resentment, and hatred that this fabricated holiday was designed to reinforce. By elevating Karenga’s ersatz holiday to the same status that Christmas and Hanukkah enjoy, the regime is strongly implying that Christmas is for white people only, with Kwanzaa for black people and Hanukkah for Jews. The leftist goal of the stratification of American society into squabbling subgroups that only a massively powerful federal government can keep pacified is advanced yet again.
It could be worse. In that 1978 article, the WaPo noted that Karenga “also established Kuzaliwa, a tribute honoring Malcolm X’s birthday on May 19, and Uhuru Day, a commemoration on Aug. 11 of the 1965 Watts civil disturbance.” Those haven’t caught on widely enough to get official White House greetings. Maybe if Kamala Harris had been elected, she would have told us about how her family always celebrated them.
In any case, the incoming Trump administration should end the Kwanzaa greetings. Maybe it could replace them with a brief note about how Christians of all races celebrate Christmas, or a few words about the importance of national unity. In the name of that unity, it’s long past time to recognize Kwanzaa for what it is, a racist effort to exacerbate hatred and grievance, and relegate it to the dustbin of history.
A bogus administration supporting a bogus holiday. I guess Ramadan wasn’t enough to satisfy their racial evangelism. I’m not religious in any denominational sense, but I think it’s weird how the left always wants to mutate the holidays into their own socio-political agenda. It’s Christmas. Can’t we just leave it at that? Hey, I’d gladly settle for Hanukkah if that’s still available.
Kwanzaa is just another Fake Celebration which they never heard of in Africa but Biden the Blunder and Harris the Hag wants to celebrate instead of Christmas
Planet Earth to New York Times: Festivus is more real a holiday than Kwanzaa. You know, you don’t HAVE to pander.
Everyone knows the correct greeting is “Have a Kwazy Kwanzaa!!”
You make a very good point about the blatant double standards here Dr. Spencer. But I did want to point out that Christmas is not a Christian holiday. The date of Jesus’ birth cannot be ascertained from the Inspired Scriptures, only the date of his death can.
And it is the date of his death that Jesus asked us to memorialise, not the date of his birth.
Given the shepherds are recorded as being out in the fields with their flocks at the time Jesus was born, it does not seem it would have been in midwinter anyway.
“The date of Jesus’ birth cannot be ascertained from the Inspired Scriptures…”
That’s not true. A study of, “…the course of Abia…” (Luke 1:5), his priesthood duties, and have to look at the O.T. as well about the priest’s courses, and keeping at hand the timing of the birth of John the Baptist will reveal that the Lord Jesus Christ was conceived in December. He was born in September, thereabouts. The conception was the miracle. His birth was natural, though the stable might not have been the most clean and comfortable of places.
If one really wants to study this matter, it would behoove them to use the King James Bible, to ensure they are not misled by the other awful English translations.
“Given the shepherds are recorded as being out in the fields with their flocks at the time Jesus was born, it does not seem it would have been in midwinter anyway.”
There is truth in that statement.
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I have heard this many times, but have never seen anything to back it up. The shepherds had nowhere else to put their flocks, so it isn’t like they moved them to a different climate. To this day there are plenty of sheep and shepherds in the hills of Bethlehem in December. Luke’s statement neither confirms nor denies the time of Christ’s birth.
Again, one has to study out the courses of the priesthood laid out in the O.T. The key, the answer, is “the course of Abia,” Luke 1:5. When.one figures out when his shift was on, it can be seen from determining that, that Christ was born in September. John the Baptist.was born in March.
Hello Matt and thanks for the response. It would seem appropriate if Jesus was born in Autumn, as he is called “the last Adam” – he came to the earth to pay back the perfect human life that Adam so deliberately and tragically threw away. And maybe Adam first opened his eyes in an Autumn garden, as it seems that the earliest calendars start in the Fall.
But had God wanted us to celebrate Jesus’ birth wouldn’t he have made the date clear to us?
And didn’t Jesus himself ask us to memorialise his sacrificial death, not his birth?
Hi Sue. Oh, I agree with you. I don’t and haven’t proposed a celebration of our Saviour’s birth on December 25. I haven’t “celebrated” it for a long time. I find it a struggle to get through December, or the latter part of it. I suppose those believer’s who see Dec. 25 for what it really is, historically the winter solstice paganism, and those who celebrate it as Christ’s birth, have to deal with each other as graciously as is possible. I emailed with a pastor about this and I asked him if he thought folks like you and could apply Romans 14:5-6.
Here is his answer, and a few other things he said:
“Romans 14 in a general way is how I approach the holiday…concerning the folly and its pagan roots. To me the greater problem is the emphasis on His earthly life and Messiahship. Many Christmas carols are more about the joy of second coming and kingdom on earth, which is not our hope and joy…I don’t think we should put our ambassadorship on hold or adjust it for the whole month of December.”
“The conception is the real miracle occurring in mid to late December which does put his birth in the fall. It also then puts the birth of a John the Baptist around the Passover which puts Luke 1:68-80 in greater context.”
“All in all it is a difficult time for me due to the expectations of some to make it a big deal. A far cry from the simplicity that is in Christ and Colossians 2:10 and Ephesians 3:9, etc. It is a great time to share the gospel with the lost, but that is the case every single day! I’m glad of the truth; “And it came to pass!”
I agree with what he said 100%.
True the day Jesus was born cannot be actively established. But to day that shepherds would not likely be out with their herds as proof that it could not be midwinter? Have you ever talked to a sheep herder in Scotland?
The approximate day, certainly the month, of His birth can be ascertained. A study of the courses of the Levitical priesthood, coupled with studying when “the course of Abia” would be (Luke 1:5) brings much light on the matter.
A case can be be made perhaps, that herds are handled outside in the winter in various locations around the world, but the fact remains that the Lord, when He became flesh, was born in September.
Damn, did I miss Kwanzaaaa again this year. Looks like I’ll be missing all of the fake manufactured “holidays” of the Left again this year like
Black History Month
Trans awareness day/month
Gay awareness day/month
Pride month
Juneteenth
MLK day
Asian Pacific awareness month
Hispanic Heritage month
Women’s International Day/Month
Labor Day
What I won’t be missing is July 4, Columbus Day, Christmas and New Years and Thanksgiving,
I’m also endeavoring to start Galactic White People’s Day
look up the wiki article
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maulana_Karenga
and read about the torturer/founder [see Criminal Conviction and Imprisonment]
There is no “white Christmas” other than a song about wishing for SNOW!! Christmas is for ALL of Mankind!!
Black Americans need to realize that they are Americans with dark skin – that’s it! There’s noting magical about skin color! White skin does NOT result in “privileges” any more than black skin results in “oppression”! PEOPLE are PEOPLE and how they live and treat others is what makes a person! I’m old and grew up with many black friends. Back then there were black FAMILIES – Mamas and Daddies who worked and had nice homes and raised their children. The same was true with white FAMILIES! That seemed to be the “norm” until the DEMOcrats decided or CONCEIVED a “master plan” for ETERNAL POWER – or at least 200 years! The destruction of black FAMILIES has been a DEMOcrat success – they should be proud that they have accomplished so much despair and hopelessness! I would bet that they TRUELY do celebrate their success – in private! Hopefully the tide is turning back towards decency and FAMILIES!!
“The Great Society” was an amazing feat of divide and conquer. The Dems lost their slaves after civil war but got them back in 1964. Since then, they succeeded in making blacks think they are, and always have been oppressed and, as such, incapable of leading a successful life in America without government assistance. Ever since then all manner of black racists have capitalized on this farce to further widen the level of resentment now felt by many blacks.
Maybe things are turning around after seeing how many blacks gave up on the Dems in the election. One can only hope black people are opening their eyes to how they’ve been played over the last 60 years. You can bet your ass the Dems will be in hyper-drive trying to shut down the exodus. Hopefully, the blacks will see it for what it really is, the new slavery.
Robert Spencer has been telling the truth for so many years. A great man. I went to a banquet in New York City a few years ago and heard he was on the premises. I went looking for him, and he was standing alone. I couldn’t wait to shake his hand and thank him for his great writings. I thought he was momentarily frightened since he was alone and didn’t have any bodyguards. I thank God that I could shake this man’s hand!!!
If you work in a large corporate enterprise, academic institution or civic institution given over to DEI and the ideas of cultural fairness, the entire calendar is being populated by events like this. Events that celebrate and non-white and antiChristian worldview. This is the ultimate outworking of the West’s full-on adoption of paganized globalist/collectivist driven multiculturalism.
Unite all the people of the world and you only need one banner. The one representing the One-World government.
Kwanzaa stamp first issued in 1997 by the USPS. Today, it’s still available and promoted as a Forever Stamp by the USPS:
https://store.usps.com/store/product/kwanzaa-stamps-S_580604
Hopefully, Trump can retire that BS stamp.