Estimate: 13 Million Celebrate Kwanzaa
ROCKSBORO, N.C. -- It's the first day of Kwanzaa and more and more people are celebrating. Bill Nesmith is a reference librarian at Person County public library in Rocksboro, N.C. He says interest in the holiday is growing, with about 13 million people now celebrating the holiday that began in 1966.
I'd like to know just where the number came from?
posted by Pat Campbell @ 7:43 AM
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13 Million? probably inflated by a factor of a million...
Jim in PA
I think a lot more peole celebrate Festivus than Kwanzaa. Of course, their both fictitious holidays.
It's growing popularity probably comes from American black peoples' desire for something that is their "own," something which white people won't "steal." As a group, American blacks are like a teenager, rebellious, given to fits of pique, angry, and illogical. Just like any teenager, they believe they alone really understand stand things, and their "parents" (white people) are foolish and ignorant. ( e.g., "We blacks know you whites better than you know yourselves.") There are signs that black intellectuals are abandoning the white liberals' plantation; Bill Cosby was preceeded by Sowell, Williams, Herbert, and many more. Perhaps Kwanzaa will help give American blacks the feeling of stability and comfort which they need to grow up and join the mainstream.
Most people celebrate Saturnalia, oh excuse me, Christmas.
It has been argued that Roman emporer Aurelian moved the feast of Sol Invictus (celebrating the Roman's winter soltice and extending the Saturnalia celebration - which was originally only one day on Dec 17) to Dec 25 to co-opt the Christian celebration of Christmas.
The fact that Christmas is actually the Roman pagan feast makes it offensive to Christians who really respect and revere Jesus.
I am so sick of this Christmas crap. Thank God we won't have to hear about it for another year.
Kwanzaa was never meant to be a religious holiday. Plenty of people celebrate Thanksgiving and St. Valentines Day as well as The Fourth of July.They are holidays not holy days, the term is meant for any festival day. Why do you think Kwanzaa is not a holiday simply because it is not and never was meant to be religious? Black people know the history behind Kwanzaa.
The "holidays you mention are basically ficticious "saints". St Patrick drove the snakes from Ireland. It's not a holiday, nobody gets religious on that day. St Valentine is actually the god cupid, again who gets religious on that day. It's a day of materialistic lust.
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