BoatBanter.com - Happy Kwanzaa...

On Wed, 26 Dec 2007 19:20:34 -0500, WaIIy wrote:

On Wed, 26 Dec 2007 12:48:29 -0500, John H. wrote:

On Wed, 26 Dec 2007 09:38:05 -0800 (PST), Chuck Gould
wrote:

On Dec 26, 7:07?am, John H. wrote:
to any who may celebrate same.
--
John H

According to Google, about 1200 people have read at least one thing or
posted something to rec.boats over the years. I would personally guess
that the number of folks participating here regularly is 25-50. Maybe
some of those folks are African American, and Kwanzaa is a recently
introduced African American (rather than traditional African) holiday
celebration.

Well, if some of the folks here celebrate Kwanzaa, then that's good. Today
is the first day of the Kwanzaa celebration, so:

Happy Kwanza - to any and all who may celebrate same.

That's like "Happy John Day".

Huh?

Dr. Maulana Karenga, professor and chairman of Black Studies at
California State University, Long Beach, created Kwanzaa in 1966. After
the Watts riots in Los Angeles, Dr. Karenga searched for ways to bring
African-Americans together as a community. He founded US, a cultural
organization, and started to research African "first fruit" (harvest)
celebrations. Karenga combined aspects of several different harvest
celebrations, such as those of the Ashanti and those of the Zulu, to
form the basis of Kwanzaa.

The official site is: http://tinyurl.com/rpslq

In 1971 Karenga, Louis Smith, and Luz Maria Tamayo were convicted
of felony assault and false imprisonment for assaulting and
torturing over a two day period two women from the Us
organization, Deborah Jones and Gail Davis. [4] A May 14, 1971
article in the Los Angeles Times described the testimony of one
of the women: "Deborah Jones, who once was given the Swahili
title of an African queen, said she and Gail Davis were whipped
with an electrical cord and beaten with a karate baton after
being ordered to remove their clothes. She testified that a hot
soldering iron was placed in Ms. Davis's mouth and placed against
Ms. Davis's face and that one of her own big toes was tightened
in a vise. Karenga also put detergent and running hoses in their
mouths, she said."

Not sure what the above has to do with the wishes mentioned earlier.