What lie did you catch me in?

I said you picked a bad example — you did.

Again, what lie did I tell?

Why don’t stop feigning superiority, get off your high horse, and stop trying to attack me with no reason.

You picked a bad example. Keep trying.

Harry and Jeanette Weinberg are dead.

The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation, Inc. is dedicated to assisting the poor, primarily through operating and capital grants to direct service organizations located in Baltimore, Hawaii, Northeastern Pennsylvania, New York, Israel and the Former Soviet Union.

What a stretch!

Kwanzaa consists of seven principles:

Umoja (Unity)
To strive for and maintain unity in the family, community, nation and race.

Kujichagulia (Self-Determination)
To define ourselves, name ourselves, create for ourselves and speak for ourselves.

Ujima (Collective Work and Responsibility)
To build and maintain our community together and make our brother’s and sister’s problems our problems and to solve them together.

Ujamaa (Cooperative Economics)
To build and maintain our own stores, shops and other businesses and to profit from them together.

Nia (Purpose)
To make our collective vocation the building and developing of our community in order to restore our people to their traditional greatness.

Kuumba (Creativity)
To do always as much as we can, in the way we can, in order to leave our community more beautiful and beneficial than we inherited it.

Imani (Faith)
To believe with all our heart in our people, our parents, our teachers, our leaders and the righteousness and victory of our struggle.

From the official Kwanzaa website of founder Maulana Karenga.

I would submit that if these universal principles of collective responsibility and uplift bother you, You might be what Jeff Foxworthy calls a “redneck.”

“About five years ago, in a debate before the National Association of Black Journalists, I stated that if whites were to just leave the United States and let blacks run the country, they would turn America into a ghetto within 10 years. The audience, shall we say, disagreed with me strongly. Now I have to disagree with me. I gave blacks too much credit. It took a mere three days for blacks to turn the Superdome and the convention center into ghettos, rampant with theft, rape and murder.”

Wow. That is just about the most racist thing I have ever read.

As you can imagine, the Weinbergs are white.

Diamond – yes, alot of people do. I and my friends have done it for the last 30+ years. We focus on the positive, practical aspects, the sense of community and love – the marxism, etc. has never been a part of our celebrations. Specifically the pledge (yes everyone, it’s real)

Frank_D – a cursory check of their board of directors, and major contributors to Peterson’s organization BOND, as well as to his other efforts will answer your question.

StWendeler, JayTea, et al – Peterson is a preacher alright… but he preaches hate, mixed with a healthy dose of “send me money”.

ps – the so called “War on Christmas” (which is so ridiculous it doesn’t merit serious consideration) is a fairly recent phenomena. Kwanzaa’s been around way too long to be “part of it”. And no one I know who celebrates kwanzaa includes Karengas marxist leanings… most pick and choose, and create their own meanings and traditions. And yes, it is a nice alternative to the commercialization of the holiday – handmade gifts, etc.

Damn! There goes my planned celebrations for Eccentrica Gallumbits Day…

I’ve celebrated Christmas my whole life and even been to my share of Midnight masses but I’m no more a believer in Christ than I was when I was 2. Why would anyone think that celebrating Kwanzaa automatically translates into a militant, white-hating separatism?

Just like the “War on Christmas” galvanizes a fringe population prone to paranoia and fear, so to does the “war on Kwanzaa.” Arguably they are the same population: White Far-Right Christians.

Absolutely, Frankie. And the NAACP has had whites in positions of leadership since the NAACP’s inception. There’s a profound difference difference, however.

The NAACP’s leadership has been predominantly black and the black grassroots is a major source of its funding.

Contrast that with the so-called black conservative groups where the leadership is almost exclusively white and the funding comes not from black grassroots but from GOP groups who hold agenda antithetical to the black community.

that BOND shouldn t be concerned about Kwanzaa replacing Christmas?

Nobody has argued that Kwanzaa replace Xmas. And even if someone did–who cares? How is it that rightwingnuts aren’t worried about Channukah replacing Xmas? And let’s face it–Xmas is celebrated about a thousand different ways from those who believe it to be nothing but Xmas trees and Santa to those reject Xmas trees and Santa in favor of going to Mass about 30 times.

The fact is that bashing Kwanzaa appeals to white bigots in the GOP; that’s the aim of BOND: to attract white bigot cash.

The Kwanzaa page might be saying that they don’t intend to replace Christmas, now, but it seems they were giving that impression a few years ago. Of course, that could have been coming from people who just plain opposed the concept of Kwanzaa, but I don’t think so.

Also, note that the Kwanzaa web page points to “two of the most frequent reasons Christian celebrants of Kwanzaa give for turning to Kwanzaa. The first reason is that it provides them with cultural grounding and reaffirmation as African Americans. The other reason is that it gives them a spiritual alternative to the commercialization of Christmas [emphasis added] and the resultant move away from its original spiritual values and message.
It does say “turning to Kwanzaa” and “spiritual alternative to the commercialization of Christmas”.