The Official "Ask A Brotha" Thread - Part 1

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I hope they don't even attempt to explain it. Just have them be brother and Sister and not say a damn thing about it. That would drive them mofo's nuts. :hehe:

That was approach they took with the last FF film if I remember correctly. I don't think we ever saw their parents.
 
me neither. what exactly are you celebrating? being black?

Basically. A group of dudes invented it back in the 1960's like "Hey, the Jews have their own thing instead of Christmas! Why can't we have ours?" Nobody bothered to tell them "because most black people actually celebrate Christmas."
 
I felt kind of ridiculous celebrating Kwanza as a kid.

It's just so forced and strange for someone who didn't grow up with any African language or traditions.
 
I only learned about Kwanza in elementary school and quickly forgot what it was all about.

Anyone remember this commercial?

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You can't just make up a holiday and expect it to catch on. Christmas would have faded into nothing had they not hijacked some awesomer pagan holiday. Though they took out all the Sodomy. :(
 
I've never met one person who celebrated Kwanzaa. It's kinda stupid actually.
 
Stupid that you never met anyone, or the holiday is stupid?
 
You can't just make up a holiday and expect it to catch on. Christmas would have faded into nothing had they not hijacked some awesomer pagan holiday. Though they took out all the Sodomy. :(

no it's there in that credit card bill after buying all those presents
 
After Christmas this year, my fiancee brought up a discussion about us possibly celebrating Kwanza as well.
 
Every holiday is some Pagan made up thing, so hey. That's right, I'm one of "those" people. :o
 
WTF is Kwanzaa?

You know there are real African holidays black people can celebrate if they want to get in touch with their 'roots' instead of making up BS ones.
 
There are like 10,000 African holidays out there but they all pretty much all celebrate similar things from what I looked up.
 
Most holidays are done as either a reminder of something/someone important or they naturally occur through habit.

Christmas, for example, is derived from multiple winter holidays. Those winter holidays usually occurred because people would always gather together, harvest all the crops they could take in, have a big feast, and get ready to hunker down for the winter months.

Spring holidays like Easter are the opposite of Christmas. Winter has melted away, Spring has returned, and it's a celebration of renewal and fertility.

Then you've got your historical holidays like Hannukah, which is meant to remind the Jewish people of a horrible time their ancestors endured and survived.



Kwanzaa is basically "Why can't we have our own holiday that looks like a broken down version of Hannukah?" It didn't naturally occur. It's filled with vague platitudes and virtues without directly addressing anything in the black community. It's very manufactured, and it was manufactured recently enough for us to still see the label printed on it.
 
Kwanzaa is basically "...so Christmas just ended. Let's celebrate being black for the next week. Yay."
 
Christmas is basically "...so let's buy a bunch of bull@#$% and sometimes pretend it has something to do with this religious figure. Yay."

Thanksgiving is basically "...so let's eat. Oh, yeah...some imaginary stuff about pilgrims and 'Indians'. Yay."

Valentines day is basically "...so I better buy her some bull@#$% or I'm not getting laid for a while. Yay."

...etc.
 
Valentines day is basically "...so I better buy her some bull@#$% or I'm not getting laid for a while. Yay."

Also acceptable: "I better send myself some flowers at work today or everyone's going to know that I don't have a boyfriend."
 
Christmas is basically "...so let's buy a bunch of bull@#$% and sometimes pretend it has something to do with this religious figure. Yay."

Thanksgiving is basically "...so let's eat. Oh, yeah...some imaginary stuff about pilgrims and 'Indians'. Yay."

Valentines day is basically "...so I better buy her some bull@#$% or I'm not getting laid for a while. Yay."

...etc.

Wrong.

Thanksgiving is basically "...so let's eat. Oh, and turn the game on too. Yay." People stop caring about that Pilgrim bulls*** after they get out of middle school.

:o
 
Eh, one doesn't have anything to do with the other.
I feel bad because I equate Kwanzaa as a black equivalent of Hanukkah, but I have no idea what either are about.

It's just so forced and strange for someone who didn't grow up with any African language or traditions.
I actually didn't know it was based on that many African traditions.

You can't just make up a holiday and expect it to catch on. Christmas would have faded into nothing had they not hijacked some awesomer pagan holiday. Though they took out all the Sodomy. :(
It's still around though.
 
Though in essence every holiday is just an excuse to get drunk, if you do that.
 
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