Is Kwanzaa fading away in Minnesota?

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twincities.com: Is Kwanzaa fading away in Minnesota?

By Bob Shaw

bshaw@pioneerpress.com

Posted: 12/28/2013 12:50:16 PM CST

 

This year, Kwanzaa is staying in Paul Caldwell's closet.

 

The usual paraphernalia -- the three-color flag, woven mat, candelabra -- won't be making an appearance. "I got all that stuff at home, all packed up," said Caldwell, an 83-year-old retired pastor, as he raised money for the Salvation Army in downtown St. Paul last week.

 

A block away, another African-American bell ringer explained why she didn't celebrate Kwanzaa. "It's an invented holiday," shrugged Alma Turner. Instead, she favors what she called a genuine holiday -- Christmas.

Enthusiasm for the weeklong African-American holiday is fading, and Kwanzaa diehards are wondering how they can revive it.

http://www.twincities.com/localnews/ci_24804871/is-kwanzaa-fading-away

 

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Kwanzaa: The Scientology of Holidays

By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | December 27th, 2013 at 09:25 PM |

 

What do you get when you take a bad science fiction writer with a desire for immortality and add a lust for tax breaks? Scientology. What do you get when you take a neo-marxist felon and add a desire for black nationalism? Kwanzaa. What do both Kwanzaa and Scientology have in common? They are products of post-modern culture given legitimacy by a press hell bent

http://www.redstate.com/2013/12/27/kwanzaa-the-scientology-of-holidays/