Why don't blacks still celebrate Kwanzaa these days?

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I remember back in the 90s, families had Kwanzaa celebrations, had kinaras, exchanged handmade gifts, and actually partook in the holiday. I remember going down to Atlanta with to see my extended family and it was really a thing.

Now it seems that Kwanzaa is just a relic or even a joke. I only know a few people who celebrate Kwanzaa and they are hoteps at the highest level.

Do you celebrate Kwanzaa? If not, why not?
 
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I celebrate kwanzaa

Black folks for the most part are stripped of cultural pride and fully assimilated into European culture. The lack of pride has made us insecure and dependent so we measure success and celebration by the people we envy and see as successful, which are white folks. This insecurity and dependency also leaves us wanting to be apart of the popular ideologies. We are trained to adopt European customs and practices from the womb on. And we are insecure in being proud of our own culture. Plus it's difficult to be proud of a culture we are unaware of.

We are a broken people, kwanzaa was at least a remedy to try and help us piece ourselves back together, in the same way the red black and green flag and black power was designed to do. Unfortunately we are more Europeanized than ever.

I would encourage us, even if we celebrate a clear European holiday that at times gave black slaves away as gifts, to still attend a kwanzaa festival in a city near you. Teach your children pride early on, just as every other culture of people teach their youth pride. Without pride and a strong cultural foundation anywhere we are next to any other group of people, we will be 2nd class to them.
 
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Growing up I didn’t know a lot of families who took Kwanza seriously. It was treated like a “good idea”, but there was only room for one holiday with money being tight and the adults only having so little time to do things. And especially since many people were religious, Christmas was always preferred. December was just too busy and strapped for two holidays. :yeshrug:. People won’t let go of Christmas. Kwanza should be in February when people have had more time to save up vacation time and money to spend with family.
 
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cornercommission2k12 said:
Black folks for the most part are stripped of cultural pride and fully assimilated into European culture.
Unfortunately we are more Europeanized than ever.
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Is it European or is it Americanized??



I had this discussion years ago with a comrade about whether Black women straightening their hair and wearing weaves is really them trying to look like white women or just a Black American tradition.

Yeah we can say slavery did a number on us....But after awhile we kinda just fell into our own thing while here. We are Afrocentric and we are Americans. We rock afros, braids, weaves and colored wigs(the ladies not me of course :whoa:)


I say all that to say this....Gangster Rap destroyed everything "say it loud I'm Black and I'm proud" tried to build up. And we accepted it. Rap music and Hip Hop is American. At some point our culture has become what we created in America. American culture is our culture. In our case its "being Black in American culture."
 
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