Christmas.

[CharlesHarris]

(27 December 2021, 17:37)bigpaul Wrote: well thats another Christmas over and done with, the next "celebration" will be New Years Day but not in Scotland I hear Mrs Krankie has cancelled the Hogmanay festivities.

Oh please tell us Yanks about Hogmanay!!! Is this the Celtic version of Kwanza?

Black Nationalist Activist Maulana Karenga invented Kwanzaa in 1966 to fill the gaps where the U.S. had failed African Americans. Set against the backdrop of the civil rights movement, the seven-day celebration urged the African American community to define and uplift itself.

Karenga designed seven principles, or Nguzo Saba: unity, self-determination, collective work and responsibility, cooperative economics, purpose, creativity and faith. Each principle correlated to a specific day and symbol, to be celebrated Dec. 26 to Jan. 1, in a comedic black parody of the Hanukkah menorah.

Karenga had been convicted of numerous, heinous felonies. In 1970 he and three other members of his black nationalist group based in Los Angeles, imprisoned and assaulted two female members. Trial testimony revealed that the women had been whipped with cords, beaten with batons, and seared with irons — while naked — in an effort to elicit confessions that they were conspiring against him. Karenga served his term in state prison and later went on to get his doctorate and teach black studies in California.

Happy Kwanza!