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New Ambra Projects Contributing to the new Modesty Zone blog is one of the things I’ve spent my time doing the last few months. I became recently acquainted with Wendy Shalit (author of Return to Modesty) and have been very…

Doh! *Facepalm*. I lived near both cities at the appropriate times and confused the names. What can I say, all these corrupt, incompetent, Democratic mayors look alike to me.
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Foreign Israeli Planes Attack In Lebanon Israeli Military Fires Barrage Into Gaza Israeli Overseas Intelligence Service Mossad Chief Meir Dagan…

LaShawn makes a very reasonable case. Her best point? Non-Christians shouldn’t complain about what she has to say on the subject, since her recommendations are directed at Christians. This may sound obvious, but there is a huge tradition of strange…

Don’t say “Happy Kwanzaa” to La Shawn Barber, or to Ambra Nykol, or to Ambra, who weighs in on The Ugg…

La Shawn Barber has some interesting commentary on the made-up holiday Kwanzaa, including some compelling reasons why blacks should not celebrate it. Kwanzaa was invented in 1966 by Dr. Maulana “Ron” Karenga, a former black militant, Marxist and convic…

Mary Katherine Hamm and La Shawn Barber write about the very recent–as in 1966–origins of Kwanzaa. Hamm describes a news story on Kwanzaa cut in half by an editor who decided it to play it as safe as the New…

Because it’s that time of year–and because LaShawn Barber and Sister Toldjah reminded me of it this morning– I blogged…

Culture: I just have a problem enjoying something that was made up by an obvious psycho….

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Rudolph came around in the 1940s. Santa Claus came about long before then. So your reasoning doesn’t fit.

And Christians have long deplored the blatant hedonsim of Mardi Gras, as well as other unholy and impure practices.

OK, point me to the mainstream articles deploring Mardi Gras. I’ll retract my comment then.

In this context, it saddens me when reading Dark Star’s comments. In a deeper sense, he/she represents many individuals who embrace Kwanzaa-a total lack of historical knowledge.

1. I don’t practice Kwanzaa.

2. I know the history of it.

3. Numbers 1 and 2 don’t prevent me from pointing out the near hysteria of the anti-Kwanzaa comments.

Me, I am more concerned about a made-up holiday like Kwanzaa that is being used to further divide the nation, black from white, Christian from Jew, from Agnostic, etc.

OK, this one is VERY easy.

1. Celebration of Christmas, by its very definition, makes it a separatist event.

2. Sunday is the most segregated day in America. CeCe Winans has said that she has had to change the style of her Christian music for it to be played on “white Christian” stations. The group Annoited has said their music is labeled as “Christian” while their style is “Gospel”. Because they are Black, they still receive reluctance to get played on “white Christian” stations. In fact, they mentioned that after a concert, one d.j. came up to them and apologized for his vow NOT to play their music. After seeing them in concert, he was convicted and vowed to support them any way he could.

It’s no different than Black History month. Why should a people with such a rich history have all of it crammed into one month?

Come back after you have researched the history of Black History Month. It will help you by starting with Black History Week.

Why is it that so many educators and “leaders” have such a hard time wrapping their heads around a concept of “American”?

I don’t know. Ask Condi Rice and Colin Powell, who have called themselves African-American.