Glenn Grothman Slams Kwanzaa: 'Almost No Black People Today Care...Just White Left-Wingers'

[piratesswoop]

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[otana]

Grothman slammed "irresponsible public school districts" in Wisconsin for trying "to tell a new generation that blacks have a separate holiday than Christians."

oh my god what the fuck even

[djinndustries]

Forgive my out-of-the-loopness, but I've never met a...how to describe this accurately...non-recent immigrant African-American...that celebrates Kwanzaa, though not everywhere I've lived had large African-American populations besides Baltimore. Are there any statistics on the percentages that celebrate? I'm curious. Most holidays are holidays of the majority. In Singapore it's balanced between Buddhist, Muslim, Hindu and Christian holidays because they are representative of the percentages that celebrate.

[_udntnome]

You can be a Buddhist, Muslim, Hindu, Christian, Jew, Zoroastrianist(?), atheist, etc and celebrate Kwanzaa. It's not religious holiday.

[djinndustries]

My point is not about religion, but participation. Groundhog Day is observed, but not seriously.

[sesmo]

Why does it matter whether it's celebrated by a large number of people or a small number of people? Non-Christians only make up 20% of the US population, and schools still talk about non-Christian holidays.

[executivehpfan]

Grothman slammed "irresponsible public school districts" in Wisconsin for trying "to tell a new generation that blacks have a separate holiday than Christians."

There is so much wrong with this statement that I don't even know where to begin. I feel like standing on my head and humming the Star Trek: Voyager theme backwards would make more sense to me at this point.

[bnmc2005]

I feel like standing on my head and humming the Star Trek: Voyager theme backwards would make more sense to me at this point.

(OT: You can do that?)

[skellington1]

We demand video!

[fenris_lorsrai]

also, why don't we have a "won't somebody please think of the children???" tag!

We have "somebody please think of the children".

[piratesswoop]

Thanks!

[_udntnome]

I seriously have no intelligent words left for these people so I will just say, fuck this guy.

[mercystars]

I will join you in your sentiments.