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DoYouEverWonder Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-25-06 06:10 PM
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Tony Snow's War Against Kwanzaa - Warning Disgusting
Edited on Tue Apr-25-06 06:18 PM by DoYouEverWonder
The following article was written by Tony Snow, Bush's new pic for WH Press Secretary.

www.martinlutherking.org/kwanzaa is "Hosted by Stormfront White Nationalist Information Center")

So not only is Tony Snow a certified Freeper, he is also a 'columnist' writing some of the most racist bs you can find on a site owned and operated by self-admitted White Supremists. Heck of a job Tony, heck of a job.


The TRUTH about Kwanzaa

Dec. 31, 1999/22 Teves, 5760
by Tony Snow

BLACKS IN AMERICA have suffered an endless series of insults and degradations, the latest of which goes by the name of Kwanzaa.

Ron Karenga (aka Dr. Maulana Ron Karenga) invented the seven-day feast (Dec. 26-Jan. 1) in 1966, branding it a black alternative to Christmas. The idea was to celebrate the end of what he considered the Christmas-season exploitation of African Americans.

According to the official Kwanzaa Web site -- as opposed, say, to the Hallmark Cards Kwanzaa site -- the celebration was designed to foster "conditions that would enhance the revolutionary social change for the masses of Black Americans" and provide a "reassessment, reclaiming, recommitment, remembrance, retrieval, resumption, resurrection and rejuvenation of those principles (Way of Life) utilized by Black Americans' ancestors."

Karenga postulated seven principles: unity, self-determination, collective work and responsibility, cooperative economics, purpose, creativity and faith, each of which gets its day during Kwanzaa week. He and his votaries also crafted a flag of black nationalism and a pledge: "We pledge allegiance to the red, black, and green, our flag, the symbol of our eternal struggle, and to the land we must obtain; one nation of black people, with one G-d of us all, totally united in the struggle, for black love, black freedom, and black self-determination."

Now, the point: There is no part of Kwanzaa that is not fraudulent. Begin with the name. The celebration comes from the Swahili term "matunda yakwanza," or "first fruit," and the festival's trappings have Swahili names -- such as "ujima" for "collective work and responsibility" or "muhindi," which are ears of corn celebrants set aside for each child in a family.

http://www.martinlutherking.org/kwanzaa.html



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HiFructosePronSyrup Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-25-06 06:11 PM
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1. The more I hear about this guy, the happier I get
that he's the new WH press secretary.

Could they have picked somebody worse?

Question: what's this guy trained as, a lawyer? Because as a Fox "journalist" I doubt he's ever had to handle real questions before.
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xchrom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-25-06 06:16 PM
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2. that is the first time i have EVER clicked on something
like that site -- and i never will again.

may those people rot in hell -- that is of course after having met some demise so violent and so humiliating that it makes national news.
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Taxloss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-25-06 06:19 PM
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3. Snow White ... White Power
What a retard. Racist, hypocritical, bigoted and ignorant.

He's perfect for the job. The press corps will eat him.
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Canuckistanian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-25-06 06:21 PM
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4. Tony Snow writes for Stormfront?
That alone should be news, if true.
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tammywammy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-25-06 07:25 PM
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11. I don't think he writes for Stormfront
I think they took an article he wrote and then posted it on their disgusting website.

From what I see when I Googled it, it appears to me at least, that it was originally on the Jewish World Review website: http://www.jewishworldreview.com/tony/snow123199.asp

I know nothing about the Jewish World Review website.
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Kerrytravelers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-25-06 06:42 PM
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5. I took a few minutes to look at that sight and some of the links.
Now you'll have to excuse me as I have to bathe all that filth off of me and gouge out my eyes.
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Berry Cool Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-25-06 06:58 PM
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6. Is there anyone out there who has a non-biased view of what
Kwanzaa is really all about?

I myself frankly have some qualms about the origin of this holiday, at least in terms of the man who invented it. But I'm hardly a freeper or a nutcase. I'm just wondering if there's anyone out there with a dispassionate view who isn't trying to prejudice people either for or against it.
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Beaverhausen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-25-06 07:00 PM
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7. Here's my non-biased view:
If people want to celebrate Kwanzaa, they should be able to do so without anyone telling them otherwise.
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Kerrytravelers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-25-06 07:09 PM
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8. I like your non-biased view. Now if only we could get people to follow
that concept with gay marriage.
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Yollam Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-25-06 07:40 PM
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15. True. The present version of Christmas is just as "fraudulent"
Since most of its trappings were appropriated from paganism. I don't much care for Kwanzaa's origins, but I don't know how you could make it out to be anything but a positive festivity.

It seems that a lot of conservatives still long for the days when blacks had white names and white holidays foisted upon them. God forbid they have one that's uniquely their own.
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Beaverhausen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-25-06 07:56 PM
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17. Yes
This pagan agrees.

Hey, it makes no nevermind to me who wants to celebrate what holiday. Just don't tell me your holiday is better than mine!!!

:hi:
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Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-25-06 07:12 PM
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9. Wow, Snowman must really be into racism.
I'm so happy the WH team picked this racist POS as a Press Secretary. This guy will do more damage to the GOP than Jeff Gannon ever could! They both have about the same credentials and both will still fluff 'Dick' Cheney. :evilgrin:

http://www.martinlutherking.org/books.html
I won't post anything from an odious hate site, but check out their pimping of a book about Freeper hero - DAVID DUKE!
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creeksneakers2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-25-06 07:25 PM
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10. Are you sure that piece was written for that site?
Or was it just picked up by that site.

Here it is on JewishWorldReview:

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/tony/snow.123199.asp
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tammywammy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-25-06 07:27 PM
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12. That's what I was thinking
I think the Stormfront website picked up the piece from the Jewish World Review, not that Snow wrote it for Stormfront.
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creeksneakers2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-25-06 07:32 PM
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13. Sorry, you posted it first
and I didn't see it.
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tammywammy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-25-06 07:35 PM
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14. Nah, it was at the same time :)
I'm just glad I wasn't the only one thinking that.
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creeksneakers2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-25-06 07:54 PM
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16. I'm glad too :)
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DoYouEverWonder Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-25-06 08:01 PM
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18. Who is JewishWorldReview?
I did a whois search but they've got their info blocked.

I would assume they are about as legitimate as the martinlutherking site.

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DoYouEverWonder Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-25-06 08:05 PM
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19. Looks like it was picked up by at a few sites
More like a syndicated column.

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