Democrats offering bizarre “Kwanzaa” greetings are getting slammed on social media for their efforts to pander to racial tensions in America, using a non-religious holiday that dates back to 1966 and U.S. Marxism and Black Nationalism.
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot and her spouse, Amy Eshleman, offered Kwanzaa greeting by video, reported the Daily Mail.
“Joyous Kwanzaa, Chicago!” Lightfoot said in a video shared online. “The seven principles of Kwanzaa guide us to unity and cooperation as we work to uplift and protect our neighbors.”
“How many people were shot this weekend,” asked @anthony_leach_ sarcastically of Lightfoot on Twitter.
Three of those Kwanzaa principles—unity, collective work and responsibility, and cooperative economics—draw heavily on Marxist ideas about common ownership of property, which is appropriate because the creator of the holiday was, in fact, a Marxist.
“People think it’s African. But it’s not,” Kwanzaa creator, M. Ron Karenga, told the Washington Post in 1978.
“I wanted to give black people a holiday of their own,” he said. “So I came up with Kwanzaa. I said it was African because you know black people in this country wouldn’t celebrate it if they knew it was American.”
Vice President Kamala Harris was blasted for creating an entirely false memory about growing up with Kwanzaa traditions in her childhood.
“Our Kwanzaa celebrations are one of my favorite childhood memories,” Harris, who was born in 1964, tweeted, saying the family would light candles and tell stories for the made-up holiday.
“Might be the most epic pandering I’ve ever seen from a politician,” tweeted one user of the Harris claim.
“Most black Americans do not celebrate kwanzaa. Kamala pretending she speaks for black culture is insulting,” said another user, who apparently is black.
Another user reminded everyone of the time that Harris was portrayed as Asian-American.
— S.C. Evans (@LadyCie) December 25, 2021
Similarly, President Joe Biden was mocked for tweeting this Kwanzaa greeting: “May this time of reflection on the rich heritage of African American culture bring peace, unity, and joy.”
“The black people who didn’t vote for you… are they allowed to celebrate Kwanzaa?” said one Twitter user, riffing on Biden’s claim that real Black people couldn’t vote for Trump.
