Merry Happy Yule Festival of Evergreen Grain
The searches for how people get to this blog fascinate me.
My favorite this month is “Ali Brown’s New Haircut.”
Whoever is blogging about that needs a hobby…or three.
Today the husband is going to talk to a wholesale distributor for the new business and then tonight we’re going to a party at a friend’s house. All in all a produtive AND fun day – my favorite kind.
We’ve decided to put the girls back in dance and tumbling, respectively. To let them know the deed has been done and they’ve been enrolled, we’re going to buy them each a new outfit and give it to them as a Christmas present/surprise. I think they’ll be thrilled.
The most expensive presents bought so far? Books. I spent so much on books I could cry. But they’re awesome books. Some are classics, and some are newer titles. I know the girls will love them, and I truly think they’re old enough now to take care of the books the way I feel books deserve to be taken care of.
Christmas has pretty much overtaken my life. The girls came home with information aout Kwanzaa the other day and I told my mom about it. She said, “If they came out with a holiday just for white people, everyone would freak out. Besides, I’m Christian so I celebrate Christmas. I keep the Christ in.”
My response was, “First of all, you can celebrate Kwanzaa – Since you celebrate at home, I’m pretty sure no one is going to come and tell you you’re too pale to celebrate. Second, it starts the day after Christmas, so it’s not an either/or. Third, have you HEARD of St. Patrick’s Day? That may be the WHITEST holiday of the year and I don’t see African-American protesters. Just sayin’”
So my mom is thinking about celebrating Kwanzaa.
I am a rockstar saleswoman.
No white holidays. Are you KIDDING me? Post-racial America my ass. Post-racial America would see that Kwanzaa is not a religious holiday, therefore does not interfere with Christian values (don’t get me started on the utter lack of religious freedom in America) and should be, at most, ignored. There is NO REASON to start up with the “black holdiay” vs. “white holiday” bullcrap.
Just hug someone every day between now and New Year’s Day and you’ve celebrated all the winter holidays with love.
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Whenever I am faced with Kwanzaa, the first thing I do is directly ask the offering party “what IS Kwanzaa.” I know full well what it is, but most of the time the response I get is very vague. Honestly, many of the people celebrating it don’t understand that it is meaningless ritual, unassociated with any religion (and for that matter, not really associated with any African heritage beyond the surface level). It can be GIVEN meaning, like anything can, by the people who practice it, but most people I have interviewed about it don’t follow that either.
As to St Patrick’s day, white or not, at least that is a religious holiday. Of course, green beer has as much to do with the saint as Yule logs and Christmas trees have to do with Christ.
A holiday is no less a holiday for not being religion based. So I have to disagree with you on “at least it’s religious based” re:St Pats.
I guess Im just glad there’s something besides the “Big Two” winter holidays finally. Maybe we’ll get Yule coverage next year… The year after that? Who knows! There are never too many celebration options in my opinion!