Showing posts with label holiday. Show all posts
Showing posts with label holiday. Show all posts
Wednesday, March 14, 2007
Shamrock Day?
We've seen the liberals and secularists start turning Merry Christmas into Happy Holiday and now we have those Taliban-producing America-hating Northern Californians turning St. Patrick's Day into Shamrock Day. Handmaiden sent me the following email of a correspondence between a friend of her's from California and the local children's museum in Berkley, California.
Here is the local children's museum response:
"Thank you for your thoughtful questions about our upcoming Shamrock Day event. Our goal is to bring cultural diversity to our audience without broaching religious boundaries."
"A number of modern day celebrations have their origins in religious holidays, but have become broadly celebrated by everyone. Halloween and Mardi Gras are prime examples, and to a large extent, so is St. Patrick's Day, though certainly for many Catholics it is a true holiday (holy day) with religious significance."
"What we have tried to do at Habitot is focus on the non-religious elements of prominent celebrations with broad cultural meaning that everyone can learn from and appreciate, and avoid all particularly religious holidays like Christmas, Hanukkah, Easter or Ramadan as well as references to the religious origins of holidays. Norooz is a spring festival, not a religious one, for example."
"I think you and your family will enjoy the Irish-inspired activities we have planned for Sharmrock Day. Celtic music will be played, Leprechauns and pots of gold will abound, green will be everywhere, and these elements can help children learn about Irish culture which is our main intent, and the reason the event is named Shamrock Day and not St. Patrick's Day."
"That said, we are well aware that we need community voices like yours to advise us in our efforts to appropriately reflect diverse cultures in non-stereotypic ways, and to tell us when we haven't gotten it right!"
"I'd like to invite you to join our *"Community Connections" *advisory..." etc.
Here is the informational blurb about Shamrock Day:
Shamrock Day
The Shamrock Ceilidh Band will perform traditional Irish folk music from 11:30 am - 1:30 pm at Habitot Children's Museum's Shamrock Day celebration. There will be a hunt for hidden "gold" throughout the museum from 1:00 - 3:00 pm. In the museum's Art Studio, children can create and decorate their own green-lens glasses and print Shamrock Day cards with carved potatoes and other fun materials. Shamrock cookies and green punch will be provided at 3:00 pm.
Saturday, March 17, 2007; 10:00 - 5:00 pm
This FREE Admission Day is generously sponsored by Union Bank.
For this silly liberal link click here.
I had to Google Norooz to find out what it was so for more information about this Persian holiday click here.
Friday, December 22, 2006
Happy Kwanzaa
I'm reposting a previous entry from nearly a year ago today. First of all I would like to give full credit to Kathy Shaidle over at her Relapsed Catholic blog for penning this bit of truth. As I see our great nation battle itself in these culture wars I shiver at times to think that many good Americans of African ancestry are falling for baloney such as the false holiday named 'Kwanzaa'.
Especially when President Bush sends out a Kwanzaa message, that is the epitome of ludicrousness.
Anyways click here and here for Miss Shaidles original posting of this entertaining poem on Kwanzaa, or just scroll further down and read it here. To read the fall-out among guilty-white-liberals to Miss Shaidle click here.
...and without further delay, the entertaining and factually correct poem on Kwanzaa:
'Twas the night before Kwanzaa
And all through the 'hood,
Maulana Karenga was up to no good.
He'd tortured a woman and spent time in jail.
He needed a new scam that just wouldn't fail.
("So what if I stuck some chick's toe in a vice?
Nobody said revolution was nice!")
The Sixties were over. Now what would he do?
Why, he went back to school -- so that's "Dr." to you!
He once ordered shootouts at UCLA
Now he teaches Black Studies just miles away.
Then to top it all off, the good Doctor's new plan
Was to get rid of Christmas and p*** off The Man.
Karenga invented a fake holiday.
He called the thing Kwanza. "Hey, what's that you say?
"You don't get what's 'black' about Maoist baloney?
You say that my festival's totally phony?
"Who cares if corn isn't an African crop?
Who cares if our 'harvest's' a month or two off?
Who cares if Swahili's not our mother tongue?
A lie for The Cause never hurt anyone!
"Umoja! Ujima! Kujichagulia, too!
Collectivist crap never sounded so cool!
Those guilty white liberals -- easy to fool.
Your kids will now celebrate Kwanzaa in school!"
And we heard him exclaim as he drove out of sight:
"Happy Kwanzaa to all, except if you're white!"
(Hat Tip: Relapsed Catholic)
For an excellent critique by La Shawn Barber on Kwanzaa click here.
For my original posting click here and here.
For an ACLU holiday song click here.
UPDATED: For a great article by Ann Coulter on Kwanzaa click here.
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