Merry Christmas and Happy Kwanzaa

This is my favorite Christmas video.

The only person I know who is dating a black man asked me a unique question yesterday. "What is Kawanza?" At first I thought she was joking Because I am in fact one of the whitest people known to humanity. Some people hide in the shadows, I hide behind those white Christmas trees in department stores. If Fox produced White Idol, the Simon Cowell equivalent would shed a tear for my brilliance. So in the spirit of the season here is a short lesson on Kwanzaa:

Kwanzaa is an African American and Pan-African holiday which celebrates family, community and culture. Celebrated from 26 December thru 1 January, its origins are in the first harvest celebrations of Africa from which it takes its name. The name Kwanzaa is derived from the phrase "matunda ya kwanza" which means "first fruits" in Swahili, a Pan-African language which is the most widely spoken African language.

It is:
a time of ingathering of the people to reaffirm the bonds between them;

a time of special reverence for the creator and creation in thanks and respect for the blessings, bountifulness and beauty of creation;

a time for commemoration of the past in pursuit of its lessons and in honor of its models of human excellence, our ancestors;

a time of recommitment to our highest cultural ideals in our ongoing effort to always bring forth the best of African cultural thought and practice; and

a time for celebration of the Good, the good of life and of existence itself, the good of family, community and culture, the good of the awesome and the ordinary, in a word the good of the divine, natural and social.

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays. May God bless you and your crappy blog.