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Originally Posted by Steven Tyler
You misspelled Hanukkah and Kwanzaa.
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Sorry to have spelled Chanukah the way the Jewish people do, not the Americanized way that you do in order to keep from mispronouncing it.
As for Kwanza or Kwanzaa, here are the facts. Note the bolded sentence:
"In 1966, KWANZAA was created by a young visionary living on the west coast who was also the founder and chairman of the Black Nationalist Organization. Dr. Maulana Karenga, a trained political and cultural scientist and a participant and theoretician of the Black Liberation Movement, postulated that significant and meaningful Black movement in the U.S. was improbable, if not impossible, without a cultural component (base). He felt that at the base of any movement must be the cultural imperative that give the people a clear and precise sense of "idenity, purpose and direction."
KWANZAA is derived from the Swahili word, KWANZA which means first fruits and is part of the phrase Matunda Ya. Dr Karenga added the extra "a" to distinguish the Afro-American from the African. The idea and conceptions of KWANZAA developed out the system of social and political thought of Kawaida (Tradition and Reason), also developed by Dr. Karenga."
Source of quote - Afrocentricnews.com