Damn You, Kwanza!
Because some people just really resent that they can’t say the N word anymore, they have to find other ways to be a son of a motherless goat.
Wisconsin state Senator Glenn Grothman (R) has launched a new war on Kwanzaa, claiming it is a fake holiday invented by racist radicals who want to “divide America.”
Kwanzaa is a holiday celebrated by “left wing nuts” because “they don’t like America and seek to destroy it.”
Kwanza Expert Glen Grothman
I guess now would not be the time to remind Glen Grothman that Kwanzaa is celebrated on the 7 principles of unity.
Grothman is also resentful that he can’t say chick or gal anymore. In supporting Scott Walker’s repeal of the equal pay law …
A Republican lawmaker in Wisconsin has an eyebrow-raising theory for the chasm between men and women’s salaries: Men care more about money.
Do you want to know why that is? Of course you do.
“Take a hypothetical husband and wife who are both lawyers,” Grothman told the website. “But the husband is working 50 or 60 hours a week, going all out, making 200 grand a year. The woman takes time off, raises kids, is not go, go, go. Now they’re 50 years old. The husband is making 200 grand a year, the woman is making 40 grand a year. It wasn’t discrimination. There was a different sense of urgency in each person.”
And if you’re a single woman with a family or a man who wants to help raise his children, then you are seriously screwed up and probably voted for the Kwanza.
Thanks to Dan in Wisconsin for the heads up.
He seems to know a lot about women considering he’s not married and still lives with his mother.
1@Mike: Kinda explains everything, doesn’t it?
2And of course he has a Santorum label on him which speaks many more volumes louder than living at home with his Mommy.
3And he’s a patriot – you know because of the necktie (that’s keeping the foreskin from covering his head…)
4Oh Tony! I’M laffin 😀
5An old white guy making inaccurate statements about something he doesn’t understand. How novel.
6you might like checking out the creator of Kwanzaa’s response. http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2013/01/03/kwanzaa-creator-says-wisconsin-gop-senator-has-issues-for-bashing-holiday/
What amazes me is Grothman’s belief that this 46 year-old tradition is somehow part of a current leftist conspiracy for divisiveness.
of course, he is probably thinking it is part of the war on Christmas, since he ranted on teaching that “blacks have a separate holiday than Christians.”
He could use an extra-helping of the Kwanzaa principles. Personally, I may be white, but I consider Kwanzaa for anyone wanting to focus on such a wonderful celebration of what makes us better as a whole.
7Isn’t there a truce in the War on Christmas once the holidays are over?
8Another entry in the (usually GOP) “Everybody Should Think Exactly As I Do” sweepstakes….
What sad, narrow-minded little people.
9I’m starting to think that GOP politicians have to fail a literacy test to run..
10Tony, consider that stolen!
11Well said…AND…from a woman who was a certified teacher in Texas, after MI and IN, and stayed home to raise the kids, and never got to retire from teaching, my TOTAL SS income is 458 a month. Out of that comes my 104 required for Medicare, my 45 for Plan D, and my supplemental of 157. SO my total income from SS after deductions is a underwhelming 150 dollars. BTW, it is 7 dollars LESS than last year’s because the COLA was more than taken up by the raise from 97 to 107, plus Plan D going up 6, and supplemental up 8. Oh, my husband is a retired Texas teacher…who gets just under 20K a year from TRS…
12I don’t even know what to say other than Tony said it best!
13Do not let him procreate…
14@grannygrey50, as a Texas teacher myself, I understand exactly what you’re saying; this state so completely undervalues our teachers and then sentences them to lifetimes of struggle at best. (I’m betting your teaching salaries didn’t give you a lot of income you could even afford to invest in retirement accounts, whatever those are.)
I got lucky; my TRS will pay well enough to keep my head above water for a while (I’m at a university), but with a PhD, I still get paid less than administrative assistants (secretarial types) in my department. Blessings on you and your husband for trying to be part of the solution.
15Take heart JJ & al. This clown is from my state. You’re not alone. I believe he represents the West Bend area of Wi. That’s about 45 min. from Milwaukee, where most people of color live in the state. He’s probably never been there. It would be a totally different world for him.
16Since we value people in dollars consider this: The Commissioner of Baseball is paid $20 million a year to lead 27 owners and 940 major league ball players baseball, all grown men, almost all more than millionaires at least five times over.
Now ask yourself how much we pay a teacher in Selma Alabama (or Austin, Texas)?
To paraphrase Kennedy or whoever said it first. Life is not even close to fair.
17Those who celebrate Kwanzaa are welcome to do so, but I encountered Maulana Karenga when he was Ron; somebody asked him what white people could do to further the cause, and his reply was “Commit suicide.” Now, “maulana” is a title denoting a great teacher. You don’t confer it on yourself, as he did. Looking at his history of run-ins with the law, I cannot respect this man.
18There’s a War on Kwanzaa? Alert Fox!
19Senator Declares War on Christe Missa
In Rome today, Senator Heddis Upisassus, ascended a platform in the Forum in front of the Temple of Vespasian and spoke passionately on the holiday of Christe Missa, recently appointed to occur on the same day as the feast of Sol Invictus.
“Here we stand,” Heddis declaimed, “MC years after the founding of Rome. MC years, I say, almost to the day. And where is Rome now? In Constantinople! Where are our old gods? Being ground to rubble. This new sect, this Christianity, has now become the state religion, thanks to the poppy-induced dreams of our late, unlamented Constantinus, and the meddling of his mother. Why, he wasn’t even Roman. He was a SERBIAN!
“And now, the XXV-th day of Decembris, long celebrated as the day when the Sun God conquers the darkness and begins his long journey back to glory, has been usurped by a Jewish carpenter born in a stable?
“It’s a made-up holiday invented by zionist radical reformers bent on destroying the glory of Rome.”
20What does Grothman have to pay folks to get elected?
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