Word: kwanzaa
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...know how black jelly beans agree," remarked Texaco treasurer Robert Ulrich, who is now retired. To which Lundwall replied, "That's funny. All the black jelly beans seem to be glued to the bottom of the bag." Ulrich complained about a demand from black workers for recognition of Kwanzaa, the black holiday, saying, "I'm still having trouble with Hanukkah." In one especially offensive passage, Ulrich carped that "niggers" were causing too much trouble. Tellingly, not one of the participants objected to the tone or substance of the talk. That, says psychologist Andrew Hacker, author of Two Nations: Black...
...Christian students are usually offered celebrations in honor of Hanukkah (an extremely minor Jewish holiday) or Kwanzaa as substitutes for the red-and-green pageantry of Christmas; they are simply not the same thing. To prevent Harvard from becoming a markedly Christian institution, we must eschew religious decorations in public spaces altogether...
This year's board "touched on all parts of thespectrum from politics to economics," says Clarke,specifically mentioning the Bell Curveprotest and a job fair held for BSA members, aswell as Harvard's first Kwanzaa celebration...
...president cited the Roxbury mural project and the children's Kwanzaa celebration last December as "two really good examples of events where you don't need on-going [support or] training...
...enough, relative to the immense problems of the Black community," Kilson adds. "You don't fill this need and solve these problems with ritualistic and cathartic processes like the Kwanzaa celebration...