Word: kwanzaa
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...hand, and the Black solidarist or Afrocentrist sector on the other hand, my attention was immediately drawn to articles in The Crimson on the Black Students Association's (BSA) unfortunate invitation to Professor Tony Martin, whom I consider a xenophibic Afrocentrist and also to the BSA's proposed Kwanzaa Rituals celebration ("Martin Speaks at BSA Event," news story, Dec. 2, 1994; "Martin Speech Tests Hillel-BSA Relationship," news story, Dec. 2, 1994; "BSA to Hold Its First Kwanzaa Celebration," news story...
...letter, Kilson labeled Martin's speech and the proposed BSA Kwanzaa celebration as "cathartic responses or symbolic rebellious responses to racist patterns in American society...
Instead of focusing on Afrocentricism and the "symbolically stirring and solidaristically glamorous" Kwanzaa Rituals celebration proposal, Kilson said there is a "mature way of managing the trauma of persistent racist victimization of Black folks in American life...
...letter, Clarke defended the holiday, saying that "Kwanzaa is the penultimate expression of formalized African-Diasporic significance in America...
Kilson also said Clarke and BSA Treasurer Joshua D. Bloodworth '97 "clearly nurse a strong appetite for Black-solidarist catharsis and its high-symbolic and emotive forms represented by Kwanzaa Rituals celebration...