I DON’T!!
>>black author Jesse Lee Peterson wrote,“It is a political statement for a separate black nation & hatred against whites.”
Ouch! Cite? More info on this? Most interesting. Does Peterson have standing to say what Kwanzaa is a statement for? Or would others be justified in calling this remark an attempted hijack?
And even if racial separatism was the viewpoint of the founder at the time it was created, I’m sure that the holiday has evolved over the last 30 years or whatever, along with the evolution in race relations over that time.
It wouldn’t surprise me if some white people resent Kwanzaa because they feel “left out”, but the holiday seems very benign to me…just a way of TRYING to recreate the sense of heritage and cultural traditions that slavery obliterated for most black Americans.
Still, it seems like the vast majority of black people I know would roll their eyes at a white person who assumed they celebrate Kwanzaa, so I wouldn’t leap to conclusions about anyone celebrating it.