# What's the deal with Kwanzaa

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deal-with-kwanzaa/706752>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [December 9, 2014, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deal-with-kwanzaa/706752 "2014-12-09T12:39:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![Bridget\_Burke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@Bridget\_Burke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bridget_Burke)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2014, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deal-with-kwanzaa/706752/141 "2014-12-15T18:40:51Z")

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> [@BaldDudePeekskill](#):
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> Lot of interesting posts,thank you . I guess my main point with Kwanzaa is not what it represents, which is pretty cool…it’s just the timing of it all… Plenty of holidays already happening near the solstice…so a concept that could be good gets lost in the shuffle. Sort of like what happens to people who have birthdays on Christmas day…

Kwanzaa was scheduled, among other things, for the week the kids are home from school. Most of them will be celebrating Christmas, with all those Northern European Pagan trimmings. Why not have let them take a little time out to consider African & African-American cultures? The holiday was also created so Muslim African-Americans could join in with the Christians.

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