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  • 0:36 Everybody hates Chris!

  • @WahidahFowler thankyou someone who understands

  • kwanzaa is not a holiday its a celebration because it isn't religious. its about celebrating our heritage and furthering our love for ourselves and other african americans. its not extreme, it isnt about hate, and this video was great. It can be as simple as sitting around a table and talking about each day with family, as my family has done for years, or more traditional with special clothing and ceremonies. lighten up people.

  • Since loving and appreciating ourselves brings out such hateful reactions, I'm more sure than ever that celebrating KWANZAA is important and valuable.

  • Their hearts were in the right place. Karamu is on the 7th day. It was nicely done.

  • Ok. Just wow. I came to watch a simple video and I see all these hateful comments. If you all dislike the holiday then don't watch a video whose title is "Sesame Street: Kwanzaa." You all act like this video was forced upon you. Secondly, I bet half of you don't even know why you celebrate Christmas. Do you even go to church or do you just wait for presents to arrive under your Christmas tree? It's called culture people. The holiday educates people on their past and prepares them for the future.

  • wow anti white because they can't stand to share the same holiday as us, and ripping off the jews holiday. Suck it ass holes

  • Kwanzaa is a fake holiday...it was invented by a radical black supremacy in the late 20th century. It is celebrated by approximately 20,000 people in the united states every year, which is about 1/5 the amount of pagans that celebrate the winter solstice in the united states every year.

  • Kwanzaa? The VAAAAAAAAAAAAST majority of African Americans do not celebrate this fake holiday.

  • @wabawoba You forget one thing about an African harvest. africa has no food.

  • @wabawoba Most African slaves sold were enslaved by their own people.

  • @Killerthewolfdog the oldest kid is the star of Everybody Hates Chris.

  • The far,far leftist SS celebrates the anti-White made up holiday of kwanzaaaaaaa.Typical communist garbage and hate Whitey propaganda. Heil SS

  • @Bronxloyalist There is absolutely nothing in the celebration that says to hate anybody. We can celebrate whatever we want to.

  • that chicken shot was dead wrong lol!

  • This video was wonderful. It is terribly sad how much racism is directed towards Kwanzaa (just by reading some of these comments I am disgusted). Why is it that America's media only wants to see negative depictions of African Americans? There is nothing wrong with someone celebrating their ancestry especially if their ancestors built this country through their blood, sweat and tears.

  • @WahidahFowler I totally agree. The racist comments merely show a twisted obsession with black people. You will notice that these same commenters search out many videos with black people in them, and make hateful remarks. They sweat us, envy us, and secretly desire us. It's evident by their own words. They hate themselves for it, so try to prove their dislike by showing how much of a lower level thinker they can be on youtube videos...sad, but true. Great observation though.

  • @nocturne1980 Oh man...what the hell are you sniffing? Dream on.

  • Beautifully made video.

  • america is not a white people country, why does i always have 2 see racist comments, on videos where people are not snow color and have blue eyes,? does jesus tells you 2 be racist,? couse i know that america have a lot of problems with extremist in the us, pls answer?

  • @richard199522 Well first of all. Techinacally it is a white country since it is predominately white and has the same such values of old europe. Second of all your spelling sucks, it took me a second to understand what you were saying. Third of all don't put Jesus into the equation since your pagan made up religion was the actual racist one since the extremist blacks couldn't stand celebrating a holiday with whites.

  • @79pensacola how many indians did your grandpa kiled

  • kwanzaa can suck my left nut.

  • CHRISSS!!!!!

  • Just took a kwanza and it was nice and dark brown just like a jijaboo

  • If some folks want to celebrate Kwanzaa, then that's their right. But I just read this years article on ROOT about Kwanzaa and one of the interviewees said it was more important than CHRISTMAS. See now thats what makes people look stupid. Christmas celebrates the birth of Jesus Christ...Kwanzaa is a made up celebration that did not even exist til 1966 when an AfroAmerican teacher started it. Its ok to be open...but there is no excuse for stupid.

  • @tjbollman1 How is that stupid? If someone esteems Kwanza more than Christmas, that is their right. Perhaps they are not Christian or they simply like that holiday better. How is it Christian to call someone stupid over this? I'm sure Jesus couldn't care less about which holidays people prefer. In fact I'm positive that Jesus is more concerned with how we treat each other versus holidays. I'm not coming from a bad place, just making an observation. Peace.

  • @nocturne1980 NO, you were NOT making an observation, you were bullying and making a judgement. That's fine if thats how you get tickled, but lets call a spade a spade,huh? I stand by my comment in reference to the Neanderthal who was stupid enough to think that the fake holiday made up by a rabid racist in 1966 is more important than the birth of Jesus Christ over 2000 yrs ago. And youre a walking idiot if you do. If you dont stand up for something, you'll fall for anything. Looks like you did.

  • This holiday is racist... the candle are the colors of the pan african movement. 

  • "People think it's African, but it's not. I came up with Kwanzaa because black people in this country wouldn't celebrate it if they knew it was American. Also, I put it around Christmas because I knew that's when a lot of bloods (blacks) would be partying."

    - Ron Karanga.. Inventor of Kwanzaa

  • @MrLockmandan bullshit @ the fake quote.

  • Kwanzaa= a bogus holiday invented by a radical black separatist and convicted felon who believed that black people shouldn't celebrate a "white man's holiday". So he took some african sounding words and added some good sounding principles and mixed them together and created yet another phony holiday for blacks to separate themselves from the rest of the world and boast their racial pride in everyone's faces..

  • Em São Paulo, Brasil comemoramos o Kwanzaa pelo 4º ano consecutivo e a comunidade tem apreciado esta comemoração afro-diaspórica!

  • Keep pressing 6 for racism...

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  • Kwanzaa is a made up bullshit holiday practiced by former slaves who being disenfranchised with their former opressors turn to a snake oil salesman who was convicted of beating a woman with a toaster. In the words of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, "Know who you are to be black."

  • @Killerthewolfdog

    So does that mean the are acting? I guess SS could not find anyone who celebrates Kwanzaa

  • Kwanzaa is a poor excuse at trying to celebrate a forgotten African culture.

  • 1:13 fried chicken

  • wtf isn't that just a menorah?

  • Kwanzaa is such a lovely cultural holiday. Gotta love a celebration of heritage. Course, that's the nephew of post-aztec medicine man talking

  • @Killerthewolfdog oh it's him

  • 0:30 KILL IT!!! KILL IT!!! KILL IT KILL IT KILL IT KILL IT KILL IT!!! STRANGLE IT TO DEATH!!! CUT IT'S CLIT OFF WITH A PAIR OF RUSTY SCISSORS LIKE THAT CUNT CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG IN ANTICHRIST!!!

  • That's the kid from ...ever one hates chris

  • JOLLY KWANZA EVERYONE!!!

  • Words like "responsibility", "collective work", "cooperation" & "purpose" are used, which is what some members of the African-American community (as well as ALL other people) need.

    Remember that Christmas itself is a holiday with strange origins, it's a mixture of Germanic pagan, pseudo-Christian & Mithraic ideas, sex rites, epic battles between Norse gods, a drunken carnaval in medieval England; yet its sanitised version now teaches us the meanning of family & goodwill.

  • look even idols in the house, aliens

  • It seems fun and love.. But nothing compares to Christmas joy!

  • im celebrating kwanzaa this year cuz santa always forgets me :(

  • Awww t.j williams is so cute

  • Enjoy our Kwanzaa celebration song and dance!

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  • Oh yeah just steal from the Jews... like they havent gotten enough stolen from them

  • @LYFE2Short You're talking about African-Americans here... who were bought or kidnapped and enslaved, mixed with other tribes who didn't speak their language and had their WHOLE culture and history stolen from them, they've had to start again, so they have to start somewhere...

  • Pinche abuela hipster!, la madre donde ponen la comida del 0:11 se parece al tapete de mi casa

  • Go do some research on the history of Kwanzaa. Some of it will make you sick, like what the founder, Dr. Karenga did to a couple of his female followers.

    Also, there's a lot of inaccuracies like 1. use of Corn, (not indigenous to Africa), 2. Harvest. (Who harvests in December?) 3. Swahili - (Came from East Africa-most slaves came from the West)

  • @Iansdaddy9 I do agree with you about the dubious origins of Kwanzaa and its cultural hotch-potch of ideas, but then again, Christmas itself is a mixture of Roman Sol Invictus, Germanic pagan, Anglo-Saxon pagan, Christian and Mithraic beliefs, and many of the people involved in its founding were not the most saintly of characters.

    Also you must remember that Kwanzaa is NOT an African celbration but African-American. The presence of corn is therefore not so damning.

  • @Iansdaddy9 The African-Americans were taken from their lands & separated from their indigenous cultures so they've had to invent or re-invent a culture from scratch. As they were taken from various tribes in West Africa, they tend to have less of a connection to a particular area in West Africa & more of an attachment to the entire continent of Africa. They therefore inauthentically mix many cultures from all over.

  • @Iansdaddy9 One more point, the December harvest is found all over sub-equatorial Africa, the climate is different there. I believe that this particular feature of Kwanzaa was taken from the Ncwala first fruits harvest festival celebrated in late December in Swaziland which is in the southern hemisphere (therefore equivalent to a Mediterranean late June).

  • Get this video@ kwanzaalights -com while they last

  • 1:10

    There is absolutely nothing traditionally African about that meal.

  • @19andoverlol It's not an African holiday so it shouldn't it be an African meal... It's an African-American holiday which is not the same. There is pan-African and Jewish symbology there...

  • To EVERYONE , this was befofe he was on Everybody Hates Chris , everyone has to get their start . Thumbs Up this so people could see this .

  • don't you think they copied the menorah and the 7 candles thing from the Jews?

  • @xprofessorelliot Yes, the Menorah of Judaism has become a representation of Jewish lamentation and sorrow.

    The African-American man who invented this holiday probably picked up on that & used it in a similar way as a symbol of rising up after the devastation of what many people call the "African Holocaust".

  • Its chris! Tyler James Williams

  • chris and his brother look sooooo cute

  • 2:00 chicken

  • scripted....

  • Everybody Hates Kwanzaa!

  • NO YOU DON'T! Nor does anyone else.

  • kwanzaa is a joke holiday invented by a racist marxist black radical fbi stooge

  • @chucknob What's so threatening to you about a holiday celebrating the black community and their shared experiences? Have you actually ever attended a public Kwanzaa celebration?

  • 1:13 Even stereotypes happen in kid shows.

  • check out the official Kwanzaa Song

  • I think Kwanza is okay, am a black from Kenya though am worried about the spiritual implications. Blacks have a right to come together just as everyone does.

  • Kwanzaa was created by a racist ex black panther in the 60's who also beat two black women. He also claims Christmas and the like were a "white people" holiday even though many races celebrate it. It's all black theology and typical black power bullshit. If a white guy did the same, people who whine about it being racist. Funny how double standards work.

  • @KaraniKun Black people were also kidnapped, enslaved, had their language, culture, and history stolen, worked to death, exploited, discriminated against, and generally brutalized. I think they deserve a holiday celebrating the black community, regardless of what you think about Ron Karenga.

  • @unclebanana boo fucking hoo. So many other cultures have had it MUCH worse than blacks ever had. How about the Jews? Russians under Stalin? Christians in the Middle-East? Get over yourself. The slaves were freed 150 years ago and you STILL complain about it. No one is alive today who was there during that time. Shut up and try to actually do something instead of complaining about the past.

  • @pantherfan17 None of the groups were ever owned outright en masse as chattel, or property, at least not within the last 500 years. The legacy of slavery, racism, and discrimination as experienced by the black community has had a lasting effect that cannot be readily dismissed.

  • @unclebanana *None of the groups you mentioned

  • @unclebanana you are such an idiot. So because black people were owned, that is MUCH worse than the MILLIONS of Jews murdered simply because they were Jewish. Or the MILLIONS murdered under Stalin? People like you are why racism is still alive, you continue to bring up the past that NO one today or 50 years ago was alive to experience.

  • @pantherfan17 Hitler murdered millions of Jews, yes. How many black folks do you suppose died in the slave trade? I don't know for certain, but I've read estimates in the 400 million range. So if you want to talk numbers, we could 'go there.' That notwithstanding, what Hitler or anybody else did (or does) does not excuse one of history's greatest crimes against humanity.

  • @unclebanana deffinetly not 400 million

  • @unclebanana Are you really that stupid? You're saying that no other group but blacks in history have been slaves in the past 500 years? You know the word "slave" is derived from "Slav", right? The Slavs are white ethnic groups in the balkans who were taken as slaves en masse by the Turks right up until the 19th century.

    Also, the white Europeans bought slaves off black Africans. And when Liberia was created and blacks repatriated there, they immediately enslaved the native Africans.

    Boo hoo.

  • @chucknob Even if any of it is true, it doesn't excuse the massive kidnapping and enslavement of black people, who were used as forced labor to assist in the building of this country. As a result of this heinous abominable crime against humanity, black people in the US were robbed of their history, culture, and language, as well as placed in poverty and subjected to widespread discrimination.

  • @chucknob the word "Welsh" means slave in 9th century English, the word "robot" means slave in Czech, but where words come from have no bearing on the present situation.

    However, no matter how bas the African Slave Trade was, and however much it should not be forgotten, black people should not use slavery as an excuse for any present situations. Zwanzaa, although a holiday with a strange genesis (like most holidays) seems a positive way to remember and teach.

  • i'm a proud black woman and I will never let my children watch seseme street again! what a sackreligious holiday

  • @tuddyfruity4 Just how exactly is it "sackreligious"?

  • Yes, everyone must assimilate and be judged by faceless commenters on the validity of one's chosen holiday celebration.

    Seriously?!

    You could just as easily have your holiday mocked and torn down in a calm, factual manner.

    For example, the mindless consumerism that is now "Christmas" for most people.

    But I should know better than to read comments; they're too often made by miserable people with closed minds and loose keyboards...

    If you don't like it, don't watch it.

  • @silvermoonmama Not exactly. There are fairly solid historical, cultural, and religious foundations for Christmas. Kwanzaa is simply based on separatism and pseudo-culturalism.

  • @otnomnoraa Christmas is a syncretic appropriation of European pre-Christian rituals/festivals concocted by the Roman Catholic Church.

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  • o haha fried chicken

  • this is a bullshot made up holiday to be different. Black folks want they say to e together yet invite bogus holidays to seprate themselves

  • @heyazzhole Blacks had their language, history, and cultural identities stolen from them when they were kidnapped, and enslaved. The only way for them to have a holiday celebrating their community and shared experiences is through innovation, i.e. 'making up' a holiday. This 'made up' holiday by the way, dates back to 1966, so it's been around for almost 50 years.

  • Fraudulant.

  • tyler james williams from everybody hates chris

  • 1:12 lol

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  • is that the kid from "Every body Hates Chris", how old is this? 0:37 pause it and tell me what you think?

    Btw Happy Kwanzaa!

  • kwanzaa is just the black version of hannuka

  • kind of a bullshit holiday, honestly...

  • @QuitePossiblyANinja Oh, so the black community needs your approval before it can have a holiday celebrating it and its shared experiences? I'll be sure to let them know.

  • dont get pissy. they can do whatever they want. but i feel like just because theyre black doesnt mean that they would be celebrating their african heritage. im irish and english, and all i celebrate is St. Patricks Day

  • @QuitePossiblyANinja You should celebrate St. George's Day too, it could be fun for you... Wear a red rose, fly the English flag (thats the red cross, NOT the British Union flag), sing "Land of Hope and Glory", have some afternoon tea with friends, do some Morris dancing, sing "Green and Pleasant Land" (aka. Jerusalem), go to an English pub in your area and have a right old drink up. 23 April...

  • one of them looked like an arab

  • @tsXGrimReaper and mac n cheese

  • ha

  • doesnt it seem a bit racist that the boy gets his own drum?

  • Kwanzaa is great because it just marginalizes these people even more.

    LOL what a tragic group of assholes.

  • lol fried chicken

  • Kwanzaa, Black Hanukkah, but without that cool back story about the Maccabees.

    UNITY!

  • @frstypuffpow9790 what do you do to celebrate each day? i am planning a kwanzaa celebration of my own and looking for ideas.

  • Ummmm....wanna go to KFC and buy a 20 pack for the family?

  • is that chris from everybody hates chris ? :D

  • @MisxMarie Yeah I thought the same thing that is him I forgot he said him and his brother was on sesame street when they were little lol

  • @MisxMarie Yep, is it he cute, and that's his real family too!

  • @MisxMarie there're both cuties!

  • @MisxMarie

    haha. it is!

  • @MisxMarie yes

  • Fried chicken and mac n cheese were staples in the east African diet in the 1780's!

  • To all these pathetic low lifes that slam Kwanzaa, we don't care.

    You can go and a head celebrate wothless 25th, but Kwanzaa from the 26th to the begnning of the New Year, that's totally fine by me.

  • Christmas is totally bogus because what it's getting you and I to do is to buy into falsehood of bringing peace and love and to idolize the evils of our oppressors.

    Kwanzaa gets our people to know about each other, to acknowledge about their roots as well as their principals and to unite and to make a sense about our times of focusing onto each other.

  • I'd sooner celebrate festivus .

    This is why I don't let my kids watch Sesame Street . Soon they will do a segment on Harvey Milk day .

  • every body hates chris ♥♥

  • @SirensSongful Actually it is spelled חנוכה ;-)

    I saw it spelled more than two different ways. I guess as long as you can approximate hard 'H' sound - you are ok.

    Also, note how they call their candle holder: "Kenora". And Jewish original one is called "Menora".

  • @sergey58us Um....kinara is the Swahilii word for candle-holder.

  • If I'm not mistaken the older kid I'd Chris from everybody hates Chris and lol they're eating fried chicken! Gotta love niggers

  • Kwanza was created around 1953 by a black professor who thought that Africans deserved there own Channukah/Christmas. Kwanza isn't even a real Afrcan word, he made it up. A little history(:

  • @vcheerful12 Kwanza is a swahili word all the words used are Swahili; the language is my mother tongue.

  • Really?? So they practically jack channakuh...sorry if i didnt spell it right, then they are eating fried chicken??? Dear god, stereotypes attack!!!!

  • is it me or does the older brother look like chris from every body hates chris?

  • Haha chomo kiss and the end

  • I just notice Hanukkah and Kwanzza have almost the same candle holder only one has 7 and the other has 8. One has different candles the other one the candles stay the same.

  • that fried chicken and mac and cheese looked great

  • Kids, don't be sucked in by this propaganda film.  Watch Charlie Brown Kwanzaa instead. Much better.

  • 1:13 AHA! There it is! Kwanzaa just wouldn't be complete without it!

  • This holiday has nothing to do with Christmas (except for happening same time of year), it was "borrowed" from Jewish holiday called Chanukah. Watch this to see the original: /watch?v=1JFnfGcc720

    I guess the idea was (1) to water down Chrismas by making everybody celebrate something on Dec 25, as well as (2) to water down Chanukah - lets everybody light same candles.

    I don't think this is really about black people. If it was - they could find something real in Black history to celebrate.

  • @sergey58us Isnt it "Hanukkah?"

  • hahaha! MANN fried chicken

  • The kid is sooo cute!

  • Explain how this is racist? It's just a family getting together and celebrating life and teaching their children good examples.

  • Kwanzaa is such a beautiful holiday. It's such a great concept. I wish everyone celebrated it.

  • What the hell is Kwanzaa

  • I hate how everything is all of the sudden a race issue. Idk if it started out as a bad cult or not, time has changed and it's all about family now, I'm pretty positive christmas isn't all as innocent as it's made out to be.

  • omg its Tyler James Williams !

  • Kwanzaa is now getting recoginized, because the truth has be revealed what it is really about.

    Kwanzaa is about African people and the African family and nothing else and it isn't like Christmas in anyway whatsoever.

    Kwanzaa is a seven-day African family celbrating time of togetherness.

  • This makes me sick to my stomach, involving children in this racist, hypocritical fake holiday which, by the way was MADE UP by a man who abused two of his cult followers years ago. Yeah, that's someone I would want to follow. Wake Up.

  • @Iansdaddy9 Kwanzaa isn't a religeous holiday. It's not fake and even if it was racist in its original intent. (Which it doesn't seem to be) people certainly arent offended by it.

  • wow such a racist and fake holiday

  • why dosent us whites have a holiday

  • @sk8er1028 ... You gaiz have the rest of the year as a holiday |D

    Btw Kwanzaa doesn't exist.

  • no one realized this was a fake video till 10 years later

  • idk, to me kwanza is sorta racist. its created so that black would be separated from everyone else. it was created by some radical. theres nothing wrong about celebrating christmas

  • LOL, Chris! I was wondering if it was him by just seeing the small image in the thumbnail pic. That tune sounds familiar...did Sesame Street use that little song often?

  • You guys do know that Kwanzaa was invented by the Black Panthers?

  • Hey that's Tyler James Williams from EVERYBODY HATES CHRIS!!! Awww he was so little.

  • LOL they had fried mac n' cheese and fried chicken! I wonder if they were stashing the watermelon under the turbans?

  • @psphacker2131 haha, thats SO funny.

  • where do u think they stole that fruit basket?

  • @cactuschris2002 Seems like you're trying to troll. TROLL FAIL

  • omg that was everybody hates chris. still lookin like he doing something wrong

  • hey the kid from everybody hates chris

  • so sad young children being brian washed by there parents with all this crap about Kwanzaa pagan holiday crap

  • @ralpheboy94: Worse than pagan, Communist. The "seven principles" are straight from Chairman Mao.

  • @ralpheboy94 its not a religious holiday sugar... look it up before you judge. thx.

  • Haha, everybody hates chris lol

  • fried chicken and mac & cheese as the kwanzaa feast lol! looks like kfc did the catering.

  • Looks so fake

  • @ecthelion2005: Because it IS fake.

  • Look at this fony crap! lol

  • After they light the 4th candle, everyone goes out and steals some rims

  • @cactuschris2002 That's so rude. You don't say that about Christmas; don't disrespect.

  • i know that song they are playing in this video. they play it at nigerian parties. i doubt these people have ever been to Africa....