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that doan work eida
ANTA ANA, Calif. — A Festivus for the rest of us? A convicted drug dealer in California thinks so. He cited his adherence to the holiday celebrated on a famous episode of "Seinfeld" to get better meals at the Orange County jail.
The Orange County Register reported Monday that Malcolm Alarmo King disliked the salami meals served at the jail, so he used his devotion to Festivus as a reason to get kosher meals reserved for inmates with religious needs.
Keeping kosher is not one of the tenets of Festivus, which was depicted on "Seinfeld" as celebrated with the airing of grievances and the display of an aluminum pole.
Sheriff's spokesman Ryan Burris says King got salami-free meals for two months before the county got the order thrown out in court.
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prisoner cyaan cebrelate him Festivus religious freedom???
Amerikkka an its [<span style="text-decoration: underline">insert Illuminati reason here</span>]
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Rollin_Calf</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> </div></div>
why Kwanzaa choble you?If you don't fight for what you deserve, you deserve what you get.
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">"Part of the point of Kwanzaa, in my opinion, is to give descendants of Africa and black americans in particular, a sense of connectedness to their history, and also, something to celebrate outside of the mores of the ‘dominant’ society within which they are oppressed and share a history that it hurts to remember.
Now whether or not this sense of community and independence within the greater hegemonic culture of america has to come with middle class blacks gathering in public libraries in overpriced dashikis and patchwork kente hammerpants is up for debate. What do we make of it? Maybe it’s a starting place for greater awareness of ancestry, maybe it builds communities, brings families closer… or maybe it’s just black folks imitating their visions of a mythical and monolithic ‘african’ culture, learning token swahili words and walking around in ‘african’ garb in order to claim a history, home, and culture as their own. I mean, does this go back to the neverending issue of ‘home’ for displaced peoples, ‘culture’ for postcolonial societies, the controversial idea that black people in america and black people in africa are somehow the same…? that we are, or, at some point were, them?
I stopped celebrating Kwanzaa around the age of fifteen, when I learned that [its founder Ron] Karenga not only had a beef with the Black Panthers but also spent time in prison for torturing two black women with electrical cords, a hot iron, and some others of the master’s tools. This combined with the unsurprising fact that like many organizations at the time (inlcuding the BPP), Karenga’s cultural nationalist US Organization (United Slaves) was systematically sexist towards its female members, was pretty much enough for me to be done with Kwanzaa"</div></div>
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yeh, is a mek up ting not even real, come een jus like christmas
Although the principles of it are good.Comment
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