December 24, 2008
In the days leading up the
Christmas, one couldn’t help but notice that references to Kwanzaa,
the decades-old African-American holiday that captured so many dull
minds during the Great Culture Wars of the 1990s, were almost
nonexistent. But while most black studies departments still embrace
the balkanizing principles of multiculturalism, writes Michael C.
Moynihan, the great majority of African Americans have little
interest in dressing up like Jim Brown and lighting candles that
symbolize the workers controlling the means of production.
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