What are appropriate Kwanzaa gifts?
My black neighbor came and gave me a Christmas present. It was a basket filled with goodies for Christmas! I thought I would show him how I was tolerant of different cultures, so the next day I went by his place and gave him a gift. When he answered his door, I said Happy Kwanzaa! and gave him a watermelon. It does not seem very happy. Watermelon is a suitable Kwanzaa gift. I want to be tolerant of different cultures?
yes good gift because historically all black PPL celebrate Kwanzaa, and those who celebrate Kwanzaa have always loved the great man of watermelon from Zimbabwe. if ur tryin to be funny, u shouldn't really do it here, its hard to tell. and if u arent go fcuk ur mom.
As I am on hold waiting to get through, dude goes on in a conversation about how this is to hold black people back is not society but the cultural things like giving our children "names Ethnic and not achieving in school.He goes on this rant about how when he was in school, they bus in from these "black children" (mind you Dude is black) and they were teased about carrying books home and being "white." Then he said that his daughter is dealing with the same thing at his private school. His comments were along the lines of "these children into a prestigious private school and I met children like her daughter, but too white has nothing to do with their success in school (later).Then he continues to ask his guest, the elderly woman if she is concerned about what will happen to his neighborhood when they begin the construction of "affordable" housing. He asks her if she'll be upset when adolescents begin to come and steal the downtown and hanging on the 
Free & Cheap in New York: Fri., Jan. 6Enjoy the Three Kings Holiday Celebration, a Mexican event where kids get gifts. Get in the spirit by donating new unwrapped presents for the wee ones; they will go to tykes undergoing treatment at the Children's Hospital at Montefiore.
Brenda Clarke, dressed in traditional African attire, led her community through their first Kwanzaa celebrations. Over 70 African-Nova Scotians from around the Digby area took part in the seven nights of Kwanzaa festivities this year.and more »
