WI Lawmaker Says Kwanzaa Is A Fake Holiday For People Who Hate America
By Samantha Abernethy in News on Jan 3, 2013 4:00PM
"Of course, almost no black people today care about Kwanzaa — just white left-wingers who try to shove this down black people's throats in an effort to divide Americans," said Wisconsin State Sen. Glenn Grothman.
Grothman (R-West Bend) put out a press release titled, "Why Must We Still Hear About Kwanzaa?" late last week in which he said public school districts that teach students about Kwanzaa are "irresponsible."
Waring Fincke, left-wing West Bend lawyer and vice chair of the Washington County Democratic Party, encouraged people to learn more about Kwanzaa in a column in July. Fortunately, almost all black people ignore Waring Fincke and his ilk and their efforts to divide Americans.But why do they do it? They don't like America and seek to destroy it by pretending that its values as expressed in the Declaration of Independence and our Constitution, don't apply to everyone. Mainstream Americans must be more outspoken on this issue. It's time it's slapped down once and for all.
Grothman finishes by saying, "Be on the lookout if a K-12 or college teacher tries to tell your children or grandchildren it's a real holiday." Read the full release at the bottom of this post.
If the name Grothman sounds familiar, you might remember him from when he introduced a bill to classify single parenthood as child abuse. He and another Wisconsin lawmaker even suggested abusive relationships are preferable to single parenthood. Grothman also introduced the law to repeal Wisconsin's Equal Pay Enforcement Act, saying "money is more important for men." Faux-conservative funny-man Stephen Colbert dubbed Grothman a "lady hero" for that gem.
This isn't the first time Grothman has declared war on Kwanzaa. In December 2003, Grothman wrote an editorial titled, "What Is Kwanzaa?" in which he writes:
The left wants black Americans to consider themselves different from the rest of America. Hallmark sells Kwanzaa cards. The Post Office sells Kwanzaa stamps. The rest of us should treat Kwanzaa with the contempt it deserves before it becomes a permanent part of our culture.
Grothman's Dec. 9, 2003 editorial is available here [PDF]. Read his Dec. 28, 2012 press release below.