A Rational Explanation
I suggest there is a strong reason it has failed to become airborne. This is not your fathers Martin Luther King Day. Even a small, slow child knows the other two holidays of this season, Christmas and Chanukah, highlight victory, birth and hope. Aint no ambiguity or dispute about any of those descriptions. Conversely, the true meaning of Kwanzaa seems dense and elusive. Unlike here we go again the other two holidays, Kwanzaa is secular and blurred, perhaps deliberately. The heart of Kwanzaa fits Winston Churchills characterization of the old Soviet Union, a mystery wrapped in an enigma.
Postscript
Can Kwanzaa be saved? Should it be? Possibly a marketing genius somewhere in the heartland will emerge and judge the good ship Kwanzaa is sinking faster than Saddams lifetime magazine subscriptions. Tell me. How can a holiday founded by a cheerless, separation-minded man, timed to coincide with the party season for gang members, succeed? It isnt bad. It isnt wrong, heaven forbid. Just hollow.