Case #36: Video

[19centconstable]

[George looks very sorry to have to admit this, but:]

I thought that was a rather lovely trip, but I still don't understand what Kwanzaa is.

Comments

[thebestnose]

You know more than me. I still don't know what any of them are. But I do know there are more than one!

[19centconstable]

More than one what?

[thebestnose]

Holidays!

[19centconstable]

Oh, well yes. Of course. They're year-round.

[expectremorse]

...Kwanzaa?

That's what you had to deal with?

[19centconstable]

Not exactly: it doesn't begin until the 26th, apparently.

[expectremorse]

....Fuck. I don't even know what that is.

[19centconstable]

It's Boxing Day.

[championoftime]

It's a holiday meant to bring African Americans closer together as a community by representing several of the harvest celebrations of their ancestors.

It's another holiday meant to bring people together, this one created in the 20th century after an unfortunate riotous incident, where the sense of family and personal ideals was necessary.

Anything that draws attention away from violence and hostility is quite a beautiful sentiment, really.

[19centconstable]

Ah!

But...why not simply celebrate Christmas?

[championoftime]

Well, for one, not everyone is Christian nor wishes to acknowledge it commercially. For another, it's well timed. Why should it interfere with Christmas if they did wish to celebrate it? One can celebrate more than one holiday.

[19centconstable]

But then why doesn't everyone celebrate both Christmas and Kwanzaa?

[strangehstorian]

It's an adaptation of an African harvest festival, celebrated from Dec- Oh!

The Doctor seems to have covered it.

[19centconstable]

It's quite alright. Some of it remains over my head, I'm afraid.

[strangehstorian]

Well, all I know about it I read in the Encyclopedia Britannica.

[19centconstable]

I wasn't aware they made those in dragon size.