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Merry Christmas!

Tue 25 Dec 2012 by abagond

Merry Christmas to all! To commenters, lurkers, trolls and even the banned!

Check out Peanut’s post on what Christmas was like for slaves in America in 1859 - a post I wish I had written.

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on Tue 25 Dec 2012 at 23:45:42 Bulanik

Thank you!!

A merry and peaceful Christmas to you, Abagond and those close and beloved.
on Wed 26 Dec 2012 at 00:02:25 mary burrell

God bless us everyone.
on Wed 26 Dec 2012 at 00:14:49 mary burrell

Happy Kwanzaa, To everyone as well.
on Wed 26 Dec 2012 at 00:24:30 King

Merry Christmas to all!
on Wed 26 Dec 2012 at 00:33:57 Bulanik

Oh, forgot to wish Merry Christmas to everyone.

(It’s already Boxing Day where I am, or St Stephen’s Day, as the Irish call it.)
on Wed 26 Dec 2012 at 00:39:17 King

^ In the U.S. we box our presents before Christmas not the day after, but whatever makes you Brits happy! Happy boxing day!
on Wed 26 Dec 2012 at 02:15:35 JensenJay

Happy Holiday’s To Everyone!!
on Wed 26 Dec 2012 at 02:18:32 JensenJay

@ adagond
have heard of a movie called D’jango Unchained? if not be sure to check it out and do a post on it i think you’ll like
on Wed 26 Dec 2012 at 02:19:38 JensenJay

sorry for typos. he-he!
on Wed 26 Dec 2012 at 02:46:19 tehnoun

Aside from freezing my ass off here in Dublin to celebrate a holiday from a religion I don’t practice, it has been a Merry Christmas indeed. I definitely enjoy seeing my family again.
on Wed 26 Dec 2012 at 03:07:01 Iris

Hope everyone enjoyed a Happy Holiday.
on Wed 26 Dec 2012 at 03:28:44 brothawolf

I’m not really in the holiday spirit, but I’ll wish everyone a Happy Holidays just the same.
on Wed 26 Dec 2012 at 06:07:04 Peanut

merry christmas abagond! awww thanks for linking to my post
on Wed 26 Dec 2012 at 07:42:05 sondis

Merry xmas abagond, Peanut, Bulanik

brothawolf, Iris , JensenJay, tehnoun, , mary burrell,and King.

abagond, why post an article about how the slaves, celebrated xmas? I don’t want to be sad or angry on xmas day!! ^_^
on Wed 26 Dec 2012 at 10:31:32 abagond

@ JensenJay

“have heard of a movie called D’jango Unchained? if not be sure to check it out and do a post on it i think you’ll like”

Yes, most certainly. If I get a chance to see it I will do a post on it.
on Wed 26 Dec 2012 at 10:35:29 abagond

@ Sondis

Well, as Peanut points out, it makes you take things less for granted. Like no one is stopping you from seeing your relatives on Christmas. Back then they could.
on Wed 26 Dec 2012 at 10:37:02 abagond

@ Bulanik

What is Boxing Day? What does the average person do on that day?
on Wed 26 Dec 2012 at 11:09:55 Dave Enamu

Why do people who you see every day( and don’t wish you anything ) only speak to you at christmas, why don’t they wish you the best at any time they meet you? Let’s be nice to each other all the time (not just at christmas ) and maybe the world (maybe I say) could be a better place. here in the U.K. it’s Wednesday so “Happy Wednesday to you all.”
on Wed 26 Dec 2012 at 11:18:35 Bulanik

@ abagond….what is Boxing Day– oh wow, the answer is not clear.

Afaik, it’s from early European Christianity where metal boxes where put outside churches for offerings, and the contents would then be distributed on Boxing Day to the poor. Boxing Day coincided with the Feast of St Stephen’s, the day after Christmas Day.

In the UK, in “olden days”, it was the day that the servants and the “labouring classes” had for themselves. They’d be given a box with goodies by the masters.

Nowadays Boxing Day is the first day of the sales. A good time to go shopping for bargains. It’s also the time for sports, football, rugby and racing especially. I think a lot of people watch telly and eat cold turkey sandwiches, etc.
on Wed 26 Dec 2012 at 15:01:16 mary burrell

@ Dave Enamu; I ask that question all of the time. It just seems disingenuous to be nice one time of the year. And go back to treating everyone like garbage the rest of the year (sigh) Happy Holidays to you.
on Wed 26 Dec 2012 at 15:07:57 mary burrell

@Legion & Bulaink; Happy Kwanzaa, Happy Boxing Day.
on Wed 26 Dec 2012 at 15:09:15 mary burrell

@Cornelia; Joyeuses fetes. Happy Kwanzaa.
on Wed 26 Dec 2012 at 15:09:57 mary burrell

@Matari Happy Kwanzaa. Be prosperous and blessed.
on Wed 26 Dec 2012 at 15:12:57 jefe

Yes, they observe Boxing day where I currently am. Happy Boxing day to all.
on Wed 26 Dec 2012 at 15:18:48 Bulanik

@ marry burrell

Miss Mary, thank you for your wishes.
The blessings and joy of Kwanzaa to you, too.
on Wed 26 Dec 2012 at 15:29:00 Matari

WARMEST REGARDS Sistah Mary !!! : ))))

… Happy (and safe) Holiday Season to all here at Abagond’s
on Wed 26 Dec 2012 at 17:10:22 Legion

Mary, Mary! Thanx girl!
Be safe, be well, be happy, be true!
Blessings to you, now and for the coming new year!!
on Wed 26 Dec 2012 at 18:19:48 Legion

Wishing everybody a happy time during this holiday season!
on Wed 26 Dec 2012 at 19:32:39 JensenJay

Thanks! Adagond.

@ Sondis, thank you. and the same to you.
on Wed 26 Dec 2012 at 20:28:26 Dave Enamu

@ Mary Burrell – Thank you and best wishes for all of the time to you.
on Wed 26 Dec 2012 at 20:33:39 sondis

Here is the petition for a black woman, to get her job back, after she was fired, for responding in a very very polite way to a racist on the stations Facebook page, that attacked the way she wore her hair in a natural way, ( none white washed ) weave or straitened..

http://www.change.org/petitions/ktbs-tv-give-rhonda-lee-her-job-back-asap?utm_source=action_alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=15814&alert_id=TmySEQXwLe_BwIYerPEAs
on Wed 26 Dec 2012 at 21:58:46 mary burrell

@Sondis, Thanks for caring about a sisiter will sign.
on Wed 26 Dec 2012 at 21:59:42 mary burrell

@Sharina & phoebeprunell; Happy holidays and keep speaking truth to power.
on Wed 26 Dec 2012 at 22:12:11 sondis

mary burrell: No problem!! we are all in this, together.

Rhonda lee today and then i’ll be mary burrell, tomorrow.
on Wed 26 Dec 2012 at 22:13:42 Bulanik

@ sondis
Signed that (and that other one you posted the other day, too, btw).

Merry Christmas to you.
on Wed 26 Dec 2012 at 22:49:52 Anne Poitrineau

@all
Joyeuses fetes, seasons’s greetings. Guranga! Been a tough year for lots of people. Bad things happened, let’s try and make 2013 better than 2012, discussing things openly here is where it starts.
on Wed 26 Dec 2012 at 22:55:53 Dave Enamu

@Sondis
Signed and glad to do so.
on Wed 26 Dec 2012 at 23:11:41 sondis

Thank you brotha dave and sister Bulanik ( thanks for signing the other one from the other day, too. ) for signing the petition, if we don’t stand up for our people, nobody else will. everyone else, feel free to sign it, when you have a free moment.
on Thu 27 Dec 2012 at 00:04:36 mary burrell

@Sondis signed the petion concerning Rhonda Lee.
on Thu 27 Dec 2012 at 00:21:14 sondis

Thank you @ mary burrell ^_^
on Thu 27 Dec 2012 at 01:11:18 Mbeti

The holidays in this world are an illusion some cling to to aviod the painful truth.
The truth is this america where we celerate at the end of the year out of love and affection for family and friends was founded hatred – hatred of anyone not white european – with minimal love for even them.

The truth is that while you may love your family and friends – others don’t
have family ,nor friends AND there are people with family and friends who still hate you and yours – and nothing but your suffering and death will satisfy them.

As I grow older to make sense of it all I try to simplify .
This season ,these holidays are about two simple things – gratitude and love.
but you can’t be grateful for hate ,now can you.

You might wonder why we persist in our hatreds and our loves – I think its because we (meaning all sapiens – my term for humans thats is not gender bais)
need them both – I know i do I need things and people that I love in order to live.
I need anger – the extreme form known as hate for those things and people the threaten and harm those that I love.

So in closing I love you abagond and I grateful for your existence.

As to the other commenters and bloggers here, some I know and love as well and I will be visting your blogs as well to express my gratitude and affection.

As to my/our foes – the less said in anger and hate the better – for we are all doomed to die.

Thank you abagond
on Fri 28 Dec 2012 at 04:13:18 Solesearch

@dave and Mary where do guys live?

I’m southern and in the south we frequently say good morning and good night or at least smile a greeting to complete strangers.
on Wed 2 Jan 2013 at 19:21:54 Crissjensen

Thanks, Sondis! for the link.
on Wed 2 Jan 2013 at 20:21:32 Sondis

Crissjensen:

You’re very welcome. ^_^

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