Here We Go Again: Arizona Republican Blasts Kwanzaa As A ‘Fake Anti-American, Anti-Christian Holiday’

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A Republican senator from Arizona is reminding America that the real reason the GOP struggles to make significant progress with Black voters has nothing to do with Democratic propaganda painting the party as racist — because Republicans do a fine job of that all on their own.

Meet state Sen. T.J. Shope, who represents parts of Arizona’s Pinal, Pima and Maricopa Counties.

Last week, Shope barely let Christmas be over and done with before taking to social media to express his contempt for Kwanzaa and anyone who celebrates it, namely, Arizona’s Democratic Governor Katie Hobbs.

On Dec. 26, the first day of Kwanzaa, Shope retweeted a post from a right-wing group blasting the seven-day annual celebration as a “fake holiday invented by a criminal Marxist.” Shope added in his caption that Kwanzaa is a “fake anti-American, anti-Christian ‘holiday’ celebrated by our governor.”

So, Shope thinks Kwanzaa is a “fake” holiday despite the fact that the celebration came to be the same way all holidays did: Somebody made it up.

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