{"id":1157723,"date":"2021-12-26T14:04:21","date_gmt":"2021-12-26T19:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1157723"},"modified":"2021-12-26T14:04:23","modified_gmt":"2021-12-26T19:04:23","slug":"joe-biden-celebrates-peace-unity-and-joy-of-kwanzaa-in-a-statement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joe-biden-celebrates-peace-unity-and-joy-of-kwanzaa-in-a-statement\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Biden Celebrates &#039;Peace, Unity, and Joy&#039; of Kwanzaa in a Statement"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjoe-biden-celebrates-peace-unity-and-joy-of-kwanzaa-in-a-statement%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1157723&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/AAA-1-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">President Joe Biden extended Kwanzaa greetings on Sunday to people celebrating the holiday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs we begin the seven days of Kwanzaa, Jill and I send our best wishes to everyone celebrating,\u201d Biden wrote on social media. \u201cMay this time of reflection on the rich heritage of African American culture bring peace, unity, and joy.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">As we begin the seven days of Kwanzaa, Jill and I send our best wishes to everyone celebrating. May this time of reflection on the rich heritage of African American culture bring peace, unity, and joy.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 President Biden (@POTUS) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/POTUS\/status\/1475126705278828555?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 26, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CX84EWlNg16\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\">\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Black nationalist activists <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/27502744\">created<\/a> and promoted the Kwanzaa holiday in the 1960s.<\/p>\n<p>President Bill Clinton was the first American president to recognize the Kwanzaa holiday in a statement in 1997. Subsequent presidents have recognized Kwanzaa in official White House statements, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2018\/12\/26\/donald-trump-issues-statement-kwanzaa-2\/\">including<\/a> President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Biden also extended well wishes for the holiday after he won the 2020 election.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-video\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=884847868981875\" data-width=\"640\">\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/joebiden\/videos\/884847868981875\/\" class=\"fb-xfbml-parse-ignore\">\n<p>Jill and I send our heartfelt wishes to everyone celebrating Kwanzaa. We hope these days of reflection on the seven principles and the rich heritage of African-American culture bring peace, unity, and joy.<\/p>\n<p>Posted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/7860876103\">Joe Biden<\/a> on Saturday, December 26, 2020<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cWe hope these days of reflection on the seven principles and the rich heritage of African-American culture bring peace, unity, and joy,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>In 2020, then-Vice President elect Kamala Harris also celebrated Kwanzaa in a special video posted on social media.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Our Kwanzaa celebrations are one of my favorite childhood memories. The whole family would gather around across multiple generations and we\u2019d tell stories and light the candles. <\/p>\n<p>Whether you\u2019re celebrating this year with those you live with or over Zoom, happy Kwanzaa! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/21bzGHZpYe\">pic.twitter.com\/21bzGHZpYe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KamalaHarris\/status\/1342871544683327488?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 26, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden extended Kwanzaa greetings on Sunday to people celebrating the holiday. \u201cAs we begin the seven days of Kwanzaa, Jill and I send our best wishes to everyone &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1157723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1157723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1157723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1157723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1157723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1157723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1157723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}