{"id":1785928,"date":"2022-12-24T13:33:15","date_gmt":"2022-12-24T18:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1785928"},"modified":"2022-12-24T13:33:19","modified_gmt":"2022-12-24T18:33:19","slug":"happy-shwanza-pelosi-draws-social-media-mockery-after-flubbing-african-american-holiday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/happy-shwanza-pelosi-draws-social-media-mockery-after-flubbing-african-american-holiday\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Happy Shwanza\u2019: Pelosi Draws Social Media Mockery After Flubbing African American Holiday"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><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%2Fhappy-shwanza-pelosi-draws-social-media-mockery-after-flubbing-african-american-holiday%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=1785928&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--><p>Outgoing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/dont-bother-me-pelosi-snaps-at-reporter-who-dares-to-ask-whether-shell-finish-her-term\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">House Speaker Nancy Pelosi<\/a> drew social media mockery Friday after wishing a \u201chappy shwanza,\u201d presumably to those who celebrate Kwanzaa, in her remarks following passage of the omnibus spending bill.<\/p>\n<p>In what Pelosi said would likely be her last speech as speaker, she botched the name of the holiday, established in 1966 and celebrated by many African Americans. The 82-year-old California Democrat is poised to relinquish her gavel after Republicans took back the House majority in the November elections.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI yield back the balance of my time and wish everyone a happy, healthy, and safe New Year,\u201d she said. \u201cHappy Holidays. Merry Christmas. Happy Shwanza. Happy Hanukkah.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Pelosi ends her final speech as Speaker of the House by wishing everyone a Merry Christmas, Happy Hannukah and a &#8220;Happy Shwanza&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3NQBbhNJF5\">pic.twitter.com\/3NQBbhNJF5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDailyWire\/status\/1606363195496595482?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 23, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kwanzaa is a celebration of African-American culture that is observed from Dec. 26 to Jan. 1, culminating in a communal feast called Karamu. It was created by Maulana Karenga, an African American who was born Ronald McKinley Everett and became a civil rights activist before serving prison time for imprisoning and torturing two women he claimed were plotting against him.<\/p>\n<p>Pelosi\u2019s flub sparked ridicule on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNancy Pelosi Wishes Everyone a \u2018Happy Shwanza\u2019\u00a0 Absolutely embarrassing,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wisniewskidan99\/status\/1606668594988949507?s=20&#038;t=N4763GyyKKJ5JB7IicydYQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tweeted Daniel Wisniewski<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWTF is Shwanza?\u201d asked the popular Twitter account Clown World.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTruth be told, Pelosi\u2019s an idiot with power,\u201d added conservative radio host Mark Levin.<\/p>\n<p>Pelosi errant holiday wish came after the House passed the 4,155-page, $1.7 trillion spending bill over the objections of House Republicans and conservatives in the U.S. Senate. Critics complained that the bill is loaded with pork projects.<\/p>\n<p>The bill includes $858 billion in defense funding as well as $772.5 billion for non-defense \u201cdiscretionary programs,\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.appropriations.senate.gov\/imo\/media\/doc\/HIGHLIGHTS%20DOCUMENT%20FY%2023.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to a summary<\/a>. Another $45 billion in aid to Ukraine is included, as well as billions in earmarks, or pet projects for lawmakers including $1.2 million for \u201cLGBTQIA+ Pride Centers,\u201d $477,000 for the Equity Institute in Rhode Island \u201cto indoctrinate teachers with \u2018antiracism virtual labs,\u2019\u201d and $3 million for the American LGBTQ+ Museum.<\/p>\n<p>The bill also provides funding for a new FBI headquarters, designation of a federal building in San Francisco as the \u201cSpeaker Nancy Pelosi Federal Building,\u201d and $3.6 for a \u201cMichelle Obama Trail\u201d in Georgia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Outgoing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi drew social media mockery Friday after wishing a \u201chappy shwanza,\u201d presumably to those who celebrate Kwanzaa, in her remarks following passage of the omnibus spending bill. In what Pelosi said would likely be her last speech as speaker, she botched the name of the holiday, established in 1966 and celebrated &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":729,"featured_media":1785931,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[6962,7975,3645,4123,6202,10903,11650,4142,7496,4188,4699,3928,11591,5127,6195],"class_list":["post-1785928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-the","tag-african","tag-after","tag-american","tag-daily","tag-draws","tag-flubbing","tag-happy","tag-holiday","tag-media","tag-mockery","tag-pelosi","tag-shwanza","tag-social","tag-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1785928","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\/729"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1785928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1785928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1785931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1785928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1785928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1785928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}