Crackers

I somewhat understand the drive for "representation" in holiday nutcrackers. Black people are going to walk past the display, and they're going to want to see themselves shown there. But for me, what this really demonstrates is a lack of basically Black stories. And so the Black community winds up having to attach itself to other people's stories.

And I understand that this, in part, is what Kwanzaa is for. It's a Winter Solstice-adjacent holiday for Black people. But I don't know that it really does the job. It has a Hallmark Holiday feel to it, and I've never met a Black person who actually celebrates it. In my own family, it never rated a mention.

And maybe that's the real problem. There isn't a push for something genuinely Black (whatever that would end up meaning) to mark this time of the year.