“Happy Kwanzaa!” said Michael Smith, 27, to his group of friends as they gathered at the Santa Monica Third Street Promenade for their traditional Kwanzaa gathering. “I hope you all are having a, uh – furaha – Kwanzaa festival this winter season.” His friends stared at him. “Furaha means ‘joyful’ in Swahili. I Googled it.”

His friends returned the festive Kwanzaa greeting and they went off in search of some black people to wish happy Kwanzaa to, but most were confused or responded with “Merry Christmas?”

[At least Festivus doesn’t have any real capacity for virtue-signaling. — Ed]