n a press release Monday, Wisconsin state Senator Glenn Grothman (R-West Bend) slammed Kwanzaa, characterizing it as a “supposed” holiday and saying, “Almost no black people today care about Kwanzaa — just white left-wingers who try to shove this down black people’s throats in an effort to divide Americans.”

“Why must we still hear about Kwanzaa?” Grothman asked, according to Patch. “Why are hard-core left wingers still trying to talk about Kwanzaa?”

He also blasted what he called “irresponsible public school districts” in the state for attempting “to tell a new generation that blacks have a separate holiday than Christians.” Grothman called for the holiday to be “slapped down.”