Edited sentence: " The Kwanzaa  Information Center also notes that the flag "has become the symbol of devotion for African people in America to establish an independent African nation on the North American Continent.A seven-branch candle holder was not used in African traditions.Kwanzaa appropriated its candle holder from the Jewish Menorah.Kwanzaa supports Black separatism.Lawrence Scholer writing in the Dartmouth Review:.Says the official Kwanzaa Information Center: "red, or the blood, stands as the top of all things.Still, some charge that the holiday and its official black, green, and red flag promotes racial separatism and violence.To match the seven principles of Kwanzaa the seven-branch candle holder, a symbol of Judaism was adapted for this purpose according to William Norman Grigg.We lost our land through blood; and we cannot gain it except through blood.We must redeem our lives through the blood.Without the shedding of blood there can be no redemption of this race