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As an African American and Pan-African holiday celebrated by millions throughout the world African community, Kwanzaa brings a cultural message which speaks to the best of what it means to be African and human in the fullest sense. Given the profound significance Kwanzaa has for African Americans and indeed, the world African community, it is imperative that an authoritative source and site be made available to give an accurate and expansive account of its origins, concepts, values, symbols and practice. Caption and Image Credit: officialkwanzaawebsite.org
Kwanzaa – The Phony, Non-Christian Holiday
Not my words but words and assessment based upon the facts laid out by Ann Coulter in a recent article.
What is most striking about the audit trail of facts on Kwanzaa is that our culture even gives this Marxist/Socialist, SLA template (yes, that SLA – Symbionese Liberation Army/Patty Hearst), hate based, FBI/CIA fomented promotion of a separatist agenda when, in fact, we are ALL Americans.
Funny, not even Barack Obama or his political operatives bothered to mention that this 1966 invention even existed. Maybe one of the positive fallouts to the election of Barack Obama as president is an end to what was once a ground swell holiday celebration, heavily promoted by the media just a few short years ago.
This excerpted and edited from Human Events -
My Triumph Over Kwanzaa!
by Ann Coulter - 12/24/2008
This year, I believe my triumph over this synthetic holiday is nearly complete. The only mentions of Kwanzaa I've seen are humorous ones. Most important, for the first time in eight years, President George Bush appears not to have issued "Kwanzaa greetings" to honor this phony non-Christian holiday that is younger than I am.
It is a fact that Kwanzaa was invented in 1966 by a black radical FBI stooge, Ron Karenga, aka Dr. Maulana Karenga. Karenga was a founder of United Slaves, a violent nationalist rival to the Black Panthers and a dupe of the FBI.
In what was probably ultimately a foolish gamble, during the madness of the '60s the FBI encouraged the most extreme black nationalist organizations in order to discredit and split the left. The more preposterous the organization, the better. Using that criterion, Karenga's United Slaves was perfect. In the annals of the American '60s, Karenga was the Father Gapon, stooge of the czarist police.
Despite modern perceptions that blend all the black activists of the '60s, the Black Panthers did not hate whites. They did not seek armed revolution. Those were the precepts of Karenga's United Slaves. United Slaves were proto-fascists, walking around in dashikis, gunning down Black Panthers and adopting invented "African" names.
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Whether Karenga was a willing dupe, or just a dupe, remains unclear. Curiously, in a 1995 interview with Ethnic NewsWatch, Karenga matter-of-factly explained that the forces out to get O.J. Simpson for the "framed" murder of two whites included: "the FBI, the CIA, the State Department, Interpol, the Chicago Police Department" and so on. Karenga should know about FBI infiltration. (He further noted that the evidence against O.J. "was not strong enough to prohibit or eliminate unreasonable doubt" -- an interesting standard of proof.)
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Now we know that the FBI fueled the bloody rivalry between the Panthers and United Slaves. In one barbarous outburst, Karenga's United Slaves shot to death Black Panthers Al "Bunchy" Carter and Deputy Minister John Huggins on the UCLA campus. Karenga himself served time, a useful stepping-stone for his current position as a black studies professor at California State University at Long Beach.
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Kwanzaa itself is a nutty blend of schmaltzy '60s rhetoric, black racism and Marxism.
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When Karenga was asked to distinguish Kawaida, the philosophy underlying Kwanzaa, from "classical Marxism," he essentially explained that under Kawaida, we also hate whites. While taking the "best of early Chinese and Cuban socialism" -- which one assumes would exclude the forced abortions, imprisonment of homosexuals and forced labor -- Kawaida practitioners believe one's racial identity "determines life conditions, life chances and self-understanding." There's an inclusive philosophy for you.
Coincidentally, the seven principles of Kwanzaa are the very same seven principles of the Symbionese Liberation Army, another charming invention of the Worst Generation. In 1974, Patricia Hearst, kidnap victim-cum-SLA revolutionary, posed next to the banner of her alleged captors, a seven-headed cobra. Each snake head stood for one of the SLA's revolutionary principles: Umoja, Kujichagulia, Ujima, Ujamaa, Nia, Kuumba and Imani -- the exact same seven "principles" of Kwanzaa.
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Liberals have become so mesmerized by multicultural nonsense that they have forgotten the real history of Kwanzaa and Karenga's United Slaves -- the violence, the Marxism, the insanity. Most absurdly, for leftists anyway, is that they have forgotten the FBI's tacit encouragement of this murderous black nationalist cult founded by the father of Kwanzaa.
This is a holiday for white liberals -- the kind of holiday Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn probably celebrate. Meanwhile, most blacks celebrate Christmas.
Kwanzaa liberates no one; Christianity liberates everyone, proclaiming that we are all equal before God.
"There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus" (Galatians 3:28).
Not surprisingly, it was practitioners of that faith who were at the forefront of the abolitionist and civil rights movements.
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Three cheers to the passing fancy of Kwanzaa and its lack of compassion toward ALL humanity.
We, at MAXINE, hope you all had a Merry (and compassionate) Christmas and have hopes for a Happy New Year in 2009!
Edmund Jenks
Los Angeles, California, United States
René
New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
Jawa Lunk
East Tawas, Michigan, United States
tikun
Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel
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Columbia, South Carolina, United States
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at 11:13 on December 28th, 2008
Ed
Thanks for the story. I do think that African-Americans are trying to find a place to celebrate African Heritage. Many Africans adopted Christianity as their faith during slavery but they wondered how Christians could have slaves to begin with. This is an attempt to have someting of their own...I am not sure I have a big problem with it... your article did show some issues that I will take in my continiued assessment of the holiday.
at 11:26 on December 28th, 2008
We're not worried about marxians anymore. However this celebration got started doesn't matter, it has a hopeful community message and gets people reflecting on some of the better things.
at 11:48 on December 28th, 2008
"Each snake head stood for one of the SLA's revolutionary principles: Umoja, Kujichagulia, Ujima, Ujamaa, Nia, Kuumba and Imani -- the exact same seven "principles" of Kwanzaa."
Exactly what part of African tribal culture does the SLA represent and stand for.
Look, if people want to bring forward and celebrate their heritage from the country's their families originate - FINE, I'm in.
Please do not paint the lives and aspirations of people with the SLA, United Slaves, or the most leftist politics of the Democrat Party (for that matter) and presume to call it a celebration of African cultures.
at 18:18 on December 28th, 2008
It might be an error to refer to the Democratic party as liberal. It is more liberal than the Republican party, but that's likely not saying much. Just as we more left complain that we were sold out in the last two years by a Democratic House and Senate so could you complain that your smaller government fiscal conservative stances were betrayed by the same bodies when your people ruled them.
I think the national parties represent us in much the same way that the upper eschelon of the UAW represents its workers - that is to say they spout loads of happy crappy nonsense then work to enrich and entrench themselves.
But then maybe I am just bored, bitter and old. That has been suggested before...
at 19:28 on December 28th, 2008
All points in this present day are absolutely correct.
The loyal opposition is just marginalized through betrayal (within the Republican Party), the Fourth Estate, academia, and George Soros (and now, taxpayer) money.
Don't be bored, bitter or old ... keep you chin up, eyes forward, and your heart filled with the knowledge of freedom.
at 15:01 on December 29th, 2008
Hey, we've all been betrayed by both sides. How many elected officials, no matter their party, truly represent their state's people? This is supposed to be a Constitutional Republic, is it? Especially when there are so many who want to throw the constitution under the bus.
I am offended by your referral to 'your people', as if their were separate populations in the US. Oh, forgot, there are: legal and illegal.
at 14:52 on December 29th, 2008
I'll bet Ayers and his Dorn take part in this SLA 'holiday'. kinda an oxymoron tho. What's holy about it?