Posted on 10/16/2005 7:59:59 AM PDT by Libloather
MILLION MOAN MARCH: A CLOSER LOOK AT THE SPEAKERS
By Michelle Malkin
October 15, 2005 12:21 PM
***135pm EDT update...Al Sharpton calls President Bush "evil...James Crow Jr., Esquire...broken levees are weapons of mass destruction...Our people are dying in Iraq and being drowned in New Orleans...We'll be in Baton Rouge on the 29th...this is the beginning of the regeneration of the movement for our people..."***
If you tune into C-SPAN right now, you will hear a lot of angry bloviating and blaming. The 10th anniversary of the Million M[o]an March is here and Farrakhan's fulminators have seized the day in D.C. I've just finished watching "Maulana" Ron Karenga, who fabricated the Kwanzaa holiday," and implored the attendees of the Millions More March to remember their history, fight oppression, and restore equal relations between black men and women.
Speaking of history, oppression, and damaged relations between men and women, it's worth remembering Karenga's own past. Paul Mulshine at Front Page Magzine reported on Karenga's conviction for torturing two women who were members of "US (United Slaves)," a black nationalist cult Karenga founded:
A May 14, 1971, article in the Los Angeles Times described the testimony of one of them: "Deborah Jones, who once was given the Swahili title of an African queen, said she and Gail Davis were whipped with an electrical cord and beaten with a karate baton after being ordered to remove their clothes. She testified that a hot soldering iron was placed in Miss Davis' mouth and placed against Miss Davis' face and that one of her own big toes was tightened in a vise. Karenga, head of US, also put detergent and running hoses in their mouths, she said."
Back then, it was relatively easy to get information on the trial. Now it's almost impossible. It took me two days' work to find articles about it. The Los Angeles Times seems to have been the only major newspaper that reported it and the stories were buried deep in the paper, which now is available only on microfilm. And the microfilm index doesn't start until 1972, so it is almost impossible to find the three small articles that cover Karenga's trial and conviction on charges of torture. That is fortunate for Karenga. The trial showed him to be not just brutal, but deranged. He and three members of his cult had tortured the women in an attempt to find some nonexistent "crystals" of poison. Karenga thought his enemies were out to get him.
And in another lucky break for Karenga, the trial transcript no longer exists. I filed a request for it with the Superior Court of Los Angeles. After a search, the court clerk could find no record of the trial. So the exact words of the black woman who had a hot soldering iron pressed against her face by the man who founded Kwanzaa are now lost to history. The only document the court clerk did find was particularly revealing, however. It was a transcript of Karenga's sentencing hearing on Sept. 17, 1971.
A key issue was whether Karenga was sane. Judge Arthur L. Alarcon read from a psychiatrist's report: "Since his admission here he has been isolated and has been exhibiting bizarre behavior, such as staring at the wall, talking to imaginary persons, claiming that he was attacked by dive-bombers and that his attorney was in the next cell. … During part of the interview he would look around as if reacting to hallucination and when the examiner walked away for a moment he began a conversation with a blanket located on his bed, stating that there was someone there and implying indirectly that the 'someone' was a woman imprisoned with him for some offense. This man now presents a picture which can be considered both paranoid and schizophrenic with hallucinations and elusions, inappropriate affect, disorganization, and impaired contact with the environment."
Karenga and Kwanzaa are a staple of "diversity" lessons in public schools. Shouldn't your children's teachers know the whole story? Read more about Karenga here.
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125pm EDT update. Anti-war ranter Damu Smith just spoke. He seems to have reinvented himself from his days as a Greenpeace agitator.
145pm EDT. Wyclef Jean, Howard Dean's favorite rapper, sings: "If you not scared of George Bush, you got to stand up." Calls for withdrawal of troops and sympathizes as "Father Saddam cries in prison."
10pm EDT. Jim Hoft covers the event the way the rest of the MSM won't.
Dr. Ron Karenga
Ron Karenga (born July 14, 1941), also known as Ron Everett, is an author and activist best known as the founder of the African-American holiday of Kwanzaa, first celebrated in California, December 26, 1966 to January 1, 1967. Karenga is commonly called "Maulana," which is not a name, but a title which means "master teacher" in Swahili.
Karenga was chairman of the black studies department at California State University, Long Beach from 1989 to 2002. [1] In 1984, he co-hosted the conference out of which grew the Association for the Study of Classical African Civilizations, and in 1995, he sat on the organizing committee and authored the mission statement for the Million Man March. He is the director of the Kawaida Institute for Pan African Studies, [2] and the author of several books, including his Introduction to Black Studies, a comprehensive black studies textbook, now in its third edition.
Background
Karenga was born on a poultry farm in Parsonsburg, Maryland, the 14th child of a Baptist minister. He moved to California in the late 1950s to attend Los Angeles City College, where he became the first African-American president of the student body. He was admitted to University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) as part of a federal program for students who had dropped out of high school, and received his Master's in political science and African studies.
According to the official Kwanzaa website, Karenga went on to earn two doctorates: a Ph.D. in political science from United States International University, a liberal education college with campuses in San Diego, Nairobi, and Mexico City, and another in social ethics from the University of Southern California. [3]
US Organization and the Black Panthers
At the beginning of the 1960s, Karenga met Malcolm X and began to embrace black nationalism. Following the Watts riots in 1965, he interrupted his doctoral studies at UCLA and joined the Black Power movement. During this time he took the title "maulana," Swahili for "master teacher." He formed the US Organization ("United Slaves"), an outspoken black nationalist group.
In 1969, the US and the Black Panthers disagreed over who should head the new Afro-American Studies Center at UCLA. According to a Los Angeles Times article, Karenga and his supporters backed one candidate, the Panthers another. The Black Student Union set up a coalition to try to bring peace between the groups, which ended when US members George P. & Larry Joseph Stiner shot dead two members of the Black Panthers, John Jerome Huggins and Alprentice "Bunchy" Carter. The killing was dismissed by UCLA chancellor Charles E. Young as an unrelated incident. [4]
The Black Panthers at the time accused Karenga of working with the FBI to destroy them. Recent COINTELPRO scholarship suggests there was a concerted government effort to create dissension between the two organizations, and that there were double agents within both organizations.
The US Organization disbanded in 1971 after Karenga, Louis Smith, and Luz Maria Tamayo were convicted of felonious assault and false imprisonment for assaulting and torturing two women from the United Slaves, Deborah Jones & Gail Davis. [5]
A May 14, 1971, article in the Los Angeles Times described the testimony of one of them: "Deborah Jones, who once was given the Swahili title of an African queen, said she and Gail Davis were whipped with an electrical cord and beaten with a karate baton after being ordered to remove their clothes. She testified that a hot soldering iron was placed in Miss Davis' mouth and placed against Miss Davis' face and that one of her own big toes was tightened in a vise. Karenga, head of US, also put detergent and running hoses in their mouths, she said." [6]
Kawaida and Kwanzaa
In 1975, Karenga was released from California State Prison, with his newly adopted views on Marxism, and re-established the US organization under a new structure. Two years later, in 1977, he formulated a set of principles called Kawaida, a Swahili term for tradition and reason. Kwanzaa is an adjunct of Kawaida. Karenga called on African-Americans to adopt his secular humanism and reject other practices as mythical (Karenga 1977, pp. 14, 23, 24, 27, 44-5).
Central to Karenga's doctrine are the Nguzu Saba, the Seven Principles of Blackness, which are reinforced during the seven days of Kwanzaa:
Umoja (Unity) – To strive for and maintain unity in the family, community, nation and race.
Kujichagulia (Self-Determination) – To define ourselves, name ourselves, create for ourselves and speak for ourselves.
Ujima (Collective Work and Responsibility) – To build and maintain our community together and make our brother's and sister's problems our problems and to solve them together.
Ujamaa (Cooperative Economics) – To build and maintain our own stores, shops and other businesses and to profit from them together.
Nia (Purpose) – To make our collective vocation the building and development of our community in order to restore our people to their traditional greatness.
Kuumba (Creativity) – To do always as much as we can, in the way we can, in order to leave our community more beautiful and beneficial than we inherited it.
Imani (Faith) – To believe with all our heart in our people, our parents, our teachers, our leaders and the righteousness and victory of our struggle.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Karenga
Thank you for this information. I will use it to try and fight the inclusion of Kwanzaa as a "holiday" that is celebrated in my daughter's public school. Yeah, I know, good luck, but it's worth a try.
Just for the record I did not receive my Ph.D from the "United States International University" which I can only assume is not an accredited institution of ANY learning and is probably a Communist front. Shame on USC!
And what do they have in common? They were both commies.
In the US they have a right to honor, follow or prey to a ham sandwich, as long as it is not hurting anyone.
I prey on ham sandwiches all the time. I don't pray to them, however.
We watched it last night. I thought the same about the people who were paying attention. I don't think most people there were. I thought it was pretty unwhelming.
btt
They are definitely defining themselves -- one of the principles of Kwanzaa.
Dude - WTF are you talking about? The late Sen. Gaylord Nelson was the founder of earth day. While I'm not so enamored of Nelson or earth day, he was no murderer. Who are you talking about?
Earth Day is also V.I. Lenin's birthday. I think the poster got confused.
And, also, king got himself shot-up in 1968 - that's the kind of thing that can completely ruin your life when it happened years before you were born(!).
I was watching these idiots on the news last night, After all, the media just loves to create, then fan the flames of these "news" events they create, and watch them bloom into riots and destruction. Creating news, that's how MSM operates today.
It's a shame, and an insult to all those who gave from the heart to help these people caught in a natural disaster, only to be called racists.
These three lunatics are a danger to the entire nation. They are creating racism, Nothing but death is going to come from the actions of these evil men..
I was referring to Ira Einhorn. Earth Week Committee now denys it but there are numerous pictures of him speaking at the event.
If you're talking about Ira Einhorn, he wasn't really the "founder" of Earth Day. It was just one of his self-important lies.
Other than that, he was just a lying, murderous, scum who took advantage of women and lived in France with the blessing of the usual anti-American French.
The whole "march" seems to have been a non issue. I almost laughed when I saw the local paper mentioned it in a tiny article on the same page as the death notices! It said thousands turned out. What happened to the millions more? LOL.
They deny it now. But then..?
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