Correct Link - Ever feel like this may have been prophetic?
Posted on 12/27/2010 8:55:57 AM PST by WOBBLY BOB
History lesson, bears repeating...Posted on 1/10/02 1:42 AM Pacific by JohnHuang2:
...There are few holidays we can actually attribute to one man’s vision. Kwanzaa is such a holiday – coined by Ron Karenga in 1966.
Who was Ron Karenga?
Glad you asked.
He is a convicted felon – sentenced five years after inventing Kwanzaa for torturing two black women by whipping them with electrical cords and beating them with a karate baton after stripping them naked. He placed in the mouth of one of the victims a hot soldering iron, also scarring her face with the device. He put one of her big toes in a vise, and detergent and running water in both of their mouths.
But that wasn’t the beginning of the bizarre and violent behavior of Karenga, the patron saint of Kwanzaa – not by a long shot.
Just about the time he was dreaming up this new holiday, he was also inventing a new political movement on the campus of UCLA. That movement was called “black cultural nationalism.” His group was called United Slaves. And it was defined mainly by violent confrontations with the Black Panthers at UCLA. Two of his followers shot dead two members of the Panthers in 1969.
But no sooner did Karenga get out of prison on the torture charges in 1975 than all was forgotten about his criminal and violent past. He was proclaimed Saint Karenga. Four years later, he was running the Black Studies Department at California State University in Long Beach.
How did he get that job in academia with his record?
Glad you asked again.
Paul Mulshine, who has done an admirable job of chronicling Karenga’s history for FrontPagemag.com, has a theory.
Karenga had a jailhouse conversion.
No, he did not become a born-again Christian. He did not renounce violence. He did not even repudiate his past. But he did become a Marxist.
And, while becoming a Christian might have disqualified him for a role in the world of the modern U.S. university, a conversion to Marxism was perceived as a sign of rehabilitation. The one-time psychopath had seen the light.
In conclusion, I hope this little cultural and history lesson helps you see the light – about Kwanzaa. It’s being taught to your kids in your government schools. It’s become a commercial bonanza in black communities through the United States. And, now, even the president of the United States is praising it as a legitimate holiday.
Good grief. What’s wrong with America?
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now that is funny, right there
More info on Kwanzaa:
When and where created
Kwanzaa was created in 1966 by Dr. Maulana Ron Karenga, who is the leader of the Black nationalist cultural group US, and also professor and chair of the Department of Black Studies at California State University, Long Beach. He is an author of several books, some which are quoted throughout this site such as: Kwanzaa: A Celebration of Family, Community and Culture and Kawaida Theory.
Kwanzaa is a seven-day holiday that was created by Dr. Karenga, a fact he does not deny. He doesn’t claim that it’s from another country or continent, but is an American-made celebration. He makes this clear in one of his earlier books titled: Kwanzaa: origin, concepts, practice. Dec. 1977:
“...I did not mean to suggest in any way that Kwanzaa was a continental African holiday rather than Afro-American one. On the contrary. I have always stressed that although Kwanzaa has some historical roots in Africa, it is essentially a product of the particular social conditions and self-determined needs of the Afro-American people.” p 12.
What “Kwanzaa” means
The word “Kwanzaa” itself is man made. It is derived from the swahili phrase “matunda ya kwanza” which means first fruits. Karenga’s history has it that the extra “a” was added to represent the seven children that were a part of his organization, (US Organization) as each child wanted to represent a letter of Kwanzaa. (Kwanzaa: A Celebration of Family, Community and Culture, pg. 108.)
The Kwanzaa celebration consists of seven days to celebrate seven principles (the Nguzo Saba), with emphasis on one principle a day. The seventh day culminates in a feast, patterned much like the first-fruits celebrations of ancient Africa. There are activities such as the pouring the libation for ancestors, lighting of candles, raising names of ancestors (also referred to by many as “ancestor worship” - discussed more in detail later), and gift-giving.
Purposes
“It was designed to unite and to strengthen African communities.” Kwanzaa: A Celebration of Family, Community and Culture, p. 108
In spite of attempts to make this celebration multicultural, Kwanzaa was clearly created with the intention of this being a “Black Only” cultural event. This would explain stories regarding white parents of black children who have been banned from entering Kwanzaa celebrations (”White Mother Unwelcomed at Black Gathering,” San Francisco Chronicle; San Francisco, Calif.; Dec 29, 1993).
Those who understand the true purpose of Kwanzaa understand that is was intended only for those of African ancestry. Notice the use of the following quote from Dr. Karenga who speaks of Whites as the “dominant society:”
“...it was chosen to give a Black alternative to the existing holiday and give Blacks an opportunity to celebrate themselves and history, rather than simply imitate the practice of the dominant society.” p. 21 Kwanzaa: origin, concepts, practice
Karenga clearly created this holiday for Blacks but has softened his “Black only” stance somewhat when in his 1997 book of Kwanzaa, twenty years later he says the following:
“Kwanzaa is clearly an African Holiday created for African peoples. But other people can and do celebrate it, just like other people participate in Cinco de Mayo besides Mexicans; Chinese New Year besides Chinese; Native American pow wows besides Native Americans.” p. 110, Kwanzaa: A Celebration of Family, Community and Culture
The Nguzo Saba
(The Seven Principles Of Kwanzaa)
Unity, Self-determination, Collective Work and Responsibility,
Cooperative Economics, Purpose, Creativity, and Faith
Because Kwanzaa was built with the intention of unifying the Black Family, Karenga created a set of moral principles to which Kwanzaa is centered upon. The following is a quote from his 1977 book on Kwanzaa:
“The Nguzo Saba are in fact, the matrix and minimum set of values by which Black people must order their relations and live their lives, if they are to liberate themselves and begin to build a new world and a new people to inhabit it.” p. 40. Kwanzaa: origin, concepts, practice
Dr. Karenga shows more evidence of his desire to create not only just a 7-day holiday, but a way of life complete with principles to be followed daily. The Nguzo Saba will be examined more closely on the following web pages, revealing the meaning of each principle.
http://christocentric.com/Kwanzaa/whatiskw.htm
The Airing of Grievances is a VERY American tradition, as is the display of Feats of Strength, far more so than the anti-American redistribution of wealth.
Indeed. What is wrong with us? And God forbid one should speak out about the truth of this fraudulent “holiday,” in this nation strangled by “political correctness,” another term coined in - gasp - a communist nation.
I live in Bizarro America. Please wake me up from this nightmare.
People around the world celebrate the fake American holiday? I don't think so.
Correct Link - Ever feel like this may have been prophetic?
To be honest, I would let her light my kinara.
because those silly old Ten Commandments are so outdated and incomprehensible...
George and Laura Bush fell for this crap and sent out kwanzaa greetings to America, more than once.
Response: We deserve these clowns as their existence will help us atone for our sins of the last forty years.
kwanzaa greetings don’t end at the border.
There,fixed it!
“Ever feel like this may have been prophetic?”
Real close man, real close.
I’m almost there, Ask me again in two years and I’ll know for sure. If it is for the worst then, my philosophical outlook on certain things is going to adapt and shift greatly. I can no longer emotionally invest in this nation anymore and my motivations are going to become far more self centered. Watching her drink poison willingly and smile about it is becoming extremely painful to watch and seems almost nothing can be done about it. The new congress had better fight, half efforts will do nothing be re-elect the destructor in chief to finish the job.
LOL!
Detroit really is that bad? Yikes.I hope I never wind up there!
I am waiting for this fake holiday to end up in the ash heap of history along with PC and Global Warming. Its coming—sooner than many might think. If Kwanzaa was real it would be for all people not just blacks.
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