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'Reparations Sunday' [December 29] Tied to Kwanzaa Celebration
Mississippi Clarion Ledger ^
| December 29, 2002
| Jimmie E. Gates
Posted on 12/29/2002 1:19:42 PM PST by ewing
Discussions of reparations for descendants of black slaves will merge today with the celebration of the African-American holiday of Kwanzaa.
The Mississippi Reparations Committee is scheduled to have a program from 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM today at the Medgar Evers Community Center at 3159 Edwrds Avenue in Jackson.
The event is billed as 'Reparations Sunday.'
The program is part of the seven days of the annual community Kwanzaa celebration that began Thursday and ends New Years Day.
Descendants of black slaves deserve to be compensated for crimes committed against their ancestors, reparation advocates across the country say.
(Excerpt) Read more at clarionledger.com ...
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Mississippi
KEYWORDS: 2004campaign; jesse; kwanzaa; reparations; reverendal
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Calling Trent Lott to lobby for votes!
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posted on
12/29/2002 1:19:42 PM PST
by
ewing
To: mhking; Trueblackman
ping
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posted on
12/29/2002 1:25:19 PM PST
by
ewing
Comment #3 Removed by Moderator
To: ScottBuck
Well, Trent Lott sure gave in and look what happened!
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posted on
12/29/2002 1:26:23 PM PST
by
ewing
To: ewing
Should Americans of Egyptian desent pay reparations to the Jews?
Comment #6 Removed by Moderator
To: ScottBuck
When lawyers and activists get into that ol' Holiday Spirit, look out!
Saw a cartoon the other day...some TV show was promising to celebrate Kwanzaa with a typical African-American family...if they could find one that celebrates Kwanzaa.
To: ScottBuck
40 years of the civil rights industry That wasn't an industry, was it?
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posted on
12/29/2002 1:52:12 PM PST
by
TopQuark
To: ewing
For those who always have their hand out,IT NEVER ENDS!This whole thing is so phoney,these people could care less about their ancestors.
To: TopQuark
Sure it was. And senior stock holder was Jesse Jackson. He made more from that industry than any other.
Kwanzaa: A holiday from the FBI
Posted: December 24, 2002
3:30 p.m. Eastern
© 2002 Universal Press Syndicate
Trent Lott, call your office: Apparently some parts of American history can be sanitized and forgotten. Earlier this week, President George Bush issued a formal White House proclamation celebrating Kwanzaa.
Sounding like a "Saturday Night Live" send-up, Bush praised the "seven principles" of Kwanzaa, "known as Nguzo Saba," and discussed the "early harvest gatherings called 'matunda ya kwanza,' or first fruits." He included the usual claptrap about how Kwanzaa celebrates "traditional African values" and "uniting people of diverse backgrounds and beliefs."
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. 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, blowing away Black Panthers and adopting invented "African" names. (That was a big help to the black community: How many boys named "Jamal" currently sit on death row?)
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. (He further noted that "the evidence was not strong enough to prohibit or eliminate unreasonable doubt" an interesting standard of proof.) Karenga should know about FBI infiltration.
In the category of the-gentleman-doth-protest-too-much, back in the '70s, Karenga was quick to criticize rumors that black radicals were government-supported. When Nigerian newspapers claimed that some American black radicals were CIA operatives, Karenga leapt in to denounce the idea publicly, saying, "Africans must stop generalizing about the loyalties and motives of Afro-Americans, including the widespread suspicion of black Americans being CIA agents."
By now, there is no question that the FBI fueled the bloody rivalry between the Panthers and United Slaves. In one barbarous outburst, Karenga's United Slaves shot Black Panther Al "Bunchy" Carter 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.
Kwanzaa itself is a lunatic blend of schmaltzy '60s rhetoric, black racism and Marxism. Indeed, the seven "principles" of Kwanzaa praise collectivism in every possible arena of life economics, work, personality, even litter removal. ("Kuumba: Everyone should strive to improve the community and make it more beautiful.") It takes a village to raise a police snitch.
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" I'm not making this up "early Chinese and Cuban socialism," 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 Least-Great 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: Umojo, Kujichagulia, Ujima, Ujamaa, Nia, Kuumba and Imani precisely the seven "principles" of Kwanzaa.
With his Kwanzaa greetings, President Bush is saluting the intellectual sibling of the Symbionese Liberation Army, killer of housewives and police. He is saluting the founder of United Slaves, who were such lunatics that they shot Panthers for not being sufficiently insane all with the FBI as their covert ally. It's as if David Duke invented a holiday called "Anglica," and the president of the United States issued a presidential proclamation honoring the synthetic holiday. People might well stand up and take notice if that happened.
Kwanzaa was the result of a '60s psychosis grafted onto black community. Liberals have become so mesmerized by multicultural nonsense that they have forgotten the real history of Kwanzaa and 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.
Now the "holiday" concocted by an FBI dupe is honored in a presidential proclamation calling it a "holiday that promotes mutual understanding." A movement that started approximately 2,000 years before Kwanzaa leaps well beyond merely "promot(ing) mutual understanding" to say we are all equal before God. It is so inclusive, people get mad at it. That movement is also celebrated this week. But the Christian leaders at the forefront of the abolitionist and civil rights movements have been washed down the memory hole.
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posted on
12/29/2002 2:42:35 PM PST
by
blabs
To: ewing
Reparations are OK, If when received part of the deal is to leave the country.
You aint going to believe the backlash on this one if it comes to pass.
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posted on
12/29/2002 2:50:28 PM PST
by
BIGZ
Comment #13 Removed by Moderator
To: ScottBuck
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posted on
12/29/2002 4:30:04 PM PST
by
rdb3
To: ewing
Since the people who captured the ancestors of slaves were black Africans, those who sold them were often of Arab descent, and those who brought them across the ocean were usually of European descent it is clear that the reparations folks need to deliver their message on the other side of the ocean.
I am sure the Europeans, Arabs, and Africans of various nations will be pleased to fork over the appropriate cash... ;-)
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posted on
12/29/2002 4:30:37 PM PST
by
cgbg
To: blabs
Kwanzaa: A holiday from the FBI The calendar hanging on the wall in our kitchen notes Kwanzaa on Dec 26. A little application of Whiteout took care of that.
To: NewHampshireDuo
In many Kwanzaa celebrating Black homes, I hear they use Blackout on their calendars over the date of Dec. 25th.
To: ewing
Raperations is more like it.....
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posted on
12/29/2002 5:41:00 PM PST
by
Arpege92
To: big bad easter bunny
A better question is whether living Southerners who perpetrated apartheid prior to 1964 should pay reparations to the still living victims of that apartheid.
To: Phoenicks
Where did you hear that? Stormfront?
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