Did you have a happy Kwanzaa?

WorldNetDaily.com ^ | Joesph Farah

[FlyLow]

I'm a little late in asking, forgive me.

But, did you have a happy Kwanzaa?

I know the celebration officially ended 10 days ago, but the news has kept me busy until now.

President Bush was quicker to the trigger than I was.

Back on Dec. 20 – a full six days before onset of this very spiritual weeklong rite – he sent "warm greetings to all who are celebrating Kwanzaa." It gave me a warm and fuzzy feeling all over – even though I don't personally celebrate this sacred event.

Why did Bush issue a proclamation on Kwanzaa? Well, he explained that this important holiday was established in 1966 as an African-American celebration of "family, community and culture. The seven-day observance, beginning Dec. 26 and ending Jan. 1, serves as a special time to recognize and reaffirm the Nguzo Saba, or Seven Principles, of African culture. These are unity, self-determination, collective work and responsibility, cooperative economics, purpose, creativity and faith."

Bush continued: "Kwanzaa provides an opportunity for people of African heritage regardless of their religious background or faith, to come together and to show reverence for their Creator and creation, to commemorate the past, to recommit to high ideals, and to celebrate the good life. These life-affirming traditions take on particular resonance this year, as the United States and the world face new challenges to peace. As individuals, families and communities take part in this celebration of unity and enduring values, I extend best wishes to people throughout the globe for a wonderful and memorable Kwanzaa."

Touching, moving, multi-cultural.

Bush was correct in pointing out that this new high holy day is a very recent invention. 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?

[Beck_isright]

I just got through eating Kwanza pie, Kwanza cake, Kwanza turkey and drinking Kwanza wine and beer. I'm offended by this article.

P.S...What the hell is Kwanza?

[Crazieman]

Reminds me of what Ann Coulter wrote in one of her books.

"If you travel to west Africa and mention Kwanzaa, you're likely to get a spear through the chest."

or something to that effect.

[Beck_isright]

So someone, anyone tell me....What the hell is Kwanza? Is that like Santa cannibalism? Going to the islands, getting stoned and partying? Someone, please edumacate me!!!!

[rintense]

I tried to explain Kwanzaa to my best friend's 5 year-old, who obviously heard about it in the public schools. She asked me, in the innocent way only a 5 year old can, what Hanukkah and Kwanzaa are. I explained Hanukkah, but Kwanzaa was bit hard. She then amazed me by saying that all three are the same as Christmas. *SIGH* What in the world are the public schools teaching?

[cmsgop]

Some Felon sitting in jail in'72 who loved Marxism thought it up.

[F16Fighter]

Dubya would proclaim "warm and fuzzy feelings all over" for Festivus should the Costanzas lean towards voting for him.

[blau993]

My Kwanzaa sucked. My village was too busy putting up Christmas lights and getting ready to welcome children home from college.

[eskimo]

So someone, anyone tell me....What the hell is Kwanza?

It's a phoney holiday invented by some Maryland chicken farmer's kid in the 1960s.

[JoeFromSidney]

Unfortunately, Kwanzaa has come to be treated as a quasi-religious holiday by the Politically Correct.

[Willie Green]

I know the celebration officially ended 10 days ago, but...
Back on Dec. 20 – a full six days before onset of this very spiritual weeklong rite

Huh?

Kwanzi ended 10 days ago but December 20 was 6 days before it started?

What calendar is HE looking at?

[sinclair]

Are you suggesting that our Beloved Leader Mr. Bush is a pandering politian? The noive!

[Beck_isright]

No way! A Marxist thought this up! I would never believe that, LOL. </sarcasm off

[Beck_isright]

Next time tell the kid that Kwanza is celebrated the day after Christmas and that's when the department store Santas are eaten by cannibals who celeberate Kwanza. That should send a shockwave through the kid's NEA Marxist indoctrinator.

[eskimo]

Unfortunately, Kwanzaa has come to be treated as a quasi-religious holiday by the Politically Correct.

Still more proof the "politically correct" are all idiots.

[freedumb2003]

P21: Why Black Christians Shouldn't Celebrate Kwanzaa

[F16Fighter]

Why I oughta....

[Beck_isright]

Thanks. I figured it was something like that. I guess we'll be celebrating the invention of the crack pipe and rolling papers as a national holiday one day soon too.

[Richard-SIA]

Q. Why did Bush issue a proclamation on Kwanzaa?

A1. He's trying hard to alienate conservatives and lose the election?
A2. He has too many PC a**-****'s advising him?
He is unaware of the facts regarding this phony "holiday", or knows about them but does not care so long as he thinks pandering to the radical left will buy him a few votes.

Sucking up to socialist, advocating a new "amnesty" for illegals, promising to sign new "gun control" if it reaches his desk, etc.

Explain to me again WHY I should remain a republican?
My disenchantment is exceeded only by my disgust at the perverse threats masquerading as logical arguments, used in attempting to bully me in to staying with the party!

[lizma]

Kwanzaa = American Communist Christmas.

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.

Dang my son's school had a multi-cultural winter festival last year with a Kwanzaa booth, granted no one was thrilled about it but it would have been priceless to present the teachers with this info.