More on Karenga. Great article.
To confirm the creation and history of the holiday, I Googled Kwanzaa and its creator, Maulana Karenga. On my first search, I came up with this column by Paul Mulshine, a columnist with the Newark (N.J.) Star-Ledger. Read it all. It's a doozey. According to Mulshine, Karenga was a black separatist, a member of a group more radical than the Black Panthers, who was convicted of brutally torturing two female members of his organization just a few years after he created Kwanzaa.
He was sentenced on Sept. 17, 1971, to serve one to ten years in prison. A brief account of the sentencing ran in several newspapers the following day. That was apparently the last newspaper article to mention Karenga's unfortunate habit of doing unspeakable things to black people. After that, the only coverage came from the hundreds of news accounts that depict him as the wonderful man who invented Kwanzaa.
Helpless black women, no less. And you can bet your behind that most of the female Kwanzaa-boosters in the above article are feminists.
Radical lefties can be misogynists and even torturers and murderers, and the press and academia don't care as long as they espouse the proper ideology. You never, ever hear about elementary school teachers telling the little kiddies about Ira Einhorn chopping up his girlfriend and storing the pieces in a trunk, when they're pushing Earth Day on them. What the Earth Day founder was just isn't important to them.
I took the liberty of telling my nine-year-old stepkids that Kwanzaa was a completely non-African holiday invented by a communist who liked to torture women and spent time in prison for it. I had to do this, because they were singing a Kwanzaa song in their multiculti Holiday concert. I also warned them that this was one of those things that was "true, but controversial" so they might get into trouble if they tried to enlighten their teachers about it.
Can you believe it, their teacher had some kid introduce the song with "Kwanzaa is an African holiday"? Obiously the teacher didn't know better, or maybe didn't care. Makes me want to go out and kick walls.
Karenga def has credentials. I'm surprised he's not a tenured professor at UofC(Berkley).