Posted on 11/23/2005 1:24:45 PM PST by OldArmy94
The Kwanzaa Hoax William J. Bennetta "Anywhere we are, Us is."
That looks like a line from an Amos 'N Andy show. One can easily imagine that it served as the motto of the Mystic Knights of the Sea, and that it was recited by such characters as The Kingfish, Andy Brown and Algonquin J. Calhoun.
In fact, however, the line that I have quoted is the motto of a real organization -- a real organization that was originally named United Slaves but now calls itself The Organization Us (or simply Us or US). It was created some 40 years ago, in Southern California, by a black racist who had begun life as Ron N. Everett but later had assumed the name Maulana Karenga.
Karenga -- known chiefly as the inventor of Kwanzaa, a fake "African" holiday that he contrived in 1966 -- has enjoyed a truly colorful career. He was a prominent black nationalist during the 1960s, when his organization was involved in various violent operations. He was sent to prison in 1971, after he and some of his pals tortured two women with a soldering iron and a vise, among other things. He emerged from prison in 1974, and a few years later -- in a maneuver that even The Kingfish might have found difficult -- he got himself installed as the chairman of the Department of Black Studies at California State University at Long Beach. CSULB wasn't the only American university that got the racial willies during the 1970s and set up a tin-pot black-studies department, but CSULB (as far as I know) was the only one that hired a chairman who was a violent felon.
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I’m dreaming of a white Kwanzaa
But I guess that is not PC
Kwanzaa is such baloney…it's made up and phony
Karenga laughs at you and me
I’m dreaming of a white Kwanzaa
For pagan whites, oh what a coup
I could make up the rules, you see
And then you could start celebrating me
I’m dreaming of a white Kwaanzaa
Are racist thoughts deep in my head?
But it could get messy…protesting Jesse
Might say that I would be better dead
I’m dreaming of a white Kwanzaa
Would Maxine Waters go insane?
She’d be on the television…what's new?
She’d be screaming “I’ll get DFU”
You got that right, Buckaroo.
later Happy Holidays pingout.
I heard before it was a curling iron.
But here's what we don't hear enough about. Black Americans don't observe Kwanzaa. Oh, maybe a few academics and some other folks posing for the camera pretend to celebrate Karenga's silly, made-up rituals, but actual flesh-and-blood African-American families know less about Kwanzaa than the typical Freeper who's read about it on this forum over the years, and do nothing to participate in it.
Kwanzaa is wholly the child of the left and its guilt-ridden sycophants in the lily white liberal media. Blacks themselves pay no attention to it.
bttt
FESTIVUS for the Rest of US
-Seinfeld
Where been the buses? Where be all the gumint buses at?!
Festivus is the best holiday.
Ron N. Everett had as much right to start Kwanza as L. Ron Hubbard had to start Scientology.
If people are stupid enough to fall for their scams then what right has anyone else got to complain.
IMO these people are Con Artists just like the guy who puts burnt oil on your driveway and calls it sealer. However because its a religion of sorts the Govt. allows it.
How so?
We even lost when we tried to keep our holiday for General Washington.
Personally I'll be celebrating Festivus this year. A Festivus for the rest of us! /Sienfeld
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