I was in a Hallmark store just yesterday (no, not by choice).
The 'Kwanza section' was packed with unsold merchandise that will soon be returned to a warehouse, or destroyed on-site for credit from the manufacturer.
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Enter a God-hating black racist named Ron Karenga. Born Ron Everett
on a poultry farm in Maryland, Everett invented Kwanzaa in 1966,
based on an African harvest festival (though it takes place during
the Winter Solstice!), and celebrating the first Kwanzaa with his
family and friends.
Calling himself "Maulana" (Swahili for "Master Teacher"), Karenga
became a black nationalist at UCLA, and formed his group, the United
Slaves (US) for the purpose of igniting a "cultural revolution" among
American blacks. US members followed Karenga's "Path of Blackness,"
which is detailed in his Quotable Karenga: "The sevenfold path of
blackness is think black, talk black, act black, create black, buy
black, vote black, and live black."
The United Slaves had violent confrontations with the Black Panthers
on campus, and were actually considered more radical than the
Panthers.
The biggest dispute between the United Slaves and the Panthers was
for the leadership of the new African Studies Department at UCLA,
with each group backing a different candidate. Panthers John Jerome
Huggins and Alprentice "Bunchy" Carter verbally attacked Karenga at
the meeting, which infuriated Karenga's followers. After the meeting
ended, two United Slaves members, George and Larry Stiner, reportedly
confronted Huggins and Carter in a hallway, shooting and killing
them.
Incidentally, on March 31, 1974, it was discovered that both Stiner
brothers had escaped from the family visiting area in San Quentin
State Prison. Larry Stiner turned himself into the FBI in Caracas,
Venezuela, on December 13, 1994. He remains in custody at San
Quentin. But George Stiner remains at large and his whereabouts
remain unknown. He is currently on California's 10 Most Wanted List.
The shooting at UCLA apparently caused Karenga to become extremely
suspicious. On May 9, 1970, Karenga and two others tortured two women
who Karenga believed had tried to poison him by placing "crystals" in
his food and water.
The Los Angeles Times described the events: "Deborah Jones, who once
was given the title of an African queen, said she and Gail Davis were
whipped with an electric cord and beaten with a karate baton after
being ordered to remove their clothes at gunpoint. She testified that
a hot soldering iron was placed in Miss Davis' mouth and placed
against Miss Davis' face and that one of her own big toes was
tightened in a vice. Karenga, head of US, also put detergent and
running hoses in their mouths, she said."
Karenga was sentenced to one-to-ten years in prison on counts of
felonious assault and false imprisonment. At his trial, the question
arose as to Karenga's sanity. The psychiatrist's report stated: "This
man now represents a picture which can be considered both paranoid
and schizophrenic with hallucinations and illusions, inappropriate
affect, disorganization, and impaired contact with the environment."
The psychiatrist reportedly observed that Karenga talked to his
blanket and imaginary persons, and he believed he'd been attacked by
dive-bombers.
Eight years later, California State University Long Beach named
Karenga the head of its Black Studies Department. By this time,
Karenga had "repented" of his black nationalism and had become just a
harmless garden variety Marxist. This must be our esteemed university
system's idea of repentance!
Karenga's Kwanzaa celebration consists of seven "principles." They
are Umoja (unity), Kujichagulia (self-determination – code for "buy
black"), Ujima (collective work and responsibility – groupthink),
Ujamaa (cooperative economics – socialism), Nia (purpose) Kuumba
(creativity), and Imani (faith – in man, not God).
To provide a symbol of his seven "principles," Karenga used the
menorah from Judaism with Kwanzaa's colors (red, black, and green),
and re-named it the "kinara."
Karenga also created a Kwanzaa flag that consists of black, green,
and red. The Kwanzaa Information Center states the color red
represents blood: "We lost our land through blood; and we cannot gain
it except through blood. We must redeem our lives through the blood.
Without the shedding of blood there can be no redemption of this
race." The Kwanzaa Information Center also notes that this flag "has
become a symbol of devotion for African people in America to
establish an independent African nation on the North American
Continent." (Emphasis added.)
When once asked why he designed Kwanzaa to take place around
Christmas, Karenga explained, "People think it's African, but it's
not. I came up with Kwanzaa because black people wouldn't celebrate
it if they knew it was American. Also, I put it around Christmas
because I knew that's when a lot of bloods would be partying."
Karenga has explained that his creation of Kwanzaa was motivated in
part by hostility toward both Christianity and Judaism. Writing in
his 1980 book Kawaida Theory, he claimed that Western
religion "denies and diminishes human worth, capacity, potential and
achievement. In Christian and Jewish mythology, humans are born in
sin, cursed with mythical ancestors who've sinned and brought the
wrath of an angry God on every generation's head." He clearly opposed
belief in God and other "spooks who threaten us if we don't worship
them and demand we turn over our destiny and daily lives."
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Happy Kwanzaa
By Paul Mulshine
FrontPageMagazine.com | December 24, 1999
On December 24, 1971, the New York Times ran one of the first of many articles on a new holiday designed to foster unity among African Americans. The holiday, called Kwanzaa, was applauded by a certain sixteen-year-old minister who explained that the feast would perform the valuable service of "de-whitizing" Christmas. The minister was a nobody at the time but he would later go on to become perhaps the premier race-baiter of the twentieth century. His name was Al Sharpton and he would later spawn the Tawana Brawley hoax and then incite anti-Jewish tensions in a 1995 incident that ended with the arson deaths of seven people.
Great minds think alike. The inventor of the holiday was one of the few black "leaders" in America even worse than Sharpton. But there was no mention in the Times article of this man or of the fact that at that very moment he was sitting in a California prison. And there was no mention of the curious fact that this purported benefactor of the black people had founded an organization that in its short history tortured and murdered blacks in ways of which the Ku Klux Klan could only fantasize.
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Thats funny
I've been associated with the Air Force for almost 30 years. In all that time...I've never known a single black to celebrate Kwanza. I brought this up a couple of years ago to two black co-workers, and they just started laughing. They each had a wife who attempted to bring this concept into the marriage, and both cases...the husband asked them what was exactly African about the whole thing. Neither of the wives could really answer that. And then one guy even went to the extent of explaining the seven principals....which are borderline between communism and socialism...telling the wife that he didn't need to sink to that level.
What someone here needs to do...is start an Irish holiday fest...as bogus as you can get. Call it Saint Timothy's week and dump in some heavy drinking, festive eating, and fake speeches by famous Irishmen to attach to each of the seven days of the week. Find a college campus and release the fake holiday...and I'll bet in 20 years...at least 10 million Americans are celebrating it.
Actually you probably hit a bigger nail on the head than you realize.
Most blacks pay little attention to the holiday. This would probably die on the vine if so many whites weren't agitated by it therefore keeping it alive.