Posted on 12/27/2006 8:22:12 AM PST by King of Florida
Pauline Foster's advice to her 11-year-old daughter, Nanyamka Graham, was simple: Shake it and smile.
The two Lauderhill residents were part of the nearly 100 performers at the Kwanzaa celebration at Broward County's Main Library in Fort Lauderdale Tuesday night.
Kwanzaa, an African-American holiday that celebrates family, community and culture, began Tuesday and ends Jan 1. Each day focuses on a different principle, and Tuesday's was unity. This year is the holiday's 40th anniversary.
''It's a family gathering,'' said 11-year-old performer Tameka Lewis, decked out in a bright pink costume. ``We learn about our black brothers and sisters and ancestors.''
Tameka and her twin sister, Shameka, performed five dances and did some drumming.
Organizer Marguerita Gayle, of The Roots and Culture Dance Ensemble, remembered celebrating Kwanzaa as a child.
``Our children need to understand and to learn about their heritage. We, the parents, must take the responsibility to continue educating our children and our community of who we are, where we are from and why we are here.''
The program included the singing of the black national anthem, African and Caribbean dances and a spoken word performance.
Performers ranged in age from 3 to 60.
Mistress of ceremonies Sista Idya told the roughly 300 attendees gathered at the Main Library's auditorium a folktale about an African mother who walked across the ocean to find her children in Jamaica, Haiti and America.
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Kwanzaa is not even a legitimate African holiday. The founder of Kwanzaa, Ron Karenga (a.k.a. Maulana Karenga) himself admits he made up this Pagan holiday to give Blacks a false sense of culture and identity. The word "Kwanzaa" itself is fabricated. It is derived from the Swahili phrase "matunda ya Kwanzaa" which means “first fruits.”
Kwanzaa has been pushed by radical Black activists and promoted by the mainstream media as a viable Black holiday, in many cases replacing Christmas. Despite the liberals efforts to paint Kwanzaa as a multicultural holiday, it was designed as a “Black only” event.
Here are two examples of how Kwanzaa has successfully infiltrated the
American culture: The U.S. post office issues commemorative stamps dedicated to Kwanzaa.
And in December 2002, President George W. Bush issued a proclamation celebrating Kwanzaa.
In 1966 Ron Karenga (or Maulana Karenga) created Kwanzaa as a holiday to give Blacks an alternative to the “White man's” celebration of Christmas and to allegedly give Blacks their “own” celebration to get in touch with their African roots.
About the Founder Ron Karenga:
Ron Karenga (or Maulana Karenga) was the head of the United Slaves organization (USO), a Marxist “Black power” group that was a rival to the Black Panther party. USO members and Black Panther terrorists frequently got involved in violent confrontations and several people died as a result.
In 1970, Karenga and two of his followers were arrested and charged with conspiracy and assault in the torture of Deborah Jones and Gail Davis, two of his followers. Thinking that these women had tried to poison him, he made them disrobe at gunpoint and had them beaten. He forced a hot soldering iron into the mouth of one woman while the other had a toe squeezed in a vice. They were also forced to swallow detergent and another caustic liquid as part of their punishment. Karenga was convicted and served four years for the crime.
A psychiatrist who examined Karenga noted that while in prison he had exhibited bizarre behavior, including talking to imaginary people, claiming he was attacked by dive bombers, and claiming that his attorney was in the next cell with him. He was judged to be a paranoid and schizophrenic.
Amazingly enough, this sadistic criminal ended up in the Black Studies Department at Cal State Long Beach in California, where he retired as chairman in 2002. Karenga had this cushy position for thirteen years, where he used the cover of academic freedom to indoctrinate his students into Marxism, Afrocentrism, and hatred of America. Karenga is currently a tenured professor at the university.
Karenga in His Own Words:
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, and cursed with mythical ancestors who've sinned and brought the wrath of 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.”
Unfortunately, Kwanzaa has been widely promoted in our culture, and Blacks and Whites alike should tell the truth about Kwanzaa—but paralyzing fear keeps most Whites from being willing to take the a stand against what is clearly a subversive Black nationalist movement designed to create racial separatism.
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Jesse Lee Peterson
of BOND
Don't forget a reading of "Kill My Landlord" by Eddie Murphy.
Don't forget a reading of "Kill My Landlord" by Eddie Murphy.
Don't forget a reading of "Kill My Landlord" by Eddie Murphy.
Kwanzaa is fun!
and yet the Cotton Land Caucasians allow this to be foisted upon the mainstream.
(obscure SNL reference)
It seems the only people who push kwanza as serious are the same lunatics who pushed Ebonics and changing their names to afracanized variations. Ie John Smith becomes Jonfume Es-meeth.
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