Posted on 12/22/2010 5:49:43 PM PST by Bulldawg Fan
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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Sounds like the Pastor O set under for 20 years.
I have a large desktop calender on my shipping desk at work and always mark out all the fake holidays such as this and the other mooselimb crap. So far no complaints from any passersby..
Merry Christmas.
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Good to see Brotha’ Calhoun is still looking good.
A year or so ago I bought the whole Amos ‘n Andy series on DVD. Good clean humor by good actors and actresses!
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The good news is Kwanza is losing it’s appeal.
The proper greeting is MERRY Yak Shaving Day. You must have mixed it up with Happy Obama Sucks Day.
Now that you mention it, I haven't heard a single reference to "Kwanza" at all this year. Hopefully it is going the way of global warming and the dodo bird.
Sigh... I miss everything about that man.
Thanks for posting.
perfect!
well done and the toaster is tipping point.
No kidding...I nearly busted a gut when I saw that! I don’t know what is more disturbing...people who voted for Obama, or people who celebrate Kwanzaa.
It’s a toss-up...
I rented the documentary on Kwanza last week end. I watched it in reverse so it would have a happy ending
That, and I don't know anyone who celebrates Kwanzaa in any meaningful way, and the ones that pay it lip service are also celebrating Christmas first.
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