Text of President Bush's Kwanzaa Message (about the non-religious holiday)

ap via lasvegassun ^ | 12/20/2002 | President Bush

[TLBSHOW]

Text of President Bush's Kwanzaa message:

I send greetings to those celebrating Kwanzaa.

Kwanzaa celebrates the traditional African values of unity, self-determination, collective work and responsibility, cooperative economics, purpose, creativity, and faith. From December 26th to January 1st, people of African descent gather to renew their commitment to these seven principles, known as Nguzo Saba, and give thanks for the blessings of family, community, and culture. Kwanzaa is also a time for Africans and African-Americans to honor their common heritage by participating in events based on early harvest gatherings called matunda ya kwanza, or first fruits.

As individuals and families join together during Kwanzaa, their joy enriches communities in the United States and across the globe. By uniting people of diverse backgrounds and beliefs, this holiday promotes mutual understanding and respect. These universal principles inspire us as we work together for a future of freedom, hope, and opportunity for all.

Laura joins me in sending our best wishes for a memorable Kwanzaa, and for peace, happiness, and success in the coming year.

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[TLBSHOW]

BUMP

[MJY1288]

What he should of done is just ignore the whole thing and we could spend the next three months hearing how GWB snubbed the (concocted) African holiday.

I know your mad over the Trent lynching, but don't act like those idiots over at DU. You're bigger than that TLBSHOW

[Thisiswhoweare]

Okay, I have an idea. LOOK OUT LOL!

Seriously folks, maybe we should say we celebrate Christmas as our "First Fruits" celebration of life. That would take away all the aguments of it being a religious thing and if they complained, they'd have to give up their invented holidy.

After all, Christmas is based on first fruits of God and Mary.

[cgbg]

It's just so heartening to hear Bush lauding a communist holiday

Ding, ding. ding.

We have a winner!

I am convinced the White House just dosen't have a clue how to handle the race issue.

Pandering is _not_ a good strategy!

The White House should start to treat black people with respect. When you respect someone you tell them the truth even when it is something they don't want to hear.

I think the problem the WH has is it looks at the pandering the Rats do, looks at the Rats percentage of the Black vote, and makes the (fallacious--Logic 1) presumption that the pandering led to the Rats black support.

For the WH to say that it dosen't want minorities left behind while refusing to educate them about the fraudalent assumptions of the ideology of the majority of "black leaders" is pathetic. I would argue that many black folks recognize how stupid and demeaning the Republican strategy is and have rightly rejected it.

[Uncle Bill]

Bush is a moron. Worse, he's a socialist. This little Kwanzaa moronic diversity grovelling multi-cultural yearly pandering pimp psychosis is a yearly event.

Hooyah!

Compassionate Conservatism Means Big Government

No To 'Compassionate Conservatism'
"Marvin Olasky, the former Marxist journalism professor who coined the term. But he and George W. Bush are barking up the wrong tree if they think "compassionate conservatism" is going to rally popular support necessary to effect the real change needed to turn this country around."

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Did You Have A Happy Kwanzaa?

WorldNetDaily
© 2002 WorldNetDaily.com
By Joseph Farah
JANUARY 10, 2002

I'm a little late in asking, forgive me.

But, did you have a happy Kwanzaa?

I know the celebration officially ended 10 days ago, but the news has kept me busy until now.

President Bush was quicker to the trigger than I was.

Back on Dec. 20 – a full six days before onset of this very spiritual weeklong rite – he sent "warm greetings to all who are celebrating Kwanzaa." It gave me a warm and fuzzy feeling all over – even though I don't personally celebrate this sacred event.

Why did Bush issue a proclamation on Kwanzaa? Well, he explained that this important holiday was established in 1966 as an African-American celebration of "family, community and culture. The seven-day observance, beginning Dec. 26 and ending Jan. 1, serves as a special time to recognize and reaffirm the Nguzo Saba, or Seven Principles, of African culture. These are unity, self-determination, collective work and responsibility, cooperative economics, purpose, creativity and faith."

Bush continued: "Kwanzaa provides an opportunity for people of African heritage regardless of their religious background or faith, to come together and to show reverence for their Creator and creation, to commemorate the past, to recommit to high ideals, and to celebrate the good life. These life-affirming traditions take on particular resonance this year, as the United States and the world face new challenges to peace. As individuals, families and communities take part in this celebration of unity and enduring values, I extend best wishes to people throughout the globe for a wonderful and memorable Kwanzaa."

Touching, moving, multi-cultural.

Bush was correct in pointing out that this new high holy day is a very recent invention. There are few holidays we can actually attribute to one man's vision. Kwanzaa is such a holiday – coined by Ron Karenga in 1966.

Who was Ron Karenga?

Glad you asked.

He is a convicted felon – sentenced five years after inventing Kwanzaa for torturing two black women by whipping them with electrical cords and beating them with a karate baton after stripping them naked. He placed in the mouth of one of the victims a hot soldering iron, also scarring her face with the device. He put one of her big toes in a vise, and detergent and running water in both of their mouths.

But that wasn't the beginning of the bizarre and violent behavior of Karenga, the patron saint of Kwanzaa – not by a long shot.

Just about the time he was dreaming up this new holiday, he was also inventing a new political movement on the campus of UCLA. That movement was called "black cultural nationalism." His group was called United Slaves. And it was defined mainly by violent confrontations with the Black Panthers at UCLA. Two of his followers shot dead two members of the Panthers in 1969.

But no sooner did Karenga get out of prison on the torture charges in 1975 than all was forgotten about his criminal and violent past. He was proclaimed Saint Karenga. Four years later, he was running the Black Studies Department at California State University in Long Beach.

How did he get that job in academia with his record?

Glad you asked again.

Paul Mulshine, who has done an admirable job of chronicling Karenga's history for FrontPagemag.com, has a theory.

Karenga had a jailhouse conversion.

No, he did not become a born-again Christian. He did not renounce violence. He did not even repudiate his past. But he did become a Marxist.

And, while becoming a Christian might have disqualified him for a role in the world of the modern U.S. university, a conversion to Marxism was perceived as a sign of rehabilitation. The one-time psychopath had seen the light.

In conclusion, I hope this little cultural and history lesson helps you see the light – about Kwanzaa. It's being taught to your kids in your government schools. It's become a commercial bonanza in black communities through the United States. And, now, even the president of the United States is praising it as a legitimate holiday.

Good grief. What's wrong with America?

My fellow Americans, there are two things we must do.

[TLBSHOW]

Bush is going to lose the conservative people over this.

Not to mention his new stand on Affirmative Action.

I am bigger than that I don't post at the du, I am banned. After I posted the truth about William Rivers Pitt.

By the way last I looked Free republic is a conservative web site not republican or demorat! Look at the top of this page. Wanna ban me here for posting the truth Bush isn't a conservative?

[MJY1288]

The last I checked he never had, in his base, all the so-called true conservatives like yourself. I believe Pat (Death of the West) Bucannan has that honor.

No one is trying to ban you TLBSHOW. My goodness you're touchy tonight? Go get drunk and sleep it off

[Capt. Jake]

What's the truth about Pitt? (I was banned there after my first post)

[TLBSHOW]

I don't drink.

[MJY1288]

start :-)

[TLBSHOW]

You know the truth, William Rivers Pitt is a moron and doesn't even know Kerry is in his voting area. LOL

[TLBSHOW]

After these 2 weeks I almost did! Hey I know I am not happy about what I am seeing Bush to really be. But hey thats life and sometimes its good and sometimes its bad.

[RLK]

Bush, please go back to Kinnebunkport and stay there.

[Libertina]

Karenga is a convicted FELON, a man who disdained blacks and tortured two of his female followers with electric devices. Kwaanza = traditional Africa? NO

[RightWinger]

Kwanzaa sounds a little racist to me.
A holiday based on the color of your skin.
Oh, never mind. I'm probably a racist for even thinkin' that.

[MissAmericanPie]

I'm shocked that more Christians heads were not spinning over a President who says he is a Christian, tip toeing in his stocking feet into a Mosque and praising Islam's moon god as a religion of peace, and demanding tolerance of the heads of terrorist charity fronts standing around him.

Now that is head spinning, this is merely SSDD.

[Pushi]

I think the problem the WH has is...

Perhaps there is a new meaning for "WH"--whore house.

[The Duke]

What am I missing? I thought Africa was a stinking hell hole of poverty, disease and famine?

What's to celebrate?

[TLBSHOW]

Is that why The President isn't going there next month?