Posted on 12/19/2008 5:51:12 AM PST by flowerplough
Lubna Muhammad has celebrated Kwanzaa for more than 30 years.
"Kwanzaa is more than a holiday--[it's] a culture that should be applied to everyday life," says Muhammad, owner of Top Shelf Plus in Newark, N.J.
Muhammad says she began observing Kwanzaa because she felt its core message spoke to both her culture and spirit.
"When you go to work, you need umoja every day--that's unity. You need unity with your coworkers," she says.
Muhammad isn't alone. More than 30 million people in America celebrate Kwanzaa, according to a spokesperson from the African American Cultural Center.
Kwanzaa, which means "first fruits of the harvest" in Swahili, was created in 1966 by Dr. Maulana Karenga, a professor at California State University at Long Beach, to reinforce positive values and strengthen bonds within the Black community.
But the holiday isn't just for Blacks--people of all races celebrate Kwanzaa.
(Excerpt) Read more at diversityinc.com ...
“LOL! I know no one who celebrates “Kwanzaa”. Black or White.”
But didn’t the USPS issue a Kwanzaa postage stamp? Idiots that they are...
All for it....um what will be some of the festivities?
Kwanzaa is a consciously and deliberately AntiChrist unholy day conceived in the pit of hell.
Let me guess. Top Shelf Plus in Newark, N.J. sells Kwanzaa crap.
So you use a word "umoja" which nobody else understands so that you can condescendingly explain it to them. Yeah, way to promote unity.
Sounds like a process by which the tribal ruler deflowers all the virgins.
...and some of the girls, too.
Now listen Flower, a felony record is a course requirement for UC faculty members, indeed for faculty members across this great nation of ours. An institution of higher learning must meet a felonious faculty set-aside quota to qualify for accreditation and federal funding. This is doubly true in the vital and academically super-rigorous Black Studies area.
So please, instead of focusing on negatives during this Kwanzaa, try and get in the joyous and charitable feeling that has characterized this holiday for thousands of years. That goes double in the first of many "Obamba Kwanzaa" festivals.*
You may also want to consider join KarlinOhio in his Kwanzaa tour of VFW bars in Ohio.
OBTW, Personally, I will be unable to celebrate this marvelous holiday with you. A huge menhaden run off the coast of Maine will keep me busy. I hope that all will not have "A Blue Kwanzaa without Me."
Now listen Flower, a felony record is a course requirement for UC faculty members, indeed for faculty members across this great nation of ours. An institution of higher learning must meet a felonious faculty set-aside quota to qualify for accreditation and federal funding. This is doubly true in the vital and academically super-rigorous Black Studies area.
So please, instead of focusing on negatives during this Kwanzaa, try and get in the joyous and charitable feeling that has characterized this holiday for thousands of years. That goes double in the first of many "Obamba Kwanzaa" festivals.*
You may also want to consider join KarlinOhio in his Kwanzaa tour of VFW bars in Ohio.
OBTW, Personally, I will be unable to celebrate this marvelous holiday with you. A huge menhaden run off the coast of Maine will keep me busy. I hope that all will not have "A Blue Kwanzaa without Me."
“Umoja is a good thing.” -Martha Stewart
From Ann Coulter;
KWANZAA: HOLIDAY FROM THE FBI
December 28, 2005
NOTE TO EDITORS: This is an updated version of a column by Ann Coulter that first ran three years ago in December.
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President Bush’s 2005 Kwanzaa message began with the patently absurd statement: “African-Americans and people around the world reflect on African heritage during Kwanzaa.”
I believe more African-Americans spent this season reflecting on the birth of Christ than some phony non-Christian holiday invented a few decades ago by an FBI stooge. Kwanzaa is a holiday for white liberals, not blacks.
It is a fact that Kwanzaa was invented in 1966 by a black radical FBI stooge, Ron Karenga, aka Dr. Maulana Karenga. Karenga was a founder of United Slaves, a violent nationalist rival to the Black Panthers and a dupe of the FBI.
In what was probably ultimately a foolish gamble, during the madness of the ‘60s the FBI encouraged the most extreme black nationalist organizations in order to discredit and split the left. The more preposterous the organization, the better. Karenga’s United Slaves was perfect. In the annals of the American ‘60s, Karenga was the Father Gapon, stooge of the czarist police.
Despite modern perceptions that blend all the black activists of the ‘60s, the Black Panthers did not hate whites. They did not seek armed revolution. Those were the precepts of Karenga’s United Slaves. United Slaves were proto-fascists, walking around in dashikis, gunning down Black Panthers and adopting invented “African” names. (That was a big help to the black community: How many boys named “Jamal” currently sit on death row?)
Whether Karenga was a willing dupe, or just a dupe, remains unclear. Curiously, in a 1995 interview with Ethnic NewsWatch, Karenga matter-of-factly explained that the forces out to get O.J. Simpson for the “framed” murder of two whites included: “the FBI, the CIA, the State Department, Interpol, the Chicago Police Department” and so on. Karenga should know about FBI infiltration. (He further noted that the evidence against O.J. “was not strong enough to prohibit or eliminate unreasonable doubt” — an interesting standard of proof.)
In the category of the-gentleman-doth-protest-too-much, back in the ‘70s, Karenga was quick to criticize rumors that black radicals were government-supported. When Nigerian newspapers claimed that some American black radicals were CIA operatives, Karenga publicly denounced the idea, saying, “Africans must stop generalizing about the loyalties and motives of Afro-Americans, including the widespread suspicion of black Americans being CIA agents.”
Now we know that the FBI fueled the bloody rivalry between the Panthers and United Slaves. In one barbarous outburst, Karenga’s United Slaves shot to death Black Panthers Al “Bunchy” Carter and Deputy Minister John Huggins on the UCLA campus. Karenga himself served time, a useful stepping-stone for his current position as a black studies professor at California State University at Long Beach.
Kwanzaa itself is a lunatic blend of schmaltzy ‘60s rhetoric, black racism and Marxism. Indeed, the seven “principles” of Kwanzaa praise collectivism in every possible arena of life — economics, work, personality, even litter removal. (”Kuumba: Everyone should strive to improve the community and make it more beautiful.”) It takes a village to raise a police snitch.
When Karenga was asked to distinguish Kawaida, the philosophy underlying Kwanzaa, from “classical Marxism,” he essentially explained that under Kawaida, we also hate whites. While taking the “best of early Chinese and Cuban socialism” — which one assumes would exclude the forced abortions, imprisonment for homosexuals and forced labor — Kawaida practitioners believe one’s racial identity “determines life conditions, life chances and self-understanding.” There’s an inclusive philosophy for you.
(Sing to “Jingle Bells”)
Kwanzaa bells, dashikis sell
Whitey has to pay;
Burning, shooting, oh what fun
On this made-up holiday!
Coincidentally, the seven principles of Kwanzaa are the very same seven principles of the Symbionese Liberation Army, another charming invention of the Least-Great Generation. In 1974, Patricia Hearst, kidnap victim-cum-SLA revolutionary, posed next to the banner of her alleged captors, a seven-headed cobra. Each snake head stood for one of the SLA’s revolutionary principles: Umoja, Kujichagulia, Ujima, Ujamaa, Nia, Kuumba and Imani — the same seven “principles” of Kwanzaa.
With his Kwanzaa greetings, President Bush is saluting the intellectual sibling of the Symbionese Liberation Army, killer of housewives and police. He is saluting the founder of United Slaves, who were such lunatics that they shot Panthers for not being sufficiently insane — all with the FBI as their covert ally.
It’s as if David Duke invented a holiday called “Anglika,” and the president of the United States issued a presidential proclamation honoring the synthetic holiday. People might well stand up and take notice if that happened.
Kwanzaa was the result of a ‘60s psychosis grafted onto the black community. Liberals have become so mesmerized by multicultural nonsense that they have forgotten the real history of Kwanzaa and Karenga’s United Slaves — the violence, the Marxism, the insanity. Most absurdly, for leftists anyway, is that they have forgotten the FBI’s tacit encouragement of this murderous black nationalist cult founded by the father of Kwanzaa.
Now the “holiday” concocted by an FBI dupe is honored in a presidential proclamation and public schools across the nation. Bush called Kwanzaa a holiday that promotes “unity” and “faith.” Faith in what? Liberals’ unbounded capacity to respect any faith but Christianity?
A movement that started approximately 2,000 years before Kwanzaa leaps well beyond mere “unity” and “faith” to proclaim that we are all equal before God. “There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus” (Galatians 3:28). It was practitioners of that faith who were at the forefront of the abolitionist and civil rights movements. But that’s all been washed down the memory hole, along with the true origins of Kwanzaa.
That proves it, George Bush hates Black people.
Where is FEMA?
'Zimbabwe Is Mine' Says Mugabe
AFP on Yahoo ^ | 12/19/08 | AFP
BINDURA, Zimbabwe (AFP) – President Robert Mugabe declared Friday that "Zimbabwe is mine" and vowed never to surrender to calls to step down, as his political rival threatened to quit stalled unity government talks.
Addressing his ZANU-PF party's annual conference amid a ruinous political crisis and a deadly cholera epidemic, Mugabe returned to the kind of defiance he has often shown in the face of mounting criticism.
"I will never, never, never never surrender. Zimbabwe is mine, I am a Zimbabwean. Zimbabwe for Zimbabweans. Zimbabwe never for the British, Britain for the British," Mugabe told his party's annual conference.
(Compare George Washington's attitude)
Now, those are wise words!
Don't worry, though; I hear "Unity" and "Change" are on the way.
Spare me...Spare us all...
Well written.
The girl does have a way with words huh?
Cheers,
knewshound
More evidence of liberal color-blindness!
LOL Next time try some jewish foreplay (3 hours of begging).
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