The TRUTH about Kwanzaa

oh, and a HAPPY NEW YEAR!

What is worse is when this stuff is taught in our public schools and universities to and by people whose common refrain is that they are able to discern the difference between fact and fantasy -- but I don't think they can because I don't think they want to.

Another Kwanzaa thread!? Well here's another posting of my KounterKwanzaa Link List.

Kwanzaa Links

We Wish You A Phony Festival - Report (Canadian Magazine)

So This Is Kwanzaa - Newsmax.com

Ann Coulter on Kwanzaa - TownHall.Com

Mona Charen on Kwanzaa - Jewish World Review

Tony Snow on Kwanzaa - Jewish World Review

The TRUE Spirit of Kwanzaa - The New American magazine

The Story of Kwanzaa - The Dartmouth Review

The Truth About Kwanzaa - A Christian Viewpoint

A Momentary Loss of Reason - Binghamton Review

Kwanzaa & The White House - NY Post Editorial, 1997 (Freerepublic.com thread)

Michael Savage on Kwanzaa - NewsMax

Ron Karenga - Dialog from the Black Radical Congress - December 1999

Happy Kwanzaa - FrontPage Magazine - Link may not work, if it doesn't click here for the Free Republic thread.

I'm Dreaming of a White Kwanzaa - LewRockwell.com - Link may not work, if it doesn't click here for the Free Republic thread.

Letter to Editor - Ypsilanti Courier

What is Kwanzaa? - File Passed Around On Internet About Kwanzaa

Happy Kwanzaa by Patrick S. Poole

Ron Everett (aka. Maulana Karenga) / US Links

The Black Panthers and the Police: A Pattern of Genocide? - NEW YORKER MAGAZINE - February 13, 1971 (Includes great detail of the murders committed by Karenga's thugs)

PBS Interview with black radical Ron Everett (aka Maulana Karenga) - the guy that invented Kwanzaa while in prison for torturing two young women

US, the organization the Ron Everett founded in 1965, the organization that murdered 5 members of the rival Black Panther Party, is back - well it was back in 1995, but they haven't updated their website since then. Their website is here.

Afrocentrism Links

Clarence Walker Encourages Black Americans to Discard Afrocentrism

Pride & Prejudice by Dinesh D'Souza, Vol. 6, American Enterprise, 09-01-1995, pp 51 (Google Cached Version)

Fighting Fiction With Fact by Mary Lefkowitz (Google Cached Version)

Fallacies of Afrocentrism - Grover Furr

The Skeptics Dictionary - Afrocentrism

The Skeptics Dictionary Review of Mary Lefkowitz' Book "Not Out Of Africa"

Review of Mary Lefkowitz' Books on Afrocentrism Myth "Not Out Of Africa" and "Black Athena Revisited"

The Trap of Ethnic Identity - New York Times - Jan 1997

AFROCENTRISM The Argument We're Really Having

Good read

Another great Kwanzaa link...

http://www.ratsalad.com/humor/zaza_douglaskwanzaa.htm

I followed a thread of yours two days ago when GWB put out Kwanzaa greetings. I was surprised at the number of freepers defending him on this one.

To put Kwanzaa on the same level as Christmas is beyond me. We truly are now living in a world turned upside down.

May be some truth in this article, but I don't trust journalist who list "God" as "G-d.

May be some truth in this article, but I don't trust journalist who list "God" as "G-d.

It's Tony Snow, for goodness sakes. Who else are you going to trust!? As for the G-d thing, some people do that out of respect for God or something like that.

a useful read. thx.

May be some truth in this article, but I don't trust journalist who list "God" as "G-d.

This article was originally published in the "Jewish World Review." I've seen it as being a common Jewish practice to write/print God's Name as "G-d." This is their way of giving profound respect to the Name above all names.

The link for "We Wish You A Phony Festival" doesn't work. I found this link on google:

http://www.floridaradioactive.com/issues/Holidays/Kwanzaa_phony.htm

Is this the same article?

Thanks for posting this. It is as good or better than even Ann Coulter's expose of Kwanzaa. Bookmarked!

Tony Snow was quoting Karenga's "pledge", and the G-d may be verbatim from the Official Kwanzaa website.

Remember when the AlGore made the revealing gaffe about the famous saying, and said "Out of one, many."? That's the main reason a lot of people will support this monstrosity - grabbing for separatism and bucks, perks, and non-merit giveaways.

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So is Tony Snow going to inform President Bush about Kwaanzaa or is Bush going to equate it with Christmas like a pandering fool.

The first casualty of war is the truth. If we accept Kwaanza and elementary school sex education and global warming and a number of other hair brained things we have lost the war before it's begun.

No President has the ba!!s to NOT acknowledge Kwaanza because he knows the American public is a bunch of morons who don't know any better and is afraid to speak the truth because he'll be called a racist.

Cavemen had more common sense.

The words for what you describe is cognitive dissonance. I encounter it all the time in my debates with my black brothers and sisters. When I point out that the Democratic Party is the party that had as part of it's Party PLATFORM from 1840-1860 the defense of slavery, or that they are the party of Jim Crow, the KKK, lynchings, poll taxes, Black Codes, opposition to Reconstruction, and the Great Society Welfare State that destroyed the 2 parent black family and that the GOP WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE 13TH, 14TH, AND 15TH AMENDMENTS, the first black US congressmen, senators and southern state legislators, every peice of foundational civil rights legislation from 1863-1973, most of the historically black colleges were founded by Republicans and that MLK was a registered Republican they often find such truth so cotravenes their former indoctrination that they cannot process it and just tune it out.

This dismal situation is an endlessly frustrating and maddening reality. The black community MUST start accepting responsibility for most of that which is negative about it's contemporary plight.

Which is precisely why those of us who know better MUST challenge those whose current perceptions are largely shaped by viewing the present thru the prism of past racial injustices. Such thinking may hold some validity in nations where law and societal organization is largely determined by ethnic alligences. But in a nation with a putative commitment to the rule of law and a racially neutral constitution, it is destructive and Balkanizing to allow any such thought to gain currency here without vigorous challenge. The racial navel gazing, racial identity posturing, and puffed up grievance mongering should be rejected for the PC irrelevance that it is.

For the record I am a black man who is constantly engaged in often vicious debate with my fellow blacks over issues like this. Many of those outside the black community have no idea as to how crippling and distortive such dearly held commitments to past racial injustice are to the outlook of many American blacks.