Should Christians Celebrate Kwanzaa? This is an interesting look at the original writings of Dr. Maulana Karenga, the creator of Kwanzaa, by Carlotta Morrow. Ms. Morrow set out to discover what she could about Dr. Karenga and his agenda when her sister renounced Christianity as a white-man's religion after joining Dr. Karenga's Black activist group called the US Organization. Her research led to the discovery of a much more militant attitude than she expected, and the discovery of many contradictions between Dr. Karenga's original hard-line writings and his current, more inclusive writings. In his own words, Dr. Karenga shows an anti-Christian attitude by renouncing the Resurrection, heaven, and hell as "Christian myths", and commenting that "[w]hen messenger Muhammad taught that we are Gods and can make history and remake the world in our own image and interests, he set a good example." Christians will find this site enlightening.
Lunatic Ron Karenga's posse had violent, murderous disputes with the Black Panthers back in the 60s.
http://lists.village.virginia.edu/lists_archive/sixties-l/4235.html First of all Karenga was not a Panther, he was a member of US which was a nationalist group in LA. US members were convicted of killing two Panthers at UCLA Bunchy Carter and John Huggins. Karenga now teaches at UCSD and is head of the African American Studies (name? ) program. He is also famous for inventing Kawansa which is now popular all over the US as an African American celebration in either Dec. or Jan. Last month while attending the Socialist Scholars Conf in NYC I attended a work shop that only Karenga showed up and the rest of the panel missed so I got to hear him speak for about an hour. AT the end of the panel during the question period I asked him to give me his version of the shoot out at UCLA. I videoed the entire 10-15 min response which I hope to write up at some point. He discussed his version of the history between the Panther and US which I found to be very interesting. He said he was present during the shoot out which was the first that I had heard of that.