Posted on 12/30/2006 2:34:47 AM PST by JohnHuang2
We hear a lot these days about a divided nation. So I began wondering this week why our nation has begun to embrace a relatively new celebration known as Kwanzaa, which is not as innocent as it appears on the surface.
Launched in 1966, Kwanzaa is celebrated for seven days, beginning Dec. 26. The weeklong festival was introduced by Ron Karenga (aka Ron Everett), a black author and Marxist devotee, who has a very dubious history. Mr. Karenga's Marxist roots should be a warning signal right off the bat, but there's more to be concerned about here.
In 1969, on the campus of UCLA, Mr. Karenga led a student group known as United Slaves, which, along with students in the equally radical Black Panthers (the rivals of United Slaves), actually attended classes with loaded weapons.
David Horowitz, in his book "Radical Son," noted that Black Panther John Higgins was then "murdered – along with Al 'Bunchy' Carter – on the UCLA campus by members of Ron Karenga's organization." Later, female members of the United Slaves said they were tortured by United Slaves members, all at Mr. Karenga's command.
Members of the organization have since reported being beaten and tortured by Mr. Karenga and his minions. He actually was convicted of felonious assault and false imprisonment in 1971 and sentenced to prison. At his trial, a psychiatrist's report declared: "This man now represents a picture which can be considered both paranoid and schizophrenic with hallucinations and elusions, inappropriate affect, disorganization and impaired contact with the environment."
But the story gets more bizarre.
When he was released from prison, Mr. Karenga had earned his doctorate degree and soon was appointed to the Black Studies Department at California State University, Long Beach.
I'll never cease to be amazed at the foolish gullibility of modern education officials.
Our nation, I believe, has also been naïve in accepting Kwanzaa without examining its roots and its founder. In our modern quest to embrace multiculturalism and diversity at all costs, I believe we are being duped by the founder of Kwanzaa.
I've watched several news reports on Kwanzaa in recent days and none of them have mentioned the dark history of its founder or its Marxist pedigree. The reports have simply noted that Kwanzaa is a weeklong celebration rooted in African traditions, and even that is untrue.
Mr. Karenga himself admits that Kwanzaa is not fundamentally African, telling the Washington Post in 1978, "People think it's African, but it's not."
In a recent column, Ann Coulter, never one to mince words, said of Kwanzaa: "[It] is a lunatic blend of schmaltzy '60s rhetoric, black racism and Marxism." She added, "When Karenga was asked to distinguish Kawaida, the philosophy underlying Kwanzaa, from 'classical Marxism,' he essentially explained that under Kawaida, we also hate whites."
Listen, I love learning about other cultures. At Liberty University, where I am the chancellor, this year we welcomed students from 83 nations among our 10,000-plus resident students. Further, nearly 14 percent of our student body is African-American. I truly enjoy meeting these students, hearing their stories and celebrating their life goals. It is fascinating to learn about others' customs and ways of life.
But I cannot accept Kwanzaa as a legitimate American holiday. It is corrupt and wholly anti-American. There is danger in it.
I join with Ann Coulter in celebrating Galatians 3:28, which notes that the gift of eternal life through Jesus Christ is available to all, no matter their race, color, background or heritage. It says, "There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus. …" (NKJV).
Therein lies real diversity and true freedom for all.
No I don't think it's gaining respect. In fact, I think it's falling out of favor with the PC crowd. Here in Atlanta, I can only remember one station that has promos promoting Happy Kwazy...and that's a station that is urban in nature...
Oh yes it is worthy of dispute. It is totally made up from whole cloth with threads from prior pagan mythology. Kwanzaa has as much legitimacy as Christmas.
Woopie! I'm more excited about September....it's menopause awareness month! Yeah, we get a whole month cuz we're special!
:P
There is more historical reference to the life of Jesus than there is to Socrates, Plato, Julius Ceasar and yet I bet you believe they existed.
If you really want some proof of Jesus (which I doubt you do) read The Case For Christ by Lee Strobel.
Lee is a former atheist who was an investigative reporter years ago. He took his experience in investigating facts and applied it to the life of Jesus.
As far as the winter solstice and such, granted Christmas and Easter shanghai'd pagan holidays, but just because someone chooses to create a holiday to counter another doesn't disqualify it as a holiday. If I choose to celebrate Christmas, "I" choose what in the holiday I celebrate. Whether its the religious belief of the birth of Jesus, or its the secular following of Santa Claus. Pagans are still allowed to celebrate the winter solstice.
Charles Darwin's birthday is February 12th.
Are you connecting the two here ?
Groundhog Day is February 2nd, not February twelvth.
But yes, Virgina, there really is a Groundhog.
Here is just one of the ancient historians who acknowledged the life of Christ.
Cornelius Tacitus - He was a Roman senator in the late 1st and early 2nd centuries who wrote a 16 volume series on Roman emporers. The following was quoted from his work Annals, 15:44, by Lee Strobel in The Case for Christ:
"Christus [Christ], from whom the name had its origin, suffered the extreme penalty [crucifixion] during the reign of Tiberius at the hand of one of our procurators, Pontius Pilatus, and a most mischievous superstition, thus checked for the moment, again broke out not only in Judaea, the first source of the evil, but even in Rome ..."
Tacitus also wrote that during Nero's reign, the emporer scapegoated "a class hated for their abominations, called Christian by the populace."
Other ancient historians and philosphers who also mention the name of Christus/Christ include Pliny the Younger, Flavius Josephus, Caius Suetonius Tranquillus, Celsus, Lucian of Samosata, and Porphyry of Tyre.
Run a Google search and you will come up with a number of quotations from the above mentioned men. To my knowledge, none of those mentioned were Christian. Some of them even wrote scathing attacks against those calling themselves Christians.
I strongly believe evidence shows Jesus of Nazareth did exist on this earth.
Of course it's not-so-pure hossheep. And, no it will never die, my brother. People are already writing dissertations upon this wonderful feast. It is now part of the Black Hustory syllabus.
Books on Kwanzaa? required reading.
Are you serious?!?
I had no idea there was even a "special month" for that!
[does that mean we can get away with whatever we please for 30 days?].....;-D
The very concept of rights is founded in religion.
Since the enlightened person is freed from any superstitions about some "God," they are free from having to worry about "rights." Only raw power counts and humans are just meat puppets for the powerful.
Look at this puppet on a string...
http://pandachute.com/videos/leaked_saddam_being_hung_video
Saint Walpurgis Day... Walpurgisnacht...
Saint Walpurgis Day... Walpurgisnacht...
ROFL! I'm VERY serious. I just read about it yesterday. Forgot where or I'd tell you.
Can we get away with ANYTHING for the whole month? Ya think anybody will mess with us if we try? :)
No that is Love Day....
I am a black man who lives in the black community. We have been absolutely HOBBLED by liberalism and socialism. The Great Society Welfare State (together with other counter cultural rot from the sixties) destroyed the 2 parent black family and solidified a too ready reliance on government to solve societal ills. This counterfeit holiday was concocted by a psychopathic Marxist thug who was lookin for a way to make Communism MORE palatable to the Black community by wrapping it in ersatz African cultural traditions.
ANYONE who exposes this jive is OK with me.
Good times, good times.
Why are you here, on a Conservative site, spouting such stuff? What gives you the right to insult the Christians on this forum? To call their God "mythical"? While I'm not a Christian myself, I find your comments to be insulting. Would you go into a Christian church and yell that Jesus is mythical? Because that's essentially what you're doing. The majority of people on this forum are Christians, and it would be wise to respect their religion. Can I make it any clearer? You are being very disrespectful here.
Only by politically correct fools. Normal, red-blooded Americans still know it is complete nonsense; although most of them would not admit it in public.
On the second day of Kwanzaa Karenga gave to me
Two Jaily birds,
And a Marxist in a red tree.
On the third day of Kwanzaa Karenga gave to me
Three Dixie Chicks.
Two Jaily birds,
And a Marxist in a red tree.
On the fourth day of Kwanzaa Karenga gave to me
Four Lenin busts.
Three Dixie Chicks,
Two Jaily birds,
And a Marxist in a red tree.
On the fifth day of Kwanzaa Karenga gave to me
Five fel-on-ies.
Four Lenin busts,
Three Dixie Chicks,
Two Jaily birds,
And a Marxist in a red tree.
On the sixth day of Kwanzaa Karenga gave to me
Six Castro jumpsuits.
Five fel-on-ies,
Four Lenin busts,
Three Dixie Chicks,
Two Jaily birds,
And a Marxist in a red tree.
On the seventh day of Kwanzaa Karenga gave to me
Seven Mao pajamas,
Six Castro jumpsuits,
Five fel-on-ies,
Four Lenin busts
Three Dixie Chicks,
Two Jaily birds,
And a Marxist in a red tree.
Didn't know that, better do some googling.
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