Posted on 12/31/2020 8:58:34 AM PST by Kaslin
Kwanzaa has nothing to do with Africa and everything to do with California in the 1960s.
Spanning from Dec. 26 to the first of January is Kwanzaa, the invented African American holiday celebrated solely by white liberals and clueless public school teachers. Overblown by leftist claiming the holiday has immense cultural significance, a survey by the National Retail Foundation discovered only 1.6 percent of Americans celebrate Kwanzaa.
The “holiday” was created in 1966 by Ron Karenga, who renamed himself Maulana. Karenga, the founder of the United Slaves, a violent rival organization to the Black Panthers, created the holiday for black Americans and derived the name “Kwanzaa” from the Swahili phrase “matunda y kwanza,” meaning “first fruits of the harvest.” That’s about the extent of the deep African roots the official Kwanzaa website claims.
The history of the holiday and Karenga has been seamlessly suppressed by leftists who find the facts inconvenient. Since few know its origins, the current definitions of the celebration are usually nonsensical and made up, much like the holiday itself.
The Guardian asserts Kwanzaa is simply an “opportunity [for black people] to celebrate themselves and their history rather than indulge in the customary traditions of a white Christmas.” The Los Angeles Times says it is “a way to honor African heritage and bring Black families and communities together.”
FrontPage Magazine’s Paul Mulshine writes that “the history of the founder of Kwanzaa has disappeared into an Orwellian time warp.” Indeed, CNN informs readers that Kwanzaa’s violent, racist founder was “a black nationalist and professor of Pan-African studies at California State University at Long Beach,” omitting his criminal and misogynistic past.
Kwanzaa, the “African feast,” really has “nothing to do with Africa and everything to do with California in the 1960s,” writes Mulshine. He contends it was made up to divide Americans, not unite them.
Mulshine explains that the paramilitary organization Karenga ran in Los Angeles in the late 1960s was involved in murder and torture: “In 1967, Karenga was accused of having his thugs beat up a student who asked him an impertinent question at a college forum. In 1969, [United Slaves] got involved in a struggle with the Black Panthers for control of the black studies program at UCLA. All involved carried guns on campus. The US guys were quicker on the draw; they killed two Panthers in a shootout at the student center.”
Karenga himself is a convicted torturer. Here is an excerpt from an article about the May 1971 trial of Karenga for torturing two members of his group:
‘Deborah Jones, who once was given the Swahili title of an African queen, said she and Gail Davis were whipped with an electrical cord and beaten with a karate baton after being ordered to remove their clothes. She testified that a hot soldering iron was placed in Miss Davis’ mouth and placed against Miss Davis’ face and that one of her own big toes was tightened in a vise. Karenga, head of [United Slaves], also put detergent and running hoses in their mouths, she said.
Karenga served only four to five years in a state prison.
Karenga is currently a black studies professor at California State University, Long Beach where the administration is apparently untroubled by the fact that this radical racist is also a convicted torturer of women. Despite the troubling past of Kwanzaa’s founder, leftists continue to shove this fake holiday down America’s throat every Christmas.
Woke liberals preach that Christmas in the classroom is intolerant and isolates students who don’t celebrate it. Yet Kwanzaa is permitted because the left argue it is a “cultural” holiday. Tons of teacher aids on the web provide elementary instructors with Kwanzaa coloring prints, songs, games, and crafts. But Kwanzaa isn’t actually a cultural holiday. It is best described as a political product of the 1960s, which should qualify it as inappropriate to impose on young and impressionable students.
The seven pillars of Kwanzaa (unity, self-determination, collective work and responsibility, cooperative economics, purpose, creativity, and faith), said College Fix editor Jennifer Kabbany, “reads like a communist manifesto.”
Patrick S. Poole also noted that the pillars’ claimed “cooperative economics” is an obvious Marxist reference. Poole noted the principle of “collective work and responsibility” is “why Masai and Zulu tribesmen still live in grass huts, wear animal skins and must walk everywhere.”
“It is a good thing that today we do not have to grow our food, build our houses and tend to our own lands,” wrote Poole. “Division of labor and specialization has fueled the prosperity and progress in the West that all Africans envy. And yet it is the express denial of these important economic tools that Kwanzaa lauds.”
“Karenga said [Kwanzaa] practitioners believe one’s racial identity ‘determines life conditions, life chances and self-understanding,’” wrote Ann Coulter.
Incoming Vice President Kamala Harris recently shared a “Happy Kwanzaa” video in which she says her favorite Kwanzaa pillar is self-determination, or “kujichagulia.” Harris says kujichagulia means “be, be and do. Be the person you want to be and do the things you want to do and do the things that need to be done” — whatever that means.
Somehow I find it hard to believe that she has a deep childhood attachment to a holiday that didn’t exist when she was born https://t.co/037S09KqxP
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) December 27, 2020
This holiday season, spend your time celebrating real holidays like Christmas or Hanukkah, not a fake holiday invented by a Marxist, racist, violent criminal.
“ the National Retail Foundation discovered only 1.6 percent of Americans celebrate Kwanzaa.”
That is actually not statistically insignificant.
That is slightly less than the number of people in the US that celebrate Hanukkah.
Per Sharpton, it’s a racist holiday to “de whitetize Christmas.”
Bkmk
I celebrate it!!
The whole week and a half!!
You should see the garb I wear.
And the chants.
And the food spread...it’s finger licking good.
You don’t know what you’re missing.
Happy Gonzo everyone!!
I’m convinced Kwanzaa is just another attempt to seperate Blacks, isolate them, and keep them on the Leftist plantation
If you want to brainwash someone, you remove from them any independent culture or identity, and you give them a new, manufactured one. Kwanzaa separates that person from the deep well of historical Christianity, which is independent of nations or present time.
I guess our PC folks will eventually demand the same thing before each ‘Seinfeld’ episode.
Wait a minute...I saw Kamala discussing her family celebrating
it each year when she was young.
Even had the Kwanzaa ‘Menorah’ in the background. Red, Green and Black candles. /s
He probably asked, "What the hell is Kwanza?"
let’s all unite around Festivus.
The only people who celebrate Kwanzaa are white elementary school teachers.
> let’s all unite around Festivus <
Good idea. I’m already practicing my Feats of Strength for next year.
With all the BLM nonsense and racial “wokeness” going on, maybe this is the year Kwanzaa catches on and somebody starts to give a shyte.
The main problem with Kwanzaa is that it is centered around one particular African Tribe.
It would be like thinking all White people are Germans.
I have been watching the original Magnum P.I. recently. In the fourth season, the Christmas episode (Operation: Silent Night) has T.C. wanting to fly back to the mainland to celebrate Kwanzaa with family. This episode aired December 15, 1983. I watched Magnum religiously when I was a kid. I don’t remember the reference, but I was only 14 going on 15. The first time I really remember it being mentioned was the late 90s here on FR.
And Rochester NY thinks it’s the most important celebration on earth....Thanks to Mayor Not so lovely Warren. Fits right in with her anti-whitey campaign.
Heard very little of it this year. Only on free republic. Do you secretly love it?
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