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Kwanzaa Is A Fake Holiday Invented By A Criminal Marxist
The Federalist ^ | December 31, 2020 | Evita Duffy

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.



TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: 1960s; blackpanther; blackpower; blackracism; blackracist; blackracists; blacksupremecist; blacksupremecy; bloggers; camelfaceharris; christmas; csulongbeach; hanukkah; kwanzaa; losangeles; maulanakarenga; roneverett; ucla
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1 posted on 12/31/2020 8:58:34 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Retail survey said 1.6%....

So cancel it. If there’s no money in it, stop doing it.


2 posted on 12/31/2020 9:01:03 AM PST by frank ballenger (End vote fraud harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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To: Kaslin

The History Channel has been peddling this crap for a few weeks now - pathetic.


3 posted on 12/31/2020 9:02:27 AM PST by dainbramaged (Windage and Elevation)
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To: Kaslin

4 posted on 12/31/2020 9:03:27 AM PST by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: Kaslin

And basket ball is not a real sport. Some dork invented it. It’s completely unnatural.


5 posted on 12/31/2020 9:07:27 AM PST by Born to Conserve
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To: Kaslin

Is Kwanzaa even a thing anymore? Even black people don’t give a rip about it.


6 posted on 12/31/2020 9:08:09 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Kaslin

Like Earth Day, founded by IRA Einhorn, a LITERAL ladykiller. Funny how these cultural icons have such issues with women while deminazis turn a blind eye


7 posted on 12/31/2020 9:11:55 AM PST by Impala64ssa (Virtue signalling is no virtue)
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To: Kaslin

More people complain about kwanzaa than celebrate it. Really folks, if you’d all just stop talking about it it would go away.


8 posted on 12/31/2020 9:12:04 AM PST by discostu (Like a dog being shown a card trick )
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To: Kaslin

Ron Karenga still wastes our air as a tenured (paid) professor at Cal State Long Beach.


9 posted on 12/31/2020 9:12:09 AM PST by SpaceBar
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10 posted on 12/31/2020 9:12:35 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Kaslin
On the first day of Kwanzaa Karenga gave to me
A Marxist in a red tree.

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.

11 posted on 12/31/2020 9:15:13 AM PST by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: Kaslin
There was no need to invent Kwanzaa. After all, there’s Festivus. And Festivus is a very inclusive holiday.


12 posted on 12/31/2020 9:15:25 AM PST by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: Kaslin

I think he wasn’t a criminal until a few years after he invented the holiday.


13 posted on 12/31/2020 9:16:08 AM PST by nickcarraway
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To: Leaning Right

Airing of grievances


14 posted on 12/31/2020 9:16:53 AM PST by V_TWIN (Where's Hunter???)
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To: Leaning Right

I’m surprised that the Cancel Culture hasn’t gone after Festivus, since it was clearly mocking Kwanzaa.


15 posted on 12/31/2020 9:17:33 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: V_TWIN
Airing of grievances

I GOT A LOT OF PROBLEMS WITH YOU PEOPLE AND YOU'RE GOING TO HEAR ABOUT IT!

16 posted on 12/31/2020 9:20:04 AM PST by T.B. Yoits
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To: Kaslin
“In 1967, Karenga was accused of having his thugs beat up a student who asked him an impertinent question at a college forum."

Joe Biden would have liked that guy. Biden loves to menace and bully people who ask the wrong questions.
17 posted on 12/31/2020 9:23:21 AM PST by Steve_Seattle
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To: Kaslin

Thanks for posting this. I get boiling MAD when I see this FAKE ‘holiday’ promoted!


18 posted on 12/31/2020 9:23:33 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust post-Apocalyptic skill set. )
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To: dfwgator
Blacks don't care. Leftists like the idea of inflicting Kwanzaa on their proles. It's another way to filter out the Party Members from thinkers.

Leftists don't like thinkers. They ask too many questions. They might even start to doubt the illusion.

19 posted on 12/31/2020 9:23:57 AM PST by jonascord (First rule of the Dunning-Kruger Club is that you do not know you are in the Dunning-Kruger club.)
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To: dfwgator

“surprised that the Cancel Culture hasn’t gone after Festivus”

Only reason they haven’t is because both are celebrated in Freedonia.


20 posted on 12/31/2020 9:27:18 AM PST by V_TWIN (Where's Hunter???)
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