Posted on 01/10/2002 12:42:03 AM PST by JohnHuang2
I'm a little late in asking, forgive me.
But, did you have a happy Kwanzaa?
I know the celebration officially ended 10 days ago, but the news has kept me busy until now.
President Bush was quicker to the trigger than I was.
Back on Dec. 20 a full six days before onset of this very spiritual weeklong rite he sent "warm greetings to all who are celebrating Kwanzaa." It gave me a warm and fuzzy feeling all over even though I don't personally celebrate this sacred event.
Why did Bush issue a proclamation on Kwanzaa? Well, he explained that this important holiday was established in 1966 as an African-American celebration of "family, community and culture. The seven-day observance, beginning Dec. 26 and ending Jan. 1, serves as a special time to recognize and reaffirm the Nguzo Saba, or Seven Principles, of African culture. These are unity, self-determination, collective work and responsibility, cooperative economics, purpose, creativity and faith."
Bush continued: "Kwanzaa provides an opportunity for people of African heritage regardless of their religious background or faith, to come together and to show reverence for their Creator and creation, to commemorate the past, to recommit to high ideals, and to celebrate the good life. These life-affirming traditions take on particular resonance this year, as the United States and the world face new challenges to peace. As individuals, families and communities take part in this celebration of unity and enduring values, I extend best wishes to people throughout the globe for a wonderful and memorable Kwanzaa."
Touching, moving, multi-cultural.
Bush was correct in pointing out that this new high holy day is a very recent invention. There are few holidays we can actually attribute to one man's vision. Kwanzaa is such a holiday coined by Ron Karenga in 1966.
Who was Ron Karenga?
Glad you asked.
He is a convicted felon sentenced five years after inventing Kwanzaa for torturing two black women by whipping them with electrical cords and beating them with a karate baton after stripping them naked. He placed in the mouth of one of the victims a hot soldering iron, also scarring her face with the device. He put one of her big toes in a vise, and detergent and running water in both of their mouths.
But that wasn't the beginning of the bizarre and violent behavior of Karenga, the patron saint of Kwanzaa not by a long shot.
Just about the time he was dreaming up this new holiday, he was also inventing a new political movement on the campus of UCLA. That movement was called "black cultural nationalism." His group was called United Slaves. And it was defined mainly by violent confrontations with the Black Panthers at UCLA. Two of his followers shot dead two members of the Panthers in 1969.
But no sooner did Karenga get out of prison on the torture charges in 1975 than all was forgotten about his criminal and violent past. He was proclaimed Saint Karenga. Four years later, he was running the Black Studies Department at California State University in Long Beach.
How did he get that job in academia with his record?
Glad you asked again.
Paul Mulshine, who has done an admirable job of chronicling Karenga's history for FrontPagemag.com, has a theory.
Karenga had a jailhouse conversion.
No, he did not become a born-again Christian. He did not renounce violence. He did not even repudiate his past. But he did become a Marxist.
And, while becoming a Christian might have disqualified him for a role in the world of the modern U.S. university, a conversion to Marxism was perceived as a sign of rehabilitation. The one-time psychopath had seen the light.
In conclusion, I hope this little cultural and history lesson helps you see the light about Kwanzaa. It's being taught to your kids in your government schools. It's become a commercial bonanza in black communities through the United States. And, now, even the president of the United States is praising it as a legitimate holiday.
Good grief. What's wrong with America?
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Answer, because he is unincisive, mindless, and drifting in the presidency. What he did by this act is validate a movement that is negatively polarized and hostile to America.
These are part of the african tradition??
Unity? Africa has the most wars and oppression of any other part of the world. It still has slavery!
self-determination? what a joke. Africa is full of dictatorships and only a few even bother to have rigged elections any more.
collective work??... why is being a slave worker on a collective farm a virtue?
responsibility? ever heard of AIDS?? They have in Africa, its an epidemic... if they had some responsibility it wouldn't be.
Faith? Faith in what exactly??
Seven Pillars of Africa... we only wish they didn't laugh in Africa when someone brings up Kwanzaa...
Bloody BALKANIZATION is what's wrong with America; that's what ! Also people who want to pretend that Kwanzaa has ANYTHING at all to do with " African culture".
I had more AUTHENTIC African " culture " , at my Christmas holidays, than Kwanzaa pretends to have for 7 days . : - P
Purpose?... I don't get it
creativity... oh right... real creative when they still use the same sort of voodoo dolls they did ten centuries ago.
Kwanzaa Links
Did You Have A Happy Kwanzaa? - WorldNetDaily
Celebrate Reality - Not Fantasy - Tampa Tribune
Kwanzaa Quandary - Tucson Weekly
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
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
To be continued in next post...
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)
Ron Karenga - Dialog from the Black Radical Congress - December 1999
US, the organization the Ron Everett founded in 1965, the organization that murdered 5 members of the rival Black Panther Party is back Their website is here.
Graphic used on Official Kwanzaa Website for the Nguzo Saba (The Seven Principles of Kwanzaa)
Graphic used on Official US Website (US is Karenga's Gang that Murdered Members and Leaders of Rival Gangs) as their logo
The two members of the US gang who murdered the two Panthers after they dissed Karenga at a Black Studies meeting on the UCLA campus were Larry and George Stiner. Both were convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison. They escaped in 1974. Larry turned himself in to the FBI in 1994, but George Stiner is still at large. He is on California's 10 Most Wanted list which can be found here. There is also and International Crime Alert on this fugitive who is considered armed and extremely dangerous here.
Afrocentrism Links
Clarence Walker Encourages Black Americans to Discard Afrocentrism
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"
The Trap of Ethnic Identity - New York Times - Jan 1997
Bout time they add an eighth day, to celebrate AIDS. Or maybe abstinence.
Kwanzaa....what a PC joke..........
BTW Heres my suggested X-Mas Card for those who may be offended too easily.....
Please accept with no obligation, implied or implicit my best wishes for an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, low stress, non-addictive, gender neutral, celebration of the winter solstice holiday, practiced within the most enjoyable traditions of the religious persuasion of your choice, or secular practices of your choice, with respect for the religious/secular persuasions and/or traditions of others, or their choice not to practice religious or secular traditions at all . . .
a n d a fiscally successful, personally fulfilling, and medically uncomplicated recognition of the onset of the generally accepted calendar year 2003, but not without due respect for the calendars of choice of other cultures whose contributions to society have helped make America great, (not to imply that America is necessarily greater than any other country or is the only "AMERICA" in the western hemisphere), and without regard to the race, creed, color, age, physical ability, religious faith, or choice of computer platform of the wishee.
(By accepting this greeting, you are accepting these terms. This greeting is subject to clarification or withdrawal. It is freely transferable with no alteration to the original greeting. It implies no promise by the wisher to actually implement any of the wishes for her/himself or others, and is void where prohibited by law, and is revocable at the sole discretion of the wisher. This wish is warranted to perform as expected within the usual application of good tidings for a period of one year, or until the issuance of a subsequent holiday greeting, whichever comes first, and warranty is limited to replacement of this wish or issuance of a new wish at the sole discretion of the wisher.)
Stay Safe JB !
My bro's coming out to visit this XMas, and we plan on having a 100% non-PC holiday full of right-wing conservative talk, lots of firearms related activities, Santa Claus, nativity scenes, and all that other stuff that makes all the pu$$y-a$$ed liberals of the world go apoplectic.
A good time will definitely be had by all!
Stay Safe and enjoy your holiday Joe !
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