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Did you have a happy Kwanzaa? Joseph Farah reveals fascinating details of recent holiday
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| Thursday, January 10, 2002
| Joseph Farah
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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To: GeronL;nopardons
To: JohnHuang2
Why did Bush issue a proclamation on Kwanzaa?
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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.
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posted on
01/10/2002 12:49:59 AM PST
by
RLK
To: JohnHuang2
These are unity, self-determination, collective work and responsibility, cooperative economics, purpose, creativity and faith. 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...
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posted on
01/10/2002 12:50:07 AM PST
by
GeronL
To: JohnHuang2
AAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG! Not more Kwanzaa again.
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
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posted on
01/10/2002 12:51:49 AM PST
by
nopardons
To: randystone;Prodigal Son
cooperative economics?? oh socialism... virtue?... no its a vile evil...
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.
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posted on
01/10/2002 12:52:56 AM PST
by
GeronL
To: JohnHuang2
Did I have a happy Kwanzaa? No. My family and I had a great Christmas though.
To: JohnHuang2
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posted on
01/11/2002 12:39:46 AM PST
by
Spiff
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posted on
01/11/2002 12:40:18 AM PST
by
Spiff
To: JohnHuang2; All
really i think that Bush made that statement more as a politician than a person. he wants support from everyone he can get support from. even if that means kissing some ignorant asses. and hey, if it works, and as long as i dont have to do it, fine by me! just push our agenda, and i really dont care.
To: Spiff
why is there a Celtic Knot on the Kwanzaa website?
To: JohnHuang2
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." Bout time they add an eighth day, to celebrate AIDS. Or maybe abstinence.
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posted on
12/08/2002 7:04:04 PM PST
by
jackbill
To: Joe Brower
Hmmmmm .....everytime I here of this "holiday" I keep returning to the 60's when Flip Wilson had "
the church of what's happning now".....
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 !
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posted on
12/08/2002 7:06:44 PM PST
by
Squantos
To: MacDorcha
a Politician he is!
He also goes to Muslim mosques as well.
A politician he is... a conservative he most definitely is not.
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posted on
12/08/2002 9:53:26 PM PST
by
Kay Soze
To: Squantos
Great stuff. I had a bit of a time-warp though when I saw your post -- I wrote my reply back in January, and was a bit lost there at first!
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!
To: Joe Brower
Awesome traditional Christmas planned here also. God, Good Friends & Family, Gifts , Goodies,.
Stay Safe and enjoy your holiday Joe !
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posted on
12/09/2002 8:53:34 AM PST
by
Squantos
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