Posted on 12/24/2002 2:16:22 PM PST by TLBSHOW
Edited on 12/24/2002 3:40:06 PM PST by Jim Robinson. [history]
TRENT LOTT, call your office: Apparently some parts of American history can be sanitized and forgotten. Earlier this week, President George Bush issued a formal White House proclamation celebrating Kwanzaa.
Sounding like a "Saturday Night Live" send-up, Bush praised the "seven principles" of Kwanzaa, "known as Nguzo Saba," and discussed the "early harvest gatherings called 'matunda ya kwanza,' or first fruits." He included the usual claptrap about how Kwanzaa celebrates "traditional African values" and "uniting people of diverse backgrounds and beliefs."
It is a fact that Kwanzaa was invented in 1966 by a black radical FBI stooge, Ron Karenga, aka Dr. Maulana Karenga. Karenga was a founder of United Slaves, a violent nationalist rival to the Black Panthers and a dupe of the FBI.
In what was probably ultimately a foolish gamble, during the madness of the '60s the FBI encouraged the most extreme black nationalist organizations in order to discredit and split the left. The more preposterous the organization, the better. Karenga's United Slaves was perfect. In the annals of the American '60s, Karenga was the Father Gapon, stooge of the czarist police.
Despite modern perceptions that blend all the black activists of the '60s, the Black Panthers did not hate whites. They did not seek armed revolution. Those were the precepts of Karenga's United Slaves. United Slaves were proto-fascists, walking around in dashikis, blowing away Black Panthers and adopting invented "African" names. (That was a big help to the black community: How many boys named "Jamal" currently sit on death row?)
Whether Karenga was a willing dupe, or just a dupe, remains unclear. Curiously, in a 1995 interview with Ethnic NewsWatch, Karenga matter-of-factly explained that the forces out to get O.J. Simpson for the "framed" murder of two whites included: "the FBI, the CIA, the State Department, Interpol, the Chicago Police Department" and so on. (He further noted that "the evidence was not strong enough to prohibit or eliminate unreasonable doubt" -- an interesting standard of proof.) Karenga should know about FBI infiltration.
In the category of the-gentleman-doth-protest-too-much, back in the '70s, Karenga was quick to criticize rumors that black radicals were government-supported. When Nigerian newspapers claimed that some American black radicals were CIA operatives, Karenga leapt in to denounce the idea publicly, saying, "Africans must stop generalizing about the loyalties and motives of Afro-Americans, including the widespread suspicion of black Americans being CIA agents."
By now, there is no question that the FBI fueled the bloody rivalry between the Panthers and United Slaves. In one barbarous outburst, Karenga's United Slaves shot Black Panther Al "Bunchy" Carter on the UCLA campus. Karenga himself served time, a useful stepping-stone for his current position as a black studies professor at California State University at Long Beach.
Kwanzaa itself is a lunatic blend of schmaltzy '60s rhetoric, black racism and Marxism. Indeed, the seven "principles" of Kwanzaa praise collectivism in every possible arena of life -- economics, work, personality, even litter removal. ("Kuumba: Everyone should strive to improve the community and make it more beautiful.") It takes a village to raise a police snitch.
When Karenga was asked to distinguish Kawaida, the philosophy underlying Kwanzaa, from "classical Marxism," he essentially explained that under Kawaida, we also hate whites. While taking the "best of" -- I'm not making this up -- "early Chinese and Cuban socialism," Kawaida practitioners believe one's racial identity "determines life conditions, life chances and self-understanding." There's an inclusive philosophy for you.
Coincidentally, the seven principles of Kwanzaa are the very same seven principles of the Symbionese Liberation Army, another charming invention of the Least-Great Generation. In 1974, Patricia Hearst, kidnap victim-cum-SLA revolutionary, posed next to the banner of her alleged captors, a seven-headed cobra. Each snake head stood for one of the SLA's revolutionary principles: Umojo, Kujichagulia, Ujima, Ujamaa, Nia, Kuumba and Imani -- precisely the seven "principles" of Kwanzaa.
With his Kwanzaa greetings, President Bush is saluting the intellectual sibling of the Symbionese Liberation Army, killer of housewives and police. He is saluting the founder of United Slaves, who were such lunatics that they shot Panthers for not being sufficiently insane -- all with the FBI as their covert ally. It's as if David Duke invented a holiday called "Anglica," and the president of the United States issued a presidential proclamation honoring the synthetic holiday. People might well stand up and take notice if that happened.
Kwanzaa was the result of a '60s psychosis grafted onto black community. Liberals have become so mesmerized by multicultural nonsense that they have forgotten the real history of Kwanzaa and United Slaves -- the violence, the Marxism, the insanity. Most absurdly, for leftists anyway, is that they have forgotten the FBI's tacit encouragement of this murderous black nationalist cult founded by the father of Kwanzaa.
Now the "holiday" concocted by an FBI dupe is honored in a presidential proclamation calling it a "holiday that promotes mutual understanding." A movement that started approximately 2,000 years before Kwanzaa leaps well beyond merely "promot(ing) mutual understanding" to say we are all equal before God. It is so inclusive, people get mad at it. That movement is also celebrated this week. But the Christian leaders at the forefront of the abolitionist and civil rights movements have been washed down the memory hole.
DemocRATS have to maintain their 90+% stranglehold on black votes or they will join the Soviet Union on the ash heap of history.
In its efforts to do so, the RATS are unwittingly repelling greater numbers of white voters.
The Republican Party will gratefully accept those votes and then pass legislation that will benefit people of all races, colors, ethnicities, national origins, cultures, sexes, etc.
Both statements are demonstrable bullshit....
Boy, do I love Ann.
A great big "wow!" bump for brilliance and beauty.
Does it ever occur to those who jump on President Bush everytime he violates their particular conservative orthodoxy that he isn't really the evil that they want to believe he is. This is a huge country population wise with many different points of view. Our constitution and legal system, rightly or wrongly, have established those diferences. The right, including President Bush, has a tough job turning the ship around from port to starboard. The evil infestation of leftist, or as I prefer communist, intentions did not start yesterday, they didn't even start in the 1960's. We have hate filled leftist media such as brokaw, and that canadian who spew their smiley faced propaganda daily. We have the sacharine stalinist anti-private property, anti-individual rights agenda in our faces daily. The anti-honest firearms owners bilge dialy. Most people don't look below the surface to examine the dangers of the communist ideology. I'm not saying its right, we should all be vigilant. I'm not saying that Kwanzaa isn't a hate filled racist philosophy promulgated by racists because I believe it is. I'm not saying Bush is right all the time, and we should challenge all politicians. But--I do think that we have a huge job to do, and we can't fight all of the bastards at once. So he says a few nice words to the racists, so what? It doesn't help our cause that dip$#its like Lott are too stupid to think about what they're saying. Our journey is more than a 1000 miles, as frustrating as that thought is, we have many steps to go to achieve the goal. We won't win everything either. The only rebellion that I'm aware of in history that came close to achieving what it set out to achieve was our own. We can have an armed rebellion against our own government now, but what will replace it?
So start your revolution friend. Let's plainly see how many sunshine soldiers you can line up for your cause. Maybe you can be the later day Oliver Cromwell. Sincere Good luck to you. Merry CHRISTmas from a CHRISTian conservative.
Imagine, however, their delight if Bush did NOT recognize Kwanzaa.
Most ignoramuses out there think Kwanzaa is the black Christmas. They'd be only too happy to label W. a racist for neglecting "their" holiday.
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