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.
So that makes it all right? As long as you're doing something racist for political reasons it is just dandy.
If you do stuff because you want avoid the wrath of the ignoramuses, then you allow yourself to be controlled by ignoramuses. If you're the President of the United States, you then let the nation be guided by ignoramuses.
"Happy Kwanzaa to those citizens who celebrate it" would have been enough.
If Klansman David Duke had invented a white separatist holiday in 1966 called "Klanzaa", had his Klansman murder 2 rival white racists in the hallway of a college student union, and then joined 2 of his Klansman in torturing 2 young girls with a soldering iron, a vice, an electrical cord, and caustic detergeant and then spent 5 years in prison for doing it, and if David Duke was now a self-proclaimed marxist who continues to spread his message of marxist white separatism - would you think it would be acceptable under any circumstances for George Bush to have said: "Happy Klanzaa to those citizens who celebrate it"??
No, I didn't think so.
Problem is, the vast majority think Kwanzaa is the black Christmas, so that's what it is. Just like Ramadan is a holiday of a religion started by a murdering pedophile, but the President recognized those who celebrate Ramadan, too.
Even knowing I know now, with the understanding that many Americans consider Kwanzaa black Christmas, if I'm advising Bush I still advise he say "Happy Kwanzaa."
Has he mentioned Kwanzaa in past years? If not, you can probably thank Trent Lott for this new tack.
This is America, freedom, even freedom of speech.
Bush is a conservative??
Thats correct. You, GWB,and anyone else can say what they want, that does not mean I have to agree with what is said. But I don't have the right to keep them from saying it. So, some people want to celebrate Kwanzaa, I don't believe in it, so I don't participate. I don't think about Kwanzaa, and I don't really dwell on the Muslim faith. I do stay vigilant when it comes to terrorist, sleeper cells, and the rest.
Sometimes words are just that, words. I focus on actions. What Trent Lott said was to me very harmless, meant nothing, just jabber. But it takes other simple minded people to take something someone says and blow it out of proportion. I replied to a thread regarding this matter (GWB wishing Kwanzaa celebraters well) before I left Texas for Christmas holidays and now I sit in Georgia, almost a couple of days after Christmas and still the concern of GWB's greeting runs rampid.
Pure rhetoric, GWB does not, and could not possibly know what the vast majority of American citizens respect.
I'm sorry, but I believe in this silly thing called the truth - the "vast majority" be damned.
Even knowing I know now, with the understanding that many Americans consider Kwanzaa black Christmas, if I'm advising Bush I still advise he say "Happy Kwanzaa."
So then, knowing what you know about David Duke in my rhetorical "Klanzaa" scenario, you'd go with the "Happy Klanzaa" statement!? Son, you've got a bad case of white man's guilt there you might want to have removed.
Has he mentioned Kwanzaa in past years? If not, you can probably thank Trent Lott for this new tack.
He's mentioned it in the past. In fact, he sent an almost identical Kwanzaa proclaimation this time last year. I wondered why Ann Coulter didn't call him on it as her article here was originally published in 2000 attacking Clinton for acknowledging the racist holiday. All she did now is add the Trent Lott stuff and changed Clinton to Bush throughout. By doing so, her underlying message is that Bush is acting no different than Clinton in the matter and that he should know better.
The truth didn't seem to matter when Bush went along with the wild distortion of what Trent Lott said and it didn't seem to matter when he recognized a marxist black separatist holiday invented by a sadistic gangleader. All that mattered was allowing himself to be controlled by the race-baiters who have gained control by turning suspected racial ThoughtCrime into a crime that trumps any other - the truth and reason be damned.
Not so. I would not expect "Klanzaa" to be accepted through ignorance as something it was not, as apparently Kwanzaa has been.
FReegards...
So, in your world not only does ignorance rule - but you believe that ignorance should rule.
Are you sure you're not a Democrat?
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