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Ann Coulter wrote:

Kwanzaa: A Holiday From The FBI

President Bush's 2005 Kwanzaa message began with the patently absurd statement: "African-Americans and people around the world reflect on African heritage during Kwanzaa."
   
I believe more African-Americans spent this season reflecting on the birth of Christ than some phony non-Christian holiday invented a few decades ago by an FBI stooge. Kwanzaa is a holiday for white liberals, not blacks.

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, gunning down 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. Karenga should know about FBI infiltration. (He further noted that the evidence against O.J. "was not strong enough to prohibit or eliminate unreasonable doubt" -- an interesting standard of proof.)

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 publicly denounced the idea, saying, "Africans must stop generalizing about the loyalties and motives of Afro-Americans, including the widespread suspicion of black Americans being CIA agents."

Now we know that the FBI fueled the bloody rivalry between the Panthers and United Slaves. In one barbarous outburst, Karenga's United Slaves shot to death Black Panthers Al "Bunchy" Carter and Deputy Minister John Huggins 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 early Chinese and Cuban socialism" -- which one assumes would exclude the forced abortions, imprisonment for homosexuals and forced labor -- Kawaida practitioners believe one's racial identity "determines life conditions, life chances and self-understanding." There's an inclusive philosophy for you.

(Sing to "Jingle Bells")

Kwanzaa bells, dashikis sell

Whitey has to pay;

Burning, shooting, oh what fun

On this made-up holiday!

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: Umoja, Kujichagulia, Ujima, Ujamaa, Nia, Kuumba and Imani -- the same 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 "Anglika," 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 the black community. Liberals have become so mesmerized by multicultural nonsense that they have forgotten the real history of Kwanzaa and Karenga's 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 and public schools across the nation. Bush called Kwanzaa a holiday that promotes "unity" and "faith." Faith in what? Liberals' unbounded capacity to respect any faith but Christianity?

A movement that started approximately 2,000 years before Kwanzaa leaps well beyond merely "unity" and "faith" to proclaim that we are all equal before God. "There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus" (Galatians 3:28). It was practitioners of that faith who were at the forefront of the abolitionist and civil rights movements. But that's all been washed down the memory hole, along with the true origins of Kwanzaa.

Last edited by Tetrachloride (2005-12-31 7:57 am)

Did she get her facts wrong?

Farmerkev wrote:

Did she get her facts wrong?

Plus, it's her opinions and conclusions which are the biggest problem here.

It's no more a steaming pile than Christmas.

Ribtorus wrote:

It's no more a steaming pile than Christmas.

I would suggest a holiday that evolved over centuries combining elements from many cultures just might be little more significant than one that some guy pulled out of his ass one day and is based on nothing either historical or mythological.

Chritmas was pulled from someone's as at some time.

What makes people's fairy tales any more valid than others?

We could all start celebrating Michaelmas.  We just need some good mass-market catches to go along with it.

It already has two really good ones:

In England it was the custom to eat a goose on Michaelmas, which was supposed to protect against financial need for the next year. In Ireland, finding a ring hidden in a Michaelmas pie meant that one would soon be married.

But it needs something with the sheer consumerism pull of Christmas.  Some kind of magic figure bringing... what should it be?  Presents?  Candy?  Underwear?  to the kids. 

A chupacabra!  Named, oh... "Barty."  On Michelmas, Barty the Chupacabra visits all the good children of the world and delivers socks and underwear. The good children leave their pet goats in the living room for Barty to snack on (but never kill) because Barty comes into their house through... er... the clock.

Hmm... the socks and underwear thing needs work.  Not commercial enough.  Too limited in scope.  Designer clothes?

Ribtorus wrote:

Chritmas was pulled from someone's as at some time.

What makes people's fairy tales any more valid than others?

If you don't know, there isn't room here to explain. It's similar to the difference between Esperanto and any natural language.

All praise Steve Wozniak!

And I proclaim myself official Lord High Poobah of the Wozniite movement.... in light of my possession of the Holyy Woz Edition Apple IIgs. our national day for the celebration of Wozniac will be the Wozzapalooza, helled on my birthday... which incidently will be everyday. I shall also be patron saint of Wozzapalooza and on each Wozzapalooza Eve, I shall travel around in my VW bus, distributing Undies and Socks thru the um... clothes dryer... his act will represent the galant act of Steve Jobs sacrificing his VW bus for the privelidge of having Woz build the first Appl I in his garage wearing only sox and undies... because... the um... dryer stopped working.... so his clothes didn't dry...

There... PERFECT!!!!

Tallgeese wrote:

Ribtorus wrote:

Chritmas was pulled from someone's as at some time.

What makes people's fairy tales any more valid than others?

If you don't know, there isn't room here to explain. It's similar to the difference between Esperanto and any natural language.

Yeppers, nice example.

Christmas wasn't invented. It was attached to an earlier holiday.