Is it just me, or does Kwanzaa seem to come earlier and earlier each year?
This year, I believe my triumph over this synthetic holiday is nearly
complete. The only mentions of Kwanzaa I've seen are humorous ones.
Most important, for the first time in eight years, President George
Bush appears not to have issued "Kwanzaa greetings" to honor this phony
non-Christian holiday that is younger than I am.
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. Using that criterion,
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.
(Sing to "Jingle Bells")
Kwanzaa bells, dashikis sell
Whitey has to pay;
Burning, shooting, oh what fun
On this made-up holiday!
Kwanzaa itself is a nutty 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 of 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.
Coincidentally, the seven principles of Kwanzaa are the very same seven
principles of the Symbionese Liberation Army, another charming
invention of the Worst 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 exact same seven "principles" of
Kwanzaa.
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.
This is a holiday for white liberals -- the kind of holiday Bill Ayers
and Bernardine Dohrn probably celebrate. Meanwhile, most blacks
celebrate Christmas.
Kwanzaa liberates no one; Christianity liberates everyone, proclaiming
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). Not surprisingly, it was practitioners of that faith
who were at the forefront of the abolitionist and civil rights
movements.
Next year this time, we'll find out if our new "Halfrican" president is
really black or just another white liberal. If he's black enough to say
the "brothers should pull up their pants," surely Obama can just say no
to Kwanzaa.
