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Wednesday, December 19, 2007
Kwanzaa: the Secret Truth Revealed
Kwanzaa is the celebration invented by Ron N. Everett, who later changed his last name to Karenga and added the Swahili word Maulana, which means "master teacher". Everett invented Kwanzaa in 1966, as a black alternative to Christmas. He wanted African-Americans to celebrate an alternative to what he considered the Christmas-season exploitation of blacks.
Christmas, of course, does not exploit blacks any more than it exploits anybody else. It's a ridiculous idea to think that Christmas, in some strange way, exploits blacks more than it exploits everyone else. It's an absurd assertion by Everett.
Everett based Kwanzaa on a deception. Everett said, "I came up with Kwanzaa because black people in this country wouldn't celebrate it if they knew it was American. Also, I put it around Christmas because I knew that's when a lot of bloods would be partying." "Bloods" is a '60s California slang term for black people. (Paul Mulshine – Happy Kwanzaa, Dec. 24, 1999, FrontPageMag.com).
So, what kind of background does Ron Everett possess to qualify him to create a spiritual celebration for a whole race of people? After all, the founder of Judaism is Moses. The founder of Christianity is Jesus Christ. The founder of Islam is the Prophet Muhammad. The founder of Buddhism is Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha.
So, just who in the world is Ron Everett?
According to Mychal Massie,an African-American columnist who has appeared on the Fox News Channel, CNN, MSNBC, NBC and talk radio programming nationwide:"In 1971, Everett was sentenced to 1 to 10 years for brutally assaulting two of his (black) followers. After forcing them to strip, they were beaten with an electrical cord and a karate baton. He put a hot soldering iron in the mouth and against the face of one of the women and crushed the big toe of the other woman in a vice. He then put detergent and running hoses in their mouths."
The sadistic bastard who committed that horrible criminal act is the same Ron N. Everett who invented Kwanzaa.
Still, in fairness to Everett, he served his time and was released from prison. He is presently a professor of Black Studies at California State University at Long Beach under the Karenga name. After hearing that, I'm very grateful that I am not an alumnus of CSULB. It seems to have gone to the dogs.
Everett is a fully rehabilitated person today. I'll stipulate to that for the record. He may even be a great instructor. He may be a sweet guy and ... blah, blah, bullshit.
People in this country have the freedom to follow any tradition they want. Religious freedom is guaranteed by the Constitution. We are all free to be as tasteless and naive as we want to be.
Kwanzaa followers are the 21st century proof of the famous statement credited to Phineas Taylor Barnum (1810-1891), "There's a sucker born every minute."
The number of Kwanzaa followers prove P. T. Barnum's statement.
There's a sucker born every minute.
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4 comments:
said...
Tut tut; There was good enough motive at the time behind his reasoning when he started Kwanzaa (before he went off his rocker) --which runs from being a matter of confusion to utter surprise to Africans in Africa. What worries me the most is that with the passage of time, Kwanzaa has been embued with some ancient origin. If there's a true African-American holiday, it would be New Year's Day, when the Emancipation Proclamation first took effect, and was reverently celebrated until it faded away with the passing last of the last living freed slaves.
I have enough of a headache trying to explain to Jewish friends why "Christmas trees" are no more "Christian" in their origin than chopsticks.
Thursday, December 20, 2007 4:05:00 PM PST
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Tut tut; There was good enough motive at the time behind his reasoning when he started Kwanzaa (before he went off his rocker) --which runs from being a matter of confusion to utter surprise to Africans in Africa. What worries me the most is that with the passage of time, Kwanzaa has been embued with some ancient origin. If there's a true African-American holiday, it would be New Year's Day, when the Emancipation Proclamation first took effect, and was reverently celebrated until it faded away with the passing last of the last living freed slaves.
I have enough of a headache trying to explain to Jewish friends why "Christmas trees" are no more "Christian" in their origin than chopsticks.
Thank you Sam. My family and I came very close to being seduced and deceived by Dr. Karenga. Now that we know the truth about this guy we plan to stay very far away from him and his Kwanzaa Krap.
Tuesday, June 17, 2008 9:42:00 AM PDT
Anonymous said...
Wow. Karenga sounds like he should still be behind bars somewhere. He's scary!
4 comments:
Tut tut; There was good enough motive at the time behind his reasoning when he started Kwanzaa (before he went off his rocker) --which runs from being a matter of confusion to utter surprise to Africans in Africa. What worries me the most is that with the passage of time, Kwanzaa has been embued with some ancient origin. If there's a true African-American holiday, it would be New Year's Day, when the Emancipation Proclamation first took effect, and was reverently celebrated until it faded away with the passing last of the last living freed slaves.
I have enough of a headache trying to explain to Jewish friends why "Christmas trees" are no more "Christian" in their origin than chopsticks.
Tut tut; There was good enough motive at the time behind his reasoning when he started Kwanzaa (before he went off his rocker) --which runs from being a matter of confusion to utter surprise to Africans in Africa. What worries me the most is that with the passage of time, Kwanzaa has been embued with some ancient origin. If there's a true African-American holiday, it would be New Year's Day, when the Emancipation Proclamation first took effect, and was reverently celebrated until it faded away with the passing last of the last living freed slaves.
I have enough of a headache trying to explain to Jewish friends why "Christmas trees" are no more "Christian" in their origin than chopsticks.
Thank you Sam. My family and I came very close to being seduced and deceived by Dr. Karenga. Now that we know the truth about this guy we plan to stay very far away from him and his Kwanzaa Krap.
Wow. Karenga sounds like he should still be behind bars somewhere. He's scary!
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