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Two questions, how many black people do you know that celebrate Kwanzaa? I’ll wait. Next question; who’s buying the Kwanzaa decorations at Lowes, Party City, Target, or any of the other panderers.
Let’s be honest, Kwanzaa is a jolly batch of virtue signalling by corporate America and the nearest lily white humanities department deployed to alleviate liberal guilt.
If liberals in Hollywood still had a sense of humor, they would hire Jason Alexander to do a Festivus-esque spoof of Kwanzaa – the “African American” alternative to Christmas invented by ’60s-radical and convicted felon Ronald McKinley Everett – who changed his name to the more “African” sounding Maulana Karenga back in the ‘60s.
Festivus being as fictitious as “Kwanzaa” – which is about as “African” as Jason Alexander. Or Everett-Karenga, for that matter.
The latter was born in Parsonsburg, Maryland – not Africa.
Similarly, “Kwanzaa” was born in the mind of Everett-Karenga. The only thing “African” about it is the corruption of a Swahili phrase, “matunda y kwanza,” which translates as “first fruits of the harvest.”
Everett-Karenga even got the spelling wrong.
But it’s the meaning that Everett-Karenga warped. From an innocuous and apolitical phrase, he created a celebration – not of “first fruits,” but of communism. And of division – based on race. Christmas, for whites – as a celebration of “white supremacy” (as characterized by Everett-Karenga) and never mind that Jesus was Middle Eastern and preached salvation for all mankind.
Kwanzaa (sic) for blacks, as a repudiation of Christmas.
A piece in the Guardian makes the former explicit: Kwanzaa (sic) is an “opportunity [for black people] to celebrate themselves and their history rather than indulge in the customary traditions of a white Christmas.”
Italics added.
NPR blithely styles Kwanzaa (sic) as “a mainstream holiday like Christmas and Hanukkah” that “celebrate(s) African-American culture.”
The Los Angeles Times says the invented (and misspelled) holiday is a way to “honor African heritage and bring Black families and communities together.”
Italics added, again.
Because of course the birth of Christ never did that.
Instead, Kwanzaa (sic) encourages a “celebration” of European ideas such as “cooperative economics.” An idea straight out of the Communist Manifesto, which was written by a white man from Europe who plagiarized the ideas of another white man (Plato, also from Europe) re-sold to black Americans as something “African” . . . by a man who wasn’t born there.
And there is nothing “cooperative” about Communism.
The ideas propagated by Marx-channeling-Plato (who first described the ideal communist state in his Republic) and re-branded as “African” by Everett-Karenga in the ‘60s are imposed by force when people decline to “cooperate.” Liberals – Leftists – always shy away from discussing the violence that lies at the core of their ideas – that is the dark heart of communism, without which it cannot impose its ideas. Because absent force, most people want nothing to do with communism. Because it is a terrible idea.
One that has led to mass-murder and mass-enslavement of whole populations.
You’d think a black American such as Everett-Karenga would be opposed to slavery. Especially of Africans, who have suffered horribly under the yoke of “cooperative economics.” See, for example, the reigns of Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe, of Sani Abacha of Nigeria and – perhaps most infamously – Idi Amin of Uganda.
But then, Everett-Karenga does have something in common with these African tyrants – in that they all practiced violence, including torture.
In 1971, Everett-Karenga was convicted for doing just that to two women – Deborah Jones and Gail Davis – who had been part of his United Slaves group of Leftists radicals. According to a May, 1971 LA Times news story about the trial and subsequent conviction of Everett-Karenga, Jones “testified that a hot soldering iron was placed in Miss Davis’ mouth and placed against Miss Davis’ face and that one of her own big toes was tightened in a vise. Karenga, head of US, also put detergent and running hoses in their mouths.”
The article goes on to state that “the victims said they were hit on the heads with toasters.”
Everett-Karenga also reportedly told the women “Vietnamese torture is nothing compared to what I know.”
He meant, of course, the North Vietnamese communist, who also practiced “cooperative economics.”
Everett-Karenga was eventually convicted of felony assault and false imprisonment and sentenced to prison for his crimes. He was paroled in 1975. After which he became a tenured professor of – what else? – Africana Studies (the new term for what was formerly Black Studies) at California State University in Long Beach, CA.
Today’s LA Times does not mention this history of Kwanzaa’s (sic) founder when covering Kwanzaa (sic).
FrontPage writer Paul Mulshine wrote about this memory-holing of Everett-Karenga’s background, which he says has “disappeared into an Orwellian time warp” – just like the picture of the disgraced Inner Party members attending a conference that proved the Party was lying about them, which Winston Smith (in Orwell’s novel about “cooperative economics,” 1984) quickly throws into the fire.
Mulshine says that Kwanzaa (sic) has “nothing to do with Africa and everything to do with California in the ’60s,” by which he means the radical Leftist politics of the ’60s.
These having become the woke politics of the ’20s – largely embraced by white liberals, such as the ones writing hagiographies about Kwanzaa’s origins and whitewashing the ugly history of its felonious inventor. I wonder if any of these big box stores know the garbage they are pushing in their stores?
Interestingly, mot many black Americans seem much interested in Kwanzaa (sic).
A recent survey conducted by the National Retail Foundation notes that only 1.6 percent of the entire American public actually celebrates Kwanzaa (sic). That puts it on par with Festivus, the fictitious holiday invented by George, the fictitious character portrayed by Jason Alexander in the hit sitcom, Seinfeld.
With the difference being that George wasn’t a convicted felon – and Festivus was an original invention – unlike the retreaded fraud that is Kwanzaa (sic).
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