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Thursday, December 29, 2005
 
Kwanzaa
People keep asking, "what's Kwanzaa?" I knew part of the answer: that it's a holiday created by some professor in the '60s that purports to celebrate African culture. After reading this article by Mary Katharine Ham, I now know more about "some professor".

My Rocky Relationship With Kwanzaa

Excerpt:

Later, I found out why. Revealing that Kwanzaa was created by Ron Karenga leads to revealing Ron Karenga, and that subject is hardly one that's fit for a second-grade classroom.

Why? Because at various times during his life, Karenga was head of a black nationalist group not known for its non-violent tactics; he was convicted and served time for torturing two women-- members of his own group-- by whipping them with electrical cords and burning their mouths and faces with a hot iron; he invented Kwanzaa as a way to "de-whitize" Christmas, as Al Sharpton once put it, expressly as a way to separate the races.


Worth reading the whole thing.
Comments:
What I have a problem with is a tradition that was started by a convicted felon. This is a general problem with the left and the black leadership - who are very left anyway. They constantly want to honor people who are not worthy of honor - like Tookie
Williams. In my book, they lose vast amounts of credibility by these kind of actions. Pity so many are not critial thinkers.

Further, b&c told me the other day that she had found out that the tenets of Kwanza were taken from the Symbionese Liberation Army. (Anybody remember Patty Hearst?). They were an anti-social gang of criminals. So maybe Kwanza was really meant to be a celebration of anti-social behavior. A nuance that most people have not realized.
 
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