How Kwanzaa Cons You

By Michael Savage
NewsMax.com
January 1, 2000

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If you're Black and celebrate Kwanzaa, would you drop the celebration if you learned that it's not from Africa but that it's a complete invention, that it's out of Orwell, not out of Africa? Would you give up the candles, incense, and the other paraphernalia that you enjoy so much if you discovered that it's a bogus holiday?

This is what the founder himself, Ron Karenga, had to say about Kwanzaa in a Washington Post interview of many years ago: "People think it's African, but it's not. I came up with Kwanzaa because Black people 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 are partying."

But now-a-days this simple fact, admitted by Karenga himself, is ignored by the press. In fact most of the criminal records of Ron Karenga, a former radical Black-student leader who later became a Marxist and a professor of Black Studies, have been ignored and have strangely disappeared. The left media and cowardly college administrators don't want you to know about Karenga's felonious past in the radical â€˜60s and â€˜70s and that Kwanzaa is a bogus holiday. They want to hide the fact that Kwanzaa has become just one more White-liberal manipulation of Blacks instead of a legitimate holiday for them. It fits the leftist paranoia that Blacks have been robbed of their heritage by the mean and cruel Whites. It's just one more gimmick to stir up racial hatred in this country in preparation for the Orwellian paradise the red diaper-doper babies have in store for us.

But if we follow the lies of the liberal fanatics, then most Americans today, including Whites, would have to conclude that they've been "robbed" of their roots as well. Few of us celebrate the same holidays or continue the same customs as our old-world ancestors. Maybe once a year we should join hands, dance around the phallus, and bow to the moon.

Karenga and the other "Black Roots" people didn't get their geography straight, either. Somehow they latched onto Swahili as their ancestral tongue. Just look at your map. Swahili is a language of the African east coast. Yet most of the African slaves in America were from the west coast, thousands of miles away, where they spoke completely different languages and had very different customs than in the east.

I do want to say this about Kwanzaa: I admire Karenga's imagination in inventing it, but I certainly wouldn't celebrate a bogus holiday myself. Anyone who can create a religion in his own time and sell the cards, candles, and paraphernalia, and make a go of it, must be a gifted entrepreneur. My research also tells me that Karenga is not a racist. In fact, the best research on Ron Karenga reveals no violence against Whites by him or his followers. He had an excellent relationship with former Los Angeles Mayor Sam Yorty. He met with then Governor Ronald Reagan and other white politicians. But, according to the research, Karenga did have strong contempt for other Blacks.

In any event, we live in a country where we have freedom of religion, so Maulana (Master Teacher) Karenga (born Ron. N. Everett) can believe and practice whatever he wants. You have the right to worship anything at all. You can even prostrate yourself before chicken feathers mixed with the blood of a menstruating cow if that's your belief. It's your right. Freedom of conscience is the most important fundament of this nation. It's something no one else can decide for you. We should let no one take it from us. God will be the final arbiter, not talking-heads on the evening news, not sensitivity trainers, touchy-feely counselors, lesbian school teachers, or even the ACLU.

When the Bolsheviks seized power in Russia religion was attacked first, as the "opiate of the masses"! Hitler attacked the church in Germany, making himself God, the Nazi Party the new State Church. So even a bogus religion may be preferable to a demonic, soulless bureaucracy run by smiling talkers of double-speak.

The Founding Fathers guaranteed us "freedom of religion" not "freedom from religion." This purposeful deception, fostered by the ACLU, is perhaps the paramount achievement of the radical left in this God-fearing nation.

Do a search at Newsmax and Yahoo about Kwanzaa, and Ron Karenga. Still want to celebrate?

What if a white seperatist or supremist with a violent past invented a white heratige holiday. Would it be right to celebrate it decades later as honoring Western European heratige and values?