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KWANZAA

Kwanzaa is a week-long festival celebrated mainly in the U.S. from December 26 through January 1 each year. It was established in 1966 by the socialist and black nationalist Maulana Karenga, who branded the holiday as a black alternative to Christmas. Karenga's idea was to celebrate the end of what he considered the Christmas-season exploitation of African Americans.

According to the official Kwanzaa website, the celebration was designed to foster "conditions that would enhance the revolutionary social change for the masses of Black Americans" and provide a "reassessment, reclaiming, recommitment, remembrance, retrieval, resumption, resurrection and rejuvenation of those principles (Way of Life) utilized by Black Americans' ancestors."

Karenga postulated seven principles: unity, self-determination, collective work and responsibility, cooperative economics, purpose, creativity, and faith, each of which gets its day during Kwanzaa week. The third and fourth principles in that list are overtly Marxist. In fact, the seven principles as a whole mirror precisely the principles symbolized by the seven-headed cobra emblem of the Symbionese Liberation Army, a pro-Marxist, revolutionary terrorist group of the 1970s.

The philosophy underlying Kwanzaa is known as Kawaida, a variation of classical Marxism that includes also enmity toward white people. Practitioners of Kawaida believe that one's racial identity "determines life conditions, life chances and self-understanding."

Karenga and his votaries also crafted a flag of black nationalism and a pledge: "We pledge allegiance to the red, black, and green, our flag, the symbol of our eternal struggle, and to the land we must obtain; one nation of black people, with one G-d of us all, totally united in the struggle, for black love, black freedom, and black self-determination."

The name "Kwanzaa" derives from the Swahili term "matunda yakwanza," or "first fruit," and the festival's trappings have Swahili names -- such as "ujima" for "collective work and responsibility" or "muhindi," which are ears of corn celebrants set aside for each child in a family. But Swahili has no historical relevance for American blacks. Most slaves were taken from the shores of West Africa; Swahili is an East African tongue. Even the rituals using corn don't fit. Corn isn't indigenous to Africa. Mexican Indians developed it, and the crop was carried worldwide by white colonialists. The inventors of Kwanzaa were not promoting a return to roots; they were shilling for Marxism.


Adapted from "The Truth about Kwanzaa," by Tony Snow (December 31, 1999), and "Kwanzaa: A Holiday From the FBI," by Ann Coulter
(January 2, 2008)
.

Major Introductory Resources:

Happy Kwanzaa
By Paul Mulshine
December 24, 1999

I'm Dreaming of a White Kwanzaa
By Chris Griffith
December 22, 2000

The TRUTH about Kwanzaa
By Tony Snow
December 31, 1999


Additional Key Resources:

My Triumph Over Kwanzaa!
By Ann Coulter
December 24, 2008

The Politically Incorrect Truth about Kwanzaa
By Marcia Segelstein
December 16, 2008

Kwanzaa: A Holiday From the FBI (Further Updated)
By Ann Coulter
January 2, 2008

Kwanzaa: A Holiday From the FBI (Updated)
By Ann Coulter
December 27, 2006

Kwanzaa -- Racist Holiday from Hell
By Reverend Jesse Lee Peterson
December 29, 2004

Shopping for Roots
By Richard J. Rosendall
December 26, 2003

Why Black Christians Shouldn't Celebrate Kwanzaa
By La Shawn Barber
December 2003

Racial Revelry
By Frederick Meekins
January 27, 2002

The Rotten Roots of Kwanzaa
By Thomas Clough
December 2001

Kwanzaa: A Holiday From the FBI
By Ann Coulter
December 29, 2000

The True Spirit of Kwanzaa
By William Norman Grigg
December 20, 1999


Other Resources:

Happy Kwanzaa
By Patrick S. Poole
September 17, 2005

Kwanza Komedy
By Kathy Shaidle
December 16, 2003

Did You Have a Happy Kwanzaa?
By Joseph Farah
January 10, 2002

So This Is Kwanzaa
By Lynn Woolley
December 17, 2001

We Wish You a Phony Festival
By Kathy Shaidle
December 2001

Christmas Past – Christmas Present
By Diane Alden
December 24, 2000

The Kwanzaa Hoax
By William J. Bennetta
September-October 2000

I'm OK, You're Y2K
By Lowell Ponte
January 4, 2000

How Kwanzaa Cons You
By Michael Savage
January 1, 2000

The Spirit of Kwanzaa
By Mona Charen
December 30, 1997




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