The Truth is an inviolate thing, often remaining hidden from view behind a cloud of ever-changing Facts. Science is filled with examples. So is Society. Take Kwanzaa.
In 1966, a college professor in California named Ron Everitt created Kwanzaa. He changed his name to Maulana Karenga, shaved his head, and began wearing traditional African clothing. He created seven principles, integrated the harvest celebrations practiced in Africa, and built a strong cultural identity into the celebration. Each of the seven days of Kwanzaa is dedicated to one of seven principles, which together comprise Kawaida, Karenga's name for his belief system. They are...
1. Umoja (Unity) To strive for and to maintain unity in the family, community, nation and race.
2. Kujichagulia (Self-Determination) To define ourselves, name ourselves, create for ourselves and speak for ourselves.
3. Ujima (Collective Work and Responsibility) To build and maintain our community together and make our brothers' and sisters' problems our problems and to solve them together.
4. Ujamaa (Cooperative Economics) To build and maintain our own stores, shops and other businesses and to profit from them together.
5. Nia (Purpose) To make our collective vocation the building and developing of our community in order to restore our people to their traditional greatness.
6. Kuumba (Creativity) To do always as much as we can, in the way we can, in order to leave our community more beautiful and beneficial than we inherited it.
7. Imani (Faith) To believe with all our heart in our people, our parents, our teachers, our leaders and the righteousness and victory of our struggle.
These seven principles define a cultural and community unity, and are celebrated by blacks across America.
Those are the facts of Kwanzaa, propogated by the Old Media and Academia. The Truth of Kwanzaa has been deliberately hidden, for if it were common knowlege that Kwanzaa, as an institution, is diametrically opposed to racial integration and Capitalism, and hides a violent past behind its holiday veneer, I believe few Americans would celebrate it. Its founder, Karenga, was at the time the leader of a violent anti-American group known as the United Slaves Organization, is a convicted felon, and came up with his decidedly out-of-the-mainstream views while serving a prison sentence. His stated goal was to create an alternative to Christmas, and his words are blantantly racist: "It was chosen to give a Black alternative to the existing holiday and give Blacks an opportunity to celebrate themselves and history, rather than simply imitate the practice of the dominant society."
I suppose it would be easy to ignore the inherent problems of Kwanzaa's founder, were it not for its in-your-face display of the Black Nationalist flag. The red, black, and green color scheme is African in origin, but was first used as a flag in 1920, by Marcus Garvey, for the Black Nationalism movement. The red represents the necessity of bloodshed in pursuit of Black Nationalism, the black represents the color of their skin, and the green stands for land they feel they deserve. According to the The Kwanzaa Information Center, there is an ongoing 'black struggle'. "We lost our land through blood; and we cannot gain it except through blood. We must redeem our lives through the blood. Without the shedding of blood there can be no redemption of this race."
The insidious facade of Kwanzaa doesn't end there, for Karenga's Kawaida, his seven principles, are drawn directly from Marxist Socialism. Karenga's principles are best understood if we add the qualifier 'Black' to them.
1. To strive for and to maintain unity in the [Black] family, [Black] community, [Black] nation, and [Black] race.
2. To define ourselves [as Black], name ourselves [as Black], create for ourselves [as Black], and speak for ourselves [as Black].
3. To build and maintain [Black] communit[ies] together and make [Black] brothers' and sisters' problems our problems and to solve them together.
4. To build and maintain [Black] stores, [Black] shops and other [Black] businesses and to profit from them together.
5. To make [Black] collective vocation the building and developing of [the Black] community in order to restore [Black] people to their traditional greatness.
6. To do always as much as [Black's] can, in the way [Black's] can, in order to leave [the Black] community more beautiful and beneficial than we inherited it.
7. To believe with all our heart in [Black] people, [Black] parents, [Black] teachers, [Black] leaders and the righteousness and victory of [Black] struggle.
Why can we do this? Because the seven prinicples of Kawaida correspond to Karenga's desire for all African Americans to "...think black, talk black, act black, create black, buy black, vote black, and live black."
My kindergartner came home with an art project just the other day. They had been learning about Kwanzaa, that wonderful celebration of Community and Culture. The facts had been given to her, as deemed appropriate for her age group by Academia, and the art project was indicative - a red, black, and green flag. No thought was given as to whether or not the beliefs of a pervert should be fostered upon young, impressionable minds. It infuriates me, that the rantings of a man once convicted for the imprisonment, assault, and torture of two women for two days could be found to have merit. In this bent and twisted world, a man who, as described by one of the victims, "ordered [them]to remove their clothes", "whipped [them] with an electrical cord" and "beat [them] with a karate baton" can become the founder of a holiday. Where is the sanity in teaching children about the beliefs of a man who put "a hot soldering iron" in the mouth and on the face of a woman, and "put detergent and running hoses in their mouths". No self-respecting father would allow even the word Kwanzaa to be spoken, were the truth about it's origin known.
The price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance. Thanks to our Liberal friends, so too is the price of Truth.
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