Kwanzaa is a made up holiday
Thanks to our friends at Red State for this:
Kwanzaa did not come about until the 1960’s. It was founded by a felon named Ron Karenga. Mr. Karenga spent time in prison for assaulting and torturing two black women. According to one of the the women in a Los Angeles Times article, the two women “were whipped with an electrical cord and beaten with a karate baton after being ordered to remove their clothes. She testified that a hot soldering iron was placed in Ms. Davis’s mouth and placed against Ms. Davis’s face.” For more on this, go here.
Let’s also remember Mr. Karenga’s own words. He noted, “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 were partying.” You be sure to remember that quote when your child is forced to celebrate it at school. Be sure to also remember Mr. Karenga called Jesus “psychotic” and called Christianity a white religion black people should shun.
And when the President of the United States issues his Kwanzaa best wishes, remember this quote from Tony Snow, who said, “There is no part of Kwanzaa that is not fraudulent.”
Now, I’d go on and tell you all about how Kwanzaa is meant to celebrate African heritage and is not celebrated in Africa and how the symbols of Kwanzaa are not used in African traditions or how Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson said “the whole holiday is made up. You won’t find its roots in Africa or anywhere else.” But there is no need. Just go check out the Wikipedia entry here.
December 21st, 2006 at 11:37 pm
I think that Kwanzaa was made up to try adding something ethnically “true” for liberal rainbow types who don’t understand the validity of the message of Hanukkah for the entire world. Although in many senses apocryphal, the celebration of the holiday for the sake Jewish ethnicity itself (as defended supernaturally and successfully from a universalizing and homogenizing world culture just like the liberals erroneously imagine Christianity to be) uniquely legitimizes the choice of this particular season for true light to shine against the darkness of sectarian error.
No other ethnic celebration properly introduces the fact that Messiah came FOR the world in fulfillment spiritually of the Abrahamic promise that was originally fleshed out in the children of Isaac and Jacob for their time, and for demonstrating the univsersality of their communal priesthood.
Africans, as potential heirs to the same power that raised Christ from the dead, through faith in the word preached - from Torah to Apocalypse - can bring to their children the same wonder and delight that Hanukkahgeld and stockings can, if only once they’ll receive for themselves the gift of new life, as little children and believe in their hearts that He Whom God raised from the dead is Lord of all.
I recommend to everyone interested in celebrating true ethnicity to honor the Jews as the root from which is sprung the true olive tree, and the only holy and sanctifying anointing from God.(Cf. Ex. 40:9,25)
Tuesday’s Jerusalem Post has a nice story on a better celebration than Kwanzaa, for African Americans in the Boston area to be observing. See
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1164881922813&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull and http://www.cufima.com for details
December 22nd, 2006 at 6:49 am
Don’t worry, Gregg, it’s only a matter of time before some moonbat calls you a racist for pointing out what a fraud Kwanzaa is.
December 22nd, 2006 at 9:34 am
Great quote from Booker Rising blog:
“More amazingly, Kwanzaa masks itself as an ‘African’ holiday celebration DESPITE THE FACT that it isnâ??t celebrated ANYWHERE in the continent of Africa. Unfortunately the general stupidity of African-Americans, coupled with white guilt, allows this bogus ‘celebration’ to continue in this country unchecked. From President Bush to Nancy Pelosi, Happy Kwanzaa greetings are constantly echoed as if it is a ‘part’ of Christmasâ??WHEN THE TRUTH OF THE MATTER IS that Kwanzaa has NOTHING to do with Christ!!! Kwanzaa is anti-Christian and anti-American, and I believe that this is the primary motivation behind ignorant blacks continuing to follow such nonsense. Despite the fact that ignorant blacks spend countless hours in church every week, they still feel obligated to celebrate this nonsense. Virtually nothing presents a clearer case of blindly following others for NO LOGICAL REASON than their unyielding support of this fake holiday, Kwanzaa.” â?? B.J. Ellis, black conservative Republican radio host who asserts that Kwanzaa (December 26-January 1) is a racist holiday
http://bookerrising.blogspot.com/2006/12/quote-of-day_20.html
December 22nd, 2006 at 9:39 am
So? Christmas was made up and tacked onto the existing pagan solstice celebration.
December 22nd, 2006 at 9:17 pm
“The general stupidity of African Americans.” Wow. The readers of this blog aren’t usually so prone to making such statements. Why not call up BJ Ellis and repeat that comment and see what he says.
Sure its a made up holiday. Karenga has a dark past. But he seems to have worked to improve himself, and good Christians forgive and give second chances as long as he has seen the light and is sincere (Luke: 23:42/ Luke 12:43).
And no matter what the origins or the marketing spin on why and when they started it, anything that helps bring families together and focuses on teaching respect for your community and your elders ain’t all that bad.
Now I do agree with Gregg that it has become fashionable to treat it on par with more established traditions, which strikes me as very odd. And I don’t want my kids celebrating it in class. Just like I don’t want them celebrating Hannukah or Ramadan. Or Jewish children being forced to celebrate Christmas. I will handle the celebrating of holidays with my children. At school, stick to education.
But is it really that harmful? The seven pillars that kwanzaa is built around are very positive, family oriented things.
I just don’t see the real issue here. There is good that can come out of kwanzaa.
December 23rd, 2006 at 9:34 am
The Mormon religion was founded by a misogynist criminal. When can we expect your outrage over that?
December 23rd, 2006 at 9:47 am
um…first moonbat….
sheesh…Christmas is celebrating the birth of a figure who’s pretty well-known around the world….unless you’re one who quetions whether Jesus Christ was (is) real.
Optimist — sure, the guy constructed a (facially) legitimate set of principles. But from his own words, he admits that it is built upon a fraud.
December 23rd, 2006 at 11:25 am
Wavemaker, I don’t disagree. It’s a mde up holiday that was started under some pretty laughable situations. But it caught on and gained a life of its own. It’s here to stay.
So focus on the fact that it pushes a very positive set of values (family, honesty, etc.) Kwanzaa ain;t about Karenga anymore. There is a lot of good that can come out of it. If you focus on what it has become, and not about its origins (and what something is now is more important).
December 24th, 2006 at 2:35 am
The Peculiar Religiosity of Barack Hussein Obama, Jr….
The thing that really bugs me about all the harping on Mitt Romney’s religion is that it keeps steering the discussion away from so many other serious issues. Instead of having to defend things like Romney’s obsession with universal health……
December 25th, 2006 at 12:29 pm
If Christmas was a made up holiday and put on a pagan calendar, then I guess you need to be at work today, also you won’t need your Christmas bonus, or why are you at the stores buying presents? before you ask about if Christmas is not real then you better do some studying about it. Where as Kwanza which is so fake means that people need to take stock and must be removed. I really never heard of Kwanza until sometime in the 1980’s. If they don’t celebrate it in Africa where they say it comes from then its a phony holiday and the people who want to celebrate it can celebrate it like other days that have no meaning like ground hogs day where we celebrate a weather tradition, or Valentines day where its just something for stores to sell more candy cards adn flowers, St Patricks day where everyone just likes to get drunk. Are you going to say the 4th of july did not happen? Sorry it did and I celebrate it. Labor day thats a holiday that salutes labor. Are you going to pick on the the witches for haloween? or how about the American Thanksgiving? If you have acces to a computer to write then study where kwanza came from and see if they do celebrate it in afraca if they don’t then I say get rid on a made up holiday. If you want to pick on some people why don’t you tell the people in the UK that Boxing day does not exist.
December 26th, 2006 at 3:25 pm
Optimist with regard to your comment:
“Wavemaker, I donâ??t disagree. Itâ??s a mde up holiday that was started under some pretty laughable situations. But it caught on and gained a life of its own. Itâ??s here to stay.
So focus on the fact that it pushes a very positive set of values (family, honesty, etc.) Kwanzaa ain;t about Karenga anymore. There is a lot of good that can come out of it. If you focus on what it has become, and not about its origins (and what something is now is more important).”
For starters how can a “holiday” that was totally fabricated purport to instruct people about “honesty?” as you assert?
The point is that Kwaanza is highly offensive to blacks who see it as a means to further alienate them from American society-especially black Christians. And I really doubt that it has “caught on and gained alife of its own” as you say. I speak to blacks all the time that find Kwaanza to be highly offensive. If people want to celebrate this made up holiday that a convicted crimminal made up, fine. If people want to celebrate a “holy day” that is based on a lie. Fine. The point is though that Christmas is thought of to be the holiest time of year in America and to colflate this totally made up holiday of Kwaanza with it I think cheapens and dilutes the birth of Christ. If people want to celebrate Kwaanza fine. I’m just tired of seeing private businesses and tax payer funded public ones put it on the same level as Channukah and Christmas. It is nothing but a nother example of out of control “multiculturalism” that is doing great damage to our country and Western Civilization in general.
Gregg
December 26th, 2006 at 3:29 pm
By the way “optimist” if it is such a morally instructive postive celebratio that pushes such important values (family,honesty,etc…) I am assuming you celebrate it with your family right? If not why don’t you?
December 26th, 2006 at 7:15 pm
Well, a couple of reasons.
1) I am not African American. French descent. Normandy region. Thanks for asking.
2) I celebrate Christmas. That’s enough for me.
3) I also don’t celebrate Hannukah, Boxing Day, Columbian Independence Day, Cinqo De Mayo and due to the amount of leaves I have to rake I am no longer celebrating Arbor Day. Now I see that Hannukah is a fine family-oriented holiday, but I ain’t going to celebrate it. I’m not Jewish. Kwanzaa is for African-Americans, which I am not.
4) Plenty of holidays are about odd things in history. Guy Fawkes Day is about some dork trying to blow up Parliament, and it is now a huge family holiday in Britain. Good things can come from odd beginnings.
And a silly point. But Kwanzaa is on a Rugrats special (that is a cartoon.) When Kwanzaa makes Nickelodean, I think my basic point of Kwanzaa being pretty much accepted is here. Unless of course you believe that Nickolodean is really just a covert arm of Al Queda.
And Karenga was once a criminal. He paid his dues. Plenty of criminals are forgiven. Some fellow named Bush was a coke-fiend and was arrested for DUI (which I consider reprehensible. You drink and put yourself behind the wheel, you turn your car into a weapon. Selfish stupid act.) Cheney has two DUIs. And I have forgiven them. That has no bearing on how I feel about them today because they changed their ways.
It’s Christmas. Go outside and don’t be so afraid of everything. Not everything liberal is going to end the republic. And seriously, when was the last time you saw your tax money being spent on Kwanzaa other than in some completely stupid one-off situation. I can find a 100 dumb wastes of tax money by conservative groups in 30 minutes if I really wanted to. It’s not as bad as you think it is.
And if I may make a suggestion. There are hundreds of “hate all liberals” blogs. You guys were great because you focused on how bad the media is handling everything. Now, I have no idea what your editorial focus is, but it sure has gotten much more paranoid.
December 27th, 2006 at 12:33 am
I always thought that “Kwanzaa” was bullshit, and reading this article proves it! Isn’t it funny that here is yet another bit of proof that the only way blacks seem to be able to “build” each other up is to lie to one another, the first and biggest that bullshi crap about caling each other “African American”! Oh yeah, let’s ALL respect a race like that! You can coat a dog turd in hollandaise sauce, but it sure as hell ain’t gonna taste like Beef Wellington!!!
December 27th, 2006 at 8:13 am
Hey Gregg, probably a good idea to address some of the racist comments that are appearing here. That is twice on this discussion.
December 28th, 2006 at 6:57 pm
Which “racist remarks” are you referring to specifically? Also, was Bush a “coke fiend?” Waht does that mean? How much cocaine did Bush “do”? and can you please provide the proof? I think you may be confusing him with your hero Bill Clinton.
gregg
December 29th, 2006 at 1:29 pm
In case you are having a hard time finding those really hard to find racist comments:
- third comment: “Unfortunately the general stupidity of African-Americans, coupled with white guilt, allows this bogus â??celebrationâ?? to continue in this country unchecked”
- 14th post: “Isnâ??t it funny that here is yet another bit of proof that the only way blacks seem to be able to â??buildâ?ť each other up is to lie to one another, the first and biggest that bullshi crap about caling each other â??African Americanâ?ť! Oh yeah, letâ??s ALL respect a race like that! You can coat a dog turd in hollandaise sauce, but it sure as hell ainâ??t gonna taste like Beef Wellington!!!”
December 30th, 2006 at 8:41 pm
It can’t be a real holiday ,until it has it’s own Charlie Brown Special.So until that happens ,Screw Kwanzza!!
May 12th, 2007 at 7:44 pm
So Kwanzaa is a racist “holiday” founded by a “black” criminal-OOOOH, THERE’S a surprise!!!
Look at the list of black “leaders” now: “Reverand” Jackson; “Reverand” Sharpton; “Reverand” Maddox? Dom any of these negroes have REAL jobs? They all seem to be “Reverands”!!! And good ol’ Kwanzaa, steeped in tradition, going all the way back to, what; 1966? WOW, what tradition! No wonder some of us Honkeys think negroes are just white people whose bodies have lost their ability to absorb all the shit that they’re full of!!!