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The Kwanzaa Hoax
http://www.textbookleague.org/114kwanz.htm ^ | September-October 2000

Posted on 11/23/2005 1:24:45 PM PST by OldArmy94

The Kwanzaa Hoax William J. Bennetta "Anywhere we are, Us is."

That looks like a line from an Amos 'N Andy show. One can easily imagine that it served as the motto of the Mystic Knights of the Sea, and that it was recited by such characters as The Kingfish, Andy Brown and Algonquin J. Calhoun.

In fact, however, the line that I have quoted is the motto of a real organization -- a real organization that was originally named United Slaves but now calls itself The Organization Us (or simply Us or US). It was created some 40 years ago, in Southern California, by a black racist who had begun life as Ron N. Everett but later had assumed the name Maulana Karenga.

Karenga -- known chiefly as the inventor of Kwanzaa, a fake "African" holiday that he contrived in 1966 -- has enjoyed a truly colorful career. He was a prominent black nationalist during the 1960s, when his organization was involved in various violent operations. He was sent to prison in 1971, after he and some of his pals tortured two women with a soldering iron and a vise, among other things. He emerged from prison in 1974, and a few years later -- in a maneuver that even The Kingfish might have found difficult -- he got himself installed as the chairman of the Department of Black Studies at California State University at Long Beach. CSULB wasn't the only American university that got the racial willies during the 1970s and set up a tin-pot black-studies department, but CSULB (as far as I know) was the only one that hired a chairman who was a violent felon.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: blackpanthers; fake; festivus; fraud; hoax; karenga; kwanzaa
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To: OldArmy94

21 posted on 11/23/2005 2:06:58 PM PST by BenLurkin (O beautiful for patriot dream - that sees beyond the years)
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To: beaversmom

ping


22 posted on 11/23/2005 2:10:31 PM PST by onef
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To: OldArmy94
WHITE CHRISTMAS

I’m dreaming of a white Kwanzaa
But I guess that is not PC
Kwanzaa is such baloney…it's made up and phony
Karenga laughs at you and me

I’m dreaming of a white Kwanzaa
For pagan whites, oh what a coup
I could make up the rules, you see
And then you could start celebrating me

I’m dreaming of a white Kwaanzaa
Are racist thoughts deep in my head?
But it could get messy…protesting Jesse
Might say that I would be better dead

I’m dreaming of a white Kwanzaa
Would Maxine Waters go insane?
She’d be on the television…what's new?
She’d be screaming “I’ll get DFU”

23 posted on 11/23/2005 2:15:57 PM PST by doug from upland (The troops will come home when the mission is complete)
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To: JennysCool

You got that right, Buckaroo.


24 posted on 11/23/2005 2:17:31 PM PST by doodad
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To: onef
I love Kwanzaa threads. They are an annual holiday treat.

What else can you say about an African holiday that virtually noone in Africa celebrates because Africa has a wide variety of cultures--and there is no "African" winter solstice holiday.

Meanwhile the whites in the mass media think it is the ultimate diversity holiday. If I were an American black I would be very angry about this.
25 posted on 11/23/2005 2:20:02 PM PST by cgbg (MSM and Democratic treason--fifty years and counting...)
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To: OldArmy94

later Happy Holidays pingout.


26 posted on 11/23/2005 2:27:21 PM PST by little jeremiah
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To: Firefigher NC

I heard before it was a curling iron.


27 posted on 11/23/2005 2:28:18 PM PST by little jeremiah
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To: OldArmy94
Every year on FR we're reminded of the easily demonstrable fact that Kwanzaa is a complete sham with no roots whatsoever in actual African history.

But here's what we don't hear enough about. Black Americans don't observe Kwanzaa. Oh, maybe a few academics and some other folks posing for the camera pretend to celebrate Karenga's silly, made-up rituals, but actual flesh-and-blood African-American families know less about Kwanzaa than the typical Freeper who's read about it on this forum over the years, and do nothing to participate in it.

Kwanzaa is wholly the child of the left and its guilt-ridden sycophants in the lily white liberal media. Blacks themselves pay no attention to it.

28 posted on 11/23/2005 2:28:54 PM PST by beckett (Amor Fati)
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To: OldArmy94

bttt


29 posted on 11/23/2005 2:35:58 PM PST by Artemis Webb
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To: OldArmy94

FESTIVUS for the Rest of US

-Seinfeld


30 posted on 11/23/2005 2:39:45 PM PST by scandalon
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To: OldArmy94

Where been the buses? Where be all the gumint buses at?!


31 posted on 11/23/2005 2:43:20 PM PST by emiller
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To: teenyelliott

Festivus is the best holiday.


32 posted on 11/23/2005 2:45:10 PM PST by brooklin
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To: OldArmy94

Ron N. Everett had as much right to start Kwanza as L. Ron Hubbard had to start Scientology.

If people are stupid enough to fall for their scams then what right has anyone else got to complain.

IMO these people are Con Artists just like the guy who puts burnt oil on your driveway and calls it sealer. However because its a religion of sorts the Govt. allows it.


34 posted on 11/23/2005 2:59:20 PM PST by sgtbono2002 (The Dems are willing to throw the game in Iraq, just to embarrass President Bush)
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To: CPaleocon
What a waste of internet space.

How so?


35 posted on 11/23/2005 3:01:23 PM PST by JoJo Gunn (Help control the Leftist population. Have them spayed or neutered. ©)
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To: msnimje

We even lost when we tried to keep our holiday for General Washington.


36 posted on 11/23/2005 3:01:39 PM PST by Pharmboy (The stone age didn't end because they ran out of stones.)
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To: OldArmy94

Personally I'll be celebrating Festivus this year. A Festivus for the rest of us! /Sienfeld


37 posted on 11/23/2005 3:04:09 PM PST by BlueYonder
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To: BenLurkin
Happy Festivus for the rest of us!




Kill a Commie For Mommie
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38 posted on 11/23/2005 3:09:28 PM PST by rawcatslyentist ("Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous"---Hobbes the Tiger)
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To: OldArmy94
Thanks for posting.

Bump for further reading later.

39 posted on 11/23/2005 3:12:41 PM PST by Pablo64 ("Everything I say is fully substantiated by my own opinion.")
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To: OldArmy94
"Is you is or is you ain't celbratin' Kwanzaa?"
40 posted on 11/23/2005 3:22:46 PM PST by manwiththehands (Happy Thanksgiving to our heroes in Iraq. God bless you and Godspeed. Come home safe.)
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