All communist, all racist.
Umoja (Unity): To strive for and to maintain unity in the family, community, nation, and race.
Kujichagulia (Self-determination): To define and name ourselves, as well as to create and speak for ourselves.
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.
Ujamaa (Cooperative economics): To build and maintain our own stores, shops, and other businesses and to profit from them together.
Nia (Purpose): To make our collective vocation the building and developing of our community in order to restore our people to their traditional greatness.
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.
Imani (Faith): To believe with all our hearts in our people, our parents, our teachers, our leaders, and the righteousness and victory of our struggle.
When I taught Ethics at college back in the 90s, I actually set aside one class session for the principles of Kwanzaa. I would give the students the Swahili principle and the English translation, and ask them how they thought about organizing a society based on those principles; they would usually reply that they were good principles for societal organization, a balance of individual freedom and societal harmony. Then I gave them Dr. Karenga’s definitions, and everything changed; no, that was Marxist racism. Then I told them of his history, how he organized US (the rival gang to the Black Panthers) and all his misogynist crimes, and that was the end of it: the class, regardless of race, wanted nothing to do with him or his Kwanzaa. Because they figured this out on their own, with a small amount of guidance from their sensei, the antipathy stuck.