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Kwanzaa Primer

Let’s start with a bit o’ history, m’kay?  Kwanzaa was started in 1966 by a paranoid schizophrenic/sociopath named Ron Karenga; felon, torturer of women African princesses, avowed Marxist, and leader of the United Slaves, the black separatist movement/cult he started.  [famous quote:  from The Quotable Karenga, a book that laid out the “True Path of Blackness.” “The sevenfold path of blackness is think black, talk black, act black, create black, buy black, vote black, and live black,"]

Now I got no quarrel with a ‘new’ holiday.  I got no quarrel with a nut job—per se.  What I do have a quarrel with is mean-spirited divisive bullshit.

taken from the Kwanzaa Information Center:

Derived from the Swahili phrase “matunda ya kwanza” which means “first fruits”, Kwanzaa is rooted in the first harvest celebrations practiced in various cultures in Africa.

No one—anywhere-- celebrates harvest in December.
[hint:  Africa is in the southern hemisphere]

Kwanzaa seeks to enforce a connectedness to African cultural identity...

Have ya studied the cultures of African tribal societies?  Yanno—the ones who took slaves in inter-tribl conflicts and sold them to the white devils?  The ones who still enslave one another?  [google:  Hutu, Bantu, Tutsi]

By creating Kwanzaa, African-Americans sought to rectify the cultural and economic exploitation perpetrated against us during the months of October, November, and December (the Christmas season).

Say what?!? I don’t remember perpetrating any cultural *or* economic exploitation against African-Americans. Black people, either.  Unless.... unless all of Santa’s elves --- unpaid elves, mind you — are black??? hmmmm

During this season, corporate America typically ignored the quality of life concerns of African-Americans, yet encouraged participation in the commercialism of Christmas.

So ...  If all those evil corporations *poof* disappear, then who’s gonna pay the salaries of the pee-pole?  Or the taxes that pay the “entitlements” of the pee-pole?  Are ya gonna make your own Big Wheels?  or grow your own food?  mine your own bling?
[did I mention Marxist?]

Among the symbols are the “mat of tradition,” and the seven candles for the seven days/principles.

*cough*Hannukah*cough*

The Unity Cup to hold the libation [a ‘40’] And the corn.

*cough*Grail*cough*

...a stalk of corn which produces corn, which in turn becomes stalk, which reproduces in the same manner so that there is no ending to us.

All fine and dandy, but, corn is native to the Americas, developed by the indigenous personnel here and not found in Africa until the honkeys offay caspers white devils brought it there on their big, high-tech, ocean-going ships.

Next, the 7 principals [NGUZO SABA].

“Unity: in the family, community, nation and race.”

“Self-determination: ...define ourselves, name ourselves ...”
Inescapable, that.  No matter what one’s conditions, one is still in charge of how one copes, no?  And it’s how one copes, not one’s circumstances, that demonstrates one’s character.  I’ve heard that floaty-moldy language before—“name ourselves”:  the language of The Victim. 

“Collective work and responsibility” not mutual support—collective “...to make our brothers’ and sisters’ problems our problems ...”
Co-dependent self-defeating horse hockey.

“Cooperative economics”
paging Karl....  who’s now giggling like a fool.

“Purpose:  To make as our collective vocation the building and developing of our community in order to restore our people to their traditional greatness.” [emph mine e-C]
I don’t mean to be cold, but ‘xactly to which “greatness” does this refer?

“Creativity: ...in order to leave our community more beautiful and beneficial than when we inherited it.”
Good idea—difficult with all this co-dependent collectivity, though.

“Faith:  To believe with all our hearts in our parents, our teachers, our leaders, our people and the righteousness and victory of our struggle.”
No Values?  No objective Truths?  Just ‘our pee-pole?’ Like, say, ‘Mother-ship’ Farra-con?  Jackson?  Sharpton?
[Remember that “victory” part…]

The Flag:

Red is for the Blood . Black is the Black People. Green is for the Land.

The Red, or the blood, stands as the top of all things. 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.

un huh… Whose blood?

The Black man in this hemisphere has yet to obtain land which is represented by the Green.  The acquisition of land is the highest and noblest aspiration for the Black man on this continent, since without land there can be no freedom, justice, independence, or equality.

So… No black people own land?  Or can buy land?  Or is land only *good* if there are no whiteys on it?  or near it?

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 GOD OF US ALL, TOTALLY UNITED IN THE STRUGGLE, FOR BLACK LOVE, BLACK FREEDOM, AND BLACK SELF-DETERMINATION.

So Kwanzaa, by this description, is a celebration of Marxism, collectivity, co-depenency, racism and the clear intent to spill blood.  Kwanzaa states its goal to shatter the ties that bind communities across America. Kwanzaa reflects nothing of “the great promise and diversity of America.”

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