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Kwanzaa, the purported “African” holiday celebrated only in the
United States, is the ultimate politically correct holiday. It
is little observed, even by our African American community, of
course, but those that do celebrate it are wholly unaware that
the faux holiday was created by a man with a very troubled past.
For Kwanzaa’s creator, Maulana Karenga, has a violent criminal
record, is a racist, and even a rapist.
Each year, with the onset of Christmas, we are treated to
another gauzy, fluff piece about how great Kwanzaa is by yet
another PC spewing columnist. This year, among many others, we
find aggrandizement such as that in The Telegraph from Macon,
Georgia with, “Annual Kwanzaa celebrations highlight arts,
community and history,” and the Dallas Morning News with its
titled,”Look forward to Kwanzaa celebrations with storytelling,
music and more.” We even find such helpful sites as
TeacherPlanet.com’s, “Kwanzaa Resources for Teachers.” Yes, the
world is filled with celebratory lionization of Kwanzaa.
Several years ago, the Houston Chronicle got in the act with a
piece by Leslie Casimir titled “Learning about Kwanzaa from the
holiday’s creator.” This one, though, was a bit off the usual
track of the how-great-is-Kwanzaa theme because this particular
piece celebrated the inventor of the faux holiday, Maulana
Karenga, himself. So, instead of merely celebrating the
manufactured holiday, Casimir amazingly made a hero of the
rapist, race monger and violent thug who created it! To Casimir,
Kwanzaa creator “Maulana Karenga” was a hero.
To further the story about how wonderful Karenga was, Casimir
also found a gullible parent who, with kid in tow, went to see
the great man at a local community center.
Thomasine Johnson needed to get the record straight about
Kwanzaa, a cultural holiday steeped in African traditions that
celebrates family, ethnic pride and community.
With her 11-year-old grandson in tow, the Missouri City interior
designer on Saturday brought her video camera to S.H.A.P.E.
community center to hear from Father Kwanzaa “Maulana Karenga”
in the flesh.”
But just like the manufactured holiday he invented out of whole
cloth, this “Maulana Karenga” is also a false front created out
of fluff and nonsense. As it happens his real name is not
“Maulana Karenga,” but is instead Ronald McKinley Everett, AKA
Maulana Ron Karenga, AKA Maulana Karenga. We’ll soon see that
subterfuge, reinvention and smoke-and-mirrors are Karenga’s
stock in trade.
In her piece, Casimir gave us her version of the history of this
“holiday.” And the artifice has but a short history, at that.
Created in 1966 by Karenga, a professor of black studies at
California State University at Long Beach, Kwanzaa was born out
of the black freedom movement of the 1960s, when the Watts riots
rocked Los Angeles. It starts the day after Christmas and ends
on the first day of the new year.
Interestingly, Casimir employed the euphemism “black freedom
movement” to describe the ideology of the group that Ronald
McKinley Everett “Karenga” belonged to when he created Kwanzaa.
In the 60s, Karenga was in an organization called US (as in “us”
— blacks — against “them” — whites). US was a black power
militant group that he founded, one that frequently clashed in
violence with police and even other black power groups. Members
of his group even killed two Black Panthers in 1969.
Yes, kindly professor Maulana Karenga, the murder-touting,
segregationist, racist. What a role model for the kiddies he is,
eh?
Casimir seemed not to understand why people would doubt this
man, though.
Still, many people don’t know much about Kwanzaa or the elusive
Karenga, who shuns giving interviews to the mainstream press.
Well, it’s not surprising that he doesn’t want to give too many
interviews what with his record as a violent felon and sexual
criminal. And Karenga has a long criminal record. In 1971, for
instance, Everett served time in jail for assault. By then
Everett had changed his name to Maulana Ron Karenga and began to
affect a pseudo African costume and act the part of a native
African — even though he had been born in the USA.
It wasn’t mere assault Karenga was convicted of, either. It was
the sexual assault and even torture that he perpetrated against
some of his own female followers. At the time, The L.A. Times
reported that he placed a hot soldering iron in one woman’s
mouth and used a vise to crush another’s toe, of all things.
As writer Lynn Woolley wrote of Professor Karenga:
And so this is Kwanzaa. The militant past of the creator is now
ignored in favor of the so-called seven principles of Nguza
Saba, principles such as unity, family and self-determination
that could have come from Bill Bennett’s Book of Virtues. The
word “Kwanzaa” is Swahili, meaning something like “fresh fruits
of harvest.”
No one remembers the part about “re-Africanization” or the
sevenfold path of blackness that Dr. Karenga once espoused.
Hardly anyone remembers the shootings, the beatings, the
tortures and the prison terms that were once the center of his
life. It’s just not PC to bring that sort of stuff up now that
Kwanzaa is commercialized and making big bucks.
But, Casimir offers us Karenga’s prattle anyway, treating it as
the advice of a sage:
“As part of the black freedom movement, we were using this to
return to our history and culture,” Karenga said.
He spoke to a crowd of about 100 people ” young and old ” at the
Third Ward community center, headed by Deloyd Parker, an avid
promoter of Kwanzaa’s Afrocentric traditions and beliefs.
“We have to wake up that history, we have to remember ourselves
in a more expansive way,” Karenga said. “To liberate ourselves
as ghetto dwellers.”
In a day when the black middle class numbers in the millions and
when more whites than blacks voted for a black man for
president, for “Karenga” to claim that blacks are still
relegated to the “ghettos” smacks of race baiting and trying to
“keep hope alive” so that he can continue to cause hatred
between whites and blacks. And each year the Old Media is all
too happy to assist him in his faux “holiday” endeavor.
Happy Kwanzaa, indeed!
But maybe not everyone is fooled by a faux holiday created by a
criminal? Last year, for instance, Kalamazoo, Michigan decided
to dispense with its public Kwanzaa celebration. In fact, few
cities worry over much about this holiday these days, though
some still do.
Even some African Americans are not fooled into accepting
Kwanzaa. As Jenice Armstrong from Philadelphia wrote in 2010,
the “truth is that Kwanzaa has never caught on with the majority
of black Americans.”
Of course if it wasn’t for an Old Media establishment that has
given Karenga’s criminality a wholesale whitewashing, this faux
holiday could never have gained as little traction it has. Put
it this way, imagine if famed Ku Klux Klan member David Duke had
created a holiday. Do you think the Old Media would have happily
sold his creation to a misinformed public without mentioning
Duke’s personal history? Not a chance, and rightfully so.
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