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Starting on Dec. 26th through January 1st, millions of Black
Americans will be celebrating “Kwanzaa”, which is widely known
as a week-long “African-American Cultural Festive”.

Kwanzaa was founded by Maulana Karenga, chair of Cal State Long
Beach‘s Department of Africana Studies, in 1966, in what he
termed “an audacious act of self-determination.”

Karenga, a noted atheist and Marxist, teaches that Kwanzaa is
based on seven principles, which he calls the “Nguzo Saba” (the
seven principles of African Heritage), which he alleges “is a
communitarian African philosophy: the best of African thought
and practice in constant exchange with the world.”

The seven principles of Kwanzaa are allegedly Swahili terms.
Each of the seven days of Kwanzaa is dedicated to one of the
principles:

Dec. 26th, Umoja (Unity): To strive for and to maintain unity in
the family, community, nation, and race.
Dec. 27th, Kujichagulia (Self-Determination): To define
ourselves, name ourselves, create for ourselves, and speak for
ourselves.
Dec. 28th, 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.
Dec. 29th, Ujamaa (Cooperative Economics) To build and maintain
our own stores, shops, and other businesses and to profit from
them together.
Dec. 30th, Nia (Purpose): To make our collective vocation the
building and developing of our community in order to restore our
people to their traditional greatness.
Dec. 31st, 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.
Jan. 2st, Imani (Faith): To believe with all our hearts in God,
our people, our parents, our teachers, our leaders, and the
righteousness and victory of our struggle.
I have seen many Conservatives, Black and White, attack Black
Americans for celebrating Kwanzaa, because its founder is
atheist and a confirmed Marxist.

Others condemn it for different reasons. I take a different
approach. I believe in personally attacking others.

In fact, I don’t have a problem with Black Americans who do
choose to celebrate the principles of Kwanzaa. That is their
individual right and I respect their freedom to practice any
celebration they choose.

However, the main reason is because the principles are all quite
conservative in nature, albeit I concede that don’t know any
Black Conservative who recognizes Kwanzaa or celebrate it.

It does appear, therefore, to be a liberal outlet, so to speak.

That leads me to believe that most so called Black liberals who
are professing to embrace these so called principles are
actually deceiving themselves, because liberalism, as an
ideology and social practice, is a direct affront to each of the
principles taught in the Kwanzaa celebration.

I would, quite honestly, be very excited, if so called liberals,
who claim to celebrate Kwanzaa, where to actually put into
practice these principles which they so superficially celebrate.

For example, if those who practice Kwanzaa are sincere in
wanting to “maintain unity in the family and nation”, why, then,
do they not fiercely opposed the liberal “Great Society”
policies which have done more to break up and break down Black
families than chattel slavery ever could?

I have rarely met a Black liberal who truly embraces the level
of self-determination Kwanzaa proposes, which calls for one to
define themselves and speak for themselves.

Too many of my fellow Black Americans have been deeply
indoctrinated by an ideology which makes it instinctive to
malign, slander, and assassinate any idea, definition, or
expression that does not espouse liberal policies.

Thus, most Liberal Black Americans do not self-define. They are
defined by their indoctrination into liberalism and they fight
to promote those definitions, even to our own detriment far too
often.

The masses of so called Liberal Black Americans do not believe
in “collective work and responsibility”. If they did, they would
not spend the dollar bill outside of our communities after
circulating it only one time (dollar velocity). Moreover, they
would absolutely support free market solutions in business,
education, and health care, which would result in a stronger
local economy.

They don’t want to “solve problems together’, but want the
government to solve their problems.

When I was growing up, most of the local businesses were owned
by local residents. That quickly changed as I reached my teens.
Now, most of the businesses owned in predominantly Black
neighborhoods are owned and maintained by people who do not live
in the community. In many instances, who are not even American?
Here again, a glaring hypocrisy.

Restoring our people to our “traditional greatness”? I wonder if
that includes the legacies of both African and Americans of
African descent who espoused individual responsibility.

Frederick Douglass once said: “A man may not get all that he
deserves, but he must work for all that he gets”. That is a
direct indictment of Obama’s HHS mandate, which actually goes to
far as to strip Americans of the responsibility to work.

Nothing great about that. Certainly nothing “authentically”
Black or African about that. Most of all, nothing American about
that.

Predominantly Black urban communities can reasonably be
described as “war zones”. More citizens are murdered therein
than both Iraq and Afghanistan combined. Although trillions of
dollars in poverty funds have been allocated there over the past
47 years, these communities are not more “beautiful” than before
the so called “war on poverty”, but are, in fact, worse than
they were before the declared war on poverty.

Finally, there is the so called principle of “Faith”.

I cannot accept that someone celebrating Kwanzaa “believes in
God with all their hearts, in their children, etc.”, when they
are cooperating with the genocide of millions of unborn Black
Children, fighting against school choice, and championing
liberal policies that are destined to deny our children of the
opportunity to experience the kind of American Exceptionalism
that our forefathers fought to guarantee us.

I would say that I and many of my colleagues, on the other
hand, live every single one of the so-called principles of
Kwanzaa. The difference is that we base our principles on the
Word of God and the principles of the Constitution of the United
States of American, which transcend culture or “color”.

We did not need to look for guidance from the roots of Marxism,
no matter how appealing they may be on the surface. We know that
it’s not real. The proof is in the hypocrisy of those who claim
to practice Kwanzaa.

So, in the final analysis, my intent is not to condemn the one
who claims to practice Kwanzaa for doing so. Instead, it is to
call into question the hypocrisy of those who clearly do not
practice what they preach.

http://stacyswimp.net/2012/12/26/kwanzaa-liberalism-and-
hypocrisy/
 

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