Happy Kwanzaa, Etc. Part Two
(Please see “Happy Kwanzaa . . . Part One,” http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=3157, which discusses the invention of Kwanzaa. Part Two features more information on Kwanzaa’s inventor, Maulana Karenga/Ron Everett, his annotated ”Welcome” to the official Kwanzaa website, his criminal, seditious background and history, and a brand new invention, “Trees, and Shrubs, Are People, Too Festival.”)
Included on the site are the 2010 Kwanzaa theme, ”Kwanzaa and the Nguzo Saba: [helpfully translated as] An Ethics of Sharing Good in the World,” details on Kwanzaa’s “Seven Principles,” invitations to make donations and to purchase books and other products, and “The Founder’s Welcome,” which is remarkably rich both in both imagination and ironies.
In appreciating Kwanzaa, and its founder’s imagination and irony, it’s worthwhile to reprint that 3 paragraph welcome, presented here with bracketed editorial comment:
The Founder’s Welcome
Dr. Maulana Karenga . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=3186)
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