Kwanzaa, A Racist Festivus

Kwanzaa, A Racist Festivus

It was a shock, a shock I tell you, to discover that Festivus, the holiday for the rest of us, was not the brainchild of Frank Costanza, George’s father on “Seinfeld.” Close enough, it was the creation of “Seinfeld” screenwriter, Daniel O’Keefe, whose family has celebrated Festivus on December 23rd for 45 years.

As such, the faux holiday pre-dated another phony festival, Kwanzaa. The chief difference between the two is that everyone watching “Seinfeld” knew Festivus was a joke. Kwanzaa is a joke as well but few people are aware it is also a racist-inspired, Marxist creation of an ex-con black revolutionary.

Maulana Ron Karenga, born Ronald McKinley Everett, invented Kwanzaa two years after being released from prison. Along with two others, the cult leader had been convicted of felonious assault and false imprisonment for kidnapping and torturing dissident cult members Deborah Jones and Gail Davis.

Ms. Jones testified he had ordered them to strip naked and beat them with an electric cord. Gun in hand, Everett/Karenga supervised as a hot soldering iron and detergent were forced into their mouths and a water hose was turned “full force on their faces.”

The inventor of Kwanzaa and co-founder of Organization Us, (United slaves), a black nationalist group implicated in the 1969 murders of two Black Panthers at UCLA, proudly admitted to being a white-hater influenced by the teachings of fellow ex-con and African-American revolutionary Malcolm X.

He went on to become a prolific author and Chairman of the Department of Africana Studies at the University of California, Long Beach.

Quite the résumé and quite the testimony to the greatness of a country in which a convicted, vicious torturer can rise from the ashes of a career in thuggery and anti-Americanism to the lofty heights of originator of a national holiday, of sorts, and to the prestigious position of departmental chairmanship at a noted university, albeit a California university.

Maulana Ron Karenga-Elliott is quite the man and Kwanzaa is quite a holiday.

Precisely what inspired Karenga-Elliott to institute the first black holiday in 1966 in a nation devoid of any “white holidays” is unclear. However, considering the inventor’s seamy background, Marxist philosophy, and the fact Kwanzaa was hatched at the height of the black power movement, it can reasonably be assumed the inspiration wasn’t love of Caucasians, love of country, or an insatiable desire for peaceful co-existence and integration.

Like Karenga-Elliott, Kwanzaa is a joke, a fake, and a fraud.
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=11928.)

Happy Kwanzaa, Etc. Part One

Happy Kwanzaa, Etc. Part One

I hate to rain on anyone’s parade or holiday and at my age I guess I’m easily confused but Kwanzaa really confounds me.

Wikipedia defines that confounding holiday as “a weeklong celebration held in the United States honoring universal African-American heritage and culture, observed from December 26 to January 1 each year. It features activities such as the lighting of a kinara, [a candleabrum very similar to a menorah] and libations, and culminates in a feast and gift giving [which sounds suspiciously like Christmas]. It was created by Maulana Karenga and was first celebrated from December 26, 1966 to January 1, 1967.”

How does one ”celebrate” a fantasy?

Maybe it’s the fact that Mr. Karenga could just sit down one day and decide he would “create” a holiday or that Kwanzaa just happens to coincide with the Christmas season that confounds me. Since he was manufacturing his holiday, anyway, why not choose February which only has Groundhog Day as competiton or August which cries out for something to distinguish it besides heat?

In protest of commercialism, George’s father, Frank Costanza on “Seinfeld” created the holiday of “Festivus,” replete with an aluminum ”Festivus Pole” to be celebrated on December 23rd but everyone, okay, most people, realized Festivus was a joke.

Today, many people take Kwanzaa seriously!

Festivus was more real, and funnier, although I admit that the inclusion of a “traditional” Kwanzaa song at my granddaughter’s holiday concert was pretty amusing. It mostly consisted of two kids listlessly banging on African bougarabou drums as the chorus sang some very forgettable lyrics. I wondered when the “tradition” began. A month ago? Last Tuesday? . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=3157)