This year those of us who cherish the phrase “Merry Christmas” have started to say “Merry Christ-mas” to reinsert the name Christ into the greeting. Here’s a reminder of how we started to lose “Merry Christmas” 40 years ago.
On the day before Christmas in 1971 the New York Times ran an article about a new “holiday” called Kwanzaa that was invented by an America-hating Black separatist named Ron Everett. Everett now uses the made up “African” name Maulana Ron Karenga to show the world he wants nothing to do with White America.
That Mr. Karenga was in a California prison doing a one-to-ten year stretch for illegally imprisoning and maiming two Black women he thought were plotting to kill him meant nothing to the Times. They didn’t want to talk about how their new hero had been certified as a paranoid schizophrenic by a court, so they didn’t.
Karenga called his new “holiday” Kwanzaa, a Swahili phrase meaning “first fruits” because he says it is a harvest festival. This is a lie. Kwanzaa is Karenga’s answer to Christmas. He would like nothing better than to see Kwanzaa actually become the “Black Christmas” he has always fantasized about.
In his 1977 book on Kwanzaa, Karenga said it “…was chosen to give a Black alternative to the existing holiday and give Blacks an opportunity to celebrate themselves and history, rather than simply imitate the practice of the dominant [White] society.”
Upon hearing of the new “holiday,” a young unknown Al Sharpton commented that Kwanzaa “would perform the valuable service of “de-whitizing” Christmas.”
The idea that Kwanzaa is a harvest festival is bogus.
Harvests don’t happen in December, not even in Karenga’s make believe version of Africa. The closest thing to a Kwanzaa-like festival in Africa is the Yam Festival held yearly in Ghana and Nigeria at the beginning of August, yet Kwanzaa is celebrated each year between December 26 and January 1.
A 1978, Washington Post article included this Karenga admission about his “holiday.” “People think it’s African, but it’s not. I came up with Kwanzaa because black people in this country wouldn’t celebrate it if they knew it was American. Also, I put it around Christmas because I knew that’s when a lot of bloods (blacks) would be partying.” Imagine if a White person had written that!
When the “traditional Kwanzaa holiday” was added to the mix, along with “Merry Christmas and “Happy Hanukkah,” feckless merchants who would willingly celebrate Hitler’s birthday if they thought it would boost sales, folded and “Happy Holidays” grew by the year. Exactly when this happened is difficult to pinpoint, but after the Bush White House recognized Kwanzaa in 2002 the battle was lost.
Based on the lack of endless “Happy Kwanzaa” TV ads from “Your friends at…” Kwanzaa may be losing some momentum. Let’s pray it is gone by this time next.
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The black left just thinks this a dandy idea to intrude on religious tradition with a false tradition thought up by a communist jailbird to give the liberal black teachings some kind of sand to build on. The idea has no basis, is not a religion, is not practiced in africa or anywhere else and is merly there to be some kind of leftist thorn of contention……..Communist thrive on confusion and lies, it gives them flexibility to cover their butts…
It is just the criminal minded element and those using and abusing the black community who are trying this divisiveness and anti-white rhetoric who are causing the problems. Note the source: A criminal. People like these are mal contents anyway. He should have stayed behind bars along with Obama, Holder, Reid, Chris Matthews and the like. These treasonous people have been strategically placed over the years to usurp this country. We know that. The next step is to get them out and into jail where they belong.
People like Karenga are a dime a dozen misfits who Obama uses to destroy this country. Obama is no better than those who are in prison bullying and taking advantage of guards and other inmates. Many of these should have been given the death sentence, but are being stored for future use by the likes of Obama and thugs.
Nobody is harder on the black ethnicity than the Democratic party, people like Sharpton, Rangel, Wright, Jackson and a clique of others; but mostly blacks are too stupid to believe there is something in the world other than their plantation mentallity and following their ‘Massahs’ every thought and act. I remember when Kwanza was ‘announced’ and black people were elated by this deceptione (of course nobody considered the source and/or validity – duh); there was Kwanza attire, and ceremonies etc. This was about the time black women turned to authentic African names for their children – perhaps 10 women in the country had named children from their bloodline or African heritage, but for the most part, they made up the most atrocious names such as ‘La Queena’, Shaniqua, and DeKwan, etc. You do not see your ‘heroes’ going around with stupid names, do you? Even Obama dropped his. As hospitals do with babies, the local hospital put an identifying wristband on a little girl. Weeks later the mother was asked her child’s name and she said “Female, the hospital named her.” That is pathetic.
Now that you know Kwanza is a fairytale, when will you realize most of your leaders are and fake get- off welfare and so something you can be pround of. No, having the most children on your block doesn’t count, but working for those babies and being a phenomenal parent does. And 12 months from now, you can celebrate Christmas, lose your hatred of whites and be in the real world.