came across this down the dial....
Note from Mark: The following article is adapted from my forthcoming book ?It?s not Right Vs. Left, it?s Right Vs. Wrong; a Moral Compass for Contentious times? ? 2007 by Mark Williams All Rights Reserved to be published in 2008
?Tis the season when Political Correctness goes into overdrive and we are expected to accept on face value a fake ?holiday? that you have probably been indoctrinated to believe is African in origin. Called ?Kwanzaa? it sounds African enough I suppose, unless you ask an African, but if you were a violent black separatist here in the mid-1960s then you know full well what it is.
Going by the name ?Dr. Maulana Karenga?, Ronald McKinley Everett in 1966 headed the ?United Slaves Organization,? a California-based para-military group that was a rival to the Black Panthers. Unlike the Panthers, which were in business strictly for politics and the violence, United Slaves was considered a cult. Like most cult figures, Everett is an interesting character in his own right. His rap sheet includes 4 years in the pen for conspiracy and assault for torture. Seems that two of his followers, Deborah Jones and Gail Davis fell out of favor with Everett.
According to Jones? and Davis? 1971 testimony, they were stripped naked, and cultists led by Everett whipped the two women with electrical cords and a karate baton. Detergent was ?gushed? into their mouths with a hose and in an oldie but goodie from the Spanish Inquisition (a clamp) did thumbscrew duty on Jones (on one of her toes actually) and a hot soldering iron was forced into Davis? mouth. This went on for two solid days as a form of discipline.
Out of the slammer, Everett filled out his resume by converting to Marxism. That was the final qualification needed in the eyes of the State of California, which promptly made him a professor at UC Long Beach. By 1989, he was Chairman of the Black Studies Department, a position from which he retired in 2002.
But I digress.
In 1966 Everett created a pseudo-spiritual ritual to go with his cult; he called it ?Kwanzaa.? Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson (a black author and civil rights activist who works to educate American blacks about their own history) terms Kwanzaa the ?black anti-Christmas,? and says that is why the ?celebration? takes place December 26 ? January 1. And Kwanzaa is about as ?African? as its Parsonsburg, Maryland born (July 14, 1941) inventor.
The word ?Kwanzaa? is a made up word that Everett attributes to the Swahili phrase ?matunda yakwanza.? The only problem with Everett?s attribution is that the actual English translation of that phrase is ?first fruit? and the phrase refers to harvest time and a celebration of a successful growing season. No known culture on Earth celebrates a harvest ritual of any kind in the dead of winter. What?s more, Africa has always been and remains a starkly divided land of individual tribes, each with their own ritual calendars and few of which share more in common than skin color and hatred for the other tribes.
Political correctness and media ignorance have also thus far managed to omit from the record that for the ancestors of American blacks Swahili (and any rituals that go with it) would be as foreign as the Dutch spoken by the slave traders who brought them here. Swahili is an East Africa language, most black slaves brought to America came from a continent away (West Africa), and the only thing they have in common with other Africans is skin color. Same difference if you walked into downtown Beijing and started spouting off in Japanese, or plopped a white American in the Ukraine to ask directions in English? absolutely no connection.
Incidentally, Everett makes no effort to hide his fakery. In 1978 he told the Washington Post that: ?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.?
In a cruel joke, Kwanzaa cons American blacks into celebrating their ancestors? enslavement with bits and pieces of stolen culture from the Old and New Worlds to go along with its fictional African setting. For instance, the Kwanzaa day of ?muhindi? is when ears of corn are set aside to signify ?children and the future.? Corn was first cultivated by Mexican Indians and carried around the world (including to Africa) by the Conquistadors and other white conquerors, explorers and even the slave traders. There was no corn in Africa before Africans became that land?s largest export.
Today thousands of American blacks not only unwittingly rejoice annually in the enslavement of their ancestors, but the descendants of the global, white, economic power structure that enslaved their ancestors has discovered that Kwanzaa is a potentially lucrative event and are rapidly commercializing the holiday. The media go along by trading advertising money for suppressing the violent beginnings of yet another attempt at cultural eugenics aimed toward blacks. Thus, Kwanzaa takes American blacks full circle from being slaves to the plantation owner, to slaves to Visa and MasterCard while bastardizing their own heritage and history.
The North losing the Civil War couldn?t have done it better. That?s sad, but this time it?s self-inflicted.
Note from Mark: The following article is adapted from my forthcoming book ?It?s not Right Vs. Left, it?s Right Vs. Wrong; a Moral Compass for Contentious times? ? 2007 by Mark Williams All Rights Reserved to be published in 2008
?Tis the season when Political Correctness goes into overdrive and we are expected to accept on face value a fake ?holiday? that you have probably been indoctrinated to believe is African in origin. Called ?Kwanzaa? it sounds African enough I suppose, unless you ask an African, but if you were a violent black separatist here in the mid-1960s then you know full well what it is.
Going by the name ?Dr. Maulana Karenga?, Ronald McKinley Everett in 1966 headed the ?United Slaves Organization,? a California-based para-military group that was a rival to the Black Panthers. Unlike the Panthers, which were in business strictly for politics and the violence, United Slaves was considered a cult. Like most cult figures, Everett is an interesting character in his own right. His rap sheet includes 4 years in the pen for conspiracy and assault for torture. Seems that two of his followers, Deborah Jones and Gail Davis fell out of favor with Everett.
According to Jones? and Davis? 1971 testimony, they were stripped naked, and cultists led by Everett whipped the two women with electrical cords and a karate baton. Detergent was ?gushed? into their mouths with a hose and in an oldie but goodie from the Spanish Inquisition (a clamp) did thumbscrew duty on Jones (on one of her toes actually) and a hot soldering iron was forced into Davis? mouth. This went on for two solid days as a form of discipline.
Out of the slammer, Everett filled out his resume by converting to Marxism. That was the final qualification needed in the eyes of the State of California, which promptly made him a professor at UC Long Beach. By 1989, he was Chairman of the Black Studies Department, a position from which he retired in 2002.
But I digress.
In 1966 Everett created a pseudo-spiritual ritual to go with his cult; he called it ?Kwanzaa.? Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson (a black author and civil rights activist who works to educate American blacks about their own history) terms Kwanzaa the ?black anti-Christmas,? and says that is why the ?celebration? takes place December 26 ? January 1. And Kwanzaa is about as ?African? as its Parsonsburg, Maryland born (July 14, 1941) inventor.
The word ?Kwanzaa? is a made up word that Everett attributes to the Swahili phrase ?matunda yakwanza.? The only problem with Everett?s attribution is that the actual English translation of that phrase is ?first fruit? and the phrase refers to harvest time and a celebration of a successful growing season. No known culture on Earth celebrates a harvest ritual of any kind in the dead of winter. What?s more, Africa has always been and remains a starkly divided land of individual tribes, each with their own ritual calendars and few of which share more in common than skin color and hatred for the other tribes.
Political correctness and media ignorance have also thus far managed to omit from the record that for the ancestors of American blacks Swahili (and any rituals that go with it) would be as foreign as the Dutch spoken by the slave traders who brought them here. Swahili is an East Africa language, most black slaves brought to America came from a continent away (West Africa), and the only thing they have in common with other Africans is skin color. Same difference if you walked into downtown Beijing and started spouting off in Japanese, or plopped a white American in the Ukraine to ask directions in English? absolutely no connection.
Incidentally, Everett makes no effort to hide his fakery. In 1978 he told the Washington Post that: ?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.?
In a cruel joke, Kwanzaa cons American blacks into celebrating their ancestors? enslavement with bits and pieces of stolen culture from the Old and New Worlds to go along with its fictional African setting. For instance, the Kwanzaa day of ?muhindi? is when ears of corn are set aside to signify ?children and the future.? Corn was first cultivated by Mexican Indians and carried around the world (including to Africa) by the Conquistadors and other white conquerors, explorers and even the slave traders. There was no corn in Africa before Africans became that land?s largest export.
Today thousands of American blacks not only unwittingly rejoice annually in the enslavement of their ancestors, but the descendants of the global, white, economic power structure that enslaved their ancestors has discovered that Kwanzaa is a potentially lucrative event and are rapidly commercializing the holiday. The media go along by trading advertising money for suppressing the violent beginnings of yet another attempt at cultural eugenics aimed toward blacks. Thus, Kwanzaa takes American blacks full circle from being slaves to the plantation owner, to slaves to Visa and MasterCard while bastardizing their own heritage and history.
The North losing the Civil War couldn?t have done it better. That?s sad, but this time it?s self-inflicted.
