Right Wing Spic: Please don't ridicule Kwanzaa, the made-up holiday.

Right Wing Spic: Please don't ridicule Kwanzaa, the made-up holiday.: "A Brief History of Kwanzaa



Kwanzaa was invented in 1966 by Dr. Maulana 'Ron' Karenga, a former black militant, Marxist and convicted felon. Claiming to have the unity of black people in mind, Karenga committed most of his crimes against blacks (click the headline above). Approximately five years after Karenga invented Kwanzaa, he was convicted of torturing two black women by stripping them naked, beating them with electrical cords, placing a hot iron into the mouth of one and mangling the toe of the other in a vice. During the ordeal, he forced them to drink detergent.

For some reason, most Kwanzaa greeting cards don't mention this information. I assure you they would if I were designing them.



According to Karenga, Christianity is a myth: 'Belief in spooks who threaten us if we don't worship them and demand we turn over our destiny and daily lives must be categorized as spookism and condemned.' Now he claims that the purpose of Kwanzaa is to give 'reverence to the Creator.' That's interesting - is he referring to the same creator whose existence he flat-out denied just a few years earlier? I'm confused.



According to the article linked above, Karenga has concocted some bits of lore, lingo, and mumbo-jumbo that are intended to make Kwanzaa look like something out of Africa instead of something from Los Angeles County (its true origins), but his efforts have been feeble. If you scan The Official Kwanzaa Web Site you'll read that the origins of Kwanzaa lie in 'the first harvest celebrations of Africa,' which allegedly 'are recorded in African history as far back as ancient Egypt and Nubia' -- but there is no explanation of why any ancient Egyptians or Nubians might have held harvest festivals around the time of the winter solstice, and there is no identification of the crops that they harvested. Karenga's formula for celebrating Kwanzaa requires the use of two ears of maize -- but maize is a New World plant, and it wasn't known at all in ancient Africa. Whoops.



Again, I urge you not to make fun of this spiritual, deeply serious holiday. Stop laughing, I'm trying to be multicultural."