> Kwanzaa: holiday from the FBI
>
> Source: Townhall.com
> Published: January 1, 2001 Author: Ann Coulter
>
> Earlier this week, President Clinton issued a formal White House
> proclamation celebrating the first day of Kwanzaa. His announcement
> began with some claptrap about preserving "what we value of our past,"
> and Kwanzaa being a "wonderful example" with its "focus on the values
> that have sustained African-Americans through the centuries."
>
> Except for the small historical detail that Kwanzaa was invented in
> 1966 amidst the madness of the multicultural '60s by a black radical
> stooge of the FBI, Ron Karenga, a.k.a. Dr. Maulana Karenga. Karenga
> was a founder of United Slaves, a violent nationalist rival to the
> Black Panthers and a dupe of the FBI.
>
> In what was probably ultimately a foolish gamble, during the violent
> '60s, the FBI encouraged the most offensive black nationalist
> organizations in order both to discredit and split the left. The more
> preposterous the organization, the better. Karenga's United Slaves was
> perfect. Despite public perception blending the black activists of the
> '60s, the Black Panthers did not hate whites and did not seek armed
> revolution. That was the trope of Karenga's United Slaves. In the
> annals of the American '60s, Karenga was the Father Gapon, stooge of
> the czarist police.
>
> Whether Karenga was a willing dupe, or just a dupe, remains unclear.
> Interestingly though, in an 1995 interview with Ethnic NewsWatch,
> Karenga matter-of-factly explained that the forces out to get O.J.
> Simpson for the "framed" murder of two whites included: "the FBI, the
> CIA, the State Department, Interpol, the Chicago Police Department"
> and so on. (He further noted that "the evidence was not strong enough
> to prohibit or eliminate unreasonable doubt" -- an interesting
> standard of proof.) Karenga should know about FBI infiltration.
>
> Also, in the category of the-gentleman-doth-protest-too-much, back in
> the '70s, Nigerian newspapers were claiming that many American black
> radicals were CIA operatives. Karenga leapt in to denounce the idea
> publicly, saying, "Africans must stop generalizing about the loyalties
> and motives of Afro-Americans, including the widespread suspicion of
> black Americans being CIA agents."
>
> There is no question now that the FBI fueled the bloody rivalry
> between the Panthers and United Slaves, leading in one outburst to the
> shooting of Panther Al "Bunchy" Carter on the UCLA campus by Karenga's
> United Slaves. Karenga himself served time, a useful stepping-stone
> for his current position as a black studies professor at California
> State University at Long Beach.
>
> Kwanzaa itself is a lunatic blend of schmaltzy '60s rhetoric, black
> racism and Marxism. Indeed, the seven "principles" of Kwanzaa praise
> collectivism in every possible arena of life -- economics, work,
> personality, even litter removal ("Kuumba: Everyone should strive to
> improve the community and make it more beautiful.") It takes a village
> to raise a police snitch.
>
> Asked to distinguish Kawaida, the philosophy underlying Kwanzaa, from
> "classical Marxism" in the 1995 interview, Karenga basically said that
> under Kawaida, we also hate whites. While taking the "best of" -- I'm
> not making this up -- "early Chinese and Cuban socialism," Kawaida
> practitioners believe one's racial identity "determines life
> conditions, life-chances and self-understanding." There's a happy
> Horatio Alger story for you.
>
> Coincidentally, the seven principles of Kwanzaa are the very same
> seven principles of the Symbionese Liberation Army, another charming
> invention of the Least-Great Generation. In 1974, Patricia Hearst,
> kidnap victim-cum-SLA revolutionary, posed next to the banner of her
> alleged captors, a seven-headed cobra. Each snake head stood for one
> of the SLA's revolutionary principles (and this sounds like Saturday
> Night Live's send-up of the second presidential debate in which George
> Bush rattled off an endless series of Nigerian names): Umojo,
> Kujichagulia, Ujima, Ujamaa, Nia, Kuumba and Imani -- precisely the
> seven "principles" of Kwanzaa.
>
> With his Kwanzaa greetings, President Clinton is saluting the
> intellectual sibling of the Symbionese Liberation Army, killer of
> housewives and police, and the founder of United Slaves, who were such
> lunatics that they shot Panthers for not being sufficiently violent --
> all with the FBI as their covert ally. It's as if David Duke invented
> a holiday called "Anglica," and the president of the United States
> issued a presidential proclamation honoring the synthetic holiday.
> People might well stand up and take notice if that happened.
>
> Liberals have become so mesmerized by the hegemonic multicultural
> nonsense that they have forgotten the real history -- the violence,
> the Marxism, the insanity. Most absurdly, for leftists anyway, is that
> they have forgotten the FBI's tacit encouragement of this murderous
> black nationalist cult founded by the father of Kwanzaa. United Slaves
> were proto-fascists, walking around in dashikis, blowing away Black
> Panthers and adopting invented "African" names. (That was a big help
> to the black community: How many boys named "Jamal" currently sit on
> death row?)
>
> Now the "holiday" concocted by these violent stormtrooper stooges of
> the FBI is a "tradition," a celebration of the "value of our past."
> This is not a tradition. This is a '60s psychosis grafted onto black
> community, while the Christian leaders at the forefront of the civil
> rights movement are washed out of the picture.
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