{"id":52355,"date":"2014-01-03T10:19:50","date_gmt":"2014-01-03T17:19:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=52355"},"modified":"2014-01-03T10:44:11","modified_gmt":"2014-01-03T17:44:11","slug":"blessed-kwanzaa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=52355","title":{"rendered":"Blessed Kwanzaa!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Erick Erickson<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Over the next few weeks, the media will be profiling families celebrating Kwanzaa \u2014 advent wreath lighters are too religious for media profiles.<\/p>\n

Kwanzaa has absolutely nothing to do with Africa and everything to do with hating the United States. Kwanzaa is the brain child of Ron Everett, who you will not be surprised to learn, chaired the African American Studies department of California State University, Long Beach, from 1989 to 2002. Some time before that, he spent several years in jail for torture, changed his name to Maulana Ron Karenga, put on a dashiki, embraced marxism, and declared Kwanzaa a real holiday.<\/p>\n

In 1971, a California jury convicted Karenga of assaulting and torturing two women. A May 14, 1971, article in the Los Angeles Times documented the torture: \u201cDeborah Jones, who once was given the Swahili title of an African queen, said she and Gail Davis were whipped with an electrical cord and beaten with a karate baton after being ordered to remove their clothes. She testified that a hot soldering iron was placed in Ms. Davis\u2019s mouth and placed against Ms. Davis\u2019s face and that one of her own big toes was tightened in a vise. Karenga also put detergent and running hoses in their mouths, she said.\u201d<\/p>\n

Being California, the state released Mr. Karenga in 1975, then promptly admitted him to public universities so he could become Dr. Ron Karenga. In 1977, Karenga outlined the principles of Kwanzaa and later noted, \u201cPeople think it\u2019s African, but it\u2019s not. I came up with Kwanzaa because black people wouldn\u2019t celebrate it if they knew it was American. Also, I put it around Christmas because I knew that\u2019s when a lot of Bloods were partying.\u201d Karenga went on to call Christ \u201cpsychotic\u201d and declared Christianity a \u201cwhite religion.\u201d Apparently, the media agreed.<\/p>\n

As the late Tony Snow once commented, \u201cThere is no part of Kwanzaa that is not fraudulent.\u201d Kwanzaa actually is the perfect holiday for the mainstream media. Every other holiday celebrates a religious miracle, patriotic heros, or America itself. Every other holiday celebrates something greater than the self. Kwanzaa was made up by a felon establishing a holiday whereby people can celebrates the racial self. The self-absorbed mainstream media has been looking for a self-absorbing holiday. Now they have it, with a self-absorbed President to boot.<\/p>\n

In short, Kwanzaa is the perfect post-modern politically correct holiday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

— All of which raises the question: if Christians aren’t permitted to place a creche in public space during Christmas, should those who celebrate Kwanzaa be allowed to, say, interact at all with evil White folk, or even speak English or claim the benefits of US citizenship, in public during their<\/em> holiday season?<\/p>\n

Or is this another of those “we have to treat people disparately and unequally in order to have equality”-type arguments so popular with the pernicious anti-foundationalism upon which leftism sits bolt upright like a particularly ugly wart.<\/p>\n

(h\/t Terry H)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Erick Erickson: Over the next few weeks, the media will be profiling families celebrating Kwanzaa \u2014 advent wreath lighters are too religious for media profiles. Kwanzaa has absolutely nothing to do with Africa and everything to do with hating the United States. Kwanzaa is the brain child of Ron Everett, who you will not be surprised to learn, chaired the African American Studies department of California State University, Long Beach,<\/p>\n

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