Outgoing <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dont-bother-me-pelosi-snaps-at-reporter-who-dares-to-ask-whether-shell-finish-her-term/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">House Speaker Nancy Pelosi</a> drew social media mockery Friday after wishing a “happy shwanza,” presumably to those who celebrate Kwanzaa, in her remarks following passage of the omnibus spending bill.
In what Pelosi said would likely be her last speech as speaker, she botched the name of the holiday, established in 1966 and celebrated by many African Americans. The 82-year-old California Democrat is poised to relinquish her gavel after Republicans took back the House majority in the November elections.
“I yield back the balance of my time and wish everyone a happy, healthy, and safe New Year,” she said. “Happy Holidays. Merry Christmas. Happy Shwanza. Happy Hanukkah.”
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Pelosi ends her final speech as Speaker of the House by wishing everyone a Merry Christmas, Happy Hannukah and a &quot;Happy Shwanza&quot; <a href="https://t.co/3NQBbhNJF5">pic.twitter.com/3NQBbhNJF5</a>
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Kwanzaa is a celebration of African-American culture that is observed from Dec. 26 to Jan. 1, culminating in a communal feast called Karamu. It was created by Maulana Karenga, an African American who was born Ronald McKinley Everett and became a civil rights activist before serving prison time for imprisoning and torturing two women he claimed were plotting against him.
Pelosi&#8217;s flub sparked ridicule on Twitter.
“Nancy Pelosi Wishes Everyone a ‘Happy Shwanza’  Absolutely embarrassing,” <a href="https://twitter.com/wisniewskidan99/status/1606668594988949507?s=20&amp;t=N4763GyyKKJ5JB7IicydYQ" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweeted Daniel Wisniewski</a>.
“WTF is Shwanza?” asked the popular Twitter account Clown World.
“Truth be told, Pelosi’s an idiot with power,” added conservative radio host Mark Levin.
Pelosi errant holiday wish came after the House passed the 4,155-page, $1.7 trillion spending bill over the objections of House Republicans and conservatives in the U.S. Senate. Critics complained that the bill is loaded with pork projects.
The bill includes $858 billion in defense funding as well as $772.5 billion for non-defense “discretionary programs,” <a href="https://www.appropriations.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/HIGHLIGHTS%20DOCUMENT%20FY%2023.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to a summary</a>. Another $45 billion in aid to Ukraine is included, as well as billions in earmarks, or pet projects for lawmakers including $1.2 million for “LGBTQIA+ Pride Centers,” $477,000 for the Equity Institute in Rhode Island “to indoctrinate teachers with ‘antiracism virtual labs,&#8217;” and $3 million for the American LGBTQ+ Museum.
The bill also provides funding for a new FBI headquarters, designation of a federal building in San Francisco as the “Speaker Nancy Pelosi Federal Building,” and $3.6 for a “Michelle Obama Trail” in Georgia.

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‘Happy Shwanza’: Pelosi Draws Social Media Mockery After Flubbing African American Holiday

'Happy Shwanza': Pelosi Draws Social Media Mockery After Flubbing African American Holiday

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On Wednesday, rap icon Kanye West, who confused many of his followers when he acted in a friendly manner toward former President Trump, issued a tweet (later deleted) in which he questioned the validity of the holiday Kwanzaa.
Kwanzaa was created by black activist Maulana Karenga in 1966; in 1971 he was <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/marjorie-taylor-greene-calls-kwanzaa-fake-religion-created-psychopath-1663305">convicted</a> of felonious assault and false imprisonment. He currently serves as chairman of the Africana Studies Department at California State University, Long Beach. The Kwanzaa festival is observed starting the day after Christmas for 7 days, and involves celebrating seven Swahili values; a candle is lit each day on a candleholder.
“They teach black kids Kwanzaa at Sierra Canyon,” West <a href="https://www.complex.com/music/kanye-west-asks-what-is-kwanzaa-who-made-that-up">wrote</a>, referring to a private school in Chatsworth. “What the f*** is Kwanzaa and who made that bulls*** up?” West wrote in an Instagram post. “Everyone lives in LA for the check anyway so no one really cares about their children being indoctrinated.”
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Kanye West is one of the realest to ever do it. 
“What the fuck is Kwanzaa and who made that bullshit up” <a href="https://t.co/U3S7XbeE1H">pic.twitter.com/U3S7XbeE1H</a>
&mdash; Patriot J 🔥 (@sirhottest) <a href="https://twitter.com/sirhottest/status/1565451065490690048?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 1, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Apparently referring to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, he added, “Let’s see if I can get blocked by Mark again.”
In March, West was banned for one day from Instagram after he targeted Trevor Noah of The Daily Show, who had <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/kanye-west-banned-instagram-violating-hate-speech-bullying-policies-rcna20397">discussed West’s divorce</a> from Kim Kardashian.
“It’s spun into a story that seems fully tabloid but I think deserves a little more awareness from the general public,” Noah said on his show. “I know everyone thinks it’s a big marketing stunt. &#8230; Two things can be true: Kim likes publicity, Kim is also being harassed. Those things can be happening at the same time.”
In April 2018, Twitter erupted after Trump and West showed their respect for one another.
Kanye tweeted: “You don&#8217;t have to agree with trump but the mob can&#8217;t make me not love him. We are both dragon energy. He is my brother. I love everyone. I don&#8217;t agree with everything anyone does. That&#8217;s what makes us individuals. And we have the right to independent thought.”
President Trump responded by writing: “Thank you Kanye, very cool!”
Kanye also tweeted a photo of himself wearing a Make America Great Again hat that was signed by Trump and tweeted a photo of himself on a poster that said, “Keep America Great. #KANYE2024.”

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Kanye: ‘What The F*** Is Kwanzaa And Who Made That Bulls*** Up?’

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Even though Kwanzaa was invented in 1966 by a convicted felon, Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA), who was born in 1964, said that she and her family have celebrated the holiday.
In a Kwanzaa video message posted on Saturday, Harris positioned herself in front a Kinara while wishing everyone &#8220;happy holidays.&#8221;
&#8220;You know, my sister and I, we grew up celebrating Kwanzaa,&#8221; said Harris. &#8220;Every year, our family would – and our extended family, we would gather around, across multiple generations, and we&#8217;d tell stories. The kids would sit on the carpet and the elders would sit in chairs, and we would light the candles, and of course, afterwards have a beautiful meal. And, of course, there was always the discussion of the seven principles. And my favorite, I have to tell you, was always the one about self-determination, kujichagulia.&#8221;
&#8220;And, you know, essentially it&#8217;s about be and do. Be the person you want to be, and do the things you want to do, and do the things that need to be done,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;It&#8217;s about not letting anyone write our future for us, but instead going out and writing it for ourselves. And that principle motivates me today, as we seek to confront the challenges facing our country and to build a brighter future for all Americans. So, to everyone who is celebrating, Happy Kwanzaa from our family to yours.&#8221;
Given that neither of Kamala Harris&#8217; parents are African and that she was born two years before the holiday ever existed, people on social media immediately trolled the Harris for what appeared to be an instance of cheap pandering.
&#8220;Somehow I find it hard to believe that she has a deep childhood attachment to a holiday that didn’t exist when she was born,&#8221; tweeted The Daily Wire&#8217;s Matt Walsh.
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Somehow I find it hard to believe that she has a deep childhood attachment to a holiday that didn’t exist when she was born <a href="https://t.co/037S09KqxP">https://t.co/037S09KqxP</a>
&mdash; Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1343198542505119745?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 27, 2020</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;This is such an obvious lie. She was born in 1964. Kwanzaa was created in 1966. It didn&#8217;t really take hold until the late 70s and early 80s. For her whole family to be devoted to it in her childhood is incredibly unlikely&#8230; she&#8217;s a liar,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/TashaRoseRadMam/status/1343237855016079360?s=20">said another</a> user.
&#8220;As some one [sic] who was born &amp; raised in Africa I can tell there is no such thing as Kwanza [sic]. Kamala knows nothing about it because she is an Indian Jamaican who grew up in Canada,&#8221; tweeted Melissa Tate.
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As some one who was born &amp; raised in Africa I can tell there is no such thing as Kwanza. Kamala knows nothing about it because she is an Indian Jamaican who grew up in Canada.
&mdash; Melissa Tate (@TheRightMelissa) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheRightMelissa/status/1342948533863903232?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 26, 2020</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;We &#8216;Jamaicans&#8217; do not celebrate Kwanzaa. Also, being first-generation myself, I&#8217;m confused as to how you could celebrate with multiple generations. This is such a fake post, I understand it&#8217;s intent, but please do not be fake about it. Just say happy Kwanzaa,&#8221; said another user.
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We &quot;Jamaicans&quot; do not celebrate Kwanzaa. Also, being first-generation myself, I&#39;m confused as to how you could celebrate with multiple generations. This is such a fake post, I understand it&#39;s intent, but please do not be fake about it. Just say happy Kwanzaa.
&mdash; Mark 🇯🇲 ⚖ (@markal84) <a href="https://twitter.com/markal84/status/1342920739104509953?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 26, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Invented in 1966, the actual number of people who celebrate Kwanzaa has been hotly contested for several years. The founder has claimed that as many as 28 million people celebrate it; the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=African_American_Cultural_Center&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1">African American Cultural Center</a> once claimed 30 million. However, in 2004, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwanzaa#Popularity">a survey</a> for the National Retail Foundation discovered that only 1.6% of those surveyed in the United States celebrated the holiday. Even one of Kwanzaa’s most prominent public proponents, <a href="http://articles.philly.com/2010-12-21/entertainment/25292844_1_kwanzaa-black-power-black-families" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">researcher and professor Keith Mayes</a>, has admitted that the holiday’s popularity has seriously waned since the 1960s and 1970s.

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Kamala Harris Panders In Kwanzaa Message, Gets Trolled On Twitter

For the third year in a row, President Trump&#8217;s White House issued yet another brief Kwanzaa greeting that constituted just five sentences.
&#8220;Melania and I send season’s greetings to those observing Kwanzaa both in the United States and around the world,&#8221; <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/presidential-message-kwanzaa-2/">the greeting began</a>.
&#8220;For more than 50 years, this weeklong celebration has been used to honor the heritage and culture African Americans share around the country and worldwide,&#8221; it continued.  &#8220;Every aspect of American life has been enriched by the countless contributions of African Americans. Kwanzaa is an opportunity to foster deeper cultural understanding and build stronger bonds of mutual respect and friendship between all Americans.&#8221;
&#8220;We hope the light of the Kinara fills your homes with hope and joy, and we send our best wishes for a New Year filled with good health and much happiness,&#8221; it concluded.
This year&#8217;s Kwanzaa greeting had one slight departure from the previous two years in that it recognized the holiday as something celebrated &#8220;worldwide.&#8221; Compare this year&#8217;s statement with last year&#8217;s:
<blockquote>This annual celebration of African heritage, unity, and culture is a special opportunity for many to reflect on their shared ancestry and values. At this time, our Nation joins in honoring the important contributions of African Americans to the strength and success of the United States. As families, friends, and communities gather this week to light the Kinara, we join in sending our best wishes for good health and happiness in the New Year.</blockquote>
As the years have pressed on, some have resigned themselves to the possibility that President Trump might never go beyond giving Kwanzaa so much as a wink and a nod in recognition. In 2017, some media outlets lamented how Trump&#8217;s recognition of Kwanzaa seemed to depart from those of President Obama.
&#8220;President Donald Trump&#8217;s first White House statement honoring Kwanzaa left out language celebrating African-American culture that had become a staple of former President Barack Obama&#8217;s comments about the holiday,&#8221; wrote <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/trump-kwanzaa-statement-leaves-out-obama-era-praise-759396">Newsweek</a> in 2017. &#8220;Trump&#8217;s three-sentence statement, issued Tuesday, contained similar language to Obama&#8217;s previous remarks but included little of Obama&#8217;s emphasis on the broader values of African-American heritage.&#8221;
Simultaneously, <a href="https://www.theroot.com/trump-issued-a-3-sentence-happy-kwanzaa-statement-and-1821585490">The Root</a> said of Trump’s statement: “Three sentences. &#8230; Three lousy sentences.” <a href="https://splinternews.com/trump-writes-shortest-kwanzaa-statement-since-the-white-1821584716">Splinter</a> got mathematical, noting that Trump’s Kwanzaa statement was the shortest of any president. “For comparison, [Bill] Clinton’s first Kwanzaa statement was 143 words long — more than twice as long as Trump’s remarks,” the outlet noted. “President George W. Bush’s 2001 Kwanzaa statement was 172 words long. And in 2009, Barack Obama issued a statement with 196 words.”
Invented in 1966, the actual number of people who celebrate Kwanzaa has been hotly contested for several years. The founder has claimed that as many as 28 million people celebrate it; the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=African_American_Cultural_Center&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1">African American Cultural Center</a> once claimed 30 million. However, in 2004, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwanzaa#Popularity">a survey</a> for the National Retail Foundation discovered that only 1.6% of those surveyed in the United States celebrated the holiday. Even one of Kwanzaa’s most prominent public proponents, <a href="http://articles.philly.com/2010-12-21/entertainment/25292844_1_kwanzaa-black-power-black-families" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">researcher and professor Keith Mayes</a>, has admitted that the holiday&#8217;s popularity has seriously waned since the 1960s and 1970s.

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President Trump Recognizes Kwanzaa In Brief Proclamation

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The week-long celebration of Kwanzaa has returned and deserves so much as a wink and a nod in terms of recognition on the national stage, and even that&#8217;s being too charitable. To commemorate the holiday, as was the case last year, President Trump has issued yet another brief, three-sentence statement that barely constituted a paragraph.
&#8220;This annual celebration of African heritage, unity, and culture is a special opportunity for many to reflect on their shared ancestry and values. At this time, our Nation joins in honoring the important contributions of African Americans to the strength and success of the United States,&#8221; he said in the message. &#8220;As families, friends, and communities gather this week to light the Kinara, we join in sending our best wishes for good health and happiness in the New Year.&#8221;
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On the first day of <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Kwanzaa?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Kwanzaa</a>, the White House sends this message from President Trump;
&#8220;At this time, our Nation joins in honoring the important contributions of African Americans to the strength and success of the United States.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/eVlVJlxpJW">pic.twitter.com/eVlVJlxpJW</a>
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The statement is basically a rewording of last year&#8217;s and could have possibly been arranged in five minutes &#8212; the &#8220;participation trophy&#8221; of White House holiday greetings. Compare the two:
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Today marks the first day of Kwanzaa, a weeklong celebration of African American heritage and culture. Together, let us celebrate during this joyous time the richness of the past and look with hope toward a brighter future.
As families and friends join to light the Kinara, Melania and I extend our warmest wishes for a joyful holiday season and a prosperous year to come.
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Last year, Newsweek<a href="http://www.newsweek.com/trump-kwanzaa-statement-leaves-out-obama-era-praise-759396"> criticized Trump</a> for failing to emphasize Kwanzaa&#8217;s &#8220;African-American&#8221; values in contrast to his predecessor Barack Obama. <a href="https://www.theroot.com/trump-issued-a-3-sentence-happy-kwanzaa-statement-and-1821585490">The Root</a> said of Trump&#8217;s statement: &#8220;Three sentences. That&#8217;s all the official Hotep holiday garnered. Three lousy sentences.&#8221; <a href="https://splinternews.com/trump-writes-shortest-kwanzaa-statement-since-the-white-1821584716">Splinter</a> got mathematical, noting that Trump&#8217;s Kwanzaa statement was the shortest of any president. &#8220;For comparison, [Bill] Clinton&#8217;s first Kwanzaa statement was 143 words long&#8212;more than twice as long as Trump&#8217;s remarks,&#8221; they lamented. &#8220;President George W. Bush&#8217;s 2001 Kwanzaa statement was 172 words long. And in 2009, Barack Obama issued a statement with 196 words.&#8221;
Invented in 1966 <a href="http://gazette.com/article/19049">by a convicted felon accused of torturing two women</a>, the actual number of people who celebrate Kwanzaa has been hotly contested for several years. The founder has claimed that as many as 28 million people celebrate it; the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=African_American_Cultural_Center&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1">African American Cultural Center</a> once claimed 30 million. However, in 2004, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwanzaa#Popularity">a survey</a> for the National Retail Foundation discovered that 1.6% of those surveyed in the United States celebrated it. Even one of Kwanzaa&#8217;s big proponents, <a href="http://articles.philly.com/2010-12-21/entertainment/25292844_1_kwanzaa-black-power-black-families" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">researcher and professor Keith Mayes</a>, admitted that its popularity has seriously waned since the &#8217;60s and &#8217;70s.
&#8220;It just no longer shows up in some of the places that it did 30 to 40 years ago. You still have people who actually celebrate it,&#8221; <a href="http://articles.philly.com/2010-12-21/entertainment/25292844_1_kwanzaa-black-power-black-families" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Mayes said</a>. &#8220;You have third generations of Kwanzaa celebrants &#8230; but Kwanzaa no longer has its movement which brought it forth, which is the black power movement. That movement has waned.&#8221;
Mayes estimates that roughly 1 to 2 million people in the United States celebrate Kwanzaa, which means that even if the founder&#8217;s numbers are correct, it applies only to those outside the country.

President Trump Recognizes Kwanzaa In Yet Another Brief, Three Sentence Statement

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Growing up, I was always told &#8211; largely by my well-intentioned grade school teachers &#8211; that the holiday season embodies three holidays: the Christian holiday of Christmas, celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ; the Jewish holiday of Hanukah, celebrating the victorious revolt of the Maccabees and rededication of the Holy Temple in Jerusalem; and the African-American holiday of Kwanzaa, celebrating something about African culture. I was never sure though, as we weren&#8217;t taught the origins of Kwanzaa.
As historical <a href="https://www.history.com/topics/christmas/history-of-christmas">records</a> go, the first official Christmas celebration was in 336 AD, under the reign of Roman Emperor Constantine, the first Christian emperor of Rome. Though never officially enshrined in history books, you can imagine the ancient Romans sauntering through the market in December, the first victims of endless, inescapable Christmas music. Hanukah, likewise, traces its roots back thousands of years, predating Christmas. Kwanzaa&#8217;s roots, on the other hand, trace as far back as to when the Beatles were still touring the United States.
Kwanzaa was created in 1966 by Maulana Karenga. Born Ronald McKinley Everett, Karenga later abandoned the name given to him by his Baptist Christian family, attributing it to the &#8220;white, slave culture&#8221; of America which he detested. Karenga&#8217;s chosen title &#8220;Maulana&#8221; translates to &#8220;master teacher&#8221; in Swahili; Karenga means &#8220;keeper of tradition.&#8221;
Karenga co-founded the black nationalist organization: United Slaves &#8211; abbreviated to US, to mean &#8220;Us (blacks) against them (white people)&#8221; &#8211; as a rival to the Black Panther Party, in California.
Through the 1960s, the FBI led a concerted effort to fragment and disorganize the country&#8217;s radical, Marxist political movement by throwing their support behind the wildest, most extreme groups they could find. Karenga&#8217;s United Slaves checked all their boxes. The FBI exploited the existing feud between the US and the Black Panthers, sending a fake letter to Karenga&#8217;s organization, alleging a plot from the Black Panthers to murder Karenga.
As the rancor between the two belligerents intensified, shootings and violence ensued. In 1969, members of Karenga&#8217;s United Slaves gunned down two Black Panther members at UCLA over control of the school&#8217;s black studies program.
Afflicted with paranoia, Karenga believed at least two of his followers, Deborah Jones and Gail Davis, were trying to poison him with &#8220;magic crystals.&#8221; Consequently, he tortured them. In 1971, Karenga was convicted of brutally beating and sexually assaulting two of his female followers.
The Los Angeles Times reported on Karenga&#8217;s heinous conviction. Jones testified that she and Davis were ordered to strip naked after being whipped with an electrical cord and beaten to a pulp with a baton. A scorching hot soldering iron was placed in Davis&#8217; mouth and on her face; one of her toes was crushed in a python-tight vice; they were forcefully made to drink soap and laundry detergent. Karenga and his goons even shoved a running hose down their throats.
Karenga invented Kwanzaa as a secular, cultural celebration. Not a religious one. Kwanzaa was intended to serve as an alternative banner for black Americans to unite under. Along with his Christian name, Karenga abhorred and rejected Christmas, and the Christian religion more broadly. Karenga <a href="http://humanevents.com/2008/12/24/kwanzaa-the-scientology-of-holidays/">called</a> it a &#8220;white religion&#8221; which black people should eschew in favor of his own formation.
As the holiday itself goes, Kwanzaa blends elements of Hanukah with a sprinkle and dash of Marxism. It celebrates the Seven Principles &#8211; more on those in a moment &#8211; and for each principle dedicates a day of festivities. Kwanzaa lasts for seven days. On each day, you light a candle on the Kinara. <a href="https://forward.com/news/356188/the-secret-jewish-history-of-kwanzaa/">As the story goes</a>, Karenga was unable to find a candleholder for exactly seven candles &#8211; one per principle. And so instead, Karenga took a Hanukkiah (a Menorah with 9 candle holes) and broke off two. Creating the Kwanzaa menorah; the Kinara.
Now, the Seven Principles: Unity, self-determination, collective work, cooperative economics, purpose, creativity, and faith in ourselves. As Karenga himself explained, Kwanzaa largely revolves around collectivism. In fact, its Seven Principles were so close to Marxist ethos, they were adopted in 1973 by the California communist organization: the Symbionese Liberation Army. The rabble of revolutionary terrorists robbed banks and murdered two Americans in the annals of the 1970s.
As far as Kwanzaa&#8217;s legitimacy as a holiday is concerned, nobody has the final say in what constitutes a &#8220;real&#8221; holiday. Hanukah and Christmas are technically &#8220;made up&#8221; holidays themselves. But what sets them apart from Kwanzaa is that they&#8217;re built on foundations far more robust than Kwanzaa&#8217;s livid anti-Americanism and rejection of &#8220;whiteness.&#8221; The entire raison d&#8217;être of Kwanza is: &#8220;Christianity is an invention of monstrous, malevolent white people. Celebrate this instead!&#8221;
Picture David Duke &#8211; or some other white supremacist leader &#8211; with the addendum of a conviction for mercilessly torturing two women to their rap sheet. Now imagine they invent a holiday celebrating the fruits of white American culture. What&#8217;s the likelihood of anyone taking them seriously, let alone American presidents (Clinton, Bush, Obama, Trump) issuing official <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/statement-president-donald-j-trump-kwanzaa/">statements</a> wishing &#8220;happy white culture day!&#8221;
According to 2018 a <a href="http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/02/07/5-facts-about-the-religious-lives-of-african-americans/">Pew Research poll</a>, eight in ten black Americans identify as Christian. And the other two, just like the other eight are all American. They already have a wintertime holiday that celebrates their culture, unites their families around a dinner table, and most salient, preaches inclusion, not segregation. Merry Christmas!
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If you believe the truth that Kwanzaa deserves to be recognized as a legitimate holiday every bit as much Scientology deserves to be recognized as a legitimate religion, then please &#8220;kindly unfollow&#8221; the Baltimore Orioles on Twitter.
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Happy Kwanzaa from the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Orioles?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Orioles</a>! <a href="https://t.co/2s6vZFth5v">pic.twitter.com/2s6vZFth5v</a>
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After the Baltmore Orioles tweeted out a &#8220;Happy Kwanzaa&#8221; to everyone, something celebrated by barely 1.6% of the population, fans immediately pointed out the truth about the day. For those who have not read Michael Knowles&#8217; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/25086/kwanzaa-was-invented-insane-leftist-gangster-who-michael-j-knowles">takedown</a> of Kwanzaa, just know that it was invented 50 years ago by a communist sociopath convicted of torturing women.
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This &#8220;holiday&#8221; was invented in 1966 &amp; it&#8217;s founder claimed that Jesus was &#8220;psychotic &amp;&#8230;&#8221; Yeah, you promote that
&#8212; Marian Erickson (@bakerboys93) <a href="https://twitter.com/bakerboys93/status/945669028139454464?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 26, 2017</a></blockquote>
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Kwanzaa was invented in the 60&#8217;s by an abusive Communist. Do the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Orioles?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Orioles</a> even know what they&#8217;re celebrating?
&#8212; Real Chris Pool (@TacitPatriot) <a href="https://twitter.com/TacitPatriot/status/945660563031502848?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 26, 2017</a></blockquote>
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Happy Kwanzaa???? Really???? Celebrate a made up event????
&#8212; Deplorable (@WWayneJones) <a href="https://twitter.com/WWayneJones/status/945768806814797826?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 26, 2017</a></blockquote>
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Do you have any idea of what you are promoting???!!!
&#8220;Jesus was psychotic. Christianity is a white religion. It has a white God, and any &#8220;Negro&#8221; who believes in it is a sick &#8220;Negro.&#8221; &#8211; Maulana Karenga
Its bad enough Baltimore&#8217;s Football team takes a knee in England-now this! <a href="https://t.co/mENIxtwQEY">pic.twitter.com/mENIxtwQEY</a>
&#8212; TruthHurts (@tru768) <a href="https://twitter.com/tru768/status/946050252758503424?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 27, 2017</a></blockquote>
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The only thing dumber than this, would be not trading Manny and letting him become a free agent
&#8212; Houckster (@thehouckaholic) <a href="https://twitter.com/thehouckaholic/status/945769812311068677?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 26, 2017</a></blockquote>
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In response, the Baltimore Orioles referred to the Kwanzaa critics as proponents of &#8220;hate and bigotry&#8221; and asked that they &#8220;kindly unfollow&#8221; them on Twitter.
&#8220;A common love of the Orioles is what brings everyone together on this page,&#8221; they tweeted. &#8220;We&#8217;re happy to have a diverse fan base of the best fans in the world. If you cannot show respect for others, kindly unfollow us. There is no room for hate or bigotry on our social media or in our ballpark.&#8221;
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A common love of the Orioles is what brings everyone together on this page. We&#8217;re happy to have a diverse fan base of the best fans in the world. If you cannot show respect for others, kindly unfollow us. There is no room for hate or bigotry on our social media or in our ballpark
&#8212; Baltimore Orioles (@Orioles) <a href="https://twitter.com/Orioles/status/945766709268541440?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 26, 2017</a></blockquote>
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Baltimore Orioles Tells Kwanzaa Haters To ‘Kindly Unfollow’ Them On Twitter

Tuesday marked the first day of the weeklong celebration of Kwanzaa. As noted by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/25086/kwanzaa-was-invented-insane-leftist-gangster-who-michael-j-knowles">Michael Knowles</a>, Americans should rightly view this &#8220;holiday&#8221; as nothing more than a scam cooked up 50 years ago by a black nationalist sociopath convicted of violent crimes against women. It has no business being included alongside Hanukkah and Christmas.
Knowing these facts, it is fitting, then, that President Trump issued little more than three sentences to commemorate the day. Here&#8217;s the official White House statement on Kwanzaa:
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Today marks the first day of Kwanzaa, a weeklong celebration of African American heritage and culture. Together, let us celebrate during this joyous time the richness of the past and look with hope toward a brighter future.
As families and friends join to light the Kinara, Melania and I extend our warmest wishes for a joyful holiday season and a prosperous year to come.
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Put that under the &#8220;participation trophy&#8221; section of White House holiday greetings. The Left, of course, has since berated the president for not saying something more.
Newsweek<a href="http://www.newsweek.com/trump-kwanzaa-statement-leaves-out-obama-era-praise-759396"> criticized Trump</a> for failing to emphasize Kwanzaa&#8217;s &#8220;African-American&#8221; values in contrast to his predecessor Barack Obama.
<a href="https://www.theroot.com/trump-issued-a-3-sentence-happy-kwanzaa-statement-and-1821585490">The Root</a> said of Trump&#8217;s statement: &#8220;Three sentences. That&#8217;s all the official Hotep holiday garnered. Three lousy sentences. Honestly, he might have found the words under some &#8216;minority holiday template&#8217; after Googling: &#8216;How to wish happy holidays to an other?'&#8221;
<a href="https://splinternews.com/trump-writes-shortest-kwanzaa-statement-since-the-white-1821584716">Splinter</a> got mathematical, noting that Trump&#8217;s Kwanzaa statement was the shortest of any president. &#8220;For comparison, [Bill] Clinton&#8217;s first Kwanzaa statement was 143 words long&#8212;more than twice as long as Trump&#8217;s remarks,&#8221; they lamented. &#8220;President George W. Bush&#8217;s 2001 Kwanzaa statement was 172 words long. And in 2009, Barack Obama issued a statement with 196 words.&#8221;
Here&#8217;s what they were saying on Twitter:
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<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WeTriedToTellYa?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#WeTriedToTellYa</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@</a><a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">RealDonaldTrump</a>&#8216;s Kwanzaa Statement Leaves Out Obama-Era Praise For African-American Values&#8230; <a href="https://t.co/pIhRls1111">https://t.co/pIhRls1111</a>
&#8212; rolandsmartin (@rolandsmartin) <a href="https://twitter.com/rolandsmartin/status/945781087023910913?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 26, 2017</a></blockquote>
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No chance in HELL that was from <a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@POTUS</a>.
&#8212; Edward T. Just (@Edwardthejust) <a href="https://twitter.com/Edwardthejust/status/945711241036574720?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 26, 2017</a></blockquote>
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I will bet every dollar I have and all my worldly possessions that Trump doesn&#8217;t know how to spell Kwanzaa, let alone explain what it is, let alone know it exists, let alone that this press release was written. <a href="https://t.co/Slk89NUD1Q">https://t.co/Slk89NUD1Q</a>
&#8212; Charlotte Clymer(@cmclymer) <a href="https://twitter.com/cmclymer/status/945711672836182016?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 26, 2017</a></blockquote>
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This isn&#8217;t even close to his voice. It&#8217;s basically a bad lip sync. The Milli Vanilli of press releases, if you will. <a href="https://t.co/iQbKQDSsNO">pic.twitter.com/iQbKQDSsNO</a>
&#8212; shauna (@goldengateblond) <a href="https://twitter.com/goldengateblond/status/945708020159299584?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 26, 2017</a></blockquote>
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Somone else so wrote that
&#8212; Boo(@SHABOOTY) <a href="https://twitter.com/SHABOOTY/status/945706339296272389?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 26, 2017</a></blockquote>
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To all the haters of Trump&#8217;s short and wholly appropriate acknowledgement of a communist holiday, one word: MAGA!

Trump Issues Short Kwanzaa Message; Leftists Outraged

Today marks the first day of the racialist holiday known as Kwanzaa, or as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/25086/kwanzaa-was-invented-insane-leftist-gangster-who-michael-j-knowles">Michael Knowles calls it</a>: a holiday &#8220;invented by an insane leftist gangster who tortured women.&#8221;
Invented in 1966 <a href="http://gazette.com/article/19049">by a convicted felon who was accused of torturing two </a><a href="http://gazette.com/article/19049">women</a>, the numbers of actual people who celebrate Kwanzaa have been hotly contested for several years now. The founder has claimed that as many as 28 million people celebrate it; the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=African_American_Cultural_Center&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1">African American Cultural Center</a> once claimed 30 million. However, in 2004, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwanzaa#Popularity">a survey</a> for the National Retail Foundation discovered that 1.6% of those surveyed in the United States celebrated it. Even one of Kwanzaa&#8217;s big proponents, <a href="http://articles.philly.com/2010-12-21/entertainment/25292844_1_kwanzaa-black-power-black-families" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">researcher and professor Keith Mayes</a>, estimates that roughly 1 to 2 million people in the United States celebrate the &#8220;holiday.&#8221;
Those are some interesting facts. No surprise, then, that the Smithsonian National Musemum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) included none of them on their list of &#8220;Kwanzaa facts&#8221; they shared to commemorate the day:
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Habari Gani? <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/OTD?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#OTD</a> in 1966, <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Kwanzaa?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Kwanzaa</a> was founded as an African American cultural holiday, centered around seven principles based on African culture to build and reinforce community. Each day of Kwanzaa represents a different principle, or &#8220;Nguzo Saba,&#8221; in Swahili. <a href="https://t.co/RtSk0vXEqU">pic.twitter.com/RtSk0vXEqU</a>
&#8212; Smithsonian NMAAHC (@NMAAHC) <a href="https://twitter.com/NMAAHC/status/945658010961145857?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 26, 2017</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/DYK?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#DYK</a>? <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Kwanzaa?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Kwanzaa</a>&#8217;s name is derived from the phrase &#8220;matunda ya kwanza&#8221; which means &#8220;first fruits.&#8221; On the first night, the black candle in the center is lit&#8212;one candle is lit each evening in honor of the principles. <a href="https://t.co/GP13H6u6II">pic.twitter.com/GP13H6u6II</a>
&#8212; Smithsonian NMAAHC (@NMAAHC) <a href="https://twitter.com/NMAAHC/status/945670284253847552?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 26, 2017</a></blockquote>
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The colors of <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Kwanzaa?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Kwanzaa</a> are a reflection of the Pan-African movement representing &#8220;unity&#8221; for people of African descent; black for the people, red for their struggle, and green for the future and hope that comes from their struggle.
Learn more: <a href="https://t.co/2kYkksEsLD">https://t.co/2kYkksEsLD</a> <a href="https://t.co/NYTg5L9K3F">pic.twitter.com/NYTg5L9K3F</a>
&#8212; Smithsonian NMAAHC (@NMAAHC) <a href="https://twitter.com/NMAAHC/status/945679785635741696?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 26, 2017</a></blockquote>
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They forgot to say &#8220;invented by a convicted felon.&#8221; Thanks to the internet, people are no longer so gullible, and responded in force:
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What is &#8220;African culture&#8221; exactly? There are &gt;50 countries on the continent. Each with diverse cultures. Kwanzaa = a made up festivity originated by a woman beater.
&#8212; Ness Gordon-Dseagu (@Dseagu) <a href="https://twitter.com/Dseagu/status/945724892850384897?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 26, 2017</a></blockquote>
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Nobody in Africa even knows what <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Kwanzaa?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Kwanzaa</a> is
&#8212; Derek Dukes Landfair (@DukesLandfair) <a href="https://twitter.com/DukesLandfair/status/945745162604605440?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 26, 2017</a></blockquote>
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Invented in 1966 by a radical Black Panther fighter and convicted felon. Great.
&#8212; AfricanJon (@AfricanJon1) <a href="https://twitter.com/AfricanJon1/status/945707299397496832?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 26, 2017</a></blockquote>
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Happy Symbionese Liberation Army Murderous Bank Robber day yall!<a href="https://t.co/JtZO1k6mKf">https://t.co/JtZO1k6mKf</a>
&#8212; Jin USAotome (@JinSaotome) <a href="https://twitter.com/JinSaotome/status/945685079476580352?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 26, 2017</a></blockquote>
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You forgot to mention that it was invented by a Marxist who kidnapped and tortured women.
&#8212; James Armato (@James_Warrior) <a href="https://twitter.com/James_Warrior/status/945770391611564032?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 26, 2017</a></blockquote>
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Smithsonian AA Tweets Out ‘Kwanzaa Facts,’ Misses Out On Most Important One

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Today marks the first day of Kwanzaa, a week-long celebration for black Americans &#8220;to celebrate themselves and history&#8221; in the United States. Ironically, while many are familiar with the rich heritage and history of black Americans, few know anything about the horrifying and ridiculous heritage of Kwanzaa.
Kwanzaa began in 1966 when Los Angeles City College professor of Africana Studies, Ronald Everett, later re-styled Maulana Ndabezitha Karenga, launched an atheistic holiday specifically for black Americans. He derived the name from the Swahili phrase &#8220;matunda y kwanza,&#8221; which means &#8220;first fruits of the harvest.&#8221; Ironically, it is unlikely that any of the West African slaves transported to the Americas would have understood the East African phrase.
As any postmodern schoolboy knows, the seven principles of Kwanzaa are unity, self-determination, collective work, cooperative economics, purpose, creativity, and faith &#8212; not in God, but in &#8220;our people.&#8221; If those principles sound familiar, that&#8217;s because they were adopted in 1973 by the Symbionese Liberation Army, a left-wing terrorist group famous for the murders of a school superintendent and a 42-year-old mother of four in addition to kidnapping and raping 19-year-old heiress Patty Hearst.
Everett himself is no stranger to crime. In 1969 his black nationalist gang, &#8220;US,&#8221; murdered two Black Panthers during a turf war at UCLA. Two years later, Everett was sentenced to prison for felonious assault and false imprisonment after he tortured two women, Gail Davis and Deborah Jones. According to court testimony, Everett stripped the women naked, whipped them with electrical cords and karate batons, placed a hot soldering iron in Davis&#8217; mouth and on her face, tightened Davis&#8217; toes in a vise, put laundry detergent and running hoses in their mouths, and hit them on the head with toasters.
Despite the viciousness and extent of his crimes, Everett spent only four years in prison before a letter-writing campaign by his supporters led to a grant of parole in 1975. Helping the case for clemency was the conclusion of a psychiatrist who examined him in 1971 that Everett was insane, &#8220;both paranoid and schizophrenic.&#8221; The psychiatrist observed,
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Since his admission here he has been isolated and has been exhibiting bizarre behavior, such as staring at the wall, talking to imaginary persons, claiming that he was attacked by dive-bombers and that his attorney was in the next cell. During part of the interview he would look around as if reacting to hallucination and when the examiner walked away for a moment he began a conversation with a blanket located on his bed. This man now presents a picture which can be considered both paranoid and schizophrenic with hallucinations and elusions, inappropriate affect, disorganization, and impaired contact with the environment.
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Although virtually no one celebrates Everett&#8217;s invention, schoolchildren for decades have been taught the importance of Kwanzaa to the &#8220;holiday season.&#8221; That sly euphemism compares a decades-old, race-exclusive, vainglorious contrivance invented by an insane gangster who tortured women and inspired terrorists to &#8220;good news of great joy that will be for all the people.&#8221; Perhaps we ought to spend less time celebrating history and more time learning it.

Kwanzaa Was Invented By An Insane Leftist Gangster Who Tortured Women

On Monday, the Louder with Crowder team released the latest episode of the &#8220;Change My Mind&#8221; series, which features Steven Crowder sitting down in public spaces and having real conversations with those who believe differently than he does.
Monday&#8217;s episode was called &#8220;Kwanzaa isn&#8217;t Real.&#8221; While Crowder admits his feelings about Kwanzaa aren&#8217;t as strong as his feelings surrounding the topics discussed in previous installments, he still believes it&#8217;s a discussion worth having.
If you ever wanted to know the very strange origins of Kwanzaa, and just how few people actually celebrate it, check out this fascinating video:
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WATCH: Steven Crowder’s Latest ‘Change My Mind’ Is About Kwanzaa

Steven Crowder

Dec. 26-Jan. 1 marks the period in which the holiday Kwanzaa takes place. The problem is, Kwanzaa is a fake holiday. Here is everything you need to know about it.
The <a href="http://www.textbookleague.org/114kwanz.htm">Official Kwanzaa Website</a> claims that the holiday has roots in Africa. This is a lie. Kwanzaa was started in 1966 by a person named Maulana Karenga, whose real name is Ron Everett. Karenga gave himself the title of &#8220;maulana,&#8221; Swahili for &#8220;master teacher.&#8221; Karenga is quite the radical, as explained below.
Karenga was an extremely violent person. Karenga founded the United Slaves, a group that was the Crips to the Black Panthers&#8217; Bloods, according to FrontPage Magazine&#8217;s <a href="http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=20535">Paul Mulshine.</a> As Mulshine <a href="http://blog.nj.com/njv_paul_mulshine/2012/12/the_media_are_still_falling_fo.html">wrote</a>, &#8220;In 1967, Karenga was accused of having his thugs beat up a student who asked him an impertinent question at a college forum. In 1969, US got involved in a struggle with the Black Panthers for control of the black studies program at UCLA. All involved carried guns on campus. The US guys were quicker on the draw; they killed two Panthers in a shootout at the student center.&#8221;
Karenga was also convicted for brutally torturing women, as described by the <a href="http://gazette.com/backers-say-past-of-founder-doesnt-diminish-kwanzaa/article/19049">Colorado Springs Gazette:</a>
<blockquote>According to a Los Angeles Times account of testimony published at the time of the trial, Karenga and the other men forced the women to remove their clothes, and beat them with an electrical cord and a karate baton. The men put a hot soldering iron in one woman’s mouth and against her face, and they squeezed one woman’s big toe in a vise, the Times reported. Karenga’s former wife, Brenda Lorraine Karenga, testified he sat on one woman’s stomach while another man forced water into her mouth through a hose, according to the Times. “Vietnamese torture is nothing compared to what I know,” Karenga allegedly told the women, the Times reported Oct. 7, 1970, shortly after Karenga’s arrest. Jones said during the trial that Karenga initiated the attacks because he suspected her and Davis of trying to poison him with “crystals.”</blockquote>
Karenga&#8217;s mental state was also described as &#8220;bizarre&#8221; during the sentencing, and he only served roughly four to five years in prison. He has never repented for his violent past.
Karenga was a white-hating Marxist and uses Kwanzaa to promote his odious ideology. Karenga used to be a <a href="http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=20535">&#8220;cultural nationalist&#8221;</a> until converting to Marxism in 1975, supposedly a form of &#8220;moderation&#8221; for Karenga. Karenga explained that the difference between Kwanzaa&#8217;s ideology–known as Kawaida–and Marxism is that Kawaida involves the hating of whites.
&#8220;While taking the &#8216;best of early Chinese and Cuban socialism&#8217; &#8212; excluding, one hopes, mass murder, forced abortions, imprisonment of homosexuals and forced labor &#8212; Karenga said Kawaida practitioners believe one&#8217;s racial identity &#8216;determines life conditions, life chances and self-understanding,'&#8221; <a href="http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2013-12-26.html">writes</a> conservative columnist Ann Coulter.
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Here are the seven pillars of the Kwanzaa, via <a href="http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/20633/">The College Fix:</a>
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<li>Unity</li>
<li>Self-determination</li>
<li>Collective work and responsibility</li>
<li>Cooperative economics</li>
<li>Purpose</li>
<li>Creativity</li>
<li>Faith</li>
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&#8220;That it reads like a communist manifesto is certainly obvious,&#8221; writes College Fix editor Jennifer Kabbany.
Kabbany also links to <a href="http://www.tysknews.com/Depts/Our_Culture/happy_kwanzaa.htm">Patrick S. Poole,</a> who points out the principle of &#8220;collective work and responsibility&#8221; is &#8220;why Masai and Zulu tribesmen still live in grass huts, wear animal skins and must walk everywhere.&#8221;
&#8220;It is a good thing that today we do not have to grow our food, build our houses and tend to our own lands,&#8221; Poole writes. &#8220;Division of labor and specialization has fueled the prosperity and progress in the West that all Africans envy. And yet it is the express denial of these important economic tools that Kwanzaa lauds.&#8221;
Poole also notes that &#8220;cooperative economics&#8221; is an obvious Marxism reference.
What&#8217;s particular ironic about Kwanzaa&#8217;s Marxist undertones is that it has become <a href="http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=20535">commercialized.</a>
Karenga is currently a <a href="http://www.cla.csulb.edu/departments/africanastudies/faculty-and-staff/maulana-karenga/">black studies professor</a> at CSU Long Beach. Because being an anti-white violent Marxist makes one qualified to become a college professor, apparently.
Karenga was an FBI lackey. Coulter <a href="http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2014-12-23.html">writes,</a> &#8220;In what was ultimately a foolish gambit, during the madness of the &#8217;60s, the FBI encouraged the most extreme black nationalist organizations in order to discredit and split the left. The more preposterous the group, the better.&#8221; Karenga&#8217;s US group fit exactly what the FBI wanted.

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