Kwanzaa: Holiday From the FBI

by Ann Coulter
Posted Dec 27, 2006

President Bush's Kwanzaa message this year skipped the patently absurd
claim of years past that: "African-Americans and people around the world
reflect on African heritage during Kwanzaa." Instead, he simply said: "I
send greetings to those observing Kwanzaa."

More African-Americans spent this season reflecting on the birth of
Christ than some phony non-Christian holiday invented a few decades ago
by an FBI stooge. Kwanzaa is a holiday for white liberals, not blacks.

It is a fact that Kwanzaa was invented in 1966 by a black radical FBI
pawn, Ron Karenga, aka 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 a foolish gamble, during the madness of the '60s
the FBI encouraged the most extreme black nationalist organizations in
order to discredit and split the left. The more preposterous the
organization, the better. Karenga's United Slaves was perfect. In the
annals of the American '60s, Karenga was the Father Gapon, stooge of the
czarist police.

Despite modern perceptions that blend all the black activists of the
'60s, the Black Panthers did not hate whites. They did not seek armed
revolution.
Those were the precepts of Karenga's United Slaves. United Slaves were
proto-fascists, walking around in dashikis, gunning down 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?)

Whether Karenga was a willing dupe, or just a dupe, remains unclear.
Curiously, in a 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. Karenga
should know about FBI infiltration. (He further noted that the evidence
against O.J. "was not strong enough to prohibit or eliminate
unreasonable doubt" -- an interesting standard of proof.)

In the category of the-gentleman-doth-protest-too-much, back in the
'70s, Karenga was quick to criticize rumors that black radicals were
government-supported. When Nigerian newspapers claimed that some
American black radicals were CIA operatives, Karenga publicly denounced
the idea, saying, "Africans must stop generalizing about the loyalties
and motives of Afro-Americans, including the widespread suspicion of
black Americans being CIA agents."

Now we know that the FBI fueled the bloody rivalry between the Panthers
and United Slaves. In one barbarous outburst, Karenga's United Slaves
shot to death Black Panthers Al "Bunchy" Carter and Deputy Minister John
Huggins on the UCLA campus. 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.

When Karenga was asked to distinguish Kawaida, the philosophy underlying
Kwanzaa, from "classical Marxism," he essentially explained that under
Kawaida, we also hate whites. While taking the "best of early Chinese
and Cuban socialism" -- which one assumes would exclude the forced
abortions, imprisonment for homosexuals and forced labor -- Kawaida
practitioners believe one's racial identity "determines life conditions,
life chances and self-understanding." There's an inclusive philosophy
for you.

(Sing to "Jingle Bells")

Kwanzaa bells, dashikis sell
Whitey has to pay;
Burning, shooting, oh what fun
On this made-up holiday!

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: Umoja, Kujichagulia, Ujima, Ujamaa, Nia, Kuumba and Imani --
the same seven "principles" of Kwanzaa.

With his Kwanzaa greetings, President Bush is saluting the intellectual
sibling of the Symbionese Liberation Army, killer of housewives and
police.
He is saluting the founder of United Slaves, who were such lunatics that
they shot Panthers for not being sufficiently insane -- all with the FBI
as their covert ally.

It's as if David Duke invented a holiday called "Anglika," and the
president of the United States issued a presidential proclamation
honoring the synthetic holiday. People might well take notice if that
happened.

Kwanzaa was the result of a '60s psychosis grafted onto the black
community.
Liberals have become so mesmerized by multicultural nonsense that they
have forgotten the real history of Kwanzaa and Karenga's United Slaves
-- 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.

Now the "holiday" concocted by an FBI dupe is honored in a presidential
proclamation and public schools across the nation. The only principle
Kwanzaa promotes is liberals' unbounded capacity to respect any faith
but Christianity.

A movement that started approximately 2,000 years before Kwanzaa leaps
well beyond collectivism and litter removal to proclaim that we are all
equal before God. "There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male
nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus" (Galatians 3:2 Cool

. It
was practitioners of that faith who were at the forefront of the
abolitionist and civil rights movements. But that's all been washed down
the memory hole, along with the true origins of Kwanzaa.