The Truth About Kwanzaa

December 26th marks the beginning of Kwanzaa, a holiday promoted on its website as "an African American and Pan-African holiday celebrated by millions throughout the world African community." Additionally, many on the Left have embraced the "holiday" out of political correctness.

Did you know the true origins of Kwanzaa have nothing to do with Africa? Instead, it is rooted in the radical 1960's black power movement and Marxism. Additionally, do you know about the criminal history of the man who founded Kwanzaa?

Kwanzaa was founded in 1966 by Ron Karenga, (a.k.a. Ron Everett), who is currently a Professor and chairman of the Department of Black Studies at California State University, Long Beach. He was a founder of the black militant group United Slaves at UCLA, which was involved in the murder of two Black Panthers in 1969. He was imprisoned in 1971 "for torturing two black women by whipping them with electrical cords and beating them with a karate baton after stripping them naked. He placed in the mouth of one of the victims a hot soldering iron, also scarring her face with the device. He put one of her big toes in a vise, and detergent and running water in both their mouths."

Karenga told the Washington ComPost the following about Kwanzaa:

"People think it's African, but it's not. I came up with Kwanzaa because black people in this country wouldn't celebrate it if they knew it was American. Also, I put it around Christmas because I knew that's when a lot of bloods would be partying."

Blogger La Shawn Barber noted that Karenga once said the following about Christianity:

“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.”

Kwanzaa's seven principles, Umoja (Unity), Kujichagulia (self-determination), Ujima (collective work and responsibility), Ujamaa (cooperative economics), Nia (purpose), Kuumba (creativity), and Imani (faith), were also adopted by the Symbionese Liberation Army, the Bay Area Leftist terrorist group that abducted Patty Hearst in 1974.

In his WorldNetDaily column, Les Kinsolving recalled a debate with Karenga in the 1960's. For two other perspectives on Kwanzaa, see "Kwanzaa is for Pagans" by La Shawn Barber and "Kwanzaa — Racist Holiday from Hell" by The Rev. Jessie Lee Peterson of B.O.N.D.