 Should someone call Bill O'Reilly??? On second thought, never mind. Ann Coulter's latest upchuck is a salvo against the African-American holiday Kwanzaa, over which he/she claims to have finally triumphed this year. Having declared victory, because the holiday hasn't been mentioned as much as in past years, and wasn't "happied" by President Bush, Coultergeist launches into a valuable "history lesson" (he/she, after all, knows more about black history than you do, having lived all her life as an African-American man-girl...man...) Commence!
My Triumph Over Kwanzaa!
by Ann Coulter
... It is a fact that Kwanzaa was invented in 1966 by a black radical FBI stooge, 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 ultimately 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. Using that criterion, 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?)
She then goes on to say some stuff about O.J. ... Oh, and there's also a song:
(Sing to "Jingle Bells")
Kwanzaa bells, dashikis sell
Whitey has to pay;
Burning, shooting, oh what fun
On this made-up holiday! Clever girl...boy... whatever. Followed by more "history":
Kwanzaa itself is a nutty 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 of 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.
Coincidentally, the seven principles of Kwanzaa are the very same seven principles of the Symbionese Liberation Army, another charming invention of the Worst 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 exact same seven "principles" of Kwanzaa.
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.
This is a holiday for white liberals -- the kind of holiday Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn probably celebrate. Meanwhile, most blacks celebrate Christmas. Blah blah blah blah blah. You get the idea. Well, it is true that most African-Americans celebrate Christmas. And Coulter's racist sideswipes aside (I don't know, dear, how many Jamals are there on death row? And while we're counting, how many "Ann's" are there with huge Adam's apples swinging purses and stumbling around in size 12 heels in the Castro?) he/she isn't the first curiously gendered winger to take a swipe at the holiday or to go all cookoo over the fact that it exists at all. But typical of Coulter, he/she goes on to use his/her increasingly irrelevant column to take shots not only at Black Americans, intimating that Kwanzaa adherents are a bunch of violent Marxists, but also at the right's favorite nemeses from the failed presidential campaign: Bernadine Dohrn and William Ayers, and at Barack Obama, whom he/she dares to shun Kwanzaa as proof that the "Halfrican" president-in-waiting -- yes, he/she's still calling him that -- is more "American" than "African." Nice touch.
Why I'm bothering to comment on this fellow's latest attention-starved gambit may seem beyond you. I personally don't celebrate Kwanzaa and am on record as being a bit ambivalent about it. (That said, I also disagree with those who say Jesus is the reason for the season. I'm pretty confident that Santa Claus and Macy's share that honor...) But I think it's clear to most thinking people that whatever it's origins, Kwanzaa is not a black nationalist holiday designed to foment the overthrow of the white, Christian establishment. Rather, it's a holiday that attempts to reconnect black folk to the African continent, however tenuously, by encouraging African descendants to be proud of their origins, something many who grew up prior to the "I'm black and I'm proud" era of the late 1960s and 1970s struggled to be, and to work together to build better communities. Not a bad idea, I'd say.
However, I couldn't resist, especially when I discovered that Coulter's "new" column, was cribbed, almost word for word, from a column he/she wrote back in 2001 for the Jewish World Review. I'm thinking her syndicator might want to clip her paycheck. For instance, this is from the "new" column:
In what was probably ultimately 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. Using that criterion, Karenga's United Slaves was perfect. In the annals of the American '60s, Karenga was the Father Gapon, stooge of the czarist police. And from the 2001 piece:
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. "New":
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.) Old:
hether 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. "New":
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." Old:
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." "New":
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. Old:
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. You get my drift. It's the same bloody article, rearranged slightly, and repackaged as new (though Mr. Coulter was kind enough to update the "new" article with a poem.) In essence, the Coulterbeast has "regifted." Perhaps someone should tell her syndicator. Or maybe, that's just the way the right operates. Meanwhile, Coulter's obsession with the Dartmouth Review seems to have been unearthed, along with the old, used article. Coulter, after all, founded a "review" while attending Cornell that was obsessively patterned after the Dartmouth Review. And it seems that back in 2001, the Review returned the favor, publishing a Kwanaattack on January 15th of that year that was suspiciously similar to Annie Boy's January 2 screed. The plot thickens...
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