Kwanzaa: May the Farce Be With You!

Kwanzaa, May the Farce Be With You!

 

Here in America, we’re blessed with a multiplicity of rights among which is the inalienable to create hoaxes for fun and/or profit and, with a modicum of luck, convince others to take us seriously as in the case of what is nowadays called Kwanzaa: A Celebration of Family, Community, and Culture.

Originally proposed as a Christmas alternative by its inventor, he apparently realized thirty years later that many of his Kwanzaa converts weren’t about to turn their backs on Christmas and that a specific Black alternative to the national holiday was more than a tad offputting to Christians as well as blatantly racist since America has no specifically White holiday so he decided his invention wasn’t really supposed to be an alternative, after all.

Got that?

You see, when you invent something, you’re pretty much free to tinker with it, even to the extent of radically changing its fundamental meaning and purpose.

And, the man who invented Kwanzaa (misspelled Swahili for “first fruits”) just two years after getting out of prison,  Maulana (Swahili for “master teacher”) Ron Karenga (Swahili for “keeper of tradition”), born Ronald McKinley Everett, knew all about radical change.

An avowed Marxist/Black revolutionary/Black supremacist, Everett had been convicted of kidnapping and brutally torturing two Black women members of his murderous Us (United slaves) cult, was sentenced to one to ten years in prison, served four, after which he immediately began rehabilitating his image and envisioning Kwanzaa.

In July 1971, psychiatrist W. D. Achuff described Karenga as “a danger to society who is in need of prolonged custodial treatment in prison . . . irrational and bizarre [and] “confused and not in touch with reality,”according to the LA Times.

In a 1978 article Washington Post article, Hollie West quoted Karenga on the formation of Kwanzaa: “I created Kwanzaa.  People think it’s African. But it’s not. I wanted to give black people a holiday of their own. So I came up with Kwanzaa. I said it was African because you know 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 (Blacks) would be partying!”

But, enough about Everett-Karenga whose sadistic, criminal background includes shoving a hot soldering iron into one Black woman’s mouth and using a vise to crush another Black woman’s toe, and his racist history are open books to all but the mainstream media. 

Those media have so successfully buried his past that he is now Chairman of the Africana Studies Department at California State University, Long Beach, director of the Kawaida Institute for Pan African Studies, author of several books, former member of the organizing committee and author of the mission statement of the Million Man March, and is included on the 2002 list of 100 Greatest African Americans. 

Not bad for an accused rapist and convicted kidnapper and vicious torturer of Black women! . . . (Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=34789.)

Annual War on Christmas: Jerks

Annual War on Christmas: Jerks

 

Charles, Prince of Wales, heir apparent to Great Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II, the longest-serving heir apparent in British history and the oldest heir to the throne in 300 years, may never become King of England in part because he’s a dumb jerk but mainly because his mother, the future Queen Mum knows it and would rather he be forced to tear the crown off her cold, dead head than see him installed as Britain’s monarch.

That said, the twit who was once caught confessing to his mistress Camilla that he thought it would be a “wonderful idea” to serve as her tampon, does actually say the right thing on occasion.

At a reception for religious leaders at Clarence House last week, Prince Charles addressed an issue that has been mostly ignored by President Barack Hussein Obama, namely that Christians are being persecuted for their religion in the Middle East and North Africa by fundamentalist Islamists.

Without calling the situation a War on Christians, a corrollary to the War on Christmas, Bonnie Prince Charlie semi-redeemed himself as a jerk in the eyes of normal people–if not his mum’s–which is a very good thing since we have more than enough jerks in those wars.

Here are a selected few:

—In Las Vegas, Ana Berumen reported that an unknown individual or individuals have been vandalizing her baby Angel Gabriel’s gravesite, most recently by stealing a little Christmas tree that had been placed next to his headstone and by destroying a solar light system for the tree lights.

—ESPN refused the week before to air a commercial for a Catholic children’s medical center in Missouri because the ad mentioned God and Jesus and included the offensive words, ”God’s healing,” and “We celebrate the birth of Jesus!”  To its credit, though only in reaction to a massive public outcry, ESPN quickly reversed its decision banning the Christmas commercial sponsored by St. Louis’s Cardinal Glennon Children’s Medical Center.

 

—DailyBeast.com columnist Dean Obeidallah posted a story with the lead, “They’re terrified America’s tiny number of atheists will change the meaning of the holiday. But conservatives are the ones who are really at war with its message.”  His peculiar reasoning?  Unlike Christ, conservative Christians obviously don’t give a damn about the poor since they think Obamacare is an abomination.

 

—Punk rockers, those virtuosos of virtuosity, good taste, and decorum, have joined the War on Christmas in the persons of members of Bad Religion, a band which flaunts atheism in their new album, “Christmas Songs.”  They conclude “American Jesus” by referencing God as “the farmer’s barren  fields, the force the army wields, the expression on the faces of the starving  millions/The power of the man, He’s the fuel that drives the Klan, He’s the  motive and conscience of the murderer/The nuclear bombs, the kids with no moms, and I’m fearful that he’s inside me.”

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—The twisted members of Bad Religion should have no fear of God being inside of them anymore than the anti-Christmas/anti-Christian warriors at RJO Intermediate School in Kings Park, New York. . . (Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=34730.) 

Good News!

Good News!

Even if you live in a cocoon and prefer to hide from contemporary realities, those realities will eventually affect you and will sometimes nastily bite you on the butt.  Good news occurs much less frequently than bad and therefore deserves top billing.

THE GOOD NEWS

—One piece of good news is the report that a black woman in Brooklyn proved the “knockout game” being played nationwide by blacks, a “game” in which they cold cock innocent, usually white, victims into unconsciousness, isn’t always successful.  Turning the tables in various ways, the feisty woman beat most of the living sheat out of her black attacker and was then joined by her boyfriend who beat the rest of the stuffing out of him.

—London’s Daily Mail reported last week that the president’s approval rating has plummeted to 38% overall, to 34% on health care, and to 40% on Iran, with 49% of young people and 43% of Hispanics saying they disapprove of his job performance, 52% of the voting public saying he is not “honest and trustworthy,” and 51% believing he lacks “strong  leadership qualities.” (http://tinyurl.com/o7djon6)

—In the ongoing War on Christmas and Christianity, the Texas state legislature attempted unsuccessfully to ban the word “Christmas” from an elementary school “winter party,” what used to be called Christmas parties.  However, in a reflection of national sanity, a Rasmussen Reports poll released recently indicated that some 75% of Americans support celebrating the Christian religious (and national) holiday in our public schools.
 
—Ayo Kimathi, the black supremacist . . . (Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=34386.)