12-05-2005, 03:55 PM
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| Senior Member   |  Truth about "Kwanzaa"....
“Merry Christmas!” Not “Happy Kwanzaa!” Campaign Our Goal: The “Merry Christmas!” Not “Happy Kwanzaa!” Campaign is designed to educate the American public about the phony “African-American” holiday known as Kwanzaa and to encourage the celebration of Christmas. We want the public to know that this holiday was designed to further separate Black Americans from identifying with America. Kwanzaa is not even a legitimate African holiday. The founder of Kwanzaa, Ron Karenga (a.k.a. Maulana Karenga) himself admits he made up this Pagan holiday to give Blacks a false sense of culture and identity. The word "Kwanzaa" itself is fabricated. It is derived from the Swahili phrase "matunda ya Kwanzaa" which means “first fruits.” For the past forty years Black Americans have been the victims of some of the most heinous scams ever run on a people—typically run on them by their so-called “Black leaders.” Kwanzaa is one of those scams and it's time all Americans became aware of it! Raising awareness: In recent years there has been a concerted effort by left-wing organizations such as the ACLU to remove any religious symbols of Christmas from the public square. The ACLU has threatened to sue school districts over Christmas celebrations, including the singing of "Jingle Bells." Corporations are so intimidated by the ACLU that they are bending over backwards trying to be "politically correct." Many are wiping out the mention of Christmas from their advertising and stores. Kwanzaa has been pushed by radical Black activists and promoted by the mainstream media as a viable Black holiday, in many cases replacing Christmas. Despite the liberals efforts to paint Kwanzaa as a multicultural holiday, it was designed as a “Black only” event. Here are two examples of how Kwanzaa has successfully infiltrated the American culture: In 1997, the U.S. post office issued the first commemorative stamp dedicated to Kwanzaa. KWANZAA FEATURED ON THIS YEAR'S HOLIDAY U.S. POSTAGE STAMP And in December 2001, President George W. Bush issued a proclamation celebrating Kwanzaa. Changing attitudes: The “Merry Christmas!” Not “Happy Kwanzaa!” Campaign is an effort to change the attitudes of well meaning Americans about Kwanzaa, and to raise awareness about the separatist origins of Kwanzaa. We believe that if Americans—especially Black Americans--understood what Kwanzaa was really about, they would abandon it in droves. Kwanzaa is so widely accepted now that many Black churches celebrate Kwanzaa, and some have even gone so far as to replace Christmas with Kwanzaa! What is Kwanzaa? In 1966 Ron Karenga (or Maulana Karenga) created Kwanzaa as a holiday to give Blacks an alternative to the “White man's” celebration of Christmas and to allegedly give Blacks their “own” celebration to get in touch with their African roots. The Kwanzaa celebration is made up of seven days to celebrate seven principles (the Nguzo Saba). The seventh day consists of a feast, patterned after the first-fruits celebrations of ancient Africa. There are activities such as pouring the libation for ancestors, lighting of candles, raising names of ancestors (also referred to by many as "ancestor worship"), and gift giving. Kwanzaa consists of 7 principles, which are a blueprint for socialism, worship of false gods, and Afrocentrism. The principles are: -Umoja (unity), Kujichaguila (self-determination)—code, in this case for Afrocentrism). -Ujima (collective work and responsibility—groupthink). -Ujamma (cooperative economics—socialism). -Nia (purpose). -Kuumba (creativity). -Imani (faith—worship of false gods or no gods at all). Ron Karenga also created the Kwanzaa flag, which consists of red, black, and green. The Kwanzaa Information Center describes the color red as representing blood: “We lost our land through blood; and we cannot gain it except through blood. We must redeem our lives through the blood. Without the shedding of blood there can be no redemption of this race.” The Kwanzaa information center also notes that this flag “has become a symbol of devotion for African people in America to establish an independent African nation on the North American continent.” Those who celebrate Kwanzaa are encouraged to pledge their allegiance to this flag. The pledge itself is a statement of racial hatred and Black separatism: “We pledge allegiance to the red, black, and green, our flag, the symbol of our eternal struggle, and to the land we must obtain; one nation of Black people, with one God of us all, totally united in the struggle, for Black love, Black freedom, and Black self-determination. “ Kwanzaa isn't a celebration of the African harvest; it is a political statement for the establishment of a separate Black nation and racial hatred against Whites. About the Founder Ron Karenga: Ron Karenga (or Maulana Karenga) was the head of the United Slaves organization (USO), a Marxist “Black power” group that was a rival to the Black Panther party. USO members and Black Panther terrorists frequently got involved in violent confrontations and several people died as a result. In 1970, Karenga and two of his followers were arrested and charged with conspiracy and assault in the torture of Deborah Jones and Gail Davis, two of his followers. Thinking that these women had tried to poison him, he made them disrobe at gunpoint and had them beaten. He forced a hot soldering iron into the mouth of one woman while the other had a toe squeezed in a vice. They were also forced to swallow detergent and another caustic liquid as part of their punishment. Karenga was convicted and served four years for the crime. (Source: SCAM: How the Black Leadership Exploits Black America) (Source: Kwanzaa -- Racist Holiday from !!!!) A psychiatrist who examined Karenga noted that while in prison he had exhibited bizarre behavior, including talking to imaginary people, claiming he was attacked by dive bombers, and claiming that his attorney was in the next cell with him. He was judged to be a paranoid and schizophrenic. Amazingly enough, this sadistic criminal ended up in the Black Studies Department at Cal State Long Beach in California, where he retired as chairman in 2002. Karenga had this cushy position for thirteen years, where he used the cover of academic freedom to indoctrinate his students into Marxism, Afrocentrism, and hatred of America. Karenga is currently a tenured professor at the university. Karenga in His Own Words: When once asked why he designed Kwanzaa to take place around Christmas, Karenga explained, “People think it's African but it's not. I came up with Kwanzaa because Black people 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.” Karenga has explained that his creation of Kwanzaa was motivated, in part, by hostility toward both Christianity and Judaism. Writing in his 1980 book Kawaida Theory , he claimed that Western religion “denies and diminishes human worth, capacity, potential, and achievement. In Christian and Jewish mythology, humans are born in sin, and cursed with mythical ancestors who've sinned and brought the wrath of angry God on every generation's head.” He clearly opposed belief in God and other “spooks who threaten us if we don't worship them and demand we turn over our destiny and daily lives.” Unfortunately, Kwanzaa has been widely promoted in our culture, and Blacks and Whites alike should tell the truth about Kwanzaa—but paralyzing fear keeps most Whites from being willing to take the a stand against what is clearly a subversive Black nationalist movement designed to create racial separatism. Kwanzaa vs. Christmas: Christians should especially be careful about celebrating Kwanzaa because at heart, it is Pagan and racist. It's unconscionable that Black ministers would promote this holiday in their church. According to a website dedicated to educating Christians about the dangers of Kwanzaa (www.christocentric.com), Karenga's own writings expose the "anti-religion” leanings of Kwanzaa: “…it [Kwanzaa] gives them a spiritual alternative to the commercialization of Christmas and the resultant move away from its original spiritual values and message." If Karenga was so concerned that Christmas has moved away from its original spiritual values and message, wouldn't one assume that his interest would lie in reinvigorating the Christmas message? Instead, by creating a rival holiday, Karenga is attempting to pull Blacks further away from the powerful message of Christmas, and replacing it with his twisted, pseudo-African, pagan, racist “celebration.” Christmas which literally means the mass of Christ, is a Christian holiday designed to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ. According to the Gospels Jesus was born to Mary and her husband Joseph in Bethlehem, though the exact date of Jesus's birth is still debated. Christ's birth was to fulfill the prophecies of Judaism that a Messiah would come to redeem the world from sin. While Christmas is supposed to be a celebration of the birth of Christ who shed his own blood to redeem mankind, Kwanzaa advocates the shedding of other people's blood in order to “regain our land.” While Christmas is the celebration of the Savior, Kwanzaa is the celebration of the African Harvest and the call for a separate Black nation. Eighty-five percent of Americans say they are Christians; yet, Christmas is under attack across the country by the ACLU and other leftist groups. Liberals are trying to ban Christmas trees and Christmas celebrations, including the singing of Christmas carols. At the same time, Ron Karenga is fervently seeking to replace Christmas for Black Americans with Kwanzaa. It is time for Americans of all races to take a stand for “Merry Christmas!” Not “Happy Kwanzaa!” |
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12-05-2005, 06:54 PM
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I'm an Existentialist/Taoist/Christian/Animist/Deist fusion.....I'm gonna make up a way cool holiday... I think it's only fair to point out that Christmas as we know it was originally a substitute for a Pagan holiday. Rome established Christ-mass on the 25th of December to give converting pagans thier holidays. Same with Easter. Of course, I think it's all a ploy to get my money. 
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12-06-2005, 01:26 AM
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12-06-2005, 10:50 AM
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Christmas should have every right to representation like any other holiday/religious belief, just like Christanity, if things were truly fair in the USA, but I personally find that sadly not to be the case.. I hardly see that article and think propaganda, but someone well may. Maybe NRAJOE can supply you with the name of the writer that wrote the article in his previous post so you can directly confront him/her and compare their actions to a "drug pusher".
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12-06-2005, 01:38 PM
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12-06-2005, 01:38 PM
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12-06-2005, 02:15 PM
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Actually, They weren't all Christians. If they were all Christians, they wouldn't have seen the need to include the "no establishment of religion" clause in the bill of rights. They were painfully aware of what happens when one religion starts pushing the other beliefs aside.
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12-06-2005, 02:40 PM
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Devout Christians, Not so devout Christians, Diests, Agnostics, Existentialists, and a bunch of other wierdos founded this country. To think all the founding fathers were devout christians is to believe propaganda. I love this nation and I will not accept anything but the truth. Not the old revisionists who say they were all devout christians, or the new revisionists who say they were degenrerates. Our founding fathers were as diverse as the nation itself.
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12-06-2005, 03:38 PM
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12-06-2005, 08:30 PM
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It's really easy to get the hang of this religious freedom thing. I have my beliefs, and you have yours. We each stay out of each other's face. We both fight to keep any religion out of things that we all pay for together like schools. No problems. |
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12-06-2005, 11:04 PM
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The primary idealist for this nation.....the philosophical go-to-guy, so to speak, was Benjamin Franklin. A well known and well respected Deist. The founding documents deliberately did not mention Christ or Jesus or Christianity so no one could be specifically excluded or espressly included as you seem wont to do. Regardless of what religion was predominant, or who believed what, they framed the documents very carefully to keep people like you from imposing your religious will upon the nation as a whole. Thier religion is a moot point. Had they wanted a theocracy, they could have made one. And certainly some wanted that. But more rational heads prevailed and we got a secular representative democratic republic. (off topic - we are not the direct democracy we seem to be trying to make the rest of the world , and for very good reason.)
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12-06-2005, 11:31 PM
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And the new revisionism seeks to discredit our founding folks by emphasizing things like slave ownership, illegitimate children, wanton sexuality, vice and such. Whether fact or fiction, none of it changes the foundation of this nation. But it distracts from the truly great things these people did. How many people under 30 know Thomas Jefferson had an affair with a slave girl. Now compare that to how many people under 30 know more than two sentences the man ever uttered. It's a shame and that kind of revisionism is very dangerous because it doesn't actually revise. It changes the center of focus. Jefferson, by the way never really settled on a religion. " I have examined all the known superstitions of the Word, and I do not find in our particular superstition of Christianity one redeeming feature. They are all alike, founded on fables and mythology. Millions of innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined and imprisoned. What has been the effect of this coercion? To make one half the world fools and the other half hypocrites; to support roguery and error all over the world ...The clergy converted the simple teachings of Jesus into an engine for enslaving mankind ... to filch wealth and power to themselves. [They], in fact, constitute the real Anti-Christ." - Thomas Jefferson "It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no God." - Thomas Jefferson "...the path of true piety is so plain as to require but little political direction." - George Washington, 1789, responding to clergy complaints that the Constitution lacked mention of Jesus Christ
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12-06-2005, 11:34 PM
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And before ya'll get your panties in a bunch...this argument is as old as the nation. "Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause. " George Washington, letter to Sir Edward Newenham, June 22, 1792
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12-06-2005, 11:39 PM
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Screw what the founding fathers said, because you know what they really meant. Maybe you should stick to the actual words that they wrote and signed, rather than doing the "mind-reading across the centuries," and "re-interpreting in light of different circumstances and times" thing... Quote:
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