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KWANZAA, LIBERALISM AND HYPOCRISY

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Starting on Dec. 26th through January 1st, millions of Black 
Americans will be celebrating “Kwanzaa”, which is widely known 
as a week-long “African-American Cultural Festive”.

Kwanzaa was founded by Maulana Karenga, chair of Cal State Long 
Beach‘s Department of Africana Studies, in 1966, in what he 
termed “an audacious act of self-determination.”

Karenga, a noted atheist and Marxist, teaches that Kwanzaa is 
based on seven principles, which he calls the “Nguzo Saba” (the 
seven principles of African Heritage), which he alleges “is a 
communitarian African philosophy: the best of African thought 
and practice in constant exchange with the world.”

The seven principles of Kwanzaa are allegedly Swahili terms.  
Each of the seven days of Kwanzaa is dedicated to one of the 
principles:

Dec. 26th, Umoja (Unity): To strive for and to maintain unity in 
the family, community, nation, and race.
Dec. 27th, Kujichagulia (Self-Determination): To define 
ourselves, name ourselves, create for ourselves, and speak for 
ourselves.
Dec. 28th, Ujima (Collective Work and Responsibility): To build 
and maintain our community together and make our brothers’ and 
sisters’ problems our problems, and to solve them together.
Dec. 29th, Ujamaa (Cooperative Economics) To build and maintain 
our own stores, shops, and other businesses and to profit from 
them together.
Dec. 30th, Nia (Purpose): To make our collective vocation the 
building and developing of our community in order to restore our 
people to their traditional greatness.
Dec. 31st, Kuumba (Creativity): To do always as much as we can, 
in the way we can, in order to leave our community more 
beautiful and beneficial than we inherited it.
Jan. 2st, Imani (Faith): To believe with all our hearts in God, 
our people, our parents, our teachers, our leaders, and the 
righteousness and victory of our struggle.
I have seen many Conservatives, Black and White, attack Black 
Americans for celebrating Kwanzaa, because its founder is 
atheist and a confirmed Marxist.

Others condemn it for different reasons. I take a different 
approach. I believe in personally attacking others.

In fact, I don’t have a problem with Black Americans who do 
choose to celebrate the principles of Kwanzaa.  That is their 
individual right and I respect their freedom to practice any 
celebration they choose.

However, the main reason is because the principles are all quite 
conservative in nature, albeit I concede that don’t know any 
Black Conservative who recognizes Kwanzaa or celebrate it.

It does appear, therefore, to be a liberal outlet, so to speak.

That leads me to believe that most so called Black liberals who 
are professing to embrace these so called principles are 
actually deceiving themselves, because liberalism, as an 
ideology and social practice, is a direct affront to each of the 
principles taught in the Kwanzaa celebration.

I would, quite honestly, be very excited, if so called liberals, 
who claim to celebrate Kwanzaa, where to actually put into 
practice these principles which they so superficially celebrate.

For example, if those who practice Kwanzaa are sincere in 
wanting to “maintain unity in the family and nation”, why, then, 
do they not fiercely opposed the liberal “Great Society” 
policies which have done more to break up and break down Black 
families than chattel slavery ever could?

I have rarely met a Black liberal who truly embraces the level 
of self-determination Kwanzaa proposes, which calls for one to 
define themselves and speak for themselves.

Too many of my fellow Black Americans have been deeply 
indoctrinated by an ideology which makes it instinctive to 
malign, slander, and assassinate any idea, definition, or 
expression that does not espouse liberal policies.

Thus, most Liberal Black Americans do not self-define. They are 
defined by their indoctrination into liberalism and they fight 
to promote those definitions, even to our own detriment far too 
often.

The masses of so called Liberal Black Americans do not believe 
in “collective work and responsibility”. If they did, they would 
not spend the dollar bill outside of our communities after 
circulating it only one time (dollar velocity). Moreover, they 
would absolutely support free market solutions in business, 
education, and health care, which would result in a stronger 
local economy.

They don’t want to “solve problems together’, but want the 
government to solve their problems.

When I was growing up, most of the local businesses were owned 
by local residents. That quickly changed as I reached my teens. 
Now, most of the businesses owned in predominantly Black 
neighborhoods are owned and maintained by people who do not live 
in the community. In many instances, who are not even American? 
Here again, a glaring hypocrisy.

Restoring our people to our “traditional greatness”? I wonder if 
that includes the legacies of both African and Americans of 
African descent who espoused individual responsibility.

Frederick Douglass once said: “A man may not get all that he 
deserves, but he must work for all that he gets”. That is a 
direct indictment of Obama’s HHS mandate, which actually goes to 
far as to strip Americans of the responsibility to work.

Nothing great about that. Certainly nothing “authentically” 
Black or African about that. Most of all, nothing American about 
that.

Predominantly Black urban communities can reasonably be 
described as “war zones”. More citizens are murdered therein 
than both Iraq and Afghanistan combined. Although trillions of 
dollars in poverty funds have been allocated there over the past 
47 years, these communities are not more “beautiful” than before 
the so called “war on poverty”, but are, in fact, worse than 
they were before the declared war on poverty.

Finally, there is the so called principle of “Faith”.

I cannot accept that someone celebrating Kwanzaa “believes in 
God with all their hearts, in their children, etc.”, when they 
are cooperating with the genocide of millions of unborn Black 
Children, fighting against school choice, and championing 
liberal policies that are destined to deny our children of the 
opportunity to experience the kind of American Exceptionalism 
that our forefathers fought to guarantee us.

I would say that I and many of my colleagues,  on the other 
hand, live every single one of the so-called principles of 
Kwanzaa. The difference is that we base our principles on the 
Word of God and the principles of the Constitution of the United 
States of American, which transcend culture or “color”.

We did not need to look for guidance from the roots of Marxism, 
no matter how appealing they may be on the surface. We know that 
it’s not real. The proof is in the hypocrisy of those who claim 
to practice Kwanzaa.

So, in the final analysis, my intent is not to condemn the one 
who claims to practice Kwanzaa for doing so. Instead, it is to 
call into question the hypocrisy of those who clearly do not 
practice what they preach.

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