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The Kwanzaa Con: A Fake Holiday Created by a Rapist and Torturer

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Kwanzaa, the purported “African” holiday celebrated only in the 
United States, is the ultimate politically correct holiday. It 
is little observed, even by our African American community, of 
course, but those that do celebrate it are wholly unaware that 
the faux holiday was created by a man with a very troubled past. 
For Kwanzaa’s creator, Maulana Karenga, has a violent criminal 
record, is a racist, and even a rapist.

Each year, with the onset of Christmas, we are treated to 
another gauzy, fluff piece about how great Kwanzaa is by yet 
another PC spewing columnist. This year, among many others, we 
find aggrandizement such as that in The Telegraph from Macon, 
Georgia with, “Annual Kwanzaa celebrations highlight arts, 
community and history,” and the Dallas Morning News with its 
titled,”Look forward to Kwanzaa celebrations with storytelling, 
music and more.” We even find such helpful sites as 
TeacherPlanet.com’s, “Kwanzaa Resources for Teachers.” Yes, the 
world is filled with celebratory lionization of Kwanzaa.

Several years ago, the Houston Chronicle got in the act with a 
piece by Leslie Casimir titled “Learning about Kwanzaa from the 
holiday’s creator.” This one, though, was a bit off the usual 
track of the how-great-is-Kwanzaa theme because this particular 
piece celebrated the inventor of the faux holiday, Maulana 
Karenga, himself. So, instead of merely celebrating the 
manufactured holiday, Casimir amazingly made a hero of the 
rapist, race monger and violent thug who created it! To Casimir, 
Kwanzaa creator “Maulana Karenga” was a hero.

To further the story about how wonderful Karenga was, Casimir 
also found a gullible parent who, with kid in tow, went to see 
the great man at a local community center.

Thomasine Johnson needed to get the record straight about 
Kwanzaa, a cultural holiday steeped in African traditions that 
celebrates family, ethnic pride and community.

With her 11-year-old grandson in tow, the Missouri City interior 
designer on Saturday brought her video camera to S.H.A.P.E. 
community center to hear from Father Kwanzaa “Maulana Karenga” 
in the flesh.”

But just like the manufactured holiday he invented out of whole 
cloth, this “Maulana Karenga” is also a false front created out 
of fluff and nonsense. As it happens his real name is not 
“Maulana Karenga,” but is instead Ronald McKinley Everett, AKA 
Maulana Ron Karenga, AKA Maulana Karenga. We’ll soon see that 
subterfuge, reinvention and smoke-and-mirrors are Karenga’s 
stock in trade.

In her piece, Casimir gave us her version of the history of this 
“holiday.” And the artifice has but a short history, at that.

Created in 1966 by Karenga, a professor of black studies at 
California State University at Long Beach, Kwanzaa was born out 
of the black freedom movement of the 1960s, when the Watts riots 
rocked Los Angeles. It starts the day after Christmas and ends 
on the first day of the new year.

Interestingly, Casimir employed the euphemism “black freedom 
movement” to describe the ideology of the group that Ronald 
McKinley Everett “Karenga” belonged to when he created Kwanzaa. 
In the 60s, Karenga was in an organization called US (as in “us” 
— blacks — against “them” — whites). US was a black power 
militant group that he founded, one that frequently clashed in 
violence with police and even other black power groups. Members 
of his group even killed two Black Panthers in 1969.

Yes, kindly professor Maulana Karenga, the murder-touting, 
segregationist, racist. What a role model for the kiddies he is, 
eh?

Casimir seemed not to understand why people would doubt this 
man, though.

Still, many people don’t know much about Kwanzaa or the elusive 
Karenga, who shuns giving interviews to the mainstream press.

Well, it’s not surprising that he doesn’t want to give too many 
interviews what with his record as a violent felon and sexual 
criminal. And Karenga has a long criminal record. In 1971, for 
instance, Everett served time in jail for assault. By then 
Everett had changed his name to Maulana Ron Karenga and began to 
affect a pseudo African costume and act the part of a native 
African — even though he had been born in the USA.

It wasn’t mere assault Karenga was convicted of, either. It was 
the sexual assault and even torture that he perpetrated against 
some of his own female followers. At the time, The L.A. Times 
reported that he placed a hot soldering iron in one woman’s 
mouth and used a vise to crush another’s toe, of all things.

As writer Lynn Woolley wrote of Professor Karenga:

And so this is Kwanzaa. The militant past of the creator is now 
ignored in favor of the so-called seven principles of Nguza 
Saba, principles such as unity, family and self-determination 
that could have come from Bill Bennett’s Book of Virtues. The 
word “Kwanzaa” is Swahili, meaning something like “fresh fruits 
of harvest.”

No one remembers the part about “re-Africanization” or the 
sevenfold path of blackness that Dr. Karenga once espoused. 
Hardly anyone remembers the shootings, the beatings, the 
tortures and the prison terms that were once the center of his 
life. It’s just not PC to bring that sort of stuff up now that 
Kwanzaa is commercialized and making big bucks.

But, Casimir offers us Karenga’s prattle anyway, treating it as 
the advice of a sage:

“As part of the black freedom movement, we were using this to 
return to our history and culture,” Karenga said.

He spoke to a crowd of about 100 people ” young and old ” at the 
Third Ward community center, headed by Deloyd Parker, an avid 
promoter of Kwanzaa’s Afrocentric traditions and beliefs.

“We have to wake up that history, we have to remember ourselves 
in a more expansive way,” Karenga said. “To liberate ourselves 
as ghetto dwellers.”

In a day when the black middle class numbers in the millions and 
when more whites than blacks voted for a black man for 
president, for “Karenga” to claim that blacks are still 
relegated to the “ghettos” smacks of race baiting and trying to 
“keep hope alive” so that he can continue to cause hatred 
between whites and blacks. And each year the Old Media is all 
too happy to assist him in his faux “holiday” endeavor.

Happy Kwanzaa, indeed!

But maybe not everyone is fooled by a faux holiday created by a 
criminal? Last year, for instance, Kalamazoo, Michigan decided 
to dispense with its public Kwanzaa celebration. In fact, few 
cities worry over much about this holiday these days, though 
some still do.

Even some African Americans are not fooled into accepting 
Kwanzaa. As Jenice Armstrong from Philadelphia wrote in 2010, 
the “truth is that Kwanzaa has never caught on with the majority 
of black Americans.”

Of course if it wasn’t for an Old Media establishment that has 
given Karenga’s criminality a wholesale whitewashing, this faux 
holiday could never have gained as little traction it has. Put 
it this way, imagine if famed Ku Klux Klan member David Duke had 
created a holiday. Do you think the Old Media would have happily 
sold his creation to a misinformed public without mentioning 
Duke’s personal history? Not a chance, and rightfully so.

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