Kamala Harris likes to play pretend. Fortunately for her, there’s no better performance of make-believe than the cultural charade that is Kwanzaa. And since it’s politically advantageous to do so, Kamala the Chameleon purports to be a lifelong celebrant of Kwanzaa.
It sounds like a shoo-in Harvard application essay, except for the fact that Kamala pre-dates Kwanzaa.
Although we’re led to believe there’s something sacred about Kwanzaa—as if there’s an ancient aura attached to its origins—Kwanzaa wasn’t contrived until 1966 and didn’t even exist when Kamala was born two years before in 1964.
So, it’s pretty hard to fathom chronologically that the newly fabricated festivities were one of Kamala’s “favorite” recollections of her youth, especially since she spent her adolescence in Canada, where Kwanzaa wasn’t widely spread (despite the dishonest media attempts to portray the little-observed “holiday” as a worldwide phenomenon.)
We’ve also yet to see family photos of her Indian mother and Jamaican father celebrating Kwanzaa, which is supposed to honor African-American heritage. Well, that’s because Kamala is lying her half-Asian ass off. (It’s OK. My full-Asian ass can say that.)
You see, Kwanzaa is a fitting costume for Kamala to role-play in since it’s equally disingenuous.
Black-Separatist Origins
Kwanzaa doesn’t have deep African roots. In fact, it’s not celebrated in Africa at all; it’s an American invention.
Kwanzaa is a political product of the 1960s black power movement. As aptly phrased by The Star-Ledger columnist Paul Mulshine, the so-called holiday has “nothing to do with Africa and everything to do with California in the 1960s.” It’s a black-separatist idea devised to divide Americans along racial lines. James Coleman, a former Black Panther, reportedly acknowledged the tactic of sowing racial division: “By only stressing the unity of black people, Kwanzaa separates black people from the rest of Americans…”
Kwanzaa’s red, black, and green flag—adopted from the Pan-African flag—previously promoted racial separatism and political violence. Before alterations in order and interpretation of the colors, Kwanzaa’s flag was the “symbol of devotion” to “establish an independent African nation” on the North American continent through bloodshed. “Red is for the Blood. Black is the Black People. Green is for the Land,” the official Kwanzaa Information Center declared, pledging allegiance to the flag of black nationalism:
“The Red, or the blood, stands as the top of all things. 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.”
Racist Founder
Kwanzaa was founded by a violent Marxist figure, Ronald McKinley Everett, a convicted criminal who assumed an African alter-ego, “Dr. Maulana Karenga,” although he was born in the United States, slightly south of the Delaware border. In this African persona, Karenga co-founded the United Slaves (US), a radical-left paramilitary group that rivaled the militant Black Panthers.
Amid a turf war fighting for control over the black studies program at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Karenga’s followers, in 1969, murdered two Black Panthers who had confronted the United Slaves cult leader inside the student center. Then, in 1971, Karenga was sentenced to prison for kidnapping and sadistically torturing two black women because he believed that the imprisoned victims, who were United Slaves dissidents, had tried to kill him with “crystals” placed in his food and water.
The Los Angeles Times described the barbaric torture in an article covering testimony at Karenga’s trial, revealing that the women were whipped with cords, beaten with batons, and seared with irons—all while naked—in an effort to elicit confessions:
Deborah Jones, who once was given the title of an African queen, said she and Gail Davis were whipped with an electrical cord and beaten with a karate baton after being ordered to remove their clothes. She testified that a hot soldering iron was placed in Miss Davis’ mouth and placed against Miss Davis’ face and that one of her own big toes was tightened in a vice. Karenga, head of US, also put detergent and running hoses in their mouths, she said.
At trial, Karenga’s sanity was questioned. A psychiatrist who had observed Karenga talking to his blanket and imaginary people stated in a report: “This man now represents a picture which can be considered both paranoid and schizophrenic with hallucinations and elusions, inappropriate affect, disorganization, and impaired contact with the environment.” According to the psychiatrist’s psychological assessment of Karenga, Kwanzaa’s founder also believed that dive-bombers had attacked him.
‘Back to Black’ Campaign
Members of the United Slaves were instructed to follow the sevenfold “Path of Blackness,” as outlined by Karenga in his book on black radicalism: “[T]hink black, talk black, act black, create black, buy black, vote black, and live black.”
Kwanzaa was part of the cultural revolution that served as a precursor to the violent revolution Karenga had hoped would follow. “You must have a cultural revolution before the violent revolution,” Karenga penned in his self-published pamphlet “The Quotable Karenga,” which reproduced quotations from Karenga’s speeches as a stylistic copy of Chairman Mao’s “little red book.”
