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   From: dcook@jmb.com   
      
   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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