Based on Marxist identity politics, Kwanzaa is a week-long celebration from December 26 to January 1 each year.

Kwanzaa was artificially created in 1966 by Maulana “Ron” Karenga (born Ronald McKinley Everett), a militant communist associated with the black power movement of the 1960s and 1970s and posing as an African American scholar and activist.

Kwanzaa, emphasizing black cultural identity, racial pride, and self-sufficiency, was always about empowering certain black leaders, fundraising, and building political coalitions based on racial grievances.

Karenga was involved in a horrendous criminal episode involving the torture of two women stemming from his authoritarian leadership role in the Black Nationalist group known as the “US Organization.”

Ron Karenga is another nasty dude with top-notch academic credentials…

In 1971, two women who were members of Karenga’s “US Organization” became involved in a dispute with him. According to reports, the women were accused of disloyalty to Karenga and the organization. The exact nature of their alleged offenses is disputed, but they were believed to have been accused of working with a rival faction or expressing dissent against Karenga’s leadership.

Karenga, in an apparent effort to assert control over his followers and discipline the women, reportedly ordered them to be tortured. They were held captive and subjected to severe physical abuse, which included being beaten, electrically shocked, and forced into painful and humiliating positions. The two women later reported the abuse to the authorities.

Karenga was arrested and charged with felony assault, including false imprisonment, assault with a deadly weapon, and torture. The case received significant media attention because of Karenga’s status as a prominent Black nationalist leader and the extreme nature of the allegations.

In 1975, Karenga was convicted on two felony counts of assault and torture and was sentenced to one to ten years in prison. He served about four years in prison before being released on parole in 1979.

While in prison, Karenga continued to study and write. After his release, he reintegrated into academic life, earning a position as a professor at UCLA in the Department of Africana Studies, a hotbed of radical communist activism. Over the years, Karenga has maintained his position as an influential intellectual and the founder of Kwanza with progressive communist democrats.

Bottom line…

Kwanzaa is an artificial creation and all about identity politics, the further division of America along racial lines, and the empowerment of radical authoritarian black leaders with unlimited power in their respective black communities.

For those who find inspiration in its teaching of self-reliance, remember this was the same message of the militant Black Panthers and mirrors the philosophy of Louis Farrakhan’s Nation of Islam.

Worship what you want, but it is time to put aside the hyphenated American and concentrate on being Americans in an exceptional America.

Until then, we are screwed.

-- Steve