Why Is Karl Marx Cheering from the Grave?

Karl Marx, the author of the failed economic system of communism, must be cheering from the grave over the prospect of Barack Hussein Obama becoming President of the United States. If the polls are correct (and I pray they are not), then the American people are about to elect a trained and avowed Marxist as President. How can I say this?

It is the result of having read both of Obama's books, Dreams from My Father and The Audacity of Hope. In them is revealed the degree to which Obama has been and continues to be influenced by the principles of Marx and Marxism. Likewise, his continued relationships with radical leftists, whom he refuses to disavow, also show it. Finally, his actions as an Illinois State Senator and a U.S. Senator illustrate his commitment to radically changing America’s economic system of capitalism.

As a youth, Obama disdained American middle-class values, what Marx would have ridiculed as “bourgeois” [capitalist] values. “Theirs [his white grandparents] were the faces of American Gothic, the WASP bloodline’s poorer cousins…the world in which my grandparents had been raised, the dab-smack, landlocked center of the country, a place where decency and endurance and the pioneer spirit were joined at the hip with conformity and suspicion and the potential for unblinking cruelty…where fear and lack of imagination choke your dreams…” (Dreams from My Father, Three Rivers Press: New York, pgs. 12-13; 15)

Obama’s white mother, who grew up in the Midwest, tried to instill her values (“Honesty – Fairness - Straight talk - Independent judgment”) in him, but he rejected them. “My mother could give voice to the virtues of her Midwestern past…I would dutifully nod my assent, but she must have known that many of her ideas seemed rather impractical…My mother’s confidence in needlepoint virtues depended on a faith I didn’t possess…a faith that rational thoughtful people could shape their own destiny…” (Ibid. pgs. 49-50) Later, he wrote, “…Her [his mother’s] faith in justice and rationality was misplaced, that we couldn’t overcome after all, that all the education and good intentions in the world couldn’t help plug up the holes in the universe or give you the power to change its blind, mindless course.” (Ibid. p. 96)

One of Obama’s early mentors, a kind of father figure during his teen years in Hawaii, was a man he calls by only his first name, “Frank,” in Dreams from My Father. He warned Obama as he prepared to enter college, “Understand something, boy. You’re not going to college to get education. You’re going there to get trained. They’ll train you to want what you don’t need. They’ll train you to manipulate words so they don’t mean anything anymore. They’ll train you to forget what it is that you already know. They’ll train you so good, you’ll start believing what they tell you about equal opportunity and the American way and all that shit…” (Ibid. p. 97)

Who was this “Frank”? He was a black poet named Frank Marshall Davis. He was also a card-carrying member of the Communist Party U.S.A. [CPUSA] during the years it was controlled by the Soviet Union. Davis joined the CPUSA during World War II and never resigned before his death in 1987. His membership was confirmed in a 1951 report of the Commission on Subversive Activities to the Legislature of the Territory of Hawaii and the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC). He moved to Honolulu from Kansas in 1948 and wrote columns for the Honolulu Record. Davis was a friend of Obama’s white grandfather, who introduced the young Obama to Davis.

Professor Gerald Horne, a contributing editor of the Communist Party journal Political Affairs and a history professor at the University of Houston, talked about the relationship between Obama and Davis in March 2007 in a speech, "Rethinking the History and Future of the Communist Party," at the Tamiment Library at New York University where CPUSA archives are housed. “Davis ‘befriended’ a ‘Euro-American family’ that had ‘migrated to Honolulu from Kansas and a young woman from this family eventually had a child with a young student from Kenya East Africa who goes by the name of Barack Obama.’” Horne wrote Davis “became the young man's mentor, influencing Obama's sense of identity and career moves.” (Cliff Kincaid, "Obama's Communist Mentor," Accuracy in Media, Feb. 18, 2008 http://www.aim.org/aim-column/obamas-communist-mentor/)

Dr. Kathryn Takara, a professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Hawaii at Manoa did her dissertation on Davis. She confirmed Davis was the “Frank” in Obama’s first book. She notes that Davis had “‘an acute sense of race relations and class struggle throughout America and the world’ and that he openly discussed subjects such as American imperialism, colonialism and exploitation.” He "espoused freedom, radicalism, solidarity, labor unions, due process, peace, affirmative action, civil rights, Negro History week, and true Democracy to fight imperialism, colonialism, and white supremacy." (Ibid.)

Writing of his days at Occidental College, Obama heeded his mentor’s advice, “To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets…We were resisting bourgeois society’s stifling constraints.” (Op.cit. pgs. 100-101) While there, he became involved in the efforts to force Occidental College to divest its investments in apartheid South Africa. Among his efforts was “contacting representatives of the African National Congress to speak on campus” (Ibid. p. 105) The African National Congress [ANC] was and is a communist-backed front group.

Obama completed his undergraduate studies at Columbia University in New York City. He continued his Marxist studies, where, “Political discussions…came to take on the flavor of the socialist conferences I sometimes attended at Cooper Union or the African cultural fairs that took place in Harlem and Brooklyn during the summers – a few of the many diversions New York had to offer…” (Ibid. p. 122)

Upon graduation, Obama set out to become a community organizer. However, he could not find a job in that field. “Eventually a consulting house to multinational corporations agreed to hire me as a research assistant. Like a spy behind enemy lines, I arrived every day at my mid-Manhattan office.” (Ibid. p. 135) Frustrated working in a capitalistic, profit-making enterprise, “In search of some inspiration, I went to hear Kwame Touré, formerly Stokely Carmichael of SNCC and Black Power fame, speak at Columbia. At the entrance to the auditorium, two women, one black, one Asian, were selling Marxist literature and arguing with each other about Trotsky’s place in history. Inside Touré was proposing a program to establish economic ties between Africa and Harlem that would circumvent white capitalist imperialism.” (Ibid. pgs. 139-140)

Finally, Obama was hired by Marty Kaufman, a white Chicago community organizer and moved to Chicago. There he “came into contact with more far-left political forces, including the Democratic Socialists of America, which maintains close ties to European socialist groups and parties through the Socialist International (SI), and two former members of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), William Ayers and Carl Davidson.” Marx founded the SI.

After two-and-a-half years, Obama decided to enroll in law school. His stated purpose was to learn “power’s currency in all its intricacy and detail, knowledge that would have compromised me before coming to Chicago but that I could now bring back to where it was needed…bring it back like Promethean fire.” (Ibid. p. 276) He returned to Chicago after receiving his law degree from Harvard Law School and went to work as a Civil Rights attorney. Later, he was a part-time professor of Law at the University of Chicago.


Obama remained true to his Marxist disdain of the bourgeoisie, even when he began visiting Trinity Christian Church in Chicago and consulting with its pastor Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Tellingly, he wrote, “There was one particular passage in Trinity’s brochure that stood out…’A Disavowal of the Pursuit of Middleclassness,’ the heading read. ‘While it is permissible to chase ‘middleincomeness’ with all our might,’ the text stated, those blessed with the talent or good fortune to achieve success in the American mainstream must avoid the ‘psychological entrapment of Black ‘middleclassness’ that hypnotizes the successful brother or sister into believing they are better than the rest and teaches them to think in terms of ‘we’ and ‘they’ instead of ‘US’!’” (Op.cit. p. 284)

In 1996, Obama ran for the Illinois State Senate. He received the endorsement of the Chicago branch of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). “DSA describes itself as the largest socialist organization in the United States and the principal U.S. affiliate of the Socialist International. The Socialist International (SI) has what is called ‘consultative status’ with the United Nations.” ("Is Barack Obama a Marxist Mole?” Accuracy in Media Report, March 18, 2008 http://www.aim.org/aim-report/is-barack-obama-a-marxist-mole/)

“Later, the Chicago DSA newsletter reported that Obama, as a state senator, showed up to eulogize Saul Mendelson, one of the ‘champions’ of ‘Chicago's democratic left’ and a long-time socialist activist.” Chicago Democratic Rep. Jan Schakowsky endorsed Obama and “was honored in 2000 at a dinner sponsored by the Chicago chapter of the DSA.” (Cliff Kincaid, "Obama's International Socialist Connections," Accuracy in Media, Feb. 14, 2008 http://www.aim.org/aim-column/obamas-international-socialist-connections/)

With DSA encouragement, U. S. Senator Obama sponsored “The Global Poverty Act” (S.2433), which “commits the U.S. to spending hundreds of billions of dollars more in foreign aid on the rest of the world, in order to comply with the ‘Millennium Goals’ established by the United Nations.” Sen. Joseph Biden, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and Obama’s vice presidential pick, pushed S.2433 through the committee. It is currently awaiting a vote by the full Senate. (Op.cit.)

Much has been written about William Ayers, the self-admitted and convicted Weather Underground domestic terrorist, and Obama’s working friendship with him. Obama served on the board of the Woods Foundation and authored the foreword to Ayers’ book. Ayers and his wife Bernadette Doerhn, another Weather Underground terrorist, helped launch Obama’s state Senate campaign by hosting an early “Meet and Greet” party in their home.

Few have looked at Obama’s on-going relationships with other Chicago radical leftists. Carl Davidson is active in the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism (CCDS), an offshoot of the old CPUSA; he “helped organize the 2002 rally where Obama came out against the Iraq War.” (Cliff Kincaid, "Obama's Communist Mentor," Accuracy in Media, Feb. 18, 2008 http://www.aim.org/aim-column/obamas-communist-mentor/)

Another CCDS activist is Leslie Cagan, who organizes anti-Iraq War demonstrations through a group called United for Peace and Justice (UPJ). Herbert Romerstein, a former Congressional investigator on communist activities, said the CCDS has “a close working relationship with the Stalinist remnants in the former East Germany, now called the Party of Democratic Socialism.” ("Is Barack Obama a Marxist Mole?” Accuracy in Media Report, March 18, 2008 http://www.aim.org/aim-report/is-barack-obama-a-marxist-mole/)

Lance Fairchok wrote accurately, “Barack Obama has a thing for Marxists. He befriends them, listens to their counsel, and he even hires them to work in his campaign. And they seem to feel the warmth.” For example, Sam Graham-Felsen is Obama’s official presidential campaign blogger. He also a writer for the Socialist Viewpoint, the mouthpiece of the Socialist Workers Organization (SWO). Graham-Felsen, “after being expelled from Socialist Action in 1999,” helped found the SWO “in an attempt to carry on the project of building a nucleus of a revolutionary party true to the historic teachings and program of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Trotsky.“ (Lance Fairchok, "Another Obama Marxist," American Thinker, April 2008 http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/04/another_obama_marxist.html and Socialist Viewpoint socialistviewpoint.org)

"Marx once compared revolutionary struggle with the work of the mole, who sometimes burrows so far beneath the ground that he leaves no trace of his movement on the surface. This is the old revolutionary ‘mole,' not only showing his traces on the surface but also breaking through." Frank Chapman, a CPUSA supporter, penned these words in a letter to the party’s newspaper “hailing the Illinois senator's victory in the Iowa caucuses.” (Cliff Kincaid, "Obama's Communist Mentor," Accuracy in Media, Feb. 18, 2008 http://www.aim.org/aim-column/obamas-communist-mentor/)

Does Barack Hussein Obama Damn AmeriKKKa?

Barack Hussein Obama has tried to excuse the inflammatory, anti-America preaching of his Pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright. In 2003, Wright preached, "The government gives them [blacks] the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law and then wants us to sing 'God Bless America.' No, no, no, God damn America, that's in the Bible for killing innocent people. God damn America for treating our citizens as less than human. God damn America for as long as she acts like she is God and she is supreme." The congregants cheered lustily, which tells me this is not the first time they have heard such pronouncements and obviously agree with heartily.

Obama compared Wright to "an old uncle who says things I don't always agree with" during a meeting with Jewish leaders in Ohio. Obama defended his continued membership in Chicago's Trinity United Church of Christ. Calling the above remarks "completely unacceptable and inexcusable," he went on to say if they had been "the repeated tenor of the church ... I wouldn't feel comfortable there."

At the same time, Obama attempted to distance himself from Wright whom Obama has called his "mentor" and "spiritual guide" who led him to Christ. "I categorically denounce any statement that disparages our great country or serves to divide us from our allies. I also believe that words that degrade individuals have no place in our public dialogue, whether it's on the campaign stump or in the pulpit. In sum, I reject outright the statements by Reverend Wright that are at issue." Wright has resigned from Obama's African American Religious Leadership Committee. Obama's political hacks argue that there should be no guilt by association accusations against Obama. I, for one, am not buying it.

First, if any pastor of mine told my congregation to "damn America" and I was in attendance, I would be immediately out of my seat and out the door. Such words would have left any church I have belonged to or attended in shocked silence, not wild cheers. Because of that, I might stay a member long enough to try to have such a pastor fired. If that did not happen, I would quit a church with such a pastor in a heartbeat no matter how long I had been a member.
However, this was not the first time Wright used "inflammatory rhetoric," a description made by Obama's aides. No, Wright has "a long history" of such sermons. As far back as 1971, Wright asked his congregation, "Are we going to be a black church in the black community, or are we going to continue to be a white church in blackface?"

Quoted in Rolling Stone, Wright spoke at Howard University, "Racism is how this country was founded and how this country is still run! ... We believe in white supremacy and black inferiority and believe it more than we believe in God ... And. And And! Gawd! Has GOT! To be SICK! OF THIS SHIT!"

Imagine how 9/11 survivors and victims' families must feel to hear Wright's sermon immediately after the 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon: "We bombed Hiroshima, we bombed Nagasaki, and we nuked far more than the thousands in New York and the Pentagon, and we never batted an eye. We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans, and now we are indignant because the stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back to our own front yards. America's chickens are coming home to roost." In other words, Wright considered the 9/11 attacks America's "just desserts." Obama minimized this as Wright just being “provocative.”

The church advertises its Africentrism, calling itself "unashamedly Black and unapologetically Christian." The Church's website proclaims, “We are an African people and remain true to our native land, the mother continent, the cradle of civilization.” According to Christian Century, "Bible courses at Trinity emphasize the African roots of Christianity ... In his preaching Wright goes out of his way to describe Moses as 'an African prince' and his wife as a 'raven-black' beauty.” Obviously geographically challenged, “Wright calls the Holy Land ‘northeast Africa.’ He declares that Jesus himself had 'nappy hair' and 'bronze skin' (he cites Rev. 1:14-15)."

Is this why Wright compared Obama to Jesus in a December 2007 sermon? Wright stated Jesus was “a poor black man who lived in a country and who lived in a culture controlled by rich white people.” Wright went on, "Barack knows what it means to be a black man to be living in a country and a culture that is controlled by rich white people. Hillary can never know that. Hillary ain't never been called a nigger." [Note: This sermon has brought Trinity United Church of Christ under IRS investigation for violations of rules forbidding non-profit organizations from endorsing political candidates.]

Of course, I cannot fail to mention the honoring of Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan with a lifetime achievement award by the church's magazine. Less often cited is Wright's pastor's letter lauding Mousa Abu Marzook, deputy leader of Hamas and a known terrorist, who has a "virulently anti-Israel stance."

Obama's repudiation has been tepid, at best. "Reverend Wright preached the gospel of Jesus, a gospel on which I base my life. And the sermons I heard him preach always related to our obligation to love God and one another, to work on behalf of the poor and to seek justice at every turn." Unbelievably, Obama said, "I don't think my church is actually particularly controversial." Yet, Christian Century magazine declared, "There is no denying ... that a strand of radical black political theology influences Trinity."

Trinity UCC wrote a statement of its beliefs regarding black economics entitled The Black Value System. On the church's website, they state, "Trinity United Church of Christ adopted the Black Value System, written by the Manford Byrd Recognition Committee, chaired by the late Vallmer Jordan in 1981 ... These Black Ethics must be taught and exemplified in homes, churches, nurseries and schools, wherever Blacks are gathered." One section is entitled "The Disavowal of the Pursuit of “Middleclassness.” It teaches the adoption of a black value system will prevent "warping by our racist competitive society." The evil of "middleclassness," according to the document, includes tools of "captors" such as assassinations, murder, crime, concentration camps, jails, prisons, and hypnotic suggestion of superiority. It warns against "the psychological entrapment of Black 'middleclassness'.”

The document goes on to require adherents to "pledge to make the fruits of all developing and acquired skills available to the black community, pledge to allocate regularly a portion of personal resources for strengthening and supporting black institutions, and to pledge allegiance to all black leadership who espouse and embrace the black value system." This harkens back to Marx's Communist Manifesto, which advocates collectivism.

Commitment to the Black Value System will be evidenced if adherents "measure the worth and validity of all activity in terms of positive contributions to the general welfare of the Black Community and the Advancement of Black People towards freedom." Yet, Obama says, "I would be puzzled that they [white critics] would object or quibble with the bulk of a document [The Black Value System] that basically espouses profoundly conservative values of self-reliance and self-help." According to Investor's Business Daily in a January 15, 2008 article, Obama pledged his allegiance to The Black Value System in 1991 when he joined the church. On capitalism, Obama says he has learned to distrust “the idolatry of the free market” thanks to the teachings of his church.

It is clear that Obama does not get it. Neither does Obama-endorser Oprah Winfrey, another member of Trinity United Church of Christ, according to Christian Century. There are two possible explanations of Obama's defense of Wright and Trinity United Church of Christ.
One is that Obama rarely attends church. Thus, he has not been in attendance often enough to hear the hate Wright preaches. In fact, "I wasn't there" was Obama's first argument. "The statements that Rev. Wright made that are the cause of this controversy were not statements I personally heard him preach while I sat in the pews of Trinity or heard him utter in private conversation," wrote Obama in The Huffington Post. However, in his speech on race to answer critics of his association with Wright, Obama admitted he had heard some of Wright's more controversial statements. "Did I know him to be an occasionally fierce critic of American domestic and foreign policy? Of course. Did I ever hear him make remarks that could be considered controversial while I sat in church? Yes." If Obama truly believes "Reverend Wright preached the gospel of Jesus," then it also tells me Obama does not know his Bible.

The other explanation is that Obama agrees with Wright, despite his protests that he does not. One simply does not remain a member of a church if one is in profound disagreement with its teachings. Either Obama is not particularly disturbed by his church's preachings or he agrees with them. His wife Michelle appears to agree when she remarked on February 18, 2008, that "for the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country." Disinviting Wright from appearing at his presidential campaign's beginning, Obama explained to Wright, “'You can get kind of rough in the sermons, so what we’ve decided is that it’s best for you not to be out there in public.'” But privately, Obama and his family prayed with Wright just before the presidential announcement. I agree with Brad Blakeman of Freedom’s Watch, “Silence is an admission that you agree with what your spiritual advisor pronounces.”

Obama is hoping he can take cover over the fact that Wright recently retired. "With Reverend Wright's retirement and the ascension of my new pastor, Rev. Otis Moss III, Michelle and I look forward to continuing a relationship with a church that has done so much good." It may not matter. Moss, described Trinity United Church of Christ, "We're a black church first--one that just happens historically to be UCC." Briefly removed from the church's website, The Black Value System is back like an evil poltergeist. In his Easter service, Moss railed against the "public lynching" of Wright by the media and solicited donations for a "Resurrection Fund" to defend the church from attacks. Moss stated, "The Reverend Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr.’s character is being assassinated in the public sphere because he has preached a social gospel on behalf of oppressed women, children and men in America and around the globe."

Mortimer B. Zuckerman wrote in an opinion piece for U.S. News & World Report: "Pastor Wright was not some cranky old uncle. He was a public preacher, endorsed by Obama with his continued presence. And a senator and now presidential candidate isn't just an ordinary church member. Doesn't such a public figure as Obama have an obligation to denounce anti-American bigotry as well as those who praise bigots? Wasn't he aware that this kind of preaching doesn't just affect adults but infects and exposes a younger generation to precisely the kinds of racism that Obama says he is committed to transcending? Doesn't it undermine his role as a racial healer when he implies that the inflammatory comments of his pastor were somehow made understandable by history? What else could be justified by this logic?"

Sean Hannity on Fox News' Hannity and Colmes correctly points to the racial double-standard in the media's coverage of Obama and his "unashamedly black" church with its "Black Value System." “If you substitute the word black for white, there would be an outrage in this country. There would be cries of racism in this country.” Imagine if John McCain belonged to an "unashamedly white" church with a "White Value System."

Another commentator, Tucker Carlson of MSNBC, described Trinity as having a "racially exclusive theology" that "contradicts the basic tenets of Christianity." Black columnist Erik Rush asks, "Is Obama seeking to be our first black president, or our first stealth black nationalist president?" Rush went on to say this should be as alarming as a Republican presidential candidate "belonging to the Aryan Brethren Church of Christ." This is why I wrote the “Republican Politician’s Fairy Tale” in my previous post.

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The Facts about Kwanzaa

Like Fox News, I report; you decide.
· Should Christians celebrate Kwanzaa?
· Is it an authentic African harvest festival?
· Is it an anti-American, anti-Christian, and racist fraud?
· Is it another battleground in the culture war?

Kwanzaa was started around 1978 by a U.C.L.A. professor of Black Studies, Ron Karenga, a.k.a. Ron N. Everett. Everett was the founder of "United Slaves." Members were to follow "the path of blackness" which meant they were to "think black, talk black, act black, create black, buy black, vote black, and live black."

In 1971, Everett was tried and convicted of two felony counts of torture and one count of false imprisonment. These crimes were committed against two female members of United Slaves. Everett was sentenced to one to ten years; he served four.

Other United Slave members committed beatings, shootings, assaults, and robberies, including the 1969 murder of two Black Panther members who were professors of Black Studies at U.C.L.A.

In 1975, Everett was released from prison. He changed his name to Ron Karenga and gave himself the title "Maulana" or "Master Teacher." He also converted to Marxism.
Karenga/Everett was appointed head of the U.C.L.A. Department of Black Studies in 1979.

Kwanzaa was an invention of Karenga/Everett. According to the official website, the purpose of Kwanzaa is to "enhance the revolutionary social changes for the masses of Black Americans." Kwanzaa is celebrated from December 26th to January 1st. Karenga/Everett explained this choice of dates as "that's when a lot of bloods would be partying."

Although claiming it was an authentic African harvest festival, no culture anywhere celebrates the harvest in December. One of the important symbols of Kwanzaa is corn, which is not native to Africa. Corn was imported to Africa from Mexico and North America by European slave traders.

Like all Marxists, Karenga/Everett opposed religion. The 1977 book Kwanzaa: Origin, Concepts, Practice states, "Kwanzaa is...an oppositional alternative to the spookism, mysticism, and non-earth based practices which plague us as a people and encourage our withdrawal from social life rather than our bold confrontation with it." In 1980, in Kawaida Theory, he wrote in opposition to both "Christian and Jewish mythology as well as belief in God and other 'spooks' who threaten us if we don't worship them and demand we turn over our destiny and daily lives.

Marxism is the direct source of several of Kwanzaa's Seven Principles. These include "collective work and responsibility," "cooperative economics," "self-determination" and "collective vocation or purpose."

The official Kawanzaa flag is black, green, and red. It is "the symbol of devotion for African people in America to establish an independent African nation on the North American Continent." The red represents blood because, "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." Of course, Karenga/Everett is not talking about the redemptive blood of Jesus Christ. Rather, he advocates guerrilla war and violence, as needed, to establish a separate African-American nation.

The Kwanzaa pledge to their flag is suppose to be part of every Kwanzaa celebration, according to their website. The pledge reads:

" We pledge allegiance to the red, black, and green, our flag, the symbol of our eternal struggle, and to the land we must obtain; one nation of black people, with one God of us all, totally united in the struggle, for black love, black freedom, and black self-determination."

As Scripture warns, "Our people are destroyed by lack of knowledge." The media masks the origins and agenda of Kwanzaa. President Clinton was the first president to give official recognition to Kwanzaa. President George W. Bush has continued it. The U.S. Postal Service issued its first Kwanzaa stamp in 1997. The taxpayer-supported Smithsonian Institute sponsors an annual Kwanzaa celebration.

James Coleman, an ex-Black Panther, wrote: "By only stressing the unity of black people, Kwanzaa separates black people from the rest of Americans."

I submit to you that Kwanzaa is:
· a festival founded by a black segregationist or racist
· with roots in violence and murder
· celebrates a phony or non-existent African history and culture
· advocates a failed economic system (communism).
As such, Christians and patriotic Americans should not celebrate Kwanzaa. Because of its opposition to other religions, it should not be endorsed by any branch of government, and taxpayer dollars should not be spent on it.

You decide.