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October 16, 2005

Malkin Extends Her Rant Against Kwanzaa

I've got one gripe with Michelle Malkin, and that's her vendetta against Kwanzaa, which is little more than a broadside against Ron Karenga which is nothing more than a continuing insult to people who celebrate the holiday. Every opportunity she gets to slander the festivities is just another kick in the groin to honest, decent people who find many reasons to recall and rededicate themselves to fine values and a young but growing tradition.

There can be no denial that Karenga himself had plenty of trouble with the law, some of it his own doing. But that is the price paid for having the audacity to assert a black cultural revolution. However as I've patiently explained, Karenga wasn't the only one who saw the usefulness of the idea, nor did it blossom based upon his example alone. Suggesting that Kwanzaa celebrants are somehow bound to the conduct of Karenga is irresponsible and mean-spirited.

I wonder how Malkin would react to someone who suggested that the Japanese Tea Ceremony was the product of murdering, suicidal Kamikzes, and therefore anyone who drinks tea with any reference to it is morally and intellectually suspect. If she's going to keep up her tirade against Kwanzaa, she's going to have to review her logic. From where I stand, it stinks.

Posted by mbowen at October 16, 2005 08:35 AM

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Do you think it would help to videotape and webcast my family's Kwanzaa celebration? Maybe then people could see that it is about reaffirming family values, and that Karenga's name never comes up.

Nah, some people live their lives to put down any and all things Black.

Posted by: brotherbrown [TypeKey Profile Page] at October 16, 2005 10:45 PM

Glad you brought this out Cobb. Like I posted on Booker...

People will first claim blacks don't do enough for themselves, they rely to much on the government, and they need to concentrate on their own issues.

Then you have a black centered holiday celebration that promotes the values THEY say we lack, and they criticize it.

Posted by: Dell Gines [TypeKey Profile Page] at October 17, 2005 07:11 AM

She probably wouldn't care about you slagging the Tea Ceremony. She might even approve, seeing as how she's Filipina, not Japanese, and the Filipinos remember the Japanese occupation real well. Lot of grudges down there, even sixty years later.

Posted by: Kevin at October 17, 2005 09:19 AM

You learn something every day.

Posted by: Cobb [TypeKey Profile Page] at October 17, 2005 09:43 AM

10 17 05

Dell is right Cobb:
She is Filipina. But she has NO LOYALTY WHATSOEVER TO OTHER ASIANS, PARTICULARLY JAPANESE!!! She wrote one of the most revisionist, disgusting books justifying the Japanese internment camps during WWII. My question to her is how come German Americans weren't interned? She has espoused WAYYYY too much hate and DISRESPECT for anyone who is not a cultural REVISIONIST; this is what bothers me; people think that you have to LIE and REWRITE history to be a true conservative. B.S.! She is a self hating, hater of others and a meanspirited person. There is a lesson I once learned; listen to the msg irrespective of the messenger. Mr. Karenga certainly ain't a saint, but what he did in the sixties will be forever cherished by us. Creating our own is the goal and always shoulda been. I don't know what her plm is but she needs to check herself! :(

Posted by: mahndisa at October 17, 2005 10:18 AM

mahndisa: According to this, Germans were interred during WWII. Just FYI.

Posted by: Juliette [TypeKey Profile Page] at October 18, 2005 01:15 PM

her story is regurgitated and her links provide false information. karenga's no saint - doesn't have to be. besides, if malkin wants to go down that road, let's set fire to the DOI and Constitution immediately. i've got matches. nice take cobb.

what's up with the SCAAAAARRRYYYYYY facial stretch on the website...yikes. looked like one of the backgrounds on windows that should be tiled instead of stretched. not sayin' that means anything - just sayin' sup wit dat?

Posted by: Temple3 [TypeKey Profile Page] at October 19, 2005 01:11 PM

true, they were interned, but the US was too busy tracking down nazi scientists and academics and waltzing up to places like Columbia and Harvard...and allowing them to run NASA.

"Boy, you got brains...you shouldn't be in no camp. What you gonna do in camp. Go out and build me a rocket!"

Posted by: Temple3 [TypeKey Profile Page] at October 19, 2005 01:13 PM