Dr. Maulana Karenga Kwanzaa inventor (on multi-culturalism)

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Kwanzaa inventor Dr. Maulana Karenga in an interview I conducted as part of an educational documentary I was producing.

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Education

Tags:

• kwanzaa
• inventor
• Dr.
• Maulana
• Karenga
• Reverend
• Jeremiah
• Wright
• african
• american
• studies
• black
• history
• christmas
• chuanaka

[ResurrectingYourSpir]

THIS IS THE PRACTICE OF MOOTI BLACK ARABA CELEBRATION YOU LIE TO YOUR PEOPLE. YOU CAN'T LIE TO AFRICANS. THIS PRACTICE IS FROM THE EAST AFRICA. IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH AFRICAN HERITAGE, CULTURE OR DIVERSITY.

[davisismail1comcast]

@hofstb If you can take a mans traditions, i.e his Culture , in your case western society's wicked brilliance at "annexing" others systems, then twisting them around to benefit your minion(Greeks/Romans/Askanizes­) you can destroy that mans since of identity. People like you fears this greatly because if people of African decent ever return to there own value systems you no longer control or exploit them. Correction, I think you mean "YOUR" forefathers were brutal racist bullshit artist.

[Melaku85]

@sk8well37 Don't insult what you don't understand. Racism teaches white supremacy and inferiority of all other people groups. Kwanzaa does neither, but celebrates the highest principles of African culture bringing about unity, a lost value due to the separation of black families from the wounds of slave oppression. Christmas is European in cultural origin and unbiblical since Jesus never commanded it. Also, America does owe blacks reparations for two and a half centuries of forced free labor.

[Melaku85]

@sk8well37 You sound ignorant. He is stressing the need for America to teach cultural diversity and history in its fullest/truthful sense, rather than perpetrating so with European history in the front. Teach about the African community found living in South America by Spanish explorer Vasco de Balboa in 1513,"BEFORE COLUMBUS," or even more close to home--Estevanico, the most important African slave explorer of North America(discovered the southwestern U.S. of Arizona and New Mexico).

[Melaku85]

@sk8well37 You sound ignorant. He is stressing the need for America to teach cultural diversity and history in its fullest/truthful sense, rather than perpetrating so with European history in the front. Teach about the African community found living in South America by Spanish explorer Vasco de Balboa in 1513,"BEFORE COLUMBUS," or even more close to home--Estevanico, the most important African slave explorer of North America(discovered the southwestern U.S. of Arizona and New Mexico.

[hofstb]

This guy is a brutal racist bullshit artist.

[jesushateswood]

Last thing. I think Christmas as we know it is on it's way out. The more I listen to people here in on the west coast, they are getting sick of it. I constantly here, 'Geez I'll be glad when it's over." Oh many still love Jesus. No worries. It would take a miracle to get rid of Jesus. I'm talking about the shopping and spending of money on sh*t people can buy themselves. Or AM buying themselves during the earlier months of the year. I vote KILL Christmas.

[jesushateswood]

In the 1930's a particular African American man published a book. This man was a Harvard graduate and received his PhD. He also studied in Europe and the Philippines. He said, "The educational system in Europe and the Americas is an antiquated (old/outdated) process that DOES NOT hit the mark for even the needs of the white man HIMSELF." Now In President Obama's speech, didn't he say America was in 9th place? 1930's thru 2011. Antiquated.

[jesushateswood]

i don't understand why people black/white hate Kwanzaa so much. I have an idea or two. I think there is something genetic in white DNA that any Black thought that does NOT include them is seen as divisive, odd, or just plain wrong. And I believe that some Blacks are so emotionally and mentally attached to the concerns of whites that they are uncomfortable with anything that isn't approved by whites.

[chrisdgough]

one question...What if someones culture is unhealthy? Should it be celebrated? This short talk was at first glance agreeable until I thought, "Wait, he doesn't like European history...and maybe rightly so...but if there are cultural histories that shouldn't be celebrated, why should we celebrate them all?" The underlying concept is amorality...which is terrible.