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Kwanzaa was conjured up in 1966 by Dr. Maulana Karenga (formerly known as Ron N. Everett, founder of “United Slaves”, a group very similar in philosophy to the Black Panthers), former chair of the black studies department at California State University,to “reaffirm and restore our rootedness in African culture.”
According to AmericanThinker.com, Karenga said this about his brainchild:
“People think it’s African. But it’s not. I wanted to give black people a holiday of their own. So I came up with Kwanzaa. I said it was African because you know black people in this country wouldn’t celebrate it if they knew it was American. Also, I put it around Christmas because I knew that’s when a lot of bloods [blacks] would be partying!”

Anyway, Barack Hussein Obama- who cancelled the 33-year tradition of Christmas In Washington, was careful to issue an official, public Kwanzaa greeting from his ongoing Hawaiian vacation.

President Obama and first lady extended their “warmest wishes” to those celebrating Kwanzaa, the week-long holiday as it began Saturday.

“Today begins a week-long celebration of African-American heritage and culture through family and community festivities. Kwanzaa’s seven principles – unity, self-determination, collective work and responsibility, cooperative economics, purpose, creativity and faith – are also shared values that bind us as Americans.”, said the President.