Christ or Kwanzaa?
- By Curtis Anthony Hervey
- Published 12/18/2009
Curtis Anthony Hervey
My 18,000 word thesis earned me a Masters of Biblical Studies degree (a wholistic plan to empower low-income black America). I'm here to network for publication and to seek out like-minded African Americans (curtis.hervey@yahoo.com). As a Distinguished Graduate of OCS, I seek to apply battle-tested military principles to solving black pathology by issuing a national warning order. I'm an iconoclast, my doctrine is Washingtonian (as in Booker T.) and my role is that of Socratic Gadfly.
It is common knowledge that Ron Karenga based his secular "holiday" Kwanzaa on the Jewish "Festival of Lights" (called Hanukkah or Chanukah and involves the Menorah candlebra) for the purpose of overshadowing Christmas.
Karenga wanted to provide blacks with an alternative to Christmas because he perceived this holy day to be a manifestation of the dominant society's "white man's religion."
I am NOT a proponent of racist historical Christianity and perceive it to be a crude fraud. However, I do believe in BIBLICAL Christianity and I do believe in Jesus Christ.
Christianity isn't a "white man's religion" because it did NOT originate in Europe. Christianity originated in Northeast Africa (called the "Middle East" by academic racists and those who know no better) and was later introduced into Europe by the Apostle Paul.
Christianity is part of our African heritage and we should embrace this holiday and not seek some secular alternative.
The principles of Kwanzaa sound noble, but are based on the secular humanim of the failed Black Power movement. The last thing blacks need is more secular or spiritual humanism. We all need Jesus Christ.
Karenga wanted to provide blacks with an alternative to Christmas because he perceived this holy day to be a manifestation of the dominant society's "white man's religion."
I am NOT a proponent of racist historical Christianity and perceive it to be a crude fraud. However, I do believe in BIBLICAL Christianity and I do believe in Jesus Christ.
Christianity isn't a "white man's religion" because it did NOT originate in Europe. Christianity originated in Northeast Africa (called the "Middle East" by academic racists and those who know no better) and was later introduced into Europe by the Apostle Paul.
Christianity is part of our African heritage and we should embrace this holiday and not seek some secular alternative.
The principles of Kwanzaa sound noble, but are based on the secular humanim of the failed Black Power movement. The last thing blacks need is more secular or spiritual humanism. We all need Jesus Christ.
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