Today marks the sixth and penultimate day of Kwanzaa.
Kwanzaa is an annual celebration of African-American culture from December 26 to January 1, culminating in a communal feast called Karamu, usually on the sixth day. It was created by activist Maulana Karenga, an anti-white Communist professor. Karenga created it to counter Christmas so that blacks could shun "White religion" and the "psychotic" Jesus. Five years after creating it, he was put in jail for kidnapping women and torturing them with hot irons before stuffing detergent in their mouths.
In 1978 he told the Washington Post’s Hollie West:
“I created Kwanzaa,” laughed Ron Karenga like a teenager who’s just divulged a deeply held, precious secret. “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.
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