I’ve finally completed the book I’ve been trying to write for so many years I’m too ashamed to say howcandles2 long and how short it is. But when you’re raising five kids, it does create decades long writers block! (At least that’s my excuse.)

Researching and discovering interesting subjects is what I love to do, but this one I wrote about I had stumbled upon quite accidentally.  One day long long ago, one of my sisters changed her name my mother gave her to a Swahili name, which wasn’t at first a major cause of concern, THEN she claimed that Christianity was a White Man’s religion and no longer called herself Christian.  I wondered what in the heck changed her and since we were all living in Los Angeles at the time and near each other, I took it upon myself to “research” my sister’s change in lifestyle.

I discovered that my sister had become a member of Maulana Karenga’s Black activist group the US Organization – this from the same man who created Kwanzaa!  Thus my research began by taking weekly visits to the “Center,” the headquarters of the organization which was located in the city, and I quickly involved myself into their questions and answers sessions and their round table discussions at which many times I ended debating with Karenga himself as well as other US members. But as a young mother of two toddlers and the expansion of my family to five kids and then followed by a divorce, the Center soon took a back seat to my busy family life.

With no more time for the discussions and debates, I took to just writing my notes out and eventually posting them on a long running website that folks have used for their own writings on Kwanzaa.  What made my notes so unique, was that I was able to retrieve books (okay, I stole them) from my US member sister’s home library, books that Karenga wrote that the general public didn’t have access to. It’s those books from which much of my material came from, books that show Karenga’s TRUE intent for creating Kwanzaa.

Now with the kids all grown up and out of the nest, I’ve been able to finish writing about my discoveries of Karenga’s teachings and why I reject Kwanzaa as a cultural celebration.  This book I want everyone to read who has anything to do with Kwanzaa – and you don’t have to be Black for that to be!  It’s short with 46 pages with mostly references from newspapers, journals, websites and most importantly Karenga’s own books to show his true intentions with this false cultural holiday.

If you’d like more info on the book click on the eBook image in the right column.

Check it out folks – the FIRST BOOK EVER written exposing Kwanzaa!

(This is digital only in PDF, the print edition will follow later!)

edited 12/22/09

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