Think you know (even if just vaguely) what Kwanzaa is? Hmm. I had a moment of …enlightenment today, courtesy of a brief article from WND:

“People think it’s African, but it’s not. I came up with Kwanzaa because 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.”
– Dr. Maulana “Ron” Karenga, founder of Kwanzaa, in a 1978 interview reprinted in the Washington Post

The Official Kwanzaa Website’s bio of Dr.Ron is here — and the Wikipedia entry for Dr. Ron is here. An interesting study of contrasts regarding the power of presentation (the MSM is far and away the master of this realm — witness the nightly news re:Iraq). More research is in order, to be sure — but “more research” is being left as an exercise to the reader, for now.

In the meantime, I’ll wait on some comment flame (assuming anyone actually reads this) :D