Reverend Jesse Lee Peterson

[seize the time]

Just wondering what the general consensus here is about this guy? I saw this article in another forum and was a bit taken aback by his blatant racism.



Kwanzaa -- Racist Holiday from Hell
By Reverend Jesse Lee Peterson
FrontPageMagazine.com | December 29, 2004

While public officials, schools, and the ACLU worked overtime this year to ban every vestige of Christmas from the public square, the recently invented holiday known as Kwanzaa is gaining in popularity among black Americans. These occurrences are not unrelated.

In an earlier time, blacks held a strong faith in God. But over the past 40 years, the black community has largely let God slip away. Sure the community has maintained the outer trappings of religion, but the solid morality at its core is nearly gone.

Enter a God-hating black racist named Ron Karenga. Born Ron Everett on a poultry farm in Maryland, Everett invented Kwanzaa in 1966, based on an African harvest festival (though it takes place during the Winter Solstice!), and celebrating the first Kwanzaa with his family and friends.

Calling himself “Maulana” (Swahili for “Master Teacher”), Karenga became a black nationalist at UCLA, and formed his group, the United Slaves (US) for the purpose of igniting a “cultural revolution” among American blacks. US members followed Karenga’s “Path of Blackness,” which is detailed in his Quotable Karenga: “The sevenfold path of blackness is think black, talk black, act black, create black, buy black, vote black, and live black.”
rest of article here:
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=16474

[KingFlorez]

1. He's a black man that seems to be racist against his own

If I hadn't known he was black before reading his writings, I would have thought they were written by a white supremacist. He's a self-loathing racist.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

2. Sounds like the rev sees Kwanzaa as competition

as I understand the holiday, it celebrates family, education, fortitude, etc. Frankly, aren't these qualities a Christian pastor would wish his flock to emulate? And Christianity has a habit of taking on other holidays and making them their own-why couldn't a black Christian church do this with Kwanzaa?

Side note: Interesting that Maulana is "teacher" in Swahili, as "Mevlana" means the same, and is either Turkish or Arabic-it is used to describe Jelaludin Rumi, the great Sufi poet.

[butterfly77]

3. This is who Hannity and the Republicons bring out,...

to say everything they really want to say about blacks, they have others but this is one of their favorites.

[earlybelle]

4. It's ok to rob African slaves of their culture but condemn their off-srping for

establishing a culture of their own.

[cali]

5. He's a right bastard

and thoroughly disgusting.