Happy Kwanzaa, y'all!

Still Lacking That Old Kwanzaa Spirit, an article by JOSEPH H. BROWN, tells an interesting and factually correct tale of how the holiday came to be, but more importantly, WHO invented it. Here are more interesting reads:
http://www.akdart.com/aff4.html
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=5251
http://christocentric.com/Kwanzaa/pagan.htm
http://www.dartreview.com/issues/1.15.01/kwanzaa.html
http://therightcoast.blogspot.com/2003_12_01_therightcoast_archive.html#107196208505935662
http://www.erickerickson.org/archives/000459.html
http://www.textbookleague.org/114kwanz.htm
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=25998
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maulana_Karenga
http://www.officialkwanzaawebsite.org/karengabio.html
http://www.nathanielturner.com/karenga2.htm
http://www.etext.org/Politics/MIM/bpp/bpp110569a_p7.htm
http://www.swankyconservative.com/index.php?p=395
http://www.citizen-journal.net/GadsdenFlag/archives/00000054.htm
http://www.libertyforum.org/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=news_culture&Number=293204503&page=&view=&sb=&o=

While serving five years in prison for torturing two black women, this convicted felon became a Marxist. After his release, he became professor and chair of the department of Black Studies at California State University-Long Beach. From what I can tell from on-line research, he retired from that position in 2002.