Kwanzaa attacked on Fox
Media Matters for America observes that ..."On Hannity & Colmes, Reverend Jesse Lee Peterson and nationally syndicated radio host Mike Gallagher smeared the African American holiday Kwanzaa and attacked its founder. On the December 22 edition of the FOX News program, Peterson declared: "Kwanzaa is a racist, pagan, Marxist holiday" and then claimed that the "so-called seven principles of Kwanzaa are socialist, Marxist, separatist ideas." Peterson attacked Kwanzaa founder Maulana (Ron) Karenga, calling him a "racist" who "want[s] to get rid of God" and saying he committed a felony in the early 1970s and led a movement "fighting against blacks and whites uniting together." Peterson told co-host Alan Colmes that the United States has no need for Kwanzaa because "we are a Christian nation, Alan, and we already believe in Christ." He declared that if "a white man started a white holiday, seven-day white holiday, black folks would be burning down America." Gallagher, who was filling in for co-host Sean Hannity, asserted that Kwanzaa is a "fake holiday" that was meant to "tweak white America back in 1966" and now serves to "secularize the Christmas season." On December 21, the right-wing website WorldNetDaily.com also detailed Peterson's assault on Kwanzaa in an article titled "Black minister: Say 'no' to Kwanzaa."
posted by Paul Wilczynski @ 9:21 AM
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