The real meaning of Kwanzaa

As Ann Coulter has pointed out in her inimitable, incisive way, the only people who pretend to take Kwanzaa seriously are white liberals.

Kwanzaa was invented in 1966 to give black Americans a holiday different from the Christmas holiday of the "dominant culture." Never mind that black Americans are among the most church-going people in the country. In the recesses of the liberal mind, pigmentation rules.

Needless to say, the holiday never caught on with black Americans, but white liberals jumped on Kwanzaa like a duck on a June bug. Not that white liberals actually celebrate Kwanzaa themselves, mind you, but they think it fits the needs of black folk just fine.

So, while the children of white liberals send their grievances and demands to Santa, black children are supposed to celebrate their "cultural heritage" with Kwanzaa.

Picture a young black couple coming home from Christmas shopping and opening the mail.

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"Look, honey, Che and Courtney sent us a Kwanzaa card."

"What the heck is a Kwanzaa card?"

"I don't know. Maybe they've gotten into some kind of New Age thing. They're funny like that."

"Well, don't invite them to our Christmas party. They might feel out of place."

As is usually true with liberal ideas, however, underneath the silly we find the sinister. Kwanzaa invites black children to grow up feeling out of the mainstream, isolated and alienated from the culture in which they live. No one could seriously think that feeling alienated would be good for black children, but alienating one group from another yields a gold mine of votes for liberal politicians.

History shows Kwanzaa to be just one of many wedges that liberals use to create division and alienation. The tactic started with the Marxists and the struggle of the proletariat versus the bourgeoisie. Employee against employer, women against men, black against white, liberals work to isolate and alienate various groups and convince them that someone has done them wrong and that liberals can right the wrong if only we give them power over the rest of us.

Exploiting our superficial differences may be a successful political strategy, but it is a cruel one because it denies the fundamental ways in which we are all alike.

At some time, each of us hears a "still, small voice" telling us that we cannot heal the evil in the world until the evil inside of us is healed. We realize with Saint Paul that we fail to do the good that we would do, and we too often do the evil that we would not do. We realize that there is an emptiness that cannot be filled by human striving.

We look for something to fill that emptiness, and then we make a choice.

Karl Marx made his choice when he abandoned his Christian faith and rejected the Christian worldview. Though he was the father of the communist movement, however, he was not the father of the communist worldview, the same worldview that underlies American liberalism.

The father of that worldview is much, much older than the communist movement.

Whitaker Chambers warned us that communism embodies the ancient promise that we shall be as gods, that we can conform human destiny to our will. The communist worldview seeks to drown out the still, small voice in favor of one that tells us that God is dead and that everything is permitted. Those who fall for that false promise try in vain to fill the spiritual void with earthly power.

America was founded on a different choice, a worldview that finds salvation not in imposing our will on humanity but in conforming our will to that of our Creator. Marxism cannot appeal to a people who believe that rights come from God and not from government, that charity is a voluntary duty, and that individuals, not groups, are morally accountable. That is why every scheme of the left is designed ultimately to undermine the morals of our Judeo-Christian worldview.

America has had an economic awakening, a realization that Marxist policies are bringing ruin upon us, and we are trying to change course.

But America is not just an economy. America as a republic will only be saved by a spiritual awakening, by recognition of our spiritual predicament and by reaffirming the spiritual choice that forms the moral foundation of our republic. The need for that awakening transcends demographic lines and applies to all of us.

Despite the pagan customs that cloud the invitation, Christmas invites us to make our choice.

Liberalism, and the worldview that begat it, cannot save anyone.

Tim Daughtry is a conservative writer, speaker, and political consultant with Concord Bridge Consulting in Greensboro, N.C.