Ann Coulter Pens New Racist Screed, Just in Time for Kwanzaa

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Ann Coulter Pens New Racist Screed, Just in Time for Kwanzaa
The right-wing bigot offers an alternative history of the pan-African holiday.

By Noor Al-Sibai / Raw Story
December 28, 2017, 4:43 AM GMT


In one of her more unhinged rants, professional conservative banshee Ann Coulter claimed that Kwanzaa is a “made-up racist holiday” peddled by the FBI to sow division among African-Americans.

Coulter’s column, which has been republished by the likes of Breitbart, World Net Daily and Ben Shapiro’s The Daily Wire, audaciously posited an alternative history of the pan-African holiday and its creator, Dr. Ron Karenga. This isn’t her first year writing it, either — she wrote a remarkably similar column in 2013, whose main difference is that it references “Duck Dynasty.”

According to Coulter, Karenga is a “black radical/FBI stooge,” and his group United Slaves were rivals to the Black Panthers. Her analysis appears to stem from declassified documents proving that Karenga and United Slaves were targets of the FBI’s Counter Intelligence Program (COINTELPRO), and division between the pro-black groups was intentionally sowed by the bureau. As an extension of those efforts, Coulter’s column appeared to infer, Karenga went on to create the holiday meant to be celebrated by black people around the world to … continue to drive a wedge between black people, somehow.

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At the end of her the alternative history she provided, Coulter even created a Kwanzaa-themed carol, set to “Jingle Bells.”

“Kwanzaa bells, dashikis sell

Whitey has to pay;

Burning, shooting, oh what fun

On this made-up holiday!”

“Only white liberals take Kwanzaa seriously,” she wrote at her conclusion. “American Blacks celebrate Christmas.”



Noor Al-Sibai is a writer and editor for Raw Story, whose work has appeared in Bustle, Everyday Feminism, and Rewire.


Cause she'd know so much better than anybody else, particularly better than people of color.

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. She speaks for about 48 million American voters.

Every single one of those voters has in common this thing known as racism.

[spanone]

2. there is snot with a higher level of intelligence

[WhiskeyGrinder]

3. I mean, Karenga is trash. She's not wrong. But Kwanzaa is bigger than Karenga and can be made in

its own image, just like we do with Christmas.

[treestar]

4. Ok so the FBI did this

Hmmm. Wonder why that is the focus this year?

[lpbk2713]

5. Coulter is on the same emotional and mental level as a six year old.

A normal person would be embarrassed.

[Initech]

6. Most people who buy into the Fox News cult are.

And then there are the 52% of us who don't watch that shit.

[TlalocW]

7. All holidays are made up

There are no naturally-occurring holidays.

TlalocW