Seasons Greetings

Back in about 650 AD, Mohammed invented Islam to help hold his empire together. Later, a Science fiction writer remarked that if he wanted to make the really big bucks, he'd start his own religion (Scientology). Shortly after that, Ron Karenga invented a holiday specifically for blacks, so they wouldn't have to celebrate the white mans holiday. Karenga's problem was that he forgot to set up the rest of the religion with himself as prophet, which would have been far more lucrative than being a head of Black Studies at Cal State Long Beach.

“People think it’s African, but it’s not,” admitted Karenga in a 1978 Washington Post interview. “I put it around Christmas because I knew that’s when a lot of ‘bloods’ [Blacks] would be partying.”

So party on, dudes. Happy Kwanzza.