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The white university is not primarily an educational institution but a political one, and it seeks to maintain the power base of American society. - Maulana Karenga
" "The white university is not primarily an educational institution but a political one, and it seeks to maintain the power base of American society.
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About Maulana Karenga
Maulana Karenga (born on 14 July 1941) is a black nationalist and pan-African scholar and activist. In the 1960s he established the cultural organization US, invented the Kwanzaa celebration, and introduced the Kawaida system of Afrocentric moral philosophy. After serving a prison sentence for felony assault in the early 1970s, he earned two doctorates and became the Africana Studies department chair at the California State University, Long Beach.
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Birth Name:
Ronald McKinley Everett
Alternative Names:
Maulana Ndabezitha Karenga
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Ron Karenga
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I have been blessed to see my work flourish. Many people in history — Marcus Garvey, Ida B. Wells, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X — never lived to see their work flourish. I have seen people around the world embrace my philosophy and principles, involving themselves in a cultural institution that my organization and I created. That's something.
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