Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine (R-Ohio), already under criticism for his veto of a legislation banning the chemical castration of minors, is taking additional heat over his recognition of ‘Kwanzaa’ — which was created in 1966 by a man convicted of torturing two women.
Last Friday, DeWine vetoed a bill that would have banned chemical castration of minors, saying that his veto was about “protecting human life.”
Fellow Ohio Republican, U.S. Sen. J.D. Vance, said he was “extremely disappointed” in DeWine’s veto and Vance said he hopes the veto is overridden by the Ohio legislature:
This is a slogan, not a justification. There are many things the law rightfully says no one, including parents, may do to children.
This slogan also ignores the extraordinary pressure from interest groups and big pharma to green light poorly understood, irreversible… https://t.co/p9leBQ2MH7
— J.D. Vance (@JDVance1) December 29, 2023
In the days following that vote, DeWine’s public recognition of ‘Kwanzaa’, critics responded to a Buckeye Reporter article that reported on DeWine’s recognition of the “event” in a Facebook post:
American Greatness contributor Steve Cortes shared the Buckeye Reporter article on X, saying that DeWine’s veto of the chemical castration bill, combined with the governor’s support of “Kwanzaa,” represents “the sellout, Establishment GOP in power”:
Here’s the sellout, limp Establishment GOP in power…
Feckless @GovMikeDeWine vetoed a bill protecting children from surgical and pharmaceutical sex changes.
Same DeWine celebrated a Marxist-invented fake holiday.
Enough!
Full article:https://t.co/QupMYiMJ4p pic.twitter.com/yFuFoZTNSN
— Steve Cortes (@CortesSteve) December 31, 2023
Tim Young, an American Greatness contributor and host of the Tim Runs His Mouth Podcast – Presented by American Greatness, also shared the Buckeye Report article on X, posting:
Not only did Mike DeWine shoot down legislation to protect women’s sports…
He also celebrated Kwanzaa this year…
The Republicans who voted for this clown in Ohio should be ashamed of themselves.https://t.co/IQTzQnkLNa
— Tim Young (@TimRunsHisMouth) December 31, 2023
As American Greatness reported last week, President Joe Biden, Vice Pres. Kamala Harris, Sen. Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, and Sec. of State Antony Blinken were just some of the high-profile Democrats recognizing “Kwanzaa” during the past week.
Kwanzaa was created in 1966 by Ronald McKinley Everett, also known as “Dr. Maulana ‘Ron’ Karenga,” who is currently a professor of Africana Studies at California State University, Long Beach.
Everett co-founded the organization US, which stood for “United Slaves,” in 1965.
In 1971, he was convicted of the assault and false imprisonment of two women who were members of the organization.
Deborah Jones, one of the women, testified that “she and Gail Davis were whipped with an electrical cord and beaten with a karate baton after being ordered to remove their clothes and “that a hot soldering iron was placed in Miss Davis’ mouth and placed against Miss Davis’ face and that one of her own big toes was tightened in a vise,” reported the Los Angeles Times.
Jones also said that Everett “put detergent and running hoses in their mouths” and hit them on the heads with toasters.
Everett, who created Kwanzaa to begin the day after Christmas and run through New Year’s Day, wrote in his book, “The Quotable Karenga,” that “Christianity is a white religion.”
“It has a white God, and any ‘Negro’ who believes in it is a sick ‘Negro,’” he wrote. “How can you pray to a white man? If you believe in him, no wonder you catch so much hell.”
The late Bruce A. Dixon, then-managing editor of Black Agenda Report, wrote in Jacobin magazine that, “Karenga’s US organization murdered two leading members of the Black Panther Party in Los Angeles, Alprentice ‘Bunchy’ Carter and John Huggins, and two more in San Diego, Sylvester Bell and John Savage.”
In a Dec. 2019 syndicated column, Ann Coulter said “Karenga” was a “black radical/FBI stooge” and wrote that “during the madness of the ‘60s, the FBI encouraged the most extreme black nationalist organizations in order to discredit and split the left.”
“But the left has forgotten the FBI’s tacit encouragement of this murderous black nationalist cult founded by the father of Kwanzaa,” wrote Coulter.
The FBI released its 43-page file on Everett in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request from the website, governmentattic.org.
The FBI said US was “a small but dangerous black nationalist extremist group under the direction of 26-year-old, highly educated American Negro, Ronald McKinley Everett,” whom the FBI said was known as “The Blackest Panther” and “a dangerous man.”
Everett “is dangerous because he is a vocal part of a larger conspiracy striving through the deception of a fraternity of blackness to divide this house against itself,” said the FBI report.
Pictured, top: Pres. Joe Biden, left, VP Kamala Harris, center, and Ronald McKinley Everett, creator of Kwanzaa / Source: Getty Images (1 and 2), YouTube-Western IL University