"Right on"

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Thu Nov 11 21:52:07 UTC 2004


At 6:34 PM -0800 11/10/04, Towse wrote:
>On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 17:35:46 -0500, Wilson Gray <wilson.gray at rcn.com> wrote:
>
>>  Maulana Ron Karenga, the Huey Newton of US, was, the last I
>>  heard, a professor of sociology at the State University of California,
>>  Long Beach. Huey Newton, of course, is dead.
>
>Karenga is more widely known as the guy who invented Kwanzaa.
><http://www.officialkwanzaawebsite.org/karengabio.html>
>

School pride* forces me to add that when Ron Karenga (as he was then
known) invented Kwanzaa (which, given Swahili penultimate stress
principles, "should" be stressed on the second of the three /a/s), it
was during his days (and mine) at UCLA around 1966-68.

(*School pride hasn't yet forced me to get around to making alumni
contributions, so they'll have to settle for what they can get.)

larry



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