What is this United Slaves they speak of. From my understanding its Us not USO. It was simply "Us" as opposed to "them". It was not an abrieviation. His organization was battling the Black Panthers over control of the Afro-American studies at UCLA. So yes he has a violent past. Now as for the torture charges, are they true? No one will ever know except him and the accusers. He went to jail for the crimes although he says he is innocent. With the recent shake up of the LAPD and the releasing of many innocent prisoners set up by them, he could have been innocent. There are many theories about him, one is he was working for the CIA. Who knows. Is it possible the man changed his ways? He does have 2 Ph.d's.
Although I do not celebrate kwanza who are you to judge it?
He made up a holiday using bits and pieces of african history and added things to it. Is that so wrong? Did he do something different than the man who created Christmas?
Yet the racial comments flow instead of having a intellegent discussion on the subject.