The Jena Six—and Other Scams
"(S)ome Americans do not understand why the sight of a noose causes such a visceral reaction," declared President Bush to the White House gathering for Black History Month. As the Washington Post rushed to remind us, President Bush was "responding to news coverage of such episodes as the 'Jena Six.'" But if history is about truth, not myth, that news coverage deserves another look, before the Jena Six enter the history books alongside Emmett Till and "the Scottsboro Boys."
By now, most folks know the media story. White students at Jena High in Louisiana hung nooses on a tree to warn black students not to sit under it. After a fistfight over this racist outrage, black kids in the fight were indicted for attempted murder, while the white racists who hung the nooses walked away with a verbal spanking.
Last September, 20,000 traveled to Jena to march against this prosecutorial outrage. Fortunately, however, there are still a few real journalists around. Among them are Craig Franklin, assistant editor of the Jena Times, whose wife teaches at Jena High, and Charlotte Allen, who wrote an extended piece for the Weekly Standard. According to Allen and Franklin, here are the facts and chronology you have been denied by the Mainstream Media.
There never was a "whites-only" tree at Jena High. Both races sat under it, though whites congregated there. The nooses, or lariats, were the work of three young teens, who got the idea from watching Lonesome Dove on TV, where rustlers are hanged.
Franklin says they were a joke aimed at white friends on the rodeo team. As they were painted in Jena High's gold and black, Allen reports that the kids said the nooses were directed at a rival school's Western-themed football team.
When school officials confronted them, all were remorseful. All had black friends, and none knew the nooses were offensive to blacks.
Far from being let off, they spent "nine days at an alternative facility, followed by two weeks of in-school suspension, Saturday detentions, attendance at Discipline Court and evaluations by licensed mental-health professionals."
They were not prosecuted for a hate crime because none of those who investigated the incident believed they committed a hate crime. Hung on Aug. 31, 2006, the nooses had been taken down instantly. Only a few students ever saw them. Case closed.
September, October and November passed at Jena High with no racial conflict emanating from the noose incident of August.
On Dec. 1, however, Robert Bailey Jr. tried to crash a party at the Fair Barn in Jena. One Justin Sloan, 22, not a student, put a fist in his face. So witnesses and Bailey reported to police. And Sloan was prosecuted for battery.
On Dec. 2, Bailey and two friends jumped a white male entering the "Gotta Go" grocery. When the latter ran to get a shotgun out of his car, they wrested it from him and took it. So two witnesses at the "Gotta Go" agreed.
Two days later came the "schoolyard fight." Only this was no fight. Black students barricaded an exit to the gym and lay in wait for Justin Barker. As Barker went for another exit, he was struck in the head from behind by Mychal Bell. Multiple witnesses say Barker fell unconscious as a gang of eight or 10 blacks stomped and kicked him in the head. The assistant principal who reached Barker thought he was dead. Barker's emergency room bill ran to more than $5,000.
When the six were arrested and charged with attempted second-degree murder, none of them and none of the witnesses mentioned the noose incident. It had had nothing to do with this vicious racist assault.
After the charges were reduced to battery, Bell, tried as an adult, was indeed convicted by an all-white jury—because no blacks answered the summons to the jury pool. Why was Bell prosecuted as an adult? Because he had four prior convictions for crimes of violence.
After his conviction was overturned, Bell was ordered retried as a juvenile. Rather than face the same 17 witnesses, he pled guilty in December to hitting Barker from behind, slamming his head into a concrete beam and kicking him in the head. Sentenced to 18 months in juvenile detention, he agreed to testify against his co-conspirators.
While some $500,000 has been raised for the Jena Six defense, its whereabouts is unknown. Bailey did pose on the Internet grinning, however, with $100 bills in his mouth. Bell's mom is said to be driving a new Jaguar, and Bailey's mom a new Beamer. Two other Jena Sixers, Carwin Jones and Bryant Purvis, appeared in rapper attire on Black Entertainment Television as presenters of a Hip-Hop Award.
A week ago, 6-foot, 6-inch Purvis, who had transferred to Hebron High in Carrollton, Texas, was charged with assault, choking a student and ramming his head into a bench.
And that's the Saga of The Jena Six. It belongs right up there with the Rev. Al's other classics: Tawana Brawley and the Duke rape case.
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How is that the hottest, meanest conversation brings out some of the coolest, fairest thought? Only at Chronicles, where traditionalism proves itself on the forefront of change...
My Lenten fast from blogs being suspended for a few hours more, I thought I'd check in as to what's shaking.
Eh, the usual. Faaa-abulous.
"Are we to organize politically around the reading of the classics?"
If white nationalists such as Mr. Grady are perplexed as to why so few whites possess the spirit & character to rally in defense of their own, perhaps they should take a breather from sneering at the effort to preserve & pass on the heritage of Western civilization .... and instead take a reflective look at the shallow, materialistic, traditionless, attention-deficit-disordered society they inhabit.
(Assuming Mr. Grady can maintain his concentration for that long.)
Anyhow, it's just possible -- God willing -- that a few pockets of civilization could survive here and there, should the US collapse a la the USSR. (A not-unlikely prospect.)
And I'm inclined to think that there is more value in conserving, building upon, and hopefully handing down the treasures of the West's past .... than in getting hot & bothered about contemplating that glorious day (just around the corner, no doubt) when the Unified Caucasian People's Liberation Front will sweep into Washington D.C., bearing the laurels of political triumph with which to crown a new Chief Executive for our Albino Empire.
Call me unrealistic.
I don't think racialists are perplexed at all about the causes of our current predicament. Racialists alone have correctly diagnosed what is ailing America - liberal capitalist democracy - and have prescribed innovative solutions for combating this problem. Nowhere else is LCD itself openly called into question on the American political spectrum.
The mainstream conservative movement is for all of these things. In fact, movement conservatives are for exporting this disease abroad to Serbia and Iraq, in the belief that this modern sickness (Yankeeism/Americanism) is what makes America such a great place to live. Christianity is not the answer either. The Church is also comfortably reconciled to the status quo.
Appealing to Southern tradition isn't enough. I come from the deepest part of the South and what remnants of tradition that still exist here are being eroded away by the acid of consumerism and liberal ideology. There is zero understanding of constitutional republicanism amongst this democratic mob. Even college educated Americans struggle to identify Iraq on a map of the world.
Any student of the classics knows how democracy ends. If that is what it takes to whip this country into shape, so be it.
But I am not Spartacus exhibits the typical attitude of superiority of those who deny whites the right to their own lands.
Good Lord. You are flat-out crazy. What is the source of this right?
He help ‘migrant workers’ who both lower the wages of the poorest and increase stress on social services in the United States.
Yeah, I do. Immigrants ought be considered similar to the Holy Family when they had to go into exile in Egypt due to a rather unpleasant political leader back home.
He mocks those who wish to see racial continuity
Yep. When race is the primary identifier for a person, I do mock them.
You know Spartacus, there are what, 15, 20 overwhelmingly Catholic countries to the south , mestizo countries at that. Why don’t you migrate and thus dissolve yourself , your family, and your genes in all that wonderfulness.
Oh. So you are not for whites first. You are for whites-first-who-agree-with-you. If they disagree with you they are told to move.
One of the great characteristics of western culture is scientific achievement. Can the webmaster fix this ongoing problem with the site where the first few characters of each line are not appearing?
One of the many issues avoided in what little discussion takes place on this issue, is that several earlier colonies had attempted a survival in the North America South and had failed dismally. Not until tobacco cultivation with slave labor proved a profitable niche was civilization possible. For 300 hundred years this civilization grew and developed without question. After all, it was a labor base that is probably as old as the oldest profession. Trouble arose out of the Enlightenment and their development of abstract rights, where even human nature was thrown to the wind. Prior to that, questions of race, class, and hierarchy were based on absolutes; the same absolutes witch still prevail all over the world outside of the West. The problem, as I see it, is that the issue was removed from the traditional and absolute stance and placed in shades of grey. That is, a new absolute was not provided. Worse, those who work out of these shades of grey have taken the high ground and dictate what can and cannot be discussed. In fact, there is no discussion. The cry of racism can and is used to cancel any discussion except what those in the grey dictate. The problem has become so pathetic that even facts and studies can only be whispered behind closed doors. To openly attempt to create dialogue with such is nothing more than suicide. Watson (of Watson, Crick fame) serves as recent illustration. In this country, the North created this entire problem; yet from the beginning has never offered a solution.
GS
I am all for defending and preserving Western Civilization. Are you in favor of the continuation of post-1965 immigration policy which over time will bring about the racial and economic dispossession of the majority White population of America.
Albino what? What an idiotc comment.
Clyde Wilson
I never blamed the South for making America an immigrant nation. The point of my post was to point out that the greedy and lazy and Southern aristocracy had an apetite for degraded very low wage labor. This tells us a lot about the kind of society they built.
If the Southern Europeans didn't have the option of fleeing North, degraded immigrant labor would have become part of the Southern labor market.
And Yes, Southern Europene and Eastern European labor did have harmfull consequences for WASP workers in the industrial labor markets of the East. Eventually this led to the completeshut down of immigration in the 1920's(their was a brief completet cessation of European immigration during WW1)
Horace Grady,
one thing to keep in mind: this "greedy and lazy and Southern aristocracy" makes up part of our ancestry. Also too, as Dr. Wilson noted, many of America's greatest came from it. However, Calhoun was wrong.
I don't like the institution because 1. it's a powder keg (especially since all societies wax and wane) 2. potential miscegenation 3. as Lee said it keeps the whites behind.
Blame whom you will, but today in Charleston the blacks want a monument to Denmark Vesey who supposedly wished to kill off all the whites... I'm not whining, but I do realise that they are a potential power, whether being manipulated or acting on their own.
Much that is good came from the South and most every civilisation has some bad, but this facet of the South is one of which I do not approve.
Today though, Yankee capitalism dominates and its thirst for profits and power knows no bounds; it has an uncanny ability at encouraging the absolute worst in man.
The errors of both our systems has led me into the distributist wilderness, with a decidedly agrarian and naturalist leaning.
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Distributism is popular among Chronicles readers to be sure, but I'm interested in Horace Grady's thoughts on the subject. Or, to be more honest, I'm hoping you'll look into the subject.
A book edited by Dr. Francis offers some commentary on just the subject we're discussing. As I recall, it criticises both Yankee Capitalism and Southern slavery.
I should add that while Capitalism produced a wicked, evil ruling class, the South did to its benefit produce the richest and most noble aristocratic tradition of the New World. Though founded upon sand, it rose up to brilliant heights before the North crushed out its light.
Frank
I agree with your previous two posts. You hardly ever get nice clean answers to todays problems from history. I have no hostility towards Southern people. As a White Nationalist, I want to see the resources of America devoted to developing the engineering,scientific and medical talent that resides in the brains of Appalachias youth rather than on developing the Chinas youth . Chinas youth are being developed for engineering,medical and scientific careers within the borders of America!!!! THIS IS A DISGRACE AND A MAJOR SCANDAL!!!!!!! I am shocked that this hasn't been covered in Chronicles magazine by someone like Roger McGrawth. Native Born White Americans are being forced to subsidize their racial and economic dispossession. The Chinese must think we are fools/ They can't possibly have any respect for us.
Pat Buchannans most recent book is a failure for not addressing this issue. If Pat had addressed this issue, the issue would be discussed on the Lou Dobbs show by now and other mainstream media venues. Pat fired a big dud.
I am very sympathetic to Chesterton'ss ideas about distributism. Chesterton had a lot of important ideas. He could hold his own in a debate with Bertrand Russell.
So Pat Buchannan when are you going to take on the Asian "Americans"? I prefer my doctors,scientists,engineeris and technicians from Applachia rather than mainland China.
What about you TJF? Why haven't you addressed this issue in the pages of Chronicles magazine.
As White Nationalist are found to point out. A necessary precondition for slavery in America was the enslavement of Africans by Africans in African. WE can play the collective guilt game also.
Proper understanding of history is a necessity for wisdom and for wise action. I never cease to be surprised at the people who call themselves conservatives who insist on inserting the Marxist/neo-abolitionist interpretation of Southern history into every discussion. According to this interpretation the Old South was governed by a small oligarchy of evil slaveholders who ruled and impoverished most Southern whites and who threatened the North. This is the necessary foundation for every leftist interpretation of American history, having been spelled out by Karl Marx and his disciplies at the time. It is a propaganda lie that is necessary to justify Lincoln's revolutionary change in the American regime and his brutal war of conquest against other Americans. The Old South was as much a white democracy as the Old North, in some respects more so. Confederate soldiers and people of all classes (as Yankees complained) understood correctly exactly what they were doing---defending their soil from conquest by ruthless exploiters. Northern soldiers, for the most part, were rather vague about why they were invading and killing other Americans, not to mention that vast numbers of them were unwilling conscripts, coerced blacks, and foreigners who did not have a clue about the American constitution and history.
Nor did the South ever threaten the North (although some Southerners, after decades of insult from people who were supposed to be their fellow Americans), did at times talk aggressively. The Southern position was always essentially: just leave us alone and as we have always been. Or rather. Southern secession did threaten the North in this sense---it deprived manufacturers of their captive market and politicians of the major part of their tax revenue (which they dispensed as patronage to keep themselves in power). And so could not be allowed.
To bring into a discussion of immigration and of the declining fortunes of the American white working class, absurd accusations against Southern planters who were crushed a century and a half ago, is a ridiculous and trivialising evasion of much larger and more important aspects of the question. An example of the common phenomenon resorted to by by leftists and rightists---blame the South for whatever goes wrong in America. John C. Calhoun, by the way, had his greatest Northern support among working men (as did George Wallace). They understood that the South was their main line of defense against complete domination by the state capitalists and their lackeys.
And to discuss black/white problems in ignorance of or with a distorted idea of four hundred years of their history, as our "white nationalists" seem to do, is to guarantee a shallow and fruitless discussion.
As usual, Dr. Wilson, you are dead on. That truly sums up the situation. The truth is purged and we are spoon-fed propaganda. Or we are led to interpret historical facts through the eyes of new-fangled, liberal ideas, unknown in the age under discussion. In the land of the free? Who'd thunk? Sounds identicle to the accusations our elite made of the Soviets back in the day. And it is no mere coiincedence.
Why bother answering the disingenuous prattle posted by "I am not Spartacus" and others? Whether the non-whites are consciously working against us isn't a consideration, his blather about his non-white church-going "brothers" aside. They ARE being used as tools against us, and receiving favored treatment in all areas by a government run by those who hate us. Race is a huge factor in everything, otherwise the Jena Six incident and article above would never have come about. Racist? Who cares? No matter what a white man says to defend his people or actions against predatory and deceitful Marxists and non-whites he's called "racist". Argue about the Civil War all you'd like, the trolls have got you running and looking in every direction except straight ahead. Whites need to think and act as a collective group, just like EVERYONE other ethnic group out there, especially (gasp) Jews, so many of whom go out of their way to deny their cohesiveness, ethnic cronyism and disdain for "the other", for the West especially.
Why bother answering the disingenuous prattle posted by “I am not Spartacus” and others? Whether the non-whites are consciously working against us isn’t a consideration, his blather about his non-white church-going “brothers” aside.
I did forget to mention our Parish had a Muslim family of nine convert last year. How are you and yours doing vis a vis the Great Commission?
The "blather" you describe is all throughout the New Testament. What is not in the New Testament is anything resembling your desire.
I am not Spartacus,
I wonder how many of those 9 will remain Catholics by the time they turn 30.
Maybe by then we'll mostly all be like Bush: believing Islam, Christianity, and Judaism are all in worship of the same.
Dr. Richert is a Catholic, and the article linked might be of interest to you, though I ought to know that an immediate 180 on an issue that probably largely defines your being isn't likely.
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Ashkenazi,
Bah, there's not much benefit in any of this really. For myself, I'm going to ponder Dr. Wilson's comment that:
I'd been drawn to Dr. Francis's white nationalism in the past precisely because I thought it might save the South and Britain.
However, looking at the issue through that quote, I can see more clearly that I might fit in better at the LofS than any sort of racialist organisation, which I've never been apart of. Alliances are important, but the South might be trading one abstract master for another, like the Picts in Kipling's poem.
I am not Spartacus,
I wonder how many of those 9 will remain Catholics by the time they turn 30.
Maybe by then we’ll mostly all be like Bush: believing Islam, Christianity, and Judaism are all in worship of the same.
Dr. Richert is a Catholic, and the article linked might be of interest to you, though I ought to know that an immediate 180 on an issue that probably largely defines your being isn’t likely.
Ashkenazi,
Bah, there’s not much benefit in any of this really. For myself, I’m going to ponder Dr. Wilson’s comment that:
I’d been drawn to Dr. Francis’s white nationalism in the past precisely because I thought it might save the South and Britain.
However, looking at the issue through that quote, I can see more clearly that I might fit in better at the LofS than any sort of racialist organisation, which I’ve never been apart of. Alliances are important, but the South might be trading one abstract master for another, like the Picts in Kipling’s poem.
Not to say I would then marry nonwhites but rather that I wouldn't marry nonSoutherners or nonBrits, so to speak. So, I'm not denying race but rather embracing a more particular and exclusive race. And finally not to associate anyone else with any particular such ideas etc. - I think I've said my bit, and that'll be the last.
"The “blather” you describe is all throughout the New Testament. What is not in the New Testament is anything resembling your desire."
As if you actually care. You're playing an old game, a very old game, but it doesn't work as well on the net, does it? It certainly is wearing out on the masses, although they aren't fully aware of just what's wrong, yet. That's why your screechings are becoming more and more strident.
Is it "whites" or a civilization that we should "save"? Who created the Cistine Chapel (sp?)? Who was Bach? Mozart? Was this the product of foreigners? Is all this but an heritage to be flushed down the hole of oblivion, much as everything Southern is being flushed today? Read and ponder the words of a great president, Jefferson Davis:
You have among you politicians of philosophic turn who preach a high morality; a system of which they are the discoverers...They say, it is true that the Constitution dictates this, the Bible indicates that; but there is a higher law than those, and they call upon you to obey that higher law of which they are the inspired givers. Men who are traitors to the compact of the fathers-men who have perjured the oaths they have themselves taken-these are the moral law-givers who proclaim a higher law.
Social engineering? Reconstruction? The entire country has been under such since 1865. Despite such things as "government by the consent of the goverened" or "land of the free" the South was driven back into this dismal union at the point of a bayonet. They could not be left alone, no more than other parts of the world can be left alone today. Everything must be molded into the shape of those who think themselves superior to others, all the while chanting 'equality'. The hypocracy is too much for words! John Brown is a great man. He killed dirty. ignorant, uncouth Southerners. A race so far below our betters that their lives meant nothing. No more than that of the Iraqs today. They all deserve it for being different, for not accepting the newest revelation! A study of American history, beginning in about 1830, will show that nothing has changed.
Shutting down post-1965 immgration policy does not require a "deep" and sustained debate about which race is the smartest and which race race is the dumbest based upon a score on a IQ test. score.
Thought experiment:If White Americans are completely replaced by millions of Chinese currently living in China, America would cease to exist. Millions of Native Born White Americans are not interchangeable with millions of Chinese living in China.
America is not an idea nation.
How many Northerners have supported the reconstruction and punishment of the South since the 1950s and 1960s? 95 per cent? How many Northerners are now "white nationalists"?
2 per cent? Most of whom, by their own admission, belonged to the 95 per cent until they were personally harmed in some way.
Now we are supposed to substitute another set of selfish, aggressive, shallow, short-sighted, and diastrous Yankee notions for the previous ones? Your "civilization," such as it is, is sick and "white nationalism" won't save it. You need to re-learn your own history and retrace your steps to recover whatever is left of your identity and religion.
Yes very few Native Born White Americans would identify themselves as White Nationalisst, however..............................................a majority of them vote with their feet against the blessings of diversity. This is why the suburbs of the American South are becommig saturated with Northeasterners and mMdwesterners....... and why open space,farmland and forests in the American South are being paved over for White refugees from the immigrant infested areas of the Northeast. And don't forget the WATER SHORTAGES.!!!!!
One does hear more and more horror stories of racial and economic dispossession from people who previously were willing to completely adapt to a systetm that hates them.
The anger and rage towards non-whites is right underneath the surface. When 9/11 happened that anger and rage was briefly uncorked and it was quite nasty...to the point that the degenrate and evevil George W Bush saved Muslim "Americas" ass by publicly embracing the imans and mullahs on the White House front lawn on 9/12
The anger and rage that was briefly uncorked that infamous day also spilled over towards Asian "Americans".
95 percent of northers don't even know what Reconstruction is/was. They are functioning in a survival mode as many of them are only a few paychecks from the street.
There is another view of things:a pox on both Southern and North Eastern Aristocrats.
What reasons do Southerners have to think that a lot of those Yankee refugees are not bringing their failed attitudes along with them---making us more like them rather than making them more like us? What I have been trying to point out is that they have done this to themselves and they need some awareness of their mistakes and repentance.
Clyde Wilson
If they are, the good people of the South should tell the Northerners fleeing the blessings of diversity to F off and go back to where you/they came from. If the Northeasterners didn't have the option of fleeing to the South, they would have been stuck in infested in the post-1965 immigrant infested non-white Northeast. And I will say with 100 percent certainty that LEGAL POST 1965 non-white immigration would have been shut down to 0 two decades ago...blatherings about the joy of diversity notwothstanding.
Southerners vs. Yankees? In this day and age? What asininities. We are all complicit. If the "white race" has allowed itself to be pummeled into the mindless acceptance of and submission to the "diversity is good, diversity is a blessing" mantra by a fraction (11%) of the population and its guilt ridden useful idiots in politics, academia, the media and even business, isn't that sufficient proof that the "race" has no claim to supremacy? If we turn into a brown 3rd world cesspool, my congratulations to the barbarians. To the victor goes the spoils, that is an immutable truth. Those who will not fight with every fiber of their beings to keep what they have earned deserve to lose all. That is hard justice. I remember reading an article by someone who stated, in regard to government confiscatory firearms schemes, that if one is not prepared to actually shoot the government agent who may come to seize his lawfully owned weapons, he should not boast about how they must "pry his cold dead hands etc." What I read here is all empty rhetoric. White Americans have allowed their position to be compromised in the name of “equality” for people who, in great percentages, give not a damn to better themselves despite being handed every opportunity. We have elected the government that has wrought this condition and said amen with every tax payment. The old saying is true; you really can’t rape the willing.
In #106, MAP wrote: "Trouble arose out of the Enlightenment and their development of abstract rights, where even human nature was thrown to the wind."
Nope. The source of the trouble is nothing so abstruse as that. The source of the trouble is Jefferson's language in the Declaration of Independence. By answering the medieval claim of the "divine right of kings" with the words "all men are created equal," Jefferson opened a Pandora's box. For what kind of equality is it that enslaves men and forces them to work in the fields against their will? This was an open contradiction, even in Jefferson's day, although it was gotten around temporarily by denying slaves the title of "men." The reason they did this? Because the founding generation did not consider the equality of all men to be the first principle of American law, nor the foundation upon which they wanted to base their Constitution. The Constitution came to be based upon that other principle, the principle of self-government; that just government rules only at the consent of the governed. Every effort at the Constitutional Convention was made to safeguard this one, single principle; practically no words were wasted on the equality of man.
Thus, to say that trouble arose due to the Founders' reliance on natural law is to attack the very foundation of our republic, since the right to self-government is grounded in the natural law. The fact is that the trouble arose only later, after the South lost the so-called Civil War, when the Constitution was forcibly reinterpreted with the egalitarian principle at the fore. Since the States had previously been "allowed" to violate some mens' natural rights, it was claimed by the victors that the national government must thereafter be the great protector of those rights, even at the expense of local self-government. There must be an authority, in other words, powerful enough to stop the States from keeping the black man down. Now exactly what authority would stop the national government from abusing its power was never specified, and indeed, with the destruction of the States the last and only check on the national government ceased to exist.
This is precisely, in shorthand form, the cause of the radical egalitarianism we see as the ruling principle in America today, and the loss of the states' authority to prevent it from overriding our right to govern ourselves as we see fit.
PROZIUM: I am a Southerner, Presbyterian, Confederate, and pro-white. Despite what you may think, most of us paleos are racially conscious. (Only a fool would not be.) I really enjoy your comments here and look forward to reading them.
Burke,
Yes, I know. There is a lot of overlap between the paleo and racialist communities. We share many of the same concerns. I have been reading Pat Buchanan for seven years now. I have copies of all of his books. It was his book Death of the West which first alerted me to the seriousness of the threat that changing racial demographics posed to our civilization. It seems so long ago. I was a sophomore at Auburn at the time.
I have also been following Clyde Wilson's career since those days. I share his interest in Southern history and political theory. I'm one of the few people who owns a copy of The Essential Calhoun. I own biographies of Robert Barnwell Rhett and William Lowndes Yancey (two political figures that 99.5% of Americans should be unable to identify).
I'm not old enough to remember the Old Right, so I don't romanticize it as some of you do here. In my case, "conservatism" never took. The "conservatism" on offer when I came of age was Bush/Cheney, Hannity, Limbaugh, Coulter, etc. The conservative movement must be in a state of advanced decay when it churns out titles like If Democrats Had Any Brains They'd Be Republicans, Liberal Fascism, Deliver Us From Evil while ostracizing Sam Francis and Jared Taylor.
Looking forward, I see unprecedented challenges facing my generation, and I don't see conservatives offering any answers to them. Conservatives are part of the problem because 1.) they give legitimacy to the racial/cultural status quo and 2.) how they siphon off all the discontent within the system and redirect that energy into destructive channels like pushing Wall Street's economic agenda.
Lots of paleos and libertarians are coming to share our way of thinking. We're not on the same side with George W. Bush, Juan McCain, Bill Kristol and the neocons around them. It is a sad day in America when the bedrock foundation of our culture - the white race and the English language - have become political questions. But that's where we are.
Our dire circumstances demand fresh thinking. It doesn't take too many mouse clicks to figure out who is responsible for bringing us to this point or what it will take to salvage the remains of this country. That's what it is going to come to in the end.
There must be an authority, in other words, powerful enough to stop the States from keeping the black man down.
But what power is strong enough to keep the blackman from keeping himself down?
Thus, to say that trouble arose due to the Founders’ reliance on natural law is to attack the very foundation of our republic, since the right to self-government is grounded in the natural law.
And the natural law is that he who wins, governs. And he who has the power and the courage and the will to use power wins. The greatest sin is to fail to use the power at our disposal to gain and maintain advantage. He who does not deserves nothing more than slavery.
Mr. Newland @ 130
Dr. Wilson would be a better judge of these assertions than myself. I am merely an "amateur dabbler", not an authority. But as I recall off the top of my head Jefferson was, though a Southerner, a liberal and greatly affected by the Enlightenment philosophes. Thus that clause was placed in the declaration as a result. What Jefferson actually intended by placing it there is open to debate. Slavery was existant and widespread and it was obviously not intended to stop the practise. To state that 'all men are created equal' in a literal sense is wholly absurd. That means there is NO difference between Aristotle and a garbage collector. More reasonable would be Biblical equality where all men are judged equally before God, no matter whether slave or free. The one is a Christian interpretation, the other an 'enlightened' one making it an abstract right. I agree that it opened a can of worms. Obviously those of the age were quite aware of what it meant, for there was no opposition. I believe Richard Weaver addressed this at some length. The reinterpretation began about 1830 with the advent of Jacobins, Unitarians, Transcendelists and other free thinkers, influenced by the Enlightenment. The Biblical interpretation struggled to remain dominate. R. L. Dabney is a good source of information on the conflict.
What can one say about an historian and classical scholar who romanticize the Confederacy while hating race realists who simply want to protect whites from black and "Hispanic" violence and revanchism and end massive Third-World immigration. Now one can't even tell the truth about black intelligence, black criminality, black-on-white violence, etc, at Chronicles, Takimag, and Lewrockwell without being vilified or censored.
Blacks are not our enemies! For the most part they are marshalled around by others, for hand-outs on the one hand, and used as a source of power on the other. It is a continuation of practices implemented by the Radical Republicans in Reconstruction. No, our enemy is in Washington and given life by Lincoln. Many blacks, Booker T. Washington, Zora Neale Hurston, Walter Williams, to name only a few, are/were quite aware of the whole pathetic mess. You doubt what I say? Check out the following link:
http://www.issues-views.com/
Sadly, you don't hear about these people because they cannot be lead and are no source of dishonorabe power.
Soulutions? Perhaps there are none, not at this far, distant stage. We must remember that man is fallen, imperfect, and naturally evil. Institutions should be built around this knowledge with plenty of prayer.
Scott
You forgot to mention Asian "American" agression against White Americans.
Shutting down-completely-post 1965-immigration policy does not require a discussion of which race is the dumbmest and which race is the smartest based upon a score on a IQ test.
Millions of Chinese lving in America are not interchangeable with million of White Americans within the borders of America.
Blacks are not our enemies! For the most part they are marshaled (sic) around by others, for hand-outs on the one hand, and used as a source of power on the other.
True enough, the "agents provocateurs" are more culpable than the "useful idiots." But exactly when did "useful idiots" stop being enemies? Unless we adopt the popular view that we have no enemies, only "friends" who do not understand us or are only reacting to our provocations. An enemy is not defined by philosophical motivation, but the imminence of the threat he poses. That he may change his mind and be our "friend" tomorrow is wholly irrelevant. Between the world wars, our navel planning in the '20's contemplated war with our perceived likely enemy...England. The poor Nazi's, of course, were not our enemies in 1941-45, merely individuals who were "...marshalled (sic) around by others...as a source of power...”
I wonder how many of those 9 will remain Catholics by the time they turn 30.
FRank. Prolly all of them. Thanks for the link. I read it already.
Who published Sam Francis for over thirty years and fought for immigratyion control when some of you lads were still in short pants? You don't have to agree with me, but many of you all have entirely missed my point. And that is all she wrote.
P.S. Sam Francis had more than one string to his bow and more than one note in his repetoire.
As I told one young friend of mine, whining about antiwhite/antimale job discrimination, “White guys don’t whine.”
No, they sit there and suck it up. Right? There's a recipe for success.
I wonder how many suckers will fall for your Pied Piper act.
@127: The ancestors of many of us northerners were not in the United States in 1860. By and large it is the descendants of these latecomers that are the angry resisters against these stupid policies. Yes, they are resisting the wrong way, but SOMEwhere, SOMEhow, however deeply it may be hidden, there is an old continental sensibility in our hearts.
P.S. Sam Francis had more than one string to his bow and more than one note in his repetoire.
1.) Should America be a "white man's country"?
2.) Should America be an English-speaking nation?
These are fundamental questions about our national identity. It's sad that these are now political questions. But that's where we are.
Note: The conservative answer to both of the above is "no."
Again, playing Devil's advocate, if there never was a "negro problem" why did segregation exist?