August 9, 2018
MY CORNER by Boyd
Cathey
CHARLOTTESVILLE –
One Year Later:
Where Are the Southerners (and American Patriots) Ready to
Stand for Our Western and Christian Heritage?
Friends:
We are
coming up to the one year anniversary of the events—the riot—that occurred in
Charlottesville, Virginia, back on August 11-12, 2017. Already
government-funded PBS has weighed in with a special primetime edition of its
television program “Frontline.” The feature,
“Documenting Hate: Charlottesville,” is a blatantly tendentious cinematic
attempt by the Leftist-funded, hard core pro-Marxist group ProPublica which was broadcast nationally this past Monday night
(August 6). It portrays what happened in Mr. Jefferson’s city as it experienced a “riot and massacre by Nazis and
violent Alt-Right fascists.”
ProPublica, which pretends to be a
center for “investigative journalism,” has in some ways taken over from the
increasingly discredited Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), as a
self-proclaimed vehicle for “shining the light of publicity” (and launching
personal attacks) on what it terms nefarious “right wing extremists.” Of
course, a closer look at this tax exempt, non-profit research organization
reveals that it is funded by some of the biggest “hitters”—the most affluent
billionaires—on the far Left of the Democratic Party.
Here is
what the Wikipedia says about ProPublica:
ProPublica was the brainchild of billionaires
and Democratic donors Herbert and
Marion Sandler, former chief executives of the Golden West Financial
Corporation, who have committed $10 million a year to the project. The Sandlers hired Paul Steiger former
managing editor of the Wall Street Journal, to create and run the organization
as editor in chief.
Notice what this
paragraph reveals: Major Leftist Democratic
donors—Wall Street billionaires—create this new “anti-hate” group, and then,
hire the former managing editor of the—yes! supposedly “right wing”—Wall Street Journal (owned by Rupert
Murdoch, who also owns Fox).
Connect the dots—connect
the dots between the globalist Leftwing capitalists on Wall Street, the
globalist capitalist Wall Street Journal,
and the Democratic Left.
ProPublica’s
“Documenting Hate” used as background President Trump’s “moral failure” over
Charlottesville: he refused to blame only the Right—those Nazis—for the
violence...But stated that there was enough culpability to go round on both sides. (Remember it was such
high-profile minions of the “conservative movement inc.” like Ben Shapiro,
Glenn Back, and Jonah Goldberg, all of whom had been Never Trumpers, who joined the Left and led the charge to
condemn the president and imply that he was a “racist” for his “failure.”)
Indeed, Black Lives
Matter and Antifa—who did not have a
march/rally permit, while the Unite the Right demonstrators did—gathered
specifically to challenge and engage in combat with the Rightists and, in
effect, caused the riot.
Never mind;
ProPublica’s narrative said not one word about that Leftist violence. From
viewing their “Frontline” exposition you would only think it was just that
dangerous and armed group of Nazis, who, we are also told, have infiltrated all
facets of American life (including the military) that initiated and committed
mayhem. And, of course, behind it all stood and stands the political figure who
has legitimated this “climate of hate”—Donald J. Trump.
A larger question
remains, and not just about the fate of the monument to Robert E. Lee in
Charlottesville, but about all the symbols of our history all across the
Southland. It is a question that all Southerners who value and treasure their
rich patrimony and inheritance should ask themselves: as the radical cultural
Marxists engage in a concerted campaign—with the connivance of the news media
(including Fox) and much of what passes for the establishment “conservative
movement”—to wipe the horizon clear of all monuments to our history, our
heritage, and our heroes, where are the thousands of Southern-born folks who
should be turning out and demanding that those extreme Leftists leave our
monuments and symbols alone?
At home watching the
latest episode of “America’s Got Talent” or Steve Harvey? Out mowing the grass and drinking a cool one?
In other words,
arranging the deck chairs on the RMS Titanic
while the cultural Marxist ice berg does its work?
In other words:
where are YOU when the local gang of
professional Marxists, Black Lives Matter militants, and Antifa hooligans—with
tacit okays from leaders of both political parties, and with the nodding
approval of the press—organize a loud, semi-violent demonstration against those
monuments which, they say, are “symbols of racism” and “white supremacy,” and threaten
to destroy them (just like they did in Durham, NC)?
Where are YOU when
the local liberal and spineless Republican office-holders, mortally afraid of
being labeled “racists,” hold quickly-planned “public input sessions” to mutter
platitudes about “equality” and decide the fate of those symbols?
Where are YOU when
the few heritage defense organizations that do exist hold public events, such
as Lee Day, Confederate Flag Day, or Confederate Memorial Day observances?
Sitting on your duff while those elements who wish to extinguish not just YOUR
heritage, but you, too, continue on their cancerous destructive course in
transforming our institutions and culture?
Back in 2007, as
chairman of North Carolina’s annual Confederate Flag Day (sponsored by the North
Carolina Sons of Confederate Veterans), I brought down nationally-known
traditionalist conservative author, Dr. Paul Gottfried, to address our event.
His speech was both a salute to Tar Heels who assembled to honor their heritage
and a clarion call to Southerners to defend their history, and his presentation
was reprinted later in the Confederate
Veteran magazine.
Today I offer his
latest essay, and it asks the same questions I ask of my fellow citizens, and
not just of my fellow Southerners: where are YOU? As our vicious and unhinged
enemies attempt to liquidate our past—and us—where are those thousands of sons
and daughters of the South (and their allies from other parts of the nation)
willing to stand up and say: “Halt! No further: leave our symbols alone—go back
to your filthy Leftist hovels—better yet, be true to your convictions and take
the next boat to North Korea (about which your web sites wax admiringly). I’m
sure that Fearless Leader Kim can find a use for your scraggly,
brains-dulled-by-drugs, unwashed, smelly selves!”
Here, then, is Paul Gottfried’s latest call to
his brothers in the South:
Southern Cultural Cleansing: A Northern Perspective
6/26/2018 By Dr. Paul E.
Gottfried
In at least seven articles published in The Atlantic since 2015, we are
given abundant reasons for “sanitizing” Southern urban spaces of Confederate
plaques and flags. We also learn from this politically correct publication why
Charleston has benefited from being redecorated with statues celebrating black
slave revolts. The Atlantic bestows special
commendation on a statue commemorating
Denmark Vesey, the firebrand who incited a slave insurrection in the 1820s. But
one feature article in 2015 finds an overriding reason that The Atlantic’s fans might want to
hold back from pulling down all Confederate monuments just yet: “If we do
away with monuments like the Calhoun statue, we risk erasing how these
memorials reinforced racial inequality in the past. This would constitute a
distortion of history, of memory, in its own right. We also risk losing sight
of the insidious legacies of these monuments today. “
This then is the justification for keeping those evil statues around, to remind us of exactly how evil the old order was before present leftist elites began changing everything—presumably for the better. Friends tell me that the PC Taliban squads are eager to deface or pull down anything in Charleston pertaining to William Gilmore Simms, one of the most famous American novelists and historians of the antebellum period. The literary figure who was referred to as “the James Fenimore Cooper of the South” but who, unlike Cooper, was also a distinguished American historian, became a plantation owner in the 1840s and lent his support to the War for Southern Independence. Those may be more than enough grounds to trash his memory and to defile anything that is associated with Simm’s life. Or so one might infer from the way The Atlantic treats the ongoing defilement of the Southern past, as a perfectly natural and justified reaction against pure wickedness.
The worst way to approach this defacing and destruction of monuments, plaques and graves is to pretend that they will eventually stop if we just don’t notice. Since these outrages have been accelerating and gaining endorsement from the Mainstream Media and, quite predictably, from Republican networks, it is ridiculous to believe they will cease to happen on their own. The “sanitizing” under discussion brings back memories of the razing of the statues of Jewish composers and writers by the Third Reich. Not surprisingly, that outrage also received endorsement from a sympathetic press, represented by the Nazi daily Der Völkische Beobachter. And seeing the constabulary benignly looking on while this destruction goes on as an everyday event reminded me that pro-Nazi or just cowardly police and judges did nothing to punish zealous vandals in interwar Germany. I believe that we too are living through a seizure of cultural and political power by a determined totalitarian enemy of our freedom; and this enemy seems to hate Southern whites with an obsessive passion. Needless to say, those who have monopolized the emotions aroused by Nazi crimes, don’t care a wrap about those who are now behaving like Nazi vandals. After all, these thugs now call themselves “antifascists” and claim that they’re also opposing the “Nazi” in the White House.
As a Northerner, I am appalled by the very limited opposition to this government-sponsored vandalism that has come from Southern whites, many of whose ancestors were involved in the struggle for Southern independence. When I watched the events in Charlottesville unfold last year, I kept asking myself why millions of Southerners had not descended on the Confederate war monument located in the city center to protest its removal, before those with a different agenda took advantage of the protest for their own use. In a commentary, I contrasted the generally weak Southern response to the ongoing extirpation and blackening of their ancestral history to the way Italians in New York City responded to the efforts of the local Taliban to pull down statues of Columbus. The question I addressed is why Italian Americans cared more about Columbus, an Italian who sailed to the New World under a Spanish flag five hundred years ago, than Southerners cared about honoring the memory of a great American hero who was one of their own.
What complicates this matter for me is that the vicious attack on the Southern past is part of something that goes well beyond the states that formed the onetime Confederacy. It is the opening round of what is likely to become a violent struggle for a total Cultural Marxist transformation of this country. Those who engage in politics as usual have tried to dislodge this concern from our minds. But the reconstruction continues to take place, and the defacing and ripping down of Confederate monuments is symptomatic of something much bigger and more ominous. For those who haven’t noticed: our media and educational institutions are inciting this transformation; and our established conservative movement is doing zilch to prevent it from happening.
This then is the justification for keeping those evil statues around, to remind us of exactly how evil the old order was before present leftist elites began changing everything—presumably for the better. Friends tell me that the PC Taliban squads are eager to deface or pull down anything in Charleston pertaining to William Gilmore Simms, one of the most famous American novelists and historians of the antebellum period. The literary figure who was referred to as “the James Fenimore Cooper of the South” but who, unlike Cooper, was also a distinguished American historian, became a plantation owner in the 1840s and lent his support to the War for Southern Independence. Those may be more than enough grounds to trash his memory and to defile anything that is associated with Simm’s life. Or so one might infer from the way The Atlantic treats the ongoing defilement of the Southern past, as a perfectly natural and justified reaction against pure wickedness.
The worst way to approach this defacing and destruction of monuments, plaques and graves is to pretend that they will eventually stop if we just don’t notice. Since these outrages have been accelerating and gaining endorsement from the Mainstream Media and, quite predictably, from Republican networks, it is ridiculous to believe they will cease to happen on their own. The “sanitizing” under discussion brings back memories of the razing of the statues of Jewish composers and writers by the Third Reich. Not surprisingly, that outrage also received endorsement from a sympathetic press, represented by the Nazi daily Der Völkische Beobachter. And seeing the constabulary benignly looking on while this destruction goes on as an everyday event reminded me that pro-Nazi or just cowardly police and judges did nothing to punish zealous vandals in interwar Germany. I believe that we too are living through a seizure of cultural and political power by a determined totalitarian enemy of our freedom; and this enemy seems to hate Southern whites with an obsessive passion. Needless to say, those who have monopolized the emotions aroused by Nazi crimes, don’t care a wrap about those who are now behaving like Nazi vandals. After all, these thugs now call themselves “antifascists” and claim that they’re also opposing the “Nazi” in the White House.
As a Northerner, I am appalled by the very limited opposition to this government-sponsored vandalism that has come from Southern whites, many of whose ancestors were involved in the struggle for Southern independence. When I watched the events in Charlottesville unfold last year, I kept asking myself why millions of Southerners had not descended on the Confederate war monument located in the city center to protest its removal, before those with a different agenda took advantage of the protest for their own use. In a commentary, I contrasted the generally weak Southern response to the ongoing extirpation and blackening of their ancestral history to the way Italians in New York City responded to the efforts of the local Taliban to pull down statues of Columbus. The question I addressed is why Italian Americans cared more about Columbus, an Italian who sailed to the New World under a Spanish flag five hundred years ago, than Southerners cared about honoring the memory of a great American hero who was one of their own.
What complicates this matter for me is that the vicious attack on the Southern past is part of something that goes well beyond the states that formed the onetime Confederacy. It is the opening round of what is likely to become a violent struggle for a total Cultural Marxist transformation of this country. Those who engage in politics as usual have tried to dislodge this concern from our minds. But the reconstruction continues to take place, and the defacing and ripping down of Confederate monuments is symptomatic of something much bigger and more ominous. For those who haven’t noticed: our media and educational institutions are inciting this transformation; and our established conservative movement is doing zilch to prevent it from happening.
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