February 5, 2019
MY CORNER by Boyd Cathey
NEWEST ESSAY Published by
CHRONICLES Magazine: On Governor Northam and the Racist Template
Friends,
I substantially reworked the last installment of MY CORNER, from
Sunday, February
3, titled, “Virginia Governor
Northam, Racism, and the Gadarene Swine of 2019,” and it was picked up almost immediately by CHRONICLES Magazine, and now appears on the magazine’s online site. Below I pass it on to you.
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previously, is the leading print journal representing traditional Old Right conservatism
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foreign policy, the role of women in society, racial issues, states’ rights and
constitutionalism, while not neglecting the Western and Christian literary and
cultural heritage vouchsafed to us by generations who have gone before.
Although there are several fine online magazines that do similar journeyman’s
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well), it is this journal, published by the Rockford Institute, that is a must read for those truly interested
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I recommend strongly that you subscribe to this
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CHRONICLES Magazine
virginia governor northam, racism, and the
gadarene swine of 2019
By: Boyd D. Cathey | February 04,
2019
You
would have thought Virginia Democrat Governor Ralph Northam had been a
co-conspirator in the assassination of Martin Luther King, given the reaction
to what appeared to be a page in his 1984 Eastern Virginia Medical School
yearbook.
Both
the Democrats on the Left and the “virtue-signaling” Republicans and movement
conservatives—that is, the near entirety of the political spectrum—howled and
bayed: it was time for Northam to step down because of a “racist” depiction,
made some thirty-five years ago when he was a student, which he now says he was
not in. And, despite his profuse apologies to any and every one in earshot, it
was not at all clear that he would survive the political maelstrom.
The
national media, including especially Fox News, have run with this
story nearly every minute of the day like a hound dog after a scared fox: For
the Left and Democrats this is an immense embarrassment, an incredible
political fiasco. For the establishment conservatives, this is an opportunity
to demonstrate their “anti-racist” virtuousness to anyone in sight listening or
watching: “Hey, look we conservatives aren’t racists; it’s you Democrats who
harbor such folks!”
Of
course, Northam should step down, but not because
of a juvenile prank he may or may not have committed nearly forty years ago.
But rather for his despicable and incredibly evil support for what, in effect,
is infanticide—the murder of infants who have just been born, who are outside
the womb: his horrid comments that he made earlier last week endorsing a bill
introduced into the Virginia legislature that would permit just that.
A
few years ago, in a better and more civilized and more moral time, such
commentary, such support for what is in fact selective murder of the newly-born
would have drawn mighty condemnations from leaders of both political parties
and outrage throughout our society. Yet, with scandalous uniformity, the
leaders of the Democratic Party all rather lamely declared that they had not
seen or heard of Northam’s comments (e.g. Nancy Pelosi). Nothing must impede,
you see, the onward march of the pro-abortion Gadarene Swine who now give form
and direction to the once-estimable party of Jefferson and Cleveland, of Harry
Byrd and Richard Russell, in their headlong plunge into the dark and truly demonic
anti-life Abyss.
The
major media paid scant, almost no attention to Northam’s earlier comments. They
had to act that way. For millions of nervous Americans abortion is no longer an
issue they wish to confront. All the mounting scientific evidence about life,
about its real existence from conception, about the constant, if downplayed,
examples of gruesome killing—the horrific case of Dr. Kermit Gosnell stands
out—are a mere inconvenience. Indeed, for the militant feminists and their
follow-along supporters, abortion has become in reality a new sacrament, a kind
of badge of honor, a symbol of an immense and furious rebellion against
Creation and against Nature, itself. It is the ultimate attempt to free
themselves from who they are and how they were created . . . and, despite their
claims to the contrary, it is the ultimate rejection of personhood and any real
dignity associated with it.
That
was Northam’s egregious and irremediable error—he, a sitting governor and a
major player in the Democratic hierarchy, spoke openly of what is now the
template of his political party, and which even many mainstream Republicans no
longer appear willing to challenge.
But
it took the yearbook depiction—a juvenile romp nearly four decades ago—to
secure notice from the Mainstream Media, and then only due to an investigation
by some conservatives out to attack Northam. And it gave the minions of
“Conservatism, Inc.” the opportunity to brag loudly about how THEY were
not racists, how the Democratic Party had a “long history of racism,” and to
beat their breasts and signal THEIR unsullied virtue.
And
it also, in the long run, plays into the dynamic that rules our contemporary
society: that racism along with “toxic”—white—“masculinity” are the major
obstacles facing us on that painful road to true “equality.” It is a chimerical
goal, a dangerous and false “god” that leads to the dissolution and destruction
of our culture and civilization. It means the “cleansing” of our heritage and
of our traditions; it means the radical indoctrination of our youth; it means
the ultimate conversion of this country into something totally unrecognizable
to the Founders and Framers; it means in effect rebellion against God and His
order of things.
The
establishment conservatives, in their abject fear of those on their left and in
an attempt to gain some political points, whether they understand it or not,
have eagerly bought into this template. They conspicuously join the howling mob
and condemn racism, racism in any form as defined by the
latest dogmatic ukase emitted by the revolutionary Left.
Where
does it all end? If a student prank from 1984 can cause such a furor and silent
monuments to Confederate veterans of 155 years ago (most of whom had no slaves
but were fighting for their homes and states) can become the center of such
hysteria as we have seen in recent months, let us ask: was not the very
Founding of this nation, itself, also “racist?” For was not this nation,
following the progressivist narrative, founded by “racists” and founded on a “racist”
Constitution? Indeed, isn’t our very civilization racist and unequal by this
definition? And if that be the case, then the egalitarian logic of the
revolutionary post-Marxist Workers’ World Party in a way makes some sense:
everything must be overturned and obliterated, and a veritable new order
established—a new dystopian order that will make Orwell’s Nineteen
Eighty-Four seem like a libertarian paradise in comparison.
The
feeble attempts by Republicans and establishment conservatives to prove to the farther
Left and mainstream just how “virtuous” and free of racism they are only
enable the extremist Left, the race hustlers, and demonic feminists, and their
template and their mad ideology.
And
that leads to a fate far worse than that of the Gadarene Swine.
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