November 15, 2017
MY CORNER by Boyd Cathey
The Clinton Scandal; NAACP Attacks the
National Anthem
Friends,
Two
topics today compose this installment of MY CORNER.
First,
in our rapid news cycles, remember last week we once again witnessed a flurry
of reports about those now infamous Clinton emails. And what was to be
expected: the Mainstream Media’s zeal and care to defend the Hillary campaign
against accusations that show up in Donna Brazile’s new tell-all book, Hacks: The Inside Story…. One of the
better and more persistent writers on this topic, as well as on the entire
“Russians Did It!” canard, has been the intrepid Glenn Greenwald at The Intercept. [https://theintercept.com/2017/11/05/four-viral-claims-spread-by-journalists-on-twitter-in-the-last-week-alone-that-are-false/ ] He
has authored a well-researched piece concerning four falsehoods spread by
Clinton supporters, Democrats and the Mainstream Media, in an attempt to
prevent the real story from coming out. I will pass on his latest investigatory
piece today.
What
is patently clear through all the seemingly never-ending controversy is the
absolute and frenetic determination of Hillary and the Dems, the media and the
Deep State minions to deter any genuine investigation, to, as it were, keep the
genie locked up inside the lamp. What we have before us is potentially one of the
greatest constitutional scandals in American history. It is precisely the
object of the Establishment, including many Republicans, to push a “false flag”
narrative that we are told we must accept. That narrative has become both a
diversion leading away from the real scandal as well as the basis for an
attempted “silent coup” against our elected president.
Millions
of “deplorables” should, I suppose, be out in the streets or camping on the
Washington DC mall, demanding that Congress pursue the Clintons (on the “lost”
emails, on the Uranium One deal, on the Clinton Foundation “cash-to-play,” and
other potential criminalities, not excluding political assassination).
Yet,
our folks are “normal.” By that I mean that we work regular jobs (a lot of
times longer than eight hours a day), we raise families, we deal with school, we
attend church, we pay bills, we do
housework—in other words, we lead lives punctuated by regularity and a
certain rhythm of life. Getting out in the street and protesting is not
something most of us are inclined naturally to do. We lead different lives from
the subventioned semi-professional agitators who seem to be bused from one
“spontaneous demonstration” to another, and whose existence seems to be totally
wrapped up in and convulsed by a manic and continuous “struggle” for such
nebulous—and unobtainable—ideas as “equality” and “social justice.”
We
are not like that: our lives are not controlled by such all-consuming madness.
In a sense, then, the difference between the “normals” and those culturally
Marxist “social justice warriors” is not just one of political perspective, but,
rather, is deeply spiritual and one of balance and the manner in which various
facets of our humanity are integrated into the whole person.
Yet,
even the most integrated and “normal” person—the person who normally eschews never-ending
controversy and who lacks the inclination to continually “protest” this or that
perceived injustice—the person who seeks only to live a “regular” life under
both Natural and God’s laws, even that person may eventually reach a certain
point, a watershed moment, when he believes he must act. On a very personal
level, that may come when a law-abiding man has his home or family endangered
by an intruder or potential criminal: physical resistance may be required. Or,
it may happen locally when our inherent rights and communal well-being appear
threatened—as happened to my neighborhood several years ago when developers
wanted to put a new road through, displacing us all: although very few of my
neighbors would ever attend a political rally or go demonstrate, they all came
out to denounce the road-building project (which was defeated).
But
getting out in the streets by the thousands—even for such truly noble causes
like defending the unborn—is always a difficult proposition. Nevertheless, the
present crisis—and that is what it truly is—demands our close attention and our
action. Not necessarily staged and paid-for-by-George Soros-style raucous
semi-riots like those we have seen mushroom since the election of President
Trump, but yes, much more push back and organized resistance to the multifaceted
efforts of the forces of the Deep State to thwart the will of American voters
expressed last November and torpedo the efforts to enact a truly “make America
great again” agenda.
That
means increased vigilance and being better informed about events as they occur.
That means more attention to what our schools are teaching our children, to
what our pastors are preaching in church, to what we watch on television and
what we read. It also means choosing our friends wisely, exchanging ideas and vital
information with them. And it means a commitment to vote our convictions, which
means continuing the draining of the “swamp” by voting out those politicians
who are a part of it and who participate in it.
Articles
like Greenwald’s assist us to understand and fathom the mountain of
information—and the disinformation—that comes our way and clutters our
television viewing.
My
second topic fits in an odd way into this general theme. About a week ago the
California branch of the NAACP (soon supported by other social justice warriors
throughout the nation) officially came out in favor of changing our national
anthem, “The Star-Spangled Banner,” charging it to be “racist.” Here is what
they said: The anthem is "one of the most racist, pro-slavery, anti-black
songs in the American lexicon." [https://www.newsmax.com/us/naacp-national-anthem-third-stanza-racist/2017/11/08/id/825008/?ns_mail_uid=61377180&ns_mail_job=1763053_11092017&s=al&dkt_nbr=010504l4m0yo] And in
particular, they singled out the third verse, which reads: "No refuge
could save the hireling and slave from the terror of flight or the gloom of the
grave." Obviously, then, to those incredibly brilliant historians at the
NAACP any pejorative use of the word “slave” by 19th century
Americans, and especially by someone like the Maryland aristocrat Francis Scott
Key, is anathema, and its use in our National Anthem must be purged.
Key’s singling out
of the “slave,” they insist, must refer to those slaves who had been induced to
fight for the British during the War of 1812; and, thus, Key, from an old and
aristocratic Maryland family must therefore be attacking them and supporting
the “peculiar institution.” Besides, they add, as a prominent U.S. attorney he
opposed abolitionism, citing the famous case of notorious agitator and
abolitionist libeler Benjamin Lundy (1833), which Key forcefully prosecuted.
Yet, they fail to mention that Francis Scott Key manumitted his own slaves, and
that he represented several slaves (pro bono) seeking their freedom and
publicly attacked slavery’s cruelties and abuses. Of course, that history
doesn’t fit their narrative.
And more, any
reading of patriotic literature from the period reveals that the use of such
words as “slavery” or “slave” in such contexts very often is a metaphor for
“treason” or “submission” to foreign rule or perceived tyranny (i.e., from
Britain). “Hireling” and “slave” refer to those Americans—both white and black—who had,
in Key’s view, sold out to the country’s former overlords. The meanings are
descriptive, not racist or approving of the slave system, but rather of persons
who prostituted their services to a foreign power.
Nevertheless, the
NAACP narrative has gained traction, and by the same social justice warriors
who rage against the monuments to Lee and the Confederate dead, and more
recently, against symbols of Christopher Columbus and George Washington. It is
part and parcel of a stream of revolutionary consciousness that infects much of
our society, that poisons our culture, that distorts our history and our
understanding of our past, that chokes off any reasonable discussion among our
political leaders, that infects
Hollywood, and abuses and perverts our very language. It seeks nothing less
than the total purging and complete transformation of our culture…the abolition
of the West.
And, yes, it also underlies
even the “Russians Did It!” narrative that so throttles and perverts current
debate in our nation’s capital.
The Progressivist
Revolution, partially stymied by the November 2016, election is like the Stars
War film, “The Empire Strikes Back,” with a renewed, frenzied zeal to recover
lost ground and put things aright—and in every facet, every dimension of our
lives.
We may not have
the inclination—at least not yet—to get out and imitate the ravings of “Antifa”
or Black Lives Matter or the Communist Workers’ World Party in Durham, North
Carolina, but, nevertheless, we must prepare and enter the combat, each in our own
way. The stakes are too high….
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