I’ve paid little attention to the news over the past few days, but two related stories have percolated through. The first is the decision by the city of Charlottesville, VA, to put an end to its annual celebration of Thomas Jefferson’s birthday.
Older readers, who received their education prior to the Ministry of Truth having taken over our nation’s schools, will recognize Thomas Jefferson’s name. Among other things, he was the fledgling American nation’s third president, and was also the author of a relatively important historical document known to racists, fascists, xenophobes, and bigots across the fruited plain as the “Declaration of Independence”. Charlottesville, meanwhile, is the home of the University of Virginia, and of Jefferson’s estate, Monticello.
The second item was the decision by Nike, Inc., a company that uses foreign slaves to manufacture sportswear popular with American youngsters and celebrity athletes, to cancel a line of shoes featuring the nation’s first flag. That flag, which featured thirteen stars and thirteen stripes representing the original American colonies, was designed in 1776 (the same year, as it happens, that the scoundrel Jefferson produced his “Declaration of Independence”) by a woman named Betsy Ross. She presented it to another notorious racist and blackguard by the name of George Washington, who was himself a ringleader of the criminal cadre responsible for the creation of the great stain on history that we call “The United States of America”.
Astonishingly, rather than having been consigned to the dustbin of oblivion — as it surely soon will be, if there is any justice in this world — the name “Washington” lives on in various place-names across the continental expanse of Native American land currently under illegal occupation by the government headquartered in “Washington, District of Columbia.”. (Adding insult to injury — and please, don’t even get me started on “Columbia”… )
Okay, snark aside: things are moving faster by the day, and this latest advance — the attainder of our most potent symbol, the natal American Flag — is a direct and audacious attack on the very tap-root of American unity and identity. If we are willing to let these people dissolve our attachment to both the Founders and the flag — indeed, to despoil, desecrate, and diabolize all of our nation’s early history — there truly will be nothing of America left that anyone could properly call a nation.
Please listen to John Batchelor’s most recent conversation with historian Michael Vlahos on this most recent acceleration of our cold (for now) civil war. Part 1 is here. Part 2 is here.
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On Charlottesville’s historical revisionism, we see the inevitable ends of multiculturalism. Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Pakistan’s independence leader, speaking of the futility of a united Muslim and Hindu subcontinent, said it well: “They have different epics, different heroes, and different episodes. Very often the hero of one is a foe of the other and, likewise, their victories and defeats overlap.”
We have different heroes, and in fact our victories and defeats do indeed overlap. These things never end well, and separation, when possible, is often the most peaceful solution. Alternatively there is surrender. It is the latter that the Left has chosen, whether they realize it or not. They simply have no nerves for the fight.
epicaric,
Really? They seem pretty bellicose to me.
Malcolm,
The Left has chosen to either actively throw their lot in with Sailer’s Coalition of the Ascendant, or to more passively appease them, ultimately to surrender. They lack the nerve to take up the fight for the United States, or the West in general. They have turned on their own, desperately lashing out at those of us who would not go silently into the night. In this they are vicious as they understand that their survival strategy is dependent on all Americans of European descent peacefully accepting their new, diminished position. Those who resist will attract the ire of the ascendant upon all.
Well, of course they won’t fight for the traditional culture of the West; they despise it. But they seem happy enough to join the fight to destroy it.