Category Archives: Racism

Updated: Allowed History From Below ONLY

Federalism, History, Just War, Propaganda, Pseudo-history, Race, Racism, States' Rights

Confederate History Month: Declared anew by Gov. Robert F. McDonnell, with the intent of honoring the Commonwealth of Virginia’s shared history. Read the April 2010 proclamation declaring it Confederate History Month. Reasonable stuff.

If you’re going to do something as controversial as honor the South’s sacrifice, be prepared to stick to your guns. Otherwise, don’t bother to put on the show. The specter of yellow-bellied pols capitulating to the pieties of political correctness is sickening.

The history of the US is what the Legislative Black Caucus, the NAACP, and so-called civil-rights activists say it is; it’s history from below; a litany of complaints and contrivances from self-styled victims’ groups on behalf of minor historical figures.

Update (April 8): I contacted my good friend the valiant Tom DiLorenzo, author of The Real Lincoln: A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary War, for a comment about the fracas. Here it is:

“What would the race hustlers and the pompously politically correct do without Confederate History Month? How could the former frighten little old black ladies into sharing their social security checks with them if they couldn’t use it to scare them into thinking there are people out there who want to bring back slavery? As for the PC crowd, which includes the usual leftist suspects as well as such outfits as the ‘libertarian’ Cato Institute and the neocon Claremont Institute, Southerners must forever be demonized for the sin of slavery– but not New Yorkers and New Englanders, who also owned slaves and ran the transcontinental slave trade for centuries. No, only Southerners must be demonized because they were the only group in American history to seriously challenge the notion that the politicians in D.C. are ‘sovereign’ over everyone and everything.”

Updated: S. African Savage Chants: ‘Shoot To Kill’ (AP Sympathetic)

Africa, Crime, Race, Racism, South-Africa

You read about the notorious ANC Youth League president Julius Malema in “‘Kill The F—–g Whites’ In South Africa—Courtesy of FaceBook.” Here the barbarian performs the masterpiece, “Ayesaba Amagwala (The Cowards are Scared), and Dubulu ibhunu (Shoot all the Boers),” in person:

Update (April 6): The Associated Press’ MICHELLE FAUL depicts the racial tension rising in South Africa, pursuant to the farm murder of Eugene Terre’Blanche.

According to Ms. Foul, the white crowd, there to protest (gasp) a murder, was singing “the apartheid-era anthem in the Afrikaans language.” My God; you mean to say South Africans—who settled the continent at the time Americans settled this one—had a national life, much less an anthem before black majority rule!? How dare they conjure Die Stem.

While Die Stem is verboten, “Kill The Boer; Kill the Farmer” is described as an “anti-apartheid song.”

Brenda Abrams, a 30-year-old black businesswoman [BEEE] who was at the courthouse Tuesday to support the family of the younger accused, said a “big fuss” was being made about Terreblanche’s death.

The AP article is obviously considered a correct, or acceptable, take by Drudge, who linked to it. No surprise there.

Updated: S. African Savage Chants: 'Shoot To Kill' (AP Sympathetic)

Africa, Crime, Race, Racism, South-Africa

You read about the notorious ANC Youth League president Julius Malema in “‘Kill The F—–g Whites’ In South Africa—Courtesy of FaceBook.” Here the barbarian performs the masterpiece, “Ayesaba Amagwala (The Cowards are Scared), and Dubulu ibhunu (Shoot all the Boers),” in person:

Update (April 6): The Associated Press’ MICHELLE FAUL depicts the racial tension rising in South Africa, pursuant to the farm murder of Eugene Terre’Blanche.

According to Ms. Foul, the white crowd, there to protest (gasp) a murder, was singing “the apartheid-era anthem in the Afrikaans language.” My God; you mean to say South Africans—who settled the continent at the time Americans settled this one—had a national life, much less an anthem before black majority rule!? How dare they conjure Die Stem.

While Die Stem is verboten, “Kill The Boer; Kill the Farmer” is described as an “anti-apartheid song.”

Brenda Abrams, a 30-year-old black businesswoman [BEEE] who was at the courthouse Tuesday to support the family of the younger accused, said a “big fuss” was being made about Terreblanche’s death.

The AP article is obviously considered a correct, or acceptable, take by Drudge, who linked to it. No surprise there.

Updated: Liberty And The Civil Wrongs Act

Affirmative Action, Barack Obama, Bush, Liberty, Private Property, Race, Racism, Regulation, Republicans

The excerpt is from my WND.COM column, “Liberty And The Civil Wrongs Act”:

“The Obama administration, like the gang it replaced, has intervened on the side of a mutant strain of affirmative action – a ‘race conscious’ admissions process practiced at the University of Texas at Austin, now being contested by two white plaintiffs. In case the conservative base reverts to its default position – a belief in the superiority of Republican tyranny – I’ll remind it that Bush had helped to legitimize this proxy-for-race admissions process at the University of Michigan Law School.

In what was surely a triumph of Clintonian triangulation tactics, Bush, in a 2003 legal brief, ostensibly challenged racial preferences at Michigan Law, while simultaneously encouraging, instead, the use of racial cue cards in the admissions process. For example, an applicant could hint heavily at having overcome hardship (‘such as having been shot,’ quipped commentator Steve Sailer at the time).

Housebroken conservatives will reach for the smelling salts at what I am about to say next – they do so each time an attempt is made to explore the effects on liberty of one overarching and overreaching bit of legislation. The culprit in these crippling codes for university admissions – and in hiring, firing, renting, and money lending – is the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the ‘most radical law affecting civil rights ever passed by any nation’ …

The complete column is “Liberty And The Civil Wrongs Act.”

Do read my libertarian manifesto, Broad Sides: One Woman’s Clash With A Corrupt Society.

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Update (April 4): I hope I have misunderstood Myron’s anti-South stereotypes. Myron seems to have great faith in the power of legislation to renew communities. Alas, the Civil Rights Act most certainly did not “transform” the South for the better. Someone has swallowed whole “HOLLYWOOD’S HATEFUL HOOEY ABOUT THE SOUTH.” The South of John Randolph of Roanoke and John C. Calhoun was aristocratic, if anything. The War Between the States destroyed a patrician way of life.

I recommend Albion’s Seed: Four British Folkways in America by historian David Hackett Fischer.