Defending History

To the average, normal, everyday American who has been competently educated in world history and has a passing familiarity with the past, certain phrases mean certain things. In the last several decades, unfortunately, the Cultural Marxists in our education establishment, entertainment industry, news media, and Big Tech, have turned the language upside down. I recall the forces of The Left labeling Richard Nixon a “racist.” And Ronald Reagan. And both Presidents; Bush the Elder and the Younger.

Remember when Kanye West blamed the flooding of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina on the fact the president “hated black people?” Of course, John McCain and Mitt Romney were racists also. And not just American presidents who belonged to the Republican Party. No, anyone who leaned to the Right—socially, philosophically, culturally, or politically—was “racist.”

Eventually the label became tired and worn out. Those who hurled the epithet of “racist” were considered less credible than Aesop’s legendary Boy Who Cried Wolf. Average Americans of all races grew weary of hearing the word, and it eventually lost its sting.

So a new phrase had to be employed: “white supremacist.”

When the average American of any race reads or hears this phrase, an image comes to mind of Adolf Hitler and his Nazi Party that ruled Germany for almost a dozen years and was engaged in a war with half the civilized world.

Or, that same average American might conjure up images of the Ku Klux Klan, riding through the South burning crosses, horsewhipping, and lynching former slaves in a campaign of terror.

Since the Third Reich was defeated more than 70 years ago, and the KKK has been a spent force for over 50 years, everyday Americans might instead consider some other marginal figures as racist.

Those who have rejected Christianity in favor of ancient paganism, for example, who and are out in the woods worshipping Odin while sporting runic tattoos, dancing shirtless around bonfires, and baying at the moon. Maybe these would be better examples of what is left of, or what amounts to, white supremacy today.

Most any American of any race who is reasonably educated and conversant with history understands that “white supremacists” wore a swastika armband over 70 years ago, a white hood and sheet over 50 years ago, and those of today are on the fringes of mainstream society, being  almost laughable figures in their marginalized role as misfits and outcasts who loathe and scorn the foundational roots of American culture: civil rights, civil culture, and civil law.

Unlike the Nazi Party in Germany and the KKK of the Jim Crow South, today’s genuine white supremacists have no relevant political influence—except when the media decides it needs a boogeyman, like a George Lincoln Rockwell, a David Duke, or a Richard Spencer to generate the specter of “white supremacy.”

However, definitions are changing now, and they’re changing fast. And so are labels. The Italian navigator who sailed across an uncharted Atlantic Ocean, who was once an explorer, is now a “monster.”

The saintly Franciscan monk who was once a missionary, is now a “mass murderer.” The brilliant general and first president of the United States who was once The Father of Our Country is now merely a “slave owner.”  The Confederate soldier who once was a secessionist is now a “traitor.” And all of them – and many, many more – from the composer of our national anthem, Francis Scott Key, to the conservationist who founded our national park system, John Muir, are all “white supremacists.” Even pancake syrup has been labeled, with a straight face,  as “white supremacist.”

When AntiFa, BLM, or the anarchists of Unicorn Riot use the term “white supremacy,” they’re not talking about the Third Reich, the Jim Crow South, or neopagan cranks. Unlike the radicals of the past, they’re not labeling major corporations based in New York, the largest political party in the country based in Washington D.C., or the global media conglomerates based out of Los Angeles, as “white supremacist” either.

Why would they? The corporations, the Democratic Party, and the mainstream media willingly acquiesce and collectively bend their knees to the Cultural Marxism of the revolutionaries, all while funneling huge financial offerings and contributions to further subsidize the causes espoused by this radical collective of socialists, communists, and anarchists.

No, to today’s left, white supremacy means the average, normal, everyday American! The same patriots; the same occupants of the heartland who love God and America; the same citizens whose grandfathers sailed ships and submarines, flew fighters and bombers, and fought from the beaches of Normandy, across France, and into the heart of Germany, are all now white supremacists.

Because the average, normal, everyday American who stands for the Pledge of Allegiance and the National Anthem; who honors first responders, law enforcement officers, and veterans of every branch of the military; who respect the sacrifices of their ancestors—the pioneers, the settlers, and the later, the immigrant who sometimes reached American shores after defeating overwhelming odds, are today called “white supremacists.”

Indeed, those who still hang onto the principles upon which the United States was founded, are all now considered to be white supremacists by the anarchists, racial hustlers, and fascist “anti-fascists” who are hell-bent on waging war upon these same Americans until they surrender their pride, their dignity, and their past.

To those who are ignorant of, incapable of understanding, or miseducated about the American past, all they are aware of are the warts of American History. The glories are swept aside or dismissed.

The Lewis and Clark expedition? White males. The manned exploration of the moon? White males. As Edward Welsch has written, “A relentless campaign to portray whites as inherently evil and guilty of the oppression of every other racial group in the country has captured half the nation.”

How has this been successfully carried out so far? Many Americans have had their natural pride in their country’s history and legacy reduced by decades of indoctrination from the public schools and the university system. Because of their lack of knowledge, they easily buy into what the Cultural Marxists say about them as being factual. Many now have become “woke” “allies” and march in lockstep to, as Edward Welsch has written, “the nearest monument of their ancestors, placard and club in hand.” These do this because they do not know their history. And if they knew their history, they would remember the old communist saying, “Liberals get the bullet too.”

Your average American still loves this country though, but sadly, they can no longer rely on the civic institutions which used to instill pride and duty and love of this country’s past to transmit to their children. Now every American father and mother has been forced to do this alone. They can’t rely on popular entertainment any longer. Davy Crockett, Wyatt Earp, and The Lone Ranger are out, and The Descendants of fairy tale villains are in. Your children won’t be hearing or reading about The Battle of New Orleans or The Battle of the Alamo any time soon either. Major league professional sports? Forget it. School? Have you seen our children’s history textbooks lately?

To believe the liars and assent to their assertion you and everything you believe in is white supremacist is to publicly exhibit a lack of historical knowledge. Don’t believe the liars when they compare our ancestral heroes to Adolf Hitler, Heinrich Himmler, and Joseph Goebbels. Our ancestral heroes were nowhere near these truly evil men. Don’t believe the liars when their touchstone of the American past is exclusively the KKK. There is much more to American history than the KKK.

Don’t believe the liars when they label everyone and everything from the President of the United States to a country music band (“Lady Antebellum”), to a beloved old television program (The Dukes of Hazzard), to Uncle Ben’s Rice, as “white supremacist.”

Don’t believe the liars when they label black men like Allen West, and black women like Candace Owens, as white supremacists. Don’t believe the liars when they label Asian men, like Andy Ngo, and Asian women, like Michelle Malkin, as white supremacists.

Don’t believe the liars. Laugh at them. Challenge them. Correct them. Educate them.

And then teach your children the truth about our history. Smokey The Bear has been saying for decades now, “Only You Can Prevent Forest Fires.” In the same way – to those of us who know the truth about our past I issue a similar challenge, “Only You Can Teach Your Children the Truth About America’s History.” No one else.

Not your child’s coach. Not your child’s scoutmaster. Not your child’s music instructor. Not your child’s teacher.

Only You.

Do your duty, America, or you may find your grandchildren someday labeling you—no matter what your race—as a white supremacist.

If you want to make people fight, there are few better ways than attacking their ancestors and war memorials. The Left will find Confederate flags flying more places, not fewer. – William S. Lind