Just when it looked like things might be taking a more positive turn for Dixie with the restoration of the Reconciliation Monument in Arlington Cemetery, along come other events to remind us that hatred of the South has not waned much at all.
Woke Leftist artists have created vile ‘re-imaginings’ out of once beautiful artwork honoring Southern heroes, mostly because of their misunderstanding of slavery. The statue of General Jackson and Little Sorrel is a particular target in this LA Times piece.
Not to be outdone, the MAGA Right continue making their tired, false comparisons of miscreant criminals in Yankee cities like Portland, Oregon, with the gallant soldiers and citizens of the Confederate States.
Aside from vitriol from both sides of the political aisle, what is it exactly that Southerners are getting out of being a part of this union –
The privilege of being part of a central government that feels a compulsive need to dictate orders to countries around the world – from eastern Europe to the Middle East to south Asia?
The privilege of having our sons (and daughters, alas) take part in the extra-judicial killing of boatmen in the Caribbean and the Pacific under the sham justification of a war on drug cartels, which the US Congress hasn’t approved?
The privilege of having our little ones and their teachers murdered in their schoolhouses by trans shooters, living out the Yankee understanding of ‘rights’ to equality, liberty, etc.?
One might be forgiven for thinking the Southern States might be better off outside the current union, on their own, enabling their people to raise their children in a Christian culture that values their ancestors, traditional virtues, and friendly, humane relations with foreign countries.
The attitude of both the Left and the Right toward Dixie is reminiscent of Gnosticism. In Gnosticism, the false ruler of the world (Yaldabaoth, the demiurge) and his archons labor to prevent the enlightened souls from ascending back to the wondrous unity with the true deity, Monad, in the pleroma. For the Dixie-haters, Southern heroes, speechways, traditions, history, art, etc., are the Yaldabaothic-archontic obstacles to attaining their version of the perfect society (pleroma), whether it is some kind of worldly New Jerusalem established in Washington, D.C., dreamt of by the Right, from which they will rule the world as God’s chosen saints (which is a merely a continuation of the Yankee dream that predates the States’ independence from Great Britain), or a monstrous New Tower of Babel dreamt of by the Left, in which they will overthrow all traditional beliefs and moral laws and live according to their own desires, deifying their own individual wills.
For 160 years, the South has tried to show goodwill toward the union she was forced back into. It has been to no avail. The only message coming from the non-Southern States is ‘Conform, or else.’ Thus, the decision facing Dixians faithful to their past is whether to sacrifice their patrimony to the idols (of the pagan Left or the pseudo-Christian Right) or to resist those commands, come what may. And the way events are unfolding, that decision may have to be made rather soon.
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The black family and black businesses never had a friend better than White Southern Males. They both thrived under segregation…I have asked dozens of older blacks to tell me when the high-water mark occurred for the black family and the 1950s was always the answer. “We had our own schools and we had our own business district…we had black electricians and morticians and pediatricians…our churches THRIVED.”. Communist infiltrated the black movement and destroyed the black family . Just as thousands of Slave Narratives tell a different story than the official lies but were buried in the Library of Congress for generations, future historians will stumble upon these words and start to sleuth out the truth.
Thank you for pointing out these facts, William!
True southerners have no home in this country. All southerners no matter their race would have been and would be today much better off separated from the failing Lincoln government.
Dems attack us constantly as well as the alleged conservatives, the latter of which fully depends on our votes to stay in power.
How the right has managed to make comparisons of antifa and ICE/Fed fighters as modern day Confederates is beyond me. They are actually trying to link that bridge and make the claim that the same people who have torn down our monuments for the last ten years are….Confederates???!!! Am I in bizarro world?!!
No. They are anti-white male, anti-western values, anti-American, anti-Christian, socialist, Marxist revolutionaries and those blue haired “educated” weirdos have nothing in common with those who proudly wore the gray. Not one damn thing!!
It’s intellectually lazy and dishonest, more needless southern bashing and not to mention its highly offensive to those of us with ancestors who fought bravely for their states.
I heard that nasally idiot Levin call these people the “modern day Confederacy” once on the radio. What a Lincolnite butt kisser he has always been.
But, take a minute and look into that man’s eyes- it’s easy to see that hollow, dark soul full of hatred…and then consider what he is.
Well said, Billy.
Bear with me a few moments fellow Sothroners. I see a silver lining, of sorts, in all the bleak circumstances. All the hate, destruction of our symbols, and general calumny directed at us has ignited and fueled a resurgence in pride, expressions of truth and displays of our symbols unlike has existed since I was a boy in the 1950’s, if even then. They tore down Monument Ave. in Richmond and now new statutes of Gen’s Lee and Jackson are rising on private land to replace them along with our flag and new monuments to our men and cause and, importantly I believe, the controversy is sparking interest to know more about the whole war era which is good for our side. I have witnessed what amounts to huge growth in interest and knowledge of the truth of the war era over the last3+ decades. No one EVER spoke of secession back before the 1990’s. It wasn’t just unthinkable to most in those days, it was impossible in their minds. Now even lefties think seriously about it, as well as normal Americans outside the South. “The natives are restless” and DC and the media and especially the lefties are getting more nervous by the day. That is a big motivator for them destroying and defacing our symbols in the way noted in this column in my estimation. These are attempts to shame and humiliate us. Only those who are vulnerable do such things. Plus, it is backfiring on them. It is fueling the interest in the truth which ultimately leads to people knowing the Real History that surrounds Mr. Lincoln’s war of aggression for money and political control, as well as the exposure of the Righteous Cause Myth. All this is happening slowly I know. I find it very frustrating and quite infuriating much of the time, but the worm is turning.
As for V.D. Hanson he is not a conservative, as Dr. Brion McClanahan explains so very well, the Republicans were NEVER conservative. They are the lefties of the 1860’s. Watch his videos on YouTube and elsewhere, then pass them on. Thanks to Dr. ‘B’ many nascent conclusions of my own have crystalized, and dots have connected finally, and I have learned new things on an almost daily basis. Hanson, a former Democrat, is a hack, especially when it comes to history. Brion McClannahan is the real deal. Full disclosure: I have NO association with Dr. McClannahan in any way, personal or pecuniary. Since I am promoting him, be sure and watch Virginia First: the 1607 Project video. It is truly excellent and holds ones interest.
“…raise their children in a Christian culture that values their ancestors, traditional virtues, and friendly, humane relations with foreign countries.”
There’s a great need to insert the words: “reading and studying the Bible” after the words: “a Christian culture that values.” Where are those words?
Regis Martin in an article posted today, said: “There is no Christian culture if the Church commissioned to preach into it falls…” He talks about a commission that has been in abeyance for 2000+ years: “baptizing everyone in the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.” Those words come from Matthew 28:19. That command was given to the “little flock,” the Jewish nation taken from within the nation. That was Israel’s commission, not any church today. That commission was interrupted and a new program temporarily installed.
The “church” doesn’t know who they are. That “Christian culture” needs to read and study the KJ Bible. I was told recently that the late Sammy Allen’s Bible Camp in Resaca, GA, today, can be viewed as a very Charismatic (Pentecostal) ministry. I thought it was about that way in the early ’80’s when I went there once. Bible teacher James Crumpton of Mississippi graciously helped me see it was just folks carried with their emotions.
The Great Commission was given to Jesus’s disciples as part of their resonsibility under the New Covenant. There is NO distinction between Jew and Gentile under the New Covenant, as Paul makes clear. The church, sometimes effective, sometimes ineffective, has been proclaiming the gospel to all nations ever since. Nothing has been held in abeyance. In addition to bible study, one could add ensuring that we don’t fall into heterodox sectarian views of Christianity, the church and its mission.
The gospel Christ’s JEWISH apostles and disciples were charged with preaching in Matthew 28, Mark 16, Luke 24 and which they began to do in earnest in Acts 2, was the “gospel of the kingdom,” not “the gospel of the grace of God.” What those apostles and disciples preached was not the good news of the cross work of Christ. Carefully read Acts 2 and 3. The death of Christ on the cross is presented in Acts 2 and 3 as bad and terrifying news:
Acts 2:22-23 “Ye men of Israel, hear these words…Him…ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain:”
And how did they respond? In tears of joy? No. In fear and terror:
Acts 2:37 “Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart, and said unto Peter and to the rest of the apostles, Men and brethren, what shall we do?”
And what were these terrified men told what to do in murdering their Messiah? Repent (change their mind about the Lord was), and be water baptized. They needed to realize that they murdered their Messiah. So, where Shivers, is the good news of the cross of Christ in those words of Peter in Acts 2? It’s not there. We don’t learn about the good news of the cross work of Christ until we get to Paul’s epistles.
The “great commission” went out of commission 2K plus years ago, and it officially took place in Acts 15. Paul recounts it in Galatians 2:
Galatians 2:7,9 “But contrariwise, when they saw that the gospel of the uncircumcision was committed unto me, as the gospel of the circumcision was unto Peter;”
“And when James, Cephas, and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that was given unto me, they gave to me and Barnabas the right hands of fellowship; that we should go unto the heathen, and they unto the circumcision.”
The “middle wall of partition,” Shivers, which kept Jew and Gentile apart was up until the conversion and new commission was given to Paul.
It was God’s program WITH ISRAEL that was going on until Paul. That program and the fulfillment of the New Covenant, which CONCERNS ISRAEL (Jer. 31:31), is indeed in abeyance.
Can anybody, Mr. Darlington?, tell me what the name of that statue is and where it is located? I’ve tried looking it up but have had no success. The picture of it here is hard to make out; it looks like a young girl holding Jackson who is sitting on his horse?
Found the info:
“Karon Davis’ sculpture “Descendant” shows the artist’s son holding a small Confederate horse by its tail. (Carlin Stiehl / Los Angeles Times)”