A group of militant Black protesters connected to the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (which Martin Luther King, Jr once led) is attempting to stop the reconstruction of a small monument to Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest on private property in Selma, Alabama. The anti-White and anti-Southern protesters are quoted as saying that preventing the construction of the monument is a matter of their ‘freedom.’ Some have claimed they are willing to go to jail over the monument and tossed about threats of ‘direct action.’ Melissa McKinney has the story for WSFA 12:
Renewed protests over a controversial monument. And this time, protestors [sic] say they’re ready to go to jail.
The protestors are opposed to a bust going up in a Selma cemetery.
It’s a bust of Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest, who they say was also a violent racist responsible for killing people.
This is the second time supporters have wanted to put up the bust.
The first time, it was stolen.
“I’m ready to march right now. I’m ready to march right now. Ain’t nothing wrong with going to jail because we’re marching for freedom!” says Charles Steele, Jr. with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
Notice how this anti-Southern protester equating telling others what they can do on their property with his freedom. What sort of freedom is this?
…”This individual is the equivalent of Osama Bin Laden,” says one protester.
The hyperbole was apparently flowing freely at this protest.
…Protesters asked the City of Selma to get involved and halt the construction. But because Confederate Circle is privately owned, city officials opted to stay out of the situation.
Negroes once again establish what fine citizens they are, at their core level.
Being mathematically challenged, they also fail to realize that whites outnumber them by 600 to 700 percent and will not hesitate to repel them.
I do see this as a white failure in part. The monument had been repeatedly defaced or vandalized with paint and so forth. This time negroes apparently brought in heavy equipment, without anyone noticing, and lifted the bronze bust which weighs several hundred pounds, and took it with them.
Now, we are facing a larger group that thinks they have the horsepower to have their way.
That means that we whites either have to put up or shut up and run away in shame. The choice is ours.
PH, groups like the SCLC, SPLC, NAACP and ADL are used to getting their way by pitching a fit, marching around and screaming about their ‘civil rights.’ This has worked for them since the 60s because we have been too cowardly to stand up to them. I think as we leave behind the Dark Age and move further into the Age of Survival that will change. Attitudes are not what they once were, especially among the young. This is not 1968.
One could say: “…Erasing the History of a people is a known part of Genocide and Genocide is against International Law….
Even if every Southerner who would protect the memory of Nathan Bedford Forest had owned slaves, which they did not, that was 150 years ago, and the PROTESTERS are erasing history, right now in the present, taking part in genocide.
If, on the basis of slavery 150 years ago, they are justifying GENOCIDE right now, they could be reminded that Genocide is worse than slavery.”
People can survive slavery (it’s sucks but they can); Genocide, the erasure of a people and their history and their own voice about their history—- is the eradication of a people forever.
Genocide is worse than slavery.
“Using centuries-old slavery to justify current genocide is disallowed under international law since 1948.”
If we can’t have monuments I know of no reason why anyone should.
To me, private property is the key to maintaining Southern culture and heritage. Southerners can’t depend on the government to maintain their heritage. There are huge swaths of land that’s available. Southerners should purchase land for private parks where their heritage (through monuments and museums) can be used to preserve their heritage. The problem is that private property rights are close to being completely demolished in the US. For example, the Federal and state governments demands that a private company must provide access to services to all racial groups regardless of what the owners may wish. Discrimination is not a sin. A sinful act would to commit an act of violence that’s not in defense, or to bear false witness against another person, or to steal from another person, or to defraud another person. By discriminating the owner hasn’t committed any of these acts. He or she has chosen exclude people that they don’t want to associate with. Since government now asserts the right to regulate private activity, I can see the day when monuments such as these will be outlawed.
Since I touched on the subject of purchasing huge tracts of land, one way Southerners can (at least) partially secede would be to purchase acreage and setup their own private communities/towns/hamlets/etc. Schools, roads, and infrastructure can be privately funded. Trade within these towns can be accomplished through barter or private money (silver). Just a thought.