Noel is an Alabamian and a Southern nationalist who keeps the site Blood and Soil. In this interview he talks about a recent news article reporting on how one central Texas high school has kept the traditional Southern song ‘Dixie’ as its school fight song while another school has gotten rid of it. ‘The Rebels’ is the mascot of both schools. Noel also addresses the demographic replacement of Southerners at these schools (which is described in the news article) and talks about how this compares to his experience during the US takeover of public schools in the South a few decades ago.
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In 1987 and again in 1988, my NC National Guard unit went to Fort Hood, Texas for training on Apache attack helicopters. That’s not what this comment is about.
While there, we frequently went to a place called “Cody’s” which was a huge watering hole, dance hall, pool hall, and so forth. It was an odd combination, featuring both country & western music alternating with rock and roll. It was almost all whites, Texas cowboys and soldiers from Fort Hood. It was lots of fun for all, they’d bring you ten bottles of beer in a 2 gallon galvanized bucket of ice. It was packed most nights of the week, jammed on weekends.
I called out there a few years ago to see if it was still going strong. The people at the local Chamber of Commerce told me that it was no longer like I remembered it, it was now ALL Mexican all the time.
That needs to be dealt with.
As to Noel’s comments regarding race relations and integration of schools….
I have a cousin (born in 1961) who was basically forced to drop out of high school due to the forced integration of schools in Memphis in the 1970s. He was one of a handful of white kids sent to an historically black school on the other side of town and he faced harassment and intimidation on a daily basis. My uncle was unable to convince the powers that be at the school board that his son was not safe, and finally he was forced to remove him from school.
On the other hand, I’ve had black coworkers who grew up during that era and shared with me their experiences about integration. One woman told me that as a child of about 11 years she could not understand why everyone thought her (black) school and (black) teachers were not good enough, and why she suddenly had to start going to school in another part of town with kids with whom she had nothing in common.
When I was 9, we moved to Memphis and I attended the nearby public elementary school, which was probably more than 75% black at that time. However, most of the black kids were bused in from outside the community. When 6th grade ended, none of those kids went to junior high with me. I stayed in my neighborhood, and they were sent to another part of town. Kids from somewhere else were bused in to my junior high and again made up about 3/4 of the student body.
A school used to be a major focal point of a community, but when your school is across town, not down the street, you don’t feel the same sense of pride. And, when you are made to attend school with people you can’t relate to, you are less likely to want to get involved in extracurricular activities.
So, the way I see it, forced integration and busing have done nothing but destroy communities and cultures–particularly the white culture. Meanwhile, it has done nothing to improve race relations or the quality of education. It’s actually done the opposite. Not to mention, it didn’t last very long, as most major cities have already re-segregated themselves when it comes to education. Segregation is just human nature.
Agree Amy. In my opinion it was bad for blacks and whites, but unfortunately..that pendulum has gone way to the other side of white hatred today. It is seen as acceptable when done by non whites while pointing that out is seen as being a bigot. To me it seems the goal of the anti white civil rights and pro third world immigration crowd is not equality before the law, but retribution.