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November 1, 2017 4 comments

“Disrespecting” Black Soldiers

C. F. Robinson

“Myeshia” Johnson at the casket of her husband “La David” Johnson

1,606 words

On October 4th, 2017, four Special Operations Forces soldiers were killed in an ambush in the African nation of Niger. Among the fallen was a single black soldier, Sergeant La David T. Johnson. When President Trump called Sgt. Johnson’s widow Myeshia Johnson to offer his condolences,[1] the president was claimed to have been “insensitive” and “disrespectful” by the Negro Congresswoman Frederica Wilson. Congresswoman Wilson said she’d secretly listened to the condolence call “on speaker” at the receiving end. The allegations created a racial affray and a media firestorm. Responding to these allegations eventually involved much of the Trump Administration’s White House staff.

There is much to unpack about the ambush, and actions of the soldiers in Niger during the fight are irrelevant. Indeed, Sergeant Johnson could have been 100% valorous during the ambush. The racial firestorm from the ambush in Niger highlights four concepts:

  1. Americans are uncomfortable with black casualties in war.
  2. Mourning fallen soldiers is an important community ritual. A multicultural society can’t genuinely mourn collectively.
  3. Dealing with black racial agitation clouds American Strategic Vision.
  4. You never get free of race. In a multicultural nation, otherwise innocuous communications can create an incident.

Black troops did serve in small quantities in the Revolutionary War. However, throughout most of the time of the early US Republic blacks were barred from military service. Negroes were only allowed to join the military in large numbers during and after the US Civil War. Since then, blacks have done uneven service. While there are a great many valorous and efficient black soldiers and leaders, there are also tremendous problems that wouldn’t exist with all-white units. The usual problems with blacks involve crime and mutiny, but there are also strange and unforeseen problems when employing black soldiers. The first strange and unforeseen problem occurred during the Civil War. The use of black troops in the Union Army caused the breakdown of prisoner exchanges between North and South. This led to the disease-ridden Andersonville, Georgia POW camp (among others).[2] The racial firestorm from the Trump’s condolence call is just the latest in a long line of Things That Break when using blacks in a white institution.

Unpacking the Racial Problems Resulting from the 2017 Niger Ambush

Americans are uncomfortable with black soldiers getting killed in the line of duty.

This discomfort regarding fallen black soldiers dates from at least the Civil War. At the 1864 Battle of the Crater, the original shock troops of the Union Army attackers were expected to come from a black division that had been training for the attack for a considerable time beforehand. The black division was switched out with a white division exhausted from months on the frontlines at the last minute. The Battle of the Crater turned out to be a terrible Union defeat.

Union General Ulysses S. Grant expressed this quite frankly in his testimony to the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War:

General Burnside wanted to put his colored division in front, and I believe if he had done so it would have been a success. Still I agreed with General Meade as to his objections to that plan. General Meade said that if we put the colored troops in front (we had only one division) and it should prove a failure, it would then be said and very properly, that we were shoving these people ahead to get killed because we did not care anything about them. But that could not be said if we put white troops in front.[3]

In other words, General Grant was willing to lose a battle (and a great many experienced white soldiers) rather than suffer too many black casualties.

The Battle of the Crater, July 30, 1864

Americans are uncomfortable with black soldier deaths because Negroes aren’t really part of the American Nation. The only two places Negroes occupy in the American story is as metaphorical slaves on the plantation (or football players in the NFL, voters for the Democrats, etc.) or that of a child-like object of pity. In the later circumstance, Negroes are something like endangered panda bears for whites to coo and cry over. Negroes can’t be really be used in a risky way in Petersburg in 1864 or in Niger in 2017.

In the Narrative of America, Negroes can only be a metaphorical slave on a plantation or an object of pity for liberal whites.

To further unpack. As child-like objects of pity, Negro casualties in battle don’t compute. A fallen soldier is a Christ-like figure in the story of a nation. The phrasing involving war casualties drips with religious ideas. For example, American troops were “sacrificed” at Omaha Beach on June 6, 1944. As Patton’s weather prayer[4] said, like Jesus Christ, through their sacrifice, American troops, “. . . establish[ed] Thy justice among men and nations.”[5] Indeed their graves in Normandy are marked with crosses — not the traditional American “Civil War type” headstone.[6]

Admittedly, the actual historical American troops in World War II were not Christs with M1 Garands, but the story of sacrifice rings true in a mythological sense. Child-like objects of pity can’t fill the Christ-like role.

Mourning fallen soldiers is an important community ritual.

The fallen soldier as Christ theme is part of a larger social phenomenon. War has rituals that help the society absorb the tremendous sense of loss. Putting flags on Veterans’ graves, the Gettysburg Address and other funeral orations, the church services, and twenty-one gun salutes are also expressions of shared tribal grief.

The fallen soldier as Christ: Canada’s Golgotha

It is simply impossible for Negroes to really be part of such an intimate white community endeavor. Shared grief requires empathy. The problem, is that while whites can empathize with black grief if they choose, but blacks can’t empathize with whites at all. Whites, even liberal whites know this in their bones. Essentially, it’s the story of the O. J. Simpson jury being unable to empathize with the white people Simpson killed, the World Star Hip Hop videos of blacks howling like happy apes after a white pensioner is knocked unconscious from a sucker punch, or the proverbial integrationist judge murdered by blacks on the subway. Indeed, while whining and weeping over President Trump’s alleged “disrespect,” Congresswoman Wilson fails to even acknowledge that more whites fell in the ambush in Niger than blacks.

Keeping an eye out for black agitation really clouds American’s strategic vision.

I wrote about this in my article called, An Unhealthy Adaptation: What Cozzens’ Guard of Honor Tells Us About Race & the US Government.[7] I wrote, “Cozzens shows in Guard of Honor that keeping one eye open for racial explosions on the part of black agitators meant that there was less of an effort being made on strategic matters.”

Several strategic questions about Niger that are not asked in the racial “disrespect” dust-up.

  1. What is the reason for the deployment of US Troops in Niger?
  2. Who in America will benefit from involvement in Niger?
  3. The US Government is pushing for increased drone warfare in Niger. Has this been thought through? What costs will Americans acquire from the inevitable collateral damage? There will be blinded and maimed children — are we going to medically treat them? What about the goat farmer that turns terrorist after a drone strike vaporizes his family?[8]
  4. What will victory look like in Niger?
  5. What about refugees? Involvement in Africa tends to bring them. Before Operation Restore Hope, Minnesota was a progressive white ethnostate with a nice, but naïve white population. Now Minnesota has a Mogadishu problem . . .
  6. Anyone can call themselves “ISIS,” and any government wanting US military support can call any Islamic group “ISIS” or “ISIS affiliated.” ISIS in Syria and Iraq are a genuinely vicious bunch, but waging war on a group of cattle thieves in Niger “linked” to ISIS or calling themselves “ISIS” might not be worth the costs of drones or the lives of men in a SOF detachment.
  7. Probably American involvement in Niger is driven by the theoretical mistakes regarding US policy in Afghanistan from 1998–2001. Osama bin Laden showed that radicals in caves deep in the heartland of the Islamic Third World might do a great deal of damage. But is that narrative totally true? The actual 9-11 hijackers were educated Moslems with extensive histories living in the West. Perhaps deportation, travel bans, and encouraging illiteracy and abortion/birth control in the Islamic World are better policies.
  8. Are American deployments in Africa a sort of fuse that leads to a bigger war later? The Korean War’s roots start with a tiny US force in South Korea after 1945.

There is no cross-racial interaction which does not carry the risk of a racial explosion.

To be charitable, Congresswoman Wilson might by cynically using her knowledge of “the [black] community’s” dislike of President Trump to give herself more political power. She could also understand that blacks don’t fit into white society’s war rituals that manage grief and is thus rationally reacting to that situation. To be uncharitable, Congressman Wilson and the unfortunate widow Myeshia Johnson might be so wrapped up with anti-white hatred that a condolence call can be interpreted by them as disrespectful no matter what tone the President used or what the President said or failed to say. To be even more uncharitable, one or both Negroes might not have the intellectual comprehension to understand the nuance of what the President said and thus interpreted the statement as “disrespect.”

The good news, if you can call it that, is that if a condolence call is so misrepresented and misinterpreted than this entire multicultural morass is about to collapse.

Notes

[1] http://people.com/politics/pregnant-widow-slain-soldier-speaks-donald-trump-johnson-niger/

[2] https://counter-currents.com/2016/10/heroes-and-cowards/

[3] https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044019375369;view=1up;seq=613

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PehCORojjtw

[5] http://www.yosoy.com/New%20Data/Fun%20&%20Photo/Christmas%201944%20~%20General%20Patton%27s%20Prayer.htm

[6] https://www.abmc.gov/cemeteries-memorials/europe/normandy-american-cemetery

[7] https://counter-currents.com/2017/02/an-unhealthy-adaptation/

[8] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZGVgpxNGwI

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4 comments

  1. Captain John Charity Spring MA says:
    November 1, 2017 at 4:34 am

    I’ll be blunt.

    Purge your special forces of black troops.
    If you must operate in Africa use British, Belgian, Portuguese or Afrikaners as mercs.

  2. Pietas says:
    November 1, 2017 at 6:39 am

    Right, and the hijackers were mostly from Saudi Arabia, radicalized by the US support for the hated dictatorship there. Now follow the usual fall of dominos to the conclusion.

  3. Apeneck Sweeney says:
    November 1, 2017 at 9:29 am

    Very interesting quote from General Grant, above. It is “politically correct” avant la lettre, and shows clearly that political correctness is an invention of white Christian culture. Much like the so-called “white guilt”, political correctness arose spontaneously long before mass media or academia discovered it. They use it but did not invent it.

  4. ster plaz says:
    November 2, 2017 at 10:37 pm

    I was in the military and practically every month I saw why negroes should be mass expelled from the service. The entrance standards have to be lowered. ASVAB tests are race normed; I’ve seen it in action. Constant racial indoctrination via Equal Opportunity officers/ncos. Constant overlooking negro failure at one job after another. All racial violence is instigated by negroes. Upper ranks, hell all nco ranks have to have quotas; result being upper leadership even more full of negroes. Yes, some end up straightening up their “act” and do decent jobs. But in reality some superior White wants/must leave the service and the quality of the service suffers.

    Experience with negroes in the service tracks with dealing with negroes in civilian life: not worth the time/effort. Even the few negroes who have done good (Clarence Thomas on US Supreme Ct, plenty of White judges would have done as well) are not worth having so many destructive ones around. Get rid of all of them.

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