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I have a friend who’s a big sports fan, especially college football. He’s crazy for the local State university (which we will call “State”) and hates the slightly more prestigious state University (which we will call “the U”). It’s really not hate, of course. It’s more of an identity/anti-identity thing. Despite not having attended either university, he has always identified with State, which, in his local setting, also means identifying as not-U. Apparently, one cannot identify with both universities simultaneously and be taken seriously by any sports fan in the area. This friend goes to all the games and wears all the apparel. He knows the coaches. He’s up on all State-related football minutiae and possesses a Jeopardy-level knowledge of State football history.
One year, after State had failed to bowl and the-U hadn’t, I provoked him with this novel question regarding this intense sports rivalry: Why don’t we set aside local prejudices and root for the U in its bowl game since a U victory would be a boon for the state economy?
He scoffed at me and told me I was crazy. He would pull for anyone against the U.
Now, this friend of mine is pretty based. Despite being easygoing and socially liberal, he’s aware of racial differences. He’s not going to frequent American Renaissance over it, but he identifies as white — albeit in a thoroughly non-confrontational way. He digs black culture and music (Motown and funk, not hip hop and gangster rap), and all his life seemed perfectly happy with a multiracial America.
After a recent conversation, however, I learned that he’s becoming more and more frustrated with black crime, black preferential treatment, and the overt black supremacy in the form of Black Lives Matter. He was especially appalled at how black athletes (and quite a few white ones) were now kneeling during the National Anthem. I spilled the beans regarding my evil thoughts on race realism, and we ended up agreeing about pretty much everything. I detected he didn’t like black people all that much anymore. I also learned that this lifelong Democrat voted for Donald Trump in 2016. This was a big change for him.
Then, I asked him another novel question about his beloved (or be-hated) sports rivalry: If State fielded an all-black team, and the U an all-white one, would he still pull for State?
He said that he would.
I then reminded him of his frustrations with black people, and he didn’t care. I argued that both universities not only discriminate against whites through affirmative action, but promote anti-white hatred in their curricula and beyond. He said that none of that mattered. He was a true-blue State fan. And that was that.
This got me to thinking about the Dissident Right and how it relates to mainstream white Americans. People in the Dissident Right identify, I can safely assume, as whites first, Americans (or British or Swedish or what have you) second. On the other hand, mainstreamers like my friend are Americans first, State fans second, and white people third, if at all.
Now, why is this? And why today when our mainstream culture is just seething with anti-white hostility? There are perhaps several reasons, not least of which are lack of institutionalized support, fear of the enemy, and an honest belief in the mushy-gushy anti-racism we’ve all been brought up with. But that can’t be everything. Over seventy-four million Americans voted for Trump, and hundreds of thousands showed their support for Trump at the US Capitol on January 6. Clearly, not all of these people are afraid of the Left, nor are they anxious to spill platitudes about racial equality.
Then why do they insist on keeping the red and the blue with the white?
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One answer could be that the only thing keeping the historic American nation glued together with bubblegum and Play-Doh these days is white people. More specifically, patriotic, Christian white people. The moment, say, twenty percent of these people start putting race over flag and cross, then it’s game over. The United States would fall apart, quickly and most likely violently. Therefore, if you’re white and you love America, then you’re probably thinking that the big red button on your dashboard which says “RACE” will cause your vehicle to self-destruct rather than eject you to safety.
These people who go to the wall for Trump and attend MAGA rallies and sport the red, white, and blue really do love America. It’s as if the America of 1965 has crystalized in their minds and they want to keep living in that world. And who could blame them? It was a great world. Do they know any other? Within their patriotic mindset, how do they know that a race revolution among whites would improve upon their idealized America — or even the degraded one we have today? And from their Christian perspective, whites who harp nonstop about their race are so exotic they might as well be pagans — or Nazis.
As with my friend, “American” is their chosen identity. It’s what they know, and they’re sticking with it — even as everything burns all around them.
When I see whites like my friend sporting their university colors, waving their university flags, and attending their university’s sportsball events, I see people expressing their Americanness. This is just a more immediate — and perhaps more playful — version of the stars and stripes or the Gadsden Flag. Sure, George Washington did something heroic at Valley Forge, but did you see the eighty-six-yard run my boy pulled off last night at the university stadium just forty-five minutes from my house? And unlike Valley Forge, nobody got killed. Win-win!
They love this vison of America, suppressed as it is. They love it so much they would rather try to revive it than contribute to its breaking apart. It’s pathetic and honorable at the same time. And I can relate. As many readers of this site know, I follow mixed martial arts. One thing that draws me to the sport is how un-playful it is. Unlike with football, in which teams symbolize armies and the game symbolizes warfare, there’s nothing symbolic about getting your nose smashed or your elbow bent in an unnatural direction. It’s about as real as you can get.
Of course, I almost always pull for the white guy. I say “almost” because there has been one instance in which I did pull hard for a black over a white. In 2013, black UFC light-heavyweight champion Jon Jones defended his title against a mouthy middleweight named Chael Sonnen, who is white. I did not want this fight to take place. Sonnen was not a legitimate contender in the light-heavyweight division, and wasn’t even the best middleweight in the UFC, having been recently stopped in the second round by longtime middleweight kingpin Anderson Silva. Further, Jon Jones was proving to be the UFC’s most dominant light-heavyweight champion. The fight was clearly a mismatch. The only thing Sonnen did to earn this title shot was to run his mouth — which he does very well, by the way. Naturally, I did not want him to win, not because I like Jones more than Sonnen or because I enjoy watching blacks beat up on whites. I pulled for Jones, whom I don’t like, over Sonnen, whom I do like, because I care about MMA, and I don’t want illegitimate champions. I want the clarity brought about by legitimate champions. It wasn’t even about race. I would have pulled for any legitimate light-heavyweight champion over Sonnen that night.
So my interest in MMA transcended my racial allegiance that evening — an extremely rare occurrence for me. Clearly, an exception. For my friend, however, it’s the rule. If he were in my place, he would have pulled for Jones in his two fights against the ethnically Swedish Alexander Gustafsson because both my friend and Jones are, strictly speaking, American.
For my friend, the red, white, and blue (or the blue and orange, or the crimson and silver, or whatever color combination belongs to a person’s university) trumps the most important color, that of skin. It is an artificial identity, and it cannot continue as the Left keeps growing more militant and anti-white. The problem, however, is that these universities deliver sports entertainment so well that it would be exceedingly difficult to un-mesmerize people like my friend. I actually attended a football game at a major university recently, and so have seen this phenomenon up close. The raw, pounding enthusiasm that 50,000 people can generate over a sporting event is both awe-inspiring and intimidating. How can anyone argue against that? Such people seem to be immune to argument because we’re not arguing against other arguments but against an identity — superficial as it is — which gets bolstered with every T-shirt, bumper sticker, and foam finger purchase.
Only the cruel and tortuous revelations of history could possibly crush false identities such as these. Only when the non-white Left ascends to the point of overt anti-white oppression will most people like my friend realize that they had been had. Only then will they realize how much time they had wasted identifying with institutions that truly despise them. Will it be too late when that happens? Perhaps, but since we don’t know for sure, we can’t stop trying. We owe it to the future of Western Civilization be as eloquent and relentless as possible while convincing whites like my friend to abandon their university colors and their national colors, and keep the only one that matters.
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20 comments
I don’t mind seeing blacks win or succeed, even against whites. It’s even sort of refreshing. To engage in nepotism against blacks or other underdogs would be petty, not unlike certain advantaged minorities do. What is wrong is people who are functionally illiterate being admitted to law school.
Well said.
Playing football at the university was definitely a red pilling moment. I absolutely hated being forced to constantly “bond” with all of my diverse teammates. You had to do everything as a team outside of practice such as going to study hall, eating and extracurricular activities like going to the movie theater for team movie night. I absolutely loathed the whole experience. You can’t help but notice how dysfunctional and disruptive most of the black athletes really are. On and off the field most of their personalities are overly flamboyant and arrogant because they think they’re the most important members of the team. However, most of them come and go year after year because they’re not capable of achieving the necessary grades or they get caught up in crime such as theft and drug dealing, resulting in their expulsion. Some actually have been involved in shootings and other acts of violence during my time as well. Then comes in the new recruiting class and the process repeats itself. Having played at the college level has made me hate watching college football because of my experience behind the scenes of it. I won’t watch any football unless I know someone personally who is playing.
You should take pen to paper and write a detailed First Person Account essay detailing your experiences as a college player. I for one would love to hear the real goings on behind the scenes of that shit show.
Something will have to get extremely “in their face” for the great mass of White America to identify firstly as White. There must be motivation, and the majority of the soon to be minority is still complacent and happy with the perceived status quo. The current mass messaging tells them it is bad, bad, bad to have White identity. It takes a very particular personality to be able to overcome such brainwashing. Reality is knocking at more and more minds, however. We are getting closer and closer to a mass identity shift every day. Keep the welcome mat out for them.
The Africanization of sportsball & entertainment is becoming a Western norm not just for America but for all ‘white’ western countries perhaps because that is all they can do & they generate money but at what point do we take back Our culture? In liberal Canada a push is on for blacks in hockey which is a ridiculous concept in my opinion Young people are most influenced by popular culture so it’s terrifying to see ghetto indoctrination like twerking grilles & weaves & constant scarification how sane whites can condone such tribal displays is beyond me except to say that in reality most whites are completely intimidated by high testosterone thuggish blacks & therefore easily submit like the good consumers they are counted on to be Time to fucking wake up
“The moment, say, twenty percent of these people start putting race over flag and cross, then it’s game over. The United States would fall apart, quickly and most likely violently.”
Exactly. And the sooner, the better. The tension is unbearable, is it not?
I have never really agreed with those who say that non-Whites wish to genocide or exterminate European Whites. I believe they want to subjugate us, not eliminate us. Non-Whites (including Jews and Hispanics/Mexicans) are completely dependent upon Whites whether or not they full appreciate this. They hate us, envy us, resent us (maybe for different reasons depending upon their history and race and ethnicity), but they all need us. I think everybody knows this: they need us but we don’t need them. This is the big elephant in every DEI seminar room.
My fear isn’t losing the “United States of America.” I’m heritage American and I’ve accepted it is over, and it’s because my ancestors dropped the ball long ago. But I do fear the inevitable breakup will become ugly and violent in some areas of the country because non-Whites do not want us to leave. They need us. They will be condemned to their own infighting without us to mediate or to blame. And, let’s face it, Whites are the normal people in any room anywhere on the planet.
One day, our descendants will enjoy baseball, football, and crime free shopping and cruising in local malls again. I would just love to keep my front door open in the summer evenings. As Richard Houck says in his excellent essays, it’s the little things, you know? The best thing we can give to the next few generations that we didn’t have is a life free of excessive crime and harassment, and no more blame and guilt for things we are not responsible for.
The breakup is going to happen. Whites have never been ruled over by another race anywhere, and we never will be. I don’t look down on those who have not yet fully grasped what is happening to us right now. But I strongly believe most (not all, but most) Whites will “get it” and digest it, and probably very soon. I just shudder at the thought of the tantrums that will follow when the majority of Whites finally DO say, “F—k it. We’re willing to give up the U.S.A. dream if we can live in peace without any of you.” If the past year is any indication, it’s going to be a very bad breakup.
I repeat (because that is what I seem to do best): They need us. We don’t need them.
Moreover, we don’t owe them–anyone–anything.
I don’t really have anything to add, except to say I enjoy reading your comments. Cheers.
Great comment and summary. My only nitpick is this idea that non-Whites (other than Blacks) need/envy/resent us. Hispanics and Asians are perfectly capable of self sufficiency, as evidenced by their own nations and cities they’ve colonized in the U.S. Of course, we want to live in New America, not Nuevo Mexico. But living next to Nuevo Mexico is a different thing entirely than the curse of the Black fifth column. We can negotiate with the non-Blacks. In contrast, Revolutionary Blacks need Hispanics, Asians and woke Whites to get on board with their sick agenda. The results have been mixed so far, and also conflated with America’s traditional Red/Blue divide, adding to the confusion on the battlefield for the average person of any race.
I wouldn’t be so sure. Blacks in Rhodesia and South Africa don’t seem to think they need whites. I don’t think they think at an altruistic level. It’s sort of a satanic principle at work; they would rather rule in hell than serve in heaven.
Football fans are often known to possess a fanatical loyalty that may cost them their life someday. Fortunately in Eastern Europe they’re often linked to nationalist politics mostly in their lowest, xenophobic form (but with charity endeavors as well). There was a story about some Pole getting shanked by a kebab owner during an argument and a subsequent siege of that kebab shop by an angry mob. Uncivillized as they often are, they’re the front troops of any ethnic conflict.
When it comes to civic nationalism I guess it’s hard to tell people that games like Olympics should be attended mainly by the core ethnic kin and maybe some assimilated foreigners/racial aliens on the side as an example of hospitality, proving the power of your national/imperial identity. In common awareness, myths trump reality and the day of reckoning is often the only way to have those illusions collapse into past nostalgia.
Furthermore, all those escapist activities can only work as long as there is a promise of “good life” or at least keeping what you managed to earn/swindle/steal from the system. For that reason, term “little stabilization” was coined in my country during the fall of stalinism and subsequent ascension of “national” communist faction in the 60s. There was a genuine hope that we can embark on the “polish way to socialism” with relative prosperity and liberalization. Even if the ruling elite is USA anti-white, as long as they keep it from spiralling out of control, people will be reject promises of revolution just so they can keep those little luxuries they have. This is one reason why right-wing activism fails in most cases: inability to succesfully stoke fear/panic then capitalize on it. Conservatives are not the system destroyers, but custodians.
Desert Flower is female, in case comment readers here haven’t intuited that already by the general tone and lack of focus in my written thoughts, that and the fact that I can’t find the edit button on my keyboard.
Bear with me…
I have questions for White males here on this website, if I may. I don’t intend to be combative (not at all), but I would genuinely like to know your honest thoughts.
Why do you think White males throughout American history, not just recently, permitted this invasion and destruction to happen to us, to our people, and to our country? I don’t believe the “pathological altruism” argument that many on the dissent right promote; I think Whites have much more mettle in them than we give ourselves credit for. And I don’t say that for the sake of simplification; there are some sophisticated ideas out there that are worthy of thought and consideration, but I just don’t accept the ideas about White pathological altruism and a susceptibility towards guilt because of the bastardization of Christian values. I’m wondering about other reasons that only men know in their hearts, if they are truly honest with themselves and without an evolutionary sociologist breathing down their neck.
After reading many articles and essays all over the place about White males’ anger with White women, it occurred to me that maybe, just maybe, some of our females feminists over the past few generations are not overly emotional and irrational for no reason, or for biological reasons, but are so because they are afraid. Very afraid and cannot really articulate it, yet. They are not connecting the dots about demographics and immigration and egalitarianism being a pipedream, and yes, maybe some don’t care to connect the dots because they are truly dumb or just stubborn (I am not a feminist but I am stubborn and it took me a while to get here). But I think there is negligence by White males that I cannot come to terms with because I don’t understand it. So I just wanted to ask about this out loud.
If your sister was/is a real pain in the butt (I’m sure I was), she is still your blood and kin and worthy of protection. I’m sure if you could open up the nuttiest female feminist, somewhere in there is a very frightened individual. And some of it—a lot of it—may be due to the fact that non-White males have been coming into Western countries and they treat females differently, indeed often much worse, than White males do. We notice it even in trivial things, like when the East Asian IT guy condescends to the White female colleague more than he does to the Hispanic gal in the next office. The knee jerk response seems to be, “They’re unhappy about something, so let’s level the playing field for everybody, that’ll fix things.” But these feminists are confused because they think White males are the devil, when in fact it is now obvious that White males are the best of the lot—anywhere. I think there is a lot of confusion and fear behind all the Ph.D. dissertations and pink hat protests and the squabbling at dinner tables and in conference rooms. That’s the hunch I have, anyway.
I would love to read an essay by one of the great writers on this website exploring and responding to these thoughts, or weighing in some way on the validity of the fears of White women and my idea that White males have failed to truly protect us over the long term, not just recently. I know a lot of men are angry with females right now—I get it—but do you guys get that there may be some genuine, understandable reasons for the confusion and—if I am right—unconscious fear that a lot of women experience on account of the demographic changes in the West, and in the U.S. specifically?
I believe that it is still the duty, obligation, and responsibility of men to take care of their mothers, sisters, wives, daughters, nieces, whether we live in tribal huts next to campfires and human scalps in Old Europe or in the comfortable suburbs of the Midwest with iPhones and microwaves. In my opinion, a man’s honor rests on the well-being of his women, including difficult women. Some things do not change over millennia, no matter how “progressed” and “evolved” we pretend to be: we still need protection from invaders and competitors, first and foremost. White women are very vulnerable right now. We are the prime targets for rape by non-Whites, and that’s a fact, Jack.
I know it’s not a simple matter, but I would be interested to know if any of you acknowledge my idea that a lot of women are probably upset because they are afraid and that’s because our men have ultimately failed to protect us. I’d like to hear some ideas about why, besides “Well, we’re just too nice for our own good. We haven’t yet developed strong ethnocentric sensibilities like the Jews. We’re easily manipulated, etc.” I call b.s. on that. History has shown that White males can be brutal—utterly brutal, commandingly brutal—with both the pen and the sword when the occasion or moment in history calls for it.
Thoughts? An essay perhaps? I would prefer action in the real world, but comments or an essay will do for now. Thank you for considering it.
P.S. I hope you don’t mind, Spencer, that I put this musing in thew comment section under your essay because the focus of your essay is football and I thought it might attract more guys to this page. I hope so.
I can give you some brief answers here. First of all, as to why we gave our country away, we didn’t. That was the doing of our treasonous politicians. There’s much that could be said about the 1965 immigration act, which started the decades-long “boil the frog slowly” road to destruction, but it never would’ve passed if it had been put up to a popular referendum. Surely there was a political solution to this open borders law, right? Well then, fast forward to decades of Republicans making promises to do something about it, and then never doing anything.
As for the feminists, I don’t hate the brainwashed; I save that for the brainwashers. The big influencers at the top are 24 karat evil, for the most part. A little research about who they are will demonstrate this. They’ve managed to divide women from men, one more problem our society doesn’t need.
So much to unpack here, but for another day.
I love your CC articles, Mr. Albrecht, even though I sometimes disagree. You’re a great writer.
All best.
I think you’re right to suggest that there has been some kind of collective failure by white men. The problem is that the modern West is completely unconducive to masculinity. Peace and comfort seem to destroy manliness. I don’t know what the solution is, other than some really bad times that will produce strong men.
At the gym not too long ago, tennis match on the tv, this other (White) dude who I don’t know and I were both keeping an eye on the match between sets. American was a black girl, her opponent was a White girl, blond, beautiful, with a Slavic last name, not from the US. It became apparent to the other guy watching the match that I was rooting for the blonde. Curious, he asked why I wasn’t rooting for the American. Not in a confrontational way, he was just interested. I said “My skin color is my uniform. So is yours. It’s going to be important for you to recognize that.”
He didn’t start edging away uncomfortably or begin shrieking “Nazi Nazi!!” but instead got a big grin on his face and said something along the lines of fuck yeah you’re so right. He shook my hand and introduced himself. Ya see? This racial awareness is everywhere. Whites, even liberals, are growing weary and impatient with incessant anti-White propaganda and endless Black monkeyshines and dysfunction.
I see that guy at the gym from time to time and we always wave or say hello. Why wouldn’t we? We wear the same uniform. We’re on the same team.
P.S. The day I root for a Negro MMA fighter to prevail over a White fighter is a day that will never come.
Tony – Lovely anecdote and very well said. Thanks.
Another angle to consider is that many people support sports ball teams that they have no genuine connection with whatever. Your somewhat based friend at least lives in the same region as ‘State’ or ‘U’. In my country an alarming number of people are outwardly passionate supporters of foreign, mostly ‘English’ soccer teams even though its a different country in which the matches are played. Also the teams would more accurately labeled global than English. It’s strange to me but I would guess, the big occasion atmosphere of a packed major stadium, heavy presence on TV, the season takes place over winter spring so in the long dark evenings it offers something regular entertainment to watch. Fortunately we have an alternative during summer in Ireland when our national sports are played – all teams are Irish obviously as well as the fans bar some interested tourists in the stadiums. Let me tell you to be in the national stadium for a Dublin match is an experience in and of itself – electric atmosphere yet suitable for all the family- it is a brief moment of white nationalist heaven!
Back to topic I think some are so uncomfortable with themselves or their own that they fetishise the exotic. I think this topic bears more investigation / discussion by counter currents writers.
“American” isn’t an ethnicity. In fact it’s barely a country at this point. I refuse to let my children salute the flag and call themselves “American”.
Uh, yes Americans are indeed an ethnicity. Bloodlines are real. Most of us are a mix of British, German, and Dutch ancestry. A bit of French in there, too. Native Indians, Blacks who are descendants of African slaves, and Ellis Islanders are not Americans; they are U.S. citizens. I cried my eyes out for a year before I accepted that I’m one half American, not 100% American (as I was told in my Civics classes in school).
The United States is no longer a functioning republic. It’s over (and it’s been over for a long, long time). But there are a lot of Americans still alive and well, along with even more Whites that are U.S. Citizens. And we’re all in this together now, and we’re looking to the future.
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