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18-year-old Elijah DewItt and his girlfriend, Bailey Reidling. Dewitt was gunned down by two “youths” in a parking lot while on a date with Reidling.
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On Wednesday, October 5 at about 8:15 PM, 18-year-old high-school football star Elijah Dewitt was shot dead in the parking lot outside the Sugarloaf Mills Mall in Lawrenceville, Georgia.
Two other teens, both of them black, have been arrested and charged with Dewitt’s murder.
Most would agree that this incident was a tragedy. What I find even more tragic is the fact that before the blood had even dried, Dewitt’s girlfriend and both of his parents said that they forgave the killers.
Such suicidal eagerness to forgive reminded me of the 2018 murder of Mollie Tibbetts, an Iowa woman who was abducted while jogging and subsequently slain by a 24-year-old illegal immigrant. When Donald Trump attempted to make political hay out of Mollie’s murder, her father Rob called Trump — and not the man who killed his daughter — “heartless” and “despicable.” He condemned those who “appropriate Mollie’s soul in advancing views she believed were profoundly racist”:
The Hispanic community are Iowans. They have the same values as Iowans. As far as I’m concerned, they’re Iowans with better food.
I’m sort of glad that his daughter wasn’t alive to hear this.
I’m also reminded of the 1993 murder of Amy Biehl, a white South African anti-apartheid activist who was dragged from her car in Cape Town and stabbed to death by a black mob who “shouted anti-white slurs” while killing her.
According to someone who witnessed the trial of those involved in Biehl’s killing, “Supporters of the three men accused of murdering [her] . . . burst out laughing in the public gallery of the Supreme Court today when a witness told how the battered woman groaned in pain.”
Although four men were found guilty of Biehl’s murder, they were pardoned by South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission because they claimed their actions were politically motivated. (I’ll have to remember that excuse in case I ever kill someone.) Even worse, Biehl’s parents publicly supported the release of her daughter’s killers. Her father shook the killers’ hands and proclaimed:
The most important vehicle of reconciliation is open and honest dialogue . . . we are here to reconcile a human life [that] was taken without an opportunity for dialogue. When we are finished with this process we must move forward with linked arms.
Again, I’m slightly pleased that Amy Biehl wasn’t alive to hear her parents step on her corpse to prove how not-racist they are.
Elijah Dewitt’s father, Craig Dewitt, told reporters that both he and his wife had preemptively forgiven their son’s killers: “Forgiveness is for the forgiver. We don’t want the hate in this household.”
It’s almost as if he was more worried about “hate” being in his household than the fact that his son will never be in his household again.
Dewitt’s girlfriend of four years, Bailey Reidling, was inside a Dave & Buster’s restaurant when her boyfriend was shot in the parking lot. She ran outside and began screaming when she witnessed the life seeping out of him. But she wasted no time in telling reporters that she forgave her boyfriend’s killers and steadfastly refused to succumb to “hate”:
This is not the only crime, it is everywhere. . . . Just like his dad said, you don’t really know. You don’t know how those kids [who shot him] were raised — you know, what they were going through. It’s not right. It never will be right. But you know, Elijah, this is not the only crime, this is everywhere. And it’s horrible. Elijah would forgive them, which seems like he wouldn’t, you know, if you’re one of those guy friends or if you see him on the field, he’s a scary player, but he would have forgave them. I’m going to. There’s something in my heart telling me to. I haven’t got any hatred towards them. Anger? Yes. I genuinely think he’s at peace now. And I think that’s what . . . made me so calm is that he’s at peace. So, I guess that brings me peace.
How convenient that her boyfriend had to be killed for both her and her boyfriend to find peace.
According to Reidling, Elijah had met the accused killers — 18-year-old Kemare Bryan and 19-year-old Chandler Richardson — around the same area about a week prior. She says they asked him if he was selling weed or knew anyone who was. According to her, that was the extent of Dewitt’s prior interaction with the killer Negroes.
She says that on the night Dewitt was murdered, they’d been on a double date with a couple whose first names were Angel and Oscar, suggesting they were Hispanic. She said that after Dewitt gave her his credit card to order some food for everyone, she and Angel slipped into the bathroom. When they emerged from the lavatory, they noticed a commotion outside — and Riedling saw to her horror that Elijah had been shot:
I run over to Elijah, and he’s on the ground, and I go right over to him, and he mouths to me — the last word he said to me was “help.” . . . You’re screaming in the moment because you’re in shock. So, it’s like a scream that you don’t try to do, it’s just coming out. I checked his pulse, and I got freaked out because there is nothing going on there. . . . What me and Oscar and Angel had to see on that Wednesday night, I wouldn’t wish that upon anyone, not even the people that killed him.
You can buy Jim Goad’s Whiteness: The Original Sin here.
Still, despite killing her boyfriend and freaking her out, she says she forgives the killers. She wouldn’t even want them to witness what she witnessed.
And what good will her forgiveness do the killers? Will it make them any less likely to be convicted of murder? If not, what’s the point of going out of your way to tell the world that you forgave your boyfriend’s killers? Is it possible that we’ve reached a point where people are so terrified of appearing racist, they’d rather make a public display of “forgiving” the killers than swearing endless blood vengeance against them? It’s hard not to think that both Reidling’s and Elijah’s parents’ comments about forgiveness were entirely self-serving. It’s not going to bring Elijah back, and his killers will probably think his girlfriend and parents are suckers.
Gwinnett County, Georgia, where Lawrenceville is located, was estimated to be about 90% white in 1970. According to the 2010 census, Lawrenceville was 48% white and 32% black. By 2020, the numerical balance had flipped: It’s only 26% white now and 34.4% black. And it’s also 28% non-white Hispanic. Blacks and Hispanics now outnumber whites in what used to be an almost entirely white city.
But we MUST . . . NOT . . . LET . . . HATE . . . WIN.
I’m sure Elijah Dewitt was gunned down in the most loving manner possible.
Making the best use of my local contacts here in Georgia, I asked an ex-cop from Atlanta to call some associates up in Lawrenceville to ask about any details the press may not have covered. He said that his friend in Lawrenceville claims to have lived on Elijah Dewitt’s block. The local rumor was that Dewitt had been getting into trouble at Jefferson High School, where he’d gained local fame as a wide receiver on the football team, and had been placed in a private Christian academy for his junior year. But for his senior year, Dewitt wanted to return to the public school — and so he did. According to my contact:
Got the scoop from his neighbor….He was getting into trouble, hanging out with the brothers and pretty much it was a gang hit over something. He had met those guys in the same parking lot a week before when they asked him where to get some weed. You can add that up.
So it may be that Elijah Dewitt looked for trouble and found a lethal dose of it. Or maybe he was randomly shot by a pair of juveniles/teens/youths who merely wanted to kill a white guy. It’s all speculative at this point.
What I can’t mentally process is this rush to exploit your loved one’s death to score tolerance points with a bunch of strangers.
My oldest brother was murdered in Paris more than 50 years ago. To this day, I bear a raging animus toward all of the French, especially because of the way French authorities neglected his rotting corpse before shipping it to us in a wooden box. Hating all of the French isn’t entirely rational, but it still makes more sense to me than forgiving his killer, who has never been found. I would like nothing more than to be locked in a room with his killer.
It’s difficult for me to restrain the murderous impulse at the very thought of someone harming my 14-year-old son in any way, no matter how trivial. If someone killed him, I would not rest until I found and killed the perpetrator — after very slowly torturing him.
I will never understand the mindset of people who freely forgive someone who murdered their own flesh and blood. Then again, I will never understand someone who’s worried about being called a racist. It seems as if the two phenomena are intimately connected. One has to be a special kind of damaged to worry more about being called a racist than to seek revenge against his son’s killers.
The only response to Dewitt’s killing that I’d consider appropriate came from a donor to a GoFundMe campaign designed to cover the funeral costs:
I am so sorry about the loss of this superstar, this all American handsome man. Its [sic] just inconceivable that his life could be taken by two thugs who were jealous of him and his life. These thugs had one power to take his life and they used it. I hope the people of Georgia use their one power and take their lives with the DEATH PENALTY.
Forgiveness is overrated. In cases such as this, it’s outright disgusting.
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78 comments
It reminds me of that 17 year old football player who was recently killed by similar people, although he was lovingly beaten to death. Our youth need to be taught not to intermingle with these sorts of people. That used to be the norm, but…
I don’t get angry at the perps though. It’s almost as if they lack agency, like wishing to avenge oneself on a wild animal. It’s like if a person was ripped to pieces by coyotes, I would think, well somebody should have put a fence!
Forgiveness is indeed overrated.
This story reminds me of this doozy.
https://web.archive.org/web/20100427080918/http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2010/04/23/we-are-not-your-weapons-we-are-women
Though not about forgiveness, the subject’s moronic priorities show a similarly damaged psyche.
As a father of two young daughters, it worries me how I will have to explain to them about the coal tax without pushing them towards them. I get along fine with anyone that wants to get along with me, but I’m more than aware of the dangers of letting your guard down around the fellas and fine ladies. Growing up in North Omaha, I’ve had rocks and bottles thrown at me, been chased by a group of aspiring rappers, had shit snatched right of my hand by a gorilla at the gas station, etc. A girl I went to school with was walking home from a friends house at night and was dragged behind McMillan Junior High and gang raped by about four of five joggers, and they were never caught. If I could, I’d move to the country tomorrow, but for now we’ll have to just remain vigilant and teach them the dangers of the world. They’ll learn from their own experiences over time about how different we are, I only hope they don’t have to learn it the hardest way.
As for instructing your daughters, I have an idea. When you’re at a big box store with them, and you see a coal burner with four non-white kids in tow by four different fathers (none of them around, of course), it can be a teaching moment.
Show them news articles of dead white women by black men. It works.
Our long-nosed friends just have to be laughing–“We don’t want hate in this household.” Of course, had he exercised what used to be known–when I was his age in the 1980s–as common sense (avoid the ‘groid), he wouldn’t have been within a mile of them. Seems kind of doubtful that they approached him for weed, though, so who knows what was going on.
Look at that jaw. He is an actual Chad meme. She is a Stacy. These animals really do destroy everything. They robbed us of another one of our He-Men before he could reproduce.
As for the reflexive forgiveness, how people grieve is their own business because there is nothing you can do to bring back the dead. But the spectacle of announcing it is a typical SJW virtue-signal that has its roots in the parable of the Pharisee and the Publican, which can be summed up as ‘at least I’m not as bad as that guy’ when appearing before God. It betrays whatever humility these evangelicucks are attempting in scripture itself even before it cheapens the death of their loved one as a mere prop used against those who aren’t so forgiving.
There is some kind of brain disease that’s infected people of mostly Northern European descent that causes them to virtue signal themselves into self-destruction. Maybe it’s just too much wealth, maybe the propaganda has overwhelmed them, maybe it’s a virus created in a lab by Yakub (of black Muslim fame). I don’t get it.
I can’t find the video, but it reminds me of the old SNL skit with Eddie Murphy and Stevie Wonder as the operators of Cottonland, a theme park where wealthy white liberals wracked with white guilt can come on down and get a dose of racial abuse from blacks on an actual plantation. Back when SNL was funny and not afraid to call out vacuous virtue signaling from progressives.
Stevie Wonder spoke up about 5 or 6 years ago about the stupidity of Black Lives Matter, saying -horrors!- ALL lives matter and something like “what difference does it make if we keep killing ourselves?” Of course, he was roundly condemned.
Sad state of affairs for blacks when Stevie Wonder is denounced but they’ll listen to an execrable little twerp like Spike Lee.
Stevie’s father would force his mother to prostitute herself.
Wow. I never saw that episode of SNL, but the way you describe it – it would have hilariously funny, but only for people who are fully red pilled on the race issue and who perhaps incorrectly thought it was sarcastic humor, poking fun of white guilt ridden liberals. I might have viewed it the same way, back then.
Another way of interpreting the intent the writers who came up with that skit is that they were using it to ‘condition’ White viewers to absorb the ‘White liberal guilt’ of the White liberal participants in that SNL skit and begin to feel it themselves.
While I never watch any of the late night TV shows, I have watched a few short clips from some of them on youtube – and no matter which host’s show I watch, the host can stand on stage and say the most racist, anti-White crap you can imagine – and the audience will give him the loudest and most prolonged applause. So, is that applause real or is it being dubbed in? And, I would assume that audiences for these late night talk shows are majority White and probably majority White liberals. If my assumption is true, and if the applause is real and not dubbed in – then that shows us how effective the jews have been in programming Whites to hate their own race.
Presumably though the Vikings did not think that way. Can’t imagine Vikings taking too kindly to their women being raped by refugees, let alone even letting them in without some sort of enslavement of them.
I think it’s the taboo of being labeled a racist. Our diversity is our greatest strength, even when it kills our kin. I mean, look at Tibbets’ Father. Pretty much saying, “sucks my daughter’s dead from some Mexican, but I still get my tacos!” It’s the very embodiment of selling your birthright for lentils like the Jacob and Esau story in the Bible.
Virtue-Signaling Yourself to Death
The first paragraph is worth the price of admission. Such eloquent suicide notes the self-immolaters leave, skipping this part: “OW! OW! I’m on fire! Fuck my contrived ideals! Put me out!”
she was in on the murder simple
It gobsmacks me how much that social programming can rewire a person’s healthy instincts, turning people into lemmings and all that.
Like preferring to date in your own race as being called sexual racism, which is what some academics call it.
I hadn’t heard that one. I’ll have to look into it if I come across it. The cynic in me also informs me exactly which kind of professors might do that.
And now we are also guilty of “Volume Racism”…. https://rmx.news/article/ngos-and-activists-claim-white-people-are-racist-for-complaining-about-too-much-noise-label-it-volume-racism/
Norman Schwarzkopf mentioned being stationed in what was the nation of West Germany in the late 70’s in his autobiography. He talks about how off duty soldiers would go into German cities with boom boxes on their shoulders blaring music and the problems it caused. He said that Germans valued quietness and that this was a type of culture clash. Another thing, some leftists have advocated that we shouldn’t think negatively of graffiti, that it’s vibrant and artistic.
I can fully sympathize with our German brothers and sisters, regarding the appreciation they have for peaceful and wonderful ‘silence’. I share that quality myself.
Thankfully, those old style ‘boom boxes’ have seemed to have gone the way of the dinosaurs and have been replaced by these mickey-mouse ear style of Ghetto blaster headphones, so the filthy lyrics of black rap is now more often confined to the empty space between a set of black ears.
There is one downside, however, to this change in technology. With the boom boxes, Whites could hear the lyrics of rap music that were encouraging blacks to kill whites and rape white women, which would provide us with a ‘heads up’ warning to be wary around them. Now, those kill and rape Whitey lyrics are being silently absorbed by blacks without the ability of nearby Whites to hear them. Which might help explain why so many Whites these days are unable to realize how dangerous it is for them to mingle with blacks.
Hence, every week we are seeing articles like this one:
https://www.unz.com/article/about-twenty-black-on-white-homicides-plus-three-asian-victims-september-2022-another-month-in-the-death-of-white-america/
Absolutely!
At the risk of oversimplifying, it all boils down to being terrified by the really scary story. “Hell, you say? That sounds painful! Tell me, how can I avoid that?”
Seriously, the only reason more people don’t cast off this eschatological S&M is because hell is scary and final.
“But if you do not forgive others their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins.” (Matthew 6:15)
Possibly the most reckless words ever spoken.
Many people find it easier, both, for health reasons and to get on with their lives by forgiving those that sin against them. However, if you look up the other verses regarding murder the higher power, the state is required to put the murderer to death and unrepentant murderers on their death are doomed by an even higher power.
Many people also find it easier to not take their own side. The problem is thinking that “easier” is somehow a good thing. It’s not.
Jesus was given to hyperbole (e.g., pluck out your eye, cut off your hand, you’re committing adultry by thinking about her, etc.), which isn’t such a big deal, I suppose, unless people start believing you’re God! Then, your words have a far greater chance of being taken literally, for some reason. And racially conscious people (i.e., normal, natural people) may stave off that poison for a while, centuries even. But give that poison enough time and, like arsenical Victorian wallpaper, it will eventually sicken everyone within its walls.
Brother Stair, the apocalyptic preacher I’ve frequently written about here, mocks preppers who think that some gold and freeze-dried oatmeal will let them deal with God’s Wrath on The Day of the Lord. His people are just biding their time until the Rapture. One such element is guns, and Stair is quite clear that to be a Christian is to not only not kill, but to let oneself be killed. “But Bro. Stair!” he mockingly voices, “What if someone tries to attack you or your compound?” “Then we will give them what we have, or die as Christians. There is no “right to self defense” in the Bible, you worldly apostates and children of the devil!”
He’s absolutely right, of course. This is one of those things that the Early Christians may have taught, since Doomsday was coming in a couple weeks at most. Gradually, it was silently replaced with more worldly teachings (like celibacy became “holy matrimony” to deal with all the blue balls developing as God delayed). It’s the sort of thing religions do to become practical — or as Stair and other fanatics would say, “compromising with the Devil.”
The problem started, of course, when the Prots let everyone read the Bible. How “Christian Nationalists” intend to deal with this to prevent the outbreaks of wild enthusiasm America Prots are prone to, I don’t know and likely they don’t even see the problem. A state composed of these yokels would quickly be conquered by the Woke and wokeness would be imposed by armed force (Cf. Waco or Ruby Ridge).
>There is no “right to self defense” in the Bible, you worldly apostates and children of the devil!”
He’s absolutely right, of course
Cope. “I come not to bring peace, but a sword”. Also, the Crusaders were Christian.
The “sword” is the Word of God, which cuts both ways. It separates the Chosen from the world. It doesn’t give them a license to kill.
But after all, the whole book is just a bunch of contradictions. That’s why the Church locked it away, and Catholics rely on the teaching of the Church. Once you let people read it, you get 600 denominations at war with each other.
He’s not even slightly correct. Christianity is not a deathwish religion (not theologically, though maybe sociologically as it has been radically deformed in the postwar era to seem so). Men do not have a right to commit suicide (except in the rarest and most self-sacrificing of circumstances), nor do they have a right to allow innocents to be slaughtered in their presence. Who is “Brother Stair”, and since when has this yokel become the oracle of Christian meaning?
The theological ignorance routinely displayed by white nationalists is both appalling and dismaying; the former, because it is so obvious to anyone reared intelligently in the Faith; the latter, because it is so obvious that the only hope for white preservation lay through the “racial neutralization” of Christianity (by which I mean, the demonstration of the non-imperativeness of race cuckery for Christian whites; put another way, the moral allowability of racial patriotism for whites). White nationalism had better win Christian acceptance (among those Christian whites who correctly know in their guts that there is no contradiction between embracing Christ and resisting white genocide), or our race is doomed. I mean that literally (and on so many different levels).
Empirical reality (the evidence in front of us) is not always dispositive, but it always means something. It is undeniable that, as the West has secularized, it has become more liberal, which includes racially suicidal and Negro-worshipful. Is there a causal relationship? I don’t know, though it’s at least suggestive, as is the fact that most atheists are liberals. There is no logical relation between atheism and cuckery, but there seems to be a psychological and sociological one.
What is obvious is that our task is to make the case for white preservationism in ways that modal white Christians find morally and theologically acceptable. Mocking the Faith, or making wild-eyed claims about some necessary (‘deep’) link between cuckery and Christ, is not going to help. But hey, stay in your little ideological ghetto! It’s so much easier to convert white Christians to atheism than to race realism – not!
“How “Christian Nationalists” intend to deal with this to prevent the outbreaks of wild enthusiasm America Prots are prone to, I don’t know and likely they don’t even see the problem.”
That is what bothers me the most about Christianity. (Getting past its Jewish origins would be easier, even!)
Quintessentially, its doctrine is this:
What God says goes, even when it contradicts everything your good sense tells you is true.
If you don’t do what God says, you’ll pay dearly for it (forever).
Accept mistreatment.
Now doesn’t matter; later does.
Your race doesn’t matter, because everyone is the same, ultimately, before God.”
Trust the plan.
No. This is unacceptable. Paul said to put away childish things. The unintended irony of that statement is incredible.
I sometimes like to watch videos of the Amish, of their apex cooperative accomplishments. Whenever I do, the impressiveness of it always quickly sours, recognizing that a marauding band of black dead-eyed curses of the earth, for example, could take, waste, defile it all, without any resistance, simply because to do so would upset Jesus.
It’s so strange hearing liberals lay out all this evidence that Christian conquerors like the holy Romans and byzantines were racist and ruthless for 1,000 years, and then I come here and you guys apparently argue the exact opposite. I think they are more accurate than you guys are. For 1500 years white Christians in Europe had big families and fought off nonwhite invaders. Then in the americas, the Spaniards showed extreme bravery, especially Cortez, having 300 men and 2,000 tribesmen while marching into a city of 1 million savage Aztecs (the first time).
No I don’t think Christianity is violent nor passive. There’s plenty of war and genocide in the Bible as Sam Harris loves to remind everyone. It can be interpreted either way, like an ink blot test. It’s our genetic stock that has changed as a people. Women have an enormous influence on everything now, ever since their lifespans increased with antibiotics and germ theory. For every white man virtue signaling, there’s some woman in his life that he’s hoping will be pleased, denying him attention or sex unless he dances like a puppet to the modern religious customs of progressives. Two of my old roommates , who were far more racist than me 13 years ago, just admitted that they support racism against whites for the purpose of equity. It’s obviously their new , big city, liberal wives talking. I sent them home with an earful of IQ and crime stats.
I doubt anyone here would fail to recognize the valor and clearsightedness of any white man in history, Christian or otherwise. That’s not it. The question, for me anyway, is whether that racial consciousness was due to Christianity, or in spite of Christianity.
I say it was in spite of Christianity. They simply marched under its banner rather than another, and not enough time had passed to have Christianity’s universalist raw materials used against its adherents, nor had the right kind combination of bad actors and circumstances (i.e., Judeo-Communism).
There are all kinds of (some would say “nominal”) Christians who were also race realists whom I respect, and lionize, frankly: Codreanu, Degrelle, and Hitler, for example.
So, credit where it’s due; these were greater men than I will ever be. But I still believe that Christianity was a mythos of their own crafting, and that they carried it in their wake rather than being swept along in its unnatural, universalistic current.
I don’t know, if I was born last week and didn’t own a history book I might be able to go along with you guys blaming Christianity. Problem is, prior to say the last 50 years, White Christian societies segregated themselves from blacks, ran a hard-core justice system and routinely executed murderers and horse thieves. Even saying a prayer over the felon before hanging him. For 2,000 years Christianity wasn’t a problem and, in fact, the White race flourished while fiercely enforcing its precepts. Only after Christianity has been abandoned have our societies been overun by barbarians. It’d make more sense to blame abandoning Christianity led to this low point in our history.
Yes, but maybe they were less serious about practicing the more socially destructive aspects of Christianity. They may have been saved by hypocrisy.
Prior to the Protestant Reformation, nobody besides the clergy knew what was actually in the Bible. Lords and kings just did what they wanted to and could usually find some clergyman (who just so happened to be a recepient of their patronage) to find a theological justification for their actions, if needed. But usually it wasn’t even needed. People just did what was within their power and their nature to do.
Following the Protestant Reformation people started to actually try and adhere to the teachings of the New Testament. It was slow at first but Europeans have gradually come closer and closer to the actual teachings of the New Testament, up to the present era, in which Progressivism is just a distilled and secularized version of New Testament Christianity. (Old Testament Christianity being just plain Judaism of course)
No. It’s a distant second to “All men are created equal “.
Can’t argue with that.
I don’t think you have any theological understanding of those words. Forgiveness has a specific meaning within Christianity, and it is not a promiscuous one. Forgiveness is an obligation owing only to those who have demonstrated sincere repentance. The surest sign of such sincerity would be for the murderous savages referenced by Goad to demand their own public hangings. Then the loved ones would be under a duty to forgive. This would be easier after the hangings, which would still take place, of course, as a matter of [real] Christian justice.
Never confuse Christianity with liberalism. They are totally different creeds. One is life-affirming, even as it also insists that one’s “true life” is meant to be lived elsewhere (ie, with God). The other is the deathwish of evolutionary defectives. The fact that so many of the genomic defectives have infiltrated ecclesiastical hierarchies, and polluted so much contemporary Christian thinking, in no way nullifies my observation about the timeless antitheticality of Christianity and liberalism.
Oh, but I do.
I spent decades making similar apologia. (After all, what choice did I have? I believed Jesus Christ was God and I was duty-bound to defend him and persuade people to believe in him, too.)
I’ve heard every nuance about this topic, and not a one resembles anything but sophistry.
Nuanced understandings perhaps require patience, study, and openmindedness. You are sort of a fundamentalist in reverse.
Actually(shit, off to a bad start), Amy Biehl was American, she studied here and tried to show us racist whites the way by dropping off black class-mates in the Guguletu(I find that name funny too!) township and got mobbed and dragged out of her 80’s Mazda compact car.
My condolences to the family. I would not be so forgiving.
The other tragedy in this is, judging by the arrest photos of the perps, these youth may have otherwise cured cancer or built the rocketships that take us all to Mars and beyond. Wakanda is writ large all over their faces. We all suffer the loss.
https://bigindynews.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/elijah-wood-georgia-murder-047-1.jpg
Lol! Indeed there were three deaths.
Let’s try to put being seen as not racist aside. What I see are Christians following what the Bible says which is to forgive. The media loves it. Again think of it if it were a black family forgiving a white man for killing their black son. It probably won’t be broadcasted but then again the brother of Botham Jean openly forgave Amber Guyger in court when she was found guilty. That was publicized. What I am saying is if this happened to me, yeah I’d forgive the killer after killed him first.
Your attitude was once widely accepted and was the origin of “cities of sanctuary” which if the murderer got to was safe until the Chief priest died. Civilization grows slowly but dies quickly.
Jonah warned the people of Nineveh and their beasts to repent. Now if you read the book you know that cattle can’t repent or wear sack cloth and cover themselves in ashes. So before throwing stones at the bible you have to know who the players are and the rules of the game. But if you want to think beasts are human, feel free.
The story of Amy Biehl, white Californian child of 2 deranged white Californians, is too awful. Murdered by the objects of her affection in South Africa her vile parents then “forgive” the niggers that caved her head in with a brick and even set up a charity for the killers. There is a photo of the father actually hugging the killer.
Jesus, please save the rest of us from these f**kin deranged followers of yours.
Surely gestures of ‘forgiveness’ are not enough and could even be a symptom of whiteness! They do nothing to aid the incarcerated People of Colour. True Allies would donate to BLM and take up the campaign to Increase the Peace and Defund the Police.
Knee-jerk forgiveness. The pathetic notion that there’s some sort of virtue culled from playing the wide-eyed innocent. Isn’t a lot of what we see and hear today just warmed-over (half-baked?) 60’s poses and pretensions?
On true crime shows, a very common scenario is a white girl -often beautiful, intelligent and accomplished- horribly murdered by the black guy, trailing a mile-long rap sheet, she was “dating.” It’s never going to be a bullet in the head, either.
Invariably, their loved ones -the ones who didn’t say “get the HELL away from him!” say two things: “She only saw the good in people” and “she thought she could change him.”
Never the faintest wisp of “If I could get my hands on him…”
You might want to keep your eyes peeled for the bad, too. You don’t get any posthumous pats on the back for doing otherwise.
If you haven’t read Mr. Goad’s Ode to Bucky Goad, do.
since Larry Krasner became Philadelphia DA in 2018 almost 2200 people have been murdered in that city. if we assume that at least 1800 of those victims were black, and with a black population in Philly of about 700,000 that makes about a 1 in 400 chance of being murdered over the course of 4 years 10 months or so. plus god knows how many abortions. this is of course, the city that brought you murderous doctor Kermit Gosnell. but to illustrate how much 1 in 400 is, imagine your sleepy white town of 30,000 had 75 brutal murders over the course of that time span, mostly men shooting men (sometimes shooting people 34 times, or beating them to death with a rock) it would be hailed as the most evil city in the world. but of course 75, that would actually be less in 5 years than in the real life small towns of East St Louis, or Harvey, not to pick on Illinois too much) but because it’s black, even blacks don’t care about it. but here’s the real kicker, the homicide rate in Philly is behind this year, after Jackson, Birmingham, Rochester, New Orleans, St Louis, Baltimore, Detroit, Memphis, Cleveland, and Milwaukee, plus many other smaller and larger. it’s a self perpetuated slow motion genocide. brought to you by George Soros. and now the same people promoting a heart attack inducing vaccine, perpetuating the slaughter of white on white warfare in the Ukraine, risking nuclear war with Russia, while letting tens of thousands of illegals cross the border every day tell, claiming that will never end badly, also tell us not to notice the mostly black perpetrated homicides rising to numbers never before seen. of course, in 2021 because it is too embarrassing, many cities didn’t report their data to the FBI. many cities have stopped regularly updating the public on crime data. but it’s bad out there, historically bad in general. be vigilant everyone. get armed.
Horrible stuff, though I wonder how often this sort of forgiveness happens so openly. You do sometimes see it after a prison sentence is given, but reckless to do it so soon.
As others are pointing out, how much forgiveness was voiced after George Floyd’s blundered and fatal arrest? 30 years ago in the time of the OJ Simpson trial, Ron Goldman’s dad has had a very ‘never forget’ attitude. He wasn’t racial about it, but certainly wanting justice. And who can forget they way his voice cracked saying, “Ron and Nicole were butchered” to refocus the news headlines about whether there was a racist cop in the mix.
But the answer doesn’t have to be Charles Bronson styled vengeance. Elijah Dewitt’s girlfriend could have said “it’s in the hands of the law”, “I’m too overwhelmed to think about who did this”, “We will all miss him”, or simply “I don’t have any comment”.
You do hear of women who forgive rapists, but I wonder if there are stats if they are more likely to forgive the murder of a loved one than an assailant who attacks them. I do not think I’ve ever heard a rapist being forgiven before the trial.
And this sort of story segues with the sad trends for violent offenders committing more crimes when on bail or early release. They too were given the benefit of the doubt.
When the tables are turned a la Floyd and King there are no talks for forgiveness but mob justice in the form of “peaceful protests.”
Amen. The “forgiveness” ploy is decidedly one-sided despite blacks loving to drop Jesus’ name a lot. How much black “church” is performance art? Histrionics and rabble-rousing?
Apartheid! Apartheid! Apartheid! If it is too embarrassing for whites to advocate for, it must be imposed on them. Blacks wouldn’t mind it either once they saw how much it benefitted their daily lives.
Their forgiveness, at this point, seems un-Christian. They needn’t hate them, as hate tends to hurt the hater more than object; but to forgive the unrepentant is wrong. An unrepentant sinner deserves no forgiveness. They are still in sin. “Go, and sin no more.”
Besides, only God can forgive. At best, they should pray that the killers repent, nothing more.
This kid was obviously a wigger. So my eyes are dry. The lesson here is don’t be a wigger.
Well said! In a perfect world we wouldn’t have a white man named Elijah! What an alien-sounding name! Ee.laay.jaa
My name is Thomas. It’s a hebrew name that means twin. What next? Will you heap scorn on the names Michael, Peter, Paul, John, Mary and Veronica. All names of Israelites, or are they pleasing to your ear and thus above reproach. I say Israelites because our current jews are Askenaz demons from Scythia and not Israelites; though the Israelites were a generation that Christ condemned.
It’s clear that you are a Christian and I understand your point of view. I would never suggest to anyone to dislike their name. Thomas is much better sounding than Elijah but I dare say it, in a PERFECT world no white (I mean European descent) person should have an Israelite name. What is past is past but let’s not choose the name our children from a book belonging to an alien culture.
There are hints here and there that he may have been involved with his murderers in the drug trade and that he went to the bathroom to boink the hispanic girl. Doesn’t make killing him right, of course, but he should have known better than to relax around blacks.
This kid was obviously involved with his killers. It should also be obvious that he was enamored of the gutter and all of the slimy creatures who live in it because gutter life, everything that is low, primitive, obscene and uncivilized is seen as desirable because it represents black culture. This young wigger was a wigger because the culture taught him that he should aspire to dirt and filth.
Was at the ATM with my daughter getting some cash. The unwritten rule, or what at least I perceive to be the unwritten rule, is to not bother a person withdrawing cash at an ATM. The only time I talked to a person at an ATM was when the guy forgot to get his cash and I told him he forgot to get his cash.
This random black guy comes up to me right as I’m taking out the cash and putting it in my wallet. I pretend like I don’t hear him, my concentration both on putting my money in my wallet and also on my daughter. It was in broad daylight so I doubt anything would have happened. Maybe the guy honestly needed help with something and it was merely incidental that I happened to be the person he bumped into. But I erred on the side of caution and went my own merry way. Frankly, the fact he was black did partly influence my decision but even if the guy was white I probably would have done the same thing. It’s just not good optics to come up to someone you never met at an ATM putting $500 in their wallet. I’m guessing if I had engaged talking with him he likely would have given me his sob story and if I could give him some money. He struck up the conversation right as I was in the process of putting the money in my wallet. So that was why I was so “on edge.” I figured I was going to be in a position where a soft mugging was going to quickly escalate into a hard mugging.
I got ripped off from a black guy once who said he had an 8th of weed and when I gave him the $50 he put an empty back in my hand. It was at a 420 rally and had the nerve to tell me, “yo man, lots of cops around.” I guess this is a bit better than being killed and having your loved ones forgiving your murderer.
‘The lesson here is don’t be a wigger.’
Great advice. And detach from participating and spectating in negroid feetsball. Send your white sons and grandsons to MMA lessons where they will develop testosterone and not man-tits.
I wonder if Mollie’s last thought was: “Oh, gee, I hope he doesn’t actually kill me because then this dear soul will have to go to jail for a long time, because so many people in America are racists”?
At this point in time in this country, it wouldn’t surprise me.
When a black felon is killed by police, all the blacks are rebelling against the state, are burning the cities.
When a Jewish “businessman” is proved guilty for something, everything is spinned off to downplay the Jewishness, the evilness, whatever.
When a White does something bad things are blown out of proportion, Whiteness is emphasized, the guilt is cast over the entire race.
Why is this happening? Why do we allow this to happen? Why do we forgive and forget so easily what has been done to us? Who and what can hypnotize huge masses of people to abandon the desire of survival, the desire of justice?
Why the White people always, I mean always and no matter of his proffesed ideology and religion, are rationalizing tragedies, are disengaging from the noble and sacred duty of defending your race and people?
The problem with a lot of white people is that they want to be seen as trendy and fashionable with regards to what is socially acceptable. Not enough of us want to go against the grain of current dogma. Young people in particular are concerned what there peers and the greater society think. They fear being ostracized or labeled as racist. White society has been conditioned by the entertainment industry, the sports industry, academia, and to some extent by religion.
Sadly, I don’t think it is only this.
Take “Killing Whites is the worst thing ever” as a principle, and apply it to everything. Including what some commenters are saying right here, or even this very article of Mr. Goad.
It is easy to blame the parents or the girl as being brainwashed.
The problem is that they are not really protected by their own tribe as long as the Justice is served slowly and mildly. A fast judgment and fast execution of the two killers would send a message of safety and trust so the victims could express themselves. Otherwise they will continue to lie and fake only to protect themselves.
I imagine it takes a great deal of soul-searching and a lot of time before one can really forgive anyone for the senseless murder of someone you really love, like your child. Who knows how deep the girlfriend’s feelings were. The fact that the parents and girlfriend immediately chirped out their forgiveness to reporters screams “fake” to me.
But that is fine for obese, manboobed cuckservative Christian Erick Erickson, who tweeted that this act was quintessentially Christian. Sure, if you think that faking your emotions for the public is Christian.
In a way though, he’s right. Ludovici once commented that religious commandments to feel love, forgiveness, etc. are a breeding ground for systematic phoniness, simply because we have no volitional control over our emotions. At the very best, maybe we can change our feelings with time and reflection and effort. But we can’t just switch them on an off like the lights.
As for Christian theology, shouldn’t forgiveness follow only upon sincere repentance? Maybe popular Protestant religiosity in America has dispensed with repentance along with sincerity. For these people and Erickson, forgiveness is not something that comes at the end of a process of spiritual growth for both the forgiver and the forgiven. It is just fakery, supported by social rewards and punishments. Christianity once ruled Europe with the threat of the stake. Now it is content with empty social signaling.
What was the line about whitewashed tombs filled with rotting corpses?
You beat me to it, I see. When I wrote my comment above I hadn’t yet scrolled down this far in the comments. I don’t know how “fake” these people are, but I always immediately suspect that some kind of performative virtue-signaling is going on – people playing a social “role” expected of “their type” (which could merely be indicative of weakmindedness rather than straight emotional mendacity).
My parents were/are sincere Christians. If I’d been murdered when my father was alive, he would have felt duty-bound either to kill the killers himself, or else hound them (and the prosecutorial authorities) until state justice had been imposed. If I were murdered today, my aged mother, if anyone bothered to ask her opinion, would certainly call for the death penalty.
Whites promiscuously bestowing forgiveness on unrepentant and/or unworthy savages is a Christianist analogue to BLMist “bending a knee” – an act Aquinas I’m certain would have recognized as a form of moral corruption, perhaps even a mockery of God and His law.
Mollie Tibbetts tweeted that she hated White people. The Biehls set up a foundation in SA and hired their daughter’s killers to work there.
RIP Elijah Dewitt. However, the kid should have been raised better to know not to consort with people like his eventual killers.
Too bad this handsome couple didn’t have a chance to produce beautiful, smart White children.
Well said. It’s refreshing to not hear the bile spewed by so-called WNS.
Imagine implying that his association with blacks somehow places blame on his head, for his own murder
Do you hear me RobertGCarter and Jeevly? Blaming him for the name his parents gave him? Shame upon all that spew such vicious bile. You make me sick.
These statements taken at face value are indeed bizarre and distressing to read.
But I’m tempted to translate ‘forgiveness’ in all these particular cases as an inverted, mangled way of de-ascribing agency to blacks because of :
1) the way blacks are,
2) the taboos around race.
I don’t see Christianity as the problem, instead it’s more likely used as an excuse. Discussions on this seem to me a meta dead end.
I also think we should have some compassion, as people in this position can say and do all sorts of things that may seem strange.
You’d have to compare it to cases of white criminals and white victims, but I just wonder if these statements are as much to do with the unsaid seen truth that blacks are primitive animals that are no more in control of morality than an angry baboon. This truth is suppressed and redirected but it’s always there. ‘The baboon has no ability to stop itself doing anything. Therefore the baboon is not really guilty as such, therefore I forgive’.
You could almost say it’s kinda racist.
I don’t like the term subconscious much, but there are non-conscious assessments the brain is making all the time about the world and so the reality of blackness never actually goes away, but open discussion of this is heavily suppressed because of the suffocating social pressures. The demands on people to conform to non-racist frames of seeing are very strong, so black crimes get rephrased in euphemisms like ‘upbringing’,’drugs’ and sometimes ‘rap culture’.
Obviously I am fully against the forced integration we all live under with negroes. But if you had to have it for some insane reason, you can’t use the same standards, laws and punishments for whites as blacks. It doesn’t work. Blacks have to be actually oppressed by white standards in that scenario or there is no justice. And people can’t even describe justice in this scenario anymore or injustice. All they have is this token ‘forgiveness’ for the baboon. That’s all the power they have left.
I sometimes wonder how many people are killed by these stupid inverted fantasies about blacks, racism and so on that are created by the left and Jews.
But another issue, which may be more powerful and distorting is the glamorization and fetishization of negroes in music and sport and the presentation of ‘good blacks’ in the media, and magic negroes in Hollywood. This is very powerful. It makes whites very confused about how they ought to feel about blacks. So confused I understand there are even some WNs who don’t want to live without black music.
All they have is this token ‘forgiveness’ for the baboon. That’s all the power they have left.
Whites have ben stripped of everything else – especially material wealth, apart from this collective internalised detachment from what’s going on around them in relation to the actions of hostile others which enables them to have some kind of God-like over-view – and they know it and like to fetishize it!
there is a passage in an old science fiction by McDonald(?) that described the mechanical throat cutting of whites, who just happened to be in the area, by blacks during a robbery(?) anyway I just remembered that from an old fictional book.
Hah, that old cracker.
This post has the largest swath of comments I’ve ever witnessed.
If we’re lucky this post may hit 6 million.
But are humble all-forgiving Whites such as ourselves worthy enough to generate six million comments to the unduly emboldened and self-entitled author of this essay? Mayhap we all be struck down in our insolence and abandonment of everlasting forgiveness!
Also, I’ll have to agree with Jim’s view of the French. Like Jim, I’ve had personal dealings with them and for the most part they are fairly well up their own backsides. With perhaps the exception of the ones who volunteered to fight in the anti-communist struggle of 1941 to 1945, not forgetting of course those of the AOS and the now banned organisation Generation Identity.
“Forgiveness is overrated. In cases such as this, it’s outright disgusting.”
I have to agree. I despise the womanish mealy-mouthed mewling of those who seem desperate to PUBLICLY forgive in an ostentatious manner.
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