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De’Marquise Elkins, who murdered one-year-old Antonio Santiago in Brunswick, Georgia in March of 2013 (Wikipedia)
My brother Bucky’s killer was never found—I doubt they ever so much as tried to find him—and for all I know it could have been an Arab from the slums of northern Paris.
Still, the French authorities treated his cadaver as if it was a turd. So whether or not it’s logical, I harbor a lingering and lifelong hatred for the French. My brother’s blood means more to me. He was closer to me than the entire French nation could ever be.
And this is the main problem when one discusses tribal instincts and logic. In many if not most cases, they seem incompatible. On one hand, the will to survive and protect one’s progeny makes perfect evolutionary sense; on the other, such instincts often blind people and prevent them from soberly weighing the facts in any given case.
In March 2013 in a small coastal Georgia town, a white woman named Sherry West was strolling her infant son Antonio when a pair of young black males—she said the younger one appeared to be only ten years old—confronted her at gunpoint and demanded her money. She says she told them she didn’t have any money, at which point the older male fired two bullets at her, one grazing her ear and the other hitting her leg. He allegedly then pushed her out of the way and fired a shot point-blank into Antonio’s face, killing him.
Police in Brunswick, GA arrested 17-year-old De’Marquise “Money-ville” Elkins and an unnamed 14-year-old accomplice on suspicion of murder.
Sherry West says she hates the accused killer and wants him to die.
As nature and genetics could have predicted, Elkins’s family members say he has a good heart and couldn’t possibly have shot a baby in the head.
Once again, hot blood trumps cold facts. The “logic” behind blood vengeance is that of personal survival. But it sometimes makes people illogical when dealing with the facts.
One is either blind or retarded to deny that if a pair of white youths had been accused of murdering a thirteen-month-old black baby, it’d be an international news story for months if not decades. There would be righteous marches, keening outrage, a pious comment from Barack Obama, and possibly even riots.
But I’ve yet to see any major news outlet suggest that this murder was a “hate crime.” I tend to believe that this is due to an ongoing national delusion that blacks are perfectly entitled to continue seeking blood vengeance for past atrocities committed against them, although no one seems to have delineated exactly when “justice” will be achieved and everyone can finally calm the hell down and get past all the tribalism.
And I get queasy thinking that the main reason for this is because it may be impossible for people to ever get past what may be a hardwired instinct. Maybe “civil rights” were about vengeance rather than equality all along. Maybe many whites have been lulled into tolerance, only to find that nonwhites interpret this as weakness instead. And maybe there’s no easy way out of this dilemma.
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From an evolutionary standpoint, it makes perfect sense for black Americans to seek vengeance against whites for historical atrocities committed against their kinfolk. And from the same evolutionary standpoint, it makes perfect sense for white Americans to resist such vengeance at all costs. It also makes perfect sense why such a volatile situation is likely to lead to conflict rather than harmony. It isn’t about equality; it’s about survival.
Naturally—in other words, according to nature’s laws—the growing numbers of white people who feel no shame for being white seem convinced that the accused black teens are guilty, that the perps killed the baby merely for being white, and that they deserve to be hanging from trees or beaten into paste by Aryan prison gangs.
And just as naturally, most American blacks who’ve commented on the case don’t seem nearly as outraged. Some of them, joined by a repugnant little cabal of self-loathing white enablers, have gone so far as to allege the mother staged her own son’s death and then framed a pair of innocent black teens.
But since there were no third-party eyewitnesses, only Sherry West, De’Marquise Elkins, and his alleged accomplice know what happened. Yet that doesn’t stop most people from jumping to conclusions, ones that tend to skew according to bloodlines.
I’ll reserve judgment in the case because I wasn’t there and it doesn’t involve any of my family members or close friends. Since I’m not involved on any emotional level, I prefer to hear the facts as they become available, just as I did in the Trayvon Martin case. But if, say, anyone tried to harm my son, I wouldn’t rest until they and three generations of their family were dead. I doubt I’d wait to let the law handle it. I’d operate purely on gut instinct and if my guts told me I’d found the perpetrator, I’d make them rue the day they were born. It wouldn’t be logical, but it’d be perfectly understandable.
(Written in 2013)
7 comments
Uhhmm. Mr. Goad sir….
Why hold a burning hatred for “The French”?
“The French” killed close to 1 million of these nasty Algerian Arabs in the French Algerian war in the 1950s in what was a rathe open race war.
This brutal race war in then French Algeria was (very honestly) depicted in the GOAT terrorism, counter terrorism movie “The Battle of Algiers”. And yes, the ha White Franch counter terrorism military authorities did use torture against Arab terrorist suspects.
I highly, highly recommend the tell all book “The Battle of the Casbah” by French counter terrorism military officer Gen. Paul Ausseress.
https://www.amazon.com/Battle-Casbah-Terrorism-Counterterrorism-1955-1957/dp/1929631308
Mr. Goad Sir. I really like your writing and your world view. Unfortunately this post reflect the same old, same old, head in the sand Amurikun post World War II mindset that:
“The French are sissies, the French never fight. The French would be speaking German if we hadn’t saved them in two world wars.”
No sire. NOPE. Not even close.
“France” is named after the White Germanic tribe “The Franks” led by bad ass, kick ass ha White Frank Germanic White leaders like Charles “the Hammer” Martel who personally led other Frank German French Whites to stop the Black, Arab Muslim invaders, rulers of Moorish Spain from Conquering France.
And yes, the French did collaborate with the Germans in World War II. Why shouldn’t they. The French, Franks various German Germans were of the same blood and soil, White Europeans.
My very slavic Great Aunt Sonia who lived in Paris during the German occupation said the Germans were very honorable White men who would give up their seats to French, Slavic woman like her on the (Safe) Paris Subway. Sure if Js, Communists or French Resistance terrorists planted bombs against the Germans or against Vichy Peton French officials the Germans and French would find the terrorists and kill them, same as the White French did in then French Algeria.
Mr. Goad Sir. Why did you write this nonsense Amurikun patriotard post? Did you go along with the Great Je* Neo Con US/UK war against another “Axis of Evil” Saddam Hussein and later Syria’s Assad were Hitler.
C’mon White brother. You’re too smart and street savvy to fall for this anti French, anti ha White bull SH**.
JR
Jim’s brother was murdered in France, and that was just the beginning. Read the first link in the article: https://counter-currents.com/2025/03/ode-to-bucky-goad
He literally explains in the second paragraph of this very essay why he hates the French and it has nothing to do with politics or patriotism and everything to do with family. Did you actually read it?
“Sherry West says she hates the accused killer and wants him to die.” You should suspect that some disgusting white christian cleric tried to counsel her that hatred is wrong and that she should forgive and love these beasts. 💩
Then that cleric and other enablers of these things can join them in hell where they belong. These horror articles are too enraging for me to further comment on how I really feel so I’ll refrain. The faces of innumerable White victims and families destroyed by this horrid system’s devils and minions should be erected as our holocaust museum in eternal remembrance of what they suffered and what the enemy has done.
St. Patrick’s Day is coming up. What’s on the minds of the Irish?
Israel claims Ireland is legally obligated to accept Palestinian refugees.
Jonathan Pollard, who spied for Israel and sold US secrets, now seeks a political office in Israel. He also wants the Gazans to be moved to the Emerald Isle (and Israel to annex Gaza). How did the US let this gem of a citizen move away?
NPR seems to suggest enormous swathes of the country are taking strong views on the Israel-Palestine conflict because of a ‘shared colonial experience’.
Maybe these headlines are more appropriate for the Ides of March than the feast of St. Patrick.
“From an evolutionary standpoint, it makes perfect sense for black Americans to seek vengeance against whites for historical atrocities committed against their kinfolk.”
There is a Thomas Jefferson quote that says much the same thing.
I sometimes wonder what I would think about white people (including myself) if what is apparently being taught as history today was really true: that the history of slavery is solely about whites enslaving blacks.
But given the truth, we are forced to conclude (aren’t we?) that there is no special inborn predilection within white people to enslave members of others races. In fact whites actually seem LESS guilty for many reasons, including that whites fought to abolish slavery. (None of this is new to anybody here – certainly not to Jim – but I felt the need to comment.)
So can black people come to this same conclusion? Well at least some of them can (or at least one can):
https://www.tampabay.com/archive/1998/03/23/don-t-apologize-african-tells-clinton/
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