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I’m a cop killer, better you than me
Cop killer, fuck police brutality!
Cop killer, I know your family’s grieving, fuck ’em!
Cop killer, but tonight, we get even, ha ha!
—Body Count & Ice-T, “Cop Killer“
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It was the summer of 1992. The presidential primaries had ended but the November showdown between George Bush the Greater (but still pretty bad) and Bill Clinton in what would be the first post-Cold War presidential election had not yet come. There were many campaign issues flying around that summer. There were your run-of-the-mills: abortion, the economy; there were issues specific to the candidates like Bill Clinton’s womanizing and Bush’s broken “Read my lips: no new taxes” pledge; and there was one unlikely campaign issue that year having to do with a song by rapper Ice-T’s heavy metal side project, Body Count. The song was called “Cop Killer.”
They don’t have musical controversies anymore or at least not like they used to. Every once in a while nowadays, a song will come out that will get liberals flustered or musicians will wear something in a performance that outrages conservatives, but in the 1980s and 1990s, politicians were often compelled to comment on the state of pop music lyrics. One of the most famous examples of this was the 1985 senate hearings on offensive lyrics where people like Frank Zappa and even Dee Snider of Twisted Sister testified.
Those senate hearings seem almost quaint now when you look at some of the things the Parents Music Resource Center (PMRC) was objecting to. Apparently, songs as milquetoast as Madonna’s “Dress You Up” and Cindy Lauper’s “She Bop” had Tipper Gore reaching for the smelling salts. However, by the end of the 1980s, nihilistic hardcore rap came to the fore and was an order of magnitude more offensive than anything to ever previously receive wide release.
Obviously, there was N.W.A., the group that put gangsta rap on the map. I remember hearing Straight Outta Compton when it was released and it is impossible to describe what it was like to anyone who wasn’t around back then. I could not believe what I was hearing. Swearing in music was rare but with N.W.A., it was in every line and I had never heard blacks call each other “niggas” before. Less well remembered were 2 Live Crew, who in their prime were nearly as infamous as N.W.A. and whose porn rap lyrics were so offensive that their album was briefly illegal in the state of Florida. 2 Live Crew are not as well-remembered today because they were terrible rappers whose appeal was based almost entirely on shock value.
Ice-T, like his similarly named fellow Californian, Ice Cube from N.W.A., was one of the pioneers of what would become known as gangsta rap (if you define it as rapping from the perspective of a criminal) but in reality, he was a lot more normie than his persona would have you believe. He had a white mother and served two years in the U.S. Army. His rise to prominence in the world of rap was slow and he was pushing 30 when he finally made his first album, Rhyme Pays, which was was released in 1987. Ice-T’s fourth album O.G. Original Gangster went to #15 on the charts, a fairly impressive result for a hardcore rap album at the time. While recording that album, Ice-T decided on a whim to include a metal song. He gathered together some friends from high school and they banged out a heavy song called “Body Count.” Ice-T liked the results well enough, so he decided to slide the band into a side project also called Body Count.
Rap and thrash metal were two genres that were underground throughout most of the 1980s but then broke into the mainstream around the turn of the decade. Body Count was an attempt to fuse those two genres but not in the “metal rap” style, where people rap over loud guitars. Rather, Body Count were a traditional metal band with the lyrical content more closely associated with rap. In other words, speed metal songs about the hood and the like.
Before going into the studio, Ice-T took his new band on the road with the inaugural Lalapalooza tour. Once the tour was complete, the debut Body Count album was recorded from September to December 1991. There wasn’t much reason to expect Body Count to make a big splash. For one, it was a side project, which is usually considered a kind of optional purchase for diehard fans. Secondly, Body Count were, let’s be frank here, a novelty act. An all-black rock band is inherently gimmicky but add some black nationalism and you are a band of cartoon characters. Third, you would expect blacks to be put off by the metal music and whites to be put off by a black guy who does not specialize in the genre doing metal. However, the group became successful beyond all expectations largely due to the album’s closing track “Cop Killer.”
“Cop Killer” is not a good song. Worse yet, it’s not very original. It sounds like a cynical attempt to make a hard rock version of N.W.A.’s “Fuck the Police” and a self-conscious attempt to replicate that songs controversy. There is even a bridge portion of the song where they repeat “Fuck the Police.”
(Fuck the police) for Darryl Gates
(Fuck the police) for Rodney King
(Fuck the police) for my dead homies
(Fuck the police) for your freedom
(Fuck the police) don’t be a pussy
(Fuck the police) have some muthafuckin’ courage
(Fuck the police) sing along
N.W.A.’s song at least made some pretense at social commentary in describing the various misdeeds committed by law enforcement while “Cop Killer” was just about killing cops. It seemed to aim for the same effect purely through shock value.
I got my twelve gauge sawed-off
I got my headlights turned off
I’m ’bout to bust some shots off
I’m ’bout to dust some cops off
I don’t know what else to say about the song itself other than that it is not good and that it’s kind of a low effort rip-off of another song. However, fortune smiled upon Ice-T, as one week before the release of Body Count’s debut album, the Los Angeles riots broke out and dominated the news for some time afterwards. This backdrop of public concern over police misconduct and violent black backlash allowed the album’s final track “Cop Killer” to become a full-scale moral panic.
Releasing a pro-cop-killing song immediately after the Los Angeles riots would be like putting out a pro-Islam track in the wake of 9-11. After such an explosive event, people were keen for a return to normalcy and a reconciliation between blacks and law enforcement. But Ice-T came out, attempting to fan the flames ever hotter. At first, police associations issued condemnations and boycotts of Time Warner, which released the album. Gradually, the controversy went more viral, eventually turning into a firestorm. Before long, this led to every major politician all the way up to the president issuing condemnations of the song and the “artist” (Bill Clinton did so through a press release).
The song still had its defenders. Some gave blanket free speech defenses. Others claimed that the song did have a social commentary (in its own way). Many pointed to Eric Clapton’s hit song “I Shot the Sheriff,” which faced no controversy, as evidence of a racist double standard at work.
This is what sets “Cop Killer” apart from N.W.A.’s “Fuck the Police.” There was a significant establishment pushback against the Body Count song. One of the more amusing aspects of the controversy was straight-laced squares reciting the song’s lyrics in an attempt to shame Time Warner, the most famous of such renditions being read by Charlton Heston. Fifteen hundred stores pulled the album. Shareholders and other interests started applying pressure on Time Warner.
As happens with all pop culture moral panics, the controversy around “Cop Killer” saw the albums sales spike 400 percent, thus turning Body Count from a simple side project to a legitimate mainstream act.
Ultimately, Ice-T relented and agreed to drop the song from the album and replace it with another called “Freedom of Speech.” All copies of the album were recalled and a new version without the offending track was reissued. “Cop Killer” was arguably the last great win of the church ladies and busybodies as attempts to silence Marilyn Manson a few years later proved futile. These days, they don’t even bother to get outraged.
While the Body Count album was a commercial success, Time Warner decided that Ice-T was more trouble than he was worth. They parted ways in early 1993.
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Amusingly, Ice-T went on to play a police detective on Law and Order: SVU, for 25 years now and counting. I cannot believe they have made 25 seasons of that terrible TV show.
Amusingly, the show has had many non-white actors, so you should LOVE it.
Your test results have come back, and it’s my sad duty to tell you that you have autism.
Oh man I loved this album (uncensored original version of course) and this song back then, I was 22 and couldn’t get enough of the really lurid and explicit music that was put out by heavy metal artists and gangsta rappers like Ice-T. When he started dabbling in metal on his already cool rap records, I was all in. And when Body Count was formed, I dug the hybrid style music and the massive mainstream controversy. Cop Killer is the famous “hit” but The Winner Loses told the terrible tale of cocaine addiction that so many of us were being subjected to at the time. What brought blacks and whites together back then? Crack cocaine transactions on the downtown streets.
Jeffrey A Freeman: March 18, 2025 Oh man I loved this album (uncensored original version of course) and this song back then, I was 22 and couldn’t get enough of the really lurid and explicit music that was put out by heavy metal artists and gangsta rappers like Ice-T. When he started dabbling in metal on his already cool rap records, I was all in… I dug the hybrid style music and the massive mainstream controversy. Cop Killer is the famous “hit” but The Winner Loses told the terrible tale of cocaine addiction that so many of us were being subjected to at the time. What brought blacks and whites together back then? Crack cocaine transactions on the downtown streets.
You are a piece of work, Jeffrey. From one crazy extreme to another. First, you’re “all in” with the nasty, race-mixing nigger gangsta rapper and now you’re all in with Christ the King. Yet you want to tell your story today on this site as a so-called white nationalist.
Irredeemable is what you are. Where’s the Ignore button?
Dude I was 22.
I’m 55 today and a changed man.
Ane yes, pro-white, pro-USA.
Jeffrey A Freeman: March 20, 2025 Dude I was 22. I’m 55 today and a changed man.
Ane yes, pro-white, pro-USA.
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One excuse for extreme swings is as good as another.
You brag about your gullibility, and crazy swings from lover of nigger gansta rap to Jesus lover to now claiming to be a pro-White changed man. What’s next for you, Jeffrey?
You sincerely believe that your imaginary Jewish rabbi Jesus will save our race. That’s an insane position for one who styles himself pro-White to promote, and reason enough why SPLC/ADL can call a poster boy like you an “extremist.”
You have a lot to learn.
Purity spiral into the grave
I wonder if the slide toward ever-greater depravity is inevitable or, if not, whether it was engineered or accidental. There must be conditions that cause an upward climb towards high culture, and contrary conditions that plunge the culture into the gutter. It’s possible that it’s inherently cyclical, but maybe not. Pushing the envelope can be fun, and “fresh”, and exciting, but keep pushing and everything goes to shit.
The most important sociological project we could embark upon would be to distill from history the conditions for society’s maintenance and upward development. But I’d guess the results would be -ist and -phobic…
Ya know, people talk about the 1980s as being a very conservative era but I remember it as an era where everything was taken to the extreme. It was the decade of heavy metal which was an extreme form of rock and roll and then thrash metal which was an extreme form of metal. Guitar solos became extremely fast. The slasher movie genre took horror and graphic violence to new extremes. Stallone and Arnold took action movies to the extreme. 80s hair was extremely big. Nudity in movies was gratuitous to the extreme.
I see the emergence of hardcore rap at the end of the decade as being part of a greater general zeitgeist where the public had an insatiable appetite for all things extreme. However, in the 1990s, the slasher movies, thrash metal, shred guitar, and big hair subsided but the gangsta rap remained.
Perhaps it was thought conservative due to it being the last, failed gasp of conservatives just before they abandoned another front in the culture war they’ve been losing for decades – that front being obscenity in music and film. I think there were still anti-pornography protests in the streets in the 80s, but that’s almost unthinkable today.
And I have to admit that I like some of the things you mentioned and I’m not sure they’re even bad (like the whole Arnold phenomenon). In general I’m opposed to prudery. But I’d give them all up if I knew they were degrading our people.
The 80’s were only seen as conservative compared to the 70’s.
I think the pop culture of the 80’s was starting become dominated by coke-head Boomers, which is where that over-the-top energy came from. Everything had to be bigger and better and louder. However, politics was still dominated by the WW2 generation.
Were the 1980s extreme, or merely a since-unparalleled decade of American pop cultural excellence?
We have to go back
I maintain that the United States was at its creative peak during the interwar period.
In terms of music, the British arguably defined the sound of 1980s more than the Americans. When someone says that something “sounds very 1980s”, they are almost always referring to 1980s synthpop which was a British innovation. Rarely do I hear people say that to mean something sounds like hair metal.
True enough. The 80’s sound is primarily built around that gated reverb effect. I don’t know if the British started that effect, but they definitely popularized it.
80s were a great decade for Hollywood though, and especially for White creators in Hollywood. Blade Runner, Robocop, Aliens, Blue Velvet…
Having grown up during the 80s, I’m always astounded at how it’s completely misrepresented in the MSM in so many respects. The biggest example I can think of the description of it as an “era of greed.” This is especially rich in the 2020s, which might be the most corporatized, homogenized, intellectually conformist era in the history of the U.S. Were people greedy in the 80s? Sure, but they were also greedy in the 90s, the 00s, and so on. There was nothing particularly materialistic or shallow about the 80s, at least not in comparison to the decades that came after. The “era of greed” was much more a media creation than it was an actual reality.
And yes, music is another bit of “misinformation” (as our Talmudic overlords call it) when it comes to the 80s. Yes, new wave was huge, especially in the early part of the decade, but the same decade also so more musical diversity (real diversity, not the “civil right” kind) than almost any previous decade–rap, glam metal, thrash metal, alternative, EDM, experimental, classic rock, southern rock, all thrived during the 80s. Hell even hardcore punk (a genre I despise) saw a big resurgence in the early 80s.
“There is a tide in the affairs of men …” – and I suggest it’s running hard against the survival of the West. We’re locked in a swift moving channel that, absent hard measures to extract ourselves, will lead inevitably to our onrushing doom (and as we’ve been heading down this path longer than this aging fellow has been alive, much sooner now than later).
The questions you ask are close to as profound as there are in matters of social ontology and cultural evolution. The only modern historical episodes I can think of in which behavioral slovenliness and cultural decline were arrested, and for a time reversed, were Victorian Britain and the German Third Reich. Both were self-conscious reactions to, respectively, moral and racio-cultural degeneracy. The Victorians did, for a while (until the West lost its confidence in WW1, and later died, I still think likely, at Stalingrad), clean up Gin Alley, and the Nazis rapidly and effectively did away with the Weimar filth.
Can we clean up the West today? Yes, but not without civil war and a sustained period of brutal coercion. Many whites revel in degeneracy, moral and racial (fortunately, both types tend to be found in the same persons). We’re dealing with the oft-cited “clash of absolutes”, which I believe really comes down to a “clash of genomes”. Although the Right is correct and the Left incorrect (I mean, our correctness can be demonstrated rationally and empirically), many (most?) are incapable of distinguishing truth even when shoved in their faces. People’s political preferences have many ‘fathers’, but ultimately they come down to (mostly unexamined) absolute values about which there is no general agreement (thus the Left is not altogether wrong in seeing power as the base of all aspects of society; they are wrong, however, in my view, in failing to see that particular, but obviously not all, forms of power/coercion can be justified via universal standards – of logic, science, and ethics – which I further believe to exist).
Ultimately, the buck has to stop somewhere; someone must make a decision.
I think a better approach is sortition (which is at the heart of Ethnostatist thought). Rather than fantasizing about taking back and cleaning up everything all at once, we must treat the resurrection of the West as centuries-long project, lighting the fires of imagination in generations of white men. It is a project first of genomic self-segregation; then collective genomic separation; later, genomic superbreeding and strengthening; finally, genomic expansion and recolonization of lost territories.
The cleaning up of Weimar did not only have good effects. German cinema for example declined severely, with only a few really good films being made in the Third Reich.
Hays Code in USA was a a bit more successful cleaning up attempt. Many pre-code movies were exciting, realistic and daring in a way that could not be done after 1934. Lots of silly, moralistic and prudish rules were introduced (such as couples, even married, could never be shown sleeping in one bed). But on the other hand Hollywood’s Golden Age was ushered in. It however could not last like that forever because general mores changed quickly, and when they Hays Code was dropped in the sixties it rejuvenated American cinema.
The slide toward ‘ever-greater depravity’ was absolutely engineered by The Frankfurt School and its adherents. 109 countries was a good start, but in the end woefully insufficient.
I was a teenager back then and remember it all. I miss scandals and outrage like that. The only moral panic we get today is when zoomers in Germany play “L’amour toujours”.
Indeed, rap music has been pushing the “edgy” envelope since way back when. Still, how subversive can something really be when it’s selling like hotcakes at corporate chain stores? All this ooga-booga music comes across as faux rebellion.
Meanwhile, back then, it was very difficult to get Skrewdriver titles, as well as other skinhead music and Rock Against Communism acts. Also, if you wanted to buy William Pierce’s naughty novels, you had to get it from the National Alliance. Fortunately I knew someone who knew someone. You couldn’t get that at the mall!
Sympathy for a Negro crossing over would have been the only reason to like this derivative album. It was just awful. I know; I bought it when it came out and in a gesture of hardcore-scene solidary…tried. But t’was impossible.
From Cop Killer to a multi decades long run as a crime fighter. A knuckle dragger’s IQ as evidenced by his base product to foiling criminal masterminds. The Mayorkas/Blinken/Garland regime was way over the top. However, the degeneracy and absurdity has been breathtaking for a very long time as this author and article point out so well.
Remember the 80s with The People’s Court and Phil Donahue and then Oprah. Then the 90s came in with clown court show after clown court show and then the rise of Maury Povich and other massively accelerated post-civilizational blotches. I suppose it was a portent that I would end up here that being young I saw all of that, was deeply disturbed and rejected it wholesale.
It has been rotting for a very long time. Ice-T, the public that consumes him, and the entertainment industry that promotes him is a poster child for the long-standing absurdity of a fallen civilization. All is not lost, and it is we who will save what we can.
I was eleven when this came out and my friends and I couldn’t wait to get our hands on it. As a metal album, it’s pretty laughable but has a few moments. Now that I am grown up and a little more aware of the real world, I sympathize more with Charleton Heston than the MTV crowd.
I met Ice-T in 2006 when he came to Omaha to speak at an event for a new library branch. I had this album on cd and cassette autographed as well as a vinyl copy of his 1988 album Power. When I was talking with him I told him that when I was a kid I had to hide his stuff under my bed or else my mom would throw it away but now he stars every night on one of her favorite shows. He looked at me with a grin and said “Tell your mom I said wassup.” He was a pretty nice guy and probably the only true celebrity I have ever met.
I remember in 1994 or so reading that the Body Count guitarist was producing Black Sabbath’s album. Iommi and Geezer were described as actually listening to his suggestions and doing what he said to do. Ice T said that the Body Count guitarist was a Black Sabbath expert. I wonder what that album sounds like, because it stiffed commercially, I believe.
Nice flashback article but a very abrupt conclusion. It felt like you accidentally clicked “post” whilst in the middle of typing.
Yeah, I didn’t quite stick the landing.
Solid “B-side” addition
Buttercup Dew, commenting under my response to Jeffrey Freeman: March 21, 2025 Purity spiral into the grave
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Thanks, I think, Buttercup. I prefer straight talk so don’t know what purity spiral means. WikiJews tell us the following and I still don’t know what it means:
A purity spiral is a theory which argues for the existence of a form of groupthink in which it becomes more beneficial to hold certain views than to not hold them, and more extreme views are rewarded while expressing doubt, nuance, or moderation is punished (a process sometimes called “moral outbidding”). It is argued that this feedback loop leads to members competing to demonstrate the zealotry or purity of their views…
I believe I know what groupthink is. Jews think as a group for their group’s benefit, so do Blacks — so do groups that are anti-White think alike. Tucker Carlson would always glibly sign off his TV show each night as a “sworn enemy of groupthink.” Of course the White race is a group that does not think as a group for its own interests, but should.
Purity spiraling is a pejorative term created by alt-right clowns to justify lowering standards in order to attract more low quality people, including non-whites into their failed big tent freak show. You have high standards Will, and anytime some buffoon uses the term “purity Spiral” they are admitting they have no standards for White excellence. Carry on.
Prototype 3: March 21, 2025 Purity spiraling is a pejorative term created by alt-right clowns to justify lowering standards in order to attract more low quality people, including non-whites into their failed big tent freak show. You have high standards Will, and anytime some buffoon uses the term “purity Spiral” they are admitting they have no standards for White excellence. Carry on.
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Thank you, sir. I had a feeling purity spiraling was another of those cutesy terms like “cuckservative,” meant to impress somebody besides me, that came out of the alt-right. I can name a few more, but will leave it at that for fear that folks might think I’m dog whistling, or virtue signaling or gas lighting. ;o}
Read Dirty Hands by Sartre. The best work of literature about radical politics and the kind of people who get into it.
“How you cling to your purity, young man! How afraid you are to soil your hands! All right, stay pure! What good will it do? Purity is an idea for a yogi or a monk. You intellectuals and bourgeois anarchists use it as a pretext for doing nothing. To do nothing, to remain motionless, arms at your sides, wearing kid gloves. Well, I have dirty hands. Right in to the elbows.”
”You don’t love men, Hugo. You love only principles. Your purity resembles death. You don’t want to change the world, you want to blow it up.”
You really must read ‘”Anti-Semite And Jew” by Sartre. In this bit of intellectual syphilis, Sartre describes “Anti-Semitism” as something that is generated by irrational passion, rather than rational personal experience and empirical evidence. The world will always have it’s intellectual Flimflam men.
Purist: a person who has very strong ideas about what is correct or acceptable and who usually opposes changes to traditional methods and practices.
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Travis LeBlanc: March 22, 2025 Read Dirty Hands by Sartre. The best work of literature about radical politics and the kind of people who get into it.
“How you cling to your purity, young man! How afraid you are to soil your hands! All right, stay pure! What good will it do? Purity is an idea for a yogi or a monk. You intellectuals and bourgeois anarchists use it as a pretext for doing nothing. To do nothing, to remain motionless, arms at your sides, wearing kid gloves. Well, I have dirty hands. Right in to the elbows.”
”You don’t love men, Hugo. You love only principles. Your purity resembles death. You don’t want to change the world, you want to blow it up.”
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It’s difficult to know the context of Travis’s Sartre quotes to “Hugo,” but they seem to intend here to place a principled White purist in a negative light.
I’ve been called a purist for our cause of racial separation/preservation. I accept that in the best sense of the word; I’m not one to compromise on fundamentals of that cause.
When it comes to taking a position on the disgusting nigger, “Ice T,” he fits at least the first two aspects of my hard line:
I don’t want to see ’em (TV shows and commercials); I don’t want to hear ’em (gangsta rap); I don’t want to smell ’em!
I have inherited an organization with more than 90 percent fewer members than when its founder, Dr. William L. Pierce, died in 2002. Yet I see our glass as half-full. We get a fresh start and a clean slate, beginning hopefully where Dr. Pierce left off.
It was more than ten years ago that I said that in this interview, and can safely say that I have not compromised on the hard line separatist principles on which Dr. Pierce founded the National Alliance 50 years ago ever since: Heritage and Destiny Interviews Will Williams | National Vanguard
One month ago NA’s Media Director Kevin Strom emphasized the following in our weekly American Dissident Voices broadcast: Compromise Kills | National Vanguard
There are some things on which one cannot compromise, because the cost is death or dishonor. Sometimes: racial death.
One cannot compromise on “how many times” Andrew Tate can sexually enslave your daughter. Zero is the only possible number, and one should live — and die if necessary — to enforce that (see Travis’s essay: Andrew Tate and the Small Movement Mindset). One also cannot compromise on “how many” media corporations Jews shall be allowed to own in your nation. Again, zero is the only possible number. And — something I have stressed probably hundreds of times in my writings — contrary to what conservatives and populists are saying, zero is also the only tolerable number of non-Whites (which emphatically includes Jews) that should be allowed to reside and own properties in White nations. Any other number besides zero is fatal, if not in your generation, then in the next or the next after that. And we need to be open, insistent, relentless, and absolutely uncompromising about that.
Even if, in our own lifetimes, we fail to establish our uncompromising new order based on that latter principle, our efforts will move society at least some distance in the right direction, much further than it would have moved should we keep silent or agree to the compromises proposed by our enemies and by the weak — and will inspire future generations by example, so they can continue and expand our work. Look at the great life-work of Hitler and the National Socialists. They lost the battle, but the war is far from over. And their great example, and heroic sacrifice, are not forgotten. Their ideals will one day be the basis for a world-changing political and spiritual movement — and religion — whose greatest incarnation so far is William Pierce’s Cosmotheism. It isn’t over.
Purity is just a form of narcissism.
Real revolutionaries don’t have principles. They have goals.
Please pardon my delayed response. I’ve had a medical emergency the past few days.
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Travis LeBlanc: March 24, 2025 Purity is just a form of narcissism.
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I see. Are you sure about that? How did Mirriam-Webster miss your definition?
purity – noun, ˈpyu̇r-ə-tē as in innocence: the quality or state of being morally pure
Example: struggling to live a life of purity while surrounded by wickedness.
narcissism – noun,ˈnär-sə-ˌsi-zəm as in selfness; excessive interest in oneself 1: egoism, egocentrism 2: narcissistic personality disorder3: love of or sexual desire of one’s own body.
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Real revolutionaries don’t have principles. They have goals.
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Do you consider yourself you a revolutionary, Travis? If so, what are your goals?
Nigger jungle music, especially gangsta rap, has no place in a healthful White society. As a “small group” vanguardist — revolutionary by definition — that’s my position as a serious White separatist.
An activist should be a public servant. You do what you do for other people.
People who talk about their principles are making it about themselves. They don’t want to violate their principles because that would make themselves feel bad or because it would shatter a self-image they have of themselves.
Violating your principles is just another kind of sacrifice that you will sometimes have to make for the cause. If shaking hands with the devil is in the best interest of the people you serve, then to hell with your principles.
“I Shot the Sheriff” wasn’t by Eric Clapton, he just covered Bob Marley’s original version, so it’s actually a song from the perspective of a black criminal killing a (probably white) law enforcement officer.
Also, for a very long time, I’ve found it quite amusing that the Sheriff’s name in the song is “John Brown”.
Read about the fanatic nutcase John Brown here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Brown_(abolitionist)
The whole movement to get the song banned was censorship. I know there has always been a cancel culture, but free speech isn’t just the law. It is an idea: That we should encourage those to speak their minds, even if what we have to say is disgusting. That is my sermon, even knowing as Western civilization declines, the principles that define it will as well.
Jean-Paul Sartre converted to Judaism so knew a little about Semitism. But he lumped Jews in with all other Semites — like Palestinians, for example — so he didn’t know beans about so-called anti-Semitism. Are not Israeli occupiers of Palestine anti-Semites?
Prototype 3: March 22, 2025 You really must read ‘”Anti-Semite And Jew” by Sartre. In this bit of intellectual syphilis, Sartre describes “Anti-Semitism” as something that is generated by irrational passion, rather than rational personal experience and empirical evidence. The world will always have it’s intellectual Flimflam men.
I know this post deals with Ice T and popular music, but at about the same time, on the art front, on a smaller scale there was the whole Robert Mapplethorpe controversy and funding of the NEA. More conservatives were angered by the photography of Mapplethorpe than gangsta rap, at least the conservatives who were aware of it.
Mapplethorpe who eventually died of AIDs was not Jewish but he was a flaming queer, his lifestyle and “art” widely promoted by Jews.
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Anthony: March 25, 2025 … More conservatives were angered by the photography of Mapplethorpe than gangsta rap…
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Not being Christian or conservative I was not especially angered by Mapplethorpe’s repulsive “Piss Christ” — however, I was by Jew-promoted gangsta rap. Though 27 years old now, I remember being angered by gangsta rap and its promoters, including Bill Clinton, in this ADV by William Pierce: Lew, Bill, Tupac, and Mitchell | National Vanguard
…[Bill Clinton] went to the high school in Springfield, Oregon, where one of the recent school killing sprees took place, and he spoke piously to the survivors about how he “felt their pain” and about his determination to bring an end to the epidemic of school violence which has been plaguing the country. He put on a show of real concern for the 2 students who had been killed and the 22 who had been wounded at Springfield’s Thurston High School. He bemoaned the “culture of violence” which incites young students to kill.
Then, right after his talk to the students, teachers, and parents at Thurston High School — right after his pious moaning about the “culture of violence” which causes school shootings — Clinton hopped onto Air Force One and flew to Los Angeles, where he was the guest of honor at a lavish party in the mansion of Hollywood record mogul Lew Wasserman. All of the other big Hollywood Jewish media bosses were there too. The purpose of the party was to raise donations for the Democratic Party, and the Clintonistas were expecting close to a million dollars in donations from Wasserman and the other media bosses at the party. Now, remember, Mr. Clinton arrived at this party and gave Mr. Wasserman a big hug just a few hours after his teary speech at Thurston High School, where a 15-year-old student had blown away 24 of his schoolmates.
Lew Wasserman, Mr. Clinton’s host, is the chairman emeritus of MCA, the giant record company which is the world’s principal promoter and distributor of the musical genre known as “gangsta’ rap.” For those of you who don’t already know this, gangsta’ rap has lyrics glorifying the life-style of Black gangsters and drug bosses. It glorifies street shootings and other aspects of Black criminality. Its rap lyrics are very graphic about murder and rape, which it promotes as being very “cool” and fashionable. Gangsta’ rap has been pushed hard by Wasserman and other big media Jews in an effort to get White kids hooked on Black culture and Black life-styles. It fits right in with Mr. Clinton’s efforts to eliminate White racism by getting Whites to accept Blacks and other aspects of “diversity.”
To be more specific, Lew Wasserman’s MCA owns Interscope Records and a number of other record labels. One of Interscope’s featured performers, until he was himself killed in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas last year, was the Black gangsta’ rapper Tupac Shakur…
Thanks for your answer and for stating your goal, Travis.
So, I take it that you are an activist, not a principled revolutionary. Your definition of a principled racial vanguardist strikes me as psychobabble, sort of like C-C’s Hamburger Today has offered up in favor of a big tent movement that includes all Whites who care for our race. That’s OK. We will disagree on the small tent vs. big tent strategy.
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Travis LeBlanc: March 30, 2025 An activist should be a public servant. You do what you do for other people.
People who talk about their principles are making it about themselves. They don’t want to violate their principles because that would make themselves feel bad or because it would shatter a self-image they have of themselves.
Violating your principles is just another kind of sacrifice that you will sometimes have to make for the cause. If shaking hands with the devil is in the best interest of the people you serve, then to hell with your principles.
My public is obviously more exclusive than is yours and Hamburger Today’s. Yours might be acceptable for “the public,” for a United Way activist, or even a proponent for the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews — not mine, thanks.
Perhaps you would be less offended if I chose to call myself a principled Community Organizer, like Obama chose to call himself while organizing his people, instead of a White racial separatist/vanguardist. I can accept that. I offer the following, written with a clearly defined goal by Dr. William Pierce back in the 1970s for the National Alliance that he founded 50 years ago: What We Believe | National Alliance
Our goal: a healthy race in a healthy environment
THE MEN AND WOMEN of the National Alliance believe that the future is what we make it. We believe that we, as free and conscious agents, have an absolute responsibility for all those elements of the world around us over which we are capable of exercising control: for the structure of our society and its institutions; for the beauty and cleanliness of both our natural and man-made environments; for the cultural and moral climate in which we live and work; for the military and geo-political status of our nation relative to the other nations of the earth; and, most of all, for the racial quality of the coming generations of our people.
We believe that no multi-racial society can be a truly healthy society, and no government which is not wholly responsible to a single racial entity can be a good government. America’s present deterioration stems from her loss of racial homogeneity and racial consciousness, and from the consequent alienation of most of our fellow citizens.
We believe that a good government is a government firmly based on fundamental principles, the first of which must be that the long-range welfare, security, and racial quality of our people is the ultimate good. A good government is a government which implements continuing, farsighted programs consistent with this principle; it is not a government like the one we have now, which embodies no coherent national purpose, which is swayed by every minority pressure group, and which bases its policies on shortsighted, partisan considerations, drifting from one crisis to another and seldom planning beyond the next election. “Toward a New Consciousness; a New Order; a New People.” In these ten words we sum up the raison d’etre of the National Alliance: We work daily for a new understanding among our people of their place in the universe; for a new government embodying our values; and for eternal upward progress toward higher man. Our symbol, the Life Rune, comes from an ancient alphabet, or futhark, used in northern Europe for many centuries before the general adoption of the Roman alphabet there. It signifies life, creation, birth, rebirth, and renewal.
We believe that, in addition to a principled, responsible government, we must have a society which facilitates progress in all realms of life: that is, a society whose institutions and values are conducive to advancement not only in material efficiency, but also in artistic achievement, in moral and physical health, and in racial quality. And we believe that all of these things are closely bound together. We can have a healthy, vital artistic life once again only when we reject the false notion of artistic universalism and encourage our young artists and musicians to express the inherent values and feelings of our own people in their creative work. Likewise, our educational system should concern itself not only with training our young people in the basic skills of civilized life and giving them pride in their racial, cultural, and national heritage, but also with building character in them. Self-reliance, moral toughness, a sense of personal honor, and physical fitness are qualities at least as important in our citizens as a knowledge of facts and techniques. All young people of our race must have instilled in them a sense of quality instead of equality; they must be taught to embrace discipline and order instead of being encouraged to succumb to permissiveness and chaos.
We believe that our people must be united by the common goal of building a better race. Today, without a common national-racial purpose, we are unable to focus our energies and achieve the great things which otherwise would be within our grasp. But once we are united on the basis of common blood, organized and disciplined within a progressive social order, and inspired by a common set of ideals, there will be no problem which we cannot overcome, no enemy whom we cannot vanquish, and no goal which we cannot attain.
We believe that the first step toward this goal must be the gathering together of all those men and women of our race who share our beliefs and who are willing to participate in our effort to raise the consciousness of others.
If you believe as we do, we invite you to join us…
I thought of this trendy pejorative alt-right term, purity spiraling, as I was reading this in a book by 20th century White separatist visionary Earnest Sevier Cox:
“Outlawing purity is only preferable to those who are impure.” Sounds reasonable.
Will Williams: March 21, 2025
Prototype 3: March 21, 2025 Purity spiraling is a pejorative term created by alt-right clowns to justify lowering standards in order to attract more low quality people, including non-whites into their failed big tent freak show. You have high standards Will, and anytime some buffoon uses the term “purity Spiral” they are admitting they have no standards for White excellence. Carry on.
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Thank you, sir. I had a feeling purity spiraling was another of those cutesy terms like “cuckservative,” meant to impress somebody besides me, that came out of the alt-right. I can name a few more, but will leave it at that for fear that folks might think I’m dog whistling, or virtue signaling or gas lighting. ;o}
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