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1. Happy Independence Day to our American readers!
It is easy for race-conscious Americans to become cynical about July 4th, which is now an occasion for celebrating an egalitarian civil religion fabricated from a misinterpreted line in the Declaration of Independence, “. . . all men are created equal . . . ,” sometimes paired with a line from Martin Luther King, Jr., the last person on earth who wanted to be judged by the content of his character.
No, Jefferson the slave owner was not envisioning a society in which all races had equal standing. Even if all men have the same rights, that doesn’t imply that they are all good fits for the same polity, and Jefferson had no illusions about blacks and whites being able to be free and equal in the same political system. Instead, Jefferson’s “created equal” line was simply a denial of the principle of hereditary monarchy and aristocracy upheld by England. Jefferson denied hereditary rule in favor of republicanism, which is the system of government put in place after the Revolution. The American Constitution says nothing about universal human equality, but it does prohibit hereditary offices and titles, which is the substance of “all men are created equal.”
I refuse to let a dying demographic of media believers spoil my Independence Day with their empty egalitarian pieties. I just tune them out. In truth, America is ours. As I argue in my essay “American Ethnic Identity,” Americans are a distinct white ethnic group. Thus genuine American nationalism is a form of White Nationalism, as I argue in my essays “What Is American Nationalism?” and “Is White Nationalism Un-American?”
You can buy Greg Johnson’s Toward a New Nationalism here.
America was never a color-blind liberal meritocracy. It was a society founded by and for white people, which maintained a frankly white supremacist immigration system until 1965 and to this day remains so “normatively white” that Leftists and non-whites will never stop seething about “racism.” They should be the ones boycotting the fireworks, not us.
Yes, America was not without flaws and contradictions, which is what led us to the present mess. But as with the whole of white civilization, White Nationalists are the true heirs of America as well, since we are the only ones who can preserve what is best in it and pass it on to future generations.
Counter-Currents stresses the importance of ideas: Free your mind and your nation will follow. Here are a few articles and reviews that challenge the liberal-egalitarian interpretation of American history and identity.
- Beau Albrecht, “What Went Wrong with the United States?”, Part 1, Part 2.
- Ricardo Duchesne, “The Straussian Assault on America’s European Heritage.”
- Fullmoon Ancestry, “Let Freedom Ring.”
- Jim Goad, “Never Trust a White Rapper.”
- Jim Goad, “Shooting and Killing Five People to Protest Gun Violence.”
- Alex Graham, “The 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition.”
- Alex Graham, “John C. Calhoun’s Illiberal Political Thought.”
- Alex Graham, “Thomas Jefferson and the Declaration of Independence.”
- Andrew Hamilton, “The Fourth of July, 2014.”
- Andrew Hamilton, “The Hamilton Cult.”
- Robert Hampton, “The Empire of Nothing vs. the Historic American Nation.”
- Robert Hampton, “Our Flag.”
- Robert Hampton, “The Star-Spangled Banner: A Protest Song for Nationalists.”
- Gregory Hood, “For Others and Their Posterity.”
- Gregory Hood, “The Meaning of July 4th for the White Man.”
- Richard Houck, “July Fourth Ruminations.”
- Greg Johnson, “American Ethnic Identity.”
- Greg Johnson, “‘An Ethnostate, If You Can Keep It.’“
- Greg Johnson, “Columbus Day Resources at Counter-Currents.”
- Greg Johnson, “Is White Nationalism Un-American?”
- Greg Johnson, “What Is American Nationalism?” (French version here)
- Jason Kessler, “White Nationalism Is Compatible with Classical Liberalism.”
- Cyan Quinn, “American Nationalism Is White Nationalism.”
- Spencer J. Quinn, “The Abolitionists as Virtue-Signalers: Nehemiah Adams and A South-side View of Slavery.“
- Spencer J. Quinn, “The Fountainhead of White America: Richard Bushman’s The American Farmer in the Eighteenth Century.”
- Spencer J. Quinn, “Herman Husband, Eighteenth Century White Nationalist Pioneer.“
- Spencer. J. Quinn, “Michael Hoffman’s They Were White and They Were Slaves.”
- Spencer J. Quinn, “A Reading List on White Slavery.”
- Spencer J. Quinn, “Remembering Hinton Rowan Helper.“
- Spencer J. Quinn, “Slavery and the Weak Claim Paradox.”
- Fred Reed, “We, the Blood Bladder: America as Feeding Trough for Lampreys.”
- C. B. Robertson, “What Did the Founders Mean by Liberty?”
- Fenek Solère, “Wobomagonda: The White Devil.”
- Thomas Steuben, “Blood Contract vs. Social Contract.”
- Thomas Steuben, “Red vs. Blue Patriotism.”
- Morris van de Camp, “Readings on American History.”
- Kenneth Vinther, “Liberal Anti-Democracy,” Part 1, Part 9.
- Kenneth Vinther. “Misrepresentative Government: Why Democracy Doesn’t Work,” Part 1, Part 4.
- Robert Wills, “Thoughts on Decadence and the American Ethos .“
- David M. Zsutty, “On Treason and Loyalty.”
- David M. Zsutty, “Two Nationalisms.”
If you would like to recommend other articles and reviews from Counter-Currents, please do so in the notes.
Have a happy and safe Independence Day!
2. The Counter-Currents 2025 Fundraiser
Our fundraiser crept forward just a bit since last week. Our total is now $37,266.26. I want to thank all our donors for their help. This year, as with last year and the year before, our fundraising goal is $300,000. I am still worried, however, since the year is more half over, and we are just a bit more than 1/10th of the way to our goal. Information on how to donate appears below.
3. My Interview with Brandon Martinez
This week, I did an interview with Brandon Martinez on America, Israel, Iran, and much more. Listen here.
4. This Saturday on Counter-Currents Radio:
I will be welcoming Matt Flavel and Allan Turnage of the Asatru Folk Assembly to talk about Asatru and its meaning for white Americans today.
Join us at noon Pacific/3 PM Eastern/9 PM Central European Time on:
- Odysee: https://odysee.com/@countercurrents:6/ccradio:e
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Thank you again for your loyal readership and generous support.
Greg Johnson
Editor-in-Chief
11 comments
One of the first laws the Founders passed stipulated that one needed to be White to be a Citizen; they all would have been appalled by the current interpretation of Jefferson’s famous phrase.
Happy belated 4th of July to the American authors and readers of Counter-Currents!
I’ve said it before in the comments, but I’ll say it again: for me, Counter-Currents embodies the best of the American spirit: the pioneering spirit and the deep hatred of tyranny.
The July 4th celebration is also an opportunity to recall the contribution made by the French monarchy (with heroes like Rochambeau, the Marquis de la Fayette, Admiral de Grasse) to the independence of the United States of America. Long may this great country remain the bastion of freedom for the white race and the various European peoples that make it up!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exp%C3%A9dition_Particuli%C3%A8re
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_du_Motier,_Marquis_de_Lafayette
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Joseph_Paul_de_Grasse
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Baptiste_Donatien_de_Vimeur,_comte_de_Rochambeau
I’d also like to recommend Roland Emmerich’s epic film “The Patriot” (2000) (starring Mel Gibson), about the American Revolutionary War.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Patriot_(2000_film)
Thanks for the well wishes, but I have to disagree on The Patriot. It’s shot through with the message of racial diversity described in the article. Whenever I see pro-white people recommend this film, I have to wonder how long it’s been since they’ve seen it and how closely they watched it. There’s a prominent magical negro in that movie and a major plot point is a racist soldier coming to embrace this black guy as a comrade in arms. The audience is supposed to understand that this epitomizes America.
The Patriot (2000) also tries to throw in an Evil Empire angle with war-crimes and atrocities that would have been a staple “kick the dog” trope in old-fashioned WWII movies, and such Paul Bunyan legends are now mandatory for many period pieces today (LINK).
But torching homes and churches, and locking in wounded prisoners and all the “huddled masses yearning to be free” to burn inside them, just doesn’t quite fit the American Revolutionary War.
We are pretty much taught from childhood that guerrilla warfare is only “dog bites back” and perfectly fine ─ that anything goes for Freedom, unironically, just as long as it is the Good Guys behind the warfare irregularities.
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The revolutionary war part of the revolution was simply about massacring your white neighbours. Kings Mountain battle for example was back woodsmen massacring loyalists from Charleston.
The war of independence against the HMG was a separate event in many respects.
The story of Banastre Tarleton and his eventual defeat is quite literally a portrait of white neighbours at each other’s throats either siding with his locally raised social elite American/British Legion of loyalist southerners; or with the northern Patriots allied with those local strivers excluded from the then charmed circle of an existing southern power structure like the struggling Francophile, Jefferson.
Jefferson’s floundering financial woes after his successful Revolution as a founder and Tarleton’s personal and political success after the failed war of his youth in North America ought to be fictionalised into some kind of cynical epic. Republic or Empire No Matter…Star Wars.
Well, I’d say it requires a Hobbesian state to ensure order, justice, and domestic tranquility, responsibilities that King George and Parliament were not shouldering but General Washington was.
After the Treaty of Paris (1763) the Albionic Empire was involved in constraining commerce to protect the moribund fur trade and further transporting foreign mercenaries to oppress Americans, and even impressing American sailors to plunder the seas.
In short, the Empire wanted to constrain American Westward expansion beyond the Appalachians, and nothing short of terror would suffice.
As Marse Jefferson penned it in the 1776 Declaration,
“He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.”
I like the English; they are my people. But the Daniel Boones and the Andy Jacksons were not going down to King or Parliament without an existential fight. The 1776 rebellion was hardly over taxes on tea and stamps.
I believe it was Field Marshal Wellington, who upon refusing a command in North America during the War of 1812 (in spite of the Americans actually losing almost all of the battles in that war) forwarded the straightforward reality that the Prime Minister controlling the American interior from the tidewater was simply a demand “not entitled.” And no force in the world could have said otherwise.
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The best way to celebrate the holiday is to register for Elon’s party en masse and make it subject to our vision.
Tempting idea, but I am pretty sure that Elon just does not get it after the recent H-1B visa fiasco.
Basically this meritocracy myth of legal immigration is why you don’t see legacy Americans as the doctors in the hospitals anymore.
I don’t have anything against qualified Subcontinental physicians treating me, but why is it that a White American kid interested in studying medicine beyond bedpan-dumper has zero chance unless Daddy was an established doctor, or else Junior takes out a half-million dollars in student loans?
I don’t mind that Musk is a technocrat or embraces “modernity,” and I appreciate that he is not an agricultural romanticist like the Party of Jefferson, the Party that later embraced the “plowshares” of Wilsonian Internationalism like Frank Roosevelt and Hank Morgenthau II.
But Elon Musk remains a Libertarian and an “autistic” or self-made Horatio Alger brand of immigrant ─ a “Proposition Nation” kind of guy, which is the original GOP cancer.
“Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.” (LINK)
Musk’s break with Trump is mostly for all the wrong reasons.
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I’m worried about CC now. Are you OK? Have somebody censored you?
Who hasn’t censored or deplatformed us? The global credit card processing industry, the search engines, Amazon.com, YouTube, Twitter, X, Facebook . . . the list goes on.
But we’re still here, thanks to the small percentage of our readers who donate and keep CC around for everyone else.
Those who have an overly optimistic view of the US should check out Michael O’Meara’s essays, already published on C-C (which I summarised on my blog, <a href= https://westsdarkesthour.com/category/michael-omeara/
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