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Poor Hakeem Jeffries is being haunted. The New York Democrat currently sits as the leader of his party in the House of Representatives, but his prestigious position offers him no protection from the ghoul who is tormenting him, along with countless other victims. To make matters worse, this is no ordinary phantom like the ones who might be found scaring young trick-or-treaters on Halloween Night. This ghost feels far more comfortable on the battlefield than in the pumpkin patch.
As you may have guessed, Jeffries is having a supernatural encounter with the Ghost of the Confederacy. And according to the frightened Congressman, the gray-clad spirit is not content to wreak ghostly havoc only upon the cotton fields of the Southland. This time, the spooky old secessionist has the whole of America in his sights.
Jeffries stepped up to the podium and solemnly announced that the dreaded Ghost of the Confederacy “is invading and haunting the nation right now.” It appears that the spirit has been called forth from its slumber because Republican legislatures in several Southern states are now considering redrawing the boundaries of legislative districts. The eventual result will be more Republicans in Congress, which is bad news for Jeffries and his friends.
This process is not unusual, as political gerrymandering—that is, manipulating voting district lines into odd shapes to give one’s party a better chance in future elections—has been around since the earliest days of the Republic. The term owes its name to Elbridge Gerry, who served as governor of Massachusetts from 1810 to 1812. While partisan gerrymandering is widely criticized as a dishonorable and undemocratic tactic, it is not forbidden by the federal Constitution.
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In the Deep South, whites tend to vote as a bloc for Republicans while blacks do the same for Democrats, so even though gerrymandering happens pretty much everywhere, it can be framed as white supremacist when Southern Republicans do it. This is why Jeffries compares the redistricting efforts to Jim Crow era laws meant to prevent blacks from registering to vote, even though moving district lines around will not bar anyone from casting a ballot. It’s also why Jeffries brings up the Confederacy, despite knowing full well that Southern Republicans do not aim to re-institute slavery or segregation, much less re-establish the Confederacy. Republicans in South Carolina and Alabama aren’t doing anything that Democrats in Virginia aren’t also doing.
In Tennessee, Democrat legislator Justin Pearson burned a paper replica of the Confederate battle flag in the halls of the State Capitol to protest the drawing of new districts. We can only assume that this is part of an occult ritual to ward off the Ghost of the Confederacy.
In all seriousness, liberal egalitarians are oddly fixated on the Confederacy these days; while remembering and honoring Confederate heritage has become less important to white Southerners whose ancestors fought in the war. Race realist writer and podcaster Scott Greer, a native of the South, wrote a thoughtful essay last May about changes in southern identity and the decline of Confederate symbolism.
It should not be surprising that interest in the short-lived nation and its war for independence would fade over time, but one would expect this to be true for the enemies of the Confederacy as well as its sympathizers. However, liberal egalitarians seem to be more focused on the Confederacy than ever. I would even go so far as to say they are “haunted” by it.
The symptoms of this anti-Confederate mania go well beyond demands for the removal of flags. Consider the case of Monument Avenue, which is a street in Richmond, Virginia that once boasted several monuments to famous figures of the Confederacy. Some of these monuments were erected in the late nineteenth century and drew crowds of thousands when they were dedicated. For more than a century, Monument Avenue existed as a reminder of a proud and illustrious period in the city’s past. This would not have been the case if not for the dedicated individuals who cared for Monument Avenue and kept it in pristine condition over the years. Undoubtedly, the Richmonders alive at the time of the war would have been thrilled to know that these monuments were being preserved and treasured so many years later.
One woman who may have done more than anyone to preserve Monument Avenue was Helen Marie Taylor. In September of 1968, Taylor, who lived in a house on the avenue with her husband, became aware that the city government intended to cover the street’s original paving blocks with asphalt. This was not acceptable to Mrs. Taylor, and she decided to stage a one-woman protest by physically standing in the way of the paving machine until the project was canceled. As she later described “I put my arms out and said ‘You can’t come any further.’” Amazingly, her plan worked. The project was delayed, and Taylor was able to use the attention she gained to rally others to her cause.
Taylor was a highly impressive individual. She was an actress in her younger years, served as Vice President of Phyllis Schalfly’s Eagle Forum, was appointed by Ronald Reagan as a representative to the United Nations, and was co-founder of the James Madison Museum.
In the Summer of 2020, Taylor referred to crowds who came to vandalize statues on Monument Avenue as “snakes” and “scoundrels.” The following year she was the named plaintiff in a lawsuit to prevent the State of Virginia from removing her street’s statue of Robert E. Lee in violation of the state’s promise included in the deed granting the Lee statue to the state to hold the monument “perpetually sacred” and to “faithfully guard and affectionately protect it.”A majority of the Virginia Supreme Court didn’t care, and down the statue came. By the time Taylor died in 2022, age 98, there were no more Confederate statues standing on Monument Avenue. She fought the snakes and scoundrels until her dying day, but it turned out they were in the courtroom as well as the streets.
It should also not be forgotten that the body of General Nathan Bedford Forrest was ordered to be removed from his gravesite in a Memphis, Tennessee park. State law required the city of Memphis to obtain the approval of the State Historical Commission before removing war memorials, and the Commission refused to give it. So, Vân Turner, a county government official, started a “corporation” for the purpose of defying the historical commission, and the city sold the park to Turner’s corporation. Turner then not only took down the monument that stood over the long-dead general’s grave but decided to dig up his bones as well.
If there were such a being as the “Ghost of the Confederacy,” I think that actions like ignoring a promise contained in a century-old deed so that an elderly history lover loses a lawsuit and creating a fake company for the purpose of digging up a dead soldier’s bones would absolutely be the kind of provocations that would summon it.
Mocking the dead can have supernatural consequences. Hakeem Jeffries is finding that out the hard way.
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Thanks for this article. It made me long for the day that we get to tear down the monuments of Mr martin luther king and crush the gravel into a fine powder.
Great article! So, the dispossession, and erasure of White culture “marches on.” 🙃
Matt Walsh has started a new video series attacking the Civil Rights Movement. This is the correct approach to countering the anti-Confederate campaign. You have to take the initiative and throw the other side onto the defensive. Walsh’s goal here, one suspects, is to discredit the mythos of Martin Luther King jr.
Given that the Civil Rights Regime is a second American Constitution (per Christopher Caldwell’s The Age of Entitlement), if the mythos goes then the props are knocked out from under the anti-white regime. If Hakeem Jeffries is bogged down defending MLK jr, he will not be attacking statues of Confederates. Consider the PSYWAR impact of an info ops campaign to, say, have the statues of Civil Rights era “heroes” removed. Or promoting white South African refugees as candidates for political offices here in America.
In the bigger picture, an end to the Civil Rights regime would undermine the infrastructure which is suppressing white interests: the affirmative action bureaucracies, the DEI commissariat, the anti-white agitprop agencies, the non-stop hysteria over “racism,” and the rest of the show.
Think about the moral panic caused by the IT’S OK TO BE WHITE action a few years back. Then amp it up with a barrage of podcasts and videos. Get there first with the most and put the other side on the run…like they’re being chased by ghosts.
I agree Matt Walsh’s documentaries have been extremely impressive, and so was his recent show about the vile murderer John Brown. Walsh mentioned that the Northern enthusiasm for Brown played a role in convincing Southerners to back secession- which is hardly ever brought up.
He is doing important work, and I hope that it reaches a wide audience.
An enterprising videographer might push the following themes:
The link between the Civil Rights Movement (CRM) and escalating urban lawlessness.
This started with the civil disobedience campaigns of the 1950s and 1960s whose expressed goal was to maneuver law enforcement into over-reacting and creating incidents which the media would then exploit. Then you had the Long Hot Summer riots commencing with Watts ’65 and burning for several years even with (or because of?) both civil rights legislation and war on poverty being in force. The riots were sorta beaten down during the war on crime era but then picked up in force with the Rodney King uprising (the Left’s term) in Los Angeles to the Summer of Floyd, 2020. Policies such as defunding the police, ending cash bail and giving the police stand-down orders in the face of rioters and looters really got their start with the CRM’s undermining of law enforcement.
The systemic and institutional discrimination against white people.
Affirmative action, minorities-only contracts, hatecrime laws applied only against whites, the DEI commissariat from the schools to the workplace, the near endless minority studies programs on campuses with no equivalents for whites, the endless minority advocacy groups both on and off campus (again with no equivalent for whites), the “reparations” racket, the blatantly anti-white agitprop conducted in the name of fighting “white privilege.” These legal systems and public-private institutions which dispossess white people commenced with the CRM and continued to escalate until Donald Trump came along. And they are still out there in the political hinterlands, waiting.
MLK betraying his patron.
A point which can be made is that King effectively gave “aid and comfort” to the Communists during the Vietnam War. Since the CSA leaders are oft critiqued for committing “treason” then this same tactic can be employed against King. What makes this all the more galling is that Lyndon Johnson gave full backing to the CRM and King paid him back by supporting the antiwar effort which undermined the president’s administration. Bear in mind that the Left recently threw Cesar Chavez under the bus for considerably less, so there is precedent here.
Any more ideas out there?
As recently as 2005, when I went there as a tourist, Monument Avenue was on my list as a tourist attraction because of the statues. I spent money there, at an expensive bar that had ice rails. Is African American “Heritage Trail” tourism going to take the place of that? Of course not. Richmond shot itself in the foot.
I’m upset I never got to visit Richmond when the monuments were still up.
Even if Richmond residents today don’t care for the Confederates, not many cities can claim to have been a national capitol. You’d think they would want to keep the statues out of historical interest, and of course tourism money. Denying history enthusiasts the ability to go to the Confederate Capitol look at and appreciate hundred-year-old statues is cruel and immature. But I suppose that kind of behavior is to be expected.
When these enemies of our people seek to remove these glorious monuments to our glorious ancestors we should be chaining ourselves to them at the very least. My great grandfather, his father and two of his brothers were all Confederate veterans out of Wayne County, Tennessee and countless cousins of theirs were also in the Confederate forces. I truly despise myself for not driving down to Richmond from Northern Ohio to affix myself to that once beautiful colossus equestrian statue of the glorious and noble Robert E. Lee. I know that me doing so would not have prevented the statue from being unceremoniously annihilated but for Providence’s Sake man, it’s the least I could have done for my ancestors and the great Lee. Like Revilo Oliver always said, “it is easy for man to destroy what he could never create.” No negro could ever create such beauty as those monuments that they can’t wait to destroy. Next they’ll be going for Stone Mountain. Eventually it will be Washington, Jefferson, Jackson and probably even Lincoln. We seriously need to grow some spines and put an end to this destruction of our monuments which we all know is an extension of their war of extermination against us.
You are on to something. There have been requests to sandblast confederate generals off of Stone Mountain Georgia. Some of this phenomenon started in various ways such as the renaming of certain public schools that were named after George Washington and replacing his name with some black historical figure. There have also been calls to put a black historical figure on our currency.
The NCAA pressured the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) to quit using the Colonel Reb mascot and to quit displaying the confederate battle flag at football games and other athletic events. The chancellor of the university immediately caved in to these demands.
NASCAR was pressured to ban their attendees from displaying the confederate battle flag at NASCAR events and they caved into it, just like Ole Miss did. Years later NASCAR donated money to the black lives matter organization during the summer of George Fentanyl Floyd, completely disregarding their fan base.
The governor of Mississippi removed the confederate battle flag from the Mississippi State Flag during the summer of Floyd, despite opposition from other state politicians. Now Mississippi has a completely new state flag. The emblem on it is a cotton plant.
A few years ago, the black militant mayor of Jackson, MS forced the removal of a statue of Andrew Jackson in that city. With so few whites left, there was little opposition. This is the same black mayor who help cause the Jackson water crisis years ago due to his incompetence. He has also been convicted 0f various types of fraud.
American Indian activists have complained about Mount Rushmore before. One American Indian activist, Russel Means, has stated that Mount Rushmore is the equivalent of carving a swastika in the wailing wall in Israel. He is deceased, but I personally heard him say this during a university lecture in the nineties, when he was promoting his biography. So no, it wouldn’t surprise me if demands were made in the future to sandblast the faces of American presidents off of Mount Rushmore.
The answer is to put up ten new monuments for every one that is taken down
“This process is not unusual, as political gerrymandering—that is, manipulating voting district lines into odd shapes to give one’s party a better chance in future elections—has been around since the earliest days of the Republic. The term owes its name to Elbridge Gerry, who served as governor of Massachusetts from 1810 to 1812. While partisan gerrymandering is widely criticized as a dishonorable and undemocratic tactic, it is not forbidden by the federal Constitution.”
While there were quite a few things that the Founding Fathers did not suficiently imagine such as the modern play of partisan politics, the idea that “Gerrymanding” is such a corruption of the American political process is simply not the case.
The Founding Fathers were very averse to the idea of creating a strong central government, so there were many avenues that state and local governments could influence the Federal system, and what we call “Gerrymandering” is one of them.
Simply put, all this means is that the political parties in the state legislatures negotiate the lines of the future legislative districts, and the main proviso is that they have to be contiguous borders on the map. That is where the bizarre shapes of slimy amphibious monsters comes into play.
Pure Democracy wonks might decry the practice of previously-elected Pols negotiating legislative district borders in any sense, but then these people tend to feel that the least intelligent and capable the voter pool is, the better.
The fact is that incumbents usually benefit when the system is not in complete chaos. This doesn’t make the value of gaining legislative seniority any less important in a system that potentially cleans house every two to four years.
Democrats in particular will howl with rage and call it “Voter Suppression” if some basic modicum of agency is required for “Minorities” to cast a ballot, such as bothering in advance to get registered to vote.
Tammany Hall figured out long ago how to wage politics like a well-oiled machine. While this seems un-American, the “machine” at least knew how to deliver for its constituents.
That is something that the GOP will never understand, unless their constituents are simply the plutocracy itself ─ the bankers and the Neocons.
The 1965 Voting Rights Act was little more than a way to Gerrymander Negro districts in the old South, as if Negroes deserved a baker’s dozen of Democracy that the rest of us just don’t. As Orwell would have said, “all are equal but some are more equal than others.”
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“It should not be surprising that interest in the short-lived nation and its war for independence would fade over time, but one would expect this to be true for the enemies of the Confederacy as well as its sympathizers. However, liberal egalitarians seem to be more focused on the Confederacy than ever.”
The Confederacy, like Auschwitz, is the liberal proxy for Viagra.
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