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A crime scene. The aesthetics of a horror movie. Sinister music. This is the latest Trump attack ad exposing Joe Biden’s “racism problem,” released a day after rioting in Chicago. The Trump campaign is engaging in offense archaeology, digging up a Biden statement from all the way back in 1973. Other Trump ads criticized Biden’s Read more …

Published: September 2, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged affirmative action, articles, Black Lives Matter, conservatism, critical race theory, cultural Marxism, Dinesh D'Souza, Donald Trump, liberalism, North American New Right, Oliver Williams, originals, the civil rights movement, the Republican party | 15 Responses

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The Real Meaning of Juneteenth

Robert Hampton

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Unless you’re a Texan, you probably never heard of Juneteenth until last week.

This holiday celebrates the end of slavery and has long been a minor holiday in the Lone Star State. It commemorates the day — June 19, 1865 — where the Union declared all slaves in the state of Texas free, Read more …

Published: June 22, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged abolitionism, Abraham Lincoln, American conservatism, articles, boomer conservatism, historical revisionism, holidays, Juneteenth, North American New Right, originals, Robert Hampton, slavery, Texas, the Civil War, white dispossession | 10 Responses

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The World the Civil Rights Movement Wrought:
Caldwell’s The Age of Entitlement

Robert Hampton

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Christopher Caldwell
The Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2020

The 1960s forever transformed America. Race relations, sexual relations, popular culture, music, foreign policy, trust in government, and urban life were all dramatically changed. Read more …

Published: February 3, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged affirmative action, American conservatism, articles, book reviews, campus activism, Christopher Caldwell, North American New Right, originals, political correctness, Robert Hampton, Ronald Reagan, the 1960s, the civil rights movement | 10 Responses

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Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Resources at Counter-Currents

Greg Johnson

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I treat MLK Day like every other Monday: I take the trash to the curb and let it rot there until Tuesday. It is a fitting symbol of the “content of his character,” for King was a vicious fraud and operator who, in death, was turned into the whitewashed saint of America’s egalitarian civil religion.

Over the years, Counter-Currents has published or republished a number of important articles grappling with the lies and cant surrounding King’s life and legacy. Read more …

Published: January 20, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Blacks in America, Greg Johnson | 4 Responses

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We Can’t Go Back to the ‘80s:
White Delusions About Identity Politics

Robert Hampton

Obama and MLK, dreaming of America’s “post-racial” future.

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“[I]dentity alone should neither uphold nor invalidate an idea, or we’ve lost the Enlightenment to pure tribalism.”

That’s the cry of journalist George Packer, a distraught liberal who can’t believe identity politics ruined his kids’ school system. Read more …

Published: September 19, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Barack Obama, cuckservatism, identity politics, North American New Right, originals, Robert Hampton | 35 Responses

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The American Race War of 1968

Morris V. de Camp

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Clay Risen
A Nation on Fire: America in the Wake of the King Assassination
Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, 2009

“Events have unmistakably shown that any municipality in the country with a Negro population is susceptible to a racial outbreak.” — From an FBI report dated May 26, 1967

A Phone Call for Mayhem:
How JFK Caused the 1960s Race Riots

Morris V. de Camp

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Steven Levingston
Kennedy and King: The President, the Pastor, and the Battle Over Civil Rights
New York: Hachette, 2017

To borrow from the wit of Edward Gibbon:

If a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world, during which the white race in North America was most foolish and short sighted regarding managing the non-white races in their midst, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the second term of Eisenhower to the accession of Nixon.

Martin Luther King, Establishment Icon

Kerry Bolton

Martin Luther King with Nelson Rockefeller in 1961.

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Every year, the third Monday of January is designated Martin Luther King Day, and the much-lauded paragon of “passive resistance” and “equality” is praised to high heaven with the aura of sainthood, or even godhood, perhaps only equalled by his South African counterpart, Nelson Mandela. I will not argue here whether desegregation has improved anyone’s lot, blacks included, any more than the dismantling of apartheid did, other than its having intended to create an “inclusive economy,” as the Rockefeller Foundation and others call it, and an expanded consumption market.

Remembering Martin Luther King, Jr.

Richard Houck

Martin Luther King marching with Rabbi Abraham Heschel at a Vietnam War protest in Washington, DC in 1968.

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There are few displays of ethnomasochism and xenophilia more perverse than that of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day – a day in January when white and black alike are meant to remember this hero of the Civil Rights era and to reflect on how far we have come as a country. MLK Day is an odd holiday to me, since it is as if the Byzantines had set aside a day to celebrate the heroism of Mehmed II, or some other Ottoman Sultan. Perhaps this analogy gives Martin Luther King, Jr. (MLK) far too much credit. Read more …

Published: January 21, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, blacks and Jews, Blacks in America, cuckservatism, Franz Boas, Jews in America, North American New Right, originals, Richard Houck | 7 Responses

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Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Resources at Counter-Currents

John Morgan

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In recent decades, Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968) has become a symbol of the possibility of racial egalitarianism and the supposed victory of progressivism throughout the Western world. His birthday, January 15, which is commemorated on the third Monday of each January, has been designated as a federal holiday by the United States government since 1986 (although it was not celebrated in all fifty states until 2000). Read more …

Published: January 21, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Black Nationalism, Blacks in America, Civil Rights Movement, egalitarianism, John Morgan, North American New Right, originals | 2 Responses

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The Truth About Martin Luther King, Jr.

Spencer J. Quinn

Martin Luther King as a saint.

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In November of 2017, President Trump instructed the National Archives to release hundreds of previously-sealed documents which pertained to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Included among these documents were two FBI files which, curiously enough, have little to do with the Kennedy assassination but could have great bearing on the current struggles of the Dissident Right. Read more …

Published: January 15, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Civil Rights Movement, North American New Right, originals, political correctness, Spencer Quinn | 5 Responses

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The FBI’s Secret Civil Rights Files, Part 2
The Truth About Martin Luther King, Jr.

Spencer J. Quinn

Martin Luther King as a saint.

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Part 2 of 2. Part 1 here.

Earlier this month President Trump instructed the National Archives to release hundreds of previously-sealed documents which pertained to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Included among these documents were two FBI files which, curiously enough, have little to do with the Kennedy assassination but could have great bearing on the current struggles of the Dissident Right. Read more …

Published: November 29, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Civil Rights Movement, North American New Right, originals, political correctness, Spencer Quinn | 3 Responses

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Victory in Albany:
Remembering Laurie Pritchett

Spencer J. Quinn

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Laurie Pritchett lays down the law to Martin Luther King

People on the Alt Right tend to look forward a lot. After all, a future consisting of viable white ethnostates in Europe or North America is something we all want. What helps fuel this, however, is looking backwards into history and reminding ourselves of how good things were before mass Third-World immigration started to bring down our countries. Read more …

Published: September 20, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Civil Rights Movement, law enforcement, North American New Right, originals, segregation, Spencer Quinn | 9 Responses

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The King Holiday & Its Meaning

Samuel Francis

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On August 2, 1983, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill creating a legal public holiday in honor of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. Although there had been little discussion of the bill in the House itself and little awareness among the American public that Congress was even considering such a bill, it was immediately clear that the U.S. Senate would take up the legislation soon after the Labor Day recess. Read more …

Published: January 11, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, North American New Right, reprints, Sam Francis | 6 Responses

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Fifty Years of Cant

Kerry Bolton

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Like the “Sharpeville massacre” in South Africa,[1] and the USA’s “Wounded Knee” confrontation between US troops and Indians,[2] the exaggerations of the authorities’ reaction to the civil rights marches and protests in the Southern states during the 1960s, led by Martin Luther King, Read more …

Published: January 20, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged anti-white propaganda, articles, Blacks in America, Kerry Bolton, Nelson Mandela, New Zealand, North American New Right, originals, South Africa, white dispossession, white guilt | 3 Responses

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Fifty Years of Cant

Kerry Bolton

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Published: August 28, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged anti-white propaganda, articles, Blacks in America, Kerry Bolton, Nelson Mandela, New Zealand, nonviolence, North American New Right, originals, South Africa, white dispossession, white guilt | 2 Responses

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Black History Month Special
Jews, Blacks, & Race

Kevin MacDonald

Jewish entertainer Al Jolson in blackface

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This essay provides an overview of the history of the black-Jewish relationships in the twentieth century. The record shows quite clearly that Jewish organizations as well as a great number of individual Jews contributed enormously to the success of the movement to increase the power of blacks and alter the racial hierarchy of the United States. I also discuss the more difficult question of how to understand Jewish motives in the black-Jewish alliance. Read more …

Published: February 15, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Blacks in America, book excerpts, Civil Rights Movement, Horace Kallen, immigration, Kevin MacDonald, North American New Right, reprints, the Anti-Defamation League, the Jewish question, W. E. B. DuBois, white dispossession | 6 Responses

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Was Hitler on Meth? & Other Burning Issues
Nassir Ghaemi’s A First-Rate Madness

Greg Johnson

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Nassir Ghaemi
A First-Rate Madness: Uncovering the Links Between Leadership and Mental Illness
New York: the Penguin Press, 2011

This has to be the silliest book I have ever read. But I read it cover-to-cover, because it is also highly informative and engaging. Nassir Ghaemi, MD, is an Iranian-born, US-educated professor of psychiatry at Tufts University and a widely published author. Read more …