White Lives Mattered

Those who would tear down monuments, damn capitalism, and wage war on white privilege are brainwashed idiots, blind to the obvious. Every bite of food you eat is a debt you owe to private property, common law, and industrial civilization that you impede at your peril.

White lives mattered, too many to recite. You'd need an encyclopedia. Without them, no electricity, no medicine, computers, automobiles or aircraft. No iron and steel, no oil wells, dish soap, satellites, or filtration plants. White people are synonymous with civilization.

Our national monuments are few and cherished.

Robert E. Lee disliked slavery and was opposed to secession. Lincoln offered him command of the Union Army and Colonel Lee declined, respectfully, would not take up arms against Virginia, hallowed land of Jefferson, Washington, Patrick Henry, and James Madison, without whom there would have been no United States, no Constitution or Bill of Rights. It's difficult to exaggerate Jefferson's contribution, author of the Declaration, diplomat who brought France into the Revolutionary War, visionary president who doubled the size of the United States, and advocate for the separation of church and state, at a time when the Anglican Church was tax supported and Washington resisted disestablishment. Jefferson prevailed and freedom of religion allowed Catholics, Noncomformists, Lutherans, Presbyterians, and Enlightenment deists to make common cause as a new nation, "E Pluribus Unum."

People misunderstand why the Civil War was fought. It had little to do with slavery. It was fought over protectionist trade tariffs that enriched the North and penalized the South. The South had no factories to manufacture rifles, bullets, or blankets. One third of Confederate soldiers who fought in Gettysburg were barefoot. Slavery was not unique to the South.

Franklin had slaves, household help who were treated with dignity, like employees. Slaves labored in Massachusetts Bay Colony during the harsh, uncertain years of its settlement. No one in America wanted a slave to starve or suffer. They were housed and fed far better by Christians than by West African tribal warlords who enslaved them. Whites did not capture slaves. Bristol merchants traded gold for them, saving women and children from torture and grisly death. Slavery in white America was infinitely better than African slavery. Let's talk about a hero who owned 500 slaves and played a pivotal role in their future liberation.

Andrew Jackson was one of the most striking figures in American history. Without Jackson, there would have been no "one man one vote" democracy and no Union for Lincoln to rally and emancipate. Jackson's victory in New Orleans saved us in 1814. He vetoed construction of the Cumberland Road, declaring that Congress had no lawful power of pork barrel spending to enrich themselves, to the detriment of other Americans. When he was overruled by the U.S. Supreme Court concerning removal of Indians, President Jackson scoffed, "How many divisions does the Chief Justice have? He made an order, let him try to enforce it."

Native American Indians were tribes led by kings, many of which battled tribe versus tribe before Pilgrims landed at Plymouth and Old Boston Harbor. In Massachusetts and Georgia, Indian property rights were acknowledged, provided that they did not attack white settlers. Northern tribes became pawns of English and French rivalry. Plains war parties slaughtered white women and children or took them as slaves. Nothing turned out well in the Old West, made infinitely worse by land grants for transcontinental railroads and mines. If anyone is owed reparations, it's the Sioux, Crow, Lakota, Cheyenne, and Comanche.

Let's skip ahead and consider a cavalry charge in Cuba. Osage oil millionaires in Oklahoma, Cherokee steelworkers, Navajo code heroes of World War II, tax exempt casinos, fireworks superstores, and smoke shops were distant future horizons when a company of volunteers led by a future president charged uphill against Spanish fortifications.

Teddy Roosevelt never expected to be President, but his legacy was profound. He broke up powerful Wall Street trusts and created the first national park, in Yellowstone, a confident, cheerful champion of rugged individualism, nature conservancy, and physical fitness, the only "modern" white American president honored on Mount Rushmore.

I despise politically greasy government monuments, but they're there for a reason, like the idolatry of Crazy Horse a few miles from Mount Rushmore and a giant black fist in Detroit. Taskmasters and laborers of antiquity built pyramids, castles, and cathedrals, completed by generations of stone masons, taxpayers, and kings. America was different. Until recently, American monuments and statues were erected privately by free men and women to honor patriots like Perry, Revere, and John Paul Jones. Newly freed slaves contributed $17,000 to build the controversial statue of Lincoln and a rising black man with broken shackles. Think about it. $17,000 in 1876 was serious money, voluntarily paid in, pennies and nickels from black families who had little, except an overwhelming urge to honor the fallen Lincoln.

There are three national monuments in Washington DC that must be protected at all costs, including fixed bayonets and bullets if necessary, the Lincoln Memorial, Jefferson Memorial, and Washington Monument. All the misery and shame of bankrupt Chicago and Detroit will be our grim national fate if we tarnish or disown America's great white liberators.

Mobs want to destroy something? Let them wreck the monument to a rich, laughing king of bureaucracy, lies, monetary chaos, improvised folly, brazen threats, and personal complicity in the Soviet enslavement of Europe. Fellow travelers gave them atomic bomb secrets. FDR became president for life by promising to cut the size of government 25% and growing it to more than 60% of GDP, seizing every U.S. factory and farm to supply Stalin. His legacy is a ponzi pyramid of public entitlements, regulatory paperwork, unpayable debt and inflation. White people have their share of villains who should be torn from the public square, LBJ in particular, ten times worse than FDR, killed two million Vietnamese and betrayed 10 million stable two-parent negro families. The Great Society rewarded single mothers, drunks, drug dealers, incompetent black teachers, and corrupt "community organizers."

NPR constantly advances the notion of black heroism, creativity, and scientific genius. That's shameful pandering, an absurd distortion of history. The intellectual contribution of Africa was tribal genocide, slavery, disease, starvation, drum worship, and child rape, which were incurable by European colonization or American largesse. British transportation of slaves to Brazil, the Carribean, and U.S. colonial plantations was social disaster for all concerned. 90% of African slaves went to Brazil, worked to death or perished from disease. The 6% of slaves who were transported to America were treated better. They had families and children. The Civil War and Reconstruction were ruinous and rocky, but by 1948 there was racial harmony and mutual respect in the industrial north. Count Basie was famous. Republicans enacted equal rights, over the objections and attempted filibuster by Southern Democrats, historic black oppressors and segregationists, many of whom were members of the Ku Klux Klan.

Flash forward to today: 43 million African-American citizens. After 100 years of civil liberty, followed by 60 years of lavish welfare, preferential hiring and education, blacks are 100% responsible for savage street crime, chronic illness, academic gibberish, and bankruptcy of formerly prosperous majority white cities coast to coast. It's no excuse that immigrants from Mexico, Guatemala, and Puerto Rico wanted a piece of the drug trade. Black mayors, black cops, and black politicians wasted decades and did nothing except to line their pockets and rant about imaginary, highly-taxed "white privilege" and the national anthem. Hollywood movies and multiple decades of jazz, Motown, rap, pro sports, and TV lavished loot on black actors, musicians, athletes; black millionaires and billionaires departed Detroit for Beverly Hills. Obama abandoned Chicago for the White House, white schools, a gated mansion, an army of loyalists in majority black Washington DC, and control of the Democrat Party.

White flight has taken on renewed urgency. Apartment dwellers in Manhattan and Brooklyn are under bombardment by fireworks every night, and Obama ordered HUD integration of the suburbs, Section 8 welfare housing erected in single family white neighborhoods.

The general election of 2020 will be a body blow to the Republic. If Trump is reelected, there will be violent insurrection by murderous black mobs. If sock puppet Joe and black nationalist Michelle triumph with an avalanche of fake ballots, our heritage will crumble to dry white dust, to be swept aside by a Green New Deal and "racial justice" intimidation. As I explained many times, justice is the armed defense of innocent liberty. It has nothing to do with race, climate, elections, entitlements, public education, protest marches, looting or arson. Cops are being targeted with gunfire and filthy verbal assault daily. If they fight back, they are suspended, smeared, investigated, indicted, financially and professionally ruined by black prosecutors and black juries, deaf to reason or respect for allegedly racist cops.

"Eventually a society becomes too stupid to survive." (Mark Steyn)

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