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		<title>When Whites Oppose Muslim Immigration</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 20:53:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Ryan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The opposition to the proposed Islamic Cultural center/mosque on Ground Zero is not the only place where Whites are reacting with anger to the Islamization of the West. Whites in Western Europe &#8211; in Switzerland, Holland, France and England see &#8230; <a href="http://www.occidentaldissent.com/2010/09/02/when-whites-oppose-muslim-immigration/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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<p>The opposition to the proposed Islamic Cultural center/mosque on Ground Zero is not the only place where Whites are reacting with anger to the Islamization of the West.</p>
<p>Whites in Western Europe &#8211; in Switzerland, Holland, France and England see large numbers of alien NW Muslims pushing in to traditional White European areas, being aggressive, insulting and generally putting the word out that they are &#8220;taking over&#8221;.</p>
<p>Even Pat Robertson&#8217;s CBN has noticed this conflict and supports the White French resistance to the Islamization of France/the West.</p>
<p><a href='http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4HH9qQEHtI&#038;feature=player_embedded'>CBN Notices the French Resistance to Islamization</a></p>
<p>Here in the Great State of Tennessee &#8211; local Whites are taking to the streets, opposing the building of an Islamic mosque; some TN Whites have apparently resorted to vandalism to put the message that Muslim are not welcome in Tennessee.</p>
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<p>Though some WN leaders like David Duke take the position that &#8220;the enemy of my enemy, is my friend&#8221; &#8211; that Muslims are fighting Jews in Israel and oppose Jewish corruptions in the American media, world finance. Thus American WN should supposedly try to make alliances with Muslims and educate Whites that the Jews are the main enemy not Muslims.</p>
<p>My view is WN should just recognize the glaring fact that ~ 98% of world Muslims are not White, and regular Whites everywhere in the world react with fear and loathing at the arrival of NW Muslims. 9/11/01 is very easy to understand for most Whites in America:</p>
<p> &#8211; nasty, ugly, hateful, racially alien Muslims were allowed to come in to OUR COUNTRY, to mass murder OUR PEOPLE, here in OUR COUNTRY. </p>
<p>These same ugly, nasty, hateful racially alien NW Muslims want to make huge parts of America in to&#8230;. THEIR COUNTRY. Bring in Muslim Sharia law that would deny some Good Ol Boy in Tennessee the right to drink a beer or admire a pretty woman, forcing women to cover up in Muslim burkas.</p>
<p>For WN, Conservative American who have had a really hard time selling Libertarian, free market economic programs to regular White working people, selling strict immigration policies to keep out Muslim extremists is a very, very easy sale.</p>
<p>But, too often many White American patriots, WN don&#8217;t like to do things the easy way. </p>
<p>So I am recommending that folks here, yes &#8211; do things the easy way: oppose the NW Muslim immigration, colonization of the USA, the White West.</p>
<p>Understand that know it all Libertarians like Ron Paul will come up with some private property rights argument to support the Muslims&#8217; right to build their mosque/cultural center on Ground Zero. These R.P. Libertarian folks seem to make it their whole life&#8217;s purpose to push policies that alienate ~ 95% of the White American public.</p>
<p>Yes, I know it is always a danger that powerful Zionist, Jewish Neo Conservatives will exploit White resentment to Muslim immigrants to support yet another Jew war in the Middle East or just some other pro Israel policies &#8211; that&#8217;s a given. Jews will exploit anything and everything for their interests.</p>
<p>But, as long as you/we take a solidly pro &#8220;White&#8221; position against NW Muslim immigration, there is no reason we have to support Jewish intrigue. Plus, Jews can usually be counted on to support any Non White group attacking Whites in White communities, including supporting NW Muslims in places like Murfreesboro TN.</p>
<p>So, just take the White side. Take the position that NW Muslims have many, many countries of their own, we do not need to give them any of our countries, states like France or Tennessee. Arab Muslims, Black Muslims, Paki Muslims, Muslim Turks &#8211; these people are very different than us and their ways are not our ways. Be gracious and polite with NW Muslims, be honest in saying that you work against all Zionist wars against Muslim nations, but NW Muslims are simply not welcome here. </p>
<p>They need to go back to their Muslim countries.</p>
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		<title>The Ruling Class and Red America</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 20:52:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hunter Wallace</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Heartland In July and August, Angelo Codevilla&#8217;s article about the Ruling Class vs. the Country Class in The American Spectator sparked two articles from H. Rock White. I have since elaborated and built on this theme myself. It has &#8230; <a href="http://www.occidentaldissent.com/2010/09/02/the-ruling-class-and-red-america/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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<p>The Heartland</p>
<p>In July and August, Angelo Codevilla&#8217;s article about the Ruling Class vs. the Country Class in <em>The American Spectator</em> <a href="http://www.occidentaldissent.com/tag/angelo-codevilla/">sparked two articles</a> from H. Rock White. I have <a href="http://www.occidentaldissent.com/2010/08/09/review-the-next-american-civil-war/">since elaborated</a> and <a href="http://www.occidentaldissent.com/2010/08/17/disunited-states-of-america/">built on this theme</a> myself.</p>
<p>It has now become clear the <a href="http://spectator.org/archives/2010/07/16/americas-ruling-class-and-the">Codevilla article</a> was even more popular than I had originally thought. It <a href="http://spectator.org/archives/2010/09/01/ruling-against-the-ruling-clas">struck a nerve</a> in Red America.</p>
<p>The Country Class vs. The Ruling Class went viral and was discussed across hundreds of websites. Rush Limbaugh spent three hours talking about it on his radio show. The article was so popular and inspired so much commentary that it is now being released as a book.</p>
<p>This is the latest piece of a larger puzzle: Red America is becoming conscious of its own distinctiveness. It feels oppressed by a hostile alien elite. Whites are <a href="http://www.occidentaldissent.com/2010/08/30/restoring-honor-glenn-beck-and-implicit-white-nationalism/">slowly embracing</a> their own brand of identity politics.</p>
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<p>The shift can be seen in several key areas:</p>
<p>1.) <strong>Apathy to Engagement</strong> &#8211; Millions of White Americans who used to be apolitical or apathetic &#8211; Joe Six Packs and Sally Soccermoms &#8211; have suddenly become politicized. They are getting involved in the political process for the first time in their lives.</p>
<p>2.) <strong>Insiders to Outsiders</strong> &#8211; Under Clinton and Bush, White Americans felt like &#8220;insiders.&#8221; They subscribed to the illusion that they were in control. White America no longer feels like it is in charge. The majority of Whites reject Barack Obama. They are unaccustomed to the experience of not being able to select their rulers.</p>
<p>3.) <strong>Citizens to Subjects</strong> &#8211; Previously, White Americans felt like citizens, but the perception is growing that their elites treat them like subjects. They have &#8220;lost their country.&#8221; In reality, nothing much changed in the transition from Bush to Obama. The perception of political reality among Whites has changed dramatically though.</p>
<p>White Nationalists are too far removed from the mainstream to recognize the significance of the growing alienation in White America. It would be helpful to remind them of their own political saga.</p>
<p>Radicalization usually happens in stages.</p>
<p>In the first stage, the individual is excited by some issue or another, typically immigration, and grows passionate about it enough to care.</p>
<p>In the second stage, the individual realizes that the political process is broken, and ceases to feel like he is an insider or his voice is being heard in the mainstream.</p>
<p>In the third stage, the individual becomes alienated enough to conclude that the political process is a sham, a form of population control.</p>
<p>Red America is now at the fourth stage of radicalization: searching for answers.</p>
<p>In small doses, it must be administered the truth. Now that the patient is alienated, concerned, and attentive, it can finally be treated.</p>
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		<title>White American Identity Politics</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 02:09:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christian Miller</dc:creator>
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<p>The American political arena and mainstream media is rigged against White American solidarity. Almost every single race or ethnicity has a political organization to serve its specific racial or ethnic interests. The glaring exception is a mainstream-credited or nationally-recognized political group dedicated to White American interests. There are groups dedicated to White advocacy, but they are invariably plagued by accusations of &#8220;extremism&#8221; or &#8220;hate&#8221; or &#8220;bigotry.&#8221;</p>
<p>The Preamble to the United States Constitution lists one of its purposes as to &#8220;secure the blessing of liberty to ourselves and our posterity.&#8221; Perhaps this explicit dedication to the interests of the White founding stock means that no White advocacy groups are needed. Maybe the explicit mandate of the Constitution demands the protection of liberty for the posterity of the White race, so White advocacy groups are superfluous. Until the middle of the twentieth century, this view might hold water. In light of the onslaught of anti-White propaganda, legislation, indoctrination, and social policy that has since followed, this explanation is a recipe for White political suicide.</p>
<p>Under oppressive legislation, a hostile media, and an anti-White educational system, the interests of White people have been subverted in favor of a cacophony of minority voices, all of which are alien to the original aims of the Founding Fathers. White Americans can no longer rest assured that the Constitution means what it says, or that the United States exists to preserve the interests of its White founding stock and their progeny. Instead, White Americans must organize specifically and purposefully on racial grounds, realizing that all other groups are slowly destroying each liberty and privilege that White Americans used to take for granted.</p>
<p>White Americans have no choice but to participate in racial identity politics. If White Americans remain unorganized and without a unified voice of advocacy, they will eventually succumb to being nothing more than demoralized tax-producers for the growing entitlement class. Even worse, White Americans will face a perfect storm of skyrocketing entitlements, smoldering racial grievances, and violent uprisings emanating from the non-White racial groups. This will not be a safe or secure future for White Americans. Look to the fates of Whites in the formerly productive countries of South Africa or Zimbabwe for examples of what happens when Whites are subject to a ruling majority of non-Whites. South Africa used to be the jewel of Africa. Rhodesia (the predecessor to the failed state of Zimbabwe) was the breadbasket of Africa, exporting food to its neighbors. Now, South Africa and Zimbabwe are the rape and murder capitols of the world, and Zimbabwe cannot even feed itself, let alone its neighbors. More than five thousand Whites have been murdered since the transition to a black government in South Africa, and the numbers of rapes and robberies are too many to accurately list. American Whites need to take decisive and organized political action before they become a hated minority in their own nation.</p>
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<p>Latinos, Hispanics, and mestizos&#8211; whatever the gatekeepers of morality decide to call them&#8211; are free to organize, protest, and advance political goals strictly on the basis of race or ethnicity. Consider some of the mission statements of these advocacy groups: The League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) is busy &#8220;[a]dvancing the economic condition, educational attainment, political influence, health, and civil rights of the Hispanic population in the United States.&#8221; The National Council of La Raza &#8220;is the largest national Hispanic civil rights and advocacy organization in the United States&#8221; and &#8220;works to improve opportunities for Hispanic Americans.&#8221; Note that the translation of &#8220;la raza&#8221; into English is &#8220;the race.&#8221;</p>
<p>Jews are free to advocate specifically and exclusively for other Jewish people. Among other goals, the Anti-Defamation League &#8220;defends the security of Israel and Jews worldwide.&#8221; The American Jewish Congress is &#8220;organized to defend Jewish interests at home and abroad through public policy advocacy&#8211; using diplomacy, legislation and the courts.&#8221; Similarly, Asians are free to rally around race. The Asian American Justice Center exists &#8220;to advance civil and human rights for Asian Americans.&#8221; Blacks have a multitude of race-based advocacy groups. A special group for black practitioners exists for almost every professional occupation. Furthermore, the Congressional Black Caucus exists as an exclusively black organization and is comprised of exclusively black Congressmen advancing exclusively black interests.</p>
<p>In fact, all &#8220;people of color&#8221; (meaning all non-White people) have an implicit license to politically organize according to racial identity. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) states: &#8220;The NAACP&#8217;s principal objective is to ensure the political, educational, social and economic equality of minority group citizens of United States.&#8221; Blacks, Jews, Asians, Hispanics, &#8220;people of color&#8221;&#8211; all of these groups advocate and organize on the basis of race or ethnicity. Yet White Americans may do no such thing without an onslaught of defamatory remarks, negative press coverage, and accusations of &#8220;hate&#8221; or &#8220;extremism.&#8221;</p>
<p>The knee-jerk negative reaction to a White identity organization is not natural. Suspicion regarding an explicitly White political group is the product of intense conditioning from a very young age. The origin and methodology of this conditioning is too complicated to adequately explain herein, but much of it stems from public education, globalist elites, and the corporate media. In short, from a very young age, White Americans are taught that love and admiration for the race and ethnicity of non-Whites is a healthy and sociable trait, but love and admiration for Whites by Whites is strictly forbidden. White Americans are conditioned to scorn their own heritage and to fawn over all other races. According to the ruling orthodoxy, admiration of non-Whites is tolerance and love but admiration of Whites is hate and bigotry.</p>
<p>No other group in America is taught or conditioned to have the same amount of self-sacrificial aims or self-loathing emotions. In fact, most other ethnic groups are encouraged to have a deep and profound sense of heritage and ethnic identity. Perversely, Whites are expected to enthusiastically jump on the non-White bandwagon while abandoning their own families. Whites must celebrate the achievements of every other race and ethnicity. Only Whites are forbidden from celebrating their own extended family, heritage, and history. Any sense of pride or identity stemming from a genetic origin must only be experienced vicariously for White Americans. An entire month has been dedicated to a celebration of the contributions to high culture, technology, art, philosophy, and civilization produced by black Americans. If someone protests that an entire month seems like immense favoritism towards blacks, then calls of “racism” are certain. Any opposition to the politically correct viewpoint is met with swift &#8220;justice&#8221; and the punishment is summary social execution.</p>
<p>The mere accusation of &#8220;racism&#8221; is enough to ruin a career, sink a political campaign, cancel an entertainment show, or alienate an individual. Perhaps this is a better explanation for the dearth of White political groups. Most of the nonsensical &#8220;truths&#8221; that modern Americans are forced to swallow are nothing more than shibboleths. If the shibboleth is met with anything other than the proper response, the &#8220;outsider&#8221; has been successfully identified, and swift countermeasures will be undertaken.</p>
<p>Instead of American spies inside Germany&#8217;s Third Reich being discovered by holding up the pointer, middle, and ring fingers to signify the number three, American citizens within the border are identified as racist outcasts by merely questioning the dubious notion that &#8220;diversity is our greatest strength.&#8221; Instead of asking a gringo to pronounce a Spanish word with a rolling &#8216;r&#8217;, ask the sociology professor who is up for tenure about her thoughts about the long-term viability of an increasingly diverse America. She had better work on her &#8220;accent&#8221; and toe the party line if she wants to have a successful academic career. Otherwise, she may infect future legions with the disease of critical thought, healthy dissent, or individuality. Heaven forbid, she may even fail in her greatest duty&#8211; to indoctrinate her pupils with the glorious fonts of wisdom which are Political Correctness and Tolerance for Diversity. Joseph Goebbels would be proud of this efficient method for political cleansing. A Soviet apparatchik would shriek with joy at the simplicity of this plan for purging the undesirables from the New Plan for Humanity.</p>
<p>As non-White Americans are free to create political organizations for the sole purpose of advancing the interests of a specific ethnicity, and White Americans are forbidden to do so, non-Whites enjoy fundamental rights and benefits which are denied to Whites. The logical implications of these thoughts and observations are non-controversial, but the act of drawing attention to it is definitely controversial. It might even be . . . “racist.”</p>
<p>As White Americans are prevented from organizing, thinking, or acting in a unified manner, and yet all other non-White groups are permitted and encouraged to do so, White Americans are at a distinct political disadvantage. Social pressure, media influence, legislation, and educational indoctrination combine to influence Whites against organizing or even thinking on the basis of race. This injustice must not stand. White Americans must organize to advance their own interests or they will fade into a dispossessed minority in the nation their forefathers carved from the unforgiving wilderness. White Americans must regain the political power they have implicitly relinquished. White Americans need not fear their own shadows any longer. Instead, White Americans must take back the reins and restore the conditions that made the United States of America into an exemplary society and a first-rate civilization.</p>
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		<title>Street Wise Test</title>
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		<dc:creator>Andrew Yeoman</dc:creator>
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<p>Scenario 1:  Someone on the street is counting a stack of bills in his hand and asks if you could trade for a $20 (or some other amount), what do you do?</p>
<p>Scenario 2: Someone comes up to you in a public places and says they are a vet. They&#8217;re unhappy about the government and they have some automatic weapons for sale.  They show you a picture on their camera phone and asks if you are interested, what do you say? He also says he some classified military info and asks if you want to see it, what do you say?</p>
<p>Scenario 3: Someone sends you message on the Internet saying its time to &#8220;rise up&#8221; and take matters into our own hands, what do you do?</p>
<p>Scenario 4: A homeless person asks you for change, what do you do?</p>
<p>Scenario 5: Two males are scoping out you and everyone else in line of sight, what do you do?</p>
<p>Scenario 6:  One or more persons are following you while you are walking alone at night, what do you do?</p>
<p>Scenario 7: Someone pounds on your door that doesn&#8217;t have a peekhole and yells &#8220;Police open up!&#8221;  What do you do?</p>
<p>Scenario 8:  Someone rear ends your car bumper and gives you the middle finger, what do you do?</p>
<p>Scenario 9: You are being interrogated by police and have a friend that has been interrogated in a separate cell.  The sarge comes in and says your friend signed a plea that you were guilty of rape, murder, or terrorism charge.  What do you do?</p>
<p>Scenario 10:  You are driving along a country road and pass a bend.  You see two women standing next to what appears to be broken down car.  What do you do?</p>
<p>I will grade responses on a 1-5 scale.  1= you fail.  2= unacceptable. 3= there is a better choice.  4= you will probably get out of the situation okay.  5= the best possible course of action.  There is no right or wrong answer.</p>
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		<title>Nixon Country No More</title>
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		<dc:creator>Hunter Wallace</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Orange County, California. In The New York Times, Adam Nagourney has a gushing new column about the decline of conservatism in Orange County, the birthplace of Richard Nixon and a conservative stronghold for generations. The number of registered Republican voters &#8230; <a href="http://www.occidentaldissent.com/2010/09/01/nixon-country-no-more/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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<p>Orange County, California.</p>
<p>In <em>The New York Times</em>, Adam Nagourney has a <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/30/us/politics/30orange.html?_r=1&amp;src=me&amp;ref=general">gushing new column</a> about the decline of conservatism in Orange County, the birthplace of Richard Nixon and a conservative stronghold for generations.</p>
<p>The number of registered Republican voters has dropped to the lowest level in 47 years. This in a year when a Republican wave is expected to end Democratic control of Congress. It doesn&#8217;t take much sifting through the political rubble to determine the cause.</p>
<p>The people of Orange County are being overwhelmed and displaced from California by a tidal wave of Third World immigration. The new settlers are colonizing the area and transforming its culture and politics in ways that natives dislike.</p>
<p>Nagourney crows, 45% of Orange County residents speak a language other than English in the home; 30% of residents are foreign born; 95% of children in public schools are Latino; 25% of residents now lack health insurance; 35 languages are now spoken in Irvine.</p>
<p>This affluent symbol of the Golden State and the American Dream is now more remarkable for its &#8220;pockets of deep poverty&#8221; and enclaves of &#8220;low income housing&#8221; that cater to illegal aliens.</p>
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<p>Instead of solving America&#8217;s social problems, as progressives once tried to do, the modern progressive movement is determined to add to the burden by importing the underclass of Asia and Latin America. When you grasp their flawless reasoning, the strategy at work here makes perfect sense.</p>
<p>Just think about it: poor, helpless, alienated, unskilled, uneducated, low IQ people can be expected to turn to government as the solution to all their problems. They are a reliable source of votes for corrupt Democratic politicians who now seek to create poverty and social division in places where it didn&#8217;t exist for political advantage.</p>
<p>This is all cynically done in the name of progress.</p>
<p>Is this what progress is supposed to look like? The transformation of Orange County into the crossroads of Mexico and Vietnam?</p>
<p>It is certainly not the type of progress that Theodore Roosevelt had in mind when he railed against hyphenated Americanism. It is not the type of progress the Founders would recognized have recognized either whose immigration policy was designed to preserve America for their Anglo-Protestant posterity.</p>
<p>It gets even better.</p>
<p>As Nagourney tells the tale, immigration isn&#8217;t the only factor driving the changes in Orange County. The shrinking of the aerospace industry, which once sustained the &#8220;mostly white middle class community,&#8221; is being replaced by a low wage service economy.</p>
<p>McDonald&#8217;s billboards in Vietnamese. Public schools where Mexican children speak exclusively Spanish. Barrio slums next door.</p>
<p>Doesn&#8217;t it sound like a nice place for the descendants of the Pilgrims to raise their children?</p>
<p>The Republican Party can still fix what has been broken. It can secure the border, end birthright citizenship, and deport the illegals already here before the Southwest becomes another Orange County.</p>
<p>Whether that happens remains to be seen.</p>
<p><strong>Editor&#8217;s Note:</strong> This post originally appeared at <em><a href="http://fromtheprovinces.wordpress.com/2010/08/31/nixon-country-no-more/">From The Provinces</a></em>, my new spinoff blog, which will take a closer look at the transformation of Red America and its confrontation with Washington over the next decade.</p>
<p>As White America moves closer to minority status, I predict White racial consciousness will start to reemerge in the mainstream. Whites will visibly start to act more like a beleagured minority (outsiders) and less like a self confident minority (insiders).</p>
<p>Ideas like state sovereignty and nullification are already being reasserted by White Americans. Secession will make its grand reappearance as faith in the federal government collapses to further lows.</p>
<p>The 2010s will prove reminisicient of the 1840s and 1850s when the South moved out of its nationalist and triumphalist phase under Andrew Jackson and began to feel and act more like a threatened minority.</p>
<p>As in 1776 and 1861, the &#8220;American cause&#8221; and &#8220;Southern cause&#8221; wasn&#8217;t perceived by the White majority until right up to the end. Few Americans in 1770 advocated independence from Britain. Few Southerners advocated independence from the Union in 1855.</p>
<p>In both cases, it was the magic of polarization and overreaction and ordinary people taking matters into their own hands that led to the historical explosion and secession, which seem inevitable only to historians with the benefit of hindsight.</p>
<p>So it will be again.</p>
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		<title>STOP MACHETE!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 18:11:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Yeoman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Friday evening September 3rd, we will be protesting the release of the film Machete. This film is an explicitly anti-white blood-bath that encourages Latinos to attack, maim, and kill whites with impunity. We feel that this is an explicit &#8230; <a href="http://www.occidentaldissent.com/2010/08/31/stop-machete/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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<p>On Friday evening September 3rd, we will be protesting the release of the film Machete. This film is an explicitly anti-white blood-bath that encourages Latinos to attack, maim, and kill whites with impunity.</p>
<p>We feel that this is an explicit threat to white folks and that it is necessary to send a message to moviegoers and the producers of this film that threatening people because they happen to be white is unacceptable.</p>
<p>I have attached a flyer produced for this action and have started a facebook group at <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.bit.ly/stop_machete" target="_blank">www.bit.ly/stop_machete</a> I would encourage you to join and network with others so that you can have a bigger impact where you live.</p>
<p>Please let me know if you are available for the protest on Friday, we are expecting heavy media interest in this action. If you get involved in your local community <strong>do not interfere with anyone</strong> walking into the theaters—do not threaten them or anything, even jokingly.  I at least will be protesting this film all weekend.</p>
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		<title>Racial History of Chicago</title>
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<p>Rise and (Partial) Fall of Chicago<br />
The Racial History of a Great Midwestern City<br />
by JUDSON HAMMOND<br />
Instauration Magazine</p>
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<p>When I told colleagues and friends I was spending a week&#8217;s vacation in Chicago, they asked if I had relatives there. &#8220;Nope.&#8221; &#8220;Friends?&#8221; &#8220;Not anymore. They&#8217;ve all moved away.&#8221; My colleagues and friends thought I was crazy. Vaca­tion in Chicago? Why not summer in East St. Louis!</p>
<p>Predictably the strongest reaction was from people who had never been to Chicago and assumed it was just another grimy, crime-ridden notch in the rust belt. Cer­tainly some areas are as bad as they come. But that&#8217;s not the whole picture, not by a long shot. Ask anyone who has spent some time there-as I did while in graduate school in the early 70s. Since then I have visited the area on just two occasions, both three-day weekends. Neither trip gave me the opportunity to really explore the city and see how it had changed, which was my objective on this latest trip in the summer of 1997.</p>
<p>I dwell at length on Chicago because the city should occupy a special niche in the hearts of Instaurationists even if they&#8217;ve never been there. Here was once a mighty city-state on the shores of a great inland sea where all the tribes of Europe ingathered. Despite the ravages of white egress and dark ingress, the city&#8217;s greatness has not been totally eclipsed.</p>
<p>Chicago&#8217;s rise to prominence was rapid, even by the heady standards of 19th-century American growth. A marshy, small town of 350 in 1833, when America&#8217;s east coast cities were already well-established if not full grown; Chicago was built on the site of Fort Dearborn, which was abandoned after an Indian massacre in 1812. By 1837, when the city was chartered, the population had grown to 4,200. In 1848 the completion of he Illinois and Michigan Canal provided a link between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi. The building of railroads in the years before the Civil War further secured the city&#8217;s future as a transportation nexus and the nation&#8217;s busiest railroad cen­ter. By 1860 the city of more than 100,000 was now large enough to host its first national political convention, the historic Republican convention that nominated Lincoln. By 1893 when the city hosted its first World&#8217;s Fair-the Columbian Exposition to mark the 400th anniversary of Columbus&#8217;s voyage-there were 1.1 million Chicagoans. In a six-month period the Fair attracted 27 million visitors, almost half the U.S. population. (Today one-third of Americans live within 500 miles of Chicago.)</p>
<p>A number of writers who visited Chicago in its more dynamic days offered their impressions. Bursting at the seams with extremes of wealth and poverty, capitalism and socialism, puritanism and libertinism, it fascinated and appalled Europeans. Rudyard Kipling made these comments during an American tour:</p>
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<p>I have struck &#8230;a real city &#8230;.The other places do not count. &#8230;This place is the first American city I have encountered&#8230;.Having seen it, I urgently desire never to see it again. The saga-in-the-making known as Chicago attracted writers and journalists eager to minethe city for stories. Young men of letters found a muse in Chicago-a find that would have been unlikely in, say, Cleveland or Detroit. The roster of Majority Chicago writers is long: Ernest Hemingway, James T. Farrell, Carl Sandburg, Theodore Dreiser, Frank Norris, Edgar Lee Masters and Charles MacArthur.&#8217; Most writers saw the city as indisputably masculine. In the words of Hinky Dink Kenna, a notoriously corrupt al­derman from the Levee, an erstwhile south side den of in­equity, &#8220;Chicago ain&#8217;t no sissy town!&#8221; Carl Sandburg put it more poetically:</p>
<p>Hog butcher for the world,</p>
<p>Tool maker, stacker of wheat,</p>
<p>Player with railroads</p>
<p>and the nation&#8217;s freight handler;</p>
<p>stormy, husky, brawling,</p>
<p>city of the big shoulders.</p>
<p>Carl Sandburg-Windy City&#8217;s Homer</p>
<p>I n a 1911 passage Theodore Dreiser apotheosized:<br />
To whom may the laurels as laureate of this Florence<br />
of the West yet fall? This singing flame of a city, this ail­<br />
America, this fX&gt;et in chaps and buckskin, this rude, raw<br />
Titan, this Burns of a city! By its shimmering lake it lay, a<br />
king of shreds and patches, a maundering yokel with an<br />
epic in its mouth, a tramp, a hobo among cities, with the<br />
grip of Caesar in its mind, the dramatic force of Euripides<br />
in its soul. A very bard of a city, this, singing of high deeds<br />
and high hopes, its heavy brogans buried deep in the mire<br />
of circumstances.</p>
<p>H.L. Mencken was quick to grasp the Chicago connection in American literature:</p>
<p>Find a writer who is indubitably an American in every<br />
pulsebeat, snort and adenoid, an American who has some­<br />
thing new and peculiarly American to say and who says it<br />
in an unmistakably American way and nine times out of<br />
ten you&#8217;ll find that he has some sort of connection with<br />
that gargantuan and inordinate abbatoir by Lake Michigan<br />
&#8230;that he was bred there, or got his start there, or passed<br />
through there in the days when he was young and tender.</p>
<p>As the city grew, it became a mecca for architects,<br />
who rightly surmised that the Chicago Fire of 1871 would<br />
afford them the rare opportunity to redesign the city al­most from scratch. In the process they gave birth to that singularly American edifice, the skyscraper. The legacy of William LeBaron Jenney, Daniel Burnham, John Wellborn Root and Louis Sullivan2 is still obvious to any pedestrian in the Loop who cranes his neck upward from the crowd­ed sidewalks to contemplate the great forest of office tow­ers. In studying the history of Chicago architecture, it be­ comes apparent that Chicago has torn down more architecturally Significant buildings than most other cities have erected. A young city is usually a magnet for gifted young men<br />
and the young men drawn to Chicago throughout the 19th century were overwhelmingly Nordic. The earliest arrivals<br />
and the earliest city fathers were primarily old stock Amer­icans from New England and upstate New York. The first European immigrants were largely Irish and German (somebody had to dig that canal); the latter were not so celebrated as the former, but their percentage of the city&#8217;s population never dropped below 25% from 1840 to WWI. The later addition of Scandinavians assured a Nordic pre­ponderance until the turn of the century.</p>
<p>The early years of the 20th century witnessed the ex­pansion of Chicago&#8217;s multiethnic, though not yet multira­cial, character. The WASP, Irish, German and Scandinavi­an mix was seasoned with Poles, Lithuanians, Ukrainians, Czechs, Hungarians, Rumanians, Italians, Finns, Latvians, Armenians, Greeks, Slovaks and Slovenes. In later years<br />
the north side even had a &#8220;hillbilly ghetto&#8221; comprised of rural whites from Appalachia.</p>
<p>With 75 distinct ethnic neighborhoods the city was a Europe in microcosm. Ironically, Chicago, frequently described as the quintessential American city, was largely composed of the foreign-born. In 1 890, 80% of the people were either immigrants or the children of immigrants. Blacks comprised just a little over 1 % of the population. Even by 1910, 50% of the population was foreign-born. Thanks to the process of &#8220;chain migration,&#8221; residents of European villages were brought over and planted en<br />
masse to form a constellation of neighborhoods. As a re­sult ethnic ties were considerably stronger in Chicago than in many other American cities. In more recent decades so­cial science gurus lamented that Chicago was the most segregated of all Northern cities.</p>
<p>Surprisingly one famed Chicagoan crossed ethnic lines<br />
to good effect. AI Capone, of Neapolitan origins and<br />
Brooklyn-born, employed plenty of paisanos but he was<br />
not loath to recruit non-Italians. If he thought a Jew, an<br />
Irishman, a Pole or a Negro could be of use to him, he<br />
brought him into the fold. His right-hand man, business<br />
manager Jake &#8220;Greasy Thumb&#8221; Guzik, was a Moscow­<br />
born Jew. This may have been one reason why Capone<br />
easily surpassed the old ethnic-minded gangsters, such as<br />
Big Jim Colosimo and Johnny Torrio, Capone&#8217;s mentor.<br />
Since every ethnic group has its criminal class, Capone&#8217;s<br />
foray into equal opportunity gangsterism was bound to<br />
work better than government social engineering.</p>
<p>With an overwhelmingly white, preponderantly Nordic<br />
gene pool, the building of a great city was assured. But the<br />
seeds of decay were being sown even before the city&#8217;s<br />
growth had maxed out (the city peaked at 3,620,000 in<br />
1950).</p>
<p>Just what caused the decline of Chicago? As Inspec­tor Renault says in Casablanca, &#8220;Round up the usual sus­pects.&#8221;<br />
Jews had been present in Chicago since its incorpora­tion as a town. By 1900 the city contained 7.5,000 Jews; by 1930 almost 300,000-about 9% of the population. Chicago boasts of having the third largest Jewish popula­tion of any city in the world, surpassed only by New York and Warsaw. Unsurprisingly the earliest arrivals were Ger­man-Jewish merchants. The Chicago fire of 1871-dare we call it a holocaust?-was especially hard on Jews who lived and worked in and around the downtown area. Some 500 Jewish families were burned out of house and home. A number of Chicago Jewish enterprises, such as Flor­sheim, Sara Lee, Hertz, Spiegel and Hart, Schaffner ,~ Marx are still household words. But the flip side of Jewish success is where they put their money. A case in point is Julius Rosenwald. As President and Chairman of the Board of Sears, Roebuck and Co., Rosenwald built the firm into a retailing giant. He provided the money for the foundling of the Museum of Science &amp; Industry in Jackson Park. Max Adler, his brother-in-law, also a Sears executive as well as a concert violinist, provided a lot of start-up money for famed Adler Planetarium, which opened a year after his death. While the founding of this world-class museum, still Chicago&#8217;s most popular tourist attraction, will forever<br />
redound to Rosenwald&#8217;s favor, it must be noted that his other philanthropic efforts were less beneficial to non­ Jews. He was a big player in Jewish charities which sup­plied funds for the erection of thousands of schools, YMCAs and YWCAs for blacks, not in Chicago but in the rural South. Rosenwald also coughed up operating capital for the basically antiwhite Urban League during its early days.</p>
<p>The accumulation of wealth, whether Jewish or Gen­tile, is usually made possible by the sweat of Gentile work­ers. With its long history of labor unrest (the Haymarket Riot of 1886 and the Pullman Strike of 1894 are the most celebrated), Chicago was a particularly rich environment for Jewish labor organizers. The best known was Sidney Hillman, who rose to power with the CIO in the 30s and sat at the right hand of FDR during the 40s. During the civil rights era, agitators like Saul Alinsky showed Chicago Negroes how to organize and shakedown whitey. The gradual decline in Chicago&#8217;s fortunes, however, can&#8217;t be blamed entirely on jews. Then as now, liberal Protestants had similar social agendas. Illinois was the Land of Lincoln-ergo, scads of abolitionists. Chicago was also the home of jane Addams, altruistic founder of Hull House, whose aid to the poor and efforts on behalf of in­ ternational peace made her a household word.3 In more recent years the same One World mentality that reached out to white immigrants in Chicago has smoothed the way for nonwhite immigrants, legal or otherwise.</p>
<p>While Hull House was in its early years, another fam­ed institution was born in Chicago. In 1892, John D.<br />
Rockefeller, the world&#8217;s richest Baptist, at the behest of<br />
vne of his advisers on philanthropic matters, wrote a<br />
check for $600,000 to establish a university in a city he<br />
had never visited. In the early 1900s he upped his ante for<br />
the University of Chicago with a big-bang donation of $35<br />
million. The combination of supercharged salaries and<br />
light teaching loads ensured that the university would<br />
have a world-renowned faculty from day one.</p>
<p>It was gen­erally acknowledged that the C.T.C. degree (Called to Chi­cago) was the most sought after academic distinction of<br />
the day. The slant of the curriculum, even in its earliest days, was do-gooder, reformist, &#8220;progressive,&#8221; liberal and<br />
feminist. (The school was coeducational from the start.) john Dewey, James Angel, William I. Thomas, William F.<br />
Ogburn and George Herbert Mead were some of the so­cial science luminaries who spread the gospel of egaIitari­anism and environmental ism to their students who then fanned out to join the faculties of institutions of higher<br />
learning throughout the U.S. Fittingly enough, the university&#8217;s founder, Baptist Wil­liam Rainey Harper, was a Hebrew scholar. As the area around the university became stocked with well-to-do­ Jews, the university itself became a haven for Chosen egg<br />
heads. Murderers Leopold and Loeb were doubtless the most notorious jews to attend the university. In time Jews<br />
occupied larger and larger percentages of the student body and faculty as the Iliberaliberal bent of the university was<br />
leavened with an activist, subversive tone.4</p>
<p>The fusion of liberal Protestantism and Jewry still<br />
wreaks havoc, not just in Chicago, but nationwide. But in<br />
those days it was something new. It came at a bad time<br />
because blacks were just beginning to move in. While<br />
Jews congregated around the university, Southern blacks<br />
poured into other south side neighborhoods in response to<br />
the labor shortage of WWI. The Great Migration of blacks<br />
took place because the Great War in Europe resulted in<br />
restrictions on international migration.</p>
<p>In 1914, 1.2 million Europeans came to these shores. In 1915 the number<br />
fell to 327,000. With the arrival of Southern blacks formerly white<br />
neighborhoods on the south side quickly changed color.<br />
The Chicago Defender, a Negro newspaper with a nation-<br />
wide audience, exhorted blacks to leave the rural South.<br />
The short-term result was the 1919 race riot, a five-day<br />
melee that started on a south side beach and spread to<br />
other areas, including the Loop. The body count included<br />
38 deaths, 500 injuries and more than $2 million in prop­erty damage. During a year of rapidly escalating inflation<br />
and strikes (for good measure, the Black Sox scandal also<br />
occurred in 1919), the last thing Chicago needed was a<br />
flood of cheap, non-union black labor. Nevertheless the<br />
influx of Negro voters eventually resulted in the election of<br />
the first black congressman from a Northern state.s<br />
The long-term result was that south side and ghetto became synonymous and the Chicago public school system<br />
is now widely acknowledged as one of the worst in the na­tion. Chicago, like other American cities, has watched its<br />
population shrink while its suburbs expanded, thanks to<br />
white flight. Though a friend of mine who recently lived in<br />
Hyde Park assured me that Jewish activism was alive and<br />
well there, it is worth noting that Jews have also made the<br />
move to the suburbs, particularly to the more desirable<br />
realms north of the city limits. Niles, Evanston, Morton<br />
Grove, Glenview, Northbrook, Wilmette and Winnetka<br />
are 10% to 25% Jewish, while Glencoe, Highland Park,<br />
Lincolnwood and Skokie are almost 50% Jewish. The lat­ter town, which attracted a great deal of media attention in<br />
1978 when some American Nazis wanted to parade there,<br />
supposedly has some 7,000 Holocaust survivors. Overall,<br />
the jewish proportion of the population of Chicago proper<br />
is now down to 3%. About one in three jews in the metro­politan area lives within the city limits.</p>
<p>Among Chicago suburbs, two towns, Evanston and<br />
Oak Park, occupy key roles in the history of the area and<br />
were established long before bedroom communities be­came stylish adjuncts to American cities. Evanston is best<br />
known as the home of Methodist-founded Northwestern<br />
University and the Women&#8217;s Christian Temperance Union.<br />
Oak Park, another hotbed of Protestant &#8220;progressives,&#8221; is<br />
the birthplace of Ernest Hemingway and the workplace of<br />
Frank Lloyd Wright. (Less well known is that Edgar Rice<br />
Burroughs was an Oak Park resident.) The leafy streets,<br />
stately homes and numerous churches in both towns are<br />
home to scores of relentless meddlers and bleeding hearts.<br />
The headquarters for the Baha&#8217;i religion is located on the<br />
border of Evanston and Wilmette. Oak Park&#8217;s Unity Tem­Tem­ple, erected in 1904, was Frank Lloyd Wright&#8217;s first com­mission for a religious denomination. A Unitarian, Wright<br />
was the nephew of Jenkin Lloyd jones, a prominent Uni­tarian clergyman. The town&#8217;s elite were largely the de­scendants of transplanted New England congregationalists and transcendentalists.</p>
<p>No booze was allowed in Evanston or Oak Park which<br />
Chicagoans dubbed &#8220;Saints Rest.&#8221; Both towns were bas­tions of an activist, do-gooding, reformist, female­<br />
dominated brand of Christianity that men generally find<br />
tiresome if not oppressive, the ecclesiastical equivalent of<br />
nagging. Read the accounts of the youthful Hemingway&#8217;s<br />
struggles with his overbearing, religious mother and you<br />
will have some idea of the problem. It may have been inevitable, however, that roistering, anything-goes, almost<br />
pagan Chicago had to be bound on all sides-Evanston to<br />
the north, Oak Park to the west and Hyde Park to the<br />
south (Lake Michigan is the eastern border)-by Jewish<br />
and Christian social engineers.<br />
So the drama of metropolitan Chicago was cast with a<br />
masculine &#8220;ain&#8217;t-ready-for-reform-yet&#8221; city of Catholics<br />
and Democrats, and feminine, reformist suburbs of Protes­tants and Republicans. In the pithy words of Bathhouse<br />
John Coughlin, a south side scoundrel of an alderman, &#8220;A<br />
Republican is a man who want you to go to church every<br />
Sunday. A Democrat says if a man wants to have a glass<br />
of beer he can have it. &#8221; With one saloon for every 200<br />
residents, the taxes extracted from Chicago bars was very<br />
important to the revenue flow for the State of Illinois, mak­ing any serious efforts at prohibition unlikely before the Volstead Act.</p>
<p>Chicago history was not one of my strong points when<br />
I lived there during 1971 -1972. At that time, I resided in<br />
Evanston, which was not terribly inconvenient, since Ho­<br />
ward Street, the Chicago border was just down the road<br />
when a beer run had to be made. I quickly learned that<br />
just about everything worth doing in Chicago was close to<br />
the lakefront. The north side was overwhelmingly white<br />
and still liveable. I wandered around there at will. The west<br />
side, largely humdrum and residential was too far re­moved from the lakefront to offer much to non-residents.<br />
The south side, even then, was overwhelmingly black.<br />
There was no reason to go there unless you were going to<br />
see the Museum of Science and Industry, Frank Lloyd<br />
Wright&#8217;s famed Robie House, the Gothic buildings on he<br />
University of Chicago campus or a White Sox game at old<br />
Comiskey Park.</p>
<p>During my most recent visit to Chicago the change in<br />
the ethnic mix was obvious. Asians, rarely seen outside a<br />
discreet Chinatown around Cermak Road on the south<br />
side, are now everywhere. Hispanics, once confined to a<br />
few small pockets, are even more numerous. Their num­bers are more in keeping with a southwestern city (say, Dallas or Houston) than an upper midwestern metropolis. The Albany Park area on the northwest side, once<br />
heavily Jewish, is Chicago&#8217;s answer to Blade Runner. Get<br />
off the ilL&#8221; at Lawrence Avenue, the end of the Ravens­<br />
wood line, and you will find yourself amidst a blitz of Ko­rean signs and a pedestrian flow of Filipinos, Arabs, Indi­ans, Pakistanis and God only knows who else. To a Majority member it can be very disorienting-or should I<br />
say disoccidenting?</p>
<p>While whites are now just another minority in the city<br />
(one suspects that the old ethnic identities have now con­gealed around the &#8220;white&#8221; category), they are much in ev­idence in the best neighborhoods. A stroll around the Gold Coast or Lincoln Park areas will reveal urban living<br />
at its best. The latter area is a favorite of yuppies. Strollers<br />
stuffed with rosy-cheeked tots are a common sight, though<br />
most tended not by mama but by someone of another</p>
<p>Chicago&#8217;S forest of skyscrapers</p>
<p>race, doubtless a maid or babysitter. This immediately in­dicates that the neighborhood is pricey. In Chicago, as in<br />
the rest of urban America, if you are white and rich or<br />
nonwhite and poor, your housing choices are abundant. If<br />
you are white and midd e class, you will be stymied.<br />
espite the influx of darker races,_during the workday<br />
there are still plenty of blondes visible in the Loop, most<br />
probably commuters from the suburbs. I cou dn&#8217;t help but<br />
no i that on the whole the women seemed to be some­<br />
what plumper. Could it be the peasant origins of so many<br />
of th eir ancestors?</p>
<p>White flight or not, Chicago still evices races of its<br />
populisl ethos. The Lincoln Park Zoo is free at al times_<br />
and the city&#8217;s world-class museums have a policy )f offer­<br />
ing free admission one day a week. If you plan it nght, you<br />
can visit the Art Institute, the Field Museum of Natural His­<br />
tory, the Museum of Science and Industry, th Shedd<br />
Aquarium and the Adler Planet rium without spending d<br />
penny. The major drawback is the vast quantity of pickit­<br />
ninnies on field trips. Also along for the ride are adult Nf&#8217;­<br />
gresses, whose steatopygic physiq -es make It difficult 0<br />
maneuver in a crowd. A sop to bl ack conscl.)usness is a<br />
large e hibit on the slave trade at the Field Museum. TI e<br />
ubiquitousness of Michael Jordan, as well as the tiresome<br />
promotio of Chicago as the home of the blues, is another<br />
favorite mode of stroking egroes- The late Harold Wash-<br />
i ngton, the city&#8217;s first back mayor, is memorial ized in name of the downtown community college campus a d in<br />
the city&#8217;s new downtown Iibrary, a much more imposing<br />
edifice than a black hack politician deserves.<br />
As in other large ciies, homosexuals are flexing their<br />
muscles, politically as well as physically. Despite Chica­go&#8217;s masculine ethos, queer neighborhoods have sprung<br />
up. One such neighborhood is along Halsted Street. An­<br />
other, Andersonville (no relation to the famed Civil War<br />
prison camp), at one time a Scandinavian enclave, is now<br />
heavy with homos.</p>
<p>As for the famed suburbs of Evanston and Oak Park,<br />
they also have witnessed changes, most noticeably graffiti.<br />
While visiting Evanston, I picked up a copy of the North­<br />
western student newspaper_ I was taken aback by the addition of a police blotter, which would hardly have been<br />
necessary when lived there. I noted that one Porfjrio<br />
Flores had been charged with aggravated assault for pull­ing a gun on his daughter. Twenty-five years ago, if there<br />
was anyone with a name like that in the Evanston phone<br />
book, you can bet he would have been a professor of<br />
Spanish at Northwestern, Yet another item caught my eye:<br />
a snippet on an upcoming Ethnic Arts Festival. Sixty-five­<br />
count &#8216;em!-sixty-five different cultures will be represent­ed! AI! but one are local. I wonder what this city will be<br />
like in another 25 years!<br />
As for Oak Park, the trip out there on the ilL&#8221; is less<br />
than inspiring. The entire west side of Chicago is an urban<br />
nightrnare with housing projects, vacant lots, abandoned<br />
buildings and barbed wire fences surrounding assorted<br />
down-at-the-heels enterprises. Like Fort Zinderneuf squat­<br />
ting in the middle of the Sahara (remember Beau Geste?),<br />
sparkling new United Center, where Michael Jordan<br />
the Chicago Bulls hold court, stands out from the<br />
landscape. Just why this pleasure palace was plunked<br />
down in the middle of such a wasteland, I have no idea,<br />
but I have to believe that racial politics had something to<br />
do with it. (Rebuilding the new Comiskey Park next door<br />
to the old one on 35th Street in the heart of the south side<br />
may reflect a similar agenda.)<br />
Once in Oak Park, I couldn&#8217;t help but notice that the<br />
neighborhoods with the old Frank Lloyd Wright homes are<br />
holding their own, but pockets of &#8220;diversity&#8221; are also ap­parent. The high school attended by Ernest Hemingway<br />
has added a small monument to him near its front steps.<br />
It has been defaced, of course.. by graffiti.<br />
But don&#8217;t the idea that Chicagoland has deteriorat­ed beyond repair. The &#8220;L&#8221; trains are still clean and effi­cient. While other cities have brought in modern, hush­ hush, light rail systems, the &#8220;L&#8221; trains still rumble and<br />
lurch around the loop. (Chicago ain&#8217;t no Disneyland, so<br />
don&#8217;t look for that to change any time soon.) Michigan Av­enue is still one of America&#8217;s great urban walkways, from<br />
the phalanx of skyscrapers on South Michigan adjacent to<br />
Grant Park, across the Chicago river, past the architectural<br />
gateway formed by the Wrigley Building and the Tribune<br />
Building, and northward past the old \t\later Tower and the<br />
new office towers. One feels the urge to step lively, not<br />
just in the winter when the weather is every bit as bad as<br />
advertised.</p>
<p>Then there is the lakefront, the focal point of Daniel<br />
Burnham&#8217;s master plan of Chicago, with the Navy Pier,<br />
the parks, the statues, the fountains, the museums, the<br />
beaches and boats. With skyscrapers straining for the<br />
heavens, the seaward vistas of Lake Michigan to the east<br />
and the landward vastness of the American prairie extend­ing in all other directions, Chicago&#8217;s reputation as a wide­ open city is easy to understand.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.occidentaldissent.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Chicago_Winter.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4193" src="http://www.occidentaldissent.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Chicago_Winter-300x199.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="199" /></a></p>
<p>But even a city that stretches in all directions can be<br />
hobbled. An incident I witnessed on the &#8220;L&#8221; neatly sym­bolizes the problem. I was riding the train going back to the Loop after a night game at Comiskey Park. Normally any train coming up from the south side will be over­whelmingly black, but after a ball game it is filled with white fans. As the train pulled into the next station north of the ballpark, a black girl ran up the platform and lodged<br />
herself in the doorway of the car. Time after time, as the doors attempted to close, the girl held them back. No one said a word. The girl stood her post, holding the doors open and consequently holding up the train, until her mother and a babe in arms came chugging down the plat­form and boarded. As the train finally pulled away from the station, the black woman was immediately offered a seat by a middle-aged white woman, who stood next to her and gazed lovingly at the little black bundle in her<br />
arms as though it were the reincarnation of the Christ Child. I will close by saying there is a strong spirit of preservetion in Chicago pertaining to architecture and the physical infrastructure of the city. Remember the controversy about adding lights to Wrigley Field some 50 years after night baseball was first introduced. Laudable as these efforts are, they will amount to naught without attempts to preserve the race that conceived and built the mighty metropolis.</p>
<p>JUDSON HAMMOND<br />
ENDNOTES</p>
<p>1. Sullivan&#8217;s firm benefited greatly from jewish money. He re­<br />
ceived a number of commissions from jews thanks to the con­<br />
nections of his partner, Dankmar Adler, son of a local rabbi.<br />
2. Detroit-born Nelson Algren, author of A Walk on the Wild<br />
Side and The Man With the Golden Arm, is usually near the top<br />
of the list when the topic of literary Chicago crops up. Despite<br />
the Swedish surname, he is half-jewish.<br />
3. In City of the Century: the Epic of Chicago and the Making<br />
of America, author Donald Miller asserts that the sainted jane<br />
Addams probably had a lesbian relationship with Hull House&#8217;s<br />
principal contributor, Mary Rozet Smith. The termagants at NOW<br />
would doubtless cheer this avant-garde coupling.<br />
4. For what it&#8217;s worth, six jewish faculty members have won<br />
Nobel Prizes, the first being physicist Albert Michelson in 1907.<br />
5. Ironically the history books agree that the first permanent<br />
resident along the banks of the Chicago River was one Jean Bap­<br />
tiste Point du Sable, a Caribbean mulatto who established a trad­<br />
ing post in 1779.<br />
BIBLIOGRAPHY<br />
Cutler, lIVing, The Jews of Chicago: From Shtetl to Suburb,<br />
University of Illinois Press (Urbana/Chicago, 1996).<br />
Kobler, John, Capone: The Ufe and World of AI Capone, G.P.<br />
Putnam&#8217;s Sons (N.Y., 1971).<br />
Miller, Donald L, City of the Century: the Epic of Chicago<br />
and the Making of America, Simon &amp; Schuster (N.Y., 1996).<br />
Sommer, Robin Langley, The Genius of Frank Lloyd Wright:<br />
Oak Park, Barnes &amp; Noble (Greenwich, CT, 1997).<br />
Tuttle, William M&#8221; jr., Race Riot: Chicago in the Red Sum­<br />
mer of 1919; Studies in American Negro Ufe, August Meier,<br />
Gen. Ed. Atheneum (N.Y., 1970).<br />
Wagenknecht, Edward, Chicago (The Centers of Civilization<br />
Series), University of Oklahoma Press (Norman, OK, 1964).<br />
Historical Information About Chicago, compiled by the staff<br />
of the Chicago Municipal Reference Library (Chicago, 1975).<br />
The Encyclopedia of American Cities, Ory Mazar Negral, ed.<br />
E.P. Dutton (N.Y., 1980).</p>
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		<dc:creator>Hunter Wallace</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On August 28, 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr. led a crowd of 250,000 to the Lincoln Memorial in the &#8220;March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.&#8221; It was there in the Summer of 1963 that King gave his iconic &#8220;I Have &#8230; <a href="http://www.occidentaldissent.com/2010/08/30/restoring-honor-glenn-beck-and-implicit-white-nationalism/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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<p>On August 28, 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr. led a crowd of 250,000 to the Lincoln Memorial in the &#8220;March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.&#8221; It was there in the Summer of 1963 that King gave his iconic &#8220;I Have a Dream&#8221; speech.</p>
<p>In 1963, 75% to 80% of King&#8217;s audience was black. White liberals rounded out the other 20% who gathered on the National Mall. The March on Washington was the symbolic highwater mark of the Civil Rights Movement.</p>
<p>The television cameras were rolling that hot summer day. King&#8217;s sweet words about a utopian future of racial harmony plucked at the heartstrings of White America. The vision he articulated there changed the mindset of a generation.</p>
<p>It laid the foundation for half a century of drift toward the progressive ideal of race relations. In 2008, the cultural legacy of the Civil Rights Movement was powerful enough to send Barack Obama to the White House.</p>
<p>America&#8217;s first black president was widely touted in the mainstream media as the fulfillment of the civil rights dream articulated at the Lincoln Memorial in 1963. If Martin Luther King, Jr. were alive today, he would be the first to agree.</p>
<p><strong>Restoring Honor</strong></p>
<p>On August 28, 2010, Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin led a roaring crowd of 300,000 to 500,000 to the Lincoln Memorial at the &#8220;Restoring Honor&#8221; rally. The audience that gathered on the National Mall was told the America of the Founding Fathers had been &#8220;lost&#8221; and needed to be &#8220;restored.&#8221;</p>
<p>Now it is time to reverse course.</p>
<p>In 2010, 90% of Glenn Beck&#8217;s audience was White and conservative. The blacks, Jews, and White liberals who marched with Martin Luther King assembled in a smaller counter demonstration led by the Rev. Al Sharpton.</p>
<p>You could see the air deflating from their balloon.</p>
<p>As in 1963, the television cameras were rolling. This time around it was Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin pulling at the heartstrings of White America on that symbolic spot with soaring rhetoric about religion, patriotism, and military service.</p>
<p>Americans had lost their way. They needed to turn their eyes to God. It was all a highly choreographed display of White America&#8217;s emerging identity crisis.</p>
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<p><strong>A Movement Emerges</strong></p>
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<p>&#8220;Restoring Honor&#8221; eliminated any lingering doubt that may have existed that the Tea Party was an ephemeral phenomenon that was already in retreat. It turned out to be the largest such gathering to date.</p>
<p>The overt religiosity of the rally was also a departure from previous Tea Party events. It showed that the depth and breadth of the alienation felt in White America extends far beyond the fiscal issues that served as the earliest rallying cry against the Obama administration.</p>
<p>This can be seen in states like Tennessee where less than 25% of voters are affiliated with the Tea Party, but over 70% support Arizona-style immigration reform. The Tea Party is the spearhead of a far larger White backlash against the political class that controls the federal government.</p>
<p><strong>Unfashionable Observations</strong></p>
<p>Glenn Beck has done us a service here. Undoubtedly, &#8220;Restoring Honor&#8221; will be attacked in some circles for its kosher rhetorical concessions to political correctness. This is missing the forest for the trees.</p>
<p>The goal posts have been moved in several critical ways:</p>
<p>1.) White Americans are starting to think of themselves as &#8220;outsiders&#8221; ruled by &#8220;insiders&#8221; &#8211; the arrogant liberal elite that Barack Obama symbolizes. This is a major prerequisite of group identity, consciousness, and rebellion.</p>
<p>2.) Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin have succeeded in politicizing millions of White Americans who were formerly apolitical. Sheer apathy has always been one of the biggest obstacles to the formation of White racial consciousness.</p>
<p>Joe Six Pack has progressed from tuning out politics altogether to growing concerned about the direction of the country. Simply getting him to put down the beer and cheez-whiz, turn off the football game, and get off the La-Z-Boy for a moment to think about the future is in itself a huge accomplishment.</p>
<p>3.) White Americans are starting to believe that America has been hijacked and perverted by an alien elite. This isn&#8217;t the whole truth, but it is a tantalizing enough clue to point curious people in the right direction.</p>
<p>4.) White Americans have been told they are justified in &#8220;taking our country back.&#8221; This is a nationalist claim. If it is our country, we are entitled to it. The rightful heirs can take it back from the interlopers.</p>
<p><strong>Glenn Beck&#8217;s Implicit White Nationalism</strong></p>
<p>Fifty years of brainwashing isn&#8217;t going to be cast off in a day. If we have any hope of influencing our peers, we must have a realistic attitude and take as our starting point where ordinary White Americans find themselves on the political spectrum.</p>
<p>Judging by the &#8220;Restoring Honor&#8221; turnout, Glenn Beck seems to be striking the right chord in that respect. He can now <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/earl-ofari-hutchinson/beck-speaks-for-the-white_b_698306.html">speak with authority</a> for the White majority. Unlike the rhetorical radicals, he has tailored his message to get their attention.</p>
<p>Beck is now in a position to lead the White majority from George W. Bush-style &#8220;compassionate conservatism&#8221; to Sarah Palin-style &#8220;implicit White Nationalism&#8221;; from apathy to engagement; from flag waving nationalist insider status to Don&#8217;t Tread on Me outsider status; from reform to revolution.</p>
<p>Should he choose to do so.</p>
<p>Whatever happens, the polarized political environment that Glenn Beck is contributing to works in our favor, intentionally or unintentionally. Such an enormous crowd of angry White people hardly bodes well for America&#8217;s ruling class.</p>
<p>It can be interpreted as a sign of things to come.</p>
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<p>Greetings again from the middle of modern Europe, from a huge capital city that shall go nameless. There is plenty to update you on this week, so let&#8217;s get going.</p>
<p>&#8211; The new U.K. defense minister was caught unawares by a lone reporter and in an intelligent and in depth discussion of NATO goals in Afghanistan, the kind that not only does one not see in the U.S. but that at times one wonders if a U.S. politician is even capable of, the minister announced (I paraphrase from memory) &#8220;look, we&#8217;re here because it is in our national interest and not one moment longer, we&#8217;re not here because we care about education policy in a 13th Century society.&#8221;</p>
<p>The minister&#8217;s honest words (and, let&#8217;s face it, the U.K. is outta there no matter what Unca Suga has to say about it) were retracted just as soon as the U.S. could throw a patented American Hissy Fit (Triple Grande, with an extra shot). But, NATO this or NATO that, we will soon be all alone in Afghanistan, and the Europeans have calculated that there is no value, no value whatsoever, to staying or to continuing to suck up to the U.S. Note, especially, that this war push has come from Barry Obama.</p>
<p>&#8211; There is locally where I live a city election. I&#8217;m not real used yet to the abbreviations of the parties, though I knew that one set of letters was allied with the Muslims, the others were for restricting immigration. Before I could look it up in the morning, the ads and posters of the right-wing party were defaced overnight with red paint and, in some places, writing in Arabic. This saved me the hassle of having to look it up.</p>
<p>&#8211; Meanwhile, NATO continues to expand. The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia is next in line, even though they can&#8217;t even agree here on the name of country. Just for the record: your sons and daughters are pledged to die for Macedonia. As you might imagine, the feeling is not reciprocated.</p>
<p>&#8211; Further illustrating that when the change comes, it won&#8217;t be according to the rules, the situation in the Netherlands makes it crystal clear that even strong mainstream electoral success means nothing when it comes to the U.S. and EU enforced rules. Effectively, Wilders has been forbidden from government, even in a purely symbolic role. Dissent will not be allowed.</p>
<p>&#8211; Speaking of the EU, the situation here is quite interesting as we are now well into Phase II of its existence. In Phase I, it was a pure American import, the American system exported to Europe. To understand the EU in this phase, one must merely envision No Child Left Behind writ large: No Country Left Behind. With enough funding and technical assistance, and the right political will and the right people, we can finally reach the promised land where every nation (child) can govern (read) as well as White (Northern European) kids (countries). In other words, Norway and Germany pay for Portugal and Greece, in much the same way that Smith and Lucas pay for Leroy and Gonzalez.</p>
<p>During this phase, opposition to the EU was more or less like the opposition in the U.S. &#8220;Look, peoples, nations and government are NOT the same, they DO have cultural and racial characteristics and to pretend otherwise is folly of the first magnatude.&#8221;</p>
<p>That was then, but this is now. Now, the EU groans along for one reason and one reason only: to pull the former Eastern Europe into the mainstream. Everything it does is directed at bringing Slovakia, Romania and even the former East Germany into the real world.</p>
<p>In that sense, now that I&#8217;ve seen it up close, the EU makes sense. The scope of the change that is necessary in the East is massive. It is not a matter of changing governments or this or that program, but of human personalities. In the East, even in the Year of Our Lord 2010, everyone from the local shopkeeper to the minister of the interior is afraid to make a decision lest it lead him to destruction and, in any case, we all know we are powerless before the state, and, by the way, there is no point in working with other people because the more they know the more they can use against you.</p>
<p>The people I&#8217;ve come to admire here speak of change in the East being a three or four generation process. I think that&#8217;s probably generous, but it certainly provides a lot of substance to the question &#8220;Why, exactly, do European leaders cling so strongly to the EU when it presents so many disadvantages?&#8221;</p>
<p>Imagine a world where we were in union with Mexico whether we liked it or not. What would be better: 1) to let them go their own way, knowing that their hordes would cross our borders; or 2) involve ourselves and our money deeply in their government with the goal of making Mexico a place where Mexicans could make a Mexican life for themselves without thinking of migrating?</p>
<p>This is the situation the European nations are in. They are scared; you can feel the fear.</p>
<p>&#8211; On the street, the world spins in greased grooves the way it has for centuries. There are cafes near my apartment which are older than the Republic. And after two months I can answer one question without reservation, with absolute certainty and with total confidence: European girls are vastly prettier, nicer, and just damn plain outclass American women from here to the moon. It isn&#8217;t even close.</p>
<p>&#8211; In poor Ireland, the tail has come off the Celtic Tiger. Unemployment is at 15% and tax receipts are down 9 billion Euro from this time last year. Houses in Dun Laoghaire (dun-leer-ey), a suburb of Dublin that is the main ferry line to the UK, that went for half a million Euros five years ago are selling at auction for 100,000 euros to Polish plumbers who wisely socked away their earnings. Meanwhile, in the name of inclusiveness, the Irish Government has imported African Muslims to South Dublin.</p>
<p>Wonders of wonders, the reaction of the locals, despite their superior education and culture, despite being EUROPEAN, despite being better than Americans in all things that matter, as they will readily tell you if you would but listen, is massive White Flight, with the Irish becoming a minority in districts of Dublin for the first time in recorded history.</p>
<p>From Mississippi to California, from Haiti to Peru, from Ireland to Italy, from Egypt to Mozambique, the utter failure of the Black race and the desire of everyone to get away from them as far and as fast as they can is one of the few constants in an ever-changing world. And, yet, we are not allowed to comment upon it. For it is too obvious.</p>
<p>&#8211; Met a Black ex-pat the other night. Intelligent, insightful, smart, fully American, more than me. What a strange world it is that we must be so sundered from people who rightfully should be our brethren. Such is the power of race. Individually, we may be friends, even comrades. But, as a whole, people will side with their side and the advancement of peoples is a zero sum game. It&#8217;s powerfully sad.</p>
<p>&#8211; In Finland, the government has gotten itself in trouble by noting, publically, that Russia really isn&#8217;t that important anymore. The Bear growled and made the usual noises.</p>
<p>And the Finns LAUGHED.</p>
<p>Imagine that, my friends.</p>
<p>My, how this Old World has changed!</p>
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<p><em>by Val Koinen</em><br />
August 28, 2010</p>
<p>A brief message regarding the plight of White people in America and the world over – and especially concerning our dispossession and impending extinction…</p>
<p>My efforts as an essayist have always been to foster awakening and an awareness of (knowing and understanding) racial differences and the influences of Jews on White society.</p>
<p>Yes, we obviously need those things.  They provide the keys to a necessary rebirth of our people; to our redemption.  But it must be recognized, if we hope to survive, that we need so much more than that.  Ultimately, ours is a lost cause, and we are a doomed people, if we do not have genuine:<br />
-	Reverence for the <strong>truth</strong>, and a thirst for knowledge about things that really matter; that are at least as strong as our pursuit of pleasure, inanities, and diversion.<br />
-	A renewed <strong>toughness</strong> in conjunction with a strong survival instinct.<br />
-	<strong>Loyalty</strong> to our own people; to our kinsmen and our shared heritage – to the extent of having genuine pride in who we are and what our people have accomplished over the centuries.  And respect and deep, heartfelt appreciation for the price our ancestors paid down through history.</p>
<p>Think about those concepts.  Teach them to your children.  Spread the word to your relatives, friends, and acquaintances.  </p>
<p>If you do those things we have a chance; if you do not, our branch of humanity – the greatest the world has ever known – is as good as dead.  </p>
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