SOUTHERN TYPES - THE ROBERT W. WHITAKER ARCHIVE

SOUTHERN TYPES | 2011-10-02

I mentioned Sam Dickson before. He is an Atlanta lawyer with a highly successful career who sticks his neck out to defend our side and who gives a hell of a speech at each convention.

There are subtle distinctions between us loyal Southerners that were last explored by Thomas Wolfe, and then just a little. They're harder to see, because in New England "The Cabots speak only to the Lowells, and the Lowells speak only to God (thanks for the correction, BBG)"

In the South, where "not speaking" and other rudeness has always been the sign of white trash, these distinctions have not been noted.

Sam is an upper class Presbyterian, though, as he says publicly, he does not agree with Calvin that man is totally depraved When he and I first discovered that we were unapologetic champions of our race and the South, we were very close, and we would still die in the same trench, but he is a bit distant with me, as is proper for a very upper middle class Presbyterian with a Southern Methodist.

More to the point, in his speech at the convention Sam made some points that a strict Calvinist and a lawyer -- Calvin was a lawyer -- would make.

One of these was that one should not discuss THEIR race with THEM.

Both his religious discipline and his discipline as a lawyer put such strict rules into his speeches, which are always the most purely enjoyable at the convention.

So this strict Calvinist versus Southern Methodist contrast is something too many generations old to bother Sam and me. My reaction is more "I say what I damned well please," which is just the kind of attitude that would get Sam's clients in jail, but is also the attitude that freedom, real freedom, is based on.

But when I thought about it, there is not the contradiction that Sam might see here.

I do not talk to Jews or other races about THEIR race. If I discuss race at all, it is about MY race, not theirs.

You wouldn't expect this of a former interrogator, but I am a lousy liar. In fact, I am a lousy misleader.

And, like so many Evil Bigots, especially Southern ones, I talk a lot to black people and others.

So dissembling is a bad strategy for me.

But I don't talk to non-whites about Their race. I talk about MINE.

I gave a copy of my last book to a black lady who was our senior Courtesy Officer at our building. She read it cover to cover while on night duty that night. It contains the Mantra repeatedly. It also contains a discussion of the Boasian Jewish attempt to take over leadership of all minorities.

In fact, she read the book so zealously that our manager was a little worried about her not watching the internal television during that period.

Said courtesy officer kept assuring me she was my biggest fan. She admitted the bluntness and the fact that I even talked openly about Jews, though what I say is no more than what Boas himself said for half a century or more.

I know Sam, and he would not approve of my unbending that far.

But Sam knows us old Southern country Methodist types as well as I know him, and he takes it for granted that we are incorrigible about rules.

COMMENTS (4)

#1 Genseric | 2011-10-02 07:15

Besides having one of the most analytical minds of the Western World as a mentor, this organization we refer to right now as BUGS has something I think the Jews would call Chutzpah? What's more than that is it has a consistent message that actually works.

And it has teeth.

#2 BGLass | 2011-10-02 10:03

Made me think how it seems stupid for anybody to speak for anybody else, just sad that the left co-opting so much of common sense rhetoric without any of the common sense thinking behind it; like, in all their stuff about 'silenced people having a voice.'

Even among ourselves. Like, was struck by some recent piece at TOO about Jeb Corliss, and this extreme sport was seen as as extension of "rugged individualism," and the thing was a review of a book about sports. Anyway, this is phrase is very hackneyed when it comes to americans, and not really how they see themselves (but rather how others interpreted their actions (like conquering fronteirs, or jumping off cliffs, or whatever).

But if you listen to Corliss interviews, what HE SAYS about his BASE jumps has little to do with machismo (in the sense of showing off balls). In fact, his first jump from an antenna was without anyone around. When he landed a little too hard, what he recalls is that he could actually hear the insects in the grass.

It's, for him, about feeling very ALIVE. With everything in hyper-relief. Very present. The senses all tingling. This is like being next to God. God would want us to be very alive.

Before discovering jumping off things, he felt like "the walking dead," he says, and 'depressed,' and he hated school, (which he just refused to go to). In fact, what he has to say about Dwaine Weston, who died jumping with him, and whose body parts he literally flew through, was that he was so UN-macho. He came off sort of fruit-cakey with a lispy girlish voice. What Ueli Steck says about his own climbing endeavors at one point, is "I am SO SWISS." He laughs. For him, he says it's all about "precision." He is a living Swiss watch (this is what he says).

It's different, really, from trying to "live out some tradition of ruggedness." Nor are they being "rugged." Ueli is being PRECISE. And Jeb is FEELING ALIVE, in contrast to the world as he experiences it around him.

If his jumping is a reaction to anything in regards to being white, it would be against all the self-abnegation of white people, (since Aliveness is what the jump means to him). He is very clear and repetitive about stating that unless one accepts the fact of death, one can't be very alive. When you realize the transience of physical life, you are then enabled to move on, to live in a different way. All this is very spiritual, really. The mastery of fear is why he base jumps

People rarely really listen to what people SAY. Almost immediately they translate words into their own cosmology in mid-air.

Standing for oneself, and insisting on being heard on one's own terms, being heard like how one said it, may be the hardest challenge of all in life.

Saying what one pleases is freedom, but what others do with it, well, you can have no control over that. However, you may be free to correct them, seems like, no matter how many times, if they persist in translating your meaning into something that you didn't really say at all.

#3 Dave | 2011-10-02 11:32

Everybody has a right to their own conceits and indulgences, but the Greatest Generation had a very tough time with that concept.

So it all went forward into Political Correctness and corporate scripts where everyone was shoehorned into becoming a fan of a sanctioned something.

But the scheme of these scripts just doesn't work. If the derelicts don't torpedo them, the feral dogs will.

It's like when Hollywood romanticized stiletto knives back in the 50s and then a whole industry came into being smuggling stiletto knives in from Mexico because suddenly every fashionable punk had to have one.

That's what using the Mantra is like. It's like smuggling stiletto knives over the border.

#4 Dick_Whitman | 2011-10-03 15:13

Growing up I was extremely bigoted towards Southerners. I grew up in the "deep North" of upstate NY. I was socialized into believing that Southern Whites were inferior. I thought of them as stupid, backward, and ignorant. I was a Northern Supremacist.

I then joined the Army in 1999 and lived in the South (Georgia) for my whole 4 year enlistment (with tours overseas for globalist, corporate, and Jewish interests). My experiences in the South changed my perspective totally.

The major lesson for me was that in the South Whites actually have to live near blacks and hispanics. In the North, most suburbs and rural areas look like Mayberry. Inner cities have blacks and hispanics but they're concentrated in ghettos.

It's no coincidence that the most racially minded Whites in the North tend to be working class White "ethnics" who live closest to the black/hispanic ghettos. The least racially minded Whites tend to live in wealthy urban areas like the East side of Manhattan or all White suburbs and towns in Vermont and New England.

I can honestly say that I was way more bigoted towards Southern Whites than I ever was towards non-whites since becoming racially aware. My feelings towards Southern Whites was bigotry in the true sense of the word. I was socialized though movies, TV, and the education system to see Southern Whites as inferior. These feelings truly were based on ignorance.

Anyway, as a former Northern Supremacist I'm proud to admit that my greatest political and intellectual hero is an "over-educated redneck from Pontiac South Carolina."