Race Advocacy Needs to Stop

The Old Wisdom That Carried Us Out of the West Must Return

Inscription at Krak des Chevalires which says, 'Grace, wisdom and beauty you may enjoy, but beware pride which alone can tarnish all the rest.'

Introduction with Context

I consider myself like Lincoln in that when a certain question vexes me, I cannot release it until I have absolutely put it to bed. This question of late for me has been a subject I've termed, "Racial Politics." I've written on it repeatedly because it is a topic I have been forced to deal with endlessly, as many of us have. I consider myself a shepherd of sorts and responsible for those of you who follow the Imperium. I don't want to lead us astray or down any course that leads to failure or evil. So I feel the need often to speak my mind. The greatest weakness of "Traditionalism" is a lack of cohesion; my principle goal with the NSIR was to give Catholic Traditionalism that focus and direction it needs to be effective. In a base sort of way, we all know what we want: the restoration of Christendom for the assistance of the salvation of souls by the Church, and an environment in which that mission is best carried out. That is to say, a truly and authentically Catholic civilization. The trouble is, how do you define that? Many have asked me for defining literature on the subject, and I have been powerless to provide any. While there is a wealth of resources from which our platform is drawn, it is all very scattered. Hence why I am continuing to work on the Imperial Manifesto that will outline our platform in a concrete way. Maybe this will be the last time I discuss this on my blog for a while; I feel like it ought to be. I don't know how much clearer I can be on the subject.

"The Peacemakers."

Essay

I’ve written repeatedly on race relations over the past few days. If there’s one thing I don’t like in any sort of politics, its redundancy. Redundancy generally points to a lack of progress; the same ground being retreaded over and over again without any clear resolution in sight. Deadlock and uncompromised have become so routine in Republican and Democratic nations that we may wonder how it has ever been any other way. Believe it or not, “Enlightened” people of the Modern World, there was a time when political ambitions tended to a logical end. When ideology went around what was best for the State and not simply the individual – who benefits when the State benefits and hurts when the State hurts regardless of what kind of state rules him – and positions that did not benefit the whole quickly became discarded.

  

Tsar Shuisky and his Brothers before the King Sigismund III in the Senate Chamber at the Royal Castle in Warsaw.

           

It has come to such a point that the Parties manipulate the electorate based on these divisions. They control trade, information, media, etc. and with a flick of their wrists they can make us throw ourselves upon one another in rage or segregate ourselves from one another in indignation. We are like Pavlov’s dogs, salivating on command when the thing we are drooling over is not even a reality. Local incidents of violence and injustice that smaller judiciaries could otherwise be trusted to handle are thrown upon the mob like kindling to the fire. We are shown the “reality” of an America that is racially divided and boiling over with hatred. Worse yet we are giving the problem absolute hues of black and white in more ways than one.

 

The Duke of Guise during the Day of the Barricades, by Paul Lehugeur, 19th century.

            

Democrats and Republicans are either willingly choosing sides or being forced to take on or the other based on the realities of the electorate. Liberal and Conservative are becoming synonymous with “Person of Color and Poor” and “White and Wealthy.” This is dangerous beyond words and should throw up red flags to anyone with a knowledge of history. But alas I feel like John the Baptist, the lone voice crying out in the midst of two great armies. Like Gandalf between the Dwarves, Men, and Elves I desperately warn those involved in a petty squabble over their impending doom at the hands of a much larger and mutual adversary.

 

Gandalf the Grey - John Howe.

           

I recently took it upon myself to learn about Black Supremacy. I am so used to dealing with White Supremacy I almost forget the other exists. In our society it’s remarkably easy to find, either because White Supremacists are open about their beliefs as it is or a lynch mob has already formed around them calling for their deaths. What’s gone almost completely ignored due to our strident disdain for one is that “African Americans” have their own rampant version of this.

House of the Blackheads.

I perused tumblrs, blogs, facebooks, along with historical primary sources from figures in the philosophy of “Black Power,” everything you can imagine. What I found was almost the same rhetoric used by White Supremacists, save the Black Supremacists argue from a very different position or speak as though they do. I tried to imagine White Supremacists saying the same thing as Black Supremacists (not hard, seeing they already do).

“Worry about your own people’s future and don’t integrate.”

“You can’t trust the government.”

“The time for uprising is now.”

“We need communities of our own race.”

“The system is rigged against us.”

“We need to arm ourselves and prepare for war.”

“We need to get them before they get us.”

“Race-mixing is betraying your heritage; those who do so are traitors.”

 Do you doubt me? I ask that you look for yourself. See what they and others say on the subject. What you will see are two groups of people on a crash course for conflict; once minorities, the present political climate has thrown them to the forefront once again. Since Barack Obama’s presidency began in 2008 there has been a huge spike in the growth of Race Advocacy groups. Whether or not a racially divided America that could be manipulated by the Democrats was intentional or not I cannot say, but regardless it is happening. I theorize that all it will take to push America over the brink is a staunchly Conservative, White Republican Strongman for President who repeals forcefully the acts of his predecessors.

St. Canute IV; Martyr and King of Denmark, date of birth uncertain; died 10 July 1086, the third of the thirteen natural sons of Sweyn II surnamed Estridsen.

Would the “Democratic” system make this fair game? If it’s how the Democrats did it, it’s how the Republicans are allowed to do it. No, it does not make it fair, because any system where the majority with force of law oppresses a minority is unjust. Justice is blind and cannot see the Black Man and the White Man. The fact is that trust in the Republic has eroded beyond all repair; what has kept the United States alive is the faith of its people in their form of government. The gentleman’s way has long since passed out of the hearts and minds of the American people and has been replaced by the idea that we must do literally anything in the pursuit of the right thing, ignoring the fact that even the most just goal can be tainted with the methods used to achieve it. We are getting very close to the violent deposition of legitimate authority; history tells us that once this threshold is crossed there is no going back. Once you have removed the sanctity of government it becomes up for grabs. What Liberals might take by force from Conservatives, the Conservatives can now also take back my force. If you want to ask how legitimacy born through the barrel of a gun works out for a nation, you can ask the Africans and the Asians.

 

Our Lady of Africa.

The fact is Racial Advocacy groups must be demolished in their entirety within the United States of America. For the good of national stability we must redefine what makes America and go to a Roman model of citizenship, under which one’s status as an American supersedes everything else. In such a system all Americans are entitled in law to the same benefits and treatment; under such rule all Americans also have the same duties to the State. Not just equality but justice should reign in America. Our Pledge of Allegiance reads, “With Liberty and Justice for All.” True equality is only found in just treatment; to do otherwise is to put the card before the horse. We must not only destroy Race Politics, we must make them invalid.

Painted by William Ranney in 1845, this depiction of the Battle of Cowpens shows an unnamed black soldier (left) firing his pistol and saving the life of Colonel William Washington (on white horse in center).

One is tempted to think that perhaps this will lead via Social Darwinism to the eventual domination of one race regardless. I question how that is possible if race is nothing more than a descriptor, and all are considered equally American. It is highly more likely that under the current system where both sides want the same thing (supposedly) and one side is endlessly suppressed while the other is applauded or benignly neglected (the reality) that we shall see the ultimate dominance of one group over the other via the iron boot of one pressing down upon the neck of the other in a quest to ensure that “Never Again” is one group oppressed by another in one of the cruelest and unjust acts of irony we may ever see in human history.

The Natives of Cumaná attack the mission after Gonzalez de Ocampo's slaving raid. Colored copperplate by Theodor de Bry, published in the Relación brevissima.

Humans naturally buck against tyranny. The Bolshevik Revolution was overwhelmingly Jewish, and this has been used by Anti-Semites as a means of fueling their canards about the Hebrew quest for a One World Jewish Order. The facts are much less complicated; the Jews were persecuted by the Romanovs via pogroms which they themselves enacted or ignored and allowed to happen without repercussion. If the Portuguese, French, English, Spanish, Polish, and German Medieval Monarchs had ignored Rome’s Sicut Judaeris and allowed violent persecution of the Jews to go unpunished, something similar might of happened (it did for the Visigoths, I should mention). There are numerous examples of this happening all across history which do not involve Jews. It’s not a whether or not a minority persecuted due to their race or religious creed will occur: it’s when and if they will succeed. Let’s assume for a moment that the Anti-Semites and their doctrine cancerously spread to and claimed the entire world; it is then that a true Jewish Empire would emerge, and hilariously enough it would be because the world believed one already existed in the first place.

Saint Gregory the Great.

The Romans – who every nation on Earth in the West claims to be the inheritors of – understood this. They did not persecute based on race; however, if a racial minority collectively rose against Rome (as the Jews did in Judea, or the Germanic Tribes did under the Suebi, or the Gauls did under Vercingetorix, or the Britons did under Boudica) they were not afraid to attack the source of the problem and pull it up root and stem. By doing so they avoided racial prejudices until the Late Empire when it was in its decline and being overtaken by the Barbarians and all sense of imperial unity was eroding.

 

Vercingetorix Throws Down His Arms at the Feet of Julius Caesar, 1899, by Lionel Noel Royer.

Caesar would never have tolerated racial division in his imperium, nor would any racial advocacy groups have lingered for long in Rome had they formed within the Senate in the first place. Medieval kingdoms lacked them entirely, even though among “White Europeans” there was plenty of racially-based division between various ethnic groups in their own countries. They possessed a unifying principle that brought them all together. For the Romans it was the Emperor and Empire; for Christendom it was the Monarch and the Catholic Faith. For Americans it must be America, or we will not ever ling as long as our predecessors from which we are descended. For the New Holy Roman Empire - the Novum Sacrum Imperium Romanum - our Point of Unity will always be the Roman Catholic Faith.

Doge Antonio Grimani Kneeling before the Faith 1575-76 by Titian.