Amid the demonstrations following the death of George Floyd, the cries of racism and iconoclasm have reached a crescendo in Richmond, Virginia. The people decrying white supremacy in the streets have prompted Governor Ralph Northam and Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney to remove the iconic monuments to the Virginians and Southerners of the Confederacy who are honored there.
Monument Avenue has since the late 19th century been the home of monuments to such giants as Robert E. Lee, J.E.B Stuart, Jefferson Davis, and Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson. These monuments were erected following Reconstruction, a period that saw many Southerners suffer through destitution and tyranny at the hands of the Union victors. It was only after the Compromise of 1877 that the South was able to push out the carpetbaggers and build these monuments to honor their heroes.
Ralph Northam is the epitome of the perfidious politician that Virginia has had the misfortune to contend with in recent years. He supports abortion rights, various bans on firearms, and has been advocating for the removal of all things associated with the Confederacy. The fact that Northam is a native Virginian (and a massive embarrassment) makes him equivalent to a modern day Judas Iscariot. Levar Stoney is, of course, a democrat that was part of Terry McAuliffe’s administration. The same Terry McAuliffe that orchestrated the Charlottesville debacle that saw countless right wingers excoriated by their peers and persecuted by the law unjustly.
The plan going forward is to first remove the Robert E. Lee statue, which is state owned, followed by all the other war memorials, pending the Richmond City Council’s likely approval. A law going into effect on July 1st will allow local governments to take down the remaining monuments. Unfortunately, Monument Avenue’s days were numbered when the radical Democrats took control of the Virginia General Assembly and the Richmond City Council voted to take control of the statues from the Commonwealth. In 2007, the American Planning Association named Monument Avenue one of the 10 Great Streets in the country. We expect it to be a much reduced and degraded location, including home values, within the next five (5) years.
It would be easy to become incredibly black pilled by the recent losses to the communist agitators and iconoclastic politicians. As Southern Nationalists, it is important that we not allow ourselves to do so and be reminded of the larger struggle at play here. It is undoubtful a great crime is being committed against our ancestors, a people who died in the defense of our soil, for these monuments to be removed. But, it should be kept in mind that the Southern people and way of life don’t inhabit that stone. These monuments will be relegated to a dusty museum or destroyed outright; that much has become inevitable. It is the responsibility of Southern Nationalists to use this as a fire to stoke our rhetoric and to redouble our efforts in educating our people about their history.
Now is the time to reach out to our friends and acquaintances, people who are equally dismayed by the sudden vitriol, barbarism, and carnage. We must point out that the same people desecrating and tearing down our Southern monuments, as well as bellowing about white supremacy, want nothing more than the complete destruction of the South and Southern culture. It needs to be reinforced that no amount of apologia will ever satisfy the communists and antifa terrorists. This is simply a power struggle that only a unified Southern block can resist.
Efforts should also be made to educate those that will listen about Southern history. The narrative in history textbooks, and that presented in media, has long been falsified to vilify Southerners at every single turn. The intensity with which the rewriting of history will precede is only going to be augmented considering recent events. Southern Nationalists should use every platform available to advance the true version of events. Whether this be a humble blog post or a conversation with a friend, we need to make sure that our narratives are not lost with the statues on Monument Avenue.
The statues will be torn down and destroyed. We lost our major cities before most of us were even born. We must become “living monuments” for our people. We must set a good example for Southerners – we must be honest, truthful, brave, just, providers, protectors, and make our ancestors proud that we carry their legacy. Spineless politicians, antifa terrorists, and roving bands of rioters think they have defeated the South. They can’t defeat what’s in our hearts and minds.
Be a living monument for your people. It’s all we have left.
-By Dixie Anon
O I’m a good old rebel, now that’s just what I am. For this “fair land of freedom” I do not care at all. I’m glad I fit against it, I only wish we’d won, And I don’t want no pardon for anything I done.
Virginia has a Reconstruction government. But it’s an example of what happens anywhere in Dixie, where Northern transplants and other foreigners become a local plurality.
However, the cultural South still survies in small towns and in the country, far away from conurbations and larger cities. And it survives in the people who populate these places.
Nontheless, the desecration of cemeteries, and the destruction of monuments to our dead, represents high political effrontery, and deep, mortifying insult.
@James Owen…
“Virginia has a Reconstruction government. But it’s an example of what happens anywhere in Dixie, where Northern transplants and other foreigners become a local plurality.”
I totally agree that Virginia, at present, is an eerie echo of 1866; and, just as The Union Leagues were funded by wealthy Northerners to send their evangelical kinsmen southwards to teach us how to be better humans and citizens in their country, Governor Northam holds the most prestigious seat in Dixie because of the vast expenditures of one notable resident of new York City – erstwhile mayor Michael Bloomberg.
“However, the cultural South still survies in small towns and in the country, far away from conurbations and larger cities. And it survives in the people who populate these places.”
Very true, Dear Jame,s but, I will tell you this : ———- the wife and I live in an antebellum mansion in the center of one of Dixie’s oldest little towns, yet, the closest White Southerner to me is two blocks away – I surrounded by Arabs, East Indians, Chinese, and, yes, Latins of every stripe.
More than half of my neighbours have arriven since Trump’s election.
How long can this go on before that second statement of yours, that I quoted, is no longer valid?
Just what a shame with what’s been happening in Virginia over the past few years, it’s probably changed a lot since even I visited your great state to see Williamsburg, Norfolk beach, and stopped by Richmond all as recent as 2013. Especially since 2015 I wouldn’t be surprised if some of the civil war graveyards an some of the other beautiful statues of our heroes that we looked at have been destroyed by now. You folks have been hit much harder due to being much closer to Washington DC an Yankeeland than some of the sister southern states like my homeland of Tennessee, but I just want you to know that we support you an stand with you guys up there.
I can’t imagine what George Washington or Robert E Lee would think of where their home state of Virginia that they worked so hard to create and defend their home for us an our children from the same enemy we face today. Last night when I saw that your very own governor betrayed his people in asking to destroy the statue as soon as possible, well I was immediately furiously outraged as anyone would who calls the southland home. The same people who are calling for “unity” and “equality” fail to understand that those statues were allowed to be put up by the Union out of respect an a compromise that because we surrendered to them with mercy we would in exchange be allowed to pay tribute to our heroes of this land. In 2015 that compromise was broken because people thought it was forgotten, and we are now only allowed to renounce our heritage in shame while helping our replacements destroy our home. As Johnny Cash sang in a tribute to Robert E Lee “Look away dixie, look away Dixie I don’t want them to see what they’re doing to my Dixie” , things have changed even since Johnny Cash passed away an not for the better.
We stand with you, and all of Dixieland from Tennessee
@Johnny…
Though my state, North Carolina is now the northwards frontier of Dixie (if you exclude the southern parts of Virginia) we have the same problem.
Our population demographic?
23% Southern Negro
10% Latin (not including illegals)
4% Europeans, Chinese and and Arabs
15% Yankees
That leaves just 48% of the state actual members of The Southern White Race, of which approximately 1/4 are out and out card-carrying scalawag scoundrels.
So, only 33% of our population is in it’s right place and not out of it’s right mind.
We are hanging on by our thumbs here, and I see no change in this trend coming.
Yeah North Carolina an South Carolina are definitely being effected as well. I had no idea no idea that the demographics for us Dixians was so bad over there, they explain why they’ve turned so liberal an anti south. I think we’re doomed, because if we get our independence what are we gonna do about our demographic replacements. It’s a very tough situation I don’t have an answer for.
@Johnny…
Well, we have talked about the bad news of the Demographics, but, I think that the demographics are not nearly so challenging as the fact that Southerners have lost themselves in their heads.
Because of that, I have made my peace with The Good Lord that our people, though they will continue surviving in the flesh, will not ever again have their own civilization, but, instead, will be permanent members of someone else’s.
Even our culture, once so strong, is gradually disappearing, just as we have lost every one of our institutions and almost all of our cities.
It took years of work in my prayer life to come to grips with the fact that neither one person nor can 50,000 change what the collective decision is that tens of millions of people, in this case Southerners, are making, and have been making.
When I was a child in the 1960s, Southerners were having a serious debate about whether to be or not, and, though some Southerners, particularly the smalltown and rural ones put up a fierce fight, by the 1970s, that fight had been lost, this chiefly because the mass of Southerners grew tired of the constant tension and just wanted to be happy consumers.
If you did not live through those times, it would be hard for you to know how much pressure was applied, from every angle, on The South, and the only way it could have been successfully fought was by Southerners going all out, again, as great-great-granddaddies had done in the late 1860s.
Unfortunately, by the 1960s, as a group of people we had softened a bit, and, as well, had become so invested in The New England Yankee United States’ of America that, (principally through foreign wars) that for many, the idea was too painful to contemplate – that namely being secession and civil war.
I know the 60s was a wild time, but it sure would’ve been a better time to grow up than the last 40 years have been even with Vietnam an the wild hippies that today continue to plague this country. To tell you the truth I just haven’t come terms to the demographic shift an the millions of southerners that have given up our way of life in exchange for nothing but to be left alone in shame an don’t think I ever will. I’m currently 18 myself, and being young these days sucks cause all anyone cares about is what’s on an iPhone screen or what’s cool on social media an so on rather than do something fun or interesting outside. A lot of people these days are just so bland an uninteresting compared to people I know that are near my Dad an grandparents ages. Every city I go to has the exact same people, same fast food chains, all talk the same, same radio stations, same generic cultures, same everything an you can only tell it’s any different at all by its name an it’s regions climate. What’s the fun in that? I hope that it won’t be the same case out in the boonies as well in the near future, because it’s just so boring an depressing these days with the generic “American” culture that’s nothing more than brand names an popular movies/shows. I’ll always be thankful I grew up with something more than that, and I feel bad for people who know nothing else other than the modern generic “American” way of life of the city.
While we southerners will unfortunately never be independent , wasn’t there talk on this site about forming a small community type setting in the long term with schools an so on for us? I don’t know to much about it although I think that’s what we as a site should focus on instead of hopeless things we have no control over.
@Johnny…
Your comments reveal you to be an excellent young Southern Man. I appreciate your deep thinking, reflective, and caring ways.
Yes, the 1960s were a thousand times better than this era, in so many many ways. I feel sorry for your generation that so much has been so screwed up!
Have faith, with Men coming up like you, all just may not be lost.
Take care!
@THE AUTHOR…
i cannot say that I enjoyed this article, but, by the same token, I thought it was exactly what need to be said.
We are in a dark period of endless reverses, yet, there are still tens of millions of us who can, if we ever wish it to be so, turn things around.
It all comes down to if we want to recover our hearts and our missing balls.
Great piece, we’ve got to focus on building rather than lamenting.
We got out-organized, out funded. Nothing impresses a politician more than a face-to face lobbying meeting ( except riots, I guess). The Lee statue should at the very least be preserved. Our side should buy it and display it on private property.
Northern cities are monuments to debauchery, ignorance and retrograde.
They can tear down our statues; we don’t have the wherewithal to stop them, and that’s the fact. But as the author says, we can hold our traditions and our honor high in our hearts and in our actions.
Reject the reconstruction of the South in mirror images of the fetid North in every little thing you do, every day.