“Well, not with that attitude!” This is the phrase of playful banter between my wife and me. It’s meant to be humorous, but also sometimes to spur us on toward the completion of a family project, or general plans for the future. The right attitude can move many obstacles.
In the comments of my last article “No Fear,” one of our readers made a very good point about laziness within our movement. I don’t disagree, and we have a long way to go. But oh, how things have changed since we started. I can honestly say that disposition is dramatically on the decline.
We are witnessing many grassroots groups spring up all over the South, and although not our particular brand, many Heritage American groups, too. Even groups that have wanted to protect their little niches have been moved to jealously by these upstarts. Consequently, in order to stay relevant, they have been moved to the cause. The status quo is no longer an acceptable position, and that is because of those who have been actively pushing a pro-South narrative by force of will. We have the correct attitude.
As an example, back in the early days of my writing for Identity Dixie, I wrote an article regarding the biblical views on slavery, and particularly how our good and righteous people had practiced it in the South. This one issue has paralyzed our people, defamed our ancestors, and bewitched us with a disposition of shame and defeatism. To say the least, it enraged me to observe our people listening to the voices of our adversaries, and I began a campaign to break this spell.
The advice from the peanut gallery was that of misguided children, the mindset of the vanguished. They said that narrative just would not sell in today’s environment, and those were the nice people (“our guys” actually). But my response to them was simple, “Not with that attitude!” I pressed forward, not only writing articles, but raising pertinent questions, when necessary, and never agreeing in any form with the narrative of our opposition. We must never have the attitude of defeat.
And look where we are today on this issue. The history of slavery is talked about in the mainstream all over Western civilization, and the narrative is changing, the spell is slowly being broken. The truth of how it was practiced throughout the centuries, and not just during the dispensation of our peculiar Southern institution, has been unleashed into the wild. Praise to our Heavenly Father, that defaming narrative is collapsing. To lift your spirits even further, the great state of Florida has incorporated the benefits of slavery as part of its standard history curriculum. This is a complete course correction from where we were just two years ago.
This is, of course, fantastic! But in my thoughts, I knew more had to be done. If we could break that spell in our churches, we would have a ready-made heavenly army to assault the gates of hell on this issue. And it’s happening. I’m hearing with clarity the positive benefits of slavery, that the Scriptures declare right, from the pulpits of my Reformed Christian community and among its podcasters. Perhaps, and I know it to be true, my original article got passed around among some very influential names in my denomination, focusing and reviving the theology of what once was common among our clergy (Thornwell/Dabney). Of course, there is some push back from the gatekeepers on the Right, but it only makes them look weak to the rising tide of young identitarian Christian men. There are no places for cowards in Christ’s pulpits.
I’ve mentioned this one issue, not because we need some psychological justification to love our ancestors, that should come naturally. No, we have to reverse the narratives that have so crippled us. We have to put our opponents on their heels, taking the offensive. And we must not be discouraged because someone who says, “You can’t do that.” Well, not with that attitude! Brothers and sisters, with determination and God’s blessings, we can do anything.
When I was starting my career, I was told by a peer that I would never make it at my job. I’m sure most of you are like myself, and that just made me want to humble him the more, doing so by exceeding expectations. Not only did I succeed, but I surpassed my detractor. He left the company, only to have a failed minor league baseball career. I went on to be the top performer in my company, and in the top ten for five years’ straight. It was hard, but my will to achieve my goal was stronger. My attitude was positive.
Just as in The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, our people and our leaders have been under the counsel of the enemy. It is akin to Grima Wormtongue, who whispered seductive lies to Théoden, King of Rohan, and poisoned his mind, turning him against his most loyal subjects. Until, just like the readers and contributors of Identity Dixie, an unassuming fellowship of determined men broke the sorcery that bound Théoden and his people.
We will break the spell, we will restore the attitude of victory, even if it costs us everything – because we have but one Lord, and He demands we do so.
Deo Vindice!
God save the South!
Service to God and honor to the South.
This article read like a natural progression from Kaiser’s previous article on the need for Enlightenment deprogramming. I hope you’re right that ‘the spell’ is being broken regarding slavery, but I still hear some jaw-dropping untruths from leaders in the Reformed Evangelical Churches; and those untruths seem to be the majority report. Some even promote miscegenation, seemingly as a way of making reparations for their centuries of intolerance and prejudice. I’m a Kinist and I let them know it, but I don’t feel the presence of many fellow travelers outside of Identity Dixie.
We have to evangelize our brothers into the straight and narrow.
Thanks for your comment brother, always an encouragement.
Usually when I try to recruit people their response is: I am not worried about it. I will be raptured before it gets that bad or I will be dead when all that happens, so I am not going to worry about in. In both excuses they envision a total collapse but think it will be decades away. This is much talk about awakening our people, that we need a White Awakening, but our people are already awake so White Awakening profits us nothing if it is not wedded to action. I have head to learn the hard way most White people are not racially conscious but merely anti-Black. I told a cousin about a book advertised on the Political Cesspool and his response was “I don’t have to read that book to know what is going on. All I have to do is turn on the TV.” Awareness without action profits us nothing. I text links and podcasts and get no response. People are just lazy. I have started saving junk mail postage paid envelopes and put racialist calling cards from various organizations in the envelopes and mail it back to them. It’s depressing. Sometimes I almost feel like we deserve to be extinct. As a principle God does not make cowardly people free.
So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase. – I Cor. 3:7 (KJV)
You are likely having more impact than you know. I’ve mentioned before in our comboxes the several times over the years I’ve explained to kith and kin where they’ve been misguided in their thinking per slavery in the South, etc. Virtually always with a great deal of resistance on their parts initially, only for them to broach the subject with me years later and to be pleasantly surprised to find that they have, in the meantime, adopted a whole new attitude towards the question. The most gratifying thing about it for me is that they forget who told them the truth of the matter and set them on the right path to begin with. Most people lack humility, so, they tell themselves they came to the knowledge of the truth independently of anyone else’s counsel. And that is fine by me because I just want them to arrive at the truth; I don’t want credit for my little part in the equation since I already know that one plants, another waters, another hoes and so on, but it is God alone who gives the increase.
Press on, brother!
The author is correct that we must not compromise our principles, including on the Biblical legitimacy of the Negro slavery of the Old South. Last year (after an email exchange) a former minister wrote a piece against me on his tiny blog, saying that Kinism was “White supremacy” and that I would end up in Hell, in part because I quoted Dabney at him and refused to condemn slavery. I wonder if that minister has mulatto grandkids or something? He came unhinged at me for no reason. But at least he exposed his heresy to the world in his essay criticizing me and Kinism.
So what if it is white supremacy? To whom much is given, much will be required. Conversely, He that’s been given less will have less for which to give an accounting. Are the ways of the Lord not equal? Unfortunately, this is no isolated aberration among the clergy today. They wilt when anyone suggests they’re discriminatory in their love of others, yet it’s perfectly in keeping with Romans 9:13. It all kind of proves the point about how Enlightenment thinking has infected all of us today.
I’ve found Thornwell’s ‘The Church and Slavery’ one of the most cogent defenses of slavery. John Murray also has some really good stuff to say in his chapter on ‘The Ordinance of Labor’ in ‘Principles of Conduct’.
“Can’t never could do nothin’,” as my father would sometimes remind me and my younger siblings during our formative years.
Good article, sir.
“We will break the spell, we will restore the attitude of victory” – Such a great quote. It really is a spell over our people. God willing, we will overcome it.
Very inspiring article, well done. Always love reading these types of articles to counterbalance against the usual dissident blackpilling and doomsdayism (of which is also needed in certain cases, but should never be the only material produced or it leads many to hopelessness). Great reads like these are essential for that harmony. Thanks Dabney.