Blood and Hate

There are many ways to determine the measure of a man’s character. Some are common and counted among the standards we all share. Others are less common and some are in many ways unique to only a few of us, the result of life experiences and learning things in our own way. For me, that is blood. That is, I have learned you can, in many ways, glean a sense of a man’s character as a result of his attitude toward donating blood, and more specifically, the reasons he may give for refusing to do so.

Donating blood has been something I have long been passionate about, however odd that may sound. It is one of the simplest and easiest mercies we, as Christians and men, can perform. It requires nothing of us, but perhaps some mild discomfort and a little bit of time, and it potentially serves to save lives – perhaps, even the life of someone dear to you. In many ways, it is the embodiment of the Christian ideal of charity and service. It can be a bit mind-boggling to me that there are some folks that have a problem with readily and regularly giving. And, this is where a man’s character is revealed.

You see, my place of employment is currently getting ready for its regular blood drive, and I have been helping to get people to sign up. Some have, but many more make their regular excuses why they will not. These excuses grant me great insight into their character as men. This insight is a very handy thing to know.

For example, one common excuse is “I will donate when they pay me.” This says to me that this person is only willing to do things for the benefit of others when it benefits them. I find this to be a rather mercenary attitude. Potentially saving the life of someone’s child, sibling, parent, friend, or even their own, should be enough of a reason to give something of themselves, something that costs them nothing. How can such a man be expected to be of genuine benefit to his people, his land and his family, if he is unwilling to sacrifice without financial motivation?

Perhaps more irritating still is the, “I just don’t want to do it.” What this says is, “I cannot be bothered to take fifteen minutes out of my day to sit in an air conditioned bus to save a life.” This illustrates many things about a man, and none of them good. The most important thing it announces is that this is a slothful individual for whom convenience trumps morality or duty. Such a man cannot be expected to be of genuine benefit to his people, anymore than the mercenary-minded man, if only because he is not willing to put forth even the most token of efforts for anything meaningful.

However, the most egregious excuse I have heard actually came from a fellow Southern Nationalist. It occurred while I was attempting to organize a blood drive, and get people more interested in donating in general, and how community charity benefited the Southern Nationalist movement. Not only would a blood drive directly aid our local communities, if you ensure you donate to an organization that stays local, but it generates good will. This is especially true when we are seen (and actually are) going out and being virtuous citizens and neighbors.

One man in particular, actually a very good friend of mine still, gave an excuse that I think sums up a major problem within our movement (albeit, among some more than others). He said, “I don’t donate blood because I don’t want my blood going to a n*gger.” I have no doubt there are many people staring at their screens in confusion right now – thinking, “I don’t get it, how is that bad?” I am not surprised because I have found this is a fairly common attitude among many people in the Far Right. Unfortunately, this is not limited to the donation of blood, this sort of mentality can be found when discussing any sort of charitable work.

For example, after Hurricane Florence caused widespread devastation across portions of Dixie, I attempted to get a certain group I was involved in, at the time they billed themselves as the premier Southern Nationalist organization, to organize immediate aid for those affected. I urged our people to band together and contribute to the aid effort in the form of supplies, manpower and whatever else was necessary for our Southern people; this would have included helping with the clean up of debris, providing meals and clothing.

Members of the group were enthusiastic and plans were being drawn, until someone chimed in with hard-earned wisdom. He was from Louisiana and had experienced the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina first hand. And, he had witnessed various white nationalist groups attempt to help, but they selectively provided aid. The resulting backlash from the very people they were trying to help, at such a display of the white nationalists’ pettiness, resulted in these groups being run out of town and it damaged their reputation in the eyes of the very people they had hoped to help. And so, he cautioned, if we were to provide aid we would need to engage in genuine Christian charity and give of ourselves freely.

If we attempted to ignore some and help others, then we would alienate our own people rather than win them over. Sadly, the backlash to such an idea among the group was immediate, though it was one response, in particular, that stood out, “I will not aid the other.” Just as I was never able to convince my friend of the benefits in helping our communities through blood donations, even if it meant that a non-Southerner might conceivably be aided by his blood, I was unable to convince my fellow activists to see reason. They were incapable of understanding the larger benefit in helping our disaster-stricken brothers and sisters, just because of the possibility they might have to provide a bag of food to a colored family or because someone might be seen helping a Hispanic. In the end, we never did anything to help our Carolina friends, as everyone largely became unwilling to embrace the idea of charity in the face of disaster.

This attitude would again rear its ugly head with Hurricane Michael and its destruction in the Panama City region. To their credit, my former group did mobilize to help provide what relief they could, in the form of helping clear driveways and taking some food and clothing down to drop off, but they openly advertised on social media that they were only helping “white folk.” The president of the organization even openly declared they would be sending many people down to help “a nice majority white” town or neighborhood. And, in doing so, they left many more people drastically impacted by Hurricane Michael to suffer without support. Needless to say, the group received no major media attention as a result, no positive social media attention outside of their own channels and not so much as even a mention in the local newspaper. To my knowledge, they did not recruit a single individual through their insincere charity outreach.

My final example would be more of a personal one, a close brother and I attempting to get people involved in a charity fishing tournament to benefit veterans. Most of the veterans were Southerners, born and raised, elderly and disabled. The event was a simple one, you just donate your time to spend with a veteran and go fishing. It would have allowed the veteran some time to enjoy themselves and have some company. We pitched that it would be a great chance to get out and get some local exposure for the group, as the tournament was mostly a rural regional thing. It would potentially give us a chance to leave a good impression on the families of these veterans by showing them we will stick with them, even after the government casts them aside. And, you know what happened? Not one person joined us for the simple reason that the tournament was not exclusively white-only.

It is my hope that you see where I am going with this, that you see why the opinions of “I won’t donate blood if it might help a n*gger” or “I refuse to help the other” and other examples here are a dark window into the character of a man. These excuses primarily boil down to this: a class of people that hate the “other” more than they love their own people and a refusal to lift a finger to help their people, due to the off-chance a non-white could even benefit in the slightest.

There is no conceivable future where we win with this attitude. Not a single one. Our victory relies on us winning the hearts and minds of our wayward brothers across the South. We do this by building support networks. We do this by showing them that they are not alone. We do this by rebuilding the bonds between our communities, by showing them that they need not rely on the Empire, which seeks to keep them under its boot. This relies on us going out as virtuous Southern Christians, giving ourselves for the benefit of our people. We cannot do that if hatred overpowers our better reason. 

The men I have described here, the men I now distance myself from, will never succeed because they are driven by a maddening hate, even fueled by it. They cannot be of service to our people because their own pride and hatred will not allow them. If we, as a movement, are to succeed, we must learn from failure. We must never allow hatred, no matter how tempting or satisfying, to prevent us from being there when our people need us. Our people are too important.

There is a time and a place for all things, anger and hatred included. But, when it comes to undertaking charitable activities to benefit our wayward people, hatred cannot prohibit us from charity, especially so when it would benefit our people. Hatred in such an instance will poison our works, destroy the sincerity of it, and, in doing so, poison our own people against us. Therefore, let us go out and show our people that we are motivated, not by hatred of those not like us, but by a genuine love of our people and a sincere desire to see their lives improved.

We must, at all times, be Southern Christians of outstanding moral character. And, this character must be at all times shown in our actions and how we treat those around us, even those who are simply not us. There is no other path to victory aside from this.

-By Dixie Anon

Treat others the same way you want them to treat you. If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. If you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same. If you lend to those from whom you expect to receive, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners in order to receive back the same amount. But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return; and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High; for He Himself is kind to ungrateful and evil men. Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful.

Luke 6:31-36