Lewis Grizzard once said, “The game of life is a lot like football. You have to tackle your problems, block your fears, and score your points when you get the opportunity.” This is most certainly true; however, I’ll add that in life and in politics you can’t just play two quarters and expect to win the whole game, but this is exactly what we’ve done in the South (particularly, in regards to society and culture).
On August 11th, 2017 in San Antonio, Texas, hundreds of members of the Texas Sons of Confederate Veterans and This is Texas Freedom Force showed up to protest the removal of a Confederate monument in Travis Park (yes, this date coincides with another much more well known rally in Virginia). There were cheers, chants, and speeches. Within a short matter of weeks, the San Antonio City Council had the monument removed in the middle of the night. Most of the men on our side were shocked that this would happen. The responses were, “How can they do this?” and “We didn’t get to vote on the matter.”
My reply was, “Where was the outrage when the homosexuals took over the park after dark in the 80’s? Where was the outrage when the park became a haven for drug deals and junkies?” No one said boo. This park, where the monument had stood for generations, had become a degenerate playground at night, and everyone knew it. No one honored the monument and no one cared about it until there was talk of removing it. The removal was just the natural progression of decline.
We are witnessing monument after monument falling at the hands of mobs that have hate in their hearts and revel in sin and ungodly behavior. This process isn’t something that happened overnight. In the book of James, in the Bible, it says, “desire gives birth to sin, and sin when it is fully grown brings forth death.” James was speaking about personal sin, but this applies to our Southland as well. Almost every city where monuments are coming down, you can bet that there are legions of BLM, antifa terrorists, and immoral degenerates cheering it on. Why wouldn’t the monuments come down? These cities are no longer a reflection of the proper pride and piety of the past.
What can we do? Where do we go from here? Many of y’all don’t like my answers, but several of us at ID have been repetitive and at least consistent in our message.
- Go back to church and get involved in your church;
- Learn a trade, skill or get a degree that trains for a real career;
- Find a wife and get married;
- Have babies and train them up in the ways of the Lord, teaching them our heritage, and culture;
- Be a faithful and kind husband to your wife;
- Be a loving and dutiful father to your children; and
- Join other families that are doing the same.
My good friend’s father had a profound answer about what we should be doing as our civilization strains and our monuments are torn down. He said, “Be the living monument, they can’t take us all down.”
Be the living monument – be a noble example of your past, your people, and your posterity.
-By Texas 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.
Fantastic advice, though, I would add it must have a political component, for, one way or the other, we must begin a Southern Party.
As to your vignette of the monument at the park in San Antonio, it was poignant and fitting, because, long before the statue went, the cultural ground underneath it disappeared.
The Capital of The South, Richmond, fell long ago, it is only that, in recent days, the coroners have come to finally pick up the dead bodies, in this case in stone.
The result of the autopsy – died of cowardice and indifference.
Much of US cities were already scar tissue before this cultural revolution began. Taking the monuments down just normalizes the aesthetics to more closely match the state of decline. You’re the only you you’ve got and as this dark age keeps getting darker, we have all got to bring out own light with us.