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Wetumpka Alabama, April 3, 2004

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2004-04-04 22:00 | User Profile

Wetumpka Alabama, April 3, 2004

  Ellen Williams

General Lee surrendered 139 years ago come next Friday, and since then Confederate people have been under permanent Reconstruction. We have received lifetime brainwashing sentences from the education establishment, media, entertainment industry, CERTAINLY in the political arena, and in the last 25 years, from the pulpit; as tragically our own churches have joined in the effort to Reconstruct us. I recently read a statement that really stuck with me: Many Christians have exchanged the religion of Christianity for the religion of Equality. Those of you who went to the Roy Moore demonstrations with Confederate Battle Flags found that out when you were told “We don’t want your kind here.”

SO. It’s not news to those of you here today that we’re in a War; a different kind of War,

Though the Cause remains the same. Our War is more sinister because we can’t always immediately recognize the enemy. At least our Ancestors knew to “shoot at anything blue.” Our enemy is more subtle, often looks like us and sounds like us.. But unlike us, he considers himself a New South citizen; progressive, forward-looking, tolerant and inclusive. Today’s war is a war of words against symbols, ideas, and deeply held principles and convictions.

We have found ourselves, not captives removed to a foreign country; but we have become relegated to plebian status within our own native-land; a land which has gone through a metamorphosis and transformation before our very eyes.

Yes, friends, we have suddenly found ourselves in an alien environment. In case you haven’t figured it out, our kind is not popular anymore, EVEN in Alabama, the Heart of Dixie. Most people really “don’t want our kind here or anywhere.” We’re an embarrassment, an impediment to progress and a speed bump on the highway to the New South.

I am going to put Southerners into three categories: 1. the New South enlightened Southerner 2. the afraid Southerner 3. the Remnant Southerner. The New South Southerner makes statements like: Well, it’s best the South lost the War because how would we make Haiti and Iraq safe for democracy? Or how would the interstate highway system work? Or geez, we might not have Medicare or FDIC or OSHA or Internal Revenue or Chapter One or Title Nine!! And you know our grandparents had those quaint, out-dated, old fashioned ideas like all other religions are false except the Christian religion; only one model for the family: a man, a wife and their children; And all that stuff about the superiority of Western Civilization: the Magna Carta, English Common Law, Mozart, John Calvin, Shakespeare, George Washington and a Christian Representative Republic, Nathan Hale, Thomas Edison, and NASA. Now we know that all cultures are equally important, just different and anyway brutal white colonialists destroyed and conquered the advanced civilizations of the other continents. Never mind that there are no written records of Third World Achievements, historians and sociologists are now “discovering” their achievements and our children can study these remarkable cultures of cannibalism, head-hunters, witch doctors, and voo doo queens in schools where “no child is left behind” and everyone has equal self-esteem because everyone gets equal grades and everyone has equally low Achievement Test Scores. AND WE NEED MORE TAX DOLLARS FOR THIS EQUALITY. The New South Southerner wouldn’t be caught dead on a picket line in Selma or in the Alabama Historical Commission because, WHAT would his country club and transplanted yankee friends at the office THINK? They might think he was one of those redneck Flag people who drive pickup trucks, eat collards greens and is forever “fixin to go to the store or fixin to do something else.” New South Southerners are “progressive.” Now if you ask him to define “Progress,” he can’t. He just knows “he’s for it.” His motto might be: “Progress yesterday, progress today, progress foah-evah.”

1. The Afraid Southerner: The Afraid Southerner flies the First National Flag because “nobody really knows what kind of flag it is; most think it’s the Betsy Ross Flag.” He thinks that’s a really clever thing to do. The Afraid Southerner can’t write letters to

the editor or put up posters to Confederate History Month at his place of business because some of his customers might be offended. The Afraid Southerner doesn’t get involved when the name “Rebels” is removed as high school mascot. He just goes with the flow and doesn’t make waves. After all it’s easier that way. He never appears undignified like the Flag wavers and he certainly never risks anything. He doesn’t fly a Battle Flag in his yard because HAVE MERCY, “they’ wouldn’t like it and might set his house on fire. The Afraid Southerner advises his children to keep their mouths shut in history class when the “Civil War” is being discussed because “they might make somebody mad and there might be trouble.” So he just keeps backing up and giving up and though he can’t name a single instance when appeasement has worked, BY GOLLY it just might work one of these days. So he gives up the Battle Flag and when they come for his guns, he’ll give them up too, because, you know, if he doesn’t it might cause trouble. His motto is: I go along to get along.

1. Then there’s the third group: YOU, THE REMNANT SOUTHERNER. The Bible tells us over and over that God never allowed the total destruction of His people. He always preserved a REMNANT; those who had not bowed the knee to the pagan gods nor participated in the pagan culture around them. He always had the REMNANT.

You know though, I’ve been throwing around the term “Southerner” pretty freely here. For most of my life, I was sure that everybody who lives in Dixie knows what the term “Southerner” means. But I’ve found out that’s no longer true. Some folks, even in Heritage circles think Southerner is a geographical designation. If you live in one of the 11 Southern states, that makes you a Southerner, according to some people. And then there was one individual who gave me his brilliant definition of Southerner: anyone who wants to be one and declares himself to be one is a Southerner. (I told him I thought he had his definition mixed up with Democrat and Republican.) Using that definition, an

immigrant from the mainland of China or a Mexican illegal can be an instant Southerner.

I wonder, is that something like instant grits?? Up until around 1980, black people in the Southern states were not spoken of as Southerners. It has recently become trendy in some circles to use the term, “Southerners, both white and black.” I have personally never heard a black person refer to himself as a “Southerner.” And I taught public school 25 years. They plainly prefer the designation, African-American.

So. Who is a Southerner? A Southerner is a Caucasian most likely descended from the Scots, Irish, Welsh or to a lesser degree English; with a smattering from other Western European nations. He shares a common culture with other Southerners and enjoys basically the same foods, leisure activities, music, worldview and holds deep reverence toward his mama and his God. He can trace his ancestry to a Confederate soldier and thus is a Southerner because of the blood that flows in his veins and the bond forged by the privations and injustices suffered during and after the War Between the States.

We are now in the 6th or 7th generation from those Confederate soldiers and the family stories are no longer told as they once were. But there is something intrinsic within the Southerner that even at a young age reveals to him who he is. Two Examples:

I have a fellow teacher who told me that often she would look from her kitchen window and see her young son with a Battle Flag on his shoulder just out there marching.

She said, they never discussed the War or the Confederacy but he’d always had an interest and fascination for both. What causes a seven-year old boy to choose to place

A Battle Flag on his shoulder and march and relive those battles? He’s a Southerner.

Then I have a personal example of my own youngest child. In my days of child rearing, I don’t recall explicitly teaching her to hold certain attitudes about the War Between the States. But she told me very recently that as a very young child as early as the Second Grade, when she studied Abraham Lincoln, she instinctively disliked him. She didn’t know why, just knew she did. She’s a Southerner.

Our ancestors lived through a devastating War and they survived as Southerners. Our parents and grandparents lived through the Great Depression, and they survived as Southerners. Now we are being tested in a different kind of crucible as we see our Christian Confederate Culture assaulted on every front. It is a full scale cultural assault from the attack upon our Flags and monuments, our Military Battlefields, our language, our music, our literature, our customs, our art, our right to express opinions contrary to the popularly held one, and certainly our freedom of association.

I told you about the Enlightened New South Southerner and the Afraid Southerner, now I want to tell you what the Remnant Southerner’s been doing:

Most of you here probably already know but we’ve have had two very recent victories: you saved our two state Confederate Holidays and you saved the word “Confederate’ on the Foundry sign at Selma. You, the Remnant Southerner did that yourselves; you didn’t call for any caricature Confederate clown to come to Montgomery or Selma to fight your battles. YOU fought your battles and you won because you fought OFFENSIVELY and aggressively. I don’t want to call names because I would surely forget someone, but there are people here who spent hours on the phone and on the computer and wrote letters toward these victories. And they stood ready to go to that Picket line in Selma, and the enemy knew they stood ready, and the enemy rolled over.

Today there is a new monument to the defender of Selma, Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest. It was attacked by people who only want equal rights and moved to a cemetery by a mayor who claims to be the “mayor for all the people.” I hate to quote a yankee here, but I can think of no more appropriate statement for the Forrest Monument situation than, “It ain’t over till it’s over.” Stay tuned. The Forrest Monument is the work of the Remnant.

Some of you know that the Confederate Community has been in a 3-year siege defending the Cradle of the Confederacy (our state Capitol) . Monday will be three years and one month exactly. This has truly been a grassroots effort and we have used every means at our disposal. In the 02 and 03 legislative sessions, grassroots Remnant Southerners twice defeated power-grab bills by the director of the Alabama Historical Commission by several methods like stalling his bills by calling public hearings on them and lobbying against them in the halls of the Statehouse. Some have driven hundreds of miles across the length and breadth of this state to attend every Quarterly and every committee meeting of the Historical Commission for those three years. These and others have written hundreds of letters and phone calls gathering information. There have been many meetings with state officials in regard to preserving the historical integrity and historical accuracy at the Cradle. There was even a lawsuit filed to impede the planned desecration. BUT THIS BATTLE IS NOT OVER FRIENDS. But I am happy to report that for the first time, the momentum seems to be turning our way. I ask that you, the Remnant, please stand at “battle ready” when next the call goes out and it will come. In fact we know that March, 2005 will be critical in this particular battle.

Now we have a new assault at Blakeley State Park, Baldwin County, where at a Confederate Memorial Battlefield, New South Southerners want to place a monument honoring troops who bayoneted and shot Confederate troops who had surrendered. There are those working aggressively to defeat this dishonoring of our soldiers at Blakeley. But please keep your powder dry for we will need you on this one, too.

The Remnant has an effort going on now in this state to publicize April as Confederate History and Heritage Month in Alabama as proclaimed by the Governor and the State Board of Education. In the past, the media have not been diligent to write articles for our month. So like good independent Southerners, we decided to write our own articles and letters. (You know Southern people are good at “making-do,” in fact I think we invented that institution.) Confederate activists of this state were divided into four groups to stagger the mailing times of these letters / articles. We are presently very early into April and only Group one’s mailing deadline has passed but already there have been ___letters sent to newspapers in this state publicizing April as OUR month. AGGRESSIVE, OFFENSIVE, UNAPOLOGETIC action gets the job done.

In this ongoing War, I have found some things that work and some things that don’t. And part of what I want to do here today is share some of those things with you. I’ve learned is NO ONE is going to help us but our selves and the Christian faith of our fathers. There was a time when Southerners stood in the strength of the Lord and on their own two feet. But in the past several years, I’ve seen a shameful pattern developing. The New South Southerner and the Afraid Southerner no longer believe that we can or have a right to exist as a people. They’re convinced we must justify our existence by not only including people different from ourselves, but actually use them to be our spokesmen, our leaders! Many have the mindset that “Oh, we can win the public relations war if we’re inclusive. Oh, the media will like us and we’ll fool the NAACP and they’ll leave us alone and LET US KEEP our Confederate monuments and Flags and Confederate Memorial Day; they might even let us sing “Dixie” now and then. HOW LONG WILL IT TAKE SOME AMONG US TO LEARN THAT THIS PATHETIC PUBLIC RELATIONS EFFORT HAS FAILED, miserably. Have Southerners sunk to depths that we no longer feel we have the RIGHT to exist as a distinct people? That we can’t even have organizations of just “us?” That we need others to fight our battles? Those boys who lined up under the trees across from that stone wall at Gettysburg prayed before they stepped out and that was the ONLY help they had and the only help they needed besides each other. Like them, let us stand or fall as a people.

Now for some other things that DON’W WORK in Heritage Battles. I’d like to just briefly summarize some pitfalls we need to avoid: 1. Do not begin dialogue with “My folks didn’t own any slaves.” Do not get maneuvered into a debate about slavery. There is slavery in the Book of Genesis and slavery today in Uganda. 2. NEVER begin a letter or verbal exchange with “I’m not a racist.” That statement immediately puts you in defensive mode. Remember: our stance is aggressive and offensive. 3. For goodness sake, people, don’t say: Well, I fly the Battle Flag but I’m not so and so. Just fly it. It doesn’t need explaining. Our enemy already knows what it stands for; that’s why he hates it. 4. Don’t try to play the “Tolerance Game.” I’ll respect your heritage and in turn, please, pretty please, with sugar on it, respect mine, okay? THAT DOESN’T WORK. Those who oppose our Heritage have no intentions of being “fair.” We are not in a Tolerance contest, we are in a POWER STRUGGLE.

I’ve talked a lot today about the war for our heritage; but there is really only One war and it began in the Garden of Eden: the War between Good and Evil. And our heritage battles are just a part of that War. We know who wins because we’ve read the end of the Book; but in the meantime, we must do our duty and continue the battle.

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CSA

2004-04-05 00:44 | User Profile

Excellent Read!!

Ellen tells it like it is!

BRAVO!