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2004-10-06 11:29 | User Profile
[center][img]http://www.nationalvanguard.org/images/teaser/lifeline_expedition_ma.jpg[/img] [size=1]"Please forgive me, you wonderful Negros"[/size][/center]
[size=3]Anti-White, historically inaccurate 'guilt march' comes to Massachusetts;[/size]
by Ann Hendon
A cult-like anti-White religious group gathered in Marblehead, Mass., yesterday to "atone for the sins of slavery," according to the Salem News. The group, calling itself the Lifeline Expedition, places White men and women in chains and yokes, where they are marched by Blacks to a site where they abase themselves for the "sin of slavery." But their attack on history and on the psyches of White children did not go unanswered, as members of the National Alliance were on hand, speaking out, marching alongside the guiltmongers wearing shirts emblazoned "Not guilty," and handing out Alliance position papers for every pamphlet handed out by the marchers. (ILLUSTRATION: Whites in yokes abase themselves in an orgy of guilt sponsored by Lifeline Expeditions.)
[url=http://www.nationalvanguard.org/story.php?id=3973]Rest of Story Here[/url]
UPDATE:
[indent][size=4]Marblehead defends itself from slave-port label
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By Alan Burke
Staff writer
MARBLEHEAD ââ¬â The stain of slavery may be America's original sin, but some Marbleheaders are crying foul over the efforts of an anti-slavery group to single out this town as a historic starting point for the slave trade.
"It's the first I've ever heard of Marblehead being a slave port," said Selectman Harry Christensen, who traces his ancestors to the town's original settlers.
"It's surprising to me," said Pam Peterson of the Historical Society, "that of all the places in the United States associated with slavery, that they'd pick Marblehead as one of them."
"It's a lot of nonsense," historian Bette Hunt said with a chuckle.
An international Christian tour group, Lifeline Expedition, came to Marblehead on Monday, marching through the downtown and carrying messages that asked for forgiveness for slavery. The group picked the town, members said, because its storybook harbor was one of the first to import slaves.
During the tour group's appearance, a small group of white supremacists arrived to protest the protesters.
Locals, meanwhile, are insisting that the historical record is not so clear and that a thorough reading often finds Marblehead in the forefront of the battle on behalf of human rights.
The claim that Marblehead was involved in the beginnings of the slave trade centers around the ship Desire, which was built in Marblehead in 1636 by Capt. William Pierce and which carried slaves to New England two years later.
"But Marblehead was not a slave port in any way," said Pam Peterson of the Historical Society. The historical record is open to interpretation, she said, but she speculates that Desire delivered her cargo to Boston and not Marblehead.
"In the 1600s, no one here would have had the money to buy a slave," she said. Moreover, slave markets of the type seen in the South would have been economically impractical for a struggling fishing port.
And Marbleheaders were fishermen, part of a struggling business venture.
'Fish, fish, fish'
Still, the port enjoyed a kind of boom during the 18th century, in the years prior to the Revolutionary War. Legend has it that participation in the slave trade may have enriched local merchants.
In fact, no documentation, such as a ship's bill of lading, exists to prove such a claim, Hunt said. According to Peterson, accounting of the vessels of merchant Jeremiah Lee, for example, "lists fish, fish, fish. It doesn't list rum. It doesn't list anything else."
Rum was a key element in the triangular trade involving slaves.
In contrast to its long-ago links to slavery, Marbleheaders like to stress the town's support for brotherhood. Blacks and whites served side by side during the Revolution, said historical re-enactor Fred Bauer, even coming to blows with fellow soldiers, Virginia militiamen, who were offended by their comradery.
"Glover's Regiment was one of the first integrated regiments," Bauer said. Under the leadership of Marblehead's Gen. John Glover, the unit became Gen. George Washington's personal bodyguard.
Some Marbleheaders had slaves, said historian Bette Hunt, including Jeremiah Lee, who died while serving with the minutemen at the start of the Revolutionary War. "I don't know how they got 'em, but we had 'em. ... Most people let them go after the signing of the Declaration of Independence."
A headstone at Old Burial Hill, since stolen, marked the final resting place of "Agnes, A Negro."
But Marblehead also gave strong support to the abolitionist movement, becoming a well-documented stop on the Underground Railroad and sending troops to the Civil War. When the call went out to enlist at South Station, Peterson said, "The first three men in New England to enlist were from Marblehead."
Not exactly saints
The whole issue needs to be seen in context, Hunt said, with attention paid to what the world was like hundreds of years ago. For example, cold economics rather than morality probably played a large part in the town's failure to embrace slavery. Marblehead did not have the huge farms seen in the South, land that could not have been developed without the aid of slave laborers accustomed to warm temperatures.
Up here, Christensen said, treatment of the American Indians is a greater burden than the stigma of slavery. In fact, prior to involvement in the slave trade, the ship Desire also distinguished itself by ferrying troops on a bloody, punitive raid against the native population.
"We're not all that swell," Hunt said wryly, "we human beings."
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2004-10-06 15:51 | User Profile
I saw this story somewhere, maybe it was American Renaissance. Quite pathetic, really. The once-proud White race, defenders of the Faith, inventors of science, explorers of the world and stars, creators of unparalled music and art, now reduced to begging on their knees for forgiveness from heathens and primitives, who are themselves incapable of self-government [I]to this very day[/I].
T. S. Eliot springs to mind:
This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper.
2004-10-06 16:08 | User Profile
Do not let a few (come on, there were only dozen of them) cultist losers depress you TOO MUCH, Quantrill.
I have this optimistic belief that actually very few liberals really believe in their doctrines, I mean in the sense that they would be ready to fight (let alone die) for them - which you could consider to be the acid test for the genuineness of every belief and ideology.
In fact, I think that all it would take for huge numbers of sheltered liberal do-gooders to drop many of their "dearly held" ideals would be those ideals suddenly starting to hurt their personal wallet.
(By the way, I would venture to guess that most of these pathetic palefaces live in all-White neighborhoods.)
Vast majority of liberals are just following the status quo. When the establishment changes, all the hobbyists will change sides amazingly fast.
Petr
2004-10-06 21:54 | User Profile
[url]http://www.vdare.com/francis/guilt_wallow.htm[/url]
October 04, 2004
The Annapolis Guilt Wallow By Sam Francis
It must have been a tough decision for the editors of the Washington Post last week whether to lead on page one with the return of baseball to the District of Columbia or the story about the demonstration in Annapolis to acknowledge white guilt for slavery.
As it turned out, the editors went with baseball, but the slavery guilt wallow was at least the lead of the Metro section. Nothing quite beats white guilt, I guess, unless it's baseball.
In fact, the Annapolis guilt wallow beat just about anything most white people could imagine. Calling itself "A Slavery Reconciliation Walk of Penitence and Forgiveness," the event attracted a whopping 24 participants, 11 of them children, according to the Washington Times account. Actually, all of them were children, but leave that aside. [Slavery roles reversed in walk aimed at healing spirits By Robert Redding Jr., Washington Times]
The wallowers, the white ones anyway, draped themselves in chains and placards acknowledging their guilt for slavery and wore T-shirts with the words "So Sorry" and armbands labeled "penitent." Black participants wore armbands with the word "forgiver."
This tells you what sort of "reconciliation" the wallowers had in mind.
If it doesn't, white wallower Carol Palmer, a 38-year old child in tears over her guilt, made it clear.
"I am a descendant of a slave owner," she blubbered, "and I thought this would be a way of acknowledging the injustice and for others to see that I am truly sorry for the actions of my forefathers."
Miss Palmer "was confined in a yoke with three other white persons," the Times reported.
The guiltfest was sponsored by an organization calling itself the "Kunta Kinte-Alex Haley Foundation" after the late black writer who cranked out the book Roots back in the 1970s, a work purporting to explore the author's racial heritage in Africa and early America but which was later shown to have been mostly fabrication, and by Lifeline Expedition, a London-based charity that has organized this commemoration internationally.
The "expedition" that showed up in Annapolis last week "has held similar events in several European cities," the Times says.
"Today we are here to show that we in Annapolis have the will to take persistent steps toward applying chemotherapy to that cancer, racism," proclaimed Leonard Blackshear, the group's president.
Apparently he has nothing better to do than traipse around the world flagellating himself and whoever else will submit to it, and from the sympathy the Post exuded, maybe it's worth it.
"The march comes during a troubled period for race relations in Anne Arundel County," the Post fretted. "A series of racially tinged incidents over the past few years has raised concerns among government officials and community leaders."
Those "concerns" range from white opposition to a new black college in the county to the distribution of alleged "neo-Nazi" flyers at a local high school. Nobody seems to worry about the possibility of "racially tinged" incidents involving black "racism" against whites.
That, you see, is not what "reconciliation" is about. [The Roots of Reconciliation Washington Post, By Christian Davenport, Sep 29, 2004]
"Reconciliation" recalls the similar initiative peddled by President Bill Clinton some years ago, when he too traipsed around the country (and even to Africa) to wallow in white guilt.
Such wallows have become a regular institution for whites these days, and they always reveal the same underlying pattern of assumptions.
Assumption One is that only whites have anything to feel guilty about. The eagerness of black African chiefs to sell their own men, women and children into bondage to whoever could fork up enough beads and bullets is never mentioned.
Assumption Two is that only the evil that whites are said to have committed is important. The fact that it was whites who outlawed and suppressed the slave trade is also forgotten, as is the fact that slavery endures in Africa to this dayââ¬âon a massive scale.
And Assumption Three is that slavery was and is totally evilââ¬âdespite the fact that almost all civilizations have practiced it, that major philosophers and religious figures have defended it and that, in the absence of slavery, most Africans (and indeed many Middle Easterners and Europeans, whose ancestors often experienced slavery under one empire of the past or another) would still be living in savagery.
The guilt wallow was right about one thing. Whites did indeed practice slavery, whether as Greeks, Romans, Americans, Englishmen or other Europeans.
You don't have to approve of slavery to see that they did so because they shared a deep and unshakeable faith in their own race and civilization, a faith that created and sustained their will to conquer the world.
The real reason we have to put up with the kind of guilt wallow that slopped around in Annapolis last week is that whites today have lost that faith in themselves.
Wallowing in guilt and phony "reconciliation" that barely masks an anti-white agenda is a good way to make sure they never recover it again.
Sam Francis [email him] is a nationally syndicated columnist. A selection of his columns, America Extinguished: Mass Immigration And The Disintegration Of American Culture, is now available from Americans For Immigration Control. Click here for Sam Francis' website. Click here to order his monograph, Ethnopolitics: Immigration, Race, and the American Political Future.
2004-10-06 21:57 | User Profile
[COLOR=DarkRed] - " You don't have to approve of slavery to see that they did so because they shared a deep and unshakeable faith in their own race and civilization, a faith that created and sustained their will to conquer the world. "[/COLOR]
Let's not forget their faith in God, Mr. Francis.
Petr