Dan Roodt, American Renaissance, October 2007
Over the past nine months, a seemingly innocuous song about a Boer War general named Koos de la Rey went from the esoteric fringes of Afrikaans rock music to being cited on the front page of the New York Times, the London Guardian, Le Monde in Paris, and by every newspaper, radio and TV station in South Africa. On July 21, the Financial Times of London devoted 3,300 words to the song.
Why so much attention? In South Africa, some Afrikaners have treated “De la Rey” almost like a new national anthem, with people standing at attention at concerts where it is sung, and waving old Boer republican flags. In bars, school halls, wherever it is played, Afrikaners of all ages and persuasions assemble, some swaying to the music, others standing at attention, with everyone deeply moved, even to the point of tears. In the summer heat of last December, a group of young people parked their cars in a kind of wagon circle or laager on the beach, pushed the buttons on their CD players at the same moment, and blasted an entire seaside town with “De la Rey.”
There are even reports of American troops in Iraq taking to “De la Rey.” Some 8,000 Afrikaner soldiers and security men, unable to find work in South Africa because of race preferences, work for the US Army in Iraq. As the song spread among Afrikaners overseas, it was only natural that it penetrate the barracks and fortifications in Iraq.
When the local mass circulation magazine, Die Huisgenoot, did a front-page article on Bok van Blerk, the boyish singer of “De la Rey,” the magazine asked the black Minister of Culture, Pallo Jordan, what he thought of the song. Mr. Jordan warned against “the hijacking of the popular song by a minority of right-wingers who do not simply see De la Rey as a war hero, but who want to mislead parts of Afrikaans society with the idea that it is a struggle song, a call to arms.”
Suddenly the song was banned at the rugby stadium known as Loftus Versfeld in Pretoria, home of the famous Blue Bulls. A few days later, the rugby union “unbanned” the song, but some radio stations—notably the one on the campus of Pretoria University—refused to play it. Of course, fueled by the controversy, sales soared and Bok van Blerk earned at least 2 million rand (about $300,000) in royalties in nine months, in addition to appearance fees at a host of venues around the country and before expatriate Afrikaners in Britain, Australia and Canada.
Who was Koos de la Rey, and why is a song about him causing so much controversy? Is our esteemed Minister of Culture right about a “call to arms?” Here is an English translation of the Afrikaans lyrics:
On a mountain in the night
I lie in the dark and wait
In the mud and the blood
As cold rain soaks me.
And my house and my farm were burnt to ashes
So they could capture us,
But those flames and that fire now burn
Deep within me.
De La Rey, De La Rey come lead the Boers,
De La Rey, De La Rey
General, General, to the last man we shall fall for you.
General De La Rey.
Against the British laughing,
A handful of us against an army of them
With the cliffs of the mountains against our backs
They think it is over.
But the heart of a Boer is deeper and wider,
They will still realize.
On a horse he is coming,
The Lion of the Western Transvaal.
De La Rey, De La Rey come lead the Boers
De La Rey, De La Rey
General, General to the last man we shall fall for you.
General De La Rey.
Because my wife and my child
Are rotting in their camps,
The British running over us,
But our nation shall rise once more.
De La Rey, De La Rey come lead the Boers, etc.
(A music video of the song, with English subtitles can be found on YouTube.)
Koos de la Rey did not want to fight the British, and argued for compromise. When war with the British Empire seemed inevitable in 1899, De la Rey is said to have told the Boer national assembly, the Volksraad: “You will get your war and I will have to help you fight it. However, long after you have all surrendered, I will still be in the field.”
These words were prophetic, as De la Rey became one of the bittereinders or bitter-enders. During the war, he pioneered guerilla tactics, as well as the use of trenches at the famous battle of Magersfontein on December 11, 1899 where he humiliated the Scottish Highlanders led by Major General Wauchope. Wauchope himself was killed in the nine hours of intense fighting, after which the decimated British beat a disorderly retreat.
Apart from his courage and military intuition, De la Rey was also the perfect gentleman who refrained from unnecessary killing. On one occasion he released hundreds of captured and wounded enemy soldiers because he thought that they would be better treated in superior British field hospitals. During the guerilla phase of the war, he evaded capture time and again, some say due to the presence in his ranks of an eccentric prophet, Siener or “Seer” van Rensburg, who was widely believed to be able to tell the future.
n 1914, De la Rey was involved in the so-called “rebellion” against South African involvement in the First World War. While on his way to a political meeting on September 15, 1914, he died in a hail of police bullets at a night-time roadblock. The police apparently mistook his car for that of the notorious Foster criminal gang that was active at the time.
Despite his courage and Hollywood- script life, many people believe the composer of “De la Rey,” a half-Irish half-Afrikaans youngster called Sean Else, chose him from among many Boer War generals because his name rhymed with the word lei, to lead, which is in the refrain that has now been echoing all over South Africa for almost a year:
De la Rey, de la Rey,
Sal jy die Boere kom lei?
De La Rey, De La Rey
come lead the Boers
Clearly, the popularity of “De la Rey” has rattled many South African blacks who still fear the Afrikaner capacity for resistance despite being hugely outnumbered and dominated under the current system. During a panel discussion on the song in May organised by the left-liberal weekly Mail & Guardian, black columnist John Matshikiza claimed that the Afrikaans word for British soldiers used in the song, “kakies” (referring to their khaki-coloured uniforms) was seen by white Afrikaners as “darkies” or “kaffirs,” the derogatory word for blacks in South Africa. According to him, “De la Rey” could be interpreted as inciting Afrikaners to rise up against their black rulers.
Most Afrikaner commentators have downplayed any political significance to the song, emphasizing that it was simply a folk song dealing with the ancient history of conflict between Boer and Briton. In reaction to black suspicions of an Afrikaner uprising against racial domination, they portray Koos de la Rey as “a man of peace” because he opposed war with Britain. A columnist in the Johannesburg Beeld, Ferdi Greyling, went so far as to compare De la Rey to Robert E. Lee, who opposed secession but fought valiantly for the South. Unlike Robert E. Lee, who was turned back at Gettysburg and forced to surrender at Appomattox Court House, De la Rey never suffered defeat.
So what does the reaction to “De la Rey” mean? Above all, it points to a trend in Afrikaner youth culture which is deviating from Western youth culture that anomically celebrates consumerism and multicultural ideals. Contrast Bob Geldof’s crusade for Africa’s poor with singer Bok van Blerk’s vibrant call to nationalism. There is a host of other protest songs about anti-white discrimination and violence against whites. A good example is the album Genoeg (Enough) by Hoezit Music. Sub-titled “the voice of young South Africa,” the CD contains no fewer than 19 Afrikaans protest songs in a variety of rock styles, many of which are far more radical and politicized than the De la Rey song.
At one level, the romantic, bearded figure of General Koos de la Rey represents an unlikely youth icon. But so were Mao or Ché Guevara in the 1960s. Our Afrikaner youth are not like the spoiled brats of Western consumer society who benefited from the post-war economic boom, and developed a penchant for radical chic that idealised Third-World rebellion. Young Afrikaners are expressing their anger and alienation in the face of systematic anti-white discrimination the like of which the world has never seen.
South Africa’s system of radical race preferences—known as “transformation”—all but prohibits large companies like banks, mines or telecoms from hiring whites. Although experienced white managers or technicians sometimes find jobs simply because there are no trained blacks, young, inexperienced whites are told not to bother to apply. Despite their intelligence and high levels of education, they can work only in family businesses or small firms. Add to that the racial quotas imposed on universities, where only the most brilliant, straight-A white students can study medicine, law or accounting, and one understands the immense sense of frustration among young whites who feel that they have become third-class citizens.
As we know, South Africa is not at peace. There is enormous racial violence on the streets every day, masquerading as “crime.” First we had “farm attacks” in which marauding black gangs tortured and killed defenseless whites, usually women and children or elderly men. Now the Institute for Security Studies, an academic think tank in Pretoria, has coined the phrase “house attacks” for similar black-on-white violence in the suburbs.
The outside world has focused on the problems in Zimbabwe under its notorious dictator Robert Mugabe, but most Americans and Europeans are unaware of deteriorating race relations in South Africa. Even the liberal editor of the Afrikaans Sunday paper Rapport has started to compare our president, Thabo Mbeki, to his Zimbabwean counterpart. Tim du Plessis recently wrote in his weekly column: “Nothing carries more weight with Mbeki than race. Just like Mugabe.”
Within this context of rising racial tension, it is perhaps not surprising that a song like “De la Rey” should have become heavily politicized. In my view, its popularity is due to an underlying mood of disaffection and even rebellion among white Afrikaners that just needed a trigger to come out into the open. Bok van Blerk’s song provided that trigger. Afrikaners instinctively recognize in it a resurgence of the age-old Afrikaner spirit that has sustained us since the pioneering days of the Great Trek in the 1830s.
Most Afrikaner intellectuals now recognize that the imposition of black majority rule in 1994 has been a complete disaster, and that we are not going to regain racial equality or any significant form of freedom without a major liberation struggle that might even include a guerilla war against the ruling African National Congress (ANC). The De la Rey song has lifted spirits in the Afrikaner movement. The rebellious mood among our young people, who are reaffirming their identity in the face of official attempts to eradicate our language and culture, is seen as a godsend.
Since the 1970s, Afrikaner nationalism had been in decline, and the surrender of F.W. de Klerk to the ANC in 1994 must be seen as its nadir. Britain, with the backing of the United States, reasserted control over South Africa and dictated to us that we should accept permanent racial and cultural domination by one of the most radical Afrocentric organizations the world had ever seen.
After 1994, English also became the de facto official language of South Africa, with the express aim of marginalizing Afrikaans. At the same time, the notion of white guilt that has become almost the norm in the English-speaking world was inculcated through the mass media, the churches, universities and schools. Not so long ago, our language and culture, as well as the ideal of an independent, white nation on African soil for which we fought for more than two centuries, were declared dead.
The slogan of the ANC and its mindless black voters responding to black racial nationalism is something like that of the Borg in the Star Trek movies: “We are the Borg. Resistance is futile. We will assimilate you.” Just the other day, a leading black commentator, Rich Mkhondo, wrote in the Johannesburg Star that the pace of integration was too slow, and that there were too few mixed marriages between blacks and whites. Afrikaners are supposed to be racially and culturally assimilated into the Borg-like New South Africa founded in 1994.
The De la Rey song, as well as the boom in Afrikaans protest music are signs of a resurgent Afrikaner nationalism that asserts a specific white Afrikaner identity. This is, of course, exactly the opposite of the “grand plan” for South Africa, hatched in the liberal West and currently applied by Thabo Mbeki, which requires our Borg-like assimilation to the African masses.
The De la Rey song marks a radical change in Afrikaner nationalism, which has become almost mainstream. Afrikaans newspapers now openly criticize the ANC’s racial policies, something they were loathe to do only a year ago. Accordingly, the fairy tale of racial reconciliation that the global media served up in 1994 when Bill and Hillary Clinton, together with other heads of state, flew to Pretoria to celebrate the “South African miracle” is turning sour. We face the same intractable problems of racial coexistence as before.
The multicultural model with its black racial domination through numbers is not working. Despite its anomalies and deficiencies, apartheid was an exemplar of fairness and justice compared to the ANC’s “transformation,” which combines the worst of both right-wing and left-wing 20th century totalitarianism to achieve a kind of racial communism in which everyone will be equal and whites will have disappeared. We shall either be driven out as in Zimbabwe or killed in an orgy of violence as happened to the Tutsis in Rwanda. Certainly the degree of violence—attacks and massacres of entire white families—is already alarming.
Within the next few years, the age-old ethnic strains and divisions combined with the current anarchic violence may well result in full-blown civil war. We face an uncertain and increasingly violent future. Small wonder, then, that a clean-shaven young man called Bok van Blerk singing a nostalgic, patriotic song about a time when our people resisted the might of the British Empire against all odds should be dominating the airwaves.
Original article
(Posted on March 21, 2008)
Comments
The Whites in South Africa need to fight or leave. Eventually a black president will be elected that will impose “Mugabe” like sanctions against them. It’s just a matter of time.
Posted by Howard in Las Vegas at 6:37 PM on March 21
Seer van Rensburg said, and this is as best as I can remember not a direct quote.
That there will be buckets and buckets of blood before there will be a Boer Nation. The Affikaners will be forced to fight for it. Their backs will be up against the wall and fight they will. Then the Tricolor will fly again and the Boer will have their nation again.
Posted by at 9:21 PM on March 21
All power to white South Africans, but this song is divisive. Whites in SA are Boers and British. The Boers need to overcome their inferiority complex, come to terms with their defeat by the British Empire 100 years ago (they inflicted the highest death toll, after all), move to the Cape, unite with the British South Africans, put their IQs together and prepare for the next Rorkes Drift. They cannot lose. The ANC have spent a fortune on weapons their people cannot even operate.
Posted by at 12:09 AM on March 22
Gee, we’ve seen what happens when a country is turned over from white rule to black rule- South Africa comes to mind. And now we have a black man so close to the White House, it’s scary.
I told my husband months before the Reverend Wright sermons were released to the media that Barrack Obama was a wolf in sheeps clothing. That I didn’t care if he was 1/4 black and 3/4’s white, the fact that he got where he is today because of his white heritage but that he wrote a book and claimed to be “African American” spoke volumes about him. Then when the sermons were released,it just reaffirmed what I knew all a long. He is not to be trusted. And already we are hearing that if he isn’t nominated, there is going to be rioting, the likes of which we haven’t seen before.
Did other countries learn anything from the United States and what happens when you appease and appease a certain group of people - NO. And we obviously are ready to turn our country over to a black man who, while he claims to love his country, nothing could be further from the truth
Posted by Gayle at 7:31 AM on March 22
I think people miss the point. Whites are awakening to racial consciousness. Not just here. Not just in South Africa. But all over the world. That’s why you are seeing phenomena like this.
It is especially heartening to see what’s going on with Obama. He gets caught red handed as a racist and anti-American. The media works 24/7 to shield him from that association. His campaign spends tons of money, time and effort trying to distract people, smear the opposition and spin propaganda. The result? Obama’s poll numbers drop like a stone. To the point where he probably will not be nominated now. What happened? The group of whites in the most hard core denial about blacks is awakening to racial consciousness. They watch those clips of Pastor Wright. More importantly, they see the reaction of blacks to those clips and they realize just how different they are.
And they withdraw their support.
Posted by at 9:43 AM on March 22
Where can I read other stories by Dan Roodt?
Posted by at 11:13 AM on March 22
This is wrong, wrong, wrong! Africa should be for the Blacks — It is their continent.
Likewise, Asia should be for the Chinese.
South America should be for the AmerIndians.
The Middle East should be for the Muslims.
However, Europe and North America should be for the Muslims, Africans, Asians, and AmerIndians. It is greedy, racist and unkind for Europeans and Americans to try to prevent immigration and multiculturalism. Diversity is their greatest strength. If Europeans and Americans don’t like living in a multicultural society, then they should leave.
Posted by at 12:01 PM on March 22
12:09 AM commenter: I disagree with you when you say that the song is divisive. It’s not anti-British specifically, it’s anti-British Empire, and that’s perfectly legitimate for a call that unifies a people since the British Empire itself was anti-White. The British Empire slaughtered millions of Irish and perpetrated bloody wars against fellow Whites within Europe, North America and elsewhere (including the Boers). Meanwhile, the UK’s deluded latter-day self-perception as “the heir of the British Empire” is directly responsible for Britain’s catastrophic immigration policy, and its march to becoming one of the first Western nations to have a non-White majority in 20 years (along with the USA, Australia and Canada). Since the UK foolishly construes itself as a “multiracial empire of many peoples,” most of them in the Caribbean, Africa and Asia, this makes it almost impossible for Anglo-Saxon nationalist movements to gain a foothold in overly PC Britain, with the result that the UK imports close 500,000 non-Whites into the country every year while 300,000 British Whites are pushed out in frustration.
IOW, the Afrikaners and hard-pressed British Whites today are in the same boat— they’ve been brutalized and damaged by the arrogant British Empire, its elites and the British policy that is itself rooted in the multiethnic delusion of the British Empire itself.
Posted by Bulwark at 2:33 PM on March 22
9:43 AM, I’m sorry but I have to completely disagree with you here, there is no sign whatsoever of a White racial consciousness arising here in the USA. The media, elites and other “arbiters” of our culture are still very much in the PC anti-White/anti-Western fold, and this is only getting worse.
Citing the Barack Obama situation is a very poor metric here— his Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton, is a self-hating White woman who despises Western civilization with a passion, and would do as much or more damage to us than Obama would, so how could one possibly conclude anything from the Democratic race? Also, Obama has successfully altered the discussion enough— citations of being half-White and half-Black, changing the topic— that the waters are already muddied here, and his poll numbers have already shot right back up. This probably has more to do with the USA’s short attention span than anything else, but a highly mercurial Presidential primary campaign tells us nothing whatsoever about the racial consciousness of Whites in the USA.
It’s the culture and especially the media that provide the best indication of our racial consciousness or lack thereof, and from this our predicament becomes obvious: The culture in this country is overwhelmingly predisposed against our ever being able to solidify as a people. Despite actual crime statistics, Whites are overwhelmingly portrayed as the criminals on television and in the movies. The realities of gang violence, drugs and vandalism in the Latino Southwest are essentially ignored. Poor Whites are almost reflexively portrayed as frustrated racialists responsible for attacks against other races— when it’s overwhelmingly in the other direction. Yet people are too distracted by American Idol to call attention to and correct this.
There are some parts of the world that do possess a White racial consciousness, particularly in Continental Europe. While countries such as Denmark, Germany and Switzerland have long had such a nationalist tradition, not to mention tight immigration laws that favor their ethnics overseas, we can glimpse this even in otherwise less-nationalistic countries. The nationalist Geert Wilders in the Netherlands, for example, is broadly respected as he appeals to the indigenous Dutch people, and his recent film raising questions about Islam in the country has received broad popular backing despite the addle-headed government’s failed attempts at halting it. Meanwhile France of all places, like the Netherlands, has implemented some of the toughest immigration laws in the West. The rest of the West splits in varying directions, with Australia, Sweden, the UK, Ireland and Canada largely following the USA model of massive open immigration and the destruction of their White population— while countries such as Iceland, Finland, Norway, Austria and even Belgium now lean much more toward the nationalist model of Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark and France. I suspect this may be a big reason why so many White families have been emigrating recently from the USA and Australia, to countries such as Denmark and Germany— they’re in countries that respect them. I’m staying here personally, but I can understand this decision.
Posted by Bulwark at 2:53 PM on March 22
“Most Afrikaner intellectuals now recognize that the imposition of black majority rule in 1994 has been a complete disaster, and that we are not going to regain racial equality or any significant form of freedom without a major liberation struggle that might even include a guerilla war against the ruling African National Congress (ANC). The De la Rey song has lifted spirits in the Afrikaner movement. The rebellious mood among our young people, who are reaffirming their identity in the face of official attempts to eradicate our language and culture, is seen as a godsend.”
It isn’t necessary to issue a call to arms. The important thing here is to create a cause for unification, which the Boers now have and which will include the rest of white South Africa. There is no divisiveness. It is a small step from a tight, patriotic unification process among Boers to a tight unification of all whites. Few non-Boer whites will fail to join within the Boer ranks in the event of a clash of arms.
Though the white population amounts to about 5 million, or 10% of the overall population, they are by far the most educated, most intelligent, and best armed of all the people there. I can’t say with certainty, but rumor has it that much artillery, arms, APC’s, ammunition and firearms have been stashed prior to relinquishing control. That sounds quite logical to me since various military factions were known to have made “provisions” in the event of a bloody assault by blacks, once whites stepped down. South Africans had some spinless politicians, as we do now, but most of the rank and file certainly should not be mistaken as foolish, if one were to ascertain the present situation there.
If the West is severely affected economically by the sub-prime crash and the huge trade imbalance in the US, look for much more turmoil in the US. And as the US goes, so goes the rest of the West.
Will 2009 be the year globalists finally come to realize to their horror what a mistake they made by giving profit preference over homogeneity and traditional values?
Posted by Ranger at 9:53 PM on March 22
“This is wrong, wrong, wrong! Africa should be for the Blacks — It is their continent.”
Africa is not exclusively for blacks. North Africa belongs to the Arabs and Berbers and from what I’ve been reading about South Africa, the country was not populated when the first Whites settled there. Blacks only came after the Whites built up the infrastructure and economy.
Posted by at 10:11 PM on March 22
This country, believe it or not, has it’s own Delarey songs by singer and composer Steve Vaus who is a VERY talented guy and a first class vocalist.
His recordings are the ones the mainstream stations won’t play, because they’re patriotic and very unifying, and because every single left-wing organization screamed hysterically to keep them off the air. Steve was the subject of stories from time to time by Joseph Farah’s World Net Daily that reccommends him highly.
The songs aren’t corny. They’re very clever and very professionally done.
To those who would like to know what the militia in this country has been listening to for the last ten years, click on to: http://www.stevevaus.com/vaus.music.html
I have the “Voice of America” CD and the “I Still Believe,” and I just ordered the others.
Too, I just want to say we have our own Delarey unifier here on
Amren, and we could increase our clout if we begin to support this site more and also join the European American Issues Forum, http://www.eaif.org/ and also The Council of Conservative Citizens, http://www.cofcc.org/
I’m not saying we would have the whole country singing and swaying, but we have an excellent start to get much, much bigger and more influential, especially with the recent revelation of this Reverent Wright, anti-white hate that many whites were unaware of.
If a dialogue was ever started on race as it has been on illegal immigration, a white realist movement could explode with followers in a very short time, just as the Minutemen did.
Posted by Robert Kelly at 10:26 PM on March 22
The condition of White South Africa is a mini version of the future for Whites everywhere. It is very doubtful that Whites in North America will develop a sense of themselves as a race, as a people, in time to avert a South African style fate, if they ever do. Europe is in a demographic death-spiral, and at the same time inviting large numbers of Arabic and African replacements. Canadian Whites are so passive and brainwashed into the prevailant neo liberal/marxist ethos that is is probably impossible for them to form any type of racial, ethnic or cultural entity. Our elites are hostile, and the media is their tool. There may, in the future, exist small, isolated pockets of Whites who have resisted their own auto-genocide, but even then, even if they produce some kind of Charles Martel, the world othrodoxy would probably stir itself from its savagery and poverty to obliterate them. In the short term, any revolt by South African Whites against the chosen Black authority would trigger a White liberal attack using the force of a declining but still powerful multi-ethnic USA, as we saw in the Balkans under Clinton, where a fake “genocide” was the excuse to crush the Serbian Christian resistance to the Muslim Albanian agression. Now we see the fruits of that dispicable episode, the creation of a new Muslim state in Europe. I, for one, would fight alongside the few of my racial bretheren who did resist, and die with them, even considering my age would be advanced by the time of these events. But it probably would be suicide. I don’t want to be so pessimistic. But I am.
Posted by White Canadian at 10:47 PM on March 22
I read into the song a little differently. It is about the Boers being attacked by an insidious outside force, but despite being outnumbered, outgunned, and having everything around them destroyed they fight on to victory.
Since criticism of the black Marxist regime is probably forbidden by law, or all press is owned by blacks so very little criticism can get out, the writer is appealing to another enemy as a metaphor for what is happening at this very moment as the outright truth will otherwise never get out.
Posted by ODDL at 11:47 AM on March 23
“Unlike Robert E. Lee, who was turned back at Gettysburg and forced to surrender at Appomattox Court House, De la Rey never suffered defeat.”
EXCUSE ME! When irregulars lose six times as many men in a battle and escape from infantry only on horseback, we usually call that a defeat. (Battle of Rooiwal)
There is no comparison with Robert E. Lee. De la Rey never commanded more than 3,000 guerrilla fighters. To find a Confederate comparison, it would be better to look among the guerrilla fighters like William Anderson or William Quantrill. Robert E. Lee did not lead an army of bushwackers.
Lee was not defeated at Gettysburg. Both armies exhausted themselves to the point that no Union pursuit was possible when Lee left Pennsylvania. (He was held up for weeks on the far side of the river because of flooding and no Union army bothered to give chase.)
Yes, Lee surrendered at Appomattox, but the Confederate government never surrendered. De la Rey helped convince his own government to agree to a very generous peace (Vereeniging), which paid 3 million pounds in compensation to the Boer(!), and gave the both the Transvaal and Orange Free State self-government within 4-5 years. (If only the Confederacy had been offered a similar deal.)
Posted by Memphomaniac at 1:30 PM on March 23
Where can I read other stories by Dan Roodt?
Posted by at 11:13 AM on March 22
www.praag.org
Posted by commando at 12:54 AM on March 24
I’m afraid Bulwark is right. Our situation appears to be getting worse.
The left is more anti-white than ever.
The right is…well, just plain hopeless. They seem to be even more giddy about the prospects of a “post-racial” America than the left is.
As for the masses …. Oh, never mind.
It seems that our only hope is (and I’m not wishing for this to happen) the possibility of a major terrorist attack. Or an economic crash. Or, perhaps, even less likely: a revolt from within the establishment itself.
All together things look pretty grim. But I still think that we will never be as bad off as the Afrikaners. That just isn’t possible.
Posted by Lothrop Stoddard at 7:35 AM on March 24
A good song. My wife’s favorite non-Japanese songs are “Derwent’s Farewell” and “Dixie”, the latter on a banjo.
R. E. Lee was not beaten. His country was merely exhausted. The federals eventually knew their business.
Posted by Michael C. Scott at 9:08 PM on March 26
