This week's big news was the Southern Poverty Law Center report that 168 "Confederate symbols" were renamed or removed from public spaces in 2020. Included in this was one marker in Arizona that was stolen.
The 168 number refers not only to statues, flags and monuments but also city seals, official state holidays and the names of schools, streets and other public spaces.
IN OTHER HERITAGE NEWS
Disney Plus has added a content disclaimer to the beginning of 18 episodes of The Muppet Show:
“This program includes negative depictions and/or mistreatment of people or cultures. These stereotypes were wrong then and are wrong now. Rather than remove this content, we want to acknowledge its harmful impact, learn from it and spark conversation to create a more inclusive future together.”
The disclaimer has been attached to episodes hosted by Jim Nabors, Joel Grey, Steve Martin, Peter Sellers, Cleo Laine, James Coco, Spike Milligan, Crystal Gayle, Kenny Rogers, Beverly Sills, Jonathan Winters, Alan Arkin, James Coburn, Joan Baez, Johnny Cash, Debbie Harry, Wally Boag and Marty Feldman.
The label has been added to each episode for a different reason. The episode hosted by Johnny Cash the specific reason was because Mr. Cash displayed a Confederate Flag.
IN THE GREAT LAKES STATE
A local committee tasked with recommending changes to the Civil War statue in Allendale Township has come up with three possible solutions:
1 - Replace the current statue with an abstract statue, such as a column or obelisk.
2 - Replace the current statue with one of Benjamin Jones, an escaped slave.
3 - Keep and repair the current statue but place a plexiglass screen around it that displays thoughts on the War as well as commentary on the controversy surrounding the statue itself.
None of the potential changes to the statue presented by the seven-member Garden of Honor Memorial Committee on Monday, Feb. 22, to the Allendale Township Board of Trustees are final, however.
The committee were given five more meetings to study the three possible solutions and come back to the Township Board with a final recommendation, which the Board can ultimately shoot down or approve.
IN THE SUNSHINE STATE
A retired old black lady with nothing of value to contribute to her community has began pushing for the changing of the names of two Gainesville schools: Sidney Lanier School and Stephen Foster Elementary.
Her efforts are seeing favorable reaction by both the school board and Interim Schools Superintendent Dr. Carlee Simon.
Expect this to become a topic of urgent discussion at upcoming Board meetings.
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NON-HERITAGE NEWS:
BIDEN FREE-WHEELING AND DEALING
The Biden administration offered to restart nuclear talks with Iran, a potential step toward restoring the 2015 accord that Donald Trump abandoned. It’s unclear if Tehran will accept.
GOP SPLITTING
On Monday, appearing on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," former Republican National Committee chair Michael Steele, who led the party from 2009-2011, had a terse message for any conservatives who still support Donald Trump:
“You have 46% of the folks saying they will follow Trump...I’m like, OK, there’s the door. Y’all go do your thing, and we’ll just pick up the pieces on this side."
SEE YA, WOULDN'T WANNA BE YA
During a recent interview with Oprah Winfrey the 70-year-old 25-time Grammy-winner opened up about his future plans to live in Ghana indefinitely as part of his efforts to shield his lineage of grandchildren and great grandchildren from "racial injustice" in the U.S.
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Al Benson, Jr., is the Editor of the Copperhead Chronicle.
In addition to writing for Southern Patriot and other publications, he is a member of the Confederate Society of America and the League of the South.
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Ron and Donnie Kennedy’s classic work The South Was Right! new, updated edition for 2020, published by Shotwell Publishing with much new information, is almost 500 pages in length. So no single book review of this will suffice.
What I am doing instead is to pick out pertinent information and topics from the book and do a series of articles on that information. If some of what I present from The South Was Right! makes you a bit uncomfortable you can consider that you have been a victim of badly presented half truths as depicted in what passes for history books in most of our schools today. The Kennedy Brothers’ book, if you will take the time to read it, will correct much of the meaningless drivel you were taught as “history” but really wasn’t.
I thought a good place to start would be with the subject of Yankee slaver owners, covered in their book from pages 153-163 as part of Chapter 5. This is history you will never, and I mean never, see in your establishment “history” books because our court “historians” like their contemporaries in the “news media” have decreed that you don’t need to know this stuff–so they will make sure you don’t!
The Kennedys observe, on page 153, that: “No other issue in American history has been abused more than the history of African servitude in the South. People who dare to speak about slavery in a light other than that demanded by the neo-Marxist left will find themselves an outcast from modern ‘P.C.’ society. Nevertheless, when we look at America, we find that many names that we associate with the development of this country have been associated with slavery. The names of the Puritan Fathers of New England loom foremost in that group of slave holders. Even men such as Josiah Franklin, stepbrother of Benjamin Franklin, was associated with slavery, being active as a slave dealer in Boston. Yet the Franklin name is never held up for scorn because of the action of the Boston Franklin family. John Hancock, the most prominent signatory of the Declaration of Independence, was both a participant in a slave trading venture and a slave holder. But have you ever heard the cry to take down any monuments to John Hancock? Hancock was not the only New England signatory of the Declaration of Independence who was a slave holder.
Samuel Huntington of Connecticut and Stephen Hopkins of Rhode Island were also slave holders, and their names can also be found on the Declaration of Independence.” There are those useful idiots that claim no one in the North ever owned slaves. That’s a bald-faced lie and many of them know it. Their goal in life is to make sure you don’t know it!
The Kennedys continue: “When the previous paragraph was written in 1994, neo-Marxists had just begun their attacks upon Confederate monuments and Southern history. At that time the nation was warned by so-called ‘neo-Confederates’ that one day all Traditional American Values and heroes would come under assault–that day surely arrived in 2020. Rather than joining with the defenders of the South’s history, neo-conservatives such as Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Tucker Carlson, and many others assisted the neo-Marxists in their efforts to denigrate and destroy the South’s heritage and history. Neo-conservatives did this by agreeing with the neo-Marxist’s narrative of the South fighting to preserve and promote slavery (something that came out of the mouth of Karl Marx, see Benson and Kennedy, Lincoln’s Marxists, Chapter 2) and promoting secession as treason. By not allowing the Southern narrative about these issues to be heard, censorship by exclusion, the neo-Marxists were given all the cover and encouragement needed to advance their attack upon ALL Traditional American Values. the slogan of being ‘Fair and Balanced’ seems to not apply when dealing with the people of the defeated Confederate States of America.”
As noted by the Kennedys on page 157: “If the South is an evil place because it had slaves, then so is the North. If Southerners were wrong for owning slaves, then what about the Northerners who sold them those slaves? If the South is to be castigated because a small minority of its citizens made money from slave-grown cotton, then what about the North whose textile mills made money from that same slave-grown cotton?
Back on page 108 the Kennedys noted that: “Our neo-Marxist opponents d not want to work with us–they want to exterminate us or at least our Western Christian civilization. They are full of hatred toward all traditional Western American and Christian values as well as hatred for those who believe in such values. Lists of numerous neo-Marxist attacks against conservatives is proof of their uninhibited hatred–a hatred that is shielded and under-reported by the leftist media.” It is indeed too bad that most of our people in our Southern Heritage Movement simply do not seem to grasp this. They probably watch way too much of what passes for “news” from the leftist media which inhibits their discernment.
Lord willing, we will provide more information from the latest edition of The South Was Right! as we are able.
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The South’s Cultural Problem: Serving Two Masters |
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Mark C. Atkins is a 6th generation native of Henry County, Tennessee. He and his wife of thirty years have six children and direct a small K-12 classical Christian school.
He is the author of Women in Combat, Feminism Goes To War, with foreword by Major General Patrick Henry Brady, USA (Ret).
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I was advocating for the independence of the South in my early twenties. Eventually I realised that even if Southerners wanted a free Dixie, we are by no means ready for it.
Rather we should first come to agree, more or less, on core values and then on what kind of nation a free Dixie would be, long before we make it so. Otherwise any serious attempt at independence could only be revolutionary and chaotic.
The underlying issue, as is the case with all peoples at all times, is cultural, and the problem that faces Southern culture today is the same problem that faces American culture broadly, and virtually all peoples everywhere today, namely a religious war between Progressivism and pre-Industrial religion. In the South of course that religion is Christianity, and of course many Southerners still adhere to it.
The great enemy of Southern culture and the solvent of all high culture are the bad ideas of Progressivism which I posit, and hardly originally, is in fact itself a religion.
Southerners are attempting to serve two masters. On the one hand the old religion with its emphasis on self-restraint and self-sacrifice and its comfortable traditions, and on the other hand the Bread and Circuses of Progressivism and its worship of Individuality, Freedom, and Equality. As long as we worship these gods, an independent South would be no better than the America that is decaying before our eyes.
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They're obliterating our history more quickly than you think
Sees parallel in alleged purging of Chinese explorers' 15th century exploits
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Patrice Lewis is a freelance writer whose latest book
is The Simplicity Primer: 365 Ideas for Making Life more Livable.
The Lewises live on 20 acres in north Idaho with their two homeschooled children, assorted livestock, and a woodworking shop that overflows into the house.
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Last summer I read an engrossing book entitled "1421: The Year China Discovered America" by Gavin Menzies, a retired British submarine lieutenant commander turned amateur archeologist. The book documented his efforts to demonstrate how a Chinese fleet of hundreds (perhaps thousands) of ships set sail in 1421 and circumnavigated the world, touching base everywhere from the Americas (North and South), Australia, Africa, Greenland, Europe, and all points between. The purpose of the expeditions, according to Menzies, was to chart the waters of the globe, impress and intimidate foreign rulers, and bring the entire world into China's "tribute system."
The book was riveting. While COVID lockdowns and subsequent unemployment soared around America, I was lost in the voyages of these Chinese explorers. While cities burned around the nation, causing billions of dollars in damages and killing dozens of people, I was absorbed by the evidence of the expeditions found in California and the Caribbean. While BLM and Antifa toppled statues, defaced monuments and demanded history be rewritten, I was captivated by the evidence presented of the Chinese discovery of Australia and even Antarctica. While Portland, Seattle and other blue cities were torn apart by constant violence and anarchy, I was immersed in the phenomenal accomplishments of those Imperial Chinese fleets.
Some sources dismiss Menzies as a "pseudo-historian" because he doesn't have academic credentials after his name (for the record, I'm not nearly as impressed by academic credentials as I used to be), but I found the book compelling and fascinating nonetheless. Whether or not Menzies' conclusions are accurate is not the focus of this column. Instead, ponder this question: If the premise of the book is true – if evidence points to China being world explorers long before Europeans – why doesn't history reflect this? Why aren't the accomplishments of Imperial China known throughout the world?
The proposed answer, according to Menzies, is because during the years the voyagers were at sea and out of touch with their mother country, Imperial China's tumultuous and controversial régime changed, and its leaders (who commissioned the fleet) were deposed. The new incoming régime was rigidly insular. All foreign goods, services and trade were forcibly suppressed and – here's the critical part – expunged from the records. As with many cultural revolutions, the leaders wanted their reign to be "Year Zero" for history. The accomplishments of the previous rulers were not just unwelcome, they were downright dangerous to acknowledge.
Therefore, when the greatly diminished Chinese fleets finally limped home, these mariners found themselves irrelevant and their discoveries and adventures dismissed. "Not only was the priceless legacy of the greatest maritime expeditions of all time gone forever, foreign lands were to be banished from the minds of the Chinese people," wrote Menzies. "The legacy of [the expedition leaders] and their great treasure fleets would be all but obliterated. What oceans they had sailed, what lands they had seen, what discoveries they had made, what settlement they had created were no longer of interest to the Chinese hierarchy. ... The logs and records were destroyed, and the memory of them expunged so completely over the succeeding decades that they might never have existed." [Emphasis added.]
When I read that last line, I was stunned. Absolutely floored. Why would any nation erase such a glorious legacy of world exploration? Why would they take second place behind European explorers in terms of historical accuracy and bragging rights?
As American anarchists (encouraged by Democratic leaders) burned and rioted and toppled statues and rewrote history during the last year, I pondered that question. Then it hit me. Oh wait ...America is doing the same thing.
America, too, has experienced a régime change in which the Five Evils (Big Tech, Hollywood, public education, mainstream media, politicians) are engaging in a long- term scrubbing of history, both past and modern. In a remarkably short period of time, our history – the good, the bad and the ugly – is being expunged from the records, leaving behind a sterilized and factually false account. Our founding documents are being dismissed as racist, and the intellectual giants who shaped the groundwork for a nation of freedom are being rebranded as white supremacists whose legacy is not just unimportant, but downright dangerous to acknowledge.
America's origins are being rewritten to fit the narrative of the extreme left agenda.
How long before the logs and records of our history are destroyed, and the memory of them expunged so completely over the succeeding decades that they might never have existed? Even now there are whole generations of children who have grown up completely ignorant of major world events, everything from the Holocaust to the democide (death by government) of hundreds of millions of people over the last 120 years due to socialism and communism. They are equally ignorant of American history except what reflects the extreme leftist narrative.
"As with most cultural revolutions that wish to start things over at 'Year Zero,'" wrote historian and columnist Victor Davis Hanson last August, "the violence is aimed at America's past in order to change its present and future. The targets are not just the old majority culture but also classical statues and buildings, hallowed institutions, religious icons, the renowned names of streets and plazas, and almost every representation of tradition and authority. ... The point of the mob is to wipe out what it cannot create. It topples what it can neither match nor even comprehend.
It would erode the very system that ensures it singular freedom, leisure, and historic affluence. The brand of the anarchist is not logic but envy-driven power: to take it, to keep it, and to use it against purported enemies – which would otherwise be impossible in times of calm or through the ballot box." [Emphasis added.]
Even now, the left is trying to scrub President Trump from history. We're watching it happen in real time.
We are witnessing a purge unprecedented in America, but widely repeated through world history during tyrannical régimes. Dissenting voices are silenced, religious expression is suppressed, statues are toppled, history is rewritten, and – most importantly – the education of children is strictly regulated. As Hitler so accurately observed, "When an opponent declares, 'I will not come over to your side,' I calmly say, 'Your child belongs to us already. ... What are you? You will pass on. Your descendants, however, now stand in the new camp. In a short time they will know nothing else but this new community."
And it's all happening in less time than you think.
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Biden’s 2-Front Battle Against Covid and Climate Change May Trigger Severe Food Shortages for U.S. Consumers |
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Robert Bridge is a writer and journalist.
He is the author of the book, Midnight in the American Empire, released in 2013.
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In an effort to fight two wars at the same time – against a pandemic as well as purported climate change – the Biden administration risks putting the United States on a crash course with food shortages and soaring prices as early as this year.
Sealed up inside of his White House fortress, surrounded by a ring of steel and thousands of National Guardsmen, U.S. President Joe Biden has been busy signing off on a raft of executive orders without the nuisance of democratic debate and congressional prattling.
One of those presidential actions envisions the conservation of 30 percent of the nation’s lands and waters over the next decade. Where will all of that protected land come from?
Perhaps from Bill Gates, who now owns the deed to most of the farmland in the nation?
Doubtful. The answer is from small, independent farmers, whose agricultural activities, the Democrats say, are responsible for 10 percent of the manmade greenhouse emissions purportedly frying up the planet.
While occupying the previously unknown ‘Office of the President-Elect’, the Democratic leader said he would pay U.S. farmers to “put their land in conservation” and live without their ‘cash crops.’ How much the tillers of the soil will receive has not been disclosed, nor if this program will be enforced upon farmers against their will.
Another reason that the future does not bode well for American farming is that Biden’s nominee for Agricultural Secretary is none other than Tom Vilsack, who also served as the USDA chief in the Obama administration. Biden said Vilsack will help American agriculture become “the first in the world to achieve net- zero [greenhouse] emissions.” But is anyone considering what will happen if or when America achieves net-zero food production at a time when the rest of the world is hoarding limited supplies? Equally concerning will be the quality of the food being produced.
Under Obama, Vilsack happily rammed through a number of delectable Dr. Frankenstein technologies, like cloned- farm animals, lab-grown meat and more new genetically modified organisms (GMOs), many from Monsanto. So while there will probably be something to eat in Biden’s new America, it might be a stretch to actually call it ‘food.’
Indeed, for those Americans who prefer a bounty of farm-fresh, organic produce as opposed to some artificial, 3D meat knockoff, the nightmare has just begun.
A Brave New Foodless Future?
Paradoxically, at a time when the United States finds itself smack in the middle of a pandemic, which has caused supply chains to be stretched to the breaking point, it is not saving for a ‘rainy day,’ but rather exporting its farm products like there’s no tomorrow. Consider the corn exports just to China alone.
And when it is not buying regular corn supplies, China is buying up massive amounts of U.S. ethanol, the corn- based biofuel. The Asian economic powerhouse has bought “roughly 200 million gallons” of ethanol for the first half of 2021, matching its previous record for annual imports of the corn-based biofuel, Archer Daniels Midland Co Chief Financial Officer Ray Young told Reuters.
At the same time, America’s second leading cash crop, soybean, which is used in many products as well as for livestock, has also experienced something of a rout that looks set to become increasingly worse as the year progresses.
“The scramble for beans comes as record U.S. soybean exports and an historically large domestic crush whittled down supplies and sent prices to the highest since 2014,” the Reuters article continued. “Crop concerns in South America due to dry weather have further stoked worries over supplies and global food security during the coronavirus pandemic.”
The National Oilseed Processors Association (NOPA), which represents 95 percent of the U.S.-based industry, said the 2020 crush was the largest ever, “helped by demand for diesel biofuel and unusually weak production in top soymeal producer Argentina.” Such a rapid pace could continue for only a few more months, analysts were quoting by NOPA as saying, after which soybean supplies “are uncertain.”
The question demands repeating: if the United States understands that it is dealing with a potentially critical situation with regards to food security in the middle of a pandemic, why does it continue to export at breakneck speed? While the major agricultural powerhouses, like Argentina, Brazil, Ukraine, Russia and China are taking steps to protect their domestic food supplies, keeping prices in check, the U.S. seems to be bucking the trend.
Perhaps the closest thing to a siren warning of danger came from a recent report by Bloomberg that carried the headline, ‘China Is So Thirsty for Soy That America Could Soon Be Importing.’ The question, however, that the article never dares to ask is: ‘importing from where?’
“China’s appetite for U.S. soy is draining silos to the point that American processors may need to import the most beans in years this summer,” the article began. “The boom in U.S. shipments to China comes after Brazil and other countries effectively ran out of exportable supplies – prospects traders in North America are now facing.”
Christian Westbrook, the host of Ice Age Farmer who has been warning about a potential “engineered famine” for some time, summed up the situation as “game over.”
“That’s why, to see the Biden administration roll forward these terrible executive orders, it’s insane,” Westbrook commented. “Other countries are frantically taking steps...to protect their domestic food supplies, keep prices low and be able to feed their animals, and then, in turn, be able to feed their people. Not here.”
Indeed, what seems to be happening in the United States is that the local farmers are being squeezed out of business, or paid not to grow food, while Big Agriculture is more concerned with exporting its supplies than keeping domestic food stocks safe and affordable. That seems to be a reckless policy at the best of times; at the peak of a pandemic, however, it is simply a recipe for disaster.
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Dr. Ed preaches two messages in this week's Old Camp Meeting Time radio show, brought to you by www.bibleschool.edu
We are happy to make these messages freely available to missionary radio stations and micro-broadcasters world-wide.
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Included in the tribute are an "Animal Rights" update, "feminazi" update, "condom" update, and other parodies from the Rush Limbaugh radio show that were not featured in the tribute that the host gave on his other show, TBR Radio Presents: The TBR History Hour.
Also featured is a clip from Rush's short-lived 1992 night-time TV show.
The show ends with President Donald Trump giving a fitting tribute followed by a conversation with Dr. Ed's personal physician, Dr. von Peters, who explains how we can boost our immune systems.
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Included in the tribute are parodies from the Rush Limbaugh radio show and some other clips.
Dr. Ed tells about how he first started listening to Rush, when he first met Rush, and the time just a couple of years ago when Rush bestowed upon him a great honor.
The show ends with President Donald Trump giving a fitting tribute.
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Dr. Ed is a pastor, college president, historian, the author of over 40 books, an in-demand public speaker, and the host of three radio shows.
He is an active lobbyist, tirelessly petitioning city, county, state, and federal officials on behalf of our Southern monuments and heritage.
He started Dixie Heritage in March of 2015.
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Spring training has begun and The Boston Red Sox, Chicago Cubs, Cleveland Indians, Colorado Rockies and Pittsburgh Pirates have all jettisoned top players in recent trades. In return, especially the Cubs are receiving NOTHING in return. For example, trading a Cy-Young winner for a minor league prospect?
Are Major League Baseball's top teams trying to lose? They certainly are not trying to win! What’s going on?
This year's off-season was a long over-due reminder that Baseball teams are businesses. A business does not operate to win. It operates to turn a profit. And winning isn’t always the best route to profit.
Thanks to COVID, baseball teams lost substantial income from merchandise sales, television contracts and more. And the pandemic absolutely crushed the form of revenue that depends most on performance — people buying tickets. In response, several teams have chosen to reduce payroll.
Team executives promise fans it’s all part of a plan to add young players later. “The teardown idea." I'll just call it what it is — tanking!
Here at Dixie Heritage we have no intention of "tanking." We are playing to win. Our ancestors deserve no less than our best!
Have you joined Dixie Heritage on MeWe yet?
How about in GAB?
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And speaking of baseball. How do you like cartoon me in a Confederate Flag baseball cap? Its part of the Dixie Heritage GAB icon. Should I keep the new icon? Or should I go back to using my old picture? Ht reply and let me know.
Deo Vindice!
Dr. Ed
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