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This Memorial Day, Mourn for Occupied America—and Organize to Get It Back, by James Kirkpatrick

30-5-2021 < UNZ 26 830 words
 

See also Memorial Day Is About America’s Honored Dead…NOT George Floyd

It’s a new post-American age, and thus a new Memorial Day. This year, the “hero” being memorialized is George Floyd, not American servicemen. The battle being remembered is the Tulsa “race massacre,” not any victory of American arms. As for the American military, it is currently waging a war against itself and those whites who are stuck defending a government that hates them. This is a war we want the Globalist American Empire to lose, because it’s simply a campaign of persecution against real Americans.


Those real Americans have been enduring a year of pure hell since the government abandoned its basic responsibility of enforcing law and order, sparking anarcho-tyranny in the cities. Violence disproportionately affected the “Black Lives” we are all supposed to be concerned about [Murders Are Rising the Most in a Few Isolated Precincts of Major Cities, by Jon Hilsenrath and Joe Barrett, Wall Street Journal, May 8, 2021]. But while some progressives worry that rising crime might jeopardize progressive goals, facts can’t get in the way of what is fundamentally a religious movement.


And this is fundamentally a religious movement [BLMania and the New Progressive Faith, by Gregory Hood, American Renaissance, July 29, 2020]. Where George Floyd died is now the semi-autonomous “George Floyd Square” complete with a Black Power fist and the Black Nationalist flag [What Is The Future Of George Floyd Square, by Reg Chapman, CBS Minnesota, May 26, 2021]. Masochistic whites on a pilgrimage are expected to obey special rules [Sign at George Floyd Square gives list of special orders for white visitors, by Elizabeth Rosner and Lee Brown, New York Post, April 22, 2021].


Again, if it were white people doing this, the military would have sent in the drones. However, since it is not, hijackings, sexual harassment, threats, and carjacks are allowed with impunity, with residents essentially abandoned by their government [Neighbors, feeling bullied, want activists to leave George Floyd Square, by Deena Winter, Minnesota Reformer, May 26, 2021]. The gunfire during the anniversary ceremony’s nine minutes of silence in St. George’s Square will probably become something of a yearly tradition.


While whites grovel before George Floyd’s body a-mold’ring in its golden coffin, the next Humiliation Ritual is underway. The ground dutifully paved by HBO’s newly woke Watchmen series, the spectacularly dubbed “Tulsa Race Massacre” will now be added to the litany of feast days in post-white America [The devastation of the Tulsa Race Massacre, by DeNeen Brown, Washington Post, May 28, 2021]. This event occurred when armed blacks, fearful that a black suspect might be lynched, went to the courthouse, where they were met by whites. (Whites fought back in those days). The day after Memorial Day, President Joe Biden will go to Tulsa to rub America’s nose in the event [Biden to visit Tulsa for Black Wall Street massacre centennial, by Brittany Shepard, Washington Post, May 26, 2021].


Yet there’s little consensus that this was a “massacre,” and we can’t say with certainty that “hundreds” died. A “mass grave” supposedly unearthed isn’t even definitively linked to the event [Coffins unearthed as the search for victims of the Tulsa Race Massacre continues, by Deneen Brown, National Geographic, October 26, 2020]. This “mass grave” had some 11 bodies [Scientists find a mass grave in Tulsa that might be from 1921 race massacre, by DeNeen Brown, Washington Post, October 21, 2021]. A congressionally mandated report in 2001 repeatedly stated that the true number of victims could never be known, eventually stating “considerable evidence exists to suggest that at least seventy-five to one-hundred people, both black and white, were killed during the riot,” though the figure could be higher [Tulsa Race Riot: A Report by the Oklahoma Commission to Study the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921, February 21, 1921, p. 23. Emphasis added]. Nonetheless, the Powers That Be are headlining their stories with “as many as 300 people were killed” [What to Know About the Tulsa Greenwood Massacre, by Maggie Astor, The New York Times, June 20, 2020 (updated May 28, 2021)].


One might say that throwing around guilt about “massacres” is probably not the best idea when you are trying to unite the country.


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