The greatest threat to German sovereignty and survival as a people comes from within the German population, within everyday Germans.
by Alex Lee
The other day, I watched a video of Barack Obama giving his speech in Berlin/>/>, in the Tiergarten, where I myself have been more than once. I watched the first minute and forty-five seconds of the clip, provided by Obama’s official YouTube channel, before I decided that I had heard enough to confirm my previous suspicions.
The Germans truly have lost all respect for themselves, their heritage, and their ethnic European kinsmen. Obviously this does not apply to all German-speaking peoples. I know there are plenty of patriots in Western European nations, Germany/>/> included, who are working to protect their culture and heritage against the constant onslaught from the political left, and from wherever a threat appears. And the threats are many.
The greatest threat to German sovereignty and survival as a people, however, comes from within the German population, within everyday Germans.This threat is evidenced by Obama’s recent trip to Berlin/>/>.
He said nothing overt about the marginalizing of ethnic Germans, at least not in the brief clip that I saw. I heard some telling messages from Obama, though, and even more telling reactions from the massive crowd.
The first thing that Obama said that attracted my attention was that “he was a citizen of the United States/>/>, but also a citizen of the world.” Now isn’t that touching. Cue the cheers. Next came the race baiting: “Now, I know I don’t look like the other Americans who have spoken before you here…” I’m paraphrasing, of course, but he got a big reaction to this one. Obama then elaborated on his mixed-race background, stating how his “mother grew up in the American heartland” (Kansas/>)(silence from the crowd), and how his father grew up working with cattle in Kenya/>/> (cue the cheers from the audience). You can’t make this stuff up.
The German people were cheering, celebrating, Obama’s mixed race background. Not only that, they were specifically cheering his non-white background. It was around this point where I paused the speech. I had heard enough. One minute and forty-five seconds into a 26-minute video, I had heard enough.
This is not the only time I have witnessed the adulation of popular African-American culture by the Germans, especially those of my generation. In the minds of the Germans in the audience that day, Obama was part of that culture, hence his rock-star-like reception. “Black music”, as it is often called in Europe/>, is immensely popular among young Germans, as are black athletes.
This has to do, in part, with the injection of American influence into Germany/>/> at the end of the Second World War and beyond. After the “denazification” of Germany/>/> following the Second World War, the Germans adapted American values and culture to replace their own. The denazification was not much more than a vilification of the German people and German culture. The Germans were told that they, the common citizenry of Germany/>/>, were to blame for Hitler and the Nazis’ horrendous atrocities. With their cities in ruins, their hopes, lives, and dreams demolished, and their fellow citizens nearly eradicated, the Germans accepted this. This collective guilt continues to this day, which is unique to Germany/>/>, and which is different in scope and influence than white-American guilt because of slavery.
The German people are so embarrassed and ashamed of a 10-year period of their history (which was, indeed, a dark period in German history) that they enacted laws that were initially meant to prevent such a thing from every happening again, but which actually bound the German people to a different type of fascism: political correctness, cultural relativism, and suicidal “tolerance”, in which any expression of national or racial pride is immediately condemned and silenced.
Take, for example, Germany/>/> of 2006, during the summer Weltmeisterschaft, or World Cup for soccer. The World Cup was being held in Germany/> that year, and I myself had the pleasure of being in Berlin/> during the Germany-Argentina game, which Germany/>/> won. There were German flags and colors everywhere: painted faces, players’ uniforms, banners, sashes, and stickers bearing the German flag and colors were abound. I, too, carried a large German flag around the streets, partly because of my German ancestry, and partly so as to not raise the ire of the native population!
A friend told me, however, that after the games were over, all of the flags would disappear. No one would have a German flag hanging out their apartment window. There would be no more little German flags fluttering on the sides of German cars. Every expression of national pride would disappear, save for a few official items on government buildings.
And she was unfortunately correct. Any further display of pride would result in stares, hushed voices, and suspicion by the rest of the population. Even I, the American carrying the large German flag zealously through the Berlin/>/> streets, was gawked at for my raucous display of pride during the games. People actually stepped out of my way on the sidewalk, as if a blue-eyed, blonde-haired young man’s pride in his heritage would somehow harm them. It was truly eye-opening.
Clearly the Germans took the Weltmeisterschaft as a chance to finally display some national pride without being socially ostracized. Why, then, do they continually cling to their mewling self-degradation?
I believe the answer is fear. Fear of the rest of the world condemning them for their pride, fear of racism, fear of fascism, fear of anything that will allegedly stain their image in the eyes of others. The specter of Hollywood butressed goose-stepping Nazis hovers in the minds of Germans still, and, in some ways, is more poisonous than National Socialism itself. At least, during those years, the German people were not imprisoned for defending their nation and heritage. On the other hand people are now imprisoned for their opinions and views similar to what the poor souls of Stalins’ gulags endured. People are afraid but they aren’t afraid of uniformed Gestapo officers; they are afraid of an idea, they are afraid of the past, and they are literally afraid of themselves.
And so we come back to our original issue, that of Barack Obama’s recent Berlin/>/> speech, and the audience’s reception thereof. Germans, just like many European-Americans, think that the United States/>/> is a racist nation which treats its minorities as second-class citizens, or worse. And, like many European-Americans, many Germans think that we, as European-Americans, should elect Obama, the first (half) black presidential nominee, to the Presidency of the United States of America/>/> in order to “make up” for our past transgressions. Like I said: you can’t make this stuff up. A German said this to me (in an online conversation) in no fewer words: “Obama is the panacea for American racism, bigotry, and warmongering. In a way, though, Obama is also the Great Black Hope for egalitarians and multiculturalists worldwide.” Which is to say the Germans may be tired of suffering alone in this terrible regard; seeing an Obama presidency as one of the final solutions for so-called racism and hatred worldwide because, after all, if a black man can become president in the United States of America/>/>, maybe we can eliminate race hatred all over the world! And then, maybe, even the Germans can be free of the swastika-emblazoned ghost that haunts them. They all will literally believe anything that distracts them from the inevitable truth of race realism and culture.
Even if Obama does get elected, I hope, in a moment of Schadenfreude (a term mentioned in the last article on this topic, “Obama’s European Love Parade”), that nothing changes, or that racial issues worsen. Perhaps the epiphany that follows will surely be mixed with blind outrage, confusion, and doubt among our enemies as Obama’s Marxist mask focuses into clarity. Maybe that is what’s needed to force people into seeing the truth about so many of the ideals for which we fight.