Isn�t it strange how our people can acknowledge the past on behalf of another race of people in varied ways, or even �honor� our own fratricide, but we flatly refuse to unite for our own peoples� future?
By Frank Roman
This past week I was approached by a number of acquaintances� who asked me if I was going to attend either of two events down in southeast Tennessee: a full scale re-enactment of the Battle of Chickamauga, which was a significant Union defeat in the American Civil War; and a motorcycle ride (into Alabama) called the Trail of Tears, which is supposed to commemorate the forced relocation of Native Americans from their homelands to present day Oklahoma. Many Native Americans suffered from exposure, sickness, and hunger while en route to their new home and never made it.
While I am going to forgo what would evidently be a lengthy analysis of these two significant American events –which you ought to examine on your own– I will say that I answered �No� to both inquiries. Now, to some people that might sound like your host is a stick in the mud, a gloomy cynic who would rather stare into the glow of a computer screen rather than enjoy the sunlight and a weekend full of events.
Not true, and I�ll tell you why.Let�s start with the Battle of Chickamauga.
Considered a Confederate victory for halting the Union advance, the Battle of Chickamauga was also a costly one, having claimed an estimated 34,000 casualties (16,000 for the Union; 18,000 for the Confederates). But these figures apply to only one battle and history tells us there were others just as bloody if not worse. Nearly three million people — again I say three million people — were killed in total on both sides of the Civil War between 1861 and 1865. While some might argue the war was declared to end slavery or to uphold states rights, both significant points, my contention here is the futile loss of our people who were the direct descendants of the European American settlers. Whether Union or Confederate, the best brightest and bravest was slaughtered, their genetic offspring forever lost to a still developing nation that truly needed them. Just imagine –at least in the short term– what European Americans today would be like had the Civil War never taken place. Imagine what the United States, its political process and social environment would be like had the Civil War never taken place? My guess is we would have a better stronger smarter population of European Americans directing our national vocation. Or at least our nation and people wouldn�t be suffering as badly under the politically correct, deficit spending, open border mess we are in today because the traits and outlook of a burly people, sharing a common history without such a savage loss of life, would have been handed down to their progeny with perhaps a lot less of the ambiguity we see today. The hard-won laws that our people spent thousands of years developing so that our society could be constructive and helpful would probably look much different than it looks today, devoid of abominations like Sandra Bernhard and Noel Ignatiev. I also like to think our government would be a lot less authoritarian and meddling than it is today, that it would stay out of people�s way as they worked and tried to succeed. You see, it was European derived people like the Union and Confederate soldiers fighting through the mud and the blood and the tears that established our rights and our national character, who built our system of laws in the first place. Not the Ted Kennedy�s, John McCain�s and Barack Obama�s we see mincing about on the world stage today pimping equality, pimping tolerance and globalism on behalf of a few elites �because we all bleed red.�
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And really, why go to a re-enactment like the Battle of Chickamauga when what you are really witnessing is the loss of not only our best people but the loss of our nation, the loss of our very identity? Of course, go if you wish because many people see it as an acknowledgment of America�s rich history. But like I said before, some people maintain the Civil War was fought to preserve states rights, which for all intents and purposes absolutely do not exist today. The federal government has grown from consuming 5% of the Gross National Product in 1910 to consuming over 50% back in 2004; with politicians beholden to an acquiescent public which is most definitely influenced by the media. These rogues are also indebted to the special interests that sponsor their campaigns and make payments to their organizations. Racial pressure groups, homosexuals, and rabid feminist groups have had laws passed which give that group free benefits at the expense of others paying the bill and losing their individual rights by way of losing their states rights. Over time this has resulted in politically correct tyranny enforced by the government. Other people say the Civil War was fought to free the black slaves, who absolutely have enslaved us with black crime, black culture, black entertainment, hyper sensitivity, insolence on a mass scale, and threats of rioting if Barack Obama is not the next president. Yes, the �Union� was preserved but at the cost of our peoples will to survive within the tightening noose of political correctness, erosion of free speech, declining birth numbers and the Mexicanization of America. And really all of the international fratricidal wars that followed � brother�s wars � have been just as destructive to our people�s continuity and nationhood.
What a terrible, terrible waste.
Like I said earlier I was also asked if I was going to participate in a motorcycle ride commemorating what�s known as The Trail of Tears. Prior to the War Between the States in 1838 the United States government under Andrew Jackson began the forced removal of the entire Cherokee Nation out of Georgia to Oklahoma. They left in early fall and arrived in Oklahoma during the winter of 1838-39. About 4000 Cherokee died as a result of the removal and the route they navigated and the passage itself became known as “The Trail of Tears” or, as a direct translation from Cherokee, “The Trail Where They Cried” (“Nunna daul Tsuny”).
The motorcycle ride is also a fund raising effort that allows riders to get involved in raising money to support the Trail of Tears Education programs, Native American scholarships and receive rewards for their efforts. While I am quite familiar with the TOT route, a truly beautiful stretch of road passing through postcard-like countryside and have experienced the camaraderie that comes with motorcycling I nevertheless declined to go because — I have nothing to apologize for. And really, that is exactly what this whole TOT commemoration ride is all about; asking for forgiveness, being contrite, expressing remorse and generally embracing the whole concept that once again the white man, who incidentally comprises 99% of the riders, deserves to grovel. Some people really go haywire on this ride by decking out themselves and their machines in American Indian attire. There�s nothing more ridiculous, at least to me, observing someone that could have been an extra in Brave Heart expressing his contrition by playing dress up in order to placate not only the Indians but his firmly embedded false guilt over something he (we) had nothing whatsoever to do.
 
Now I�m not going to sit here and say I am proud of this dreadful event known as the Trail of Tears. I�m not a big fan of inflicting pointless suffering. We could have done better, much better. But isn�t it strange how our people can acknowledge the past on behalf of another race of people in varied ways, or even �honor� our own fratricide, but we flatly refuse to unite for our own peoples� future? I mean here we are, in the very shadow of slow motion genocide reported by a 2008 US Census release that plainly says European Americans are destined for minority status by 2042 � well within the lifetimes of many of our listeners today. Again, will the new Afro-Chicano Spanish and Asian speaking majority give our children and grandchildren the same legal protections, racial preferences and subsidies they themselves receive right now? How about a motorcycle ride comprised of this new Afro-Chicano Spanish and Asian speaking majority commemorating their final displacement of European Americans? Not very likely. Sorry folks, not me.
There will be no apology forthcoming from your host over something that none of us had anything to do with involving the Trail of Tears. Like the Civil War, what�s done is done and all we can do now is dig in, get busy — and learn from history.