Archive for October 2nd, 2011

Southern Types

I mentioned Sam Dickson before. He is an Atlanta lawyer with a highly successful career who sticks his neck out to defend our side and who gives a hell of a speech at each convention.

There are subtle distinctions between us loyal Southerners that were last explored by Thomas Wolfe, and then just a little. They’re harder to see, because in New England “The Cabots speak only to the Lowells, and the Lowells speak only to God (thanks for the correction, BBG)”

In the South, where “not speaking” and other rudeness has always been the sign of white trash, these distinctions have not been noted.

Sam is an upper class Presbyterian, though, as he says publicly, he does not agree with Calvin that man is totally depraved When he and I first discovered that we were unapologetic champions of our race and the South, we were very close, and we would still die in the same trench, but he is a bit distant with me, as is proper for a very upper middle class Presbyterian with a Southern Methodist.

More to the point, in his speech at the convention Sam made some points that a strict Calvinist and a lawyer — Calvin was a lawyer — would make.

One of these was that one should not discuss THEIR race with THEM.

Both his religious discipline and his discipline as a lawyer put such strict rules into his speeches, which are always the most purely enjoyable at the convention.

So this strict Calvinist versus Southern Methodist contrast is something too many generations old to bother Sam and me. My reaction is more “I say what I damned well please,” which is just the kind of attitude that would get Sam’s clients in jail, but is also the attitude that freedom, real freedom, is based on.

But when I thought about it, there is not the contradiction that Sam might see here.

I do not talk to Jews or other races about THEIR race. If I discuss race at all, it is about MY race, not theirs.

You wouldn’t expect this of a former interrogator, but I am a lousy liar. In fact, I am a lousy misleader.

And, like so many Evil Bigots, especially Southern ones, I talk a lot to black people and others.

So dissembling is a bad strategy for me.

But I don’t talk to non-whites about Their race. I talk about MINE.

I gave a copy of my last book to a black lady who was our senior Courtesy Officer at our building. She read it cover to cover while on night duty that night. It contains the Mantra repeatedly. It also contains a discussion of the Boasian Jewish attempt to take over leadership of all minorities.

In fact, she read the book so zealously that our manager was a little worried about her not watching the internal television during that period.

Said courtesy officer kept assuring me she was my biggest fan. She admitted the bluntness and the fact that I even talked openly about Jews, though what I say is no more than what Boas himself said for half a century or more.

I know Sam, and he would not approve of my unbending that far.

But Sam knows us old Southern country Methodist types as well as I know him, and he takes it for granted that we are incorrigible about rules.

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