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  • #93113
    Carloman
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    I like to read astronaut biographies and autobiographies, and I usually borrow them from the local library. One book I couldn’t find at the local library, Countdown, the autobiography of Frank Borman, commander of the first manned mission to lunar orbit, I purchased at amazon.com for one penny plus shipping.

    The book contains several anti-racist, and thus anti-White, comments. Had I read the book at an earlier time in my life, I wouldn’t have noticed them at all. But having just finished reading the book, the comments stand out to me.

    Amazon has asked me to write a review of the book. Here is what I was thinking about writing:

    This is a very interesting book about Frank Borman, with many details about his military career, his Apollo days, and his time at Eastern Airlines. However, it contained several very disturbing anti-racist comments. Describing his high school football coach, he wrote:

    Once we played a game in Douglas, Arizona, and stopped to eat at a hotel where the manager quietly informed Morgan Maxwell and the other blacks on the squad that they couldn’t eat with their white teammates in the hotel restaurant. Morgan said nothing about this discrimination to Gridley, but the coach found out anyway. He summoned us.
    “Everyone eats together,” he announced.
    He ordered boxed lunches and we ate at the ball park. Together.
    There area very few giants in one’s lifetime. Rollin T. Gridley was one of mine

    Of his days at West Point, he wrote:

    The class of ’50 was the first to break some ugly traditions of prejudice and bigotry by welcoming black cadets to dances. There had been a few blacks admitted to West Point prior to 1946, but they weren’t allowed to attend dances, nobody would eat with them, and they were generally ostracized. To us, they were fellow cadets, not black cadets. They wore the same gray uniform we did, so eating and rooming with them came as naturally as breathing. We didn’t tolerate them, we accepted them as equals, and frankly I think the Army after World War II reformed faster than the rest of our society.

    Describing an early military assignment, he wrote:

    Valdosta in 1953 was a red-neck town, typical of the Deep South of that era. The segregated black school there was such a disgrace that a number of officers’ wives at Moody got together and tried to fix it up–a gesture that went unappreciated by the white community.

    Regarding a goodwill mission to Sweden, he wrote:

    Socialist Sweden is supposedly one of the world’s most progressive nations. The late prime minister Olaf Palme used our meeting to launch into a lecture on the evils of American capitalism, . . . When I reported the negative results to the U.S. ambassador, Brud Holland, he nodded in complete understanding. Holland, a black former All-American football player at Cornell, told me, “Never in all my days in the U.S. have I encountered such racial rejection and discrimination as I have in this so-called enlightened society of Sweden.”

    I guess nobody ever told Frank Borman that anti-racist is a codeword for anti-White.

    (end of review)

    I have several questions:

    (1) Is a book review on amazon.com an appropriate place to post the Mantra?

    (2) Is this an appropriate book to post the Mantra in a book review?

    (3) Are the examples too esoteric for the typical reader to understand? In the first example, I can’t really blame the coach, but referring to him as a giant was a bit too much. The second example really got to me: He complains of bigotry because Black men had previously not been allowed to dance with White women!! The third and fourth examples are typical anti-racist drivel.

    (4) Was my review appropriate, or did I miss the mark?

    I have not posted the review yet; I am waiting for your opinions.

    #93117
    -cecilhenry-
    Participant

    Be stronger and more direct with the Mantra thinking.

    See Bob’s previous writings at nationalsalvation.net

    I think you’re being too subtle here.

    I really tire of this ‘isnt it awful blacks were discriminated against’ — without addressing the anti-white assumption– that whites have no right to exist and defend their societies. Call it out.

    #93120
    Jason
    Participant

    I like the idea of using Mantra points in Amazon reviews. Why not?

    Using terms like ‘anti-White’ and introducing the rest of our terminology is great. And once you have purchased something from Amazon, you can review anything you want. You can post a review on any book, CD or product.

    In the future, you might pick a book that is more openly anti-White in its theme. You are right about your examples, but I’m afraid the examples won’t be clear enough to the general reader. Although, the one where he talks about the “redneck” town is pretty clear, so your points are valid.

    Please do more reviews on Amazon!

    #93125
    Carloman
    Participant

    Thank you for your feedback.

    Here is my revised review:

    This is a very worthwhile book about Frank Borman, a national hero, the first to command a manned mission to lunar orbit. The author, Frank Borman himself, provides a lot of details about his military career, his NASA days, and his time at Eastern Airlines. But it also contains within it the seeds of what is wrong with American society, and why we are in decline.

    Sprinkled throughout the book are several anti-White statements, some subtle, some not so subtle. The two most glaring ones are one where he complains about a policy at West Point, already repealed by the time he was a student there, forbidding Black cadets from dancing with White women, and another where he calls White people “rednecks” for maintaining a segregated school system that benefited White students. These may seem mild compared to the blatant anti-White statements and policies we hear today. Borman himself may think he was just being fair. After all, in other passages he wrote approvingly about flying the Confederate flag, and about how he disapproved of more favorable treatment for non-Whites. Nonetheless, attitudes such as these, which started to become common among members of his generation, set the stage for the more blatant anti-White policies that were to come, such as massive non-White immigration in ALL White countries and ONLY White countries.

    When we have Africa for the Africans, Asia for the Asians, and White countries for everybody, over time we have fewer and fewer White people. It’s White geNOcide.

    Frank Borman was indeed a great American hero, but he never understood the truth of the statement that anti-Racist is a codeword for anti-White.

    Does anyone have any more suggestions before I post this? Has anyone here posted a review at amazon.com (or bn.com) containing Mantra ideas? If so, could you provide a link. Thank you.

    #93129
    seapea
    Participant

    I don’t know about others but I usually read the negative reviews first. If something is getting a lot of 4-5 star reviews, I’ll immediately look for the 1 star reviews. Or contrasting reviews, if something is getting a lot of negative reviews, I’ll go to the 4-5 star reviews. You might consider giving out a rating that stands in contrast to the majority of other reviews. And I wouldn’t worry too much if the content of your comment matches your rating, just draw in those eyeballs.

    #93130
    Fred Richthofen
    Participant

    Anywhere and everywhere is the appropriate place to post The Mantra.

    Anti-Whites never stop to think that children’s shows, book reviews, knitting conventions, etc. might be improper for planting their Social Message.

    http://www.whitakeronline.org/blog/2013/06/30/please-offend-them/

    The only problem that I can see with posting on book reviews is that it might reveal your identity.

    Is that a possibility?

    #93131
    Jason
    Participant

    If using your regular credit card and email, it’s very possible that posting on Amazon could reveal your identity, at least to the people at Amazon.

    But, if a person makes a purchase with a gift card and uses an anonymous email account, I think you are pretty anonymous.

    #93141
    Carloman
    Participant

    Thank you for all your suggestions. I have posted the review this morning, giving it one star, since nearly everyone else gave it four or five stars. Amazon said they are processing my review, and that they will e-mail me when that is done. As of now, I have not received any e-mail from them, and the review has not posted.

    #93171
    Carloman
    Participant

    The review posted yesterday. Here is the link:

    http://www.amazon.com/review/R23B5N62IB3FAX

    I’ll also post the link on the working thread later tonight.

    #93184
    -scythian-
    Participant

    Ancient Aryan India also had astronauts who justified Aryan women dancing w/ blacks.

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