Confederates of Color Before and After the Emancipation Proclamation by Earl Ijames

 

Whitehall Memorial Park Dedication Service

He spoke at the dedication above which featured my Grandfather's words on the monument.

"I say we cannot know your suffering, but this we do know; We love and honour you, veterans, and are justly proud of the heritage you have given us. Just so long as warm blood flows in the veins of man, so long will the words 'Confederate Veteran' cause that blood to tingle with glorious pride, and, if there be one among us, born in our glorious Southland who is not so thrilled, every drop of stagnant blood proclaims him bastard to the South-a coward to all the world."    --Joseph Powell Pippen, Esq. More of the speaker Confederate Memorial Day-05 10, 1911 (My Grandfather & Mother)

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A Black Advocate for Confederate Monuments

 

Nelson Winbush with his Grandfather Louis Napoleon who fought with General Nathan Bedford Forrest at a CV Reunion early 1900's. He is a regular at SCV reunions.

 Many posts concerning Mr. Winbush at FNC  

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Yesterday’s Washington Post had an article about eighty-eight year old Nelson Winbush who is a Florida black man and proponent of Confederate monuments. His grandfather, Louis Napoleon Nelson, was a Tennessee slave who followed his master and sons into the Confederate military.

Initially Louis was a cook but later became a rifleman and a chaplain under the command of cavalry leader Nathan Bedford Forrest.

According to The Post, Winbush “said his grandfather believed he was defending his home state of Tennessee from ‘Yankee’ invaders, not fighting to preserve slavery. His final wish, Winbush said, was that he be buried in his Confederate uniform…This pride has been embraced by Winbush, who joined the Sons of Confederate Veterans nearly three decades ago.”

More @ The Abbeville Institute

A Chilling Description of Our World… from a 1981 Movie

 Intellectual Takeout

This weekend, the Facebook page Anonymous posted a short clip from the 1981 movie My Dinner with Andre that went viral. In the clip, one of the characters provides an absolutely chilling perspective on the world in 1981—one that in many ways applies to today, and has even perhaps been magnified.

Andre: Okay. Yes. We're bored. We're all bored now. But has it every occurred to you, Wally, that the process that creates this boredom that we see in the world now may very well be a self-perpetuating, unconscious form of brainwashing created by a world totalitarian government based on money? And that all of this is much more dangerous than one thinks. And it's not just a question of individual survival, Wally, but that somebody who's bored is asleep? And somebody who's asleep will not say "no"?

Andre: See, I keep meeting these people, I mean, uh, just a few days ago I met this man whom I greatly admire, he's a Swedish physicist, Gustav Björnstrand, and he told me that he no longer watches television, he doesn't read newspapers, and he doesn't read magazines. He's completely cut them out of his life because he really does feel that we're living in some kind of Orwellian nightmare now, and that everything that you hear now contributes to turning you into a robot.

Andre: And when I was at Findhorn, I met this extraordinary English tree expert who had devoted his life to saving trees. Just got back from Washington, lobbying to save the redwoods, he's 84 years old, and he always travels with a backpack cause he never knows where he's gonna be tomorrow. And when I met him at Findhorn, he said to me, "Where are you from?" and I said, "New York." He said, "Ah, New York. Yes, that's a very interesting place. Do you know a lot of New Yorkers who keep talking about the fact that they want to leave, but never do?" And I said, "Oh, yes." And he said, "Why do you think they don't leave?" I gave him different banal theories. He said, "Oh, I don't think it's that way at all."

Andre: He said, "I think that New York is the new model for the new concentration camp, where the camp has been built by the inmates themselves, and the inmates are the guards, and they have this pride in this thing they've built. They've built their own prison. And so they exist in a state of schizophrenia where they are both guards and prisoners, and as a result, they no longer have, having been lobotomized, the capacity to leave the prison they've made or to even see it as a prison." And then he went into his pocket, and he took out a seed for a tree and he said, "This is a pine tree." He put it in my hand and he said, "Escape before it's too late."

Andre: See, actually, for two or three years now, Chiquita and I have had this very unpleasant feeling that we really should get out. That we really should feel like Jews in Germany in the late thirties. Get out of here. Of course, the problem is where to go, cause it seems quite obvious that the whole world is going in the same direction. See, I think it's quite possible that the 1960s represented the last burst of the human being before he was extinguished and that this is the beginning of the rest of the future now, and that, from now on there'll simply be all these robots walking around, feeling nothing, thinking nothing. And there'll be nobody left almost to remind them that there once was a species called a human being, with feelings and thoughts, and that history and memory are right now being erased, and soon nobody will really remember that life existed on the planet.

Andre: Now, of course, Björnstrand feels that there's really almost no hope, and that we're probably going back to a very savage, lawless, terrifying period. 

Trump awards Vietnam veteran Gary Rose the Medal of Honor

Via Billy

 

  My guess is that he has a 16 ounce PBR in his hand! :)

*Rose was recommended for the Medal of Honor, but this was downgraded to the Distinguished Service Cross due to the classified nature of the mission in Laos.
(In depth coverage of his actions at WIKI)

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Washington Examiner

President Trump on Monday awarded the Medal of Honor to retired Army Capt. Gary "Mike" Rose, a medic who delivered care under fire to nearly 70 wounded soldiers during the Vietnam War.

"Mike did not stop to eat, to drink or even to care for his own injury as he saved his fellow soldiers," Trump recalled during an East Room ceremony with Rose, his family, and 10 members of his former unit.

Rose was wounded in his back and legs during Operation Tailwind, a covert four-day mission in southeastern Laos in 1970.

*"For many years, the story of Mike's heroism has gone untold, but today we gather to tell the world of his valor and present him with the highest military honor our country has to offer," Trump said. "This will enshrine him into the history of our nation."

Rose, 71, received training as a Special Forces medic when he enlisted in the Army in 1967. He was sent to Laos two years later, where his unit came under attack by the North Vietnamese Army.

Despite rapid gunfire overhead, Rose "crawled from one soldier to the next" to provide lifesaving treatment, Trump said Monday.

The retired Army captain, who was seriously wounded during the attack, recalled being able to fit his entire index finger in his own wound before proceeding to return to his duties. When it came time for his unit to evacuate, the helicopter he loaded onto was hit by enemy fire and crashed. Rose immediately began retrieving injured men from the wreckage.

"As Mike puts it, 'If you don't believe in God, then you should have been with us that day,'" Trump said.

Rose, who lives in Huntsville, Ala., was joined by his wife and two grandchildren on Monday. He told reporters following the ceremony that the award was "a collective medal" for all military personnel who served in Vietnam.

"This is our medal, it's not mine. We all earned it," Rose said.

Joint Chiefs chairman Joseph Dunford lays out timeline of Niger attack that killed US soldiers

Via Billy

French air support arrived two hours after Islamic State-aligned fighters began a deadly ambush on U.S. Green Beret advisers in Niger, according to a new timeline provided Monday by the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

However, it was still unclear why the team of 12 U.S. soldiers and their partner force of 30 Nigeriens waited a full hour after the firefight began to request backup from French Mirage fighter jets, or why the body of one soldier, Sgt. La David Johnson, was found two days later by the Nigeriens, Gen. Joseph Dunford said during a press conference at the Pentagon.

"What tactical instructions the commander on the scene gave at a given time that caused units to maneuver and where they might have been when Sgt. Johnson's body was found, those are all questions we'll identify during the investigation," he said.

More @ Washington Examiner

Mueller Seeks Grand Jury Testimony from PR Execs Who Worked With Manafort & Investigating Democratic Lobbyist Tony Podesta+

Via Billy

Special Counsel Robert Mueller issued grand jury subpoenas in recent days seeking testimony from public relations executives who worked on an international campaign organized by Paul Manafort, people directly familiar with the matter told NBC News.

This is the first public indication that Mueller's investigation is beginning to compel witness testimony before the grand jury — a significant milestone in an inquiry that is examining the conduct of President Donald Trump and his son-in-law and senior adviser, Jared Kushner, among others.

It is also further indication that Manafort, Trump's onetime campaign chairman, could be in serious legal jeopardy.

More @ NBC

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 Robert Mueller Investigating Democratic Lobbyist Tony Podesta

Podesta news should rattle Dems on Russia

Rand Paul: We’re in so many wars, Graham can’t keep track

 

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) quipped Monday that the U.S. is involved in so many conflicts that Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) can't keep track of all of them.

"You know you are in too many wars in too many places when even warmonger Lindsay Graham can’t keep track anymore," Paul tweeted.

More  @ The Hill

Michael Bloomberg just made Virginia's governor race a referendum on gun control

Via Billy

Michael Bloomberg is hoping to ride to the rescue of Lt. Gov. Ralph Northam two weeks ahead of the Virginia governor's race.

Everytown for Gun Safety, one the foremost gun control groups in America that is bankrolled by the former New York City mayor, will drop another $400,000 in the election after an earlier $1 million commitment, the Washington Post reports. That makes the race very much a referendum on gun control.

While the Bloomberg cash could rile up the Democratic base and bring Northam victory, it could just as easily backfire and deliver a win for Republican Ed Gillespie. Without new voters to win over, the race is about getting reliable voters to the polls.

Right now the race is all tied up, and Gillespie has the momentum. While polling from Monmouth University has the race deadlocked at 48 percent to 47 percent, the Republican is surging in more conservative, rural Virginia and gaining ground in Northam's home region of Eastern Virginia.

More @ Washington Examiner