the indian wind along the telegraph lines

OK, here it is.

I’m going to speak to my white, Nordic, American brothers. Because it’s you that need speaking to. This has gone too far. You have gone too far. You betray the very principles you propose to uphold.

Let’s get some things out of the way. On my father’s side I am descended from Prussian nobility (go do a Wikipedia search for Friedrich August von Finck) and Swedish-Finns that fought the Soviets in the Winter War for Karelia. Danzig and Vyborg.

On my mother’s side I come from Pilgrim stock. Namely, Peregrine White, one of two children born on the Mayflower crossing. I’m from the Allens of Brewster, MA. Plymouth and Boston.

When you chant blood and soil you speak of my blood and my soil. I have a greater claim to the Germanic, Viking, and Puritan white blood than 99% of you.

And you can go fuck yourselves.

This is not what we fought for. This is not what we built. We built a nation that is irrigated by the blood of our forefathers, those we enslaved, and those we exterminated. In Canada, the people we call “native Americans” they call “First Nations.” Think about that. I’m a “native American.” I was born here. So were most of you. But our nation was not the first. Fucking think about that. Are the First Nations marching in the streets trying to take back what we took? No. So why the fuck are you?

My family died for the Union. They gave their lives so that this Great Experiment could continue. You chant “Blood and Soil!” but how many of you have fewer cousins today because of the Confederacy?

You chant “Blood and Soil!” but how many of you would know the words “Blut und Boden” ouside of a co-opted National Socialist context? Did you know that the original theory elevated German peasants? Well, those peasants didn’t unify Germany. The aristocratic Junkers did. My grandfather’s family was among them. And who educated my grandfather? Who taught him to read music? Who managed the family money? That’s right. Jews. As my grandfather said, “There can be no Germany without Jews, and no Jews without Germany.”

Think he was an outlier? How about we go straight to the source. Hitler was an Austrian housepainter leading Bavarian Catholic peasants. The real German leaders were the Hohenzollerns. And let’s let Kaiser Wilhelm II speak about Nazis.

For the first time, I am ashamed to be a German. – In regard to Adolf Hitler’s Kristallnacht (November 1938)

But of our Germany, which was a nation of poets and musicians, of artists and soldiers, he has made a nation of hysterics and hermits, engulfed in a mob and led by a thousand liars or fanatics. – On Adolf Hitler (December 1938)

Make no mistake, in earlier years Wilhelm was deeply anti-Semitic. But he grew to understand exactly what my Opa knew.

I would not exist today except for the blood, toil, and sacrifice of the very people you call inferior. And neither would you.

Wilhelm grew up. Can you?

Are there blacks and Jews and all manner of people that feel entitled? You bet. All manner of people. And you are among them. Stop whining. Stop being entitled little pricks. Stop whinging about the world that was and engage the world that is. Why? Because it’s the only way forward for any of us. And if that doesn’t resonate, do it because a white, Anglo-Saxon, Protestant, straight, cisgendered, educated, worldly man who is your better just told you to do it.

You’re peasants. You are beneath me. I’m not sure why I’m wasting my breath on gap-toothed cousin-fuckers like you, but something must be done.

Don’t like being spoken to that way? THEN STOP FUCKING SPEAKING TO PEOPLE THAT WAY! And stop paying attention to a President with a personality disorder that I could beat on Jeopardy! while drunk. And yeah, that’s a challenge, Donny. You know-nothing lesser scion of better elders.

This post is shared publicly. Please feel free to re-share to whatever social media you see fit. And before I go shower and brush my teeth because of the things I have had to say here, I’ll leave you with the lyrics to a song that has been running through my head this week.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwyWcpob-KM

I’ve never been one for the punch-ups.

But, look, I really hate them Nazis.

A certain something starts to wind me up.

How could I hate them so violently?

When two swords slashing at each other.

Only sharpen one another.

And in the long run even he’s your brother.

Said, even though that kid’s a Nazi.

Always attack those things in someone else.

Reflections that you can’t face in yourself

to make precious fascistic feeling gone

it makes you turn into a bigger one.

Because

Two swords slashing at each other

only sharpen one another.

And in the long run even he’s your brother.

Said, even though that kid’s a Nazi.

Are you fighting the front or just fronting a fight?

Sometimes it’s hard to see the left from the right.

Are we angry, are we looking for peace

or just tryin’ to win the war?

By killing all the enemy off?

Just to kill all the enemy off (enemy off).

I’ve never been one for the punch-ups

but, look, I really hate them Nazis.

A certain something starts to wind me up.

How could I hate them all so violently?

When two swords slashing at each other

only sharpen one another.

And in the long run even he’s your brother.

Said, even though that kid’s a Nazi.

Even though that kid’s a Nazi.

I get it. You’re mad as hell. But stop letting the military-industrial complex fool you into thinking it’s about race, creed, gender, sexual preference, or anything else. If you need a whole Us Against Them, start by tearing down the 1% that are using you. Wake THE FUCK up.

Flame on.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwyWcpob-KM

The eclipse is almost at full expected occlusion.

Half the news tells me, “We lost.”

Because Greg Newholm got Brian’s name stuck in my head this morning.

Don’t know why I’m sharing this?

OK, here it is.

In a Chameleons mood. Going to grab the bass and play this.

Dum deedle dee dum dum!

Just for +Greg Newholm.

Our band opened for this lot.

I guess if +Greg Newholm is going to invoke The League, turnabout is fair play.