Annie Kenan & Her Family - Lead Fundraiser for the "Silent Sam" Confederate Monument
(The Kenan Family were descended from Original UNC Trustees ~ A Century and More of Service)

Ah, the foolishness surrounding the Silent Sam monument continues unabated.

I just received an update on the current "negotiations" regarding the monument.  As those following the controversy shall recall, BY LAW the current monument was to have been restored by Thanksgiving.  Hoping that no one out there was holding their breath.  We live in lawless times.  As the truth has now turned out, the SAME few Marxist agitators have been directly involved in the violence in Charlottesville, Durham and Chapel Hill = facts the media does not report truthfully.  Worse, they enable the political "hater theater" fraud. 

Dwayne Dixon is still a "professor" at UNC.  Wes Bellamy was made to resign his education post by Terry McAuliffe (who was at a U.S. Conference of Mayors Convention during the Charlottesville weekend - Mitch Landrieu heads the Conference).  He just testified at James Fields' trial, the Toledo boy who plowed into Heather Heyer that weekend.  Since nearly all stories about Confederate monuments shall reiterate Charlottesville or Dylann Roof/Charleston, I thought I should reiterate some points that are never mentioned in the mainstream press.  Dixon & his associates have all been involved - most intentionally - in the Charlottesville mess, and in both the Durham and Chapel Hill takedowns.  I shall also mention that Leftist "seminar" in "taking down monuments" by these miscreants hoping to further agitate the situation.  It's ironic that a guy like Dixon can boast about his gun-toting enjoyments - and now was paid $3000 for the revocation of his concealed carry permit - and the Left says nothing about it.  The live human teaches at UNC, but a statue must be destroyed.  O.K.  Got it.

The truth is that this is precisely how the Simmons-Evans KKK (1915-1945 era) acted - using violence to agitate race for political ends.  The only difference, a century after this lawless terrorism, is that Confederates and "white supremacy" are now being blamed for unrest, whereas in the early 20th Century "white supremacy" was the alleged beneficiary of such tactics.  _(I shall elaborate more on this apparent contradiction on root causes in a later post.)

For now, my letter to UNC on current events.  I think - most days - of the utter mediocrity of today's politics, politicians and public policy, and remember Buckley's suggestion that any random choice of people out of the phone book would do better.  Almost all involved in this failure are devils or, at best, useless.  As for the "community activists" involved, y'all are doing nothing positive for anyone - including yourselves,  It's laughable, really, that any miscreants so lacking in self-awareness have the gall to pretend to have anything worth sharing.

Board of Governors - UNC @ Chapel Hill
public@bog.northcarolina.edu
I am a resident of South Carolina, but am a California native who moved back to the South after learning of my family history.  I am a descendant of the Harris family that signed the Mecklenburg Declaration.  Further, my ancestors fought alongside General William Richardson Davie, the founding force of the University.

As someone who frequents the UNC archives online often, I respect the legacy that the achievements of past UNC founders and alumni achieved, and the collections which those achievements built.  Thus, I am disgusted that the monument to prior UNC alumni who left their schooling to fight and defend their country and neighbors has been so lied about and desecrated.

I have done research into those who petitioned and raised funds for the Silent Sam monument.  From the Kenan family and Julian Shakespeare Carr (another alumnus slandered in the public press) to the careers of those whose sacrifices Silent Sam commemorates, this entire political theater and muckraking has been an appalling blasphemy against them and against truth and any sort of real education.  And now it has been made public that upset over what was done to the monument is being exploited further to obtain funding for some museum.

All the while, we see delay, delay, delay -- and clear violations of law.  All the while, we see the promotion and coddling of radical Marxist groups and "activists" -- an encouragement of further lawless actions that serve educators who have failed to educate, let alone ensure that UNC shall be made safe for those wishing to learn.  Most pathetically, all this is a dishonor to those past UNC Trustees and Alumni who built up UNC and provided these materials for all these disgraces.

I do not know how any of you sleep at night.  It's people like you who are corrupting our country and what was because you have created and inspired nothing better under your own watches.  And all this is bound to get worse.  Indeed, radical politics exist and flourish amongst mediocrities.  That you are not collectively ashamed to show your faces given what you permit to occur, and are in fact promoting, reveals your own lack of awareness and care for what you are doing.

I can only assume at this point that like the politicians who do not care whether or not people suffer and are even killed in these protests, your political goals are all you care about.  If the University suffers further declines, and if what past generations have built is now lost - for students and North Carolinians of all skin colors, of all generations to come - you do not care, as long as you get whatever it is you are getting out of these lies and frauds.

The fact that you sacrifice not only what has been, but what could be, declares your own knowledge of your failures.  I feel sorry for you - for some day, y'all shall have to account for what you have done.  No wonder you do not wish any reminders of better men and builders - of why you hate them for reminding you of your lacks.

Sincerely,
Maeve Magdalen

Dear Mrs. Bryson --

I am writing to express my concerns over the Texas UDC Chapter President Eva B Long's interview
as reported in the Austin (Texas) American Statesman, weblink
http://www.mystatesman.com/…/harvey…/x5bQmZDcHUo2z5pEGOxToJ/

This relates to yet another removal, of the plaque placed by (or in honor of) the Children of the Confederacy in 1969 which gives the Creed BEFORE it was surreptitiously changed last year. In pertinent part, the plaque

states "nor was its underlying cause to sustain slavery" which is TRUE, and the Corwin Amendment PROVES IT.   This, of course, is not what Karl Marx wanted to spin things as, as detailed to both Friedrich Engels AND to Abraham Lincoln.

But I do not believe ANY leader OR MEMBER of the United Daughters of the Confederacy ought to be supporting Marx or Lincoln's spin on the rape and slaughter of the South - whether she speaks as an individual or not.

Further, any UDC leader ought to be media-savvy enough to know that her collusion with the enemy of Confederate history shall be reported and used as an official statement of the U.D.C. I do not know if this is being exploited to enable those seeking to rewrite or erase our true history, or destroy the U.D.C. - or both.

Here is the specific language in this article:

Eva B. Long, president of the Texas division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy but speaking as a “concerned Texan” and not for the organization, said she hopes the plaque stays put, calling it an important piece of Texas history.

The plaque contains the original creed of the Children of the Confederacy — an organization comprised of children that is part of United Daughters and is still active, Long said. However, language saying the Civil War wasn’t a rebellion, and that slavery wasn’t an underlying cause, was removed from the group’s creed about five or 10 years ago, she said.

“That was their creed back then; however, that was changed,” Long said, adding that she couldn’t speak to the thinking of the members of the time other than surmising that it was “pretty much what they believed” in the 1950s.

If the plaque is ultimately taken down, Long said she hopes it would be returned to the organization or there would be monetary compensation from the state. <end snippet>

#1 - The language was reported by observers a year or so ago that I noticed others mentioning it. Who decided this? If we are not teaching our children the truth, then this changes the very nature of the U.D.C. from women who stood to Defend the Cause to politically-correct Yankee apologists, enabling the murderers of our ancestors. How does teaching our children COWARDICE "emulate the noble spirit of their fathers"?

#2 - If these words are correct, then this woman has just thrown generations of UDC members under the bus - and it shall be spun that the Texas UDC AGREES that prior generations were white supremacists who were "glorifying" a War fought to sustain slavery. Anyone who sincerely believes these LIES is free to do so as an American - but they have no business in leadership anywhere in the Daughters of the Confederacy - and frankly, no person of integrity could make our oaths and prayers TO ALMIGHTY GOD and believe the lies of the conquerors, let alone enable them to be employed by today's Reconstructionists.

#3 - The proper response of any Daughter is that monuments were intended to be permanent; they ought not be removed, desecrated or reinterpreted by any revisionist; NO DISHONOR, NO COMPROMISES. Then should follow a speech on the ghoulish, ungodly, anti-American nature of those who would suggest such desecration. For this is not merely an attack on the Confederacy. This is an attack on American values, and Americans of ALL skin colors who worked to bring this country together and move forward, not backward.

If the leadership of National is not going to stand up against this onslaught and - given Ginger Rudiger's recent nonsense (and probably more to come), it is past time to unleash the rank and file. If this "I am not speaking on behalf of the organization, but as an individual" is OK, then it ought to be OK for ANY MEMBER TO SO STAND - as though they were free Americans with rights they believe in, as though membership in the United Daughters of the Confederacy is actually worthwhile, and as though we were like any grunt private out of Basic Training in the Armed Forces. Most of us are three times the age (at least) as members of the military, and they are able to wear their medals anywhere (and they do not pay for them; they are awarded to them).

Right now, it certainly appears that descendants of Confederate veterans who WOULD speak out have been purposely hamstrung and muzzled - so that scalawags such as Ms. Long and Ms. Rudiger can spew the conqueror's LIES - as General Patrick Cleburne predicted.

Either the United Daughters of the Confederacy DEFENDS THE CAUSE, or y'all shall kill the organization and all our foremothers worked to build. Even during Reconstruction, true history was not attacked. If people do not have the stamina to LEAD and PUT DOWN this collusion with the enemy, YOU ALL shall be responsible for what happens.

Many are already saying that this betrayal is what is and has been intended. Time shall tell. OUR LORD was betrayed by one close to Him - in order to prepare us for this fallen world. And I have been well-prepared more than most. For what is to come, I am thankful.

I do not envy you your position at this time in American History. But as long as you hold it, yours is the Duty. May you honor that duty as our noble ancestors did, and that is NOT by surrendering - not until death. For to surrender the Truth of our Fathers and Mothers is to already be dead, and to have to answer to them and to God.

Deo Vindice,

Catherine Harris
GG-Granddaughter of Alexander Ewing Harris, Jr.
3rd Corporal, Co. B, 29th Georgia Cavalry Battalion
Campbell's Siege Artillery (Georgia)

.  .  I never thought of myself much as a "normal" person - but God has kept me safe once before, through a trying time - growing up as (what Mark Levin calls) a liberal drone (more wannabe "60s flower child) in 1960s-1970s California. California then was not what it has become; but this too was a lesson for now, when it counts.
. . . After a few incidents I have experienced personally, after the Charleston Nine and its aftermath, now with New Orleans (and all the live feeds)... through it all, the misguided who spew on social media, and the near constant hovering of the haters... It wasn't until last weekend's "attention" from this Brad Griffin/Hunter Wallace character that I made certain connections. (I've now spent some time looking in some of the "usual suspect" areas, which confirms some of the promptings I have felt this week.) And I have something to say.
. . . Mr. Griffin seemed quite interested in convincing me that I was a "Rainbow Confederate." I had not heard the term before save in one context - of an alleged homosexual person who claimed to be following that interest as well as honoring his Confederate heritage (debatable as to whether such is possible). It appears that whatever my prior introduction to this term was about, the current "narrative" is that "rainbow Confederates" are those of us who believe that the CSA was a wonderland of racial integration, of "modern racial attitudes" revising the actual history of secessionist areas during the 1860s. The persons promulgating such a "narrative" appear to run the gamut - from far Left groups who habitually divide and define everything along racial lines, and have decreed that anyone and anything Confederate was (and are) racist -- to far alt-right groups - Klan, LOSers, neo-Nazis and the like who - whatever else they believe - also habitually divide and define everything along racial lines. (I tend to use the shorthand "haters on the right AND the left in my own head, though I rarely use it in public - since no one that believes in race group divisions along political and social lines is conservative).
. . . What concerned me most about Mr. Griffin was his youth - and his family ties. We know that hate is taught. But in Mr. Griffin's desire to keep introducing examples of the worst racist literature as "exhibits" to prove his points (such as they were), I was reminded of the pedophile that introduces his targets to porn in order to sexualize and corrupt; to deaden innocence and health. I am not saying that racism is a form of sexual perversion. What I am saying is that it is LIKE sexual perversion - a sin that is of the flesh, that combines sinful pride and gluttony and idolatry,
. . . Beauregard was correct when he wrote that race troubles were largely imaginary. Now, to some people, such a statement might seem delusional. Beauregard was writing in 1873, at the height of Reconstruction in Louisiana; and today people make livings off of exploiting what the PC-culture calls racial issues. A man became the 44th President due to the race factor. I say again - Beauregard was right; this idea of racial categories since 1865 is one of the worst deceptions of the devil.
. . . But do not tell the race haters - the RODs - that. The Leftists who promote multiculturalism need the Caucasian of Confederate ancestry for a continued enemy. This is an imagined construction of our fathers, a useful (to RODs) strawman which justifies both the racist hater and the Marxist (pretend) anti-hater, who both divide. There were legal reasons for racial descriptions in slavery days; but it was Reconstruction and carpetbag pitting of the races one against the other that turned the APPLIED descriptions to evil. And then eugenics was introduced, to a world still desperate to understand God's Purpose for the war, and the loss of so many brave men. It was a time when science would produce miracles; only this time, racial and Darwinian evolutionary "science" was godless, and the lessons of Frankenstein's monster were to be taught.
. . . There shall always be those fools - and there were such back in the 19th Century - who have one skin color and believe that is some great virtue (even though it is something they had no agency in). They make skin color into a fetish. The Marxist needs Americans to feel guilt about our history and our military men. The wannabe tyrant needs people to be conflicted about even the possibility of free Americans who know to defend their rights, sure defenders as our Confederate ancestors were. We are not allowed heroes, virtue and honor by the haters of either "side." All such are mutually-supportive agitators - the haters of American virtue depend upon the racial dividers. All hate this country and their neighbors - the malcontents and miscreants who are disturbers of the peace of this world...
. . . People of character and substance neither care nor think about their skin color or arbitrary racial category. They certainly do not compound lies on top of lies, and violate God's laws about false witness and idolatry by creating division amongst people and reducing the individual to the definition provided by skin color.
. . . So when some young man of a third of my experience of life tries to tell me about the men of the Confederacy, all I can do is feel sorry for him - that he has been corrupted by liars with a tool - this race obsession - and like pornography, it has wrapped its tentacles around his sad heart. Whether it's Marx, or race hatred, or molestation, it's all corruption. I can actually feel fortunate; when the pedophile network was destroying my community youth activity, at least my music was something genuine I was losing - that America at large was losing. Whether it is liberalism, sexual identity politics or racial theories, all of those things ought to be lost as quickly as possible as built upon sand - that blinds one; and once lost, one has a chance to build that which is built upon a rock.
. . . Ever since I was a child and first heard of them, I thought that any white supremacist that was truly interested in the "superiority" of the race would never waste any of their time on worrying about other races - they would be too busy policing their own as well as developing further their fellows in their great culture, under God. Such RODs cannot have a clue as to the great Confederates whom we honor. Such Marxist manipulators of language cannot understand the words of our ancestors who lived and worked alongside their neighbors for God and their community. No, I would never compare my Confederate ancestors with having "modern" ideas. They were better than that - which is why they must not be dishonored by RODs.
. . . Thus, whether Marxist, Pan-African, Supremacist (of whatever color) or gender role revisionist, such people are degenerates who are tools in the attacks on America and the Confederacy - the finest cultures outside of Israel - under God, that we have had on this planet. It's the RODs who, with their fetish and generational seduction of the vulnerable with the sin of their race divisions, are tools in rotting America from within.

So for those of you who get Mr. H.K. Edgerton's newsletter, you shall know that one of the "GRANNIES" - our not-so affectionate term in the heritage movement for those who appear to believe their "service" as members and officers in heritage organizations makes them more special than the lowest Confederate bleeding to death in his home soil - just took H.K. to task for neglecting to praise and thank them as they had wished for providing certain accoutrements to H.K.  It's as though anything H.K. wrote initially about the Yankee spin at a purported Battle of Olustee event, where my gg-grand-uncle Frank Harris served when it counted, was wrong.

Must be nice to get to run things, even how others treat one and abuse them for not meeting one's expectations.  I shall most certainly never experience THAT level of "power."  Pretty heady stuff - which is the problem.

It's one thing to feel slighted. But for a mature adult to COMPLAIN to H.K. - when they are SUPPOSEDLY a LEADER, and H.K. a genuine fighter on the front lines, is wrong IMO.  H.K. didn't see anyone standing beside him taking on the Yankee tool spewing Marxist revisionism about Frederick Douglass and the abolitionists - and at a CONFEDERATE VICTORY ON SOUTHERN SOIL!!  Where were these people when they were needed, hmmmm?  Let's see the email correcting the Yankee reenactor.  I won't hold my breath.  Where's the letters to the editors?  Where's the new event at the site to ensure the Southern viewpoint is properly addressed?

I have been meaning to write on this topic for some time - on how certain people in supposed heritage organizations appear to believe that said heritage organizations are all about THEM and THEIR resume credits.  This writer is a FIRM believer that if one has any resume credits, the ONLY thing such earns one is an indication that one has the responsibility and ability to FIGHT and ADVOCATE for the right.  People who employ their resume credits, such as they are, as a means to BULLY PEOPLE and attempt to win arguments earn nothing but my scorn.  Such tactics belong to the Marxist Left, which infamously grant awards and gobble up the goodwill of organizations and institutions as they manipulate names and language in order to deceive and manipulate people.  These are the tools of the devil, and not those of HONEST and HONORABLE people.  So check yourselves for these "reconstructed" tendencies.

Oh yes -- Am still awaiting, from these self-appointed leaders and experts, the FULL DETAILING of the eugenicist movement participation and lack of leadership to counter the Klan and all the other details that give aid and comfort to the enemy.  There are STILL known racists who work the heritage movement for their own agendae who do not get expelled and called out - and I include Waite Rawls and all those who are helping enable whichever haters on what are perceived as BOTH sides of these debates.  You see, folks - people with money and power look down on the little guy, as the North looked upon the South as its vassal states, to be raped and exploited as the "elite" would choose.  This is why rednecks, whether of 1600s Scotland or 2017 Confederate States are so very valuable - the whole KISS OUR REBEL BEHINDs attitude.  The Grannies don't like it, but I sure do.  God bless them.  There is nothing more Pharisee-like than the elites attempting to grind the poor man into the dust because they are incapable of addressing and leading on the merits.

Of  course, I have oft been accused of insulting people, and I openly admit I do not have the talent of stroking egos that our enemies have. Half of what the Leftist does is buy people, whether via money or ego or power purchases.  But honor cannot be purchased nor sold.  As for me, I am but a miserable sinner without the right to raise my head from the dust, as are we all.  When we stand before God and our ancestors, they won't care about our resume credits and earthly titles.  They shall be adjudging how we advanced the Cause - of God, country and the Truth - and supported those who did so.

And since some of y'all seem to infer from SOME criticism that Y'ALL are intended, I say "IF THE SHOE FITS." Your position in ANY organization MEANS NOTHING - as I am constantly told mine MEANS NOTHING, told I cannot speak nor own it WITHOUT PERMISSION.   The lowest and youngest private in the military can wear their medals wherever - because such medals are genuine and intended for all audiences.  It is not just each other that we shoot in the circular firing squad, but each other and what we ourselves do.  We limit ourselves, and we prevent anyone looking for something GENUINE - that needs neither explanation nor apology - from becoming interested.  <disclaimer - I realize I may be accused of participating in circular firing squad tactics myself here; but at this point, when our monuments and flags are under such assault, and Karl Marx's definition of "The War is All About Slavery" dominant as the Leftist, low-information, South-hating agenda runs rampant, we must sift the wheat from the chaff and remove those who care more for their "power" to "manage" Confederates and the Cause than they care that we are under assault.)

It's not just the heritage organizations, either - but those who would exploit heritage for any reason.  Parasites who desire to misappropriate the love people have for the Truth and their fathers, who want money, power and ego-boosts, need to know plenty are TICKED about y'all and shall not stand for this.  Pro-Confederates - if we are to grow - need to better welcome the new person, whether or not they have money (any race or background, that goes without saying on my blog - but I put it here in case the new person should come calling to this essay first).  This means we do not allow new people to fend for themselves when we know the parasites and the liars who pester us shall target them.  Remember that a Southern lady and gentleman doesn't allow wolves, whether or not in sheep's clothing or from whichever side, go a-lambing.

If you want to join a social club, do so.  But the heritage organizations were founded by people who wished to honor and commemorate the Confederate soldier and what HE believed for ALL TIME.  If you are not ready to stand and defend him and them, then you need to GET OUT.  I, for one, shall stand for this and let the chips fall where they may.  I shall not stand and await our enemies, who are many, to STEAL what THEY did in order to use it against us.  I have already lived through this in other areas, and I shall NEVER stand by for it now, on the inside or the outside.  Like the Israelites at the Golden Calf, each person MUST CHOOSE.

So here's what I sent H.K. as a response, and I share it here publicly:

HK --


The ladies and gentlemen of the SCV and UDC, in particular, need to quit engaging in the circular firing squad activities because you are a Christian gentleman. They need to remember General Lee surrendering at Appomattox, Jefferson Davis in prison in chains, and Christ on the Cross, and ask why they deserve more than them.

They need to wish you Godspeed. I know how you are, and how the whiners whine - just like they did at Columbia when you changed the agenda to go talk to those Muslim haters and got death threats, profane insults and blasphemy in thanks.
[added blog note - it was not (necessarily) SCV and UDC members here that I speak about, but those also who pretended to support H.K. and pro-heritage efforts.]

And you can tell anyone and everyone that this white girl said so.

-- Maeve Magdalen

I can see now that this Blog is going to evolve as a place where I want to save and share my more important posts from Facebook, to a wider audience.  This may make it a bit more strident than I normally am and try to be.  I am sure that over time I shall better develop what this Blog ought to and needs to be.  But for this post, it must be a snippet of a larger argument.  Those wishing to know more shall have to follow me, Maeve Magdalen, on Twitter and Facebook.
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<disclaimer - this is only for those for whom the shoe fits>
.....I have had a few instances over the past few months of people liking and sharing a bunch of my posts, and then they get snarky with me. This is FB. If you don't like someone or something, WALK AWAY. If you aren't here to add good things in my life and help me, WALK AWAY.
.....I realize I am not the easiest person to get to know. But that's not the point. I take it on the chin from others all the time.
ALL... THE.... TIME...
.....ALL THE TIME ~ EACH AND EVERY DAY ~ I take up my Cross. For those who say I have an ego, or am being prideful - you don't know me and have a VERY limited understanding of people (probably projecting).
.....The written word, as much effort as I have put into it, is imperfect. I don't post here for my health or enjoyment, but mostly to serve God as imperfectly as I do. I have things to say that reflect the pathways that GOD has chosen for me; He knows what He has put me through, and it's rarely been what I wanted it to be. If you are a friend or guest here, you accept by participating these requirements. If you do not, there are PLENTY of other places for you to choose from.
.....I am not the only one getting snark, or I wouldn't have bothered with this. We don't know how much of it is FB's "upgrades" (tracking, spying, manipulation) or more directed by other agents. Just know that at least as far as I am concerned, I have taken on the worst - and WON, against money, numbers, and people who want(ed) to kill me not because I merely sought to hold them accountable, but because I REFUSED to stand by as they did to others what they had done to me - and bragged about their "power" to do so.
.....I know that the LORD is using me for the time when the CONNECTION between those people and "those people" comes together, to the UTTER DESTRUCTION OF BOTH. You want to take me on? BRING IT. SHOW YOURSELF for the person who seeks to add pain and evil to others and OWN IT. Cowards!
.....TO GOD BE THE VICTORY, FOR HIS GLORY!
Romans 8:28 ~

And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.

.....Something happened a while back where someone kept pushing at me, kept assuming things about me, even though I had been intentionally avoiding and not responding to this person over a period of months. Those of us who keep getting friend requests from people we do not know and who have never interacted with us publicly - not even a like here and there, to become known - may understand this phenomenon. (I've been sitting on this; but it sticks in my craw, so I am gonna say it. It's a difficult topic because - like profanity - some people use it amongst their familiar circles. What other people do is up to them and you - but this is what it signifies to me. Those seeking to watch their rhetoric and communicate to a wide group shall note it. Those who wish to dislike me for it can choose to do so. In fact, BRING IT. Show yourselves.)

.....MOST of the time, in my experience, when people have called me "sister" without a discussion on whether or not it's an appropriate term, they have meant me harm and deception. When I first got involved in heritage here in South Carolina, I was told "we are family" - by people who were lying to me and setting me up. Far worse were the people I grew up around, who constantly speak and spoke about our "____ _____ family." Those people, covering for pedophiles (convicted and not-yet convicted) and other exploiters of the young and vulnerable, enjoy the sense of trust that such terms can evoke.

.....I have a sister. It's a problematic relationship. In many ways she saved my life growing up and cared for me like no one else. But she was much hurt, by blood family through strangers. After decades, she became an unsafe person - just like those who had been members of my "____ _____ family."

.....I can more easily dismiss the usage amongst those people who call everyone sister, sweetie, dearie and such. But for politically-active people like heritage fighters ALL must be in this world, the use of such terms is suspect. When the users of such terms are clearly ignoring what I actually say and do (and don't say and do), alarm bells go off. It's an imprecise usage that neglects the individual and veers into identity politics - particularly when users aren't very good at distinguishing between descendants and non-descendants (both valuable), haters and non-haters (NOT equivalent in value - and make no mistake, the haters seek to eliminate the non-haters in order to "own the assets").

.....I have been online and "in heritage" for a good seven years. My experience is that I am still treated like someone with a target on my back for daring to be honest about what I feel. I *have* people and groups I have been in that have NEVER made me feel that way. But such groups are either non-controversial, or the entrance or maintenance requirements are such that they are difficult to become a part of. Such is a necessary reality of any group such as ours - where we are under attack, and where those people who pretend to be a part of heritage are actually more interested in the OTHER THINGS they care about.

.....I have been fortunate in that I have made associations online via Facebook and social media platforms that have perfectly translated into real life (and there are more such people which I have not met as yet, but whom I believe shall be the same - and y'all ought to know whom you are). These are people who are precise about their words amongst all audiences, and do not change according to different groups and surroundings. These are people who do not presume to use terms which signify different things to different people, nor portray themselves as something they are NOT. These are people who recognize the realities, who aren't afraid to say "i don't know."

.....I realize that it is fashionable amongst some to call themselves "brethren and sistern" (as we used to joke), as people call themselves brothers and sisters in Christ. But online, we must be careful - to take care that we are not casting THE MOST VULNERABLE AMONGST US to demons by exciting hopes which may be exploited, as pedophiles (and California Democrats), conmen and other liars and manipulators have oft-done.

.....We do not know people's hearts and can only judge by what we see. No one is providing anyone with any guarantees on anything. Trust is earned, and CONTINUALLY re-earned. In a world wherein GENERAL ROBERT E. LEE & JEFFERSON DAVIS get thrown under the bus regularly, there is NO work and NO resume credit that gets anyone anything amongst all audiences. We SERVE and SERVE again, and just accounting shall only be made in Heaven by Our Lord who sees hearts and judges fairly.

.....Finally, I have a responsibility to ensure that people who are out there calling themselves my brother and my sister because they carry a Battle Flag know that I have my eye on them as well. Yes, I see the power in having a big group working together. But until we ensure that the HATERS and USERS - which have been organized within us FOR A CENTURY, and whose legacy is STILL NOT OWNED - we have few rights in judging others and exempting ourselves. I shall not be a hypocrite in this area, particularly when I have more than one direct, real-life experience of being targeted by such, and know that OTHERS ARE STILL BEING USED, TARGETED AND DEGRADED by many of the same people.

....As long as many of my (and others') posts and pages get blocked, and suspended from FB, for attempting to speak truth, and seeing "my family" go after the truth whilst PRETENDING many things, we have BIG issues. I shall not stand by for people whom I do not know what all their "hard work" that cannot be plainly understood and explained means.

.....There are far too many people who care more about their "power" and "award-winning" "clever" strategems than about being open amongst all audiences. There are far too many people who, rather than going out, leading through doing (being thankful for what others can and choose to do) and inspiring others to follow, insist on berating and blaming other people who won't get into lock-step, nor give money they do not have (as though Southrons and Our Lord measured a man's worth by the money they have). If you are my brother and sister, pay my share for me. Take care of it, without complaint (this is sarcasm, to critique the difference - and those who ARE leading in the correct, healthy ways, GOD BLESS YOU).

.....There's a common exploitive technique that I fought for decades - of the people who are PRETENDING to be nice, who are forcing me to either be quiet as they go on and on about how great and friendly they are, EXPLOITING ME and whatever little mites I have contributed, in work or good will, counting on the fact that my choices are two: 1) to stay silent, and allow them to use me; or 2) for me to speak up on what I see that I do not like, which makes ME the target. It's a "win-win", and it is Leftist Manipulation 101. Of course, they whine and complain, and manipulate those who like them into coming to their defense - when they have manipulated the whole thing to start with. This is how groups are destroyed, and I have seen it TIME AND TIME AGAIN.

....Forewarned is forearmed. God bless anyone reading this through. It's not merely the history of the Confederacy - whether our Ancestors, our Fathers, or the Men we have chosen to honor - that we need to educate each other about, but how the devil and those who serve him (intentionally and unintentionally) attack.