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Hinton Rowan Helper, Nojoque: A Question for a Continent, New York: G. W. Carleton, 1867, 479 pp.
A common mistake, both then and now, is to believe that 19th-century abolitionists were motivated by altruistic concerns for blacks. That may be largely true of anti-slavery sentiment in New England, but it was far less true in the rest of the country, where the motives for abolishing slavery typically had much more to do with bettering whites rather than freeing blacks.
That was especially true of perhaps the most prominent Southern opponent of slavery, North Carolina’s Hinton Rowan Helper. Through a succession of books in the 1850s and 1860s, Helper gradually developed an evolving attitude toward slavery — a viewpoint that changed from acceptance to mild objection on sociological terms, to opposition for economic reasons, and then finally to outright antagonism towards the race that was held in thrall. Over the course of Helper’s first three books, his language coarsened and he became increasingly shrill and vitriolic.
Although the son of a minor slaveowner in the North Carolina piedmont who had grown up in that culture, after a stay in California, young Helper returned an anti-slavery man. In California, he had mixed with many races and ethnicities, and concluded that the racial mix did not cause what he saw as the chaotic injustice of the frontier. The problem was greed. Men of various colors were abusing other men who were lower in social status and also of different races, just to make money. He concluded that that the problem was not racial but moral and sociological, and this led him toward abolitionism.
After his return from California in 1854, Helper wrote his first book, The Land of Gold, in which he made a tentative case against slavery. He later claimed his anti-slavery argument had been stronger, but that his publisher insisted on removing certain passages. Land of Gold was published in 1855, to a relatively favorable reception but it had tepid sales.
Undeterred, Helper immediately began research for his next book, the one that would make his reputation, for better or worse: The Impending Crisis. It was filled with charts and statistics that he felt made a strong economic argument against slavery. He soon found a publisher, and the book appeared in 1857.
Crisis was addressed to and concerned chiefly with non-slaveholding whites, whom he saw as slavery’s principal victims, because it cheapened honest manual labor, confining it to the low-born. Moreover, it was economically unviable in an industrializing world, and was holding back progress in the South. Although by no means showing himself an admirer of blacks, Helper sometimes adopted a somewhat sympathetic, paternalistic tone. Predictably, reviewers were divided along regional lines: Northern critics praised what they saw as cogent arguments they could use; Southerners condemned it as calumnious anti-Southern propaganda.
Helper thus became something of a hero in the North, but the book virtually sealed his doom as a son of the South, and drove him from the land he professed to love. He would spend most of the rest of his life elsewhere, either in the North or, for most of the war years, in Argentina, where he served the Lincoln administration as US Consul in Buenos Aires.
Ironically (for a Southerner), it was in Argentina during the war that Helper first became intimately familiar with blacks. He developed an unreasoning loathing for them, and the fact that slavery brought Africans into contact with whites became an additional reason for him to oppose slavery.
One of his duties as consul was to approve applications for emigration to the United States. He routinely denied applications by blacks, writing:
As with my present conviction I could not, of my own accord, do anything what-ever to increase or enlarge, even in the smallest degree, the colored population of America—sincerely believing as I do, that population is already too large by the whole number of the same, whether bond or free, black or brown, now inhabiting the continent. [All quotations are from Nojoque unless otherwise noted.]
Helper resigned his position in 1866 and returned to the United States in early 1867. According to his biographer, “[I]deas formulated and developed in Argentina would not only remain with Helper for decades but become an obsessive, relentless, and ultimately tragic pursuit.”
Helper publicized these ideas soon after his return in three books: Nojoque: A Question for a Continent, The Negroes in Negroland, and Noonday Exigencies in America. The first of these has received the most attention from critics and historians and is the principal subject of this review.
Helper resented having been lumped in with South-hating abolitionists, so one of the goals of the book is to distinguish himself from that group by clearly stating his shockingly low opinion of the African race. He does so in the preface to the 479-page book:
[T]he primary object of this work is to write the Negro out of America, and the secondary object is to write him (and manifold millions of other black and bi-colored caitiffs, little better than himself) out of existence. . . .
A few paragraphs later, he adds:
These sluggish and apathetic enemies of true progress, these unimpressible bafflers and repellers of good intentions, have I frequently seen, in painfully loathsome and inauspicious numbers, on both sides of each of the three great Americas, North America, South America, and Central America. I speak of negroes, mulattoes, Indians, Chinese, and other obviously inferior races of mankind, whose colors are black or brown, but never white; and whose mental and moral characteristics are no less impure and revolting than their swarthy complexions.
Thus, Hinton R. Helper, the “Southern outcast” as his biographer called him, who counted as friends such men as the abolitionist Cassius Clay of Kentucky and Lincoln’s secretary of state William H. Seward, sets the stage for the follow-up to the controversial Impending Crisis. Nojoque was just as controversial, but in a much different way.
Like his previous book, Nojoque begins with a statement of a problem. This time, it was the mistake the United States had made, once the slaves had been freed, of not immediately colonizing them.
The book consists of 11 chapters, some of whose titles are juxtaposed against each another, such as, “Black: A Thing Of Ugliness, Disease, and Death” versus “White: A Thing Of Life, Health, and Beauty” and “White Celebrities, and Black Nobodies.”
Chapter I, “The Negro, Anthropologically Considered: An Inferior Fellow Done For,” is essentially a survey of what are known today as “scientific racists,” though in the 19th century they were mainstream. These included Georges Cuvier (The Animal Kingdom, 1817), Samuel George Morton (Crania Americana, 1839), Hermann Burmeister (The Black Man, 1853), Louis Agassiz (“The Plan of Creation,” 1847), and others.
The chapter begins with a question:
What is the best and only true remedy for the present and prospective troubles now brewing in the United States, between the White People and the negroes?
Answer. An absolute and eternal separation of the two.
Helper proceeds to explain why he considers separation necessary, focusing on the biological nature of blacks and their differences from whites, citing then-recognized scientific authorities.
One of those scientists, Hermann Burmeister of the Argentine Museum of Natural History and former professor of zoology at the University of Halle, Germany, had become a personal friend in Buenos Aires. Prof. Burmeister would become a major influence, and this Chapter I is peppered with quotes from him. The two exchanged a series of letters, a few of which have survived, and some are partially reproduced in Nojoque. In one, the consul remarked to the professor that, of those Africans he met, many were suffering from physical ailments. He noted that, when hospitalized, they were “far less likely to come out alive and well than white patients.” He goes on to wonder whether “there is an ever-obvious and uncheckable tendency on the part of blacks, when put entirely upon their own resources . . . to decrease, to die, to disappear?” He then adds, “Why is it that the negroes are so rapidly falling a prey to every manner of fatal affliction? Is it not because Nature is becoming impatient to close her account with them?”
The German replied that the observed frailty of blacks was “new proof that . . . the negro race is inferior to the white race.”
At that time, there was a growing belief in America that if blacks were left to themselves, they would simply disappear because of this alleged frailty. Neither man was the first to voice the idea. An 1863 article called “The Destiny of the African Race in the United States” by the president of Illinois College declared that, after emancipation, the Negro would be pushed into a “lower stratum”:
The consequence is inevitable. He will either never marry, or he will, in the attempt to support a family, struggle in vain against the laws of nature, and his children, many of them at least, die in infancy. . . . Like his brother the Indian of the forest, he must melt away and disappear forever from the midst of us.
The theory that blacks — at least in the Western world — would disappear remained prevalent throughout the century. Even today, a “black mortality gap” persists, though it is invariably blamed on white racism.
Chapter II, “Black: A Thing of Ugliness, Disease, and Death,” continues Helper’s discussion of the Negro race in cultural rather than scientific terms. He cites Homer, Shakespeare, Milton, and others who associate the color black with all things bad, and which Helper sees as symbolic of evil. He writes that even blacks share this view:
The writer hereof has frequently heard his father’s negroes (in North Carolina, near the banks of the South Yadkin) when disagreeing among themselves, tauntingly call each other “nigger,” “black rascal,” “crow-colored scoundrel,” and numerous other epithets of similar sable softness. He also recollects very distinctly, that, on one occasion, when, in his boyhood, he himself called Jack a nigger. Jack, who was also youthful, became quite indignant, and said that, as his mother Judy had told him, there was no nigger except the devil, “For mammy say,” said he, “for mammy say de debble am black for all de time, and can nebber be wash white; and for dat reezun de debble am a nigger; but we slabes is black only in dis prezzen worle; in de nex worle, we is gwine to be white fokes too! You see den dat we’s not niggers.”
In Chapter III, “White: A Thing of Life, Health, and Beauty,” Helper cites religious, literary, and other figures hailing the aesthetics of the color white.
Chapter IV shifts gears with an essay on “The Servile Baseness and Beggary of the Blacks,” in which he argues that the black race is suited for slavery, however much he despises the institution. He writes:
To be a slave of the white man, yet, if possible to be a slave exempt from the necessity of labor, has always been the ruling ambition of the negro not less so now than it was four thousand years ago . . . .
He cites many antebellum newspaper accounts of emancipated slaves eagerly returning to their masters. He also writes of a young white abolitionist in North Carolina who went about preaching abolition to enslaved Negroes in the piedmont but was turned on by his would-be beneficiaries. He quotes from an 1859 item in a Raleigh newspaper:
We learn from a friend that a man who says his name is John D. Williams has been arrested and confined in Hillsborough jail, on a charge of tampering with slaves. He is about 25 years of age, and is traveling as a book-agent. He was twice betrayed by slaves to whom he communicated his Abolition sentiments. He was still in jail on the 3d. We would not be surprised to hear that he has been lynched. He no doubt will be, if he should not leave as soon as he is turned out of jail. [Emphasis in the original]
Helper also cites many reports of slaves volunteering on the Confederate side to “fight the Abolitionists.”
It is in Chapter V, “Removals – Banishments – Expulsions – Exterminations,” that Nojoque considers possible solutions to the Negro problem. Helper begins with a thought experiment: What would be the proper response if a tyrant forced barnyard swine into society? Should not the people rise up, topple the tyrant, and forcibly remove the swine?
Just like pigs, blacks should be removed as far as possible:
[The negro] should never, under any circumstances whatever, be permitted to reside in greater proximity to white people than the distance which separates Cuba from the United States; if the distance could be lengthened to the extent of one thousand miles, so much the better; if, in point of duration, rather than in point of space, the distance could be lengthened from now to the end of time, (supposing such an end possible,) better still.
Blacks should, according to Helper, ultimately be removed from “all the exterior parts of the earth.” And that applies not only to blacks but to “the mulattoes, the Indians, the Chinese . . . and all the other swarthy drones and dregs of mankind.”
Helper cites as an example of removal the government’s relocation of the Indian, whom he regards as “a very miserable fellow” that nevertheless “is a nobleman in comparison with the negro.” Indians, he says, are a disappearing race, perishing from contact with their natural superiors, the whites. So let it be with blacks. But first, he insists, they must be removed. In defense of that idea, he quotes Thomas Jefferson’s famous statement:
Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free; nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live under the same government. Nature, habit, opinion, have drawn indelible lines of distinction between them. It is still in our power to direct the process of emancipation and deportation, peaceably, and in such slow degree, as that the evil will wear off insensibly, and their place be, pari passu, filled up by free white laborers.
According to Helper, history is replete with examples of removal.
- The Tarquins were expelled from Rome 2,377 years ago.
- In 1290, the Jews were expelled from England.
- In 1492, Spain’s King Ferdinand ordered 800,000 Jews expelled from Spain.
Those expelled tended to wither and die, says Helper, and so will blacks and Indians. He quotes then-senator James Doolittle of Wisconsin, who, after noting that in the 1860s nearly a million blacks had perished in the South, said: “Verily, the Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord”!
Like most of his contemporaries, Hinton Rowan Helper was a Christian. Born into a Lutheran family, he joined a Presbyterian congregation as a young man. Chapter VI of Nojoque hearkens back to that faith, citing “a score of Bible lessons in the arts of annihilating effete races.” These 20 lessons “will fully explain the Hebrew account of God’s method of ridding the world of those glaringly abortive and worthless races who, like the negroes, the Indians, and all the bi-colored fag-ends of mankind, have ceased to have a useful mission outside the superficies of this terrestrial ball.”
Each lesson is a single passage from the Old Testament. Lesson 14 is Obadiah 1:15–16:
The day of the Lord is near upon all the heathen;
Yea, they shall drink, and they shall swallow down,
And they shall be as though they had not been.
Helper explains that his purpose is not “to deal with the negroes in such summary and sanguinary manner as the Lord God of Israel . . . [because] it would certainly not be proper for us to incur the labor and the responsibility of a quick and indiscriminate extermination of the blacks.” Instead, he writes that God Himself “is actually pleading with us for the privilege to exterminate them by means of the more gentle and beneficent agencies of nature.”
In other words, remove them from among us and let nature take its course.
As Helper explains in Chapter VII, “The United States of America: A White Man Power,” he was a strong unionist throughout the War between the States. He considered his enemy both the slave and the slavemaster, and saw secession as treason. This chapter reprints letters and essays he wrote during and immediately after the war, condemning Confederate leaders but also excoriating blacks, whose importation he regarded as the war’s ultimate cause.
Shortly after the war broke out, he proposed the following Union “war cry”:
Death to Slavery!
Down with the Slaveholders!
Away with the Negroes!
Although Helper made suitable gestures welcoming the “traitors” back into the union, his tone is largely Union-triumphalist. After welcoming the misguided slaveholder back into the fold, he draws a line:
With [the negro] we must come to no terms; with him we must have neither part nor lot. No, no; of the matchless crime of his blackness and slavery and stupidity and self-imposed despicableness, there can be no forgiveness this side the grave; I beg the reader’s pardon; I meant to have said this side the gully, this side the gutter, this side the Gulf of Mexico, or this side the Gulf of Guinea! As thoroughly and as speedily as possible must the negro be fossilized; and then, by the better students of natural history, shall his bleaching bones be held equally sacred with the wire-strung skeletons of his first-cousin congeners, the gorilla and the baboon!
In Chapter VIII, “Thirteen Kindred Pages from The Impending Crisis,” the author again quotes himself, but goes on to view the outcome of the war as not only divinely providential but also as a personal vindication — even though Radical Republicans were even then plotting changes he could not abide, such as enfranchising black men.
In Chapter IX, “White Celebrities and Black Nobodies,” Helper is reduced to compiling lists. The first is a seemingly endless compilation of political leaders, soldiers, philosophers, poets, actors (he includes “Booth,” but this must be the brother or father; for John Wilkes, Helper had little sympathy), even distinguished women, insurers, underwriters, and auctioneers. Among the “Black Nobodies,” there is . . . no one. The whole thing is silly, but for him, it was no joke.
Chapter X, “Spanish and Portuguese America,” returns to a topic of more substance, contrasting the relative success of North America to the relative failure of the nations to its south. Helper identifies Catholicism as the primary obstacle faced by those nations, and he blames that religion for attracting a mélange of colored races. He quotes liberally from one Vicente Pazos of an earlier generation, a Peruvian who had studied for the priesthood but eventually saw through “the superstitions and corruptions of Romanism” and renounced the faith. In a series of letters to Henry Clay, from which Helper quotes, Fr. Pazos exposed “the monstrous and glaring villainies of Catholicism.”
This interesting material gives the modern reader some insight into the anti-Catholic ideology of the time. Helper praises republicanism and condemns popery, which he regards as republicanism’s natural enemy.
Republicanism is something very good. Catholicism is something very bad. Prominent among the regular attendants of Republicanism, are Knowledge, Truth, Virtue, Peace, Power, Prosperity, and Progress. Prominent among the regular attendants of Catholicism, are Ignorance, Falsehood, Vice, War, Weakness, Adversity, and Retrogression.
The chapter ends with a list of recommendations. Briefly, South American whites must throw off monarchy and Catholicism. As colorful as ever, he calls papists pismires (i.e., ants):
The pismires here referred to, are two-legged pismires, frail-limbed, and weak-headed, and are more diversified in color than Joseph’s coat the very dull and deleterious colors peculiar to negroes, Indians, and non-white hybrids, being predominant. In the immediate fossilization of all these pismires, and in the complete extinguishment of the Roman Catholic religion, the most pressing and important interests of both Heaven and Earth would be promoted.
In Chapter XI, “The Future of Nations,” Helper looks to the future and again quotes himself liberally. This time the main passage is from a kind of manifesto that he had written in 1865 on behalf of American Southerners then living in Argentina. It proclaims the group’s acceptance of the War’s outcome and then goes on to review world history to determine what has gone wrong up to now. Finally, he offers recommendations to the world’s whites.
Whites have erred, he maintains, in failing to unify. Allowing their nations to be splintered into tiny principalities and fiefdoms has long hindered the advancement of the race toward its destiny of world dominion. Consequently, he says the world’s whites must remake their countries into an alliance of relatively few, more populous nations. Those nations should all be republics — monarchies having been abolished — and Protestant; Catholicism being likewise abolished. He counts about 110 independent countries and suggests re-constituting them into no more than two dozen larger states.
Here are some of his proposed unions:
- To Russia, give Sweden and Norway.
- To Germany, give Switzerland, Holland, and Denmark.
- To Austria-Hungary, give European Turkey and Greece.
- Great Britain should retain all its Asian and African possessions and receive all “out-of-the-way” islands of the world, except the West Indies (which go to the United States) and those near Australia. Scotland and Wales to remain in Britain, though “the Catholic curse of Ireland” should be “obliterated.”
In North America, the United States would consume the entire continent, from the Bering Strait to Panama, along with Cuba, Haiti, Jamaica, Puerto Rico and all the West Indies.
South America should be divided into only three countries: Colombia, Brazil, and Argentina, each absorbing its closest neighbors.
Control over the rest of the world — Africa, Asia, and Australia — would be divided among the principal white nations: the United States, Britain, and Germany. The total number of world nations in his plan would be 21, each a Protestant republic excluding all Roman Catholics and other “booby-brained bigots.”
Hinton Rowan Helper ends with a triumphant flourish:
From America quickly must the negro take his departure; from every part of the world must the Indian and the bi-colored hybrid soon hie away. No new golden age, general jubilee, no Eden-like millennium, no prolonged period of uninterrupted peace and joy, until in the total absence of all the swarthy and inferior races of men, the happy time thus contemplated shall be ushered in amidst the rapturous melody of a grand and universal chorus of the Whites!
Reading Nojoque is like stepping from a time machine into a strange and almost impossible land. Hinton Rowan Helper was a paradox. A lover of the South who spent most of his life in exile and an ardent abolitionist who despised the enslaved race, he wrote with a vitriol seldom matched either then or now. His language is so harsh and unforgiving that one imagines he was writing only for effect. Yet he was serious. The book is quite literally “no joke.”
For modern readers, the first chapter, “The Negro, Anthropologically Considered: An Inferior Fellow Done For,” and the final chapter, “The Future of Nations,” are probably the most interesting. The first admirably surveys the “scientific racism” of its time. The last describes a potential white utopia, which however far-fetched it appears today, might once have been possible.
Helper went on to publish two more books in quick succession: The Negroes in Negroland (1868) and Noonday Exigencies in America (1871). As with Nojoque, neither enjoyed the success of Impending Crisis. Soon Helper’s writing career was at an end, except for a few documents, generally having to do with a proposed intercontinental railway project he championed in later years. As with the plans and recommendations he proposed in Nojoque, that project failed, and on March 9, 1909, aged 79, Hinton Rowan Helper turned on the gas in his boardinghouse room in Washington, DC, and deliberately ended a largely frustrated life.
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Amazing. Very interesting.
Of course, such visions would be totally taboo and there is a good chance his last remaining books being burned. Digital copies must be preserved outside Amazon and Google to make sure they will not be destroyed too.
We race realists can agree with him, but all others will despise Helper’s “racism”. The truth is “racist” and #HateFacts are taboo. Even with ample scientific and statistical evidence that scientifically prove Helper’s opinions, the FACTS underlying Helper’s opinions must not be told.
We must fight for our rights to #TrueSpeech, to speak factually true facts of life.
I have a dream. I wish to see the day when our children can read Helper’s books in school assignments!
“Absolute and eternal separation of the two.”
Perfectly correct.
Helper’s hostility to blacks is proof enough of his own prescription. And since our elites — with their exclusive zip codes and gated communities — seem to be in complete agreement with him, why is separation not first on our list of national priorities?
It’s like Rudolph Hess preincarnated.
The notion that the New England Yankees’ opposition to slavery was motivated by altruism is false. The Yankee heart is a stone cold shriveled excuse for a soul. His motivations are greed and an insatiable lust for power over other people. But he always tries to clothe his vice in a mantle of virtue, so that he may do evil while calling it good.
Thanks for this interesting feature. It’s often forgotten that antislavery activism began in the south. 137 of the first 150 antislavery societies were formed below the Mason-Dixon Line. The motivation was unequivocally that the presence of Africans in America posed a grave threat to white people. Jefferson, perhaps, said it best, speaking of the daily fear of the “alarum bell in the night” that would signal the slaveholders’ ultimate terror, “servile insurrection.” The watchword in the old south was “Santo Domingo”, for the bloody 1791 massacre of whites in Haiti by successfully rebelling slaves. After the Nat Turner murders forty years later, the Virginia legislature was overwhelmed with ‘memorials” (petitions) from citizens to end slavery and expel all blacks from the state, free or slave, and nearly voted to do so.
Historians generally sanitize the account of American opposition to slavery, as part of the “feel good” fictionalizing of our past, making it appear to conform to current notions of morality. There was little concern for what moderns think of as “human rights.” The centerpiece of the slaveholder PR campaign was that they had generously brought knowledge of Christianity to the ignorant savage; surely a lifetime of unpaid labor was just recompense for the gift of eternal life. Opposition was also deeply based on the morally corrosive effect of holding so much power unaccountably over others; it must inevitably degrade the master. Even the ardent secessionist Mary Chestnut confided to her famous diary her disgust at having to receive her Confederate Senator husband in their bedroom “reeking of the wench” he kept in the slave quarters for his own private entertainment. In fact, the highest prices realized at slave auction were not for strong field hands but for light-skinned teenage girls. And the nearly universal belief of black racial inferiority stemmed largely from black men’s meekness in tolerating the yoke of slavery, and, worse, of the indecencies inflicted by “the chivalry” on their wives and mothers and sisters and daughters. “Live free or die” was once not just an empty slogan on a license plate.
It’s also forgotten that the Republican Party platform of 1860 contained a pledge not to interfere in any way with slavery where state law gave it legal existence. Plank Eight, however, stated that no judicial body could pretend the authority to legalize the extension of slavery into territories where it had never previously existed. And this was in accord with the wishes of the great majority of the American electorate, to keep the race problem contained to the south. The pernicious concept of “popular sovereignty” to add the Midwest to the slave empire was concocted by the ambitious “Little Giant,” Lincoln’s debating opponent Stephen Douglas, a short, vain man who desperately wanted the presidency. But as a Democrat, he could not hope to secure the nomination without surrendering to the powerful slaveholder lobby that controlled the party, with the connivance of the immensely corrupt northern big city Democratic Party machines. They held majorities in the Supreme Court, both houses of Congress, and had long controlled the White House. Loss of this domination, in a free and fair election, was the precipitate cause for the terrible war. In the words of one contemporary statesman, Robert Winthrop, “Let us remember we are not engaged in a war of the North against the South, but in a war of the nation against those who have risen up to destroy it.”
Such bullshit comes from the Jewish Revolutionary Movement known as Protestantism. Maybe if the Church which was founded by Jesus Christ hadn’t been subverted by the pseudo-Christian Judaizers the Church would have been in a stronger position to resist the (((wrecking ball))) of Western/Christian Civilization.
I’m afraid Hinton Rowan Helper was “an old-fashioned-segregationist” as they used to be called down South.
Could you :imagine: If we could retrieve this man with a time machine and drop him off in 2023 Philedelphia? It would be like that scene with Chalton Heston at the Statue of Liberty in the movie, ‘The Planet of The Apes’, where Heston pounded the sand and repeatedly exclaimed, “Damn you Bastards!”, but at the Liberty Bell instead. He’d probably beat it so hard it get another crack. It would be more epic than Tuco’s rant in ‘The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly’.
What was tragic was his views not having become mainstream.
Observator: “There was little concern for what moderns think of as “human rights.””
I wouldn’t say that. Rather, the reverse. For what is the most important “human right”? Isn’t it the “right” to life itself? To his great misfortune, the white man always respected the negro’s right to life, or at least, always hallucinated one existed. Thus, instead of exterminating him, he made the negro his Christian brother. The gift of citizenship and the vote quickly followed, as was only fair and logical. As for the pipe dream of “colonization”, it was fervently hoped by some that all the negroes would volunteer to leave. This absurd and vain aspiration was the extent of the white man’s plan to dispose of his now obsolete farm equipment. How puzzling it must have been to these dreamers when few of the negroes chose to depart! LOL
The Christian H.R. Helper isn’t much better than your run-of-the-mill abolitionist in this regard. His opinion that they would naturally diminish and go extinct on their own is just more pie in the sky Christian happy talk, and an evasion of responsibility to future generations. I wonder if he ever realized that, and if the realization played a role in his eventual suicide.
Observator: “The centerpiece of the slaveholder PR campaign was that they had generously brought knowledge of Christianity to the ignorant savage; surely a lifetime of unpaid labor was just recompense for the gift of eternal life. ”
I laughed out loud when I read that.
Yes, making the negro the slavemaster’s brother in Christ was a brilliant move alright! An historic own goal if ever there was one.
Argentina doesn’t have a lot of Blacks. More Indians and Browns. Well, I think they have some Haitians now.
His geopolitical, imperialistic views are absurd. He would probably be a friend of the neocons these days.
He seemed to hate Catholics more than Blacks, not a novelty among a certain subset of Anglo Protestants.
LOL. Darwin also predicted the demise of the darker races, and yet here we are. It’s more likely now that whites could disappear because of their own weaknesses.
Too bad for him, but in the end he doesn’t seem to be the greatest spokesmen for White people, and perhaps there’s a reason he was mostly forgotten? Still, I think I’ve read a few pages of Negros in Negroland, which was funny in a way. Or depressing, I forget which.
While it might be tempting to fantasize about wiping out or letting other races “hie away”, a more wholistic and harmonious view of the world and its races sees a human body with whites as its head and blacks as its seed and Asians occupying many areas in between.
The Earth—save Antarctica, perhaps—has always supported plants and animals and humans of different varieties based on climactic and regional differences. That’s what makes for a healthy and stable world. Nordic Whites have historically inhabited a very small portion of the northern hemisphere (compare them with the Asiatics of Siberia) probably because the aqueous boundaries surrounding modern-day Scandinavia allowed their recessive genes a place to flourish in a cold climate. Compare that to the crown of someone’s head.
The demise the darker races is virtually guaranteed when you look at the water scarcity situation in India, ME and Africa. Even many lighter races (such as Chinese) are threatened by it.
Not to mention the rising number of hot days and which exacerbates the former. Crops are dying globally and the global south is getting poorer.
In what alternate reality is that “harmonious”? In almost all measurements, whites will fall between Asians and Blacks, as noted by JP Rushton. The majority of white countries are poorer and less competent than Asian countries. Eastern Europe and Southeastern Europe are essentially at the Latin American level of development. This becomes even more markedly apparent if we exclude the United States and Canada as white countries based on their heavy reliance on Asian skilled workers.
You don’t have a clue what you’re talking about. The “Nordic race” historically inhabited much of South/Central Asia and tbe middle east, and also Siberia. They left a hefty genetic impact there.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongolia
Noridcs aren’t “recessive”. Their pigmentary traits are the result of SNP copy counts not a recessive off/on switch.
There’s no small irony to someone named H.R. Helper doing “the right thing” for the actual right reason, to enhance the value of White human capital.
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Robert Winthrop was full of it up to his ears. The southern states did not “rise up to destroy the nation.” They seceded from a political union. The nation existed before the Union was a twinkle in Lincoln’s eye, and continued after the states had seceded. Winthrop, like all Yankee fanatics, confused the government with the nation. And like self-righteous fanatics everywhere, he projected his own aggression and power-lust onto the motives of his opponents. What a sickening distortion of reality. The southerners didn’t declare war on the Union, the Union declared war on them. For the made-up crime of secession.
This has been talked about for well over a hundred years, and things are only worse. Don’t talk…do.
non-slaveholding whites, whom he saw as slavery’s principal victims, because it cheapened honest manual labor
Excellent point. I suppose it explains why the American quasi-socialist Left has always had a soft spot for Southern white labouring folk, and has dedicated itself to improving their position.
If not, why not?
This is a ludicrous article completely unworthy of UNZ. Never heard of this guy Helper. I would love to know if he had anything to say about The Jews. In any case there was no movement or support for the deportation of the former slaves; none of them wanted to leave and asking the former slaveholders to deport them would be the same as asking them to deport every mule, ox, horse, steam locomotive and shovel in the South. The former slaves were a valuable human resource which former Confederates like Nathan Bedford Forrest and Jefferson Davis hoped to organise and once again be productive agricultural workers.
Lincoln was assassinated not because he had freed the slaves but because he was conspiring with Great Britain to resettle them in Central America.
Few of the Northern abolitionists respected Negroes as equals. Certainly John Brown didn’t cede command to any. Years ago I visited a stop on the underground railroad in Pennsylvania; a tobacco barn had secret bunks built into it. Each space was fitted with shackles to control the ‘unruly’ slaves—apparently they were in chains all the way to Canada.
Protestantism, in the form as Dr Martin Luther formulated it, was emancipation from papal dogma and turning to personal responsibility towards God. The author had studied Latin, Greek and Hebrew and translated the Bible into his mother tongue, which was strictly forbidden at that time, because the interpretation of the Holy Scriptures had to be done by the respective pastor, just as it is still done today by the imam for the Koran and the rabbi for the Torah and Talmud. Through his preoccupation with the latter two, Martin Luther developed a thorough dislike of Judaism, which is why he is accused of anti-Semitism today.
If I remember correctly, there was ethnic cleansing in Argentina, with most black people fleeing to Brazil. My father, who travelled a lot in South America in the 1970s, told me about it, but didn’t give a source. On the internet you can only find something like this:
https://face2faceafrica.com/article/how-black-people-were-eliminated-in-argentina-throughout-history
Italy. An African kills a cat and roasts it in the street to eat…
One of his descendants, Jerry Helper along with Jerry’s wife Millie Helper, née Bazilly lived next door to Rob and Laura Petrie in New Rochelle, NY in the early 1960s.
“Nojoque” ?= “No Joke”
Let us not forget that During the War of Northern Aggression, a.k.a. The Great Unpleasantness, the Union had slave states: Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri, and after 1863, the new state of West Virginia. West Virginians fought both for the Union (32,000) and the Confederacy (18,000).
“an ardent abolitionist who despised the enslaved race” The solution is to send all aspiring rappers, medical students and nuclear physicists… not to Liberia because what has Liberia done to us? But to Antarctica, and from time to time if we remember we can send them some food. If not, penguins gotta eat same as worms.
Taney’s decision has been turned on its head: “The white man has no rights that the Negro is bound to respect.”
Sure. The Church founded by Christ, the Roman Catholic Church— nb: Ss. Peter and Paul went to Rome— existed before the Gospels were even written.
The Roman Catholic Church holds the Bible in highest esteem, after all, it is her book.
The Holy Bible is even more inseparable from Christ’s True Church than the U.S. Constitution is inseparable from America and its people.
Holy Mother Church, the Roman Catholic Church, alone infallibly determined the canon of scripture. And she alone was commissioned by Christ to be her interpreter. Not some misfit German Augustinian priest who advocated “sinning frequently and boldly 15 centuries after the Christ’s death.
Just consider this fact. For 15 centuries there was only one Church, the Apostolic Church, East (Orthodox) and West (Catholic)*.
*Nonetheless, Ss. Peter and Paul went to Rome, not Constantinople.
Again, race-ism is true and awesome
Asians are, in general, more clever than whites but they often lack an overall modus vivendi for being so. Their civilization is characterized by enduring stability, just like a beating heart (!!), but lacks the dynamism of white societies.
(And as far as Eastern Europe is concerned, who is the Smetana of Japan? Who is the Dvorak of Thailand? There are none because they lack the inspiration for these kinds of artists. Their music makes contributions by reflecting the source in slightly different ways, going around and around again.)
If the rest of the world fell off a cliff, traditional China wouldn’t bat an eye. That still applies in many respects today.
Sorry, my knowledge of genetics doesn’t extend beyond ninth grade biology class and a brief swing through the world of Gregor Mendel so I have no idea what you’re talking about in regards to SNP.
But in terms of phenotypic expression, wouldn’t you agree that white traits are subsumed into those of other ethnic groups after just a few generations of mixing? Folks east of the Urals certainly wouldn’t be mistaken for Swedes or even Belorussians but could be swapped out for Chinese ethnic minorities.
You drop a little chocolate into vanilla ice cream and no matter how much more vanilla you add, it’s still no longer vanilla and the opposite is not true. Or am I wrong? Do the blue-eyed Sicilians prove me wrong and harken to your SNP?
If I understand you correctly, white genetic expression endures but whites reproduce at a lower rate than other ethnic groups and hence the former’s genetic imprint gets lost.
In an odd juxtaposition, on US 17 you cross over the Combahee River on the Harriet Tubman Bridge. Adjoining that bridge to the south is the DeNemours (DuPont) Plantation.
“the fact that slavery brought Africans into contact with whites became an additional reason for him to oppose slavery.”
This was also a major reason for Northern hostility to slavery. See section of the following on Pennsylvania and crime.
http://slavenorth.com/
Unless I’m mistaken, Constantinople didn’t even exist at the time of Peter and Paul, since it was founded centuries later by the emperor Constantinus.
Very poetic and interesting vision.
Another CCP troll whose ethnic sensitivities have been touched.
Inversions of reality, grotesque lies, how refreshing to read this guy, Helper, when, and with his contemporaries, he places the unsufferable Chinese in the same lot as all the other non-whites.
Your essentially irrelevant pissing contest with Mosafer is a perfect example of the distractions within DaChurchian community that nullify our salt and light and have led to the destruction of Western Civilization.
Get to work – https://crushlimbraw.blogspot.com/2023/04/jesus-christ-to-his-church-do-your-job.html?m=0 – and do your job!
That would have required a national population that was 1) not given over to delusions of egalitarianism, 2) capable of critical thinking, 3) truly in control of its governing classes, and 4) willing to do the hard and often unpleasant work required to rid itself of the negro presence and ensure the existence of a viable White society firmly grounded in Western Christian values. Clearly the United States of America does not have and never has had such a population in the majority.
One need only make a brief visit to what passes for a “Christian church” in the niggroe community to realize that, like everything else the White man foolishly tried to teach him, the niggroe not only is incapable of absorbing complex abstract knowledge, but corrupts whatever little of it he has absorbed, debasing it and bringing it down to the animalistic level that is the only thing he is capable of. The niggroe’s perversion of Christianity is as thorough as that wrought by the Roman pagan Constantine in the Fourth Century, albeit with less profound historical consequences.
I can already hear Taney from beyond the grave: “I told you so, you fucking fools!”
My reply to Mosafer was directed at you, but mistakenly sent to him – my bad. However, it was intended for both of you!
My clumsy manual dexterity often fails me at the worst time – sorry for the confusion!
That African should have immigrated to China, he’d be a Michelin 4-star Chef by now.
Jorge Luis Borges mentions the disappearance of the once large negro population in Buenos Aires in a conversation with Paul Theroux recounted in Theroux’s book, The Old Patagonian Express. IIRC, he said Buenos Aires was once 25% black and he didn’t know what happened to them.
Wonder what the Asian take on Abolition was/is…
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The odd thing is the truism that blacks don’t eat pussy.
There is a certain logic in Mr. Helper’s position. Blacks were imported originally and encouraged to procreate to be used as slaves. Therefore, slavery was the cause of the large number of blacks in the South. The way to solve the problem of living with a despised race and the economically irrational system they supported was to abolish slavery and re-colonize the blacks elsewhere (a position supported by none other than Abraham Lincoln). The slaveholders were, of course, the main opponents of such a policy, which would mean the abolition of their wealth and privileged positions also. In fairness to those opposed, such a policy would have been difficult and expensive and quite likely impractical. Once a large number off people are imported to a land, you are usually stuck with them for good or ill.
“the U.S. Constitution is inseparable from America and its people.”
The US Constitution was separated from the people by 1861.
You do talk some nonsense. So they had a cult. Underage sex partners (’twas ever and ’tis ever thus), Peter the Denier and Paul the closeted homosexual and genocider. Fuck Rome, fuck the Bible, fuck the Catholic Church. The NT is a clumsy (read “FAILED”) attempt to get the story straight. The several “Creeds” are bullshit. The current Pope like Popes before him supports and abets child molestation. Jews and Muslims are no better.
The original name of Constantinople was Byzantium. Constantine did not create the city. Apparently, it became known as Constantinople only after Constantine’s lifetime.
“Lincoln was assassinated not because he had freed the slaves but because he was conspiring with Great Britain to resettle them in Central America.”
Do you have any sources that validate this statement?
First of all it is disgusting!
“Crisis was addressed to and concerned chiefly with non-slaveholding whites, whom he saw as slavery’s principal victims, because it cheapened honest manual labor, confining it to the low-born.”
The so-called low-born have been re-branded by that douchebag, Crooked Hillary, as the Deplorables. The poor White Christians of the Anglo-American stock continue to suffer at the hands of neocons and the neo-coons.
One of the best posts I’ve read in this place in quite a while.
Like all regional/ethnic groups there are certainly exceptions, but in general regarding the Yankee, you are certainly correct.
The War of Northern Aggression was almost entirely motivated by greed and the desire to bring the whole American nation under the heel of the Federal Government. Which is of course why a large portion of the Union Army and it’s leadership was made up of Marxist 48’ers.
The Yankees share many striking similarities with Jews.
Fight is what the organ grinders want the monkeys to do. Much better to secede. Self assort.
If productive people left the parasites of the north, the northern US would become the South Africa of the northern hemisphere.
“The poor White Christians of the Anglo-American stock continue to suffer at the hands of neocons and the neo-coons.”
The suffer from a pathological love of “their” government.
THE BLACK HOLOCAUST
JOHN W. FOUNTAIN
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Imagine Soldier Field beyond capacity, brimming with 63,879 young African-American men, ages 18 to 24 — more than U.S. losses in the entire Vietnam conflict. Imagine the University of Michigan’s football stadium — the largest in the U.S. — filled to its limit of 109,901 with black men, age 25 and older. Now add 28,223 more — together totaling more than U.S. deaths in World War I.
Picture two UIC Pavilions packed with 12,658 Trayvon Martins — black boys, ages 14 to 17 — nearly twice the number of U.S. lives lost in Iraq and Afghanistan. Now picture all of them dead. The national tally of black males 14 and older murdered in America from 1976 through 2005, according to U.S. Bureau of Justice statistics: 214,661. The numbers tell only part of the story of this largely urban war, where the victims bear an uncanny resemblance to their killers. A war of brother against brother, filled with wanton and automatic gunfire, even in the light of day, on neighborhood streets, where little boys make mud pies, schoolgirls jump rope, where the innocent are caught in the crossfire, where the spirit of murder blows like the wind. It is, so far, a ceaseless war in which guns are often the weapon of choice, and the finger on the trigger of the gun pointed at a black male is most often another black male’s.
The numbers alone are enough to make me cry — to wonder why — we as African Americans will march en masse over one slain by someone who is not black, and yet sit silent over the hundreds of thousands of us obliterated from this mortal world by someone black like us, like me. It is a numbing truth borne out by hard facts: From 1980 through 2008, 93% of black victims were killed by blacks. Translation: For every Trayvon Martin killed by someone not black, nine other blacks were murdered by someone black.
In 2005, — blacks — accounted for 13% of the U.S. population but 49% of all homicides. The numbers are staggering, the loss incomprehensible. Add to the tally of black males 14 and older slain across the country from 1976 to 2005, another 29,335 (slain from 2006 to 2010), and their national body count rises to 243,996, representing 82% of all black homicides for that 35-year period. What also becomes clear is this: We too often have raised killers. And this war is claiming our sons. But that’s still not the end of the story. Add to that number 51,892 black females ages 14 and older, plus five whose gender was not identifiable, and the total, not counting children, is 295,893 — more than the combined U.S. losses of World War I, the Vietnam, Korean and Mexican-American wars, the War of 1812 and the American Revolutionary War.
Is the blood of these sons and daughters somehow less American? Two hundred ninety-five thousand eight hundred ninety-three . . . Imagine the United Center, Wrigley Field, U.S. Cellular Field and Soldier Field nearly all filled simultaneously with black boys, girls, men and women. Now imagine that twice over. Now imagine them all dead. As far as I can see, that’s at least 295,893 reasons to cry. And it is cause enough for reticent churches, for communities, for lackadaisical leaders, for all people — no matter our race, color or creed — to find the collective will and the moral resolve to stamp out this human rights atrocity occurring right under our noses. Just imagine the human carnage and the toll to us all if we don’t.
I can’t. I won’t.
JOHN W. FOUNTAIN
The Negro-Saxon is an insect race lower than the despicable kikes. It is funny and fitting that God Almighty is writing these Sub-Humans out of existence. Very deserving!
“Catholic curse of Ireland…”
HAHA
The delicious bonus that will come with the extinction of the Negro-Saxon is that all of these weird, freaking post 15th century (((protestant))) abomination will be gone also.
It must have been fascinating, had Helper ever turned his pen to the subject of (the) Jews.
Well, others have, fortunately, and done so with considerable reference to (the) Whites.
What’s disgusting?
‘Argentina doesn’t have a lot of Blacks. More Indians and Browns. Well, I think they have some Haitians now.
His geopolitical, imperialistic views are absurd. He would probably be a friend of the neocons these days.
He seemed to hate Catholics more than Blacks, not a novelty among a certain subset of Anglo Protestants.
At that time, there was a growing belief in America that if blacks were left to themselves, they would simply disappear because of this alleged frailty.
LOL. Darwin also predicted the demise of the darker races, and yet here we are. It’s more likely now that whites could disappear because of their own weaknesses.
Hinton Rowan Helper turned on the gas in his boardinghouse room in Washington, DC, and deliberately ended a largely frustrated life.
Too bad for him, but in the end he doesn’t seem to be the greatest spokesmen for White people, and perhaps there’s a reason he was mostly forgotten? Still, I think I’ve read a few pages of Negros in Negroland, which was funny in a way. Or depressing, I forget which.’
Thanks
But I contend that the Deep State is trying to divide and conquer the majority population of the US. Their efforts are manifest in the contentiousness of the woke agenda and the other divisive narratives.
This sounds like a worthwhile project. How and where can I contribute? Dead Trayvon Martins? Sign me up!
Don’t eat it or don’t like eating it?
A man with a successful marriage probably goes down occasionally.
“Historians generally sanitize the account of American opposition to slavery, as part of the “feel good” fictionalizing of our past, making it appear to conform to current notions of morality.”
I don’t know what you have in mind when you say “American apposition to slavery.” If the only people that you have in your mind are people who are in leadership role, then you may have a point. However, as you know in any situation and context, people are motivated by so many factors. Your statement only makes you sound stupid if you have in mind only one type of people who are motivated by greed and money when you talk about “American opposition to slavery.”
I have a read a book written by 2 sister abolitionist from the South who left their money and family behind because they couldn’t take it anymore. The immoral behavior of their family was so distasteful to them that they abandoned them all together. And After the slaves were emancipated, they went back to the South and adopted two slaves who themselves become famous: Archibald Grimké and Francis James Grimké.
There’s a parallel between slavery advocates and immigration advocates now. Both want endless cheap labor which drive wages down, in exchange for ruining the future for the rest of us.
It must be the Stockholm Syndrome!
Alright, I’ll say it:
Does the H.R stand for “Hamburger”?
This sad pathetic brilliant man was destroyed by the hate he spewed against others. Exactly as Lord Jesus says: In the measure you measure out to others so will it be measured back to you.
Sounds better in Hebrew: Bamida she’ata moded ken modedim otcha.
Thanks! 👍😊
By the time of the 1776 American Revolution powerful segments of both the Northern and Southern Anglo-Saxon elites and hangers on of British North America had become corrupted by chattel slavery and it’s trade at their own people’s great expense, the vast majority of whom were neither slave holders or traders…indeed, the everyday British colonists, North and South, had had to suffer grievously with this unholy system.
These elites and hangers on had grown accustomed to the great profits made in avoiding paying their own the prevailing real time local rates for labor by importing alien [chattel slave] labor by diktat and employing them instead of one’s own (more of a Southern phenomena) or profiting in the trade of these chattel slaves (more of this in the North).
In the early nineteenth century, in conjunction with the British Empire, the more commercially oriented North monetized* chattel slavery and it’s trade with the introduction by diktat of wage slavery (ie specifically the so called ‘cheap labor’/’mass immigration’ system, the economic and political basis of the modern progressive Multi-Cultural state as modeled by Anglosphere countries), a system whose primary purpose (as not coincidentally with chattel slavery) is to greatly profit by avoiding paying their own the prevailing real time local rates for labor, via the importation of alien labor.
The North wanted a recalcitrant South, where chattel slavery had become entrenched, to give up the antiquated and cumbersome chattel slave system and adopt it’s far more profitable, efficient, and productive** (though far more socially and culturally destructive than the already ghastly chattel slavery system) wage slavery system. However, despite the North’s decades of cajoling, and various ‘compromises’, without guarantees of reimbursement to Southern slave holders for ‘lost property’, which were not forth coming, the Southerners were not budging, and hence, after the breakdown of the compromises and ‘Bleeding Kansas’, the Civil War of 1861-65.
Latter 1850’s Bleeding Kansas is often seen quite correctly as a microcosm of the coming US Civil War. It was here that the Lawrence family of Massachusetts textile factory magnates, the same family whom earlier had financed the construction of Lawrence ‘Immigrant City’, Massachusetts, would also finance the construction of the infamous abolition center of Lawrence, Kansas.
It was the low productivity chattel slaves which picked the Southern cotton, which fed the Northern textile mills. It was felt by the Northern industrialists that the more productive imported alien wage slaves (aka ‘cheap labor’/’immigrants’), whereever they might be from, could do the same work much more productively, and hence much more profitably.
For the typical US citizen, whether North or South, whom neither owned chattel slaves nor imported wage slave ‘immigrants’ to exploit as so called ‘cheap labor’, the US Civil War was a ‘no win’ war, whichever ‘side’ ultimately ‘won’.
* Meaning to distill an economic activity down to it’s financial essence whilst maximizing profits.
** Robert J Walker, the financial representative of the Lincoln administration in London in 1863, taking numerous variables into account effectively calculated that an imported alien wage slave in Massachusetts was four times more productive than an alien chattel slave in South Carolina. These 1863 London economic calculations of Walker’s were republished in the US North in 1864 as a part of a ‘why we fight’ series of articles.
Fabulous comment. Many thanks!
You wrote a fantastic comment and I am in agreement with everything you say. In both of these sentences above the word whom should be who.
The historian David Donald once researched the backround of as many prominent abolitionists as he could find data for. He came to the conclusion that they were principally descended from the commercial class of post-Revolution America, a class that was replaced as the nation’s elite by the industrial magnates of the North and the wealthy slaveholders of the South. The resentment this produced was focused on an attack on slavery and slave owners, as the slave system was the genesis of the textile production which fueled much of the wealth of Northern industrialists. This was in addition to any moral qualms about a system dependent on forced labor. Mr. Donald noted that the abolitionists in America and Britain were concerned with slaves and slavery but indifferent to the exploitation of the industrial workers in both countries, a fact noted by their critics of the time and asomething they share with their current descendants, whose indifference has mutated into outright hostility to the white working class.
That is an interesting angle to explain, at least in part, the motivations of abolitionists. Many don’t quite realize that much of the early US industrialization consisted of textile (ie clothing) manufacturing.
In the quote below from a 1908 book by a woman whose father as a major slave holder in Georgia was one of the self described ‘privileged 4000’ who ruled over the US South prior to the Civil War, she specifically mentions the ‘textile’ aspect of the equation, and that the North’s wage slavery (ie so called ‘cheap labor’/’mass immigration’ system) was simply a more ‘profitable’ way to go about the same business.
https://archive.org/details/wartimejournalof00andr/page/12/mode/1up
‘A question of dollars and cents..’
Chattel slavery and it’s trade set in place a horrible template in British North America, whether by owning or dealing in slaves those who participated in it were selling out their own peoples’ collective future, not to mention the future of their own individual descendants.
The same self destructive template (not coincidentally) remains in place today with the wage slavery (so called ‘cheap labor’) system.
In the below article the largely Euro (ie ‘White’) work force at a 1920’s Texas steel mill was simply replaced enmasse (by a ‘general manager’ named George Washington Armstrong, though who actually owned the plant is left unsaid) with Mexicans when they attempted to strike for better pay. Armstrong ‘doted’ on these Mexican wage slaves with a faux concern just as prior generations doted with a faux concern on their African chattel slaves, having no compassion whatsoever for their own people.
https://news.yahoo.com/mexican-families-overcame-discrimination-found-100000024.html
You can’t serve two masters as they say. And these elites and hangers on chose to serve their slaves (or, more accurately, their money) rather than the interests of their own people.
mosafer (or musafir) hastam = I’m a traveller
GIGANTIC, one of the most important statements on this the most intellectual truth forum on the net:
Here in this video with transcript
https://michael-hudson.com/2023/05/the-arc-of-time-pro-creditor-history/
unparalleled finance historian Michael Hudson explains as covered in his new book
how Constantine and Augustin of Hippo betrayed what Jesus said in his first public sermon (Luke 4:16-30):