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Entry: Un-Killing Whitey: The Achievement of Sam Francis Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/unkilling_whitey_the_achievement_of_sam_francis#1360 Post contents: My, my, what an interesting and revealing set of comments on this article reviewing and praising Sam Francis's life's works. Since I first learned of it, I have asserted that Francis's admiration for the Anglo-Saxon Puritans was the source for the unease with which I had read even much of what I most agreed from his pen. As I have said in comments to other articles on this site, the Anglo-Saxon Puritans were the most self-righteously murderous and culturally destructive spawns of the Reformation; they also were quintesential Judaizers. It seems to me that putting the two together should make it obvious to everyone that any culture that was born of the Anglo-Saxon Puritans (and Yankee culture most assuredly was) would move inexorably toward its ethos: a theologically and culturally philoSemitic, permanently imperialist, revolutionary force trampling down virtually all residuals of Western Christendom. Francis was correct in most of how he saw Lincoln and the original Republican Party (America's original Jacobins with control of government, I assert), but he failed to understand that in promoting much of the Puritan revolution (often from a type of common man's desire to stick it to the landed gentry, which would make him far more like Parson Brownlow and WT Sherman in their hatred of the South's gentry than in the vast, vast majority of antebellum Southerners) he was promoting that which was indispensable to the very rise of Lincoln and the original Republicans that he saw as major blow from which the American Republic has never, and perhaps can never, recover. Sam Francis's blind spot was a major one, for those who come to see the English Puritans their fathers, spiritually and intellectually and culturally and politically, will, however slowly, begin to think and then act just like those they see as their fathers. When the Union won the War Between the States, the myths and identities of New England and, to a lesser extent of Quaker (therefore anti-Trinitarian) PA, became the mandarin myths and identities of a new centralized nation. The new government and Yankee schoolmarms worked tirelessly to force the children of both Scots-Irish Southerners and Catholic immigrants to see themselves as having Puritan fathers. Once those children accpetd such, they would serve the basic goals of that culture. Sam Francis saw many things, but he failed to see the one key thing that rendered the bulk of his work impotent, not merely in terms of popular politics but also in terms of the philosophical future. Of course, Mike Jones's speech at the Francis memorial (which is online at the Culture Wars site) noted that he had converted to the Catholic Church before sying. That might mean that he had come to undertsand, but it might mean nothing of the sort. The vast majority of Catholics in America are cultural Yankee WASPs, regardless of their surnames or church membership. And it is no mistake that the Christ-hating SPLC and the Christ-hating ADL both work tirelessly to keep it that way. Sent at: 2008 07 24