Perspective

The God Of White Dispossession

“MLK Day” has become the high holy day of the American liturgical calendar. No other statesman, not Washington, Jefferson, or Lincoln, is deemed worthy of a holiday all to his own. And no other national holiday seems to carry such relevant, pressing meaning for Americans as the third Monday in January.  The 4th of July has become an excuse for a backyard barbecue. The MLK anniversary, on the other hand, inspires Americans to ask who we are and what our higher ideals should be.

NPI’s co-founder, Samuel Francis, who was active in the debates about the institution of the holiday in mid-’80s, recognized then that the significance of Martin Luther King Jr. stretched far beyond the legal and political technicalities of the Civil Right Act.  The celebration of the man represented a great change in how Americans understood their nation.

[T[he true meaning of the holiday is that it serves to legitimize the radical social and political agenda that King himself favored and to delegitimize traditional American social and cultural institutions — not simply those that supported racial segregation but also those that support a free market economy, an anti-communist foreign policy, and a constitutional system that restrains the power of the state rather than one that centralizes and expands power for the reconstruction of society and the redistribution of wealth. In this sense, the campaign to enact the legal public holiday in honor of Martin Luther King was a small first step on the long march to revolution, a charter by which that revolution is justified as the true and ultimate meaning of the American identity. In this sense, and also in King’s own sense, as he defined it in his speech at the Lincoln Memorial in 1963, the Declaration of Independence becomes a “promissory note” by which the state is authorized to pursue social and economic egalitarianism as its mission, and all institutions and values that fail to reflect the dominance of equality — racial, cultural, national, economic, political, and social — must be overcome and discarded.

By placing King — and therefore his own radical ideology of social transformation and reconstruction — into the central pantheon of American history, the King holiday provides a green light by which the revolutionary process of transformation and reconstruction can charge full speed ahead. Moreover, by placing King at the center of the American national pantheon, the holiday also serves to undermine any argument against the revolutionary political agenda that it has come to symbolize. Having promoted or accepted the symbol of the new dogma as a defining — perhaps the defining — icon of the American political order, those who oppose the revolutionary agenda the symbol represents have little ground to resist that agenda.

Sam is all too correct that “MLK writ large” has become the foundation of American identity; in many ways, the situation is far worse than the one he depicted in 1998.

At the time, Sam described a pitched battle between MLK’s egalitarian “Dream” and “traditional American social and cultural institutions,” which he describes, in Cold War language, as “anti-Communist foreign policy,” free-markets, and the Constitution.

What Sam might not have grasped in 1998, but understood fully later, is that by the turn of the 21st century, the MLK counter-culture was (and is) the Establishment. There are precious few “traditional American social and cultural institutions” that do not honor MLK or treat “The Dream” as informing their missions.

And this is not solely the case for the more overtly liberal ones like the Department of Education. No less a putative bastion of conservative values than the U.S. Army is led by men like Four-Star General George Casey, who in 2009, in response to a Muslim Army Major who murdered 13 of his fellow soldiers as an act of jihad, averred,

What happened in Fort Hood was a tragedy. But I believe it would become an even greater tragedy if our Diversity becomes a casualty. And it’s not just about Muslims. We have a very diverse Army; we have a very diverse society; and that gives us all strength.

MLK unites the Left (tactical disputes between Malcolm X and the pacifist reverend have long since gone by the wayside). And in a strange way, he unites the Right as well. “Judged By The Content Of Their Character” is the central (if not sole) argument against multiculturalism and affirmative-action offered forth by self-styled “conservatives.” And King is counted as an American icon and hero not only at left-wing and liberal gatherings but at those of the “Religious Right” and Beltway Republicans.

Glenn Beck—who, in his radio and television programs and mass rallies, has created a kind of religion of MLK—might actually turn Sam’s polemic on its head and claim that MLK is the hero of American foreign policy and Constitutional government. And he would, in a sense, be correct—even in the matter of foreign affairs. Washington’s violent incursions into the Middle East are invariably accompanied by promises that all shall vote, women shall attain undergraduate educations, and minorities shall be empowered.

Despite conservatives’ wishful thinking, The Dream—in all its manifestations—is the antithesis of a free society. Government’s enforcing that all people and businesses make judgments non-racially is, in itself, a totalitarian notion and has, in fact, resulted in a massive interventionist infrastructure and bureaucracy. (Rand Paul tepidly hinted at as much during his 2010 Senate campaign.) The costs of the industry of “civil rights” and “diversity training” in the workplace can be measured in the hundreds of billions, if not trillions, per year. (And pace conservative revisionism, the actual Martin Luther King Jr. unequivocally advocated most all of the measures done in his name.)

More deeply, “non-discrimination” as a value is the enemy of all tradition, not just the Anglo-Saxon American society it has helped destroy. The version of The Dream that conservatives like—that of interracial hand-holding and vague libertarianism—is ultimately a vision of race-less, family-less, class-less, history-less individuals, happily experiencing equality with other individuals of various shades, all integrated by the marketplace and government. Tradition is, at its root, about being a part of something larger than oneself. The Dream is about becoming a self-contained atom.

Conservatives might think it cute to quote some of King’s more libertarian utterances back at liberals, as a form of “PC Judo.” But in the end, they will be the losers of such a gambit.
Martin Luther King Jr., a fraud and degenerate in his life, has become the symbol and cynosure of White Dispossession and the deconstruction of European civilization. We shall overcome!


This essay was first published on January 20, 2014, at RadixJournal.com and NPIAmerica.org.

 

Richard Spencer
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Richard Spencer is American Editor of AltRight.com; he's President of The National Policy Institute and founder of RadixJournal.com.

63 Comments

  • “Despite conservatives’ wishful thinking, The Dream—in all its manifestations—is the antithesis of a free society. Government’s enforcing that all people and businesses make judgments non-racially is, in itself, a totalitarian notion and has, in fact, resulted in a massive interventionist infrastructure and bureaucracy. ”

    Thank you, Richard. I don’t know why conservatives can’t admit that MLK was a big gov’t socialist. His allies were commies and he was also. He talked about loving democratic socialism and big government all the time. The feckless GOP establishment will continue to pander to blacks and lie by claiming MLK was a conservative, and as they do that the blacks will continue to vote for Dems.

  • Wah….wah. AS IMPERFECT as King was, he commands, to this day, a larger WHITE audience than any “pepe” in operation. Grow up Nazis.

    • Kings eroding reputation is reliant on a thinning film of promotion and moral signaling. To dull Anti-Whites who make claims based their own subjective imagination, the erosion of that film in imperceptible. As it breaks, Anti-Whites who lack awareness will be caught off guard at what we Pro-Whites can see giving way under the percussion of our rhetoric and memes. Today, the Anti-White promotion that is MLK, is dissolving exponentially.

      Just as you’re unable to perceive the direction things are moving, you’re unaware that to Pro-Whites, the outmoded tactics of an Anti-White bug-man like yourself are ineffective.

  • The MLK Statue just on its own could fit in nicely in Soviet Russia or Maoist China. The picture you posted just doesn’t properly reveal the sheer Communism emanating from it. You need a picture with people standing by it.

  • MLK Jr.

    Not a God
    Not a Saint
    Not a “Doctor”
    Not a moral Christian
    Martin Luther King – not even his real name

    Back in 1960 most Americans took the Christian religion seriously. MLK Jr must have violated every single Commandment in the 10 Commandments outside of not personally killing anyone.

    His North Korean style statue is an idol which various anti White cults worship.

    Since Antifa BlackLiesMatter Communists are not desecrating Confederate statues and Confederate graves, M’thinks these idiolitist MLK statues should suffer similar fates.

    • our disgusting government will continue to cover up the truth of MLK. The FBI will never release the tapes which prove MLK had sex with prostitutes everywhere he went.

      The gov’t and media will continue to ignore MLK’s countless moral flaws, while magnifying the moral flaws of anyone who opposes their Marxist agenda

  • >Gambit
    King’s gambit. It’s an opening that exposes you to immediate dangers and requires very precise play in order to capitalize on your advantages in the center. King’s gambit played right continues with a struggle to recapture the sacrifice. If not, the opponent will manage to defend its misplaced black pawn, and white will end up with a permanent and devastating vulnerability within its own ranks.

  • The US is a white/western country. And we should do everything to keep white/western countries white and western.

  • The most annoying cuckservative fallacy is the appeal to black skin. It’s like they have to find a historical or contemporary example of some black man (e.g. MLK or Thomas Sowell) making similar utterances in order for their ideas to be legitimized. Stand on your own two feet white man! The black man needs you, but you don’t need the black man. It’s not the other way around.

    • Yes, it’s a binary choice. Making that appeal is the acceptance of everything that comes with it, which leads down the path of obliteration of all tradition. It accepts that we are the sum of our institutions.

      Civic nationalism fails to account for the foundational things that created these institutions in the first place — specific sets of humans, for evolutionary reasons (with variation, certainly….). It fails to account for the way that humans interact with these institutions. And it fails to account for the strain put on those institutions by out groups.

      Sweden was a well-oiled machine when it was homogenous. I remember when none of the supermarkets had security cameras, the entire country basically operated on the honor system (sure, lots of bureaucracy….but a beautiful thing). It wasn’t that long ago, actually.

      It’s binary…..eventually there can only be one of two outcomes.

  • Richard I can’t believe the shit I just read. Why Richie, why??
    I’d like to understand your point of view (maybe I’m too
    hispanic to do so?), but it’s just incoherent garbage. When I read
    something interesting in your essays, it is inmediatly
    undermined by your shitty & stupid prejudices, which are disguised
    as arguments. Look man, I don’t really hate you, and think you have
    the right of express yourself, but this whole thing of “race”, “tradition”, “power” and so on, is bullshit, at least for me. I don’t give a crap about any fucking race (or identity), its just there are more interesting things in life to waste our fucking time thinking about that stuff

    • Ok. So what DO you care about? Yourself, I hope. Your wife and kids, if you have them. Your extended family, perhaps? The culture and customs and conventions they brought you up with? Is the answer, “Yes?”

      If so, how can you claim not to care about “tradition”? And, if “No”, can you perhaps put yourself in someone else’s shoes for a moment and have some empathy for their valuing “race”?

      • Well, finally a reasonable answer. I didn’t really want to fight.

        The answer for the first paragraph is, of course, “YES” to all the questions.

        Concerning the second paragraph, I disagree with the way in which Richie use the concept of “tradition”, “race”, “power”, etc, only to justify his prejudices. In that sense is that I don’t give a shit. This is not an answer comming from hate (despite it seemed at first), but from shock: How can anyone agree with (many of) his arguments? Many of them are completely illogical (at least for me). Maybe I can’t put myself in your shoes (and believe me, I’ve tried it, and that’s why I find things a little bit interesting in Richard speeches), or maybe we agree on many things, and it’s just that we use different terms to refer to them.

        I’d like to discuss this issue with you in more depth, but I understand this is not the right place to do so.

        Only one question:
        Do you belong to the Altright movement?
        And if this is the case, why?

        • I’m an American. That’s as far as I would go. And the Alt Right is part of the conversation of what it means to be an American. In fact, I find it to be an essential part of the conversation, because it “pulls the curtain back” and makes an attempt to reveal the “wizardry” behind the cultural chaos enveloping the society and slowly strangling it.

          This is a happening place. And I like to be where the action is. Observing it, and sometimes jumping in the fray, and even occasionally being an instigator.

    • You don’t care about any of those things because YOU left YOUR home nation, race, and traditions behind in order to move to another race’s nation with its own set of genetically inspired traditions.

      This very act is both a conscious and unconscious acceptance of the inferiority of you race and your races culture and nation.

      Because of this, you convince yourself that race, culture, etc are worthless. When in reality this is simply a coping mechanism for you, as it would be difficult to face the truth. The truth being that YOUR race and its culture are garbage, whilst others are not, I.e. White Europeans.

      An objective mind could atleast be honest, but you cannot, although I think it has more to do with your genetic predisposition towards high time presence thinking and emotions rather than merely a low IQ.
      Eh, it is most likely a combination of those two.

  • Anyone else notice the he Google doodle today? Front and center a white woman and black man. The black man has a lighter brown girl on his shoulders. When did miscegenation the soup du jour?

  • Alex Jones is a cucked clown just like Beck, always invoking the fraud MLK as some kind of divine figure of racial fairness and justice. They lie by omission and create more lies by saying MLK would be against BLM and defend white people.

    Not only are they pathetic cucks of the lowest order, but they’re perpetuating a sham. His real name was Michael King Jr.. He was a plagiarist. He was a trained communist. He had Jewish ghostwriters. Michael King Jr. was a degenerate, sociopath and con man.

    MLK Cure For Liberalism
    /watch?v=hfDvIyfksZA

    The Beast As Saint
    /watch?v=IShbhepwieA

  • Alex Jones is a cucked clown just like Beck, always invoking the fraud MLK as some kind of divine figure of racial fairness and justice. They lie by omission and create more lies by saying MLK would be against BLM and defend white people.

    Not only are they pathetic cucks of the lowest order, but they’re perpetuating a sham. His real name was Michael King Jr.. He was a plagiarist. He was a trained communist. He had Jewish ghostwriters. Michael King Jr. was a degenerate, sociopath and con man.

    MLK Cure For Liberalism
    http://www.youtube. com/watch?v=hfDvIyfksZA

    The Beast As Saint
    http://www.youtube. com/watch?v=IShbhepwieA

  • ‘Martin Luther’ (we wuz) Kangz was the Carlos Mencia of Civil Rights. Everything about him is plagiarist from his phony doctoral divinity, to his ‘passive-aggressive’ tactics, which were meant to stir violence (using women, children and the elderly as shields), down to even his namesake, which was culturally appropriated from the German theologian long after he was born.

  • People need to stop treating MLK like Santa Claus. The civil rights movement was not progress, it was a step towards multiculturalism. Separation would have been the right thing to do, then and now.

  • Martin Luther King Day, a Federal Holiday is a violation of the anti-establishment clause of the 1st Amendment. Because King was a religious leader who preached his own brand of religion in an attempt to make all Americans accept it by the force of the Federal Government.

  • I had the best MLK day possible. It snowed the whole day. Everything was white. It’s like Mother Nature and White Jesus were taking a shit on this shitty holiday. It’s hard to believe we have a holiday named for 1 man but his FBI records will not be released until 2027. The odds are the government will destroy them. I predict there will be a fire or bombing in the building where they are kept. You heard it here first! My kids were out of school so they didn’t have to be brain washed with excepts of that silly “I have a dream” Well, I have a dream too. And my dream does not include MLK, Hail the coming WHITE REPUBLIC

  • I was bilked, the younger me thought his speeches meant something good. Listening to Hannity air a speech of mlk just now I thought it’s time for a shit. The pauses tell all. Yes he was/is a uniter but only of the left, rinos, and children which haven’t yet seen the face of integration which has soiled the pants of this great nation. If it wasn’t a hate crime I would tear down statues street signs and schools, Oh but you can only do that if your black, spic or libtard!

    • Try it, watch what happens. Libtards Founded America! Long Live the 2nd Amendment! Every Minority in AmeriKKKa should conceal carry.

      • Only allowing land owning White men the right to vote, restricting immigration to only white people, an keeping the inferior blacks in chains certainly does not sound like the products of libtards.

        US was founded by white nationalists.

        Look at Chicago, Baltimore, and LA if you want to know what happens when minorities carry fire arms.

  • Alex Jones is a cucked clown just like Beck, always invoking the fraud MLK as some kind of divine figure of racial fairness and justice. They lie by omission and create more lies by saying MLK would be against BLM and defend white people.

    Not only are they pathetic cucks of the lowest order, but they’re perpetuating a sham. His real name was Michael King Jr.. He was a plagiarist. He was a trained communist. He had Jewish ghostwriters. Michael King Jr. was a degenerate, sociopath and con man.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfDvIyfksZA

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IShbhepwieA

  • MLK’s character:
    >communist
    >anti-white
    >serial adulterer
    >plagiarist
    >hypocrite
    It is a legacy of plagiarism, affirmative action, welfare, and reverse racism.

  • Approximately how many statues of MLK are up today in the US? What will archeologists think about our era based on the sheer number of these bronzes and marble statues?

  • Richard, thanks for clarifications. I am not sure whose Dreams have been created, but, for the fact, not of my kids.

    Not sure who precisely celebrates this degeneracy offshoot, but, was very happy to find out that most of my customers, mostly Whites and a few Hispanics, were properly at work today. Business as usual.

  • I have my own version of MLK day. It’s called milk day, 24 hours during which I try to drink as much milk as possible in heavily multicultural areas.

  • I could never figure out how this guy became America’s sacred cow. You can’t say anything against him. Philanderer and just copied Gandhi. Big deal.

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