At their conference in June, the League of the South gave the Nathan Bedford Forrest Award to Mathew Heimbach and Shane Long for their confrontation of May Day marchers in Washington, DC on May 1, 2013. Nathan Bedford Forrest was the first Imperial Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan and is an inspiring historical figure for the League.
Watch the first three minutes of the following video where League of the South president Michael Hill gives the Forest awards to Heimbach and Long for the confrontation on May Day. Watch:
Before giving the awards, Hill said:
Earlier, during the awards ceremony, there were two young gentlemen who were set to get an award who were not here and I wanted to wait until they got here and give them the awards. As you’re going to learn from my next speaker, Shane Long, a group of our League folks, six young men and two young ladies, if I’m not mistaken, this past May the first, staged a little counter, uh, attack. I wouldn’t call it a protest. They really didn’t attack anybody, they were just holding our flags and carrying our message. And they faced off against, how many, 400? Four hundred communists, in the streets of Washington, D.C., and they held their ground, like good Southerners ought, and they turned that march of 400 communists on May Day around. Now that’s the kind of bravery and courage, and fortitude, and duty that I like to reward. So I’ve got two awards here and they read, the Forrest, as in Nathan Bedford, First with the Most Award, for active and aggressive, I like those terms, promotion of the cause of Southern independence.
On May 1, the International Workers of the World sponsored a May Day march in Washington D.C. The march was marked by sporadic violence and was winding down to a raucous end in front of the White House when the marchers were confronted by eight members of the League of the South.
Watch this Russia Today video of the confrontation (caution – profanity):
There are no good guys here, so my point is not to assign blame or credit. However, I think it is worth pointing out what the League of the South rewards. For those unclear, the marchers are the socialists and the those standing with the Confederate battle flag are the League members. Someone appears to be injured at the end of this video, but is not identified. It may have been Shane Long who is identified in this account as being in police custody, being uninjured but separated from the brawl.
Heimbach gained fame by founding a “white student union” at Towson State University. Started in 2012 (with white nationalist Jared Taylor as first guest speaker), the organization made news through 2013 as in this CNN report:
Not only does the League identify with those who engaged in street fighting (“our folks”) but rewards them. And they do so with an award which commemorates the first KKK Grand Wizard.
Next year, awards might really be flying since they plan to go back the May Day protest, 2014.
Perhaps actions like these are why some people have reconsidered associations with the League of the South.
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Oh, I’m sure it’s this Nathan Bedford Forrest they admire. 😉
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan_Bedford_Forrest
In 1875, Forrest demonstrated that his personal sentiments on the issue of race now differed from that of the Klan, when he was invited to give a speech before an organization of black Southerners advocating racial reconciliation, called the Independent Order of Pole-Bearers Association. At this, his last public appearance, he made what the New York Times described as a “friendly speech”[10] during which, when offered a bouquet of flowers by a black woman, he accepted them as a token of reconciliation between the races and espoused a radically progressive (for the time) agenda of equality and harmony between black and white Americans.[53] His speech was as follows:
“Ladies and Gentlemen I accept the flowers as a memento of reconciliation between the white and colored races of the southern states. I accept it more particularly as it comes from a colored lady, for if there is any one on God’s earth who loves the ladies I believe it is myself. ( Immense applause and laughter.) I came here with the jeers of some white people, who think that I am doing wrong. I believe I can exert some influence, and do much to assist the people in strengthening fraternal relations, and shall do all in my power to elevate every man to depress none…
Dear Mr. Terry,
as I understand you think that it is okay to keep slaves (under certain conditions, of course).
Following the Golden Rule, that implies that it is okay for you to be a slave yourself (under certain conditions, of course).
Now what is your opinion about the sexual exploitation of slaves?
You see, at the moment I have no use for someone to pick my cotton. (To be honest, I don’t have any cotton.)
But I’m quite willing to feed and cloth you, if we can make your sexual exploitation a part of the bargain.
Be ,my slave, please.
My goodness, Patrocles: aren’t you being a little ‘frisky’ today?!
(Thanks for the laugh, by the way!)
Yeah. I wondered if Dr. Throckmorton would wave that through (“Shall I allow this dubious Pat to fill my decent blog with filthy fantasies?” – “But on the other hand, that’s perhaps the one and only way to get under the skin of that thickskinned Mr. Terry.”)
Perhaps I’ve read too much webcomics lately,, like “Adam and Andy” last week – Larry visiting his friends in the prison and telling the macho officer: “Don’t you need to frisk me – It’s okay if you need to frisk me”. (Am I right that “frisky” is in fact derivated from “to frisk” (like in “Stop and frisk”) and refers to a certain sensation of the skin?)
Well, ‘frisky’ means ‘playful’, ‘high-spirited’, etc, but it can have – especially on this side of the Atlantic – mildly sexual connotations. I gather that the etymology of both ‘frisk’ and ‘frisky’ (reckoned to be the same) is uncertain.
I took your comment as an amusing piece of satire that also ‘made a point’.
Dear Mr. Terry,
as I understand you think that it is okay to keep slaves (under certain conditions, of course).
Following the Golden Rule, that implies that it is okay for you to be a slave yourself (under certain conditions, of course).
Now what is your opinion about the sexual exploitation of slaves?
You see, at the moment I have no use for someone to pick my cotton. (To be honest, I don’t have any cotton.)
But I’m quite willing to feed and cloth you, if we can make your sexual exploitation a part of the bargain.
Be ,my slave, please.
My goodness, Patrocles: aren’t you being a little ‘frisky’ today?!
(Thanks for the laugh, by the way!)
Yeah. I wondered if Dr. Throckmorton would wave that through (“Shall I allow this dubious Pat to fill my decent blog with filthy fantasies?” – “But on the other hand, that’s perhaps the one and only way to get under the skin of that thickskinned Mr. Terry.”)
Perhaps I’ve read too much webcomics lately,, like “Adam and Andy” last week – Larry visiting his friends in the prison and telling the macho officer: “Don’t you need to frisk me – It’s okay if you need to frisk me”. (Am I right that “frisky” is in fact derivated from “to frisk” (like in “Stop and frisk”) and refers to a certain sensation of the skin?)
Well, ‘frisky’ means ‘playful’, ‘high-spirited’, etc, but it can have – especially on this side of the Atlantic – mildly sexual connotations. I gather that the etymology of both ‘frisk’ and ‘frisky’ (reckoned to be the same) is uncertain.
I took your comment as an amusing piece of satire that also ‘made a point’.
Wasn’t this “May day” event the event which Ben Warner described in his piece about Heimbach in “Salon”?
“On May 1 — May Day — there had been Workers of the World-type protests in D.C. The emails in my inbox had subject lines like, “At it again,” and “Is this what it’s like in class?” They linked to videos of the White Student Union standing in a line across a street, calmly leaning Confederate flags (more appropriately sized for poles) against their shoulders, as a wave of bearded and backpacked anarchists approached them, flanked them, and began to call them “fuckers” and “racist pigs.”
They chanted, “Nazi scum, your time will come,” told them to “get in the fucking ground where you belong,” and held extended middle fingers fractions of inches away from their faces. There was my student, unflinching, chewing a piece of gum, occasionally asking someone to stop grabbing at his flag. In other videos, he posed measured questions about affirmative action to his screaming counterparts. It was only after someone managed to rip his flag from his hands that he lunged forward, was caught up in a shoving match, and was lost in a swarm of police. Later, I read that bags of urine had been thrown at him.”
“http://www.salon.com/2013/06/05/white_pride_in_my_classroom/”
Heimbach is the kind of challenging student whom professors instinctively tend to like, in spite of political differences. Ben Warner liked him, and I suspect that Dr. Throckmorton might like him, too.
(Personally, I’d prefer Scott Terry – with his rugged good looks and attitude he would be a star in every gay bear community. I know, that is an insensitive remark, but I trust Mr. Terry not to be oversensitive.)
Wasn’t this “May day” event the event which Ben Warner described in his piece about Heimbach in “Salon”?
“On May 1 — May Day — there had been Workers of the World-type protests in D.C. The emails in my inbox had subject lines like, “At it again,” and “Is this what it’s like in class?” They linked to videos of the White Student Union standing in a line across a street, calmly leaning Confederate flags (more appropriately sized for poles) against their shoulders, as a wave of bearded and backpacked anarchists approached them, flanked them, and began to call them “fuckers” and “racist pigs.”
They chanted, “Nazi scum, your time will come,” told them to “get in the fucking ground where you belong,” and held extended middle fingers fractions of inches away from their faces. There was my student, unflinching, chewing a piece of gum, occasionally asking someone to stop grabbing at his flag. In other videos, he posed measured questions about affirmative action to his screaming counterparts. It was only after someone managed to rip his flag from his hands that he lunged forward, was caught up in a shoving match, and was lost in a swarm of police. Later, I read that bags of urine had been thrown at him.”
“http://www.salon.com/2013/06/05/white_pride_in_my_classroom/”
Heimbach is the kind of challenging student whom professors instinctively tend to like, in spite of political differences. Ben Warner liked him, and I suspect that Dr. Throckmorton might like him, too.
(Personally, I’d prefer Scott Terry – with his rugged good looks and attitude he would be a star in every gay bear community. I know, that is an insensitive remark, but I trust Mr. Terry not to be oversensitive.)
PP:”We need more people just like them!”
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Rather, we need to know more about the kind of people represented by the League of the South.
For example, if the LOS formed a government, how would it handle mixed race marriages between blacks and whites?
I suspect they don’t recognise such relationships as “marriages”. I’m open to correction here.
From what I know of League principles, they’re less concerned with domestic issues (like marriage) and more concerned with separating the South (as a national entity) from the rest of the U.S.
If the League ever succeeds in their seceding – the general spirit in the organization is to allow issues like marriage to be handled on the state level, as was originally the case before the War Between the States.
I’ve heard the same sort of opinion about inflammatory issues like abortion. If North Carolina wants abortions and Virginia doesn’t, the onus is on the citizens of each state to pass their respective laws.
Personally – I’ve done a lot of thinking on the issue of mixed race marriages and how they ought to be dealt with; as a Christian, I see it as a matter of covenant headship, where the wife is leaving one people group for another. But my personal views do not represent the League of the South.
PP:”We need more people just like them!”
——
Rather, we need to know more about the kind of people represented by the League of the South.
For example, if the LOS formed a government, how would it handle mixed race marriages between blacks and whites?
I suspect they don’t recognise such relationships as “marriages”. I’m open to correction here.
From what I know of League principles, they’re less concerned with domestic issues (like marriage) and more concerned with separating the South (as a national entity) from the rest of the U.S.
If the League ever succeeds in their seceding – the general spirit in the organization is to allow issues like marriage to be handled on the state level, as was originally the case before the War Between the States.
I’ve heard the same sort of opinion about inflammatory issues like abortion. If North Carolina wants abortions and Virginia doesn’t, the onus is on the citizens of each state to pass their respective laws.
Personally – I’ve done a lot of thinking on the issue of mixed race marriages and how they ought to be dealt with; as a Christian, I see it as a matter of covenant headship, where the wife is leaving one people group for another. But my personal views do not represent the League of the South.
It is inspiring to see the courage of these young people, standing up to a bunch of Leftist thugs. We need more people just like them!
I suspect that many are far from ‘inspired’, Mr/Ms Patriot.
(From what I can see on the footage of the fracas, it was a ‘Rigthist’ thug who started the ‘physicals’ – he tore off his [black!] flag and started using his flagpole as a weapon.)
It is inspiring to see the courage of these young people, standing up to a bunch of Leftist thugs. We need more people just like them!
I suspect that many are far from ‘inspired’, Mr/Ms Patriot.
(From what I can see on the footage of the fracas, it was a ‘Rigthist’ thug who started the ‘physicals’ – he tore off his [black!] flag and started using his flagpole as a weapon.)
*lost for words* – and with bman on this one.
Oh, I’m sure it’s this Nathan Bedford Forrest they admire. 😉
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan_Bedford_Forrest
In 1875, Forrest demonstrated that his personal sentiments on the issue of race now differed from that of the Klan, when he was invited to give a speech before an organization of black Southerners advocating racial reconciliation, called the Independent Order of Pole-Bearers Association. At this, his last public appearance, he made what the New York Times described as a “friendly speech”[10] during which, when offered a bouquet of flowers by a black woman, he accepted them as a token of reconciliation between the races and espoused a radically progressive (for the time) agenda of equality and harmony between black and white Americans.[53] His speech was as follows:
“Ladies and Gentlemen I accept the flowers as a memento of reconciliation between the white and colored races of the southern states. I accept it more particularly as it comes from a colored lady, for if there is any one on God’s earth who loves the ladies I believe it is myself. ( Immense applause and laughter.) I came here with the jeers of some white people, who think that I am doing wrong. I believe I can exert some influence, and do much to assist the people in strengthening fraternal relations, and shall do all in my power to elevate every man to depress none…
ST: “…it’s important to note that the May Day protest was *not* a League of the South event; it just so happened that a few (not all) of the eight who attended the counter-protest, were also League members. In light of this, it would be wrong for any of your readers to draw parallels between the League’s doctrinal platform and my personal political views.”
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Since the award was a League of the South event, and since the award promotes a KKK leader, why can’t readers identify its doctrine as pro KKK?
*lost for words* – and with bman on this one.
I can, but it’s important to note that the May Day protest was *not* a League of the South event; it just so happened that a few (not all) of the eight who attended the counter-protest, were also League members.
In light of this, it would be wrong for any of your readers to draw parallels between the League’s doctrinal platform and my personal political views.
And when it comes to it, I’m not sure the League has any doctrinal statements determining how to correctly interpret the history of South Africa, the fall of apartheid, and the instigation of the Marxist African National Congress.
For my purposes, the flag acted as an excellent symbol to infuriate the protestors, many of whom were far more incised by it than they were by the Confederate battle flag. That I happen to have a religious devotion to the worldview that created an apartheid government in South Africa is an added benefit.
Mr Terry – thank you for making your position clear.
It’s a lot easier when opponents show their true colours.
No matter how much we may differ, no-one can justly accuse you of hypocrisy. You are apparently honourable.
What a waste…
Thanks, I suppose.
Don’t give up hope for me yet, though. Thankfully, despite our current nation (with all its injustices and petty tyrannies), we still maintain a degree of freedom.
For the time being, it’s possible to have a live and let live attitude in a general sense.
Although, God help me if I ever decide to stop working for myself and put in a resume somewhere. Then, your ilk can make life very hard for us political dissidents.
One can get a job wherever one wishes, as long as whatever garbage happens to be floating around inside one’s head is not allowed adversely to affect others’ legitimate rights.
Wow, eight whole people.
And these meetings are hilarious. A basement full of flags and empty seats. For somebody to discriminate against you, first you’d have to tell them who the hell you are.
I bet Don Imus, Paula Dean, and innumerable others might disagree.
Don’t get me wrong. I’m not against social hegemony, enforcing taboos via economic shunning, or other such tactics. I just don’t like our current zeitgeist.
If Hell is the Europe of Austen and Dickens, then consign me to the seventh level of it.
There are things about today’s zeitgeist I don’t like, but I see no point in trying to replace what we have today with old forms of the new misery.
The Confederacy couldn’t hack it 150 years ago (when things like racial prejudice appeared somewhat more ‘credible’ to folk than they do now); what on earth makes anyone thing that something like it might succeed today? Not a chance!
Mr. Terry – Could you explain the symbolism of the pre-Aparthied South African flag you were holding during the confrontation?
No “perhaps” about it, professor; you and your ilk are successfully imposing an anti-Southern, anti-Western paradigm onto the unsuspecting minds of millions of naive college youngsters, who are, as a result, abandoning organizations like “League of the South”.
That your cherished worldview is philosophically incoherent, blasphemous (in its rejection of historic European faith-norms), and intolerably impractical, doesn’t phase these impressionable youths, who have no inkling a better way exists.
I remain incurably-optimistic however – as despite the billions spent by your ilk on pop-culture propaganda, and despite the complete hegemony you hold in academia, organizations like the League of the South continue to grow (despite being abandoned by politically-correct hipsters).
So on that note: thank you for the extra bit of publicity. I’m sure some will hear of our honorable stand that day in D.C. and, instead of lamenting it as you hope, will feel a stirring of long dormant passions.
When that happens (and it will): the spirit of Nathan Forrest is awaiting them in the Sherwood of Dixie.
ST: “…it’s important to note that the May Day protest was *not* a League of the South event; it just so happened that a few (not all) of the eight who attended the counter-protest, were also League members. In light of this, it would be wrong for any of your readers to draw parallels between the League’s doctrinal platform and my personal political views.”
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Since the award was a League of the South event, and since the award promotes a KKK leader, why can’t readers identify its doctrine as pro KKK?
I can, but it’s important to note that the May Day protest was *not* a League of the South event; it just so happened that a few (not all) of the eight who attended the counter-protest, were also League members.
In light of this, it would be wrong for any of your readers to draw parallels between the League’s doctrinal platform and my personal political views.
And when it comes to it, I’m not sure the League has any doctrinal statements determining how to correctly interpret the history of South Africa, the fall of apartheid, and the instigation of the Marxist African National Congress.
For my purposes, the flag acted as an excellent symbol to infuriate the protestors, many of whom were far more incised by it than they were by the Confederate battle flag. That I happen to have a religious devotion to the worldview that created an apartheid government in South Africa is an added benefit.
Mr Terry – thank you for making your position clear.
It’s a lot easier when opponents show their true colours.
No matter how much we may differ, no-one can justly accuse you of hypocrisy. You are apparently honourable.
What a waste…
Thanks, I suppose.
Don’t give up hope for me yet, though. Thankfully, despite our current nation (with all its injustices and petty tyrannies), we still maintain a degree of freedom.
For the time being, it’s possible to have a live and let live attitude in a general sense.
Although, God help me if I ever decide to stop working for myself and put in a resume somewhere. Then, your ilk can make life very hard for us political dissidents.
One can get a job wherever one wishes, as long as whatever garbage happens to be floating around inside one’s head is not allowed adversely to affect others’ legitimate rights.
I bet Don Imus, Paula Dean, and innumerable others might disagree.
Don’t get me wrong. I’m not against social hegemony, enforcing taboos via economic shunning, or other such tactics. I just don’t like our current zeitgeist.
If Hell is the Europe of Austen and Dickens, then consign me to the seventh level of it.
There are things about today’s zeitgeist I don’t like, but I see no point in trying to replace what we have today with old forms of the new misery.
The Confederacy couldn’t hack it 150 years ago (when things like racial prejudice appeared somewhat more ‘credible’ to folk than they do now); what on earth makes anyone thing that something like it might succeed today? Not a chance!
Wow, eight whole people.
And these meetings are hilarious. A basement full of flags and empty seats. For somebody to discriminate against you, first you’d have to tell them who the hell you are.
Mr. Terry – Could you explain the symbolism of the pre-Aparthied South African flag you were holding during the confrontation?
No “perhaps” about it, professor; you and your ilk are successfully imposing an anti-Southern, anti-Western paradigm onto the unsuspecting minds of millions of naive college youngsters, who are, as a result, abandoning organizations like “League of the South”.
That your cherished worldview is philosophically incoherent, blasphemous (in its rejection of historic European faith-norms), and intolerably impractical, doesn’t phase these impressionable youths, who have no inkling a better way exists.
I remain incurably-optimistic however – as despite the billions spent by your ilk on pop-culture propaganda, and despite the complete hegemony you hold in academia, organizations like the League of the South continue to grow (despite being abandoned by politically-correct hipsters).
So on that note: thank you for the extra bit of publicity. I’m sure some will hear of our honorable stand that day in D.C. and, instead of lamenting it as you hope, will feel a stirring of long dormant passions.
When that happens (and it will): the spirit of Nathan Forrest is awaiting them in the Sherwood of Dixie.