“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.” ~ Sun Tzu “The Art of War” This particular quote resonated with me this week in the face of all that has transpired in the sleepy hamlet of Charlottesville, Virginia where a bunch of punk-ass White Supremacists and Neo-Nazis decided to hold a rally to protest the removal of a statue that honors Confederate General Robert E. Lee, who will have been deceased for 147 years as of October 12 of this year. This has led me to perform further research into the thought processes of the Sucka MCs/Cowards/Bustas/Mark-ass Marks/Low-Lifes that created the aforementioned chaotic situation. I have performed diligence on these clowns and their movement and came across a book entitled “The Turner Diaries” that was written by a White Supremacist named William Luther Pierce under his pen name of “Andrew McDonald” (I presume that he was too much of a yellow-bellied weakling to have his real name associated with this filth). This book spins a violent tale of revolution where the Federal Government is overthrown, a nuclear war takes place which is conveniently followed by a race war, where all non-Whites, Jewish and LGBTQ people are exterminated by the story’s “protagonists”. This book has served as an inspiration for many domestic terrorists, such as Timothy McVeigh (who I hope is burning in the lowest pits of Hell with gasoline underwear on) where his bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City was reminiscent of the bombing of the actual FBI headquarters in the novel. Or the killing of James Byrd in Texas where the man that was ultimately convicted of killing him by dragging him from the back of a pickup truck where this man was quoted as saying “We’re going to start The Turner Diaries early”. We are presently on the precipice of the war to end all wars with North Korea in conjunction with racial tensions being elevated to a height that has not been seen since the Civil Rights Era. You have jackasses like Richard Spencer and David Duke that advocate for “peaceful ethnic cleansing” which basically means that if you are not White, male and Protestant the United States does not belong to you. The last time that I checked, my ancestors built this joint for free and Hartford, Connecticut (my place of birth) was part of these here United States. I read today that these fools are planning another “rally” on the campus on Texas A&M in College Station which should not be allowed to occur. As someone that looks to bring suggestions to the fore from a solution perspective – as the lawmakers in South Carolina utilized the killing of the Charleston Nine as a point of galvanization to pursue the removal of the flag of the loser-ass traitors of the Confederacy from state grounds, we can use the events that occurred in Charlottesville for a greater good. Speaker Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, Senators Cory Gardner of Colorado, Orrin Hatch of Utah, John McCain of Arizona and Marco Rubio of Florida were quick to denounce White Supremacy by name. They should now take the next and proper step of introducing legislation that will designate the White Supremacists and Neo-Nazis as hate groups while outlawing the display of Confederate symbols throughout this great land of ours. While it will not heal America’s greatest sin of pervasive racism, these actions would present a great step forward. R. Wiley
