Explaining "Casualties"....

For folks who seem to think the definition of "casualties" doesn't include "deaths" I paste the following from Dictionary.com

cas·u·al·ty
[kazh-oo-uh l-tee] Show IPA
noun, plural cas·u·al·ties.

1. Military .
~  a. a member of the armed forces lost to service through death, wounds, sickness, capture, or because his or her whereabouts or condition cannot be determined.
~  b.casualties, loss in numerical strength through any cause, as death, wounds, sickness, capture, or desertion.


World English Dictionary

casualty
— n  , pl -ties
1.     a serviceman who is killed, wounded, captured, or missing as a result of enemy action

Honor To Whom Honor Is Due

Kevin Levin thinks slaves should be honored not for service to the Confederate Army but for "surviving the Confederacy." Honor, in this sense, means "a source of credit or distinction..." (per dictionary.com).

Frankly, Levin's assertion makes no sense. To survive means "to get along or remain healthy, happy, and unaffected in spite of some occurrence ... to endure or live through (an affliction, adversity, misery, etc.)..."

There was nothing about the Confederacy that made it a greater affliction, adversity or misery for slaves than the USA had been. Surviving slavery and/or war is worthy of honor, but the Confederacy was not slavery or war any more than the USA was slavery or war. Surviving slavery in the Confederacy for four years was no more honor-worthy than surviving it in the USA for several generations.

The condition of slaves in the Confederacy was no different than it had been in the USA. It was the military invasion of the south and the depredation of the invading army -- creating affliction, adversity and misery -- that made the difference between the two. Everyone in the Confederacy who survived that, slave and free, (and many did not survive it) deserves honor. Those who fought the invaders, slave and free, deserve special recognition and honor.

Somehow, it doesn't surprise me that a blogger motivated to evilize white Southerners refuses to see that.

Just In Time for Christmas

Read about this anti-white film from the King of Cinema Carnage, Quentin Tarantino here: http://www.examiner.com/article/hollywood-to-celebrate-christmas-with-race-war-slasher-film

Tarantino states that negative depictions of white people in the movie are "educational." Tarantino goes on to say that white people did "a lot worse sh-t actually."

Tarantino makes no secret that he is a hardcore supporter of left-wing politics. Besides giving tens of thousands to the Democratic party, he has given large donations to far-left politicians.

White folks did a lot worse sh-t?  They also did a lot of great stuff that has benefited the whole world.

That's a lesson Shelby Kincaid has to teach his little sister, Ainsley, after a councilor at her day camp attempts to instill in her and her little camper friends a mountain of white guilt and self-hatred.  But the councilor had no way of knowing about Shelby's devotion to his little sister's wellbeing.

“Ainsley. Your ancestors couldn't have done what that woman said because they didn't live here then."

"What?"

"Our grandfather still lived in Fannin County, up by North Carolina, when that happened. None of our Kincaid kin lived here then, and our Shelbys have always lived in Alabama."

"But white people..."

"Let me explain something to you. White people aren't evil because they're white. People -- whatever color they are -- do evil things because sin is in the world. I think you know this from church. People who tell you white Southerners are somehow specially evil because of how blacks have been treated here are trying to mess with your mind. Yes, blacks have been treated badly by white folks down here -- they've been treated badly everywhere, and they've been treated decently everywhere, too – including in the South. And they treat each other bad, just as whites do."

"That's not what Miss Nora said."

"I know what she told you. And I'm telling you, I know different. And I'm gonna teach you. It's important for you to learn. I don't want you to grow up ashamed of being Southern and white, even if that's what that yankee witch wanted you to feel.

"Listen, you can't look at just the bad stuff white people have done; you have to look at the good stuff, too. And if you do that, you will see that white people have done more to help the whole human race than any other group. I'll prove that to you. I'll show you what good things white folks have done for the world. So we're going to be learning about this a long time, okay?"

It wasn't easy, and it took a while. Another three months passed and spring descended upon south Georgia, its fresh green and pastel blossoms bringing another kind of magic to the landscape, before he finally convinced her. And despite all the words, all the arguments, the history, the psychology, the Bible passages and prayers, the explanations, the cajoling ... what really did it, finally, was when he asked her, "Look, who're you going to believe? Some damnyankee? Or me?"

As she looked into the depth of his eyes, a smile crept across her face and her arms went around his neck in a tight hug.

"Well, when you put it that way...."

 Shelby Kincaid is right. If you want to look only at the bad things white people have done, you have to look only at the bad things all groups, races, ethnicities and nationalities have done. But if you're going to showcase the contributions and accomplishments of minorities and women, you have to acknowledge the  contributions and accomplishments of white people, particularly white men.

Quentin Tarantino, Morris Dees and a host of bigoted folks on the left will never acknowledge the good white people, especially white men, have done that benefited those who hate them.  But I will.

Ron Wilson Sentenced

Ron Wilson sentenced to nearly 20 years in federal prison

GREENVILLE COUNTY — Before he was led out in handcuffs, Ponzi schemer and former Anderson County Council member Ron Wilson said he had cleared his conscience.

Wilson, 65, was sentenced Tuesday in a Greenville federal courtroom and he will spend the next 19 and a half years behind bars for running a decade-long scam that ended with $57.4 million lost from nearly 800 investors.

“I took from my brother and from my daughter,” Wilson said before he was sentenced. “I am extremely sorry for what I have done. My conscience is clearer now than it has been in years.”

Full story: http://www.independentmail.com/news/2012/nov/13/ron-wilson-sentenced-nearly-20-years-federal-priso/

 There are people in the Dixie-bashin' "civil war memory/era" blogosphere who will no doubt be very disappointed that this report mentions nothing about the SCV.  Awwww.....

Possible Early Death for Southerners Pleases Northeastern Elitist

(Edited December 7 for length and organization,  and to give the title a more Brooks-D.-Simpsonesque feel.)
On October 24, 2012, Kevin Levin posted at Civil War Memory a screenshot of a few comments from the Southern Heritage Preservation Group (Facebook).  The comments were about a Confederate flag with Obama's face to the side.  Here's the SHPG screen shot:

One side of Obama's face is bright red, and an SHPG commenter said, "It does appear that Obama has been bloodied by it."   Another rejoins, "Not bloodied enough."

Apparently this stirred Kevin Levin's righteous northeastern elitist indignation (and that of several of his comment thread myrmidons) to an extremely pleasurable level.  He wrote: 

"I hesitate sharing this with you, but it is another wonderful example why the Confederate flag is slowly receding from public view.  It should come as no surprise that this screenshot comes from the Southern Heritage Preservation (facebook) Group.  The image was posted by Gary Adams, whose commentary is unintelligible.  Now I have no idea who is responsible for this sick image, but what I find incredible about the comments that follow is that these are the same people who claim with a straight face that the flag does not have racial overtones." 

 Of course, the flag, being an inanimate object, has absolutely no overtones of any kind.  Overtones are supplied by the minds of human beings. I'm sure someone as intelligent as Kevin Levin knows this, but why let a little thing like truth and logic get in the way of throwing a pleasureable conniption fit of righteous indignation aimed at the scummy South and it scummy denizens?

Levin says, "Now I have no idea who is responsible for this sick image..."  He must not want to know, because it's easy to find out who is responsible for it. I found out within about ten seconds of starting a Google search that the flag is available from UltimateFlags.com: http://www.ultimateflags.com/Rebel-Obama-new-flag-for-sale.html 

Here's an enlarged shot of the flag for sale on their site.

I note two things -- this is not a photo of an actual flag.  There are no hem-stitched edges, etc.  It is possible that the flag exists only as a digital design, and none will be manufactured unless they are ordered and purchased.  In any case, if you look carefully at Obama's face, it is not a normally colored photo/image with red smeared on one side (the perceived blood).  The colors of Obama's face, in addition to the red, are dark maroon, greenish/brown, pink and white.

What this appears to be -- what these colors indicate -- is that this is somebody's very bad photoshopping attempt to duplicate the colors of the Shepard Fairey "Hope" poster.

Let me emphasize that.

What this appears to be -- what these colors indicate -- is that this is somebody's very bad photoshopping attempt to duplicate the colors of the Shepard Fairey "Hope" poster.

Of course, acknowledging that robs righteous northeastern elitists of the pleasurable activity of verbally excoriating Southern sinners. Much better to go along with the mistaken impression that Obama's face looks bloodied and work oneself up into a pleasurable, racial righteousness fit...

Interesting that  Kevin Levin's myopic view of history focuses so intently on "the dark story of lynching and organized violence against African Americans during the 1950s and 60s – often in full view of a Confederate flag." This is a focus that ignores organized (government) violence aimed at white Southerners during the War Between the States... and that ignores organized (government) violence aimed at American Indians for generations.

Apparently, organized violence is not Levin's actual concern.  It only becomes important depending on who it is organized against.
 
Why is some organized violence not worthy of mention?   Well, pointing out the government's brutal war on white Southerners does NOTHING to give northeastern elitists the warm fuzzies they get when they evilize Southerners, which I'm convinced is the actual motive underlying these race-focused "civil war" blogs.  How does looking at the brutality suffered by white Southerners showcase Southern white evil?  It doesn't.  It showcases the evil of the government.

Ditto the government's oppression of and brutality toward American Indians -- totally USELESS in evilizing white Southerners. Therefore, it is ignored, downplayed, in blogs devoted to the evilization of white Southerners.

Said evilization is best accomplished by painting the fate suffered by Southern blacks, during and after slavery, as the worst thing any humans have ever suffered since the dawn of time. Because, you see, Southern white evil exists in EXACT INVERSE PROPORTION to black misery and suffering.

This is why I have grown convinced that elitist historian-bloggers who so enjoy evilizing white Southerners don't really care about black folks themselves.  Their "concern" for actual black folks is vague, nebulous, impersonal. They see black folks as tools or weapons for beating white Southerners over the head with.

This comes from the hammer-beaten meme that anti-black racism is the worst motive any human being can have. That's because the South's slaves were black, and they are the weapon of choice for eviling Southern whites, whom northeastern elitists simply cannot stand.

This explains why the establishment media (and Southern-hating "civil-war-haha" bloggers) can go into an orgiastic frenzy over Trayvon Martin ("white-hispanic" on black racism and violence), but virtually ignore black on white racism and violence...

For example, the Knoxville Horror
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murders_of_Channon_Christian_and_Christopher_Newsom.  

Ditto the Wichita Massacre...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wichita_Massacre

Wikipedia and the mainstream press usually do not show images of the men that tortured and murdered these white kids.  No, you have to go to private blogs, some of them overtly racially conscious (like that of certain civil war bloggers, but in reverse), to find pictures of the torturers and murderers:

http://worth-reading-blog.blogspot.com/2010/08/knoxville-horror-channon-christian.html
http://nicholasstixuncensored.blogspot.com/2010/12/forget-me-not-wichita-horror-update.html
http://www.wichita-massacre.com/

And these are just two cases, chosen for inclusion in this post to illustrate mainstream media indifference to reporting black-on-white crime, even at this level of brutality and horror. There are many more -- and their number is growing -- given grudging coverage in news media, when covered at all.

Pardon me for noticing, but I wonder whether, to Kevin Levin, the horrific, skyrocketing level of violent crimes committed by black perps (against both white and black victims) is not also a "dark story"? Notice that when the crime is homicide, white offenders comprise the smallest number of murderers, and white on black murder the lowest on the charts, hovering in all of them just above zero.
 http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/content/homicide/race.cfm

This horror is happening all around us, from border to border and coast to coast (except, possibly, in the lily white enclaves where these evilizers of white Southerners live) and getting worse all the time. But what do these righteous northeastern elitist civil war bloggers focus on?

Digital images of the Confederate flag on the Internet.

While Levin's blog post is interesting, but not surprising -- it's a theme he's hammered over and over -- I have to admit I found the words of one of his commenters truly shocking.  I reproduce it here. (It references  a comment by John Hall that was apparently removed from the SHPG screenshot.)

Keep in mind that this woman's career is in the healing/medical field.

 If you find that screenshot difficult to read, here it is in text form:

Michaela Levin October 25, 2012 at 10:09 am 16

Actually the translation of the German sentence is: “Black man does not belong in the vicinity of our flag”. Of course, as the “elite” minds of the SHPG go, the grammar in the German sentence is wrong. However, I am not surprised to see that they use the German language for racial slurs. If they were in Germany they probably would still find many arguments why Hitler was such a “success”…all in the “gentle” spirit of “heritage”, excluding Jews, commies and the rest of “them”. The only thing that makes my day is that the overall education these people enjoy and their general attitude to life, especially their choice of diet will statistically make enough a difference that they croak earlier than the average person in the US. Bless their heart!

They use?  John Hall is a THEY?  I thought he was a HE.  This is typical, transparent verbal trickery often used by Southern-hating bloggers (Simpson seems especially fond of it)  -- attributing the comments of one or a few to the many, presumably to make the "Confederate menace" look dangerous, and vastly larger than it really is.

I next note her baseless charge about what "they" would do if "they" were in Germany. She doesn't say how she knows this, but I have to assume she doesn't hang out on proSouthern groups and sites, as I do, because if she did, she would know, as I do, that references to Hitler and Nazis are miniscule in number and hardly positive.

But what truly took my breath away when I first read this was the sheer hatred in this smartass observation,

"The only thing that makes my day is that the overall education these people enjoy and their general attitude to life, especially their choice of diet will statistically make enough a difference that they croak earlier than the average person in the US. Bless their heart!" 

 It makes her day to think "these people" will "croak early."

Look closer at her comment. She implies that human worth (i.e., worthiness to live a normal lifespan) is determined at least in part by their educational level and "general attitude to life" -- though we have no idea how she knows what that attitude is --  and then expresses joy ('makes my day") in the possible early death of "these people" due to their diet.

It's unclear whether she means the four people named in the screen shot or all 1,837 members of the Southern Heritage Preservation Group. It is also unclear whether she extends her hatred and death-wish to the groups her husband loves to hate (the SCV, Virginia Flaggers, etc.) -- or just all white Southerners.

Regardless of who she includes in her death wish, are there others among my readers who see wishing early death on anyone blatant overkill (pardon the pun) as a response to the comments on the SHPG screenshot? Even the "not bloody enough" comment is not an outright death wish for Obama  the way Levin's is for "these people.". 

As for John Hall's purported German-language wish to protect the flag from blacks (identified by Michaela Levin as a "racial slur") -- well, it IS the NAACP, not the Huguenot Society or the Mayflower Descendants,  who's been crusading for the removal of the flag since before the 2000 South Carolina boycott.

What is there about those sentiments that would cause reasonable, decent human beings to joy in someone's early death, even hypothetically?

My last question is, why are political criticisms of Obama, including tasteless but non-serious threats of violence toward him, so awful for these folks, but these tasteless but (presumably) non-serious threats toward George Bush weren't worthy of mention?

Scroll down through these horrific photos and tell me that ANYTHING in that little SHPG screen shot comes close to this hatred and violence.

http://www.zombietime.com/zomblog/?p=621

Why are these ignored by "civil war" bloggers and northeastern elites who post on them?  Because Bush's Administration has nothing to do with "civil war memory"?  But-but-but ... isn't civil war memory whatever Levin SAYS it is? Interesting that Levin found reason to mention Bush in several posts on his blog, so he perceives SOME kind of connection...  But not enough of one to deplore the hatred for Bush exhibited in these images, apparently.

Yep, double-standards abound in the worlds of anti-Confederate bloggers and their commenters. Whatever reprehensible sentiments were expressed in the SHPG screenshot, for sheer, visceral hatred, they were thoroughly neutralized and far overshadowed by the comment by Michaela Levin.

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Things "historians" overlook...

Winning Beats Sex, Drugs and Rock'n'Roll

 

On August 20, 2011, Steely Dan performed at the Tuscaloosa (Alabama) Amphitheater. A report at the al.com blog said the crowd filled the amphitheater "except for the far corners of the 200-level seats."  The facility's capacity is 7,470.

Fourteen days after the Steely Dan concert, on September 3rd, the Alabama Crimson Tide played Kent State at Bryant-Denny Stadium in Tuscaloosa. Rolltide.com reported attendance at 101,821 -- which would be a sell-out crowd because the seating capacity of the stadium is 101,821.

Crimson Tide games fill the stands at Bryant-Denny Stadium several weekends each fall.

By contrast, is there anybody out there who thinks a Steely Dan concert could fill Bryant Denny stadium to capacity seven times in the fall?  How about even once? I suspect Steely Dan couldn't fill the amphitheater seven times in the fall.

There's a reason why these "cracker a**holes," as Steely Dan's northeastern elitist a**hole Walter Becker called the team in 1977, has the grandiose name Crimson Tide, and Steely Dan's name is far from grandiose. The Crimson Tide really ARE winners in the world, and their grandiose name is well deserved.

Steely Dan's name -- derived from a fictional dildo in William S. Burroughs' novel, Naked Lunch -- is also entirely appropriate ...  for a New York elitist, has-been boomer musical duo with drug-addled brains whose songs pay homage to the degenerate sex-drugs-rock and roll culture they helped to create.

Rolltide.com also reports that more than eight million fans have witnessed the Tide play 105 home games in Bryant-Denny over the last 19 seasons.  That doesn't count the people who watched them play in away games -- or the literal millions who watch them on TV.

The gray, balding, 20th century vintage rockers may make fine music to accompany getting drunk or high -- I don't know, I don't drink or do drugs -- but the Alabama Crimson Tide inspires fans to strive for excellence, to aim for victory, to bring forth the winner's outlook in themselves. And they'll be doing it long after Walter Becker and Donald Fagen are eating broth, mashed potatoes and banana jello in a left coast nursing home somewhere....

Remember....

-- Alabama crackers are better than New Yuck elitists --

ROLL TIDE!

The Winners of the World

(Advisory -- This blog essay contains language some would find offensive.)

When the Alabama Crimson Tide defeated the Georgia Bulldogs for the Southeastern Conference title and a shot at the national championship, I posted on Facebook a YouTube video of Steely Dan's Deacon Blues -- dedicated to the Tide because of the lines, "They've got a name for the winners in the world ... they call Alabama the Crimson Tide."

I've always loved Deacon Blues not only for that line, but because it's a great song.  Had a whole bunch of Steely Dan favorites back in the day -- FM, Hey Nineteen, Peg, Josie, Reelin' In the Years, and so forth. But I never knew much about the band until now.  That's why I love the Internet -- between Google and Wikipedia, you can find out all kinds of things.

I found out that the two movers and shakers of Steely Dan were Donald Fagen and Walter Becker and that they're from New York. Curious about the Alabama Crimson Tide line in Deacon Blues, I found the song's entry on Wikipedia where I read this very, very typical Yankee put-down...

The song, while contrasting winning and losing in life, does so by taking as an image the perennial powerhouse, Crimson Tide football team. Group member Donald Fagen said, "Walter (Becker) and I had been working on that song at a house in Malibu. I played him that line, and he said, 'You mean it's like, they call these cracker assholes this grandiose name like the Crimson Tide, and I'm this loser, so they call me this other grandiose name, Deacon Blues?' And I said, 'Yeah!' He said, 'Cool! Let's finish it!'"[2]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deacon_Blues

Need I say that Steely Dan and Deacon Blues have been relegated to the same black hole of contempt where I keep Neil Young and his Southern Man? The major difference is that I've always hated Southern Man -- and I liked Deacon Blues up until last night.

Couldn't resist following up my Facebook post with this note to Fagen and Becker.  They'll never see it, but my Facebook friends will. Here's an edit of that Facebook post:

But it's all right, fellas. You're a couple of gray haired, balding boomer-music has-beens approaching retirement and your adult-diaper years, while the Alabama Crimson Tide is as young as it was when you wrote the song. And the Tide is still winning, and stands on the threshold of yet another national championship.

You've won six Grammy awards, the last one in 2001? The Crimson Tide has won 12 national championships, made 58 bowl appearances, has 98 first team all Americans and in 2009 Tide player Mark Ingram won the Heisman Trophy.

In Deacon Blues, you may have intended parody, but the fact remains, these crackers with the grandiose name, Crimson Tide, are indeed among the winners in the world, you losers... Meaning "crackerjack" fits the typical Crimson Tide player far better than the snide "cracker assholes."

When I say "Yankee," I don't mean every single person north of the Mason Dixon line. There are a great many people in the north who are wonderful folks -- good neighbors, good Americans, generous and kind. I'm not talking about those folks. I'm talking about people with the Yankee mentality, which comprises, among other things, arrogance and snide.

What is it that compels people with the Yankee mentality to stereotype Southerners like Fagen and Becker did? It seems to be automatic, without much thought, just something that's expected when you're talking about Southerners. From whence does such bigotry originate?

In 1977, the year Walter Becker and Donald Fagen penned, recorded and released Deacon Blues, the same year Becker called the Crimson Tide "cracker assholes", these fellows were among those on the Tide roster: 

Ozzie Newsome, E.J. Junior, Tony Nathan, Neil Callaway, Marty Lyons, Barry Krauss, Tom Jordan, Johnny Davis, Jeff Rutledge, Dwight Stephenson. 

 Anyone want to point out some trait or characteristic of these athletes that made them deserve to be called "cracker assholes" by drug-drenched rock musician Becker, whose narcotic use contributed to the dissolving of the band four years later, Becker's own descent into addiction, and the death of his girlfriend by drug overdose that led to a 17 million dollar wrongful death suit against Becker (eventually settled in his favor)?

Certainly the South is populated with crackers -- nothing wrong with that; crackers are no worse than arrogant Yankees --  and it has its share of assholes (Just like New York), both of which, on the morality ladder, are several rungs above degenerate rock musicians whose glorification of drugs, alcohol, and promiscuous sex in their music has contributed to the drug culture that caused wasted lives, early deaths, crime and untold misery.

Fast forward thirty-five years after the release of Deacon Blues. Take a look quarterback AJ McCarron and Jeremy Shelley, place kicker with a perfect record for Alabama this year.  Good-lookin' sweet Southern boys with a winner's mentality.

Given their appearance these days, and their history of automatic northeastern-elitist contempt for Southerners, Fagan and Becker, on the other hand, could easly pass for Yankee Civil War "historian" bloggers. You can almost see them at a Gettysburg symposium er something.

Let's wrap this up with an observation...

-- Southern crackers are better than northeastern elitists -- 

... and another music video -- but nothing from Steely Dan.  Instead, sit back and enjoy the Crimson Tide's fight song played by the University of Alabama Million Dollar Band!

"Yea, Alabama!" 

Yea, Alabama! Drown 'em Tide!
Every 'Bama man's behind you;
Hit your stride!
Go teach the Bulldogs to behave,
Send the Yellow Jackets to a watery grave!
And if a man starts to weaken,
That's a shame!
For 'Bama's pluck and grit
Have writ her name in crimson flame!
Fight on, fight on, fight on, men!
Remember the Rose Bowl we'll win then!
Go, roll to victory,
Hit your stride,
You're Dixie's Football Pride, Crimson Tide!

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Note: I will very likely return to this subject, i.e., the differences between Southern crackers and northeaster elitist a**holes, in future blog posts.

Common Sense Graphic

Cockamamie Assumptions of Racism

I recently had an encounter with a fellow on a social media platform who passed judgment on my novels without having read them -- shades of Brooks Devious Simpson -- and, amazingly, claimed he was able to discern the state of my heart's acceptance of Jesus based on a social media thread of fewer than 9,000 words.

I might make a separate blog post about that thread, but in this one, I want to deal with this fellow's prejudgment of my novels.  Apparently, because I stood up to his leftist pablum about "hate and racism," he checked my profile, which has references to my novels, and he subsequently posted this: 

"I *am* the one with the degrees, training, and experience. Debating this on [social media] with someone who writes pro-white, confederate, romanticized slavery, apologist romance novels (with all due respect to earning a buck) is like debating womens rights with the Taliban."

I asked if he'd ever debated women's rights with the Taliban.  He didn't say.  In any case, I replied: 

"Well, do let us know if anybody who writes pro-white, confederate, romanticized slavery, apologist romance novels shows up in this thread, so we can watch you debate them. I'd really like to see you debate, since you haven't done so with me. ... BTW, thanks again for showing us again your slavish adherence to the false dichotomy. If one doesn't write anti-white novels, voila, one writes pro-white ones. Those are the only two choices in binary, mind-split thinking like yours."

Later, I posted, 

"Definition of 'pro-white, confederate, romanticized slavery, apologist romance novels' -- any novel that does NOT portray white Southerners as as scum-sucking racist hicks, religious bigots/zealots, inbred idiots, philanderers, domestic abusers and/or rightwing terrorists but portrays them, instead as realistically flawed but decent and personable human beings.  ... Just out of curiosity (again), was this -- 'pro-white, confederate, romanticized slavery, apologist romance novels' -- supposed to be a description of one or more of my novels?"

As noted, I'm considering a follow up post covering  his lengthy, self-aggrandizing non-reply to this question , and my tirade in response, but the only part of the latter I'll cover here was this challenge to him: 

"Who on this thread has written pro-white, confederate, romanticized slavery, apologist romance novels? -- Have you read my novels?"

Of course, he hasn't read them.  He followed my question with some of his own, presumably designed to strike conviction of my "hate and racism" in my heart, followed by abject contrition.  Didn't work....

Him: OR, let me ask you...do any of your novels feature black lovers?

Me: Nope.

Him: Are there any interracial lovers in your novels?

Me: Nope.

Him:  Do your novels feature any black leaders, heros or high ranking members of society? And if so, why did you feature these black leadership roles?

Me: No.  So, do you think my novels (which you've never read) are racist because they don't have blacks front and center? If so, hundreds of thousands of books are racist, by your definition.

Him: ---its not like you have a huge black following eh? Common? Youre not hurting book sales by being honest.

Me:  Is it necessary to write novels with the aim of having a huge black following?  Is any novel that doesn't have blacks prominently and favorably positioned racist?

Him: Of course not...but with such strong preference for confederate ideology .....favoritism for white characters/leaders....a disliking of segregation and integration...call me provincial Connie.

Me: Did I say I dislike segregation and integration? I believe the operative words, which you're ignoring, is "government forced." Here, let me make it bigger: GOVERNMENT FORCED... Get it now?

Following this, I posted a link to a scene from one of my novels that relates an encounter between 18-year-old Randy Stevenson (white) and his friend since the first grade, Keyonne Jackson (black). The social media poster told me by private message that he read the excerpt, but didn't further comment on it.  I think he was a little shell-shocked by the content because it didn't have the "hate" and "racism" he expected...  In any case, for whatever reason, he disappeared from the thread after reading the excerpt. Makes me wonder if he also read my follow up comment (the last one in the thread as of today):

That excerpt is from Sweet Southern Boys, a sequel to Southern Man. In 2007 or so, I considered submitting the manuscript of Southern Man to publishers and agents, though I was pretty much already sold on self-publishing. Anyway, as a lark, I wrote this in a query letter to an agent....

Dear Ms. ---,

I'm writing you because I saw your entry among recommended agents on the Romance Writers of America website, and your own website indicates your clients author a wide variety of romance-based fiction. I'd like to tell you about my recently completed project.

Southern Man is an atypical, offensive 100,000-word mainstream love story I wrote for the impolite purpose of honoring Southern, white, Christian males. I have the effrontery to portray the title character, Troy Stevenson—coalminer's grandson, corporate executive, and former college football star—in a positive light.

Contrary to prevailing American beliefs, Troy hates and harms no one, despite being culturally traditional and politically conservative. He's an honorable man who provides for his family and helps others as he can. But he's far from perfect. The novel's conflicts revolve around his personal weaknesses, chiefly a nascent drinking problem, the haunting family secret that underlies it, and the mistakes he makes confronting them.

If an admirable Southern hero isn't odious enough, Southern Man also commits the unpardonable cultural sin of dissing feminism. The heroine, Patty Stevenson, is a homemaker happily fulfilled by her husband and children. The villain comprises three women—an amoral 1980s material girl romantically obsessed with Troy and two radical feminists who help her file a false sexual harassment complaint against him after he rejects her advances.

Perhaps the most egregious cultural sin I have committed in Southern Man, though, is my refusal to take on the obligation so many Southern (and other) writers evidently embrace—to atone for the South's “sins” and accelerate its “rehabilitation” by portraying white Southerners, especially men, as evil racists, religious bigots/zealots, inbred idiots, philanderers, domestic abusers and/or rightwing terrorists. My characters are flawed but decent and personable, not the repulsive regional stererotypes all too common in pop culture.

Although not a genre romance, I wrote Southern Man to appeal to romance readers through the tender, tenacious and sensual love relationship between Troy and his wife and the happily-ever-after ending. Studies commissioned by the Romance Writers of America indicate that 30% of the 64 million romance readers in the USA reside in the South. I'm convinced a hefty percentage of them would welcome positive portrayals of their region and its people, if only more of them were offered.

Two other points. The story is set in the early 1980s, in moss-hung Verona, Georgia. Although written with a culturally Christian worldview—because that's how the South is—this is not a Christian romance.

If you aren't thoroughly offended by now and would like to see more, I can send a synopsis and sample chapters or the entire manuscript for your consideration. An SASE is enclosed for your reply. You can also contact me at the phone numbers or e-mail address above. While you're online, I invite you to watch a video trailer at http:----

Thank you for taking the time to read my letter.

What this experience with the social media commenter illustrates is the sort of mentality that Brooks Devious Simpson had exhibited on his blog on occasion when referencing my novels, which he hasn't read, either. It betrays an attitude, a belief, that white Southern writers are obligated to:

• prominently feature blacks in their stories, either as (a) interracial lovers or black leaders, heros or high ranking members of society or, (b) as the miserable, helpless victims of Southern white evil...(The latter seems to be the favored view of anti-Southern bloggers like Simpson, Levin, Hall and hangers-on/wannabees Meyer and Rob "Tu Quoque" Bakur.)
• portray Southern whites as as evil racists, religious bigots/zealots, inbred idiots, philanderers, domestic abusers and/or rightwing terrorists. 

Presumably, NOT doing this is racism and hate -- and ranks right up there with eating white turkey meat at Thanksgiving.... (I'm not making this up.)

I've blogged about his prejudice hypocrisy in that area several times:

http://mybacksass.blogspot.com/2012/08/the-anti-racist-smear-mentality.html
http://mybacksass.blogspot.com/2012/08/bigotry-against-white-southerners-on.html
http://mybacksass.blogspot.com/2012/10/the-king-of-hypocrisy.html 

This mentality also comes from perfect strangers who haven't read my books. I discussed one such incident here:

http://mybacksass.blogspot.com/2010/11/recently-my-novel-southern-man.html;

That blog entry includes this comment from me: "I feel no obligation to trash the people of my region, and that really annoys some folks, as two of the comments at Red's blog -- and countless other internet comments, blogs, books, magazine articles, movies and TV shows -- attest. How dare Southern writers portray their people positively? How dare Southerners show the unmitigated temerity to be comfortable with who they are? How dare they not totally define themselves by their faults, as yankees and neo-scalawags think they should?

Nope. Not from my keyboard, folks