White Identity

White Identity
by Kevin Alfred Strom

Listen to audio at: http://www.natall.com/internet-radio/ts/060703.mp3

American Dissident Voices Broadcast of June 7, 2003

Welcome to American Dissident Voices. I'm Kevin Alfred Strom.

If we are going to survive, that means that we have to decide who "we"
are. That's so basic, so obvious, so essential that it's amazing how
few people give much thought to it.

The Blacks have very little trouble deciding who they are. They know
at a glance. Anyone of largely sub-Saharan African ancestry, who has
the requisite dark complexion, kinky hair, and broad nose and thick
lips qualifies. They don't much care whether the individual in
question believes in Catholicism, Pentecostalism, the AME Church, or
is a follower of Louis Farrakhan or an indigenous African religion.
They don't much care if the person is a Marxist or a free-market
entrepreneur. As much as individual Blacks may care about such things,
race trumps all. What they really care about is the fact that the
person in question is Black. It's a question of racial survival. Race
has to trump all. It is of the essence.

Similarly, the Nation of Aztlan folks are deeply concerned for their
race's survival. They know who they are and where they came from. They
value their racial characteristics and demand that they have a future.
They demand territory -- exclusive territory -- so their race can have
food and living space and self-government. They don't, to my
knowledge, define themselves through religion. So therefore the
differences between the Catholic and indigenous religions practiced by
members of their race do not fracture their racial unity, nor does
religious conversion serve to pollute their gene pool. They may differ
on economics and on the ideal social structure they'd like to see in
the new nation they intend to carve out of the United States. But they
all agree that they need to carve out that nation -- and they all
agree that that nation will belong to their race and their race alone.
That's essential. Everything else is debatable. Racial identity is
paramount. They are a race which intends to survive.

Similarly, East Asian peoples have a very strong sense of peoplehood.
Their communities at home, and in the countries they colonize overseas
like the United States and Canada, are close to being racially pure.
They maintain their racial integrity, and there is a vanishingly small
percentage of non-Asian mmigration to their homelands. They know who
they are. With almost no exceptions, they define themselves in terms
of ancestry -- reverence for one's ancestors is a powerful tradition
among Asians -- and the genetic integrity of their nations is secure.

But ask a few White Americans or Europeans to define their people --
to define who "we" are -- and you will get such a mass of
contradictory answers that you'll quickly give up on getting any
consistent answer to your question. You'll probably get more rational
answers from other races if you ask them to define who "we" are. They
have long and quite rationally regarded the White West as a racial and
cultural unity.

Part of White confusion about who we are is no doubt due to the
omnipresent propaganda of the Jewish-controlled media and educational
establishments, which says that "race does not exist," that racial
mixing is desirable, and that White identity is the sine qua non of
all evil in the world. This propaganda undoubtedly does real damage to
White psyches, and to innocent young White souls. And the promoters of
such propaganda deserve whatever measures it takes to stop their
hateful lies. But their propaganda does not fully explain the
confusion of Whites about their racial identity.

Part of the confusion about our identity is religious in nature.

In the dying days of the majestic Classical civilization created by
our race, the indigenous religion of that civilization was defeated,
destroyed, and supplanted by Christianity, which had originally sprung
from Jewish roots, and then spread among the slave population to the
increasingly cosmopolitan and proletarian citizenry. In a few
centuries, Christianity became the state religion of Rome. When
healthier White tribes from the north invaded and eventually occupied
Rome, many were undoubtedly awed by the culture, technology,
architecture, and monumental art of the defeated Empire. They
mistakenly associated these great achievements of our race with the
recently-adopted religion of Christianity, and naturally the Pontifex
Maximus, or chief Christian priest or Pope of Rome, anxious to
preserve the wealth and power of his institution, did not disabuse
them of this misconception. Thus many Whites, overawed by the remnants
of Rome's grandeur and greatness, were converted to a belief in what
they thought was the god of Rome.

In addition to these sincere conversions, there were other sincere
conversions based on a true belief in the Westernized Christian
doctrines eventually preached all over Europe; or on the qualities the
Christians' Bible, which, unlike the more poetic and fanciful
Classical or related Nordic myths, claimed to be an accurate
historical record of events that actually happened in the real world.
And it is commonplace knowledge that many conversions were made by the
sword, and that thousands were killed who would not submit.

Thus it was that Christianity achieved what no other religion had done
before. It brought all Europe and almost all of our race under one
religion -- a remarkable achievement, which had many benefits, not the
least of which was a realization of cultural unity and a doctrinal
basis to unite all White tribes against common racial enemies, who
naturally also had alien religions. It was under the banner of
Christianity that Charles Martel defeated the Moslems at Tours and
that the Moors were finally expelled from Europe by the troops of
Ferdinand and Isabella.

With geographic Europe, and racial Europe, almost universally
Christian, Europe became Christendom. And, for all practical purposes,
the White race thought of itself as Christendom. And, although in a
diminished sense, many of us still think that way today. Even in White
nationalist circles, where our sense of racial identity must be
strongest if we are to lead our people to freedom and security, we
find such thinking is very common.

Even Lawrence Brown, author of the thought-provoking work The Might of
the West, defined "us" as the descendants of those who were Catholic
in 1492, with some additions, also Christian.

It's hard not to be emotionally moved by the racially healthy aspects
of Christian ritual and culture: the all-White children's choir
singing Mozart's Introitus Requiem or the intensely spiritual works of
Bach or Handel; the magnificent Gothic cathedral or the white country
church at the foot of the mountain; the upright moral folk who peopled
the vastness of the American plains and made the greatest Republic in
history. I am moved by these things myself.

But these things are in their essence more White than they are
Christian. Without the White race, they could never have existed, even
if Christianity had taken root among other races. The source of
Mozart's music and the vast Gothic temples was not in doctrine, not in
scripture, but in the genes. That is one reason we must define
ourselves in racial terms -- in genetic terms -- or we and everything
we built and everything we love will die.

That is why White Christians must put race first, above even their
beloved religion. They must agree with other White nationalists that
what we are is White, what we are is the European race, what we are is
defined in biological terms and that what we are fighting for is the
survival of that racial heritage and the culture that our race created
and that it alone can sustain and move forward to its destiny. Race
comes first. Race is how we must define ourselves. Whites of other
religions are still "us." Non-Whites, even if they share our religious
beliefs, can never be "us." Any other approach is suicide.

Defining ourselves in broad religious terms only means that either 1)
Koreans and Jews, et cetera, who convert to our religion are "us" too
or 2) that most Mexicans, for example, are "us" now.

That's giving up the game, lying down, and accepting racial death. If
a few part-Whites survive someday who practice Christianity, that's
defeat. Not victory.

Our race not only existed before Christianity existed -- making it
impossible for that to be our defining characteristic -- but we
existed before any known religion came into being.

Before Darwin and Mendel and Crick and Watson, we may not have known
our distant history or the physical mechanism behind our identity as
Whites. Before the rise of Jewish power in the 20th century, we may
not have seen clearly that the Jews are a profoundly alien intrusion
into our nations.

But the United States Congress in 1790 did make being "a free White
person" a requirement for becoming a citizen of the United States, a
legal requirement which remained in force for 162 years. They saw what
was essential, and acted on it. They had an implicit White racial
consciousness that was made explicit in the laws of the land.

Unfortunately, they had no conception of the non-White nature of the
Jew, and that was the one flaw that allowed the mass immigration of
Jews in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. And that alien (and
racially conscious of its alienness) group proceeded to use all of its
cleverness and all of its wealth to destroy the nascent racial
consciousness of Whites and to erase the laws of our forefathers which
protected our race from non-White immigration and intermarriage. Some
have argued that identifying ourselves as Christians might have
prevented the mistake of considering Jews to be White and so allowing
them free access to our society, but I do not agree with that
position. As in Spain 500 years ago, Jews could just have themselves
sprinkled with 'holy water' and claim to believe in the right
doctrine, and the religious barrier could be easily overcome. And
furthermore, the Jewish connection to Christianity has most often
worked in the Jews' favor, making religious and secular Christian
leaders alike view them with misplaced sympathy.

The exalted beauty (dare I say Whiteness?) of the religious services I
talked about, or the lovely and moving Easter service at a New England
church a respected lady told me about in a recent letter, could never
have been completely captured by non-Whites, no matter what their
creed. One thinks of Black churches and their very different, if no
less sincere, ambience and spirituality.

But I sincerely believe that a similar religious feeling (dare I say
spirit?), perhaps even purer, _was_ present in ancient Hellas when
choirs sang forth in praise of Eos -- or when Pan or Freya were
invoked in the forest temples of our other old homelands.

I do not advocate a return to the old religions -- far from it. But
the key to our spirituality -- the key to what we are -- is within
ourselves, and is therefore within our genes. It is not found in any
specific creed, particularly not within a creed we inherited from
other peoples, or one that can be adopted by anybody.

America's founders had a sense of a White identity which transcended
religion. That's why they defined citizenship in racial terms in the
Naturalization Act of 1790. That's why even those who opposed Black
slavery -- like Francis Scott Key -- were supportive of the American
Colonization Society which proposed to repatriate the freed Blacks to
Africa. That's why Thomas Jefferson supported racial separation on a
continental scale. Jefferson pointed out the great difference between
slavery in America, where the slaves were Black, and slavery in
ancient Rome, where the slaves were White: "Among the Romans,
emancipation required but one effort. The slave when made free might
mix with, without staining the blood of his master. But with us a
second effort is necessary, unknown to history. When freed he is to be
removed beyond the reach of mixture."

That sense of White racial identity was even promoted and advocated by
no less than the President of the United States (Theodore Roosevelt)
as late as the early years of the 20th century. He stated:

"Nineteenth-century democracy needs no more complete vindication for
its existence than the fact that it has kept for the white race the
best portions of the new worlds' surface, temperate America and
Australia.

"Had these regions been under aristocratic governments, Chinese
immigration would have been encouraged precisely as the slave trade is
encouraged of necessity by any slave-holding oligarchy, and the result
would in a few generations have been even more fatal to the white
race; but the democracy, with the clear instinct of race selfishness,
saw the race foe, and kept out the dangerous alien.

"The presence of the negro in our Southern States is a legacy from the
time when we were ruled by a transoceanic aristocracy. The whole
civilization of the future owes a debt of gratitude greater than can
be expressed in words to that democratic policy which has kept the
temperate zones of the new and the newest worlds a heritage for the
white people." -- Memorial Edition of the Works of Theodore Roosevelt,
XIV, 245, 246.

"If there is one question upon which the philanthropists of the
present day, especially the more emotional ones, are agreed, it is
that any law restricting Chinese immigration is an outrage; yet it
seems incredible that any man of even moderate intelligence should not
see that no greater calamity could now befall the United States than
to have the Pacific slope filled up with a Mongolian population." --
Memorial Edition of the Works of Theodore Roosevelt, VIII, 118

On the Texas war for independence from Mexico, Theodore Roosevelt
said:

"Whatever might be the pretexts alleged for revolt, the real reasons
were to be found in the deeply marked difference of race, and in the
absolute unfitness of the Mexicans then to govern themselves, to say
nothing of governing others." -- Memorial Edition of the Works of
Theodore Roosevelt, VIII, 131

Theodore Roosevelt's virtue in having a strong racial consciousness
was something he shared with America's founding fathers of the late
18th century. In a way he was a continuation of their legacy. He also
embodied some of their flaws, such as a naive belief that
representative government, miscalled "democracy" by TR, could cure all
ills and somehow ensure wisdom. Another flaw -- a fatal flaw --
possessed by both Teddy Roosevelt and the founders was the foolish
belief that the Jews were, in essence, the same people as European
Whites and differed only or mainly in their religion. In fact, Teddy
Roosevelt once ridiculed an anti-Jewish preacher who came to New York
when TR was police commissioner there. The Jews were, then as now,
anxious to shut the preacher up and close down his speaking
engagements. This Roosevelt refused to do, but he did employ a group
of Jewish policemen to protect the clergyman.

The nine decades from the time of Theodore Roosevelt to the present
have educated all of us on the utter folly of regarding the Jew as
just a odd kind of White man with a peculiar religion vaguely related
to our own. The Jew's open and aggressive promotion of everything
which destroys our race, from non-White immigration to miscegenation
to homosexuality have shown us that the Jewish survival strategy is
one of destroying the racial integrity and consciousness of their host
people. Whites must become racially conscious, and racially conscious
Whites must never make the mistake of accepting Jews as White again.

We must regain a sense of racial consciousness, which is the heritage
of the old America and the founders, and we must refine it with the
lessons we have learned in the last century. We desperately need to
regain that sense of identity again. It must not be based on beliefs,
which can change in a moment or a decade and which allow the alien to
claim to be one of us. It must be based not on what we believe, as
important as that may be. It must be based on what we actually are.
Only then can what we are -- our defining essence and the source of
all that we create and love, and all that our descendants will create
in love in the future -- survive and achieve its destiny.

Until next week, this is Kevin Alfred Strom reminding you to keep on
thinking free.

=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
The text above is based on a broadcast of the American Dissident
Voices radio program sponsored by National Vanguard Books. It is
distributed by e-mail each Saturday to subscribers of ADV-list.
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

==> To subscribe send an e-mail message to:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] The subject of the message should be:
Subscribe

=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

To comment on this broadcast, please write to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To
report typos and technical errors in ADV-list or our web site, please
write to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

To contact us via "snail mail," write to:
     National Vanguard Books
     Attention:  ADVlist
     P.O. Box 330
     Hillsboro, WV  24946

The National Alliance:  http://www.natvan.com
                        http://www.natall.com