How Long is Long Enough?

Indigenous (Adjective) 1. Originating or occurring naturally in a particular place.

How long must one’s people live in any given geographical area before they can be considered “indigenous” to the land. My people have been in North America for nearly 400 years. My son is, if my research is correct, the 14^th generation of my family to live on this continent.By that definition, the only ancestors of mine who came as foreigners to North America were the family of Rowland Stebbins who first set foot here in 1634. Everyone since then, down to the present day, “originated and occurred naturally” in this particular place. Clearly, I am an indigenous American.

Now, the reason I laid out that argument is by way of preamble to the main thrust of this post. If, I can make a valid argument to lay claim to my right to call America my home, and if the bones of a dozen generations of my ancestors rest in the soil of this land, then no one can tell me that I and mine are not native to this place. By virtue of that truth, I have the inherent right to defend my place in the land that I call home. That is a right pre-existing any written law. It is a natural right bestowed by God and not subject to the whims of man or the winds of popular opinion.

Are the Boers of South Africa any different? They have lived and died in Africa as long as whites have lived and died in America. If they can rightly claim Africa as their ancestral home (I suggest they indeed have the historical and cultural right to make that claim), then how will the world react when they fight back against those who would dispossess and murder them? How will the world deal with the coming genocide of the native white population of South Africa? Will the slaughter of the Afrikaners go unnoticed, unreported, and unavenged? Will the violence and death inflicted on them be decried as racist genocide or dismissed as retribution for past injustice, or will it simply be ignored? Are Afrikaners as native to the continent as any black tribe or are they simply temporary interlopers in the native home of others? As is often the case, a reasonable look at history provides, if not the answer, then at least grist for the mill of debate.

The Dutch arrived in southern Africa in 1652 and gradually spread inland, taking possession of a virtually empty land. Historical revisionism notwithstanding, 150 years passed before the first significant confrontation occurred between whites and blacks in southern Africa when Boers moving north clashed with Zulus moving south. The fact is that white babies had been “originating, and occurring naturally” in that place for a century and a half before their parents faced any serious competition from black Africans. Now, at this point, the historically illiterate and politically ovine will begin to bleat about white racism, colonial oppression, and every other politically correct distraction they can come up with to avoid any serious thought or debate.

They will ululate about how the Boers usurped and “stole” the land from the natives. It may be a hard truth to swallow for myopic racists who see whites as easy scapegoats for the condition of sub-Saharan Africa, but the fact remains that the Boers of South Africa are indeed Africans and have been for nearly four centuries. Skin color does not dictate the place that a human being calls home. The brainless posturing of the unhinged does not change the truth of history. The fact is that the first squalling white baby to draw breath on the African shore was African and his descendants are as native to that land as the blackest denizen of any kraal, hut, or house on the continent.

Intellectual honesty demands then, does it not, that the same standard applies to every Mohammedan or Latino whelped in London or Los Angeles. In a very narrow sense, I suppose that is true but in the broader sweep of history, the comparison does not hold up. The Boers settled a land and built a prosperous nation. They carved out their destiny with their own hands. The invaders of Europe and America carve out nothing but their own entitled niche in the welfare states of the white civilization they did not build.

I remember the days when anti-apartheid hysteria was reaching its apotheosis and it seemed that a bloodbath was imminent in South Africa. Full on racial war seemed not only possible, but probable. Somehow, political power passed relatively peacefully into the hands of the black majority and the specter of racial slaughter receded into the background. Given the current position of the native whites of South Africa and the accelerating slide toward the abyss of race war, many Afrikaners may be wishing they had made their stand then. Instead, they now face a greater threat when their numbers are fewer and their position weaker.

The harbingers of the coming genocide are clear for any thinking person to see. It will not be long before the whites are dispossessed of their land and homes. The political power recently crossed that particular Rubicon. Of course, the necessary actions must be taken to “right past wrongs,” and redress “historical injustice.” They will seek to cloak naked theft with the rag of “constitutional amendment.” Can the camps and the mass graves be far behind? Even now, the bloody handwriting is on the wall of many a Boer farmhouse. Atrocities so wicked they strain the credulity of civilized men are being visited upon white men, women, and children by savages more beast than human. These things are happening now. This is not subject to debate.

The land will be taken and given into the hands of black “farmers.” Famine will follow as surely as Zimbabwe followed Rhodesia. When a hungry population has been whipped into a sufficient frenzy of hatred toward their white “oppressors,” the killing will spread from Boer farms to the streets and suburbs of Pretoria, Johannesburg, and Cape Town. A black and bloody tide of pent up hatred and imagined grievance will engulf the rainbow nation. My guess is that when the crunch comes, the Boers will not go quietly into the night.

The descendants of the voortrekkers and the 500 of Blood River do not seem to me to be the kind of people who will meekly submit to their own extinction. The fight is coming whether they want it or not. It is coming whether they fear it or not. I hope they will fight to defend their families and homes. I hope they will stand astride the graves of their fathers and howl defiance into the teeth of those who seek their blood. Perhaps their fight will show the emasculated remnants of European manhood what it means to know who you are and where you come from. Perhaps their fight will give the white majority in America reason to ponder the fate of a nation that relinquishes power to those who hate them.

Every thinking white person around the world must come to understand that what is unfolding in South Africa is what awaits every white nation that allows itself to be swamped by third world demographics. The white world is reaping that whirlwind even now and if the fate of the Afrikaners serves as a canary in the coal mine, then we would do well to remember that for the canary to do its job, it must die.

Demographic hurricanes are building all over the world, stoked and energized by the race baiters and demagogues who seek to lay all the world’s ills at the feet of the white race. Perceived injustice can be a powerful motivator and finding scapegoats to assuage the pain and shame of one’s own failings is a common thread in human history. South African whites are the perfect scapegoats for the societal and political failure of blacks in their own lands. Who will be next I wonder?

When the bloodletting begins, what will the world do? The answer will tell us much about what majority white nations can expect to confront in the darkening world to come.