The holiday known as Memorial Day was originally called Decoration Day.
It was established in 1868 to memorialize the Union victory over the South and the Slave Power.
The pro-slavery attitudes of the South never died, however. It became the “Noble Cause.” It remains ignoble today.
Jim Crow is one testament to it. So is opposition to the Civil Rights cause, the “duality of the southern thing.” Whites prohibiting “miscegenation” made every mixed-race baby a crime until 1967, six years after our 44th President was born. I’ll explain why this is funny in a moment.
This evil has a religious component. America’s Baptist Church split over slavery. The Southern Baptist Convention supported slavery. They also opposed Civil Rights.
They remain tied to slavery in the form of opposing abortion. So do other denominations with all-male hierarchies. It’s not a coincidence.
What does abortion have to do with slavery?
Abortion has everything to do with slavery. I learned that by just looking at my black neighbors. Those whose ancestors were slaves are lighter in color than their African forebears. Many have other white features.
This is because their female ancestors were raped. Raped repeatedly, by their masters and (sometimes) his sons. They were bred like cattle. This, not the whip, is the heart of slavery’s evil. It’s a question of who will control procreation, the woman with her body, or the man waving his magic wand?
It’s a struggle as old as time. It’s why most babies look like their fathers, even if they later age out to look like their moms. Wild animals will kill babies who don’t look like daddy. Progeny are power, says evolution. The difference between a wild animal and a domestic one lies in who drives this evolution. Evolution often runs backward when men do the driving, through hunting or even compassion, which lets Mr. Squirrel proliferate while killing Mama Coyote.
Civilization and science are threats to this power. Eugenicists were 100% wrong. It’s variation in genetic strains that provides children with the best protection, inbreeding that leads to genetic-based disease and mutation.
But the power of procreation remains. It’s this power that is leading to our second Civil War. It’s this power that is at the heart of the abortion struggle.
As was the case 160 years ago, the violence leading to the struggle’s climax is mostly on the pro-slavery side. Attacks on abortion clinics, on doctors who perform the surgery, and on women seeking to control their own bodies has been rising for decades. This may climax, soon, in the Supreme Court allowing states to outlaw the procedure. Already, in anticipation, my own state of Georgia has passed a law that would, with Supreme Court approval, make it illegal for a woman to even get an out-of-state abortion after six weeks.
This is called a “heartbeat” law. But any undergraduate science student knows that human life doesn’t begin with a heartbeat. It begins, and ends, with a breath and a thought. Lungs and brains are the last organs to develop in any fetus. God is no madwoman. Nature makes miscarriage common in the first trimester, and even in the second. It’s sad, even tragic, but the Georgia law would call these miscarriages murders, and have every woman who miscarried investigated by law enforcement, with an eye toward putting her in jail.
The fact that these laws contain no exceptions for rape or incest is the whole point. The slavemaster’s view is “I fucked you, you’re fucked, and you’ll stay fucked. No matter what you do, I own you, and your future, because I fucked you.” Doesn’t matter if the pregnancy comes about from sweet-talking, threats of violence, or actual violence, whether it’s a stranger you met in a bar or your own father, you’re fucked and will stay fucked, forever.
All hail the mighty prick.
Does my rhetoric sound extreme to you? Tough. Women opposing their own sexual slavery have tried all sorts of euphemisms to hide this brutal fact, for nearly 50 years. It’s called “choice.” Or it’s called “medical care.”
Screw that. It’s personal autonomy we’re talking about. It’s about whether men or women will decide who will be the next generation. Slavemasters, and there are black ones today who fuck women and then walk away, calling them their “baby mamas,” are all about one thing. That will be MY face you see in the future, no one else’s. Bitch.
Women know better. Civilized men, as opposed to the animals of the pro-slavery movement, know better. We know that parenting has nothing to do with fucking, or genetics. Parenting is a process, one that is just getting started after 18 years. Real men parent. Animals fuck.
Just like James Buchanan, Trump doesn’t give a shit about any of this. He’s just hoping, that by combining strongly held minority views, he can fool the people one more time, and steal the economy for himself and his Russian friends. He’s oblivious, just as Buchanan was oblivious, caring only about his own power, washing his hands of the rest.
I know abortion is just one of several things that are coming to a head as 2020 approaches. It’s a crisis that has been building since 1968, accelerating since 2009, racing ahead since November 8, 2016. I’ve written a lot here, rather dispassionately, concerning my belief that 2020 is about changing economic models, the rise of technology and biology, the fall of oil and manufacturing, the need for human capital as a gating factor to growth, the ready replaceability of oil and the other fuels that have this planet running a fever which threatens to throw man over like the virus we are, when compared with God and nature’s laws.
On slavery, I can’t be dispassionate. Just as with Nazis and racists I can’t be dispassionate. If you’re a Nazi, if you’re pro-slavery, you’re my enemy, you’re going down.
Or mankind is.
The issues of every crisis period are not the real issues. This I know, because history tells me so. Southerners spent a century telling each other that the Civil War wasn’t about slavery, but about economic models. To an extent they’re right. The southern economic model was based on slavery, and it was ineffective against the industrial model of the north. The whole project was doomed before it began.
Yet it began. It killed 620,000 Americans. It was this fact that Decoration Day was created to remember.
I don’t know how many men and women will die in the current struggle. Too many already have. But we’re armed to the teeth, and many, many people will die before their time, over the next few years.
“Happy” Decoration Day.
