April 26, 2014 - The Political Cesspool - James Edwards
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James Edwards, it's Saturday evening, April 26th.
Last Saturday of the month of April, I believe last year, we were blessed with five Saturdays.
Not to say that there were five weeks in April in 2013, but there were five Saturdays, and so we had an extra week of Confederate History Month to work in.
Confederate History Month can really continue all year, of course, and it should.
And it does here, as far as I'm concerned, in our hearts and minds.
But as far as the hour of each broadcast that is dedicated to all things Southern, we do that every April in honor of Confederate History Month, which is, of course, an officially recognized month by several southern states.
I hope you've enjoyed our coverage of it this year.
I still maintain last year's coverage was very good.
Keith Alexander was very good last year.
He's always good.
This year's coverage, I think, has been good.
There's never been a bad Confederate History Month, but I would say still, though, 2007 stands out in my mind.
That was when back in 2007, before we were nationally syndicated and picked up by the network when we transitioned to being a weekly show, back in 2007, we were still a daily show, meaning we were on Monday through Friday.
So you can imagine how many shows we had.
And that was actually the last year.
2007 was where we had an April where we were still going Monday through Friday.
And maybe that's the reason it stands out more than some of these subsequent years.
But 2007's Confederate History Month series, perhaps, was the best.
We had so many notable guests on the show that year, and we, of course, had more time to work in more guests because, you know, you had five times the amount of programming to fill.
And it's still available in the broadcast archive.
So if you're lamenting the fact that after this week, Confederate History Month's over until next year, don't worry.
Because you can go back and listen to the archives of the 2007 programming that we had here on the Political Cesspool during the month of April.
And it's still just as timely and just as contemporary as anything we could present to you this evening.
Because, you know, you're talking about a period of time that has come and gone, sadly, with regards to the actual Confederacy, the Confederate States of America.
And so, therefore, what we had to say in 2007 is still as fresh as far as it goes as anything we could say in 2014.
So, thepolitical cesspool.org, you go and you go to our archives and you go back to 07 and you can indulge in that and you can continue the party in May and beyond.
It was in 2005, though, that this program received the National Dixie Defender Award presented to us by the Sons of Confederate Veterans, presented to the Political Cesspool in appreciation of the International Sons of Confederate Veterans for outstanding contribution to the preservation of Confederate history.
We have served, they say, the Sons of Confederate Veterans in an outstanding manner, and in doing so, brought honor and dignity to ourselves and our forefathers.
The Sons of Confederate Veterans is pleased to present this award in recognition of our service and achievements.
We are true Southern gentlemen, they say, and we, the descendants of those men who wore gray, sincerely appreciate the efforts and unselfish actions of the Political Cesspool.
And that was back in 2005.
We were just getting started, still wet behind the ears in 05.
July 2005 was when that award was presented to us, and it hangs here in the studio, along with a few other awards we've accumulated over the years, including my honorary Memphis City Councilman plaque and the certificate of recognition to the Political Cesspool from the city of Memphis in appreciation of outstanding contribution to the community.
All very nice.
Well, folks, it's always an honor, obviously, to me, being a descendant of a Confederate soldier, to be able to do this, to keep that memory alive and that culture alive, because it should live on forever and ever and ever.
And our guest tonight is a man that's going to help us talk a little more about that, Michael Hill, president of the League of the South, Dr. Michael Hill.
He's going to be coming up at the top of the next segment and will be with me for the remainder of the second hour.
And then in the third hour tonight, I've got a lot of news stories I want to bring to your attention.
So we're going to have a vast and varied show, truly a one-man show in the third hour as I go it alone and bringing you the news.
But really an honor for me.
You know, I've shared on the show many times that my grandparents on both sides and certainly their forebears were from the state of Missippi.
And so I have that Mississippi blood in me.
And even though I was born in Tennessee, my parents were born in Tennessee and they were first-generation Tennesseans.
It was Mississippi before that.
Mississippi has such a rich Confederate history.
Still, Mississippi today, God bless them, the only state that still has the Confederate flag as part of their official state flag.
And it's such a rich cultural heritage.
It's something that we should be proud of.
You know, we can't buy into the lies of the establishment media that this is something shameful.
This is something backwards.
It's as righteous today as it ever was, and it'll be as righteous 100 years from now as it was 150 years ago when those brave Americans, those real Americans, those real Americans were fighting to preserve the American way of life.
And had the opportunity to actually go, and I've shared this before, to the last Confederate burial when they raised the crew of the CSS Hundley in Charleston, South Carolina.
It took them over 100 years to find that submarine, the first submarine ever to sink an enemy ship in naval warfare.
And I got to go and lay cedar on the grave, the actual coffin of Lieutenant George Dixon.
What a moving experience, folks.
We'll be back with Michael Hill right after this.
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All right, folks, I'm very excited to welcome back a good friend of mine and yours to the broadcast as we wrap up our exclusive coverage of Confederate History Month 2014 here on the Political Cesspool Radio Program.
Dr. J. Michael Hill of the great state of Alabama is the president of the League of the South and the author of Celtic Warfare and Fire and Sword.
He's also a frequent lecturer on southern cultural issues.
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Dr. Hill, thank you for joining us tonight as our final guest for Confederate History Month 2014.
James, it's always my pleasure to be with you.
Always great to have somebody with your accent on the show, too, I might add.
Well, you know, I want to cover a lot of ground tonight.
I want to talk about Confederate history.
I want to talk about Confederate heroes, and I also want to talk about the future of the South in 2014 and beyond, if we can cover all that in the limited amount of time we have remaining in this hour.
But first, I want to go back to an article that you wrote.
I found it quite profound.
I think we feature it the last, we featured it the last two or three years on our website during the month of April.
Why My Heart is Still in Dixie, I believe is the title.
Give us the synopsis of that piece.
Well, you know, basically, I learned very, very early on when I was a boy that there were them and there were us.
And I've never forgotten that.
I know who I am, and I'm very proud to be who I am, and that's, you know, that's what the League stands for.
We know who our people are, and we know who our people are not.
And my heart will always be with my people.
And that's basically what I'm talking about here, because, you know, Dixie is land, obviously.
You know, we have our states, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, Florida, etc.
But more importantly, we're a people.
We're a nation in the biblical sense.
And that's, you know, my people.
And, you know, people say, well, Dr. Hill, who are your people?
Well, my people are white Southerners.
And that's who the League stands for.
And that's basically why my heart will always be in Dixie is because Dixie is where my people are.
And you know what?
Who could argue with that?
And we talk about the double standards and how egregious they are.
What you said, if you had said it as any other race or ethnicity of person, you would be, well, my God, Michael, you would be on every talk show.
You would be a well-paid lecturer.
You would be on news talk shows much more frequently than you are, and always in a favorable light.
It goes without saying.
I mean, that's not news to anyone.
That's certainly not news to our audience.
But the fact that someone perhaps would recoil to hear you speak about matters pertaining to the interests of your family and it be something that is wrong versus the fact that everyone else does it and it's, as we always say, not only allowed but celebrated.
Could you talk about that before we go back to 1861?
Oh, sure.
Absolutely.
Every other group, every other racial group is encouraged to celebrate who they are.
And, of course, there is that double standard you talked about.
But I tell you this, James.
They may recoil from it, but they better damn well get used to recoiling from it because I'm not going to shut up.
And neither is the league, and neither is a lot of other people out there that I know.
You know, we're pushing what we call the southern question, and that is just what we do promote the survival, well-being, and independence of the southern people.
And the southern people are who I just identified them as.
And if they think they've heard something now, they don't know anything.
It's just going to get louder and louder until we persuade the Southern people out there that what we're doing here is in their best interest.
And we're going to talk more about the current activism on the street and in the court of public opinion that the league is engaging in a little bit later on this hour.
But God bless you for taking that righteous stand and for doing what everyone else is proud to do for their people.
And certainly I'm sure I speak for you, and you can correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think I am.
I appreciate that other people do that for themselves, and I don't seek to take away that right from them to do so.
But nor will I allow them to silence me or make me feel as though I am doing something that I should feel guilty for, for speaking up in the defense of the interests, the unique cultural interests of my family.
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
Pretty much it.
Same way.
Absolutely.
Well, let's go back a little bit now and talk about Confederate history.
As I shared with you on the phone, you know, in the confines of commercial talk radio, you only have a few minutes each show, and only, I guess with all of the shows in April combined, you might have had two or three hours tops that we've been able to really dedicate to Confederate history and heritage.
Not nearly enough to talk about a four-year period and the antebellum period before that, and even the period after Reconstruction, all the way well into the 60s and 70s, where the Southern culture, it's still alive, obviously, today, but where it was still very much alive.
You can't work that in.
You can't cover it all.
You're talking about a period of American history that changed the world, not just this country, but the world.
But let's go back.
A hard question.
I believe I've asked you this before.
Last week we had a tour guide on from Elmwood Cemetery here in Memphis, which houses the graves of more Confederate generals than anywhere except for Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond.
We talked about some of the more, I hate to use this word, but obscure Confederate heroes.
I mean, certainly anybody who's a regular listener to this show, they'll know Forrest.
They'll know Lee.
They know Jackson.
They know some of the quote-unquote big names.
And those people, God knows, are worthy of remembrance, to say the least.
I mean, you're talking about people like Nathan Bedford Forrest.
I don't even know if that guy was human.
I mean, his true life story, what he really did in life, his actions, are more like a mythological Greek god.
And so certainly, you know, we revere those folks.
But if you had to pick somebody that isn't perhaps a household name in the hearts and minds of a tent of Southerners, who would it be?
Without a doubt, it would be Jack Henson.
Tell us about him.
Jack Henson was a native Kentuckian, I believe, in western Kentucky, just north of the Tennessee border, I believe.
A very prosperous farmer.
Sought to basically mind his own business during the war.
He had several sons, and he was suspected of being a Confederate sympathizer, as were his sons.
Suspected.
The Yankees, once they occupied that part of Kentucky, captured his sons, decapitated, and put their heads at the edge of his property as a warning.
At that point, Jack Henson laid down his tools, had himself a sniper rifle made, and bid his family adieu, went into the woods along the Tennessee River there, where it confluences with the Ohio River, and caused, raised holy hell with the Yankees as a sniper for four years, killed well over, had well over 100 kills,
and waged a one-man private war with a sniper rifle against the Yankees.
Yeah, he's my hero.
One man defending his family.
I'll tell you, the savagery of the Union, you know, we're supposed to revere this.
You know, the Republicans now have Lincoln Day dinners.
That's their big gala every year, the Lincoln Day dinner.
You know, you're, you're, you know, you want to talk about war criminals, and people will say, oh, my God, Nathan Bedford Forrest, Fort Pillow.
Well, he was acquitted of that by Sherman himself in a war crimes tribunal.
But people today know better than the people back then, Michael, of course, that Forrest was a terrorist, they say.
No, if you want to talk about true terrorism, you know, the Union, they patented it.
I mean, you know, we all know about Sherman's march to the sea.
We'll talk more about this.
And I'm glad you mentioned Henson.
I want to talk about another guy that had a similar story, not in terms of the heroism, but in terms of the way he was brutalized.
And we'll talk about that and much more when we come back.
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All right, everybody, welcome back, my esteemed guest and good friend, Dr. Michael Hill, president of the League of the South.
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I shared in the first segment of this hour, we'd gotten the National Dixie Defender Award from the Sons of Confederate Veterans for our work on the radio and some of the things we've done on behalf of Southern culture and its heroes.
SCV is okay.
You know, I know a lot of people that are in them.
There's some good things and some bad things about it.
But let me tell you: if you want a fighting organization, if you want to be on the front lines, League of the South is a way to go.
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You were talking with us last segment, Michael, about Mr. Henson.
D.S. Job, another guy.
You know, another guy that I talked about him last week a little bit that, you know, just a forgotten, you don't want to say forgotten hero because hopefully these guys are never forgotten, any of them, any of them, even to the unknown privates that, you know, lasted a day on the battlefield.
You know, they all had more courage than anybody we have representing us in media and entertainment and God knows in Washington.
The lowest of the buck privates of the Confederate States of America were more men than anybody in Washington, D.C. today.
Oh, absolutely.
No doubt about it.
D.S. Job was another one, you know, the Confederate scout who was captured as he was on his run to deliver his dispatch and just suffered brutal torture.
His eyes were gouged out, his dragged behind a galloping horse.
They did a lot more to him than that.
And he never betrayed his countrymen.
He never gave up his orders.
He never revealed any of the information that he was trusted with.
I ask this question a lot, Dr. Hill, but what happened to the nation?
And of course, when I talk about nation, I don't mean a plot of land.
I mean a blood and soil people, a people connected by blood and soil.
What happened to the nation that used to produce people like D.S. Job, the Confederate scout?
Well, you know, we're still here.
You know, we still have that blood coursing through our veins.
I think that a lot of Southerners just need to be slapped upside the head real hard and said, hey, it's okay to be who you are.
You know, get some courage back in your bones here and get up and fight for your patrimony.
I think that we still have those men here potentially.
I know we have them in the league because I know some of the men that I've rubbed shoulders with I would trust with my life.
And I actually do trust them with my life.
But they're still here, James.
We just don't have enough of them.
But look, the culture today that we have in America, and it's a foreign culture.
It's a culture that's been foisted on us in part by the Yankees, but also in part by organized jewelry in Hollywood and New York.
And it's basically to emasculate the Southern male.
We need to basically look at them and say, go to hell, we're going to be who we are.
So that's what we're encouraging Southerners to do.
And again, I agree.
And if it was anyone else, we would have major Hollywood celebrities pouring money into our coffers.
Yes, you should defend and protect and want to see survive your way of life.
Of course, there are exceptions to that group.
And even the Germans now don't get a bad of a rap as Southerners do because they've been pretty much emasculated.
But yeah, I mean, white heterosexual Southern males, there are, you know, you want to talk about discrimination.
Well, that's true.
But, you know, I've told people that even though we are discriminated against, one thing that we are not going to do that all the minorities and others do is become whiners.
Man, we will pick ourselves up and we will dust ourselves off after we get knocked down and we'll go take care of our business as white southern males.
And we're not going to ask anybody for any favors.
We're going to take back what is ours.
Well, I hope that you're right.
Everyone should have a place to live.
And I don't want to dominate.
I don't want our, you know, as much as I love southern culture.
I don't want it to dominate the whole world.
I just want a home of our own.
You know, I wouldn't, I don't want to be a hypocrite and say that, you know, just because our culture, in my opinion, is superior, the Christian Western culture that gave birth to the Confederate States of America, just because I believe that it's superior, you know, I wouldn't presume to force the whole world to embrace it.
But I do want our ancestral homelands to remain the way that they were.
And I think that's natural and healthy.
It is very healthy.
It wasn't just the men.
You know, we want to salute the Southern women as well for the role they played during the war and beyond, and still to this day, of course.
But there was one talking about forgotten people.
I don't even know if this one had a name, but we call her the Southern Boadicea.
I'm going to read this letter.
I don't think there's anything to do with Southern history, Dr. Hill, that you don't know already, but for the benefit of those who perhaps haven't heard this before, it's a good one.
On June 3rd, 1864, Robert Audrey of Company B, the 111th Illinois Infantry, mailed a letter to his father describing some of the recent action his unit had seen.
So this is a Yankee soldier writing to his dad.
Here's what he said: Dear father, I take pen in hand to let you know that I am well.
We're encamped near Dallas, Georgia, where we found the enemy in force on the 26th.
The 111th was on the front line of the breastworks, and we drew a hot fire from the rebs until about 4 o'clock when the enemy viciously charged our works.
We poured hot fire into their ranks, and several times their lines broke, but they rallied again and came with guns blazing and flags waving.
They fought like demons, and we cut them down like dogs.
Many died, and dead and dying secessionists fell prisoner.
I saw three or four dead rebel women in the heap of bodies.
All had been shot down during the final rebel charge on our works.
One woman charged within several rods of our works, waving the traitor flag and screaming vulgarities at us.
She was shot three times, but still she came.
She was finally killed by two shots fired almost simultaneously by our boys.
Another she-devil shot her way through our breastworks with two large revolvers, dealing death to all in her path.
She was shot several times with no apparent effect.
When she ran out of ammunition, she pulled out the largest pig sticker I ever seen.
It must have been 18 inches in the blade.
When the corporal tried to shoot her, she kicked him in the face, smashing it quite severely.
She then stabbed three boys and was about to decapitate a fourth when the lieutenant killed her.
Without a doubt, this gal inflicted more damage to our line than any other reb.
If Bobby Lee were to fill the brigade of such fighters, I think that the Union prospects would be very gloomy indeed, for it would be hard to equal their ferocity and pluck.
Our regimental losses were about six killed and ten wounded, including Lieutenant Colonel Black, who was slightly wounded and I believe in the thigh.
Please give my regards to all inquiring friends and love to the family.
Your devoted son, Robert Autry, 111th Illinois Regimental Volunteers.
What emotions are elicited when you hear something like that, Dr. Hill?
Well, that sounds like a bunch of women I grew up with in North Alabama.
Well, it makes me very proud.
You know, we southerners like to honor our women.
You know, we don't like to put them up in the front lines like that.
But, you know, sometimes I guess circumstances dictate that all hands on deck.
You know, our ancestors, our Viking ancestors, had shield maidens, and our Celtic ancestors had women like Boudica that you mentioned there.
So it's not unknown.
It's just not preferable, but our Southern women are gracious, are beautiful, and are tough.
That's right.
That's right.
No, absolutely.
Now, I'm not saying we should put women on the front line.
That's one of the many problems the current military has today.
But that was a story certainly unique with regards to perhaps people that are no longer remembered.
And again, I don't even know what this woman had.
I mean, she certainly had a name, but it was not remembered by history.
It's inspiring.
Absolutely.
No, it is.
It is.
And, you know, that was when people fought for what they believed in and fought for what was right.
And what's right then is still right today, and it'll be right long after even you or I are gone, Dr. Hill.
But so we're talking about individuals now.
A battle, a battle, a story from a battle that comes to your mind, the first thing to your mind that really embodies the Confederate spirit.
What would you say?
Well, there's so many.
I mean, you know, Forrest's retreat from Shiloh, you know, comes to my mind.
But I mean, there's just so many you could draw from.
I know it's probably a hard question to answer, but if you had to pick one or two.
Well, I'm trying to think of the battle.
I think it's a battle of Bayou something, but the battle that Tom Green from Texas was involved in down along the Gulf Coast around the Louisiana-Texas border.
And I can't for the life of me think of what the name of the battle was, but Tom Green basically had a few local soldiers and a bunch of militia and a bunch of just good old boys down there.
They defeated the Yankees who were trying to come up one of the bayous or rivers there, either on the Texas.
I think it was on the Texas side of the border there, between Texas and Louisiana.
But Tom Green has always been one of my heroes because he was kind of a semi-irregular leader.
I kind of like those, like Quantrell and Bloody Bill Andrews.
Yep, yep, yep.
I like that.
I do too.
I mean, my name is James.
My brother's name is Jesse, so you can probably figure out what's going on there.
Yeah.
You know, there you go.
We're going to take a break.
We're going to come back with Dr. Michael Hill of the League of the South.
Stay tuned, folks.
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Well, I did, but now that I do, I'm not so sure.
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You, sir?
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That's a good plan, sir.
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I lived in the race when it fell.
I remember all the way the night is enough.
When all the bills were ringing, the night and night.
Welcome back, folks.
We wrap up Confederate History Month 2014 tragic, chilling song, beautiful song.
They might have won the war, but they didn't take our spirit.
That spirit is still alive today.
And as we say about the Confederate Army, we were always outmanned and outsupplied, but never outfought.
Dr. Michael Hill is our guest.
And again, Dr. Hill, my goodness, you know, trying to talk about Confederate history, any individual from the well-known to some of the people we were talking about in the last segment, would be worthy of an hour's worth of coverage in and of themselves.
Any of the battles, our first guest of the month this year was a writer by the name of Wilburn Sprayberry.
And we were talking to him, and in his bio, he says he's a native Texan who spends his time apologizing for the Johnson and Bush administrations while trying to figure out how to win the Battle of Gettysburg.
I mean, we could go and look at any of those battles and talk about what-ifs and different scenarios.
We could talk about this and nothing else for every minute of every show for the political cesspool going forward, and you would never cover it all.
So we try to give people a very broad overview on the Confederacy during April and beyond, of course, but especially during April.
A very broad question here for you, Dr. Hill.
And then I want to talk about some of the more contemporary issues that the League of the South is currently engaged in.
But I guess it's a simple question, but it's one that I guess needs to be asked in this day and age.
What was the Confederate States of America fighting to preserve?
Well, first of all, it was fighting to preserve its people, its way of life, its territorial integrity, things that real men will stand up and fight for.
And it was also fighting, I think, in a perverse way, an ironic way, rather, to prove a point.
And that point was that Patrick Henry had been right all along that Patrick Henry didn't want to enter into a union with the Yankees.
He didn't want the Constitution to be ratified by Virginia or any of the southern states.
He said he smells a rat, and he certainly did, a very big one.
And our Confederate ancestors had to finally fight that battle that Patrick Henry and other southerners of his generation knew that was coming.
And that was their fight, James.
We have our fight in our day.
I always like to say that we don't, we in the league, we don't live in the past, but the past lives in us.
Such a great answer.
Great answer, and then a great statement there at the end.
And certainly, real men are still fighting.
You know, as I said, this is a cause that lives on today.
Perhaps it's become more underground because, unfortunately, we talk about some of those folks we were featuring earlier in the show tonight.
What they risked, the sacrifice of blood and bone.
Sure.
And unfortunately, now you do have a lot of people, certainly not the people with whom we enjoy company, but there are a lot of people who won't even take an insult.
You know, they can't even take being called a name.
And that'll make them run for cover.
And perhaps in the privacy of their homes, they would say, yes, you know, you're right about this, and I agree, but I can't, you know, be.
Oh, yes, I hear that all the time.
You know what I'm talking about.
But there are people out there.
And hopefully those people will come along because they're still our brothers.
They need to be in the fight with us.
But there are people out there fighting right now.
The League of the South has a lot of them.
And as far as I'm concerned, there is no Southern Heritage Organization that is doing more.
DixieNet.org, folks, you can get all the information for yourself, and I encourage you to research it.
But tell us, Dr. Hillman, you've been very active in the last year, especially in the last few months in particular.
Tell us what's going on.
We've done steep, and we're getting very good at them, street demonstrations, very well-organized, professionally done street demonstrations now.
We've been in Georgia twice, South Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee, Florida.
We're coming to Alabama.
We're going to have a rally on Friday, the 9th of May, at the Southern Poverty Law Center headquarters in Montgomery.
Yeah, I've heard about them.
Yes, and we invite all of your listeners to come and join us.
It's Friday.
I think it's up in the morning around 11 o'clock or so on Friday.
Most of us will be coming in on Thursday, spending the night, getting ready to get up bright and early and take our show over to the Southern Poverty Law Center.
But before that, we're going to have a counter-demonstration in Washington, D.C. against the commies on May Day.
The Maryland and Virginia League of the South chapters will do that.
We've got a street demonstration coming up down in Wetompka, Alabama in late June.
And we've got one over in Gainesville, Georgia coming up in late August.
And you can find out all about those on the league website and Facebook page.
And, you know, the good thing about this, James, is we're learning how to do these things right in the streets.
I mean, really professionally done.
We're bringing in just tons of young Southern nationalists, 20s and 30s, young men and women with a lot of energy, a lot of ideas, and a lot of dedication to the cause.
Well, it takes leadership to bring in new blood.
And folks, he's telling you the truth.
I've seen the pictures.
Of course, you can find them at DixieNet.org.
Hunter Wallace has done a good job of documenting it at Occidental Descent as well.
But this is stuff that's going on, and it's all well done.
It's all tasteful.
And it shows people that there are still a few folks with courage, and more than a few, certainly, but it's always good to stoke the embers because as you said, Dr. Hill, this blood, this great treasure that we have in our blood still courses through our veins.
And for some folks, it might need to be stoked a little bit.
And you're doing the part there in a very high-profile way.
And everywhere you go, you get media attention.
And of course, we know that the mainstream media, the establishment media, you know, their job anymore, their job these days isn't to report the news.
It's to enforce political correctness.
So it's not always a favorable reaction that you draw from the media, but it is a favorable reaction you get from the people.
And the people is what counts.
And real Americans are what counts.
And very high profile, though, is the work that you do, including a very noticeable billboard in Tallahassee, right?
Yes, we've got the Billboard Project, too.
We've got our next one, which, you know, it basically said one thing, secede.
Then it had the League of the South and our web address in smaller letters underneath.
But we have, and that was right in front of the Capitol in Tallahassee.
The Florida State Chamber of Commerce came out with a success billboard to oppose Iowa.
Right, right.
All kinds of free publicity.
Well, we have the same billboard going up in Montgomery in mid-May, and then we'll have another one going up in mid-July over just north of Atlanta around Gainesville, Georgia.
And then who only knows from there?
Well, I guarantee you, there will be more to come.
And folks, when people actually do something, those people need to be supportive.
And you've been very supportive with your generosity and your support of this program for the last 10 years.
You know, it's been 10 years this fall while you've been on the air.
I'll agree that, James.
10 years, and you've been on since the very beginning, Dr. Hill.
I remember.
And hopefully many more to come.
I hope so.
But, you know, folks, support the people that are working on your behalf.
I know not everybody right now is in a position to do that.
And there are repercussions that come, and there is some discomfort that will come.
You know, again, the sacrifices that we bear pale in comparison to that of our ancestors, who, as I mentioned, sacrificed blood and bone, quite literally.
And if you're not in a position to where you can go out and do these things publicly, you can support the efforts privately.
And I appreciate those who have done so with our work and certainly would encourage you to consider the League of the South at DixieNet.org as well, particularly if you are of a Southern persuasion or share in the ideals that were manifested by the Confederate States of America and those heroes that we've been talking about tonight and throughout the month of April.
Dr. Hill, always an honor, and I look forward to the next time already.
Me too, James.
It's always a pleasure and a lot of fun to be on your show with you.
I'll do it anytime that I'm able to do it.
Well, I appreciate you saying that, my friend.
It's gone by in the flash of an eye this evening.
God bless you, and God bless your work, and God bless the League of the South.
God bless you, James, and God save the South.
You got it, my friend.
Thank you.
And folks, with that, I mean, who, I don't know if we could have done it better than that to wrap up Confederate History Month.
Dr. Hill, always an all-star when he comes on the show.
Sam Dixon, too, when it comes to really any issue with Sam, but he's a great defender of the South.
And for those of you who donated to the Political Cesspool in our first quarter fundraising drive, which was, I guess, in March, you will have now received a copy of Race in the American Prospect.
And there's a great essay in there from Sam Dixon entitled Race in the South.
I would encourage you to read it.
We're going to take a break.
We're going to get to more news.
Lots of news.
When the Political Cesspool returns, with yours truly, James Edwards.
Another hour of the political cesspool is in the can, but don't go away.
There's more to come right here on the Liberty News Radio Network.