April 9 2024 Victory of America Over the Confederacy, a Human Trafficking Syndicate That Declared Itself a Nation

On April 9 in 1865 Confederate General Lee raised the white flag and surrendered to Union General Grant at Appomattox, though the fighting continued until other rebel forces surrendered and President Johnson declared the end of the Civil War on Aug. 20th, 1866. It was the end of the most terrible conflict and the most shameful age in American history, and it is a conflict we have not yet won and an original sin we have not yet expiated and redeemed.

Nor is the enemy of our humanity and of all humankind yet defeated in final Reckoning, for its figurehead Traitor Trump now runs in our Presidential election in hope of recapturing the state to enact vengeance on his enemies, evade responsibility for his many crimes, and complete his mission of the subversion of our democracy, the re-enslavement of Black Americans and white supremacist terror, and the dehumanization and commodification of women as chattel slaves and patriarchal-theocratic sexual terror.

This we must resist to the last, as Chamberlain held the line at Gettysburg and Sherman demonstrated how to answer white supremacist terror on his March Through Georgia.

We must not wait for the moment of our destruction; we must bring the fight to the enemy, and purge them from among us.

Of this epochal event I wrote in my post of last year:

In joyous echo of this historic triumph we also celebrate the return to the legislature of Tennessee by acclamation of the people of the magnificent Justin Jones, who with his fellow Representative Pearson placed their lives in the balance with those of the victims and survivors of gun violence and white supremacist terror in challenging the plutocratic gun lobby which provides the preconditions of mass murder as an organization of racist terror.

That the people stood with them in return and brought the machine of death and elite hegemony to a standstill is the most hopeful thing I have witnessed in electoral American politics in a long time.

The tide may have just turned in America from tyranny to democracy.

There is now a possibility, fractional and delicate as a candle in the darkness, bearing our hope of liberty and equality into an unknown future, of avoiding a second Civil War.

This too I celebrate, in fear and loathing as Hunter S. Thompson unforgettably described America’s inversion of our founding ideals by the powerful.

At one hundred fifty eight years remove, the meaning of the Civil War as the Second American Revolution is clear, as is the necessity of ceaseless and ongoing revolutionary struggle to achieve and maintain a free society of equals.

We celebrate the victory of equality over slavery and solidarity over division, of liberty over the tyranny of aristocratic and capitalist elites and of love over hate. On this day we the people, created equal and endowed with inalienable human rights, triumphed over the most terrible obscenity and injustice to ever rear its monstrous head in our nation; a human trafficking syndicate which declared itself a nation.

We must never cease to search out and destroy the legacies of slavery, racism, and hierarchies and ideologies of elite belonging and exclusionary otherness. To be an American is to believe that no one is better than any other by condition of birth. Those who cannot affirm this principle merit only exile and revocation of citizenship, for they have chosen to deny membership in our society.

The Black Lives Matter protests and George Floyd trial electrified the world in part because an endemic and pervasive evil is finally being called to a reckoning. Police must be stripped of their immunity from prosecution for racial violence, but this is only the beginning. We must eradicate and enact restitution for the legacy of slavery and white supremacist terror, of systemic and structural racism in our society, of inequalities and injustices which create and maintain hierarchies of belonging and otherness and hegemonies of elite wealth, power, and privilege.

From the iconography of our public spaces in the place names and monuments to the stories we tell about ourselves in our history, whose stories are told and who owns the narratives of our identities, to the equal share of decision making power which defines democracy and the equal share in the benefits of membership in our society to which we must aspire, America is emerging from the shadows of a past which we drag behind us like an invisible reptilian tail to discover the limitless possibilities of becoming human.

This is only the beginning of our story; let us dream great dreams into which we can grow.

Chamberlain’s Charge on Little Round Top – “Gettysburg”