February is Black History Month and as sure as the Earth turns, Black writer and thinker, James Baldwin becomes popular. Baldwin was a very homely, frail, towering Black American intellectual. Black and Gay…..he was driven from his Baptist roots ( his Father was a Minister) into exile in France. From there, he launched jeremiads against American racism, most notably in his book of essays, THE FIRE NEXT TIME. One of the things that this Blogger finds most intriguing about Baldwin is his hatred of one of this Blogger’s favorite American novelists, Nobel Laureate Mississippi white supremacist, William Faulkner. " Faulkner told the New York Herald Tribune that he longed  for the return of the “benevolent autocracy” of slavery , in which “Negroes would be better off because they’d have some one to look after them.” In 1956,  he told a journalist that if the Federal government used troops to enforce integration in the South he would do as his Confederate great-grandfather had done bef

The benchmark for advocates of refugees, migrants and illegal aliens is a wanton desire for more consumers, more Diversity, and  more exotic restaurants. Those are not the benchmarks America needs in its immigration policy to survive the 21 st Century. The benchmark needed is acceptance of an common American sacrifice; young Americans were plucked off the streets of cities, hamlets and reservations, piled into floating death traps and asked to land on an open beach, in an attempt to breech the Atlantic Wall, a defensive barrier forged by the Nazi War machine, for over four years, under the command of the  brilliant paladin Field Marshal Rommel. And the Americans  did it. Does Diversity add to courage? No. Does Diversity add to a willingness to sacrifice for the Republic?  No. This Blogger believes, at best, Diversity and unfettered immigration are, at best, mox nix in adding to American Courage and American Sacrifice. This Blogger believes that the purpose