The Coming War With Ourselves

Church revivals are as Southern as lemon-aid and homemade ice cream, but this one was a little
different. It was the early 1980's and I was playing drums for a Christian music group.

Jackey Beavers pastored a church in Cassville at the time and our group had been invited to play one
night during their revival. The preacher that evening was a charismatic black evangelist from Marietta
who brought along his own piano player to add some punch behind the message.

Our group did a few songs and then sat down on the front row. After a few comments from Jackey, the
evangelist began his sermon. Within a few minutes the piano player was banging away at the
keyboard in time with the preacher's words.

About halfway through his message, the evangelist paused and pointed down at our group's bass
player and me and asked us to come up to play along with his pianist. For the next twenty to thirty
minutes we had a good improvisational jam session backing up this minister.

The difference about this revival meeting was that it was the early 1980's and our group was all white,
while Jackey's congregation was black. Except for a few large charismatic churches, there just weren't
many mixed congregations during that era. We all had a great time that evening and then returned to
our racially separate lives.

Like many white people I have a lot of black acquaintances, but really no close black friends. One on
one we talk and laugh while we do business or share seats at a sporting event, but still at the end of
the day we return to segregated lives not much different from what I experienced as a child growing up
as legal segregation was ending in the 1960's.

Though segregated during the much of the past century, people of both races in a typical small
Georgia town watched the same four television networks, read the same local newspaper, and listened
to the same local radio station. We all shared a very similar worldview. Heck, I would watch American
Bandstand and then tune in Soul Train.

Ironically while many teenagers and young adults today are much more likely to have close friends of
other races, the trend of American society in general seems to be one of cultural separatism.

Today we are integrated at school, at work, at restaurants and almost all facets of public life… but
we've never come close to developing a color-blind society and that doesn't bode well for the future
safety and security of this nation.

The media landscape now contains a myriad of sources for news and entertainment with numerous
black and Hispanic radio stations, magazines, newspapers, and television channels… and this is
where the danger is coming from.

We no longer share a common culture. American society has fragmented into several racially based
sub-groups that are easy targets for those who wish to exploit our differences.

One only has to take a quick look at the latest census figures to see that we are quickly heading
toward a Balkanized society.

This past spring we saw Hispanic radio stations quickly motivate millions of their listeners to take to
the streets in protest of a proposed crackdown on illegal immigration.

In America's prison system, Muslim chaplains gain converts to the faith by convincing young black
male inmates that they are in jail because of the white man's Christian society that is keeping them
down.

One only had to watch coverage of Cynthia McKinney's election night antics to see her bodyguards,
members of the New Black Panther Party, spout anti-Jewish and anti-white rhetoric… rhetoric that is
fueled in part by today's hip-hop culture.

Mosques are being built in cities small and large across our nation, and in many they are teaching the
same Islamo-fascist doctrine responsible for creating suicide bombers and terrorists in other nations.

Just look across the Atlantic to England, where the Muslim terrorists arrested last week for plotting an
attack on ten U.S. bound planes were almost all second or third generation home grown citizens.
England's mosques have become fertile ground for Muslim extremism.

Violent Hispanic criminal gangs are rapidly sprouting up across America, along with separatist
movements whose stated goals are to return the U.S. southwest to Mexican rule.

Then there are white separatist groups that have given birth to people like Timothy McVeigh and Terry
Nichols of Oklahoma City bombing fame.

While radical Islam has been at war against us for several decades, most Americans have yet to fully
understand the threat. Without a fundamental change in U.S. society, we will soon find ourselves not
only fighting terrorists from foreign shores… we'll be at war with a large segment of our own population
that is no longer grounded in our common culture.

August 20, 2006