To all our American ethno-nationalist cousins, HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY from PA Wales! According to the Welsh Society of Philadelphia, 16 of the signatories of the Declaration of Independence were of Welsh descent: George Clymer, Stephen Hopkins, Robert Morris, William Floyd, Francis Hopkinson, John Morton, Button Gwinnett, Thomas Jefferson, John Penn, George Read, John Hewes, Francis Lewis, James Smith, Williams Hooper, Lewis Morris, and William Williams. This represents the largest ethnic group of signatories on the original document. Thomas Jeffersons' family originated from Snowdonia and were fluent Welsh speakers. May the fire and grit of those ancestors continue to inspire you in the times ahead.

Some interesting facts about the USA on July 4th:


-states could, and often did, ban whites from marrying blacks until a Supreme Court case in 1967 called Loving v. Virginia. However, it was legal for other mixed race couples to marry, as long as a white was not involved.

-segregation was legal and practiced in housing, businesses, and schools until a series of Supreme Court decisions and federal laws were passed from 1948-1968.

-Madison Grant, an influential attorney who wrote about the biological reality of race, fought for “sanguine purity laws,” which were the bans of whites marrying other races. He was also a driving force behind the 1921 immigration act or the “Emergency Quota Act” that sought to keep the racial makeup of the country a supermajority white.

In 1875, the Supreme Court held that African Americans could NOT be considered citizens of the United States.

In 1896, a Supreme Court case held that a 1/8 black man was too black to be allowed to ride on the white railway cars, suggesting a “one drop” rule be applied to matters of racial segregation.

- two Supreme Court cases in 1901 referred to people from Guam and Puerto Rico as “savages tribes” and “alien races.”

-prior to 1948, racially restrictive Covenants were often in property deeds, allowing only a white personal to buy the property. they were so common in a city like Philadelphia in 1900, over 4,000 of the parcels had deeds that limited ownership to whites only.

-the first Congress of the USA passed a law limiting citizenship to whites only, one year BEFORE the bill of rights was passed.

-the very first sentence of the US Constitution, in the preamble, before anything else states the purpose of the country was “to secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity.”

Posterity means your future descendants.

Taken as a whole, one gets the idea that the USA, from its founding and through most of its legal history, it was purposefully exclusionary and limited. That is of course no longer the case. I consider what was accomplished in the first 190 years compared to the last 55 or so, perhaps there was a connection to the legal regime of old and American exceptionalism, and the modern legal regime and America’s increasingly unlivable conditions.

James Dunphy analyzes what three recent songs and their music videos have to say about the decline of modern America. https://counter-currents.com/2022/07/a-white-golden-age-descending-into-exotic-dystopian-consumerism/

Last weekend’s solo Ask Me Anything with Greg Johnson on Counter-Currents Radio is now available for download and online listening. https://counter-currents.com/2022/07/counter-currents-radio-podcast-no-461-ask-me-anything-with-greg-johnson/

Max Richardson on why regardless of whether abortion is a real issue for white advocates, it's an integral part of white political culture. https://counter-currents.com/2022/07/why-white-americans-care-about-abortion/

Beau Albrecht on the latest absurdity in the Left's pursuit of absolute racial equality: race-based "equity" grading in schools. https://counter-currents.com/2022/07/racial-equity-grading/

Cyan Quinn was host Nick Jeelvy’s guest on the latest broadcast of The Writers’ Bloc, and together they celebrated the Best Month Ever at Counter-Currents by reviewing a selection of published articles from the auspicious month of June. https://counter-currents.com/2022/07/counter-currents-radio-podcast-no-462-the-best-month-ever-on-the-writers-bloc-with-cyan-quinn/

Morris van de Camp reviews a book written by the woman who was briefly Joe Biden's Disinformation Czar, Nina Jankowicz: How to Be a Woman Online, which offers women advice on how to avoid harassment on the Internet. https://counter-currents.com/2022/07/online-womanhood/

Mark Gullick reviews Frances A. Yates' The Art of Memory, a book which examines forgotten techniques used by the ancients to extend one's power of memory before the advent of modern technology. https://counter-currents.com/2022/07/in-memoriam-frances-a-yates-the-art-of-memory/

Ondrej Mann offers a brief survey of the rise of the vibrant Italian Right-wing music scene in the 1970s and how it has continued to grow and thrive up to the present day, despite many challenges. https://counter-currents.com/2022/07/alternativa-di-destra-the-story-of-the-italian-rights-music/

Veiko Hessler's essay on why the War in Ukraine, as terrible as it is, may be the thing that will kickstart the European spirit has been sprung from the paywall. https://counter-currents.com/2022/06/no-more-brother-wars/

The classicist and man of the Right Revilo Oliver was born on this day in 1908. Find out more about his life and work at Counter-Currents. https://counter-currents.com/2022/07/remembering-revilo-oliver-7/

Spencer J. Quinn on when it is and isn't a good idea to use profanity in debates about matters of culture and politics. https://counter-currents.com/2022/07/on-the-use-abuse-of-language-in-debates/

Jim Goad on why Robert A. Crimo III is the ideal mass shooter, since he can represent whoever anyone wants to blame for mass shootings, from MAGAtards to transsexuals. https://counter-currents.com/2022/07/never-trust-a-white-rapper/

In equal measure, I don't think this new Christian right is concerned with racial demographics. The religion is what matters most to them. As long as brown people become nominal Christians and embrace "Christian values," that's what matters to them. The bulk of this new movement is concerned with everyone being "rightwing" and "based" Christians, regardless of "skin color." Somewhat bizarrely, the extreme Left is more "based" than the new Right. It asserts that race is a meaningful identity, albeit with the caveat that >Whites are innately evil and brown people are virtuous. The new Right focuses on the idea that if you're Christian and reject pedos and drag queen story time, that's enough to fix our problems.

https://t.me/gabtrends/7441

The broadcast of The Writers' Bloc with Stephen Paul Foster discussing The Best Month Ever, a selection of particularly interesting Counter-Currents articles published in May 2022, has been sprung from the paywall. https://counter-currents.com/2022/06/counter-currents-radio-podcast-no-452-the-best-month-ever-on-the-writers-bloc-with-stephen-paul-foster/

The fourteenth chapter of Greg Johnson's The White Nationalist Manifesto is now in Portuguese. https://counter-currents.com/2022/07/o-manifesto-nacionalista-branco-parte-14/

Nicholas R. Jeelvy outlines what the Dissident Right needs to do to lay the foundations for effective action in the future. https://counter-currents.com/2022/07/on-taking-action/

The second part of Alain de Benoist's essay on the ideology of sameness, contending that egalitarianism and the rule of profit inevitably lead to the destruction of differences, is now up. https://counter-currents.com/2022/07/what-is-the-ideology-of-sameness-part-2/

Counter-Currents is pleased to introduce our new "advice column" Ask A. Wyatt Nationalist. This week, Cyan Quinn answers a question about women & White Nationalism

https://counter-currents.com/2022/07/ask-a-wyatt-nationalist-women-in-white-nationalism/

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