Street Activism is Serious Business

Machete is Anti-White

Street protesting is the quintessential form of activism. It’s not necessarily the most effective form of activism, but it can help achieve quantifiable goals. In isolation, it’s little more than a cathartic experience for the participants. If integrated into a comprehensive political campaign by a competent political machine, it can help achieve quantifiable goals.

We at Hoosier Nation recently protested the premiere of Machete, a grindhouse gore film that depicts a heroic illegal immigrant slaughtering dozens of White American evildoers as part of a broader political revolution. We hit the mailing lists, announced the event at our site, issued press releases to the media, and had all the materials necessary to educate people on the street about the key issues.

Our actual turnout was much lower than for our previous events. This was partially due to the short notice, but I also received a pretty consistent message from our supporters that they didn’t feel that this was serious enough to hit the streets for. A few intimated that they didn’t want to politicize what was “just a movie”.

Those are valid concerns and I agree that the release of this stupid film is not as big of a threat to our people as open borders or street violence against us. However, our success depends on exploiting situations where ordinary White Americans are thinking about these issues. Our local units need to be prepared to capitalize on those moments when the general public’s wandering strobe light of awareness passes over our concerns.

Like Plunkitt, “I seen my opportunities, and I took ‘em!”

Andrew Yeoman, leader of the Bay Area National Anarchists, deserves credit for masterminding the nationwide event. I believe it’s a promising development for our movement that there are advocates out there like him who are learning and applying the art of practical politics. While the idea was met with some skepticism within the movement, the mainstream media attention it received serves as a proof of concept.

People invest tens of thousands of dollars to attract the kind of press and ignite the kind of discussion that Yeoman and his supporters managed to achieve with some cardboard spray-painted to look like machetes!

The Huffington Post reported on our own event here in Indiana…

Slightly to the right of VDARE is the openly white supremacist Council of Conservative Citizens[Join Today!], which likewise describes “Machete as an “anti-white snuff film.” In a public show of opposition to Rodriguez’s widescreen affront, the Indiana chapter of the CCC last week protested the film’s opening at a Regal Galaxy Cinema in downtown Indianapolis. American Border Patrol, another hate group[ROFL], encouraged similar protests by publishing a map identifying the locations of theaters playing the film near L.A.’s MacArthur Park, where violent protests erupted this week following the fatal shooting of a Guatemalan immigrant named Manual Jamines by an LAPD officer on Sunday.

Not to quibble, but the CofCC is not White Supremacist (either openly or otherwise). It’s a traditional conservative organization that supports and defends White Americans and their heritage. While there are probably some individual members whose positions could be characterized as “supremacist”, most of us both acknowledge the gifts folks of other races have and reject the notion that we have some innate right to enslave or rule non-Whites.

I responded in a comment to the article, which was surprisingly (and to their credit) not deleted…

I’m the organizer of the CofCC protest that was mentioned in this article. I do recognize that it’s “just a movie”, but Machete isn’t an isolated example of Hollywood promoting negative stereotypes of White Americans and glorifying violence against them. I can only speak for our chapter, but we used the premiere as an opportunity to open a discussion about Hollywood’s broader anti-White and anti-Christian agenda – not to suggest that this is some sort of conspiracy to incite a “race war”.

Though, for all those cool cats who think it’s lame of us to react to “only a movie”, I wonder how they would feel about a remake of Birth of a Nation? I wonder if they would be so cheeky if Hollywood made a grindhouse gore film in which villainous illegal immigrants were slaughtered by a heroic band of Minuteman vigilantes? These are both purely hypothetical, as we both know that Hollywood would never produce either of these.

That’s our point. There’s an obvious bias and we’re raising awareness of it.

What’s really amusing for me is that the author, Alexander Zaitchick wrote this smart-ass article about how hysterical we are about this very violent and politically charged movie. This man believes that Glenn Beck and Fox News are cartoonish racist villains. I’ll grant that they’re cartoonish, but that’s it. He wants to compare our reaction to this movie with the evangelical hysteria about Teletubbies being gay, yet some sniveling whiner who fawns over America’s Black founding fathers and rallies “conservatives” to embrace MLK is a serious business hatemonger.

If I were the paranoid type, I would suspect this weasel might be an SPLC operative.

While a moderator blew off some long-winded nonsense about how my objection to the movie says more about me than it does about the movie, the regular commenters (gotta love ‘em!) had my back.

GuyInAZ replied…

You are denying a definite bias on Huffington. I have read several articles about Machete and none of them write about racism directed at whites. You guys are in a liberal catharsis that prevents you from discussing reality. I have also seen over moderation of comments so you guys are obviously favoring one point of view.

And that right there is what it’s all about, forcing there to be an honest public debate. When there’s an honest public debate, and we bring sobriety and facts to the table, we win. We’re right and their winning depends on the cloud of censorship and enforcement of taboos prevailing throughout our media and culture. I look forward to either leading or following more targeted political campaigns like this one that engage the zeitgeist.