The Unappointed Gatekeepers of History

A Tactical Hermit Original Essay

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”

George Orwell, 1984

After the removal of the last Confederate statue in Richmond, Virginia I was reminded of a conversation I had back in 2015 with a mentor and family friend who was a retired, tenured PhD History professor from a very prestigious University here in the South and also happened to be a member of the Son’s and Daughters of the Confederacy.

When all this Confederate statue removal non-sense started in earnest after the Dylann Roof shooting he sent me this email which I have paraphrased:

“What happened in Charleston was a damn tragedy, but do you see how THEY (the blacks along with their cucked white politicians on both sides of the aisle) are now using Victimhood to empower their position both culturally and politically? They are using white…