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WHITE AMERICA |
The American Racial Problem as Seen in a Worldwide Perspective by Earnest Sevier Cox |
Editor's Introduction
Prophecy is always a dangerous game for the prophet,
particularly if he turns out to be right. This is because
at any time in history an accurate prediction of the
future sounds "extreme" and not at all fitted
to the ignorant prejudices of the mob. There is no
mystery as to why this is so; it must be so because
the most cherished notions of the mob are of course
the ones which have been most carefully implanted by
the ruling and vested interests of the day, whether
those interests be a class of venal, doomed priests,
a corrupt monarchy, an effete and dying aristocracy
or the paid press agents of international bankers and
their liberal and Left-wing confederates And if he is not right, even if lionized in his lifetime the prophet will look a fool to history, if he is remembered at all. Those rare individuals who prove to be right must therefore, be prepared to sacrifice the esteem of most of their contemporaries and to be the constant butt of ridicule and abuse. This is not to say that there will be no one to recognize their greatness during their lifetimes, for there will always be a small number of advanced thinkers who are able to free their minds and, in deed, their souls from the al-pervading prejudices of the day in order to have a clearer vision of the truth and the prophet's relationship to it. Such a man and prophet was Earnest Sevier Cox, author of this book, whose life was an inspiring monument to self-sacrifice and dedication and whose work ranks with the most important and significant ever produced by any American.
Born on January 24, 1880, near Knoxville, Tennessee, the last of a family of eight children, Earnest Sevier Cox bore the family names of his forebearers from three different parts of North Europe. Earnest (Ernst originally) was The surname of a German boy indentured in Virginia whose parents had died on the perilous journey to America. Sevier (Xavier originally) was the name of a French Huguenot family of Revolutionary War fame. Cox, of course, was English. His father died when he was 12. Young Earnest's family was not poor but not rich - a "typical" family of the time - hard-working, respectable, independent, God-fearing. The kind of family which literally created and built a new world out of a save land. Earnest grew up on the same soil which produced Andrew Johnson, Admiral Farragut, Sam Houston, Davy Crockett and Sergeant York. That soil was destined to be a border state between North and South during this Nation's greatest tragedy, the Civil War. His family, like so many in the border states, had members on both sides. Brothers and cousins arrayed themselves against each other, seeking to kill each other for the same of the uncomprehending black man. It is significant that Earnest Sevier Cox came from a border state, for there is no section of our land which is more likely to produce persons better qualified to comprehend the nature of America's great problem - the race problem. Populated by proud Anglo-Saxon and Celt early in our history, its people are truly American, yet aware of their European heritage. Neither North nor South, but both; neither Democrat nor Republican, but both; poor in material wealth but rich in self-respect and independence; neither ignorant of nor obsessed with the race problem, but aware of it; neither isolated form nor swamped by it - these are the characteristics of the people of the region from whence came this man - characteristics which qualify him to speak on this problem above one from any other section of the Nation. It is this background, which shows through again and again in his work, which qualifies Cox with the basic requirements to be a genuine authority on this emotional issue. It is this background which has enabled him to see the race problem more clearly than either a southerner or a northerner, a pauper or prince. At the age of 20 Earnest Cox went to work for a small finance company in Shreveport and for the first time was thrown into contact with Negroes. As an old "loan man" myself, I testify that the requirements of a successful loan business include an active curiosity into the private life of your customers, and this, in turn, results in a unique insight into race differences. It may well have bene this job - his first - which ignited the spark which set Earnest Cox off on the search after racial truth, driving him around the world and finally into a life of self-denial and dedication. In 1901 Cox went to work for the Anadarko (Oklahoma) Record as a newspaper reporter. Anadarko was a small town located in the heart of the Comanche, Caddo and Apache Indian country. About this time, having been raised in a strict Christian home, as all children were then, Cox experienced a desire for the ministry. He attended the Moody Bible Institute and, after the death of his mother, went on to Vanderbilt University and the University of Chicago. During this time the press was off on one of its crusades and was full of accounts telling of the "Belgian atrocities" in the Congo. An instructor at Chicago, however, Dr. Frederick Starr, had just visited Africa and had not seen any atrocities. He was roundly criticized by church people for his unwillingness to accuse the White Belgians of inhumanity, wickedness, sin, etc. (Does all this sound weirdly familiar to you after recent events in the Congo, Rhodesia and even our own South?) As Cox tells of it in his book, Black Belt Around the World: This controversy led me to a desire to know the African Negroes and to compare them with their American kin. To compare the Negro policies of the European nations governing Africa with the Negro policy which had developed in the United States.When Earnest Cox made up his mind, he was not easily dissuaded. Finally, on February 2, 1910, having been unable to secure financial backing for his proposed study, he embarked on the ship, Umbria, for England. His third class ticket cost $30. From England he went on to Cape Town on a British steamer. Immediately, he went to work deep in the diamond mines, for it was his aim to observe Negro-White contact at close range. In so doing, Cox acquired valuable experience not only as a common laborer but as a practical observer of men of all kinds and races. As his callouses hardened, his wisdom grew. This experience implanted in him a deep personal concern for the welfare of the White laborer. Throughout his works there runs the theme of justice for the working man. He developed a close spiritual relationship with the miners and this never left him. It was a rough go at that time in Africa, which Cox dubs, "The high noon of colonialism." There was not only the struggle between European nations for colonies, and one between the White man and the savage, half-urbanized native but one equally deadly with lions and other animals; and tropical diseases against all. With many adventures, Cox trekked up the east coast of Africa through the British colony of Rhodesia, German East Africa, British East Africa, Uganda, the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan and Egypt, where he finally arrived, desperately ill with malaria, in January 1912. After a short stay, and mostly recovered from fever, he left again for South Africa, this time by boat. He went to work in the gold mines around Durban. The following year he left for New Zealand and Australia; from thence to Java, Singapore, Hong Kong, Manila and on to San Francisco, arriving in early 1914. His journey not yet over, he traveled to Havana, Panama, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil and the Barbados, finally arriving back in Knoxville in late 1915, suffering again with malaria and recurrent attacks of fever and chills. Earnest Cox came home from his long journey to a Nation arming for another fratricidal war. He went overseas as a captain in the Field Artillery and was on the western front on Armistice Day. A year afterwards, he returned to the United States with the rank of major and joined the reserves. Through he was later increased in rank to lieutenant colonel, to his old friends he would be known as "Major" for the rest of his life. After his return to civilian life, Cox brought out the first edition of White America in 1923. It was republished in 1925 and, finally, in 1937. The edition reprinted here is the 1937 edition, complete except for a portion of the final chapter and two appendices. Copies of all editions are extremely hard to come by and expensive when found. Until publication in this noontide Press Classics Series the book was readily available only from University Microfilms, of Ann Arbor, Michigan, for $15 per copy.
White America, though his first and best-known work,
is certainly not his only one. He also wrote and published
The following year he published The South's Part in Mongrelizing
the Nation, which was a 100-page booklet dedicated "To those
southerners who wish cheap Negro labor and White labor made cheap
by competition with Negro labor." It was not only an indictment of the hypocrisy
and greed which prevented the South from solving the Negro problem
but, as always, an exhortation to men of good will of both races
to join in a program to give the Negro the independence and
self-respect that Cox felt was rightfully his as a human being.
This was followed by a 36-page pamphlet, Lincoln's Negro
Policy, which laid out the facts concerning the Great
Emancipator's plans to repatriate Negroes to Africa.
This, incidentally, was the title of a full-size book
on which Cox was working at the time of his death.
In Three Million Negroes Think the State of Virginia,
published in 1940, Cox reprinted a number of letters
from various black nationalist leaders representing
the Universal Negro Improvement Association, the Peace
Movement of Ethiopia, the National Union for People
of African Descent and others.
In 1955 he wrote and published Unending Hate, a 47-page
booklet dealing with the queer historical phenomenon
of hatred which Whites who know less about race contact
with Negroes always bear against Whites who know the
most about it. There was a "Foreword to American
Negroes" and, again, the positive alternative
to race strife - Repatriation - was offered as the
solution.
Cox's second full-size book was Teutonic Unity, published
in 1951, which is a historical study of the White race.
The Noontide Press plans to reprint this in early 1967,
with a Foreword by the noted author and lecturer, Richard
Kelly Hoskins.
Cox's final book, Black Belt Around the World (1963),
tells of his personal adventures in detail, spiced
with much historical and geographical information.
Earnest Sevier Cox became a legend on April 26, 1966,
when he died in Richmond. He was burred at Arlington
National Cemetery on April 28, his body being borne
to the grave on a cassion pulled by six horses following
a military band.
The life of this man is an example of self-sacrifice
and high idealism which sets him star-height above
his contemporaries. While others sought transitory
fame and a crooked smile from those who make "public
opinion," Earnest Cox worked silently and without
praise in his attic room, those bright eyes of his
fixed unwaveringly on the future which he alone could
see. While others applied their talents to the making
of a comfortable and easy life for themselves, Earnest
Cox steeled himself to endure privation so that the
force of his ideas could influence the world. And while
others hypocritically gave lip-service to lies and
tawdry intellectual sophistries, Earnest Sevier Cox
told the truth.
His life serves as an inspiration and a model to honorable
men of all races. It showed a direction and a dedication
that is, in itself, the mark of a great man. In death
his example and his memory will have immortality and
posterity will give him a rightful recognition which
will, in comparison to the puffed-up heroes of the
"free press" of our age, reduce these pipsqueak
non-entities to the malicious and insignificant creatures
which they are.
White America has stood the test of time marvelously
well, and many parts of its seem almost uncanny in
accurate projection. At times, Cox went wrong; but
in most of the instances he went wrong only by failing
to make allowance for the almost infinite capacity
of men to ignore truth and history and to subject themselves
to the failures and errors of their fathers. For example
he says,
The same can be said for his belief that the British
had been taught by experience that segregation was
the chief factor perpetuating British civilization.
Since the end of the war, British politicians, in successive
criminal acts against their own race and country of
a magnitude greater than anything ever dealt by any
other nation, have deliberately created an explosive
race, crime, dope, housing and labor problem in England
itself where there was none before; with over 500,000
Negroes and other colored having been brought in as
immigrants.
A point easy to misunderstand is Cox's flat assertion
that all civilization has always been created by Caucasians.
This is certainly no derogation of peoples such as
the Japanese, for example. Students of history must
realize that most of the colored races today are mixbreed
Cox says, on page 39, "We cannot grasp the essentials
of the color problem without having first appreciated
the influence of Caucasian blood in mixbreed races
of the world." Until our archaeologists and anthropologists
have unraveled the profound secrets of the hidden past,
we cannot prove Cox wrong. The evidence which we have
is on his side.
There are other minor inaccuracies to be found (such
as for example, his belief that South Africa would
not survive) but they pale into insignificance alongside
the numerous observations and predictions which illumine
today. It is for the reader to pick the diamonds of
wisdom that Cox has scattered throughout the pages,
and, indeed, to mine it again and again for more.
White America rates as a "controversial" book
among that company of eminent scholars and well-paid
journalists who see our national and cultural decline
as "progress." One of them, a certain I.A.
Newby, paid unintentional tribute to Cox in his book,
Jim Crow's Defense (Louisiana State University Press,
1965). The book, a review of racial theorists and thinkers
in the United States 1900-30, has this to say of Cox
(who, by the way, Newby contemptuously describes as
a "nativist," which gives a clue to his own
bias) on page 61 in a passage which, though mostly
accurate, contains obvious errors, such as his misspelling
"Earnest" as "Ernest," and referring
to Cox as "Southern" and "a Virginian."
The theme is undergirded with objective facts and history.
Our situation today is directly comparable to the historical
situation of the White race in the past when it has
been confronted by this; the greatest of all politico-social-economic
problems.
The theme, then, if valid, clearly presents to man;
specifically the White race, the greatest problem he
has ever faced. This is true because it is a problem
over which he has complete control, and one in which
the alternatives are clearly and unmistakably known;
and it is this that makes this problem unique among
all other problems which have confronted our race in
the past.
The choice that is being held to us is nothing less
than between the continuation of our present human
level (not to mention the possibility of further evolution)
or devolution and retrogression.
It is a choice which irresistibly commands the attention
of every man of whatever race who dares to call himself
moral and responsible. The companion fact that these
things are dangerous to affirm in a world which has
had its moorings to truth gnawed asunder, and which
is almost totally controlled by the forces of organized
decay and culture distortion, makes it all The e more
urgently inescapable.
The first portion of the theme has been expressed by
many notable personalities. It was stated most vividly,
perhaps, by Madison Grant in his classic, The Passing
of the Great Race, in a sentence of starkness:
Cox also makes some refreshing statements about capitalism
in White America. I for one am weary of being told
that capitalism is an unalloyed joy, faultless unfits
proportions. Cox rightly recognizes that "the
socialism of Germany (in 1925) is as reprehensible
as the capitalism of the British colonies and the United
States in effecting a reduction of Caucasian to the
economic status of the Negro." Cox responsibly
places facts of genes above theories of economics and
this, while it may appear "radical" to some,
is hardly so.
His lack of extremism continues with his other racial
views. Cox's attitude toward both slavery and segregation
is highly negative. The Negro is neither a "thing"
nor a superior being, and to deny him the right to
develop according to natural law is unjust. However,
to expect him to develop as a Caucasian is, he says,
"a species of sentimental insanity." Although
his opposition to slavery is based largely on moral
grounds, he is intensely aware of the fact that any
race contact brings with it inevitable mongrelization.
This is why he opposes segregation, which he sees as
a fantasy which can at best only momentarily (within
the time-scale of centuries) retard the fatal process.
Of all people, Cox is The last who could be accused
as harboring race hatred. Hatred is caused by misunderstanding.
Most of us can hate only that which we do not understand,
for with understanding normally comes tolerance and
compassion. The "faults" of any man are not,
in the last analysis, really his fault, even though
he must be responsible. Cox understands Negroes and
the race question as few men have. Thus, his view of
the Negro is analogous to that which a wise and just
man has for a child, even though he denies that the
Negro race is a child-race.
Throughout his career, Cox was in constant contact with
Negroes. He was considered by Negro Nationalists to
be their foremost White contact and counselor, and
his entire life, in fact, was dedicated as much to
Negro welfare as to White.
Cox mixed with Negroes as any self-respecting man of
any race mixes with persons of another race, on a frank
and honest basis of individual and racial self-respect;
a basis which can be observed only by individuals who
are willing to grant to the other race the right to
live and to develop according to their own inner imperatives
and destiny, and who are free from the compulsive passion
to change others.
Cox was a friend of Marcus Gravey, perhaps the Black
man's greatest representative. It is sad that today
so few know the story of this terribly wronged Negro.
Born in the Bahamas, Garvey came to America in the
20's to found and lead the only mass movement which
has ever existed among Negroes. It was a "Back-to-Africa"
movement and Garvey was able to Create great enthusiasm
among American Negroes for the idea. It is said that
Garvey had a following of six million.
Garvey, however, was bitterly hated and fought by the
two interests which have always been the bane of solution
of the Negro problem: each of which have much to lose
by its solution. These two interests are the businessmen
who exist by exploiting cheap Negro labor and the political
radicals of the Left whose success is dependent upon
the Negro bloc vote plus the support which they find
so easy to excite among maudlin Whites, who react with
Pavlovian militancy whenever the "suffering Negro"
stereotype is waved in the breeze.
The loss of American Negroes because of their voluntary
Repatriation to Africa would injure these two unwholesome
types at the same time it would help everyone else.
In White America, as in other of his writings, Cox
flays these two interests.
It is interesting to compare the treatment that the
press gives to the Black Nationalist groups with that
given to integrationist groups. It is granted that
some Black Nationalist groups are potentially violent,
but this is so only because throughout the years the
Black Nationalists have failed to gain any support
from the White community whereas the intergrationist
groups have gathered tremendous financial, moral and
political support. Yet, the nationalist goal is precisely
that which most Whites want also; separate development,
independence, race integrity, whereas the intergrationist
groups stand for all that normal Whites abhor: neighborhood
deterioration, high taxes, rising crime, riots, interracial
marriages, etc. Why is this so? It is so because the
"free press" makes it so, and for no other
reason. It is so because the Whites have to be made
to believe that their friends are their enemies and
that their enemies are their friends and lies are truth
and up is down and black is White, so as to feed the
drive toward the extinction of both races and the triumph
of universal political chaos, when the International
Race will rule all.
If only ten thousand Whites during the last century
had as assiduously promoted Repatriation as radicals
have promoted integration, America's and the world's
problems would be far less than they are today. But
there were not ten thousand, there was only one, Earnest
Sevier Cox.
A great deal more should be said about Repatriation.
It has been ruled by the Establishment that discussion
of this matter is absurd it would impossible and undesirable
to repatriate Negroes to their ancestral homeland and
the whole idea should be forgotten lest those who wish
to discuss it are laughed at. Instead, we should remain
happy obediently paying exorbitant taxes to support
degrading welfare schemes and endless slum clearance
projects; to subsidize utterly wasteful socialistic
boondoggles, rent and "poverty" payments
to the indolent and useless, disastrous wars and useless
expeditions throughout the world and "foreign
aid," a euphemism used to describe the swindle
whereby every year international bankers and foreign
politicians manage to pluck a few more billion dollars
from the pockets of you and me. Such a system (which,
it must be admitted, does maintain spending adequate
for the politicians in power to maintain themselves
there) is unanimously agreed, among the brilliant newspaper
columnists and wise commentators, to be infinitely
more logical and rational than a plan to finance the
voluntary emigration of our greatest problem; the Negro,
by the annual payment of a small portion of our industrial
and agricultural over-production to the Repatriates.
The history of the world is a never-ending history of
racial movement and migration. Great folk-wanderings
are the warp and woof of history. This fact is historic
and prehistoric. The Turks, Magyars and Finns originated
near Tibet. The Aryans conquered and civilized India,
Persia, Greece,. The Caucasoid Ainus invaded the islands
of Japan, only to be conquered by invading "Japanese,"
later. The American Indians came from Siberia, presumably
across the Bering Strait, to populate the American
continents. The Lombards, a Teutonic tribe, moved into
decadent Rome, creating the Renaissance. Two other
Teutonic tribes, Angles and Saxons, invaded England
from the continent, displacing and mastering earlier
arrivers, and then were themselves conquered by still
another Teutonic invader, the Normans. America, Australia,
South Africa and Prussia were all created by immigrants.
And just a few years ago the Russians, with strong
backing from "American" leaders, forcibly
moved 14 million Teutons from Eastern Europe where
their families had lived, many of them, since the time
of William the Conqueror. At the same time a million
Arabs were being uprooted from Palestine to make way
for Jews, and these Arabs are still living in tents
in the desert today, worse off than American Negroes
have ever been.
Judging from this it seems as if the reluctance of the
Establishment to contemplate further race migrations
depends upon who is to be moved where. It is an undeniable
fact that the continued presence of Negroes in America
serves, as we have seen, two classes; capitalists with
a hankering for cheap labor and the malign political
forces and culture distorters who see the Negro as
their greatest ally: a ready agent of social demoralization
and all-pervasive cultural and racial deterioration.
But still the responsibility cannot be shifted from
the bulk of the White race, propaganda-besotted as
it may be, which allows the problem to grow and grow
from year to year without initiating or welcoming any
serious and responsible attempt at a solution.
It is profoundly distasteful to realized that both intellectually
and spiritually we have been, most of us, made slaves
to the Semitic dogma of universalism, whether we call
it communism or humanism, or even, as liberal ecclesiastics
do, Christianity; and it is this virulent madness which
is at the root of the trouble in the world, today.
The true significance of Earnest Sevier Cox is that
he was one of the first to see the vital necessity
of breaking free of this tyranny and establishing a
sound value system on earth. This new system of values
must accept the races of mankind as God made them.
It must be willing to grant to all men the right; even
the imperative, of self-development. It must see as
the worst sin the tearing apart of a finely-structured
social system, for whatever reason. And it must ruthlessly
eradicate that sick-minded (*) compulsion of the incomplete
and cowardly to change the life-pattern of others.
White America ranks as one of the early works in the
developing "race sociology" which Cox himself
calls for, and it is a great contribution toward that
needed science. Other authors who have contributed
their part to this may be listed: Lothrop Stoddard,
Madison Grant, Sir Arthur Keith, Alexis Carrel, Robert
Ardrey, Friedrich Nietzsche, Oswald Spengler, Francis
Parker Yockey and E.L. Anderson.
Dr. Anderson's contribution consists of a three-part
article entitled Cultural Dynamics in which he specifically
sets out to synthesize "a new approach to ancient
social problems." In this pioneer study he reviews
ethnology, anthropology, biology, history, zoology,
genetics, psychology and sociology to come up with
a broad outline of the master social science,"
which must be ranked above the other social sciences
because "it is part of all sciences and more important
than any." Cultural Dynamics still has to be filled
out in detail, but the broad outline is there. The
pamphlet also contains an invaluable bibliography listing
the works of 49 authors who have contributed something
toward this view.
It is interesting to speculate on the shape of the political
struggle of the future. It will, of course, be between
"Right" and "Left," but in a totally
different context. Economic determinism will be a thing
of the past for both Right and Left; in this sense
the Right will win out completely, for the basis of
human progress will be commonly realized to be biological
and not economic. Thus, all thought of upgrading mankind
through the usual "idealism" of welfare spending
and socialism will be recognized as being reactionary
and obsolete. But the times will also move Conservatives
away from their traditional defense of superficial
institutions. Instead, the Right vs. Left struggle
will be within the realm of the individual: the Right
will see genetics and Cultural Dynamics as the only
way toward human upgrading; the Left will promote medicine
and psychiatry. The former is the natural way, in accordance
with the laws of Life and biology; the latter is unnatural.
The former means natural human development along ecumenical
lines within the traditional, irreplaceable human institutions
of family, home and national culture; the latter means
an unnatural horror of organ transplants and other
surgical nightmares, drugs, bleaches, brainwashing,
bottle babies, brain electrodes, communal living and
universal tyranny by a self-chosen international master
race. This continuation of the struggle of Right vs.
Left will be the last chapter if the Left should win,
for it would bring the destruction of humanity; and
this is the end toward which the Left has been heading
since Intellect first challenged Instinct.
In the beginning the Left assaulted natural hierarchy
and traditional social order and the economy. Then
it attacked the basis of all culture; the concepts
of family and race. Now, as if truly diabolic, this
destructive force seeks to "remake" the human
body and personality itself, which is the foundation
of all progress and the summit of a billion years of
evolution. Should this satanic attack succeed and the
Left win, a mankind will be produced so spiritually
and physically enfeebled, corrupt and debased that
some unforseen natural calamity will simply wipe out
all humanity as Nature always extinguishes all forms
of Life which fail to abide by her laws.
But the Left, after three hundred years of success,
cannot win this final battle; cannot kill humanity.
This si so because its victories have destroyed that
very element of confusion which to date has assured
its progress. The issue is becoming too clear; it will
soon be impossible to confuse it with semantics, or
economic theories, or Marxist jargon, or humanitarian
garbage, or "religious" double-talk. The
issue will be so sharp that the final choice will be
obvious.
White America is an important book which makes a great
contribution to basic understanding of human differences
and racial realities, and this is a primary step toward
a future which can be literally infinite in its possibilities.
E.L. Anderson
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