The following letter was sent by certified mail today. I will be writing the heads of the other Junior ROTC services this coming week. If I don't get a satisfactory response I will be writing to higher levels in the military and to President Barack Obama if necessary. I am starting out with the letters and online postings, but will be fully developing my campaign in the coming months. I will still be writing Churches. The churches in the Dallas area are due a 2nd round of letters and I have been notifying my contacts in the area about the upcoming SCV convention there.
August
3, 2015
Dr.
Joseph D. Smith
Director
- NJROTC Program
Naval
Service Training Command
250
Dallas Street, Ste. A
Pensacola,
FL 32508-5268
Dear Dr.
Smith:
I am
writing you to ask that you no longer have cadets receive the H.L. Hunley Award
from the Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV). The SCV, is I believe by any
reasonable standard, a racist and extremist group. I enclose a dossier which
was published in Black Commentator online at http://www.blackcommentator.com/526/526_confederacy_sebesta_guest_share.html.
I also
enclose a recent article that was published at Politico.com. It is also online
at http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/04/civil-war-american-south-still-loves-confederacy-116771.html#.VWDG_pVFCM8. (I have
the research byline.)
I am an
investigative researcher into the neo-Confederate movement. I am published by
peer-reviewed academic journals and university presses, as well as other media.
I enclose a copy of my curriculum vitae which is online at http://www.templeofdemocracy.com/curriculum-vitae.html.
I was
recently awarded the “Spirit of Freedom” medal by the African American Civil
War Museum.
The SCV
is not a patriotic organization. I enclose an article published in the
Nov./Dec. 2007 Confederate Veteran, their official publication, where the Lt.
Commander-in-Chief Ronald E. Casteel gives his regular column over to the
former SCV Chaplain-in-Chief Fr. Alister C. Anderson who gives a scathing
denunciation of Pledge of Allegiance. [Pages 8,9,56]
Fr.
Anderson in the column writes, “Through some devious political connections he
was permitted to write the Pledge of Allegiance with his Socialists intentions
to weld together the mentality of all Americans in their allegiance to a
centralized Federal Government.” [Page 56]
Then
there is this statement in the column:
Southern scholars and historians
have written that Bellamy’s idea to include “liberty and justice for all” is a
substitute phrase which he was forced to use instead of his preferred phrase
“Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity,” the atheist words of the radical French
Revolution.” [Page 56]
I also
enclose an article from the Nov./Dec. 2012 Confederate
Veteran in which the cover article compares Lincoln to Karl Marx and Adolph
Hitler. The article concludes with the sentence:
Lincoln, Marx, Engels, and Hitler
are indeed a strange but deadly ‘Band of Brothers.’
Then
there is the SCV’s recent promotion of an anti-Semitic book.
I enclose
a photocopy of an advertisement in the Jan./Feb. 2015 issue of Confederate Veterans magazine, their
official publication, Vol. 73 No.1, pages 70-71 in which they recommend, praise
and sell the book, “The South Under Siege, 1830-2000,” by Frank Conner,
Collards Press, 2002.
This book
argues that the 20th century Civil Rights movement was a Jewish conspiracy
carried out against the South and that the idea of racial equality was itself a
part of the Jewish conspiracy.
For
example on page 392 in his book Connor states:
Until after the turn of the 20th
century, anthropologists had routinely recorded genetic as well as cultural
differences between races and ethnic groups – that being the whole point of
anthropology. The highlighted differences among the races hand included those
of intelligence. But as Kevin MacDonald points out in The Culture of Critique,
a German-Jewish-immigrant named Franz Boas changed all that. At Columbia, Boas
arbitrarily claimed that biological differences between races were miniscule –
that environment alone shaped the behavior of the different races and ethnic groups
(a la Rousseau). A number of other Jewish anthropologists swiftly adopted Boas’
position; and soon the Jews dominated the field of cultural anthropology. As
MacDonald points out, by 1915 the Jews had gained control of the American
Anthropological Association; and by 1926 they were chairing the anthropology
departments at all of the major universities.
The SCV
recommends this book as follows:
This important book by SCV member
Frank Conner examines the true relations between the North and South from 1830
to June 200. It identifies the real history of each region, and the lies and
distortion by which the Northern liberals have created totally false
stereotypes of both the Northern liberal and the traditional white Southerner.
It tells what the North has done to the South, and why the North claims to have
done it, why the North really did it, and what the consequences have been. An
excellent defense against the official history currently taught in the
government schools. [italics in the original, Jan./Feb. 2015, Confederate Veterans Magazine, Vol. 73
No.1, page 70.]
I enclose
copies of pages 392-393 & 406 of the book. I also enclose pages vii and
viii of the table of contents to show that these anti-Semitic statements are
not isolated examples.
In the
same advertisement of the SCV you can also see that they are promoting the
book, “Southern by the Grace of God” by Michael Andrew Grissom. This is a book
which glorifies and praises the Ku Klux Klan as saviors of the South. I enclose
documentation.
The
enclosed documentation is to corroborate two items in the enclosed Black
Commentator article about the SCV.
The SCV
is giving awards to Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps (JROTC) cadets to
advance their agenda. I enclose an
article titled, “SCV JROTC H.L. Hunley Award,” by A.C. Wilson III, National
Chairman of the H.L. Hunley Award, in the Jan./Feb. 2014 Confederate Veteran, pages 62-64 in which Wilson explains the
purpose of the award.
Wilson
opens the article with:
Every year I have two or three
camp commanders asking just exactly what this program does that contributes to
our fulfilling General Stephen Dill Lee’s Charge to the Sons. [Page 62]
The
“Charge” of Stephen D. Lee to the SCV is to promote the neo-Confederate version
of the Civil War.
Wilson
explains why the SCV has this program. The SCV gets to sit in at the awards
programs and as he explains further:
Tomorrow’s leaders are sitting in
these auditoriums and they represent the finest students their high school has
to offer. As these young Americans are recognized by fraternal and military
organizations, they remember who recognized their hard work and sacrifices. We,
as presenters, sit among the communities proven leaders who are there
representing the Sons of the American Revolution, Daughters of the American
Revolution, Scottish Rite, American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Military
Order of Purple Hearts and many others. We are sitting alongside these
individuals. We were not asked to sit on the back row, or they rather we not attend
at all. We are meeting high school administrators, teachers and parents and
will be asked to make presentations to classes on the War Between the States
and share with these students the true history of the South, students who
represent our future generations. [Page 62]
From the
prior examples given we can see what the SCV considers to be “the true history”
to be shared with students.
It could
be pointed out that the SCV gives some of the H.L. Hunley awards to African
American students, which is true. However, this appears to be a matter of
public relations to obscure the ideology they are promoting.
Finally,
when the Hunley sunk the U.S.S. Housatonic two officers and three non-officers
lost their lives. Should we be giving awards that honor those who took the
lives of American Navy servicepersons?
I ask
that the SCV not be allowed to be involved with any programs of the NJROTC. In particular I ask that they not be allowed
to use cadets to advance their neo-Confederate agenda.
Sincerely
Yours,
Edward
H. Sebesta
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