The feast day of St. George Floyd, Holy Martyr, passed on May 25 without much commemoration in the news media. Actually I didn’t see any commemoration at all—unless you count James Fulford’s mention of him in his Memorial Day piece. But I did come across something much better in the New York Times: Three Years After a Fateful Day in Central Park, Birding Continues to Change My Life, by Christian Cooper, NYT,  May 26, 2023.

You may remember the ”Central Park Karen” incident. That was also May 25, 2020. But early in the day, it dominated news and social media even more than the George Floyd story did. It certainly contributed to the BLM riots that broke out soon after. To refresh your memory, here’s the typical news spin we got:

A white woman was walking her dog, off-leash, in a hilly wooded area of New York’s Central Park, called The Ramble. A large black man came from behind a bush and yelled at her to leash the dog. The woman was terrified, and took out her mobile phone to call for help. She said she would tell the dispatcher an ”African American man” was threatening her and her dog. The ”African American man” videoed some of this, sent it to his sister, and it soon went viral on social media. The woman was thenceforth denounced as ”Racist Central Park Karen.” A couple of days later she was terminated from her job as insurance portfolio manager at Franklin Templeton.

In short order the news media began to inform us that this large black man was some kind of local hero. He’s a birdwatcher. He’s a Harvard graduate in his late fifties. He used to write for Marvel Comics. He’s even gay! (Coincidentally or not, The Ramble is a famous cruising area in the Park.) Christian Cooper is his name, and National Geographic television has given him

You have to feel sorry, sort of, for GOP presidential candidate Tim Scott, the black senator from South Carolina, who was Affirmatively Acted into the Senate by the appalling Nicky Haley in 2013 to replace Jim Demint: his announcement last week was completely stepped on by Ron DeSantis. But Scott boasts the support of many powerful Republicans and donors who boneheadedly believe his being black is a plus. This despite the fact that Scott is probably the worst candidate in the field: His goal is for the GOP/GAP to abandon the Historic American Nation and embrace multi-culti America. No immigration patriot should want him anywhere near a GOP presidential ticket–even as vice president, the real threat.

Scott’s opening pitch on video hurled boilerplate Republican platitudes. America is the land of opportunity, he said. “Made in America” is his story. We should emphasize patriotism over pity, he averred, and victory over victimization. He highlighted five trends the left promotes in the country: crime in our streets, inflation in our economy, a culture of victimhood, and indoctrination in our schools. Not a bad list, but immigration wasn’t on it.

I’m living proof that America is the land of opportunity.

Made in America. That's my story.

To the radical Left that says we're an evil declining country, I say the truth of my life disproves your lies.

I have faith in America & our president should too. pic.twitter.com/pERJgVIjGY

— Tim Scott (@votetimscott) May 23, 2023

But he did address immigration, sort of, at his launch rally in North Charleston. “If you don’t control your back door, it’s not your house,” he said. “And if our southern border is unsafe and insecure, it’s not our country. Hundreds of people on our terrorist watch list are crossing our borders.” He also discussed deploying the military against the cartels.

It’s a decent stance on the issue, but of course he didn’t mention legal immigration.

Scott’s overall pitch: “What would happen if we put the rocks down and stopped being red and blue and black and white and we literally just became one American family?” he asked NBC News’s Tom Llamas [Read the full transcript of NBC News’ exclusive interview with Sen. Tim Scott, May 22, 2023].

It’s corny. It’s tone deaf. And, unfortunately,

Last year: THE FULFORD FILE: This Memorial Day Is The Second Anniversary Of Antifa/BLM Attack On The White House. Why Has That Gone Down The Memory Hole?

Podcaster Jesse Kelly, a veteran of the Iraq War, makes the same point the late Kevin R. C. O’Brien (a veteran of Afghanistan) used to make—Memorial Day is not Veterans Day. It’s about the ones who didn’t come back [“Happy Memorial Day?” | WeaponsMan, May 30, 2016].

REMINDER: Do not water down Memorial Day with your niceness. It’s a day to honor those who gave their lives while serving in the military. It’s not for “veterans and cops and first responders!”

It’s only for the fallen. And their families. They deserve their own day.

— Jesse Kelly (@JesseKellyDC) May 28, 2023

In Greenwich, CT, a white woman named Alma Rutgers thinks it’s about George Floyd and slavery:

Alma Rutgers (opinion): On Memorial Day, there's reason to ponder slavery’s racist legacy https://t.co/rb2fQsMaup

— Greenwich Time (@GreenwichTime) May 26, 2023

The reason that comes up is because it was a Memorial Day weekend when Floyd, high on fentanyl, tried to pass a counterfeit 20 dollar bill... and died while he was resisting arrest. See Steve Sailer’s Will We See a Push to Rename Memorial Day as George Floyd Day? [May 14, 2021] and the New York Times’s May 25 Should Be a Day of Mourning for George Floyd [May 21, 2021].

There were riots, aided and abetted by local governments, almost immediately, and an attack on the Trump White House, mentioned above, which has been memory-holed, although it seems much more like an ”insurrection” or attempted Color Revolution than January 6, 2021, seven months later [At least 60 Secret Service members injured during George Floyd protests in DC, Fox News, May 31, 2020].

But that’s not what we’re meant to remember on Memorial Day.

Memorial Day is a specific American holiday, going back to the Civil War.

Our overseas Anglospheric readers celebrate Remembrance Day on November 11 (Armistice Day in the U.S.) in honor of a soul-destroying, seemingly pointless slaughter that destroyed the old order between 1914 and 1918.

But by 1914, the United States had already been memorializing its own soul-destroying, seemingly pointless slaughter

Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard, yet another of those white Mexicans, who might be Mexico’s next president, just visited Oklahoma and Florida, both of which have Republican governors. It was bad enough that he attended the opening of a consulate a.k.a. Reconquista Staging Area in Oklahoma City. But in Florida, he openly campaigned against the state’s new immigration laws that require, among other things, employers to use E-Verify. Strangely, the GOP/GAP does not seem to have noticed this open meddling in U.S. affairs. Is it asleep?

The Consulate In Oklahoma City

As I have written repeatedly through the years, Mexican consulates are centers of Mexican meddling. They defend illegal aliens, promote dual citizenship and claim sovereignty over American citizens of Mexican ancestry. Mexico has planted 52 two of these subversion centers on American soil, the largest consular network in the world.

Thankfully, my home state of Oklahoma didn’t have one, at least until recently.

And that wasn’t a hardship for Mexicans residing in the Sooner State. Five neighboring states have consulates. From Oklahoma City, it’s just about five hours to Little Rock and Kansas City and three hours to Dallas. Mexicans tend to drive fast, so the drive times are less than they would be for Americans! (And I’m only half-joking about that).

The point is, Oklahoma didn’t need a consulate. But Republican Governor Kevin Stitt and Oklahoma City Mayor David Holt didn’t agree, so they campaigned for a consulate in Mexico City. In 2021, Stitt even traveled to Mexico, Made-In-China sombrero in hand, to lobby for one. And Stitt and Holt got what they wanted: an outpost of Mexican meddling in the capital city.

Congratulations. Good job, Treason Lobbyists!

Stitt, Holt, and a high-powered Mexican delegation merrily dedicated the facility on May 20 [Gov. Stitt celebrates launch of Mexican Consulate in Oklahoma City, by Kevin Severin, Fox 25, May 20, 2023].

“It was such an honor to attend the grand opening of Oklahoma’s Mexican consulate,” Stitt tweeted.

It was such an honor to attend the grand opening of Oklahoma’s Mexican consulate.

I’m so proud of the work we’ve done to strengthen our diplomatic relations and support our Hispanic community. pic.twitter.com/lSN8bAKYhh

— Governor Kevin Stitt (@GovStitt) May 20, 2023

Whatever Stitt means by our “our Hispanic community,” whether Mexican-born immigrants

Our summer conference at the Berkeley Springs Castle opens three weeks from today, June 16th. We are all excited about it, anticipating three days of debate, fellowship, and fun.

Also defiance. I noted back in January the lawfare we’re engaged in with New York State Attorney General Letitia James, a dogged and ruthless Social Justice Warrior. The other day our boss here, Peter Brimelow, described in much greater detail what we are going through.

It makes for painful reading, not just for those of us writing and podcasting here at VDARE.com, but—surely!—for anyone who cares about the liberty of American citizens and the degradation, the cynical politicization, of our justice system.

It’s a bitter fight; and, as Peter explains, one that’s taking a toll on us. There’s the time we have to spend complying with A.G. James’ preposterous subpoena demands, the money we have to spend on legal fees, and the opportunity cost for projects we’ve had to abandon or postpone.

We stand defiant, though, bloody but unbowed. The Berkeley Springs Castle is a symbol of our defiance, and next month’s conference is an expression of it. Onward and upward! Excelsior!

Steve Sailer, who’s been an inspiration to the Dissident Right for nigh on a quarter of a century now, will be making one of his extremely rare public appearances.

I shall be speaking myself, speech title something like: ”Are We Doomed? Reflections on Our Cultural Revolution.” I shall take as the starting point my 2009 book We Are Doomed, returning to some of the topics I covered there—including of course immigration—to see which direction things have moved in this past