Asa "Little Tree" Carter: The Birth, Power, and Perseverance of an American Pseudonym ~ Part I
Clinton, Tennessee.
September 1956.
A few nights after the integration of the local high school, a white man stood on ledge of the school entranceway addressing the townspeople who filled the lawn and overflowed into the street in the glow of the ornate streetlamps:
In the South we have 98% Anglo-Saxon race, not counting the nig-ras. These are responsible people who erect free government, and who have stood up and told the nig-ra: ‘You must operate, you must conduct yourself from a separate state.’ But the communist says: ‘One world government. One world economy. One world geographically. AND A ONE WORLD RACE!’
The crowd met each declaration of worldwide communism’s goals with a forceful, “No!”
In 1950, America was 87.5% Non-Hispanic White, with about 2% identifying as Hispanic White. In 2020, 57.8% of America is Non-Hispanic White, with 3.8% identifying as Hispanic White. The present-day number is hopelessly inaccurate because of the unrestricted influx of tens of million illegal aliens pouring across the southern border. But a near 30% drop in a nation’s majority population would suggest defeat in war and colonization at any other time in history.
Who was this man that seemed to have a crystal ball to see 70 years into the future? Tidy up the language to guard today’s sensitized ears from automatically tuning out the substance of the point, and we have the exact globalist platform that the world’s dissidents face today. “No, you may not have a border or laws or people group or culture or biological sex or natural family or nation,” the globalist talking heads in government and propaganda outlets proclaim. Just who was this man that had such a finger on the pulse of the plan we now deal with the rotten fruits of today?
His name was Asa Earl Carter, born 1925 in Alabama. Later, Asa would go to Texas where he would take on a new name, “Forrest ‘Little Tree’ Carter,” and begin a literary career which bore The Rebel Outlaw: Josey Wales in 1973 and The Education of Little Tree in 1976, both of which enjoyed major mainstream popular success and critical acclaim, his past totally unknown to Hollywood.
But in 1956, he was still Asa, a World War II Navy veteran that had just had his nationally syndicated radio show cancelled. Asa had taken issue with aspects of the Jewish community in America, and, like Father Coughlin before him and Kanye “Ye” West after, that little unforgivable sin got him in trouble. People boycotted his show, and the local radio station that aired him canceled it over his supposed antisemitism. Out of a job, Asa took a more direct-action approach against integration which led him to Clinton, Tennessee.
His speeches at Clinton helped stir popular opinion against the measure, and there was some degree of riotous reaction from the white men of the community that persisted well beyond Asa’s visit. The National Guard was even called in and patrolled with tanks and fixed bayonets for over two months to enforce the integration effort.
Asa had left after the first couple of nights to go back home to Alabama where he continued his efforts against integration by forming his own Klan group, the “Original Ku Klux Klan of the Confederacy.” By this time, he was already considered a pariah among the many more “well-to-do” Alabamians who likewise opposed integration, such as the Alabama Citizens’ Council. That didn’t stop Asa, though.
When he found out that George Wallace was running for Governor of Alabama again in 1962 after losing to John Patterson in 1958 due to Patterson’s stronger defense of segregation, (Patterson had the Klan endorsement in ’58 while Wallace had been endorsed by the NAACP) Asa immediately got to work writing stump speeches. When Wallace came to speak at Asa’s hometown, Asa handed him a folder of speeches he’d written for him, totally unsolicited. Wallace used some of Asa’s material that same night and called him up immediately afterward to retain his services. The crowd had loved the talk of ancient Anglo-Saxon heritage and their grandfather’s valiant stand against federal tyranny just a few decades ago, well within the living memory of the sons and daughters of Southern veterans, orphans, and widows.
Asa’s writing method entailed chain smoking a couple of cartons and sipping a fifth of bourbon holed up in a motel room with his typewriter for days at a time, click-clacking away stacks of material in a frenzy.
When Wallace won the Governor’s race, he spoke one of the most famous lines in all of American politics, written by Asa Carter:
Today I have stood, where once Jefferson Davis stood, and took an oath to my people. It is very appropriate then that from this Cradle of the Confederacy, this very Heart of the Great Anglo-Saxon Southland, that today we sound the drum for freedom as have our generations of forebears before us done, time and time again through history. Let us rise to the call of freedom-loving blood that is in us and send our answer to the tyranny that clanks its chains upon the South. In the name of the greatest people that have ever trod this earth, I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny, and I say,
Segregation today, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.
The Washington D.C. school riot report is disgusting and revealing. We will not sacrifice our children to any such type school system, and you can write that down. The federal troops in Mississippi could be better used guarding the safety of the citizens of Washington D.C., where it is even unsafe to walk or go to a ballgame, and that is the nation's capitol. I was safer in a B-29 bomber over Japan during the war in an air raid, than the people of Washington are walking to the White House neighborhood. A closer example is Atlanta. The city officials fawn for political reasons over school integration and then build barricades to stop residential integration, what hypocrisy!
The man that wrote this declaration is the same man who Barbara Waters would fawn over on national television 10 years later!
There’s no contemporary parallel to be had. Perhaps if Costin Alamariu came out with a heartfelt autobiography of a young boy growing up in the final days and fall of Soviet Romania, somehow likening it to the Palestinian conflict enough to get featured on Seth Meyer’s show, we’d at least have a comparison, but alas, Asa would still come out on top.
Of course, everyone has heard Asa’s famous line from Wallace’s speech. But what else did they say? You’ll never hear it talked about anywhere. Yes, liberals and leftists and globalists of all stripes will scream that it is the core of the MAGA movement today—that Trump is Wallace reincarnate or worse! But they’ll never actually engage with the substance as opposed to declaring its malevolence.
Not so long ago men stood in marvel and awe at the cities, the buildings, the schools, the autobahns that the government of Hitler's Germany had built, just as centuries before they stood in wonder of Rome's building. But it could not stand, for the system that built it had rotted the souls of the builders and in turn rotted the foundation of what God meant that men should be. Today that same system on an international scale is sweeping the world. It is the "changing world" of which we are told it is called "new" and "liberal". It is as old as the oldest dictator. It is degenerate and decadent. As the national racism of Hitler's Germany persecuted a national minority to the whim of a national majority, so the international racism of the liberals seek to persecute the international white minority to the whim of the international colored majority, so that we are foot-balled about according to the favor of the Afro-Asian bloc. But the Belgian survivors of the Congo cannot present their case to a war crimes commission, nor the Portuguese of Angola, nor the survivors of Castro, nor the citizens of Oxford, Mississippi.
Over sixty years ago, here was a Governor sounding the alarm on the reality that White Europeans are a global minority! Recall Asa’s words in Clinton in 1956 and compare them with Wallace’s speech:
This nation was never meant to be a unit of one but a united of the many. That is the exact reason our freedom loving forefathers established the states, so as to divide the rights and powers among the states, insuring that no central power could gain master government control.
In united effort we were meant to live under this government, whether Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian, Church of Christ, or whatever one's denomination or religious belief, each respecting the others right to a separate denomination; each, by working to develop his own, enriching the total of all our lives through united effort. And so it was meant in our political lives, whether Republican, Democrat, Prohibition, or whatever political party, each striving from his separate political station, respecting the rights of others to be separate and work from within their political framework and each separate political station making its contribution to our lives.
And so it was meant in our racial lives. Each race, within its own framework has the freedom to teach, to instruct, to develop, to ask for and receive deserved help from others of separate racial stations. This is the great freedom of our American founding fathers. But if we amalgamate into the one unit as advocated by the communist philosophers then the enrichment of our lives, the freedom for our development, is gone forever. We become, therefore, a mongrel unit of one under a single all powerful government and we stand for everything and for nothing.
The true brotherhood of America, of respecting the separateness of others and uniting in effort has been so twisted and distorted from its original concept that there is a small wonder that communism is winning the world.
It’s no wonder that the rest of this speech is not well known. “Segregation” has been so successfully sensitized that, even as Black Lives Matter calls for a return to it, “conservatives” clutch their pearls with terror. Simply labeling this speech as the “segregation” speech has gatekept any serious study of its substance.
Clearly, Asa was a man that was passionate about a larger picture in motion. And he genuinely felt that he was fighting the arc of American history to save what was left of the country the Founding Fathers had instituted:
We remind all within hearing of this Southland that a Southerner, Peyton Randolph, presided over the Continental Congress in our nation's beginning, that a Southerner, Thomas Jefferson, wrote the Declaration of Independence, that a Southerner, George Washington, is the Father of our country, that a Southerner, James Madison, authored our Constitution, that a Southerner, George Mason, authored the Bill of Rights and it was a Southerner who said, "Give me liberty or give me death," Patrick Henry.
Southerners played a most magnificent part in erecting this great divinely inspired system of freedom and, as God is our witnesses, Southerners will save it.
When Wallace began to moderate his stances for a national audience for Presidential aspirations, Asa ran against him in the 1970 election for Governor with a hardline platform. After losing with only 1.51% of the vote, Asa decided it was time to live another life.
He moved to Texas and began writing under the name Forrest Carter. Just two years later, Clint Eastwood would be playing The Outlaw Josey Wales on the silver screen to major box-office success and critical acclaim.
A pseudonym was born.
I didn't know that. I read little tree and gone to Texas., not to mention my favorite movie. Thanks.