How about a little white pill on a Monday to start your week?
We focus almost exclusively on the negatives here, and that is easy because there is so much negativity to talk about and we are in very precarious times. In general we see only the bad stuff on the internet. “Man has a pleasant Saturday and enjoyed spending time with his wife and grilling some burgers” isn’t going to generate a lot of clicks but “Man kills wife and then grills her” certainly will.
Last week Indianapolis hosted the 98th annual National FFA Convention. Somewhere in the range of 70,000 people came to Indy from all over the country, flooding Indianapolis with young people wearing the same blue corduroy jackets with their state and local chapter proudly announced on the back that I once wore. I watched a bunch of the videos and they hit me right in the feels.
To understand, a little background is in order. While my dad was a doctor and my idea of livestock was our pet dog, I joined the FFA as a freshman in high school. While I was on sports teams in high school because that was what you had to do in order to be part of the “in crowd” in a small town Ohio high school in the 1980s, I wasn’t really all that into them. What I was dedicated to was the FFA. For four summers I went to the Ohio FFA Camp Muskingum where some of my best memories in high school were made. I participated in contests from soil judging to parliamentary procedure. My senior year I was elected as President of the Anthony Wayne FFA chapter. FFA was the only part of high school I took seriously.
I also went to the FFA National Convention every year, back when it was held in Kansas City and we still were the Future Farmers of America instead of the more bland “National FFA Organization”. The drive from Whitehouse, Ohio where my high school is located to Kansas City was brutal. My Vo Ag teachers would drive a school van (I am not sure it even had seatbelts in the rear bench seats) and we would often stop to see see some sights on the way.
The convention itself was pretty incredible, thousands of kids from all over the country kind of turned loose in Kansas City. It’s amazing that it was mostly under control. There were some shenanigans of course, probably some drinking and some girls and boys skipping sessions to go back to the hotel, but in general it was all good clean fun. Every session started with reciting the FFA creed and the Pledge of Allegiance, lots of patriotism and flag waving. That is still the case today.
My sophomore year we gave a ride home to one of our state FFA officers. Later that year she would become my girlfriend and today she is my wife of over 30 years. As seriously as I took FFA, my wife puts me to shame in that respect.
Needless to say, the FFA was and remains very important to me and one of the most formative parts of my youth. I credit the FFA with teaching me almost everything useful I learned in high school, skills that were actually useful to me later in life as an adult. While I don’t in any way regret homeschooling our kids, my one regret is that they were not able to wear the blue corduroy jackets that my wife and I wore. We still have our FFA jackets stashed away somewhere with “Ohio” across the top and “Anthony Wayne” or “Oregon Clay” on the bottom.
What you saw on display last week in Indianapolis was tens of thousands of teenagers who by and large were friendly and polite and excited to be doing something that most of their peers back home probably thought was incredibly dorky. The kids look pretty much the same as when I was in school, mostly farm kids wearing the same “official dress” we wore when I was in FFA: the boys wearing white dress shirts, blue or black ties and dark colored slacks while the ladies wear white shirts, an official blue scarf and a black skirt with black nylons or black pants. For a lot of boys it was the first time they had ever had to wear and tie a necktie. Girls weren’t permitted to wear pants when I was in school.
What you didn’t hear about? No drunken brawls. No arrests. No stabbings. No mass shootings.
Kids serious about FFA enough to go to the National Convention are (in general) some of the best of America’s youth. Are many of them kinda dorky by modern standards? Sure, the same was true when I was in FFA. Would you rather have these kids in your neighborhood or some hood rats? We all know the answer to that.
None of that means there aren’t problems in the FFA. Me being me I noticed that a bunch of the pictures on the FFA Facebook page had black kids, you can tell the photographer was seeking out non-White kids for photo ops. The official website’s history section is stuffed with “the first black this” and the “first female that” and “the first non-native English speaker the other thing”. In 2020 one of the National Officers, a guy named Lyle Logemann who was serving as the Western Region Vice President, was kicked out of office for saying something un-PC about black Lives Matter on a Facebook post of a prior national officer named Jordan Stowe. The National FFA posted this woke bullshit when announcing they removed him from the team:
Yesterday we were presented with information concerning social media posts that were made by our Western Region Vice President, Lyle Logemann, prior to his service as a national officer. We have confirmed that Lyle made these posts, and he admits were at the very least inappropriate, insensitive, and reflected views that are not in keeping with the ideals of the National FFA Organization. These statements violate our code of ethics and especially our commitment to appreciate and promote diversity in our Organization. Lyle understands and is remorseful that he has offended many individuals and violated the code of conduct for FFA members and national officers.
Lyle sued the FFA and rightfully so. I don’t know what came of it but from what I can see Lyle Logemann has a successful career as an ag teacher and is still involved in mentoring FFA students.
Despite some hiccups and PC bullshit, the FFA remains a rare bright spot among America’s youth. The organization is overwhelmingly White. Of the 37 candidates for national office this year, 36 of the 37 were White….
The new officer team is all White as has been the case for most teams over the course of 98 years….
When they were announced you can see the excitement, this is something they have worked towards for a very long time. I admit to getting a little misty eyed seeing this.
Most of the videos that show large swaths of the members shows an overwhelmingly White organization. The non-Whites I knew in school were pretty great kids too, if you are black or mestizo and part of a mostly White organization where you are required to wear a tie and a blue corduroy jacket, you have to be pretty serious about it. Kids in FFA are some of the few high school students that are actually learning real life skills.
Watching the scenes from the FFA Convention in Indianapolis gives me hope for the future. All is not lost. It is precisely because I believe that we have a future as a people that I fight for that future. If I didn’t think we would win in the end, why would I bother putting a target on my back and speaking out as I do? Seeing tens of thousands of excited kids wearing their FFA jackets fills my heart with joy and provided a much needed boost to my morale.
Sure, it might seem like a pretty tiny white pill but these days? We could all use a little positivity and encouragement while never losing sight of the war we are in.
Very cool!
It’s an excellent organization in Montana too. We need more like it with more members like the ones you highlighted.
Good news is good news and we should be grateful for it.
Thanks!
I still have my Boy & Cub Scout memorabilia going back almost 65 years ago. At that time, there was a special arrangement that also included membership in the FFA for rural Scouts. Keep in mind there were several agricultural merit badges that could be earned, Farm Management, Crop Science, Animal Husbandry come to mind & one required to become an Eagle Scout, Soil & Water Conservation. It’s good to see the FAA still around & thriving. The BSA, who knows?
Correction! FFA. I can blame it on old age!
I still have my Boy & Cub Scout memorabilia going back almost 65 years ago. At that time, there was a special arrangement that also included membership in the FFA for rural Scouts. Keep in mind there were several agricultural merit badges that could be earned, Farm Management, Crop Science, Animal Husbandry come to mind & one required to become an Eagle Scout, Soil & Water Conservation. It’s good to see the FFA still around & thriving. The BSA, who knows?
When I was a kid, I loved cub and boy scouts. It was excellent and besides having fun I learned skills that have served me well in life. In fact I worked hard and am an Eagle Scout.
Fast forward 30 years and I enrolled my son in Scouts and OMG is it different !!
Totally completely woke with women running Boy Scouts and the adults run everything.
When I was in, the kids ran things with adult supervision, not anymore.
I got into an argument in the meeting and the Scout Master (who was obviously light in his louffers) who called me a dinosaur and that I needed to get with the times.
My son & I left and never went back.
It breaks my heart that the lefty bastards destroyed scouts which taught valuable skills to generations of boys and girls.
You exercised good judgement in leaving. They now allow faggot scoutmasters most of whom are probably pedos. After they crash and burn maybe someone based will buy up the logos and licenses and run it properly again as a private organization.
It was a great organization back in the early 1960’s. The Scoutmaster of our troop was a WW2 veteran & mechanical engineer. The merit badge counselors were very knowledgeable men in their respective fields. Summer camp was always something to look forward to. Best part? It was really cheap to be a scout back then. It’s now expensive & the reverse of what the Scouts were intended to be.
If the judeo bolsheviks get wind of this they’ll have FFA croweded up with faggots and trannies in no time.
Well, they would claim that they have all of that kibbutzim experience. To include chopping down Arab olive trees just because, and ignoring dry land farming practices in favor of sucking up all the water from the Jordan, and making a mad dash for the Litani when that wasn’t enough. So of course they should be admitted, but in their own chapters as is customary for them.
Or maybe they should all just make aliya and skip the pretenses that they are Americans, what with the Greater Israel Project going so well. Oh, God, please, let it be so.
Beautiful young people. Nice to be reminded of what remains.
FFA is still around in no small part to it being able to operate outside the top-down fedgov globohomo hammer.
But indeed, there are many tentacles that dangle to entrap these types of organizations in the funding plus strings attached that we see all over the USDA, Dept. of Ag, Fish & Wildlife, Nat Parks Svc, and everything else that touches our beautiful dirt.
One of the quiet but significant losses in the long march was when Heritage Americans ceded the stewardship and conservation of public spaces and resources to the dirty fucking commies and their environmental terrorism that dovetailed with the end-run on “conservativism” that rolled up the stewardship and conservation – traditionally the role of patriarchal heritage peoples, into the economic value harvesting machine of big energy and big ag.
The other loss was the dual-income trap and feminism/bolshie family destruction that meant these organizations were starved of male headship and volunteers required to keep them going.
The Boy Scouts weren’t just wrecked by globohoomo lawfare and faggotry but by a lack of fathers who had time and interest and familial headship to invest in their own boys, which meant the women took over.
Women have no business running boys over the age of 7. Even the good hearted. The pareto of any social org is likely inevitable, as 10% of the men do 90% of the work, but those 10% of men still must matriculate from a social fabric that incentivizes for participation and keeps the other 90% from succumbing to the institutionalized passive-aggressive gynocentric envy and resentment trap. We failed on both accounts.
These truths are, of course, heresy even in for a lot of dirt people.
You can see some of that already happening in the people who work for the association, as opposed to the members, teachers and alumni.
Anything that smacks of altruism or unpaid, unheralded community service is of no interest whatsoever to blacks and most other non-Whites. When your first thought is, “What’s in it for me?” there is no chance of it being your kind of thing. Generations of my family have participated in beach and roadway cleanups, volunteered at hospitals and church-run food pantries, participated in nature park maintenance and served at local library events for decades. In all that time I encountered not one single black or pajeet or burka-durka donating their time and effort, let alone a dime of their own money, for any worthy cause.
Altruism is a White virtue, unknown to the lesser races who will not even stoop to help their own. They fully expect YT to shoulder the burden and foot the bill. They even become resentful when White largesse runs lean or is not up to their expectations (see: Katrina rescue and relief/relocation efforts).
It is uplifting and heartwarming to learn that FFA and other overwhelmingly White institutions and organizations still thrive in modern times. My boys were scouts as well as active church youth group members, and they look back on their time participating in community events through these organizations with genuine gratitude.
The FFA motto is: “Learning to Do, Doing to Learn, Earning to Live, Living to Serve” and that is about as counter-cultural as anything you will find today
We need our own country again so all of our organizations can look like this…
Truth.
Yes.
+1,000,000
OUR OWN country! No more apology…..
She paid the toll. A future post idea?
https://www.azfamily.com/2025/11/03/man-killed-18-year-old-girlfriend-after-she-refused-get-an-abortion-prosecutors-say/
Great article and comments! I wasn’t in FFA, despite being in rural Ohio growing up. My best bud, the late (and certainly great) Pig Walrus was. What a great organization.
I was in Cub And Boy Scouts, I followed my brother’s footsteps and achieved my Eagle. Those two words “Be Prepared” still are etched in the front of my mind with everything in my life. It’s sad and frigging infuriating that the (((Satanic scum))) have pretty much rendered this hallowed institution irrelevant.
Trivia note: most, if not all of the FFA blue corduroy jackets are made in my former hometown of Van Wert, Ohio.
Watched the video and the furnace must have kicked on because it got really dusty in here.
God bless all the members of the FFA, current, past and future; as well as all the farmers.
Paul Harvey (the resssst of the story) surely held farmers in high esteem. Me too!
Ranch kids…. Know a couple, locally, only 17 and 14. Polite, respectful, hard workin’ kids. A little wild but who ain’t at that age? Dependable enough I put ’em to work when I need an extra hand. I figure if they’re gonna fuck around and look for payin’ jobs, I might as well teach ’em a lesson and give ’em some. 🙂
I don’t think you’re going to see too many 2Gs in farming, it’s way too much work for them.
You forgot soil judging competions
Yep, my daughter was very involved in FFA in HS. Went college to become a large animal vet. College chemistry kicked her butt and she eventually ended up in education. Became a leftist, so there’s that.