I want to strongly encourage every one of my White Kin on these boards to take the time to try and search out other VNNF members in your area and meet together. We need each other on so many levels. In fact, our very survival in the near future may well depend on knowing each other in the real world of bullets, bricks, and bombs, and not the world of excited electrons and keyboards.

SemiticallyIncorrect and I live within 30 miles of each other. We have exchanged PMs and a few phone calls. The conversations were just great. It is so good to talk to someone of similar opinions, and so we decided to meet each other socially at a local seafood restaurant. This is how it went.

My wife, son, his girlfriend, and I arrived at the restaurant before SI and his wife did. I left my business card at the front with the waitress along with instructions to bring SI to our table on his arrival. We ordered wine and oysters on the half shell. After a few minutes the waitress brought SI and his wife over. I stood up to shake this White man's hand and we immediately made strong eye contact. I don't trust any-damn-body who doesn't give me eye contact. With SI I saw, well, a kinsman. We exchanged greetings around the table then sat.

There was an immediate comfort between us all. The conversation was never strained or forced. There was no pretence, no covering up, no hesitancy. It wasn't like a group of strangers meeting for the first time, it was more like friends you haven't seen for a long while. Our wives fell in thick as thieves right off the bat while SI and I were talking. SI and his wife are very gracious people. We all felt very much at home with each other.

There is something special about breaking bread with your own kind. Our manners, our codes of conduct, our racial identity is so profoundly demonstrated over food taken together and our table was loaded with Florida seafood.

SI and his wife are from the north east. My wife is from Virginia, and I am from Georgia. Although we are from such diverse places, we have more in common with each other as racial kin, than any of us do to a non White who might've been born in the same hospital.

The spirit of the evening can be summed by this little incident I'll relate. When my son and his girlfriend got up to leave, she came over to give my wife and I a goodbye hug as she always does. Then, she walked over to SI and his wife and said, "Well, do y'all want a handshake or a hug?" A hug for both did just fine.

The night aged on far too quickly. Although we were there at our table for quite awhile it seemed only a short time. The carafe of wine long dry, and the last beer drunk, we relunctantly brought the evening to a close. It was obvious that we'd only scratched the surface of all we wanted, and needed to talk about. We will be getting together again.

My friends, my kin here on VNNF, we need each other. SI made a really great point that I've thought a lot about since. This is near a quote, "There ought to be millions of WNs, but there just isn't right now. That's why its so important that those of us who are find each other."

Exactly. We are family after all.

Meeting in person accomplishes more than just WNs getting to know one another. Suppose you're a true, blue WN but your wife or son or daughter or husband isn't. Meeting in person takes away the false veneer, the false identity, the false face of hate monsters applied to us by the zoglodyte media and culture of vulgarity.

VNNF is the best forum there is, but my recent experience has shown that it is a really great place for WNs to find each other. VNNF can be the tool that will help move us to networking and activism where we stand. After all, if the balloon goes up, I need someone to my back here.