Biography

The Author

Ray N. Cherry is a 1969 graduate of Metropolitan Jr. College in Kansas City and Harding College in Searcy, Arkansas where he received his B.A. in History in 1971.  He is a former Marine who graduated from the U.S. Army Intelligence School and Center at Ft. Hauchuca, Arizona in 1976. He served with Hq. Co. 24th Marines in Kansas City, Marine Corps Reserve Support Center, Overland Park, KS., and Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 0215 in Belton, Mo.  He was called up for operation Desert Storm.  He finished his military career with the Seabees in 2001.   

He worked in manufacturing, the medical field, federal and state government, and  created the Strategic Business Intelligence Service in 1988.  He experienced the Great Recession of 1982 and recorded the story of millions of Silent Majority Americans who became unemployed during one phase in the de-industrialization of America.

Mr. Cherry was a political activist for 20 years - first with the Reagan campaign and as a Republican state representative candidate in 1982.  Most recently, he was a member of Ross Perot’s United We Stand America, a Buchanan Elector,  and the Western Missouri Coordinator for the Reform Party’s 2000 Missouri Buchanan effort.  Cherry was an At-Large Missouri Delegate to the 2001 National Reform Party Convention in Nashville.  

Ray Cherry was also the host of Missouri’s first Third Party radio show, the Reform Times and his own radio talk show, The Ray Cherry Show,  2004 & 2005 at KCXL 1140 AM that broadcast to the general Kansas City area. He lives in West Plains, Missouri where he is restoring the family farm.

             The book you thought you'd never see!

"History has shown that what our government does to others today, it will do to Americans tomorrow." - John Dean

After many years of thinking about it, I concluded that a real story of our generation and times had to be written by someone who's been there and the best way I know how is to tell a story in the form of a memoir and history that chronicles reality as I have known it.  Along the way, I discovered by accident some interesting truths by examining the origins, beliefs, and activities of a multitude of revolutionary players.  Perhaps this memoir and history will begin the process of holding them accountable for what they did.  I have also given special coverage to the diseases of these revolutionaries whether they are militant atheists, racist renegades, or intriguers who craftily use the shield and the sword of race to pursue their murderous and deceitful intent.

I have used biography to a large extent because it is primary source evidence.  Many of my sources were gleaned from my personal library over the span of 40 years.  I have noticed how many of those books have either disappeared from the book stores or have been dropped from libraries.  Many newspaper clippings were saved from the 1970s when the full consequences of the revolutionary 1960s were seen daily in all their shameful glory.  Most sources were never complicated, complex, or hard to find, but it took almost 40 years to compile them.  It would take a monk to do it again.

If my narrative and conclusions seen harsh, uncomfortable, or hard to understand for the average Joe, then I think it's time for him to leave the toy department and find out what really comes down in life.  More specifically, he should put down the remote and back away from the buffet in order to find our what really happened to him and America.  Consider the real race and class warfare that goes on daily in the United States.

Warfare has various forms and the one that most interested me is revolution.  As Claudius would also say, revolution is the culmination of all the poisons that bubble up from a sick body politic and its host of unsavory characters, their madness, and agendas.  I've been drawn to the study of revolutions because in them can be found answers and possible cures for future diseases.

For someone in my station in life to write a book is a miracle and I didn't really know if I could do it.  Whatever can be said of this station, my determination was always there.  I can count on my hand the small group of politically incorrect intellectuals who write about the period.  Each has dozens of people helping them and I believe their conclusions are valid, although they do not go far enough.  Radical egalitarianism, radical individualism, and the Frankfort School are symptoms, not the source of the social diseases that sprang up.  The answer is in an ideological autopsy of the players themselves and an examination of their brier patches.  Perhaps this book and its humble origins will further authenticate what the few celebrity writers say.

It was important to put in the final chapter predictions about the future which most authors avoid either out of fear or intellectual cowardice.  The future really can be reasonably predicted by a study of the past.  That's optimism - to know the dark secrets that people fear and avoid.  Still, there is a mystery in it, more than people can know.

The Journal of the Silent Majority was done independently of individuals, think tanks, or institutions of the right or left.  I am the only one responsible for its merits, conclusions, and failures.

Ray N. Cherry