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Blacks should bow to Whitey
Discussing Sen. Barack Obama's speech addressing race and controversial comments by his former pastor, Jeremiah Wright, Pat Buchanan wrote in his syndicated column:
"Wright ought to go down on his knees and thank God he is an American."... "no people anywhere has done more to lift up blacks than white Americans," ... "We hear the grievances. Where is the gratitude?"
i'm speechless....
why the hell is this guy on the air?
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Comments (13)
We all know Pat Buchannon is a racist. He didn't read the decleration of independence.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
Him and a lot of other people like him feel it was "WHITE PEOPLE" who gave African Americans the "unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."
That is why they feel they can call people anti-american.
March 22, 2008 10:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
On what basis and what proof do you offer for your claim that Buchanan is racist? I've read his writings and listened to him over the years and do not find any racism. Maybe it makes you uncomfortable that he is blunt and ready, as his latest commentary illustrates, to write about race, but doing so and challenging Obama does not make him racist.
March 22, 2008 11:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
I read Buchanan's commentary and apparently you need to reread it a bit slower and completely. Buchanan accepts Obama's challenge for a conversation on race but notes, as do a lot of others, myself included, that Obama is playing a con in blaming America and Whites for his hate and racism.
Here is the commentary A Brief for Whitey by Patrick J. Buchanan:
How would he pull it off? I wondered.
How would Barack explain to his press groupies why he sat silent in a pew for 20 years as the Rev. Jeremiah Wright delivered racist rants against white America for our maligning of Fidel and Gadhafi, and inventing AIDS to infect and kill black people?
How would he justify not walking out as Wright spewed his venom about “the U.S. of K.K.K. America,” and howled, “God damn America!”
My hunch was right. Barack would turn the tables.
Yes, Barack agreed, Wright’s statements were “controversial,” and “divisive,” and “racially charged,” reflecting a “distorted view of America.”
But we must understand the man in full and the black experience out of which the Rev. Wright came: 350 years of slavery and segregation.
Barack then listed black grievances and informed us what white America must do to close the racial divide and heal the country.
The “white community,” said Barack, must start “acknowledging that what ails the African-American community does not just exist in the minds of black people; that the legacy of discrimination — and current incidents of discrimination, while less overt than in the past — are real and must be addressed. Not just with words, but with deeds … .”
And what deeds must we perform to heal ourselves and our country?
The “white community” must invest more money in black schools and communities, enforce civil rights laws, ensure fairness in the criminal justice system and provide this generation of blacks with “ladders of opportunity” that were “unavailable” to Barack’s and the Rev. Wright’s generations.
What is wrong with Barack’s prognosis and Barack’s cure?
Only this. It is the same old con, the same old shakedown that black hustlers have been running since the Kerner Commission blamed the riots in Harlem, Watts, Newark, Detroit and a hundred other cities on, as Nixon put it, “everybody but the rioters themselves.”
Was “white racism” really responsible for those black men looting auto dealerships and liquor stories, and burning down their own communities, as Otto Kerner said — that liberal icon until the feds put him away for bribery.
Barack says we need to have a conversation about race in America.
Fair enough. But this time, it has to be a two-way conversation. White America needs to be heard from, not just lectured to.
This time, the Silent Majority needs to have its convictions, grievances and demands heard. And among them are these:
First, America has been the best country on earth for black folks. It was here that 600,000 black people, brought from Africa in slave ships, grew into a community of 40 million, were introduced to Christian salvation, and reached the greatest levels of freedom and prosperity blacks have ever known.
Wright ought to go down on his knees and thank God he is an American.
Second, no people anywhere has done more to lift up blacks than white Americans. Untold trillions have been spent since the ’60s on welfare, food stamps, rent supplements, Section 8 housing, Pell grants, student loans, legal services, Medicaid, Earned Income Tax Credits and poverty programs designed to bring the African-American community into the mainstream.
Governments, businesses and colleges have engaged in discrimination against white folks — with affirmative action, contract set-asides and quotas — to advance black applicants over white applicants.
Churches, foundations, civic groups, schools and individuals all over America have donated time and money to support soup kitchens, adult education, day care, retirement and nursing homes for blacks.
We hear the grievances. Where is the gratitude?
Barack talks about new “ladders of opportunity” for blacks.
Let him go to Altoona and Johnstown, and ask the white kids in Catholic schools how many were visited lately by Ivy League recruiters handing out scholarships for “deserving” white kids.
Is white America really responsible for the fact that the crime and incarceration rates for African-Americans are seven times those of white America? Is it really white America’s fault that illegitimacy in the African-American community has hit 70 percent and the black dropout rate from high schools in some cities has reached 50 percent?
Is that the fault of white America or, first and foremost, a failure of the black community itself?
As for racism, its ugliest manifestation is in interracial crime, and especially interracial crimes of violence. Is Barack Obama aware that while white criminals choose black victims 3 percent of the time, black criminals choose white victims 45 percent of the time?
Is Barack aware that black-on-white rapes are 100 times more common than the reverse, that black-on-white robberies were 139 times as common in the first three years of this decade as the reverse?
We have all heard ad nauseam from the Rev. Al about Tawana Brawley, the Duke rape case and Jena. And all turned out to be hoaxes. But about the epidemic of black assaults on whites that are real, we hear nothing.
Sorry, Barack, some of us have heard it all before, about 40 years and 40 trillion tax dollars ago.
March 22, 2008 11:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
did you even read the speech?
March 23, 2008 12:12 AM | Reply | Permalink
Did you bother to read the full Obama speech or watch the full Reverend Wright video?
Don't shut down the folks who condemn Buchanan with this critique if you can't read the full text yourself.
March 23, 2008 12:41 AM | Reply | Permalink
Yes, I watched and read Obama's speech. Your point?
March 23, 2008 1:56 AM | Reply | Permalink
Did you watch any of Wright's sermons in total? What exactly did he say that was so racist? What did he say that was actually *wrong* for that matter?
My point is, you don't like it when others assume you are drawing conclusions without having the full story. Fine. Then don't assume that of me.
And...Buchanan's still a racist.
March 23, 2008 11:47 AM | Reply | Permalink
Since you can find nothing racist in Pat Buchanan's commentaries, I am dying for you or anyone to point out one single racist remark uttered by Rev. Wright. And in asking, I pray that you can do a better than Greta Van Susteren's attempt to do so. I eagerly await your response.
March 23, 2008 12:51 AM | Reply | Permalink
And I did read the whole statement you posted - Buchanan is a racist.
March 23, 2008 12:43 AM | Reply | Permalink
Okay, enlighten me, how in very specific terms and examples is Buchanan racist?
March 23, 2008 1:56 AM | Reply | Permalink
Matt,
Before you go off asking others questions would you mind answering mine first? What are the specific "racist" remarks made by Rev Wright.
March 23, 2008 2:01 AM | Reply | Permalink
Pat Buchanan is not racist, but Sean Hannity and Joe Scarborough are.
March 23, 2008 9:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yeah, when you have African Americans having to apologize for "racism" and "hate", something is wrong with this picture.
"no people anywhere has done more to lift up blacks than white Americans,"
Is he kidding? The 400 years of oppression only ended very grudingly are a call for gratitude?
March 23, 2008 10:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
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