Patrick J. Buchanan Sets Barack Straight!

[Darryl G. Thomas]

PJB: A Brief for Whitey

Posted By Linda On March 21, 2008 @ 1:15 am In PJB Columns | Comments Disabled

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.

[patricia]

I'm speechless!! I am truly without speech!
Where is the gratitude, he seems to be asking.
WHEW!!

[groover]

I really hope Barack wins so Wright can reprise his God damn America speech at the inauguration.

[Darryl G. Thomas]

The cat speaks for a lot of folks. More than you or I could imagine.

[patricia]

Including your dog, when Buchanan's voice gets so high and thin that only they can hear him.
There's a reason that he's lost both times he ran for President.
I don't know why he's given a venue to spew his nonsense.
I know when he's on MSNBC as a political contributer they treat his opinions as if they are thoughtful and valid.
The world's gone mad.

[crawjo]

Originally Posted by patricia

There's a reason that he's lost both times he ran for President.

Perhaps, but there's also a reason he won some states in his presidential bids and had a fairly big following.

[patricia]

Originally Posted by crawjo

Perhaps, but there's also a reason he won some states in his presidential bids and had a fairly big following.

Yes there is and isn't that the tragedy??

[Noj]

People like Pat Buchanan love to act as if black people have been completely free and had equal opportunities since Lincoln abolished slavery. Or, perhaps they have unrealistic expectations as to the time it takes for a culture to assimilate and fail to claim the proper responsibility as to who (culturally speaking) needs to be patient in that regard. It isn't going to magically be OK and heal itself overnight.

I'm also wondering how much the problems he cites could be attributed to poverty if we looked at them by the financial numbers rather than the racial ones.

[patricia]

That's what I've been wondering too, Jon.
When we saw all that horrible footage of people devastated by the floods in New Orleans, it wasn't just black people who suffered. It was poor people.

Also, being taken orignally from Africa, against their will, forced into slavery for hundreds of years, was not a business opportunity for black people.
They were not in any position to establish themselves really until well after the 1950s to any great extent.

What is it that Pat Buchanan thinks black people should be doing to "better themselves" He also seems to not-so-subtley be criticizing Obama for daring to become well-educated and successful, thus, seemingly distancing himself from what Buchanan seems to think is black mainstream [for want of a better term]. Am I the only one who thinks this?
If Obama were a jive-talking, baggy-pants-wearing rebel, would he feel more comfortable with Obama's candidacy and dismissing it as interesting, but not threatening?
His race was almost irrelevant, until people like Buchanan kept harping on that instead of his political views and his charismatic appeal across the board, the kind that wins elections.
It seems as if Obama is damned if he does and damned if he doesn't.

[groover]

Is Canada willing to take them in as refugees?

[patricia]

Although I don't have a first-hand memory, Groover, Canada was a prime destination for escaped slaves on the underground railroad.
Eastern provinces' and the Maritimes' black citizens are largely the descendants of those refugees from slavery.

As for the refugees [refugees in their own country???] from New Orleans' flood, I'm sure that Canada would be more welcoming of them than Barbara Bush seemed to indicate she was to them, long-term in Texas. I know that here in Alberta many immigrants are being welcomed and hired.

[clinthopson]

I would expect nothing less from Buchanan.

Nothing could be less.

[Hudson Boy]

Originally Posted by patricia

Although I don't have a first-hand memory, Groover, Canada was a prime destination for escaped slaves on the underground railroad.
Eastern provinces' and the Maritimes' black citizens are largely the descendants of those refugees from slavery.

The first recorded slave purchase in Canada was in 1628. Slavery in Canada ended in 1834, when the entire British empire abolished it, about 30 years prior to the Emancipation Proclamation in the U.S. A few American slaves escaped to Canada from the 1840's through the end of the Civil War.

[patricia]

Originally Posted by Hudson Boy

The first recorded slave purchase in Canada was in 1628. Slavery in Canada ended in 1834, when the entire British empire abolished it, about 30 years prior to the Emancipation Proclamation in the U.S. A few American slaves escaped to Canada from the 1840's through the end of the Civil War.

A few?? OK. I didn't come here to argue.
I understood that slaves who came with the European colonists to Upper Canada remained the property of their owners, but there was no importing of slaves after 1859. But, I've been wrong before.
The point is that slaves who escaped from the U.S. came to Canada in the 1850s and stayed as free people, their descendants still living in much of Eastern Canada and the Maritimes.

[Gentle Giant]

I'd be interested in doing some research on why more slaves didn't beat it all the way to Canada (beyond the sheer distance of it). Certainly, folks in the northern cities weren't thrilled to see the influx of freed and escaped slaves coming into their neighborhoods. In fact, while the north was slave-free, most northern states did comply with fugitive slave laws. Still, it'd be just as easy to send them further north as ship them back south.

Follow the drinking gourd, baby. Seems ol' Pat's been drinking from it again, though.

[patricia]

Originally Posted by Gentle Giant

I'd be interested in doing some research on why more slaves didn't beat it all the way to Canada (beyond the sheer distance of it). Certainly, folks in the northern cities weren't thrilled to see the influx of freed and escaped slaves coming into their neighborhoods. In fact, while the north was slave-free, most northern states did comply with fugitive slave laws. Still, it'd be just as easy to send them further north as ship them back south.

Follow the drinking gourd, baby. Seems ol' Pat's been drinking from it again, though.

I must confess that I only know that the Canadian black people in the Eastern Provinces and the Maritimes, aside from the ones who emigrated from the West Indies on their own in the twentieth century, are descendents of American slaves who escaped to Canada in the mid-1800s. In 1834 slavery was judged illegal in Canada.
I don't claim to be an expert, but I do know that.

[Enforcer]

If a genie granted me three wishes, one of my wishes would be for Pat Buchanan to wake up a black man one morning.

[patricia]

Originally Posted by Enforcer

If a genie granted me three wishes, one of my wishes would be for Pat Buchanan to wake up a black man one morning.

What is Buchanan's problem with black people??

[walto]

Originally Posted by Enforcer

If a genie granted me three wishes, one of my wishes would be for Pat Buchanan to wake up a black man one morning.

Wow. Can I have one of the other two?

[Enforcer]

You can have one, walto. My other one is already taken.

[Ron Thorne]

Pat Buchanan is, essentially, brain dead. I'm not surprised by anything that comes out of his pie hole!





Then, there's his very special sister ... Bay.

[patricia]

That's a very flattering angle on the Buchster's combover.

[Jazz Purist]

Pat Buchanan is just your typical white person.

[cookie]

What the dumbass misses is that Obama *was* calling for a two-way conversation. But since a white guy didn't ask for it, he views it as a black "lecturing" whites.

What a tool.

It's plain to me: nothing's going to change. It's going to be the same old accusations forever. I really have no hope in this situation because some people just refuse to see/hear the other side or to let anything slide. For every white person who "lost" a job or school position to affirmative action---GOOD. Shoe don't feel so good on the other foot does it?

[Hudson Boy]

Originally Posted by cookie

For every white person who "lost" a job or school position to affirmative action---GOOD. Shoe don't feel so good on the other foot does it?

Actually, it did feel good when this happened: VERY GOOD. I was able to collect unemployment (the urban "fresh air fund") for long periods several times, received food stamps, got free CETA training, and had unlimited time for daytime romance, music, hanging out and partying. Basically, I lived like the people that got my job(s) were used to living before they replaced me. Eventually, after working steady for over 20 years, I was unjustly laid off in 2006, and retired young. Thanks to affirmative action, and learning to live frugally, I never have to work again.

[Ron Thorne]

Originally Posted by Jazz Purist

Pat Buchanan is just your typical white person.

Surely, you jest.

Otherwise, I won't give you anymore credence than I do Pat Buchanan.

[patricia]

Originally Posted by cookie

What the dumbass misses is that Obama *was* calling for a two-way conversation. But since a white guy didn't ask for it, he views it as a black "lecturing" whites.

What a tool.

I don't think that Buchanan would even hear a request by a black person for a two-way conversation about their wish to bury the hatchet. If the suggestion was made that everyone get real about the kind of society that, presumably, everyone wants, no matter what colour their skin is, if he didn't think of it, then it would be just a pipe-dream.
As long as nothing changes for him and his circle...

[Al in NYC]

How nice of white people to do their little brown-black brothers such a big favor! And the only price they had to pay for it was a couple of hundred years of free and grossly underpaid labor! The ungrateful wretches... why Obama should just kiss the shoes of every white person he meets.

So, why is an openly racist and politically outmoded fuck like Buchanan still regularly afforded a platform by several major networks to talk his weird ugly shit?

[Ron Thorne]

Originally Posted by Al in NYC

So, why is an openly racist and politically outmoded fuck like Buchanan still regularly afforded a platform by several major networks to talk his weird ugly shit?

Excellent question, Al. Ratings?

This guy has spewed so much septic garbage that it's almost unfathomable. And, as you correctly observe, he's also totally outmoded, politically.

Bizarre.

[walto]

Kind of like the all the fawning obits of Buckley. The man was a prince I tell you!