rdolan
03-25-2008, 04:56 AM
Usually, I enjoy Buchanan on MSNBC, even though I disagree with him a lot.
This little piece, however, flashes that irrational white male "conservatism" that I figured was lingering in him somewhere.
(Emphasis added)
"A Brief for Whitey" (http://buchanan.org/blog/?p=969)
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?
(Strangely enough, Buchanan doesn't mention that after 400 years of living in the same continent and country as white people, blacks still have sub-standard public education, health care, and job prospects as their white counterparts.)
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?
Let's see. 244 years of slavery + 100 years of Jim Crow laws + 40 years of still inferior education and a drug war that primarily imprisons black men = White man's fault. I'm not that good at math, but I think I got that one right. I'm just a crazy liberal what do I know?
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?
Give Buchanan credit, (without crediting where he got his "stats") when he wants to stoke supreme racial prejudice, he knows to bring out the old "black men are going to rape your wives and daughters" bit. He's this close to writing "we should bring back lynching." Is Buchanan aware that more black men are in jail that in college? (http://www.socialistworker.org/2002-2/420/420_12_JailsVCollege.shtml) He probably is, but that's not a societal problem, right? That's personal responsibility. I mean blacks, given a choice between education and a good job, chose a life of crime, because it made more sense to them in the long run. Right? That's a fundamental flaw that we can wholly blame on black society.
Maybe that's his next column.
And finally:
Sorry, Barack, some of us have heard it all before, about 40 years and 40 trillion tax dollars ago.
Ah yes, I forgot. Like many Baby Boomers, Buchanan thinks 344 years of slavery and oppression were wiped out with a single Civil Rights Bill. They passed that bill, and thought their responsibility was over. 344 years of degradation and murder, gone!. Clean slate! Not our problem anymore! You should be lucky we don't ship you back to Africa!
Pat Buchanan, everybody.
This little piece, however, flashes that irrational white male "conservatism" that I figured was lingering in him somewhere.
(Emphasis added)
"A Brief for Whitey" (http://buchanan.org/blog/?p=969)
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?
(Strangely enough, Buchanan doesn't mention that after 400 years of living in the same continent and country as white people, blacks still have sub-standard public education, health care, and job prospects as their white counterparts.)
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?
Let's see. 244 years of slavery + 100 years of Jim Crow laws + 40 years of still inferior education and a drug war that primarily imprisons black men = White man's fault. I'm not that good at math, but I think I got that one right. I'm just a crazy liberal what do I know?
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?
Give Buchanan credit, (without crediting where he got his "stats") when he wants to stoke supreme racial prejudice, he knows to bring out the old "black men are going to rape your wives and daughters" bit. He's this close to writing "we should bring back lynching." Is Buchanan aware that more black men are in jail that in college? (http://www.socialistworker.org/2002-2/420/420_12_JailsVCollege.shtml) He probably is, but that's not a societal problem, right? That's personal responsibility. I mean blacks, given a choice between education and a good job, chose a life of crime, because it made more sense to them in the long run. Right? That's a fundamental flaw that we can wholly blame on black society.
Maybe that's his next column.
And finally:
Sorry, Barack, some of us have heard it all before, about 40 years and 40 trillion tax dollars ago.
Ah yes, I forgot. Like many Baby Boomers, Buchanan thinks 344 years of slavery and oppression were wiped out with a single Civil Rights Bill. They passed that bill, and thought their responsibility was over. 344 years of degradation and murder, gone!. Clean slate! Not our problem anymore! You should be lucky we don't ship you back to Africa!
Pat Buchanan, everybody.