Look, I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, Pat Buchanan is a racist. He tries to dress it up the clothes of the old, codgerly uncle but, it’s clear to me that the man knows exactly what he’s doing. More sad is the fact that, via outlets like MSNBC, he is given legitimacy. But, it seems to me that he saves his greatest vitriol for his writing. Previously, I shared an excerpt from one of his books where he thought America was doomed because black and brown people would soon be in the majority.
More recently, he outdid himself. While chiming in on the Rev. Wright controversy, Buchanan used his blog to go on a racist screed. You can read the entire post for yourselves but, here’s one passage that really caught my attention:
“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?”
Translation: Slavery was good for black people and, since then, all black people have been are welfare cases. Needless to say, Buchanan has an audience for this garbage and many, no doubt, will cosign this mess. However, I am glad that he’s been called on this. On Friday’s Real Time, host Bill Maher brought up the issue and Tavis Smiley weighed in on it. He used a phrase to describe Buchanan that I will adopt — he called Buchanan a “racial arsonist”. There couldn’t be a more appropriate term. Here’s a clip from the show.
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Tavis,
Frankly I totally agree with you. I am so sick of the media portraying Rev. Wright as some sort of modern day speaker for all black people. But what else can we expect, the media has to drum up some controversy, because they have nothing else to talk about. I commend you for your commentary and making us all take a step back and “think” I am hurt and appaulded by Pat’s comments, how dare he indicate that we ought to be grateful to have been stolen from our land! No, White people you ought to be glad that we did because if it not had been for us, Black and Brown folks using our great minds, this country would not have been built?
What’s clear to me is that media is longer reporting news. It has become a propagandist instrument whose intent is to facilitate specific political outcomes. I’ve heard it said that only 50% of what media reports should be believed. Since it’s impossible to determine which 50% to believe, I chose to believe virtually none of it. That said, I find some media people
more “entertaining” than others. Buchanan is moderately entertaining on my scale, so long as I remind myself that what he says is not to be believed.
We as People of Color, we should brace ourselves for one of the most disheartening let-downs in our American experience: the nomination of Hillary Clinton. This will require that rules be broken and changes made to the established nomination process. It will be not a new phenomenon, but it will be profoundly painful when it happens; since once again race will be the reason to thwart what rightfully should have gone to a black person. Taking the nomination from Obama, the most serious candidate we have ever had (and perhaps will ever have) for the Presidency, will mark a new benchmark for Blacks’perceptions of whites’ trustworthiness and intentions.
I predict that this experience will also remind many white people of how close they came to allowing it to happen and they will vow not to let happen again. When it comes to race, the critical mass of Whites share Buchanan’s racial sentiments more or less. Most of them realize that the issues used against Obama are frivolous, yet they are sufficient to justify not voting for him. Does anyone believe that white candidates would publicly disassociate themselves from Billy Graham, Falwell, robertson and other very prominent white clergy who have (consisently) voiced negative sentiments against Blacks, Jews and others? Graham has provided counsel to many Presidents, all of whom knew he held negative sentiments against various subordinated groups. Please!
Tavis,
Please ask Hilary Clinton if she would have left Catholicism if she were Catholic under the sexual abuse of thousands. As a citizen and an African American, I would also like to know how she stands on the verdict in the Shaun Bell case in her home state of NY. First and foremost, however, I’d like to know why so much time is being spent on Rev. Wright’s legitimate statements, when Pat Buchanan speaks his opinion on how grateful we as Blacks should be for the welfare and food stamps without a scintilla of attention from the press. Not to mention, to use his argument, there are far more whites on welfare, food stamps, student loans and in Section 8 housing. I guess his education did not reach beyond first grade where the concept of which group has more and which has less is taught.
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