I was cleaning out my e-mail box yesterday and I ran across a forward of Pat Buchanan’s article, posted 3/21/8, on Humanevents.com titled A brief for Whitey. It began:
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 … .
Buchanan then went on to postulate that “America has been the best country on earth for black folks” in that it enabled an initial contingent of 600,000 black people to grow into a community of 40 million, get saved, and become freer and see more prosperity than blacks had ever known. He went on about all the money spent on welfare, food stamps and a host of other government spending aimed at bringing blacks into the “mainstream”. He talked about Government discrimination against white folk in the form of affirmative action, contract set-asides and quotas to advance black applicants over white applicants.
Everything he stated was fact, but this is what really pissed me off:
Follow up:
Buchanan wrote, “We hear the grievances. Where is the gratitude?”
Sorry Pat, this is where I have to call BULLSHIT! Bullshit, Bullshit, BULLSHIT! You may have noticed that was Bullshit with a capital B. Where is the gratitude? Gratitude for what? The kidnapping, rape and murder of civilians forced into slavery? Yes Pat, you failed to note that those initial 600,000 “black folks” were forcibly and violently ripped from their homes, family and country to serve as slaves to build America from scratch!
Your arguments to legitimize kidnapping if you feel you have the best intentions of the kidnapee at heart are less than weak. I think even Forrest Gump would have been bright enough to call Bullshit on that one. Would you let someone who kidnaps your child keep custody because they are better off financially than you are? Raise your hand if you think reasonable people will answer yes to that one.
Anyone remember Elian Gonzalez? That was the kid whose mother brought him here from Cuba in 2000. Mom didn’t make it, but little Elian found his way to relatives in Miami. I don’t think there is anyone who would disagree that Elian’s life would have been infinitely better in the U.S. than in Cuba (although some there are now getting microwaves), but alas he had to be forcibly removed from the home of relatives here and returned to his father in Cuba because (surprise, surprise) you don’t get to take people’s children away no matter how great of a slave they would make. No wait, that should read no matter how good you intend to make their life here.
My apologies to Chris Rock, but America’s relationship with blacks is like having a “rich uncle that pays your way through college but molests you.” In the case of blacks, the molestation came first, the college only after years of (white people taking part in and dying for) protests of abuses and death at the hands of our “benefactors”.
It is true that there is nothing America can do to undo the injustices caused by slavery. But to expect gratitude for taking these steps is like expecting a single mom to show gratitude for a child support payment. You knocked her up, now man-up and do what’s right.
And finally, shame on you Pat. You played on whitey’s fears by citing crime statistics for black-on-white crime as being exponentially higher than white-on-black crime. The crime rate isn’t at issue, the sentencing rate is. All other factors being equal, a black defendant is more likely to get a longer sentence (or any at all) for committing the same crime as a white defendant. I find it stretches credibility that you wouldn’t have known that. (O.J. vs. Scott Petersen is the exception that proves the rule. You will remember that Robert Blake and Phil Spector got off, and as I write this, O.J. is on trial and may get a life sentence that would ordinarily bring a nickel for a first time offender. But I feel a whole different blog coming on for that one.)
Have the affirmative action and government entitlements made up for the kidnapping? Ask someone whose child was ripped from their family for the answer to that one.
Read Buchanan’s entire post.
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