There is a group of whites who believe that African-Americans are not Americans. One of those is the racist right-wing conservative commentator, Patrick Buchanan, who has written a lengthy blog on how Blacks should be grateful that they were brought to America as slaves. First, he called Barack Obama’s brilliant speech on Tuesday, March 18,
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.”
Nobody is calling Buchanan on his incendiary comments when he said:
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.
The assumption here is that the 40 million blacks in America have never contributed anything to America, don't even pay their taxes, only whites pay taxes.
There is no doubt that the Republican strategy in this election is to drive the race issue and divide the country. As the right-wing has avowed, it is going to do everything to make race the issue, by this type of discussion. Buchanan is determined to inflame white anger, especially the so-called blue-collar voters, because he knows that blacks are going to react to his diatribe, and then he would shout, you see what I am saying. He and his ilks have tried to marginalize, with the aid of former President Clinton, into a black candidate. But there is a backlash, even the false news channel is having problem with its Obama-bashing. Read his trash here.
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October 17th, 2010