Over at the assault blog was posted this "fine" piece of prose in response to Obama's "race" speech. It's kind of "funny" that it would show up not long after finding the "all jesus all the time" videos. Buchanan is being the typical cracker. For those unfamiliar with the term I'll remind you that a cracker is a Caucasian of any ethnicity who takes it upon themselves to put blacks "in their place". In former (and formative) times, this was done with a whip, hence the term "cracker". Now a days, blacks are "crackered" by news media, police departments, employers, teachers, blogs and other places where authority is determined. Let's examine Buchanan's response:
A Brief for Whitey
By Patrick J. Buchanan
March 21, 2008
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.
Pat, did you say "black schools"? Barack never said anything about investing more money in "black schools" which, legally do not exist. His call was to fund public schools, which are attended by a vast number of white students. Specifically, Mr. Obama was addressing the clear and documented fact that certain urban schools are underfunded by the present funding system. If the reader is unaware, public schools are funded via property taxes. Therefore the poorer the neighborhood, the less money goes to the school system and unfortunately the lower the quality of education. You know, ancient books. ancient computers, lack of alternative programs, lack of advanced programs, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. Pat, do the teachers in the school system in your neighborhood spend their own money on classroom supplies because they have too?
You'll note that Buchanan plays the same "long ago" card that Obama played. I said it about Obama and I'll say it here: it is a huge mistake to present Wright, and others as old, grumpy people with old claims. the things we discuss are past and present.
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."
Well in that case Pat, the world trade center bombing was the responsibility of the hijackers themselves and no one else. There is no Al-Qaida.
Shakedown. Such a nice word. Was the Bear Stearns bailout a shakedown of the tax payer? How many black folk made off with the billions lost Pat? I'm just asking? And the previous CEO's of Bear Stearns, where exactly were they when this all went down? Playing Bridge in Michigan?
When Enron went bankrupt exactly how many black people were involved in that scheme? When the Tulsa Ok. riots happened, umm exactly who was shaking whom down? Pat, did you see that movie about the black landowners who had been run off their land by white citizens and the Klan. Tell me Pat, does that sound like a shakedown to you? Clearly Pat, you know all about shakedowns don't you?
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.
I don't know Pat, was white racism the reason that none of those dealerships were black owned in the first place? Say Pat, how many liquor stores are in YOUR neighborhood? How many liquor stores in your neighborhood are owned by people that look like Obama? Say Pat how would you feel if every business in your neighborhood was run by people who not only didn't live there but didn't look like you, treated you like dirt and sold rotten food? Say Pat, how many of those looters actually owned anything in "thier" communities? And if they did, were they burnt? Now I'm not advocating arson and looting, but surely you are intelligent enough to know it's not a simply matter of "look they're burning.." Oh wait, no, you're not that intelligent.
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.
Well, I don't know Pat. I've been alive since the early 70's. I've been aware of the news since I was 9. I don't recall this mass "one way" conversation going on in the media that you're talking about. I mean if Sharpton, Jesse and Farrakhan were regular commentators on mainstream media all that time, you would have a point, but any studious person would know that the conversation has been, lets not have the conversation. Ignore the "radical" black folk at all costs, unless they make a comment in public about Jews or the Pope. Of late it's been, lets find us some conservative negroes and selectively sound bite other folk in order to make us feel comfortable.
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.
You know what Pat? I'm not going say what I want to say because I'm trying to be polite. Let's just say I've dealt with this position before. Short Summary: contact with Europe is THE reason why black folk are in the situation they are in. It's like someone coming in your house, killing your family and then taking you as their criminal protege and telling you to be thankful that you're rich and not dead like your parents.
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.
See, this is what happens when you half step on the issue of racism. As I said before Obama had an opportunity to know these arguments out the park and should have done so. But since he didn't it's left to people like me, who will go unappreciated, to set this junk straight.
Lets see now. According to the NIH, as of 2003, 42% of medicaid recipients were white (non-hispanic) nearly twice the rate of blacks.
According to Urban Institute 2001 report, 53% of low income whites have received the EITC, while that number is 48% among black poor.
According to the Journal of Blacks in Higher Education (2002) while blacks on the whole make up more than twice that of whites in receipt of financial aid, 38% vs,. 16%, on certain campuses with very low black enrollment such as Cal Tech and University of Chicago, we find that the greatest receipt of Pell grants are by Asians. But as Pat knows, or should know, Pell Grants are based on family income and since, according the the JOBHE, blacks are 3x more likely to be poor than whites, then it would be expected to see blacks over-represented certain cases. Why are blacks more likely to be poor? Well I don't think Pat would want to have that conversation.
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.
Pat, again with the broad generalizations. You act like churches are just doing work with blacks and not the poor specifically. Same with "civic groups". In fact again, all of the mentioned organizations help more white people than black. What are you? stupid?
We hear the grievances. Where is the gratitude?
Yeah Pat where's the gratitude? I mean after slavery give the US a huge leg up on everyone else where's the gratitude? After sharecropping because the laws and "not so laws" prevented black ownership of land to the benefit of white farmers, where's the gratitude? After pushing through civil rights legislation that protects all Americans by offering our heads to be beat on where's the gratitude? I don't know Pat, I think you're projecting here.
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.
Hmmmmmm. Well Pat I suppose you haven't seen those Pell Grant stats have you? Thought not.
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?
Well Pat, lets see as previously discussed fully 50% of black inmates are in for drug offenses. Now we have this issue where crack cocaine prosecutions will land a person in jail for 25 to life, whereas powder cocaine possession, you know, the drug of choice among the rich and white, well you gotta have a boat load of that stuff to get that kind of jail time and that assumes that the DA wont' send your white behind home So yeah Pat, that would be the fault of those white people that white people like you hire to run the "justice" system. You do believe in responsibility for your actions right?
Ahh the 70% out of wedlock births by black women. which skyrockets after 1970. Interesting, integration breeds illegitimacy. But really though, it's pretty much common knowledge that among other things, "poverty programs" had stipulations that rewarded mothers for not having men in the home. Even the Heritage Foundation (*spit*) knows this
Oh and that 50% drop out rate. Well Pat, you do know that the statistic in question is for very specific locations, most if not all of which are in high poverty locations There is a direct correlation between rates of poverty (and English proficiency) and drop out rates.
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?
Ahhh the ole, percentage and "times" argument. Pat did you know that in terms of homicide, 86% of white victims were killed by other whites?
No? How about the fact that as of 1996, 3 in 10 homicides committed by a stranger were interracial? How about this:
In 1998 per 100,000 persons in each racial group, 23 black, 4 white, and 3 persons of other races were murdered in the United States.
Not enough Pat? ok how about the 2006 stats from the FBI 575 white victims of murder were done in by blacks a little more than twice that of white murderers of blacks.
I mean damn Pat, these statistics your not quoting are just so wrong and or misleading as to make me think you have some other motivation here.
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.
Well Pat, as a matter of record, we haven't heard much of anything about Tawana Brawley from Rev. Al in quite some time and even then it's after crackers like you bring it up. In so far as the Duke case went, Rev Al. was right on the money when he said to support justice. As for Jena, well Pat, you're an ass. Jena wasn't a hoax at all. Where do you get your information from?
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