from, not just lectured to."In a post headlined, "A Brief for Whitey," Buchanan has a beef with Obama for not throwing Rev. Jeremiah Wright under the bus:
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?Buchanan thinks African Americans should show more appreciation for being the descendants of slaves:
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!"
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.Buchanan was just warming up:
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.How typical. First, 20 million Africans were shackled and packed into the holds of slave ships. Roughly 10 million didn't make it here because they died in passage.
There are more poor whites than poor blacks. And unlike the broken promise of "40 acres and a mule," the government programs that Buchanan lists were not "designed" for black folks. Also, white women have been the primary beneficiaries of affirmative action.
Buchanan denounces government spending to "lift up" individuals. Meanwhile in one day, the federal government spent $30 billion on corporate welfare to bail out Bear Stearns.
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By: Robin on 3/24/2008 1:59PM
Maybe Mr. Obama didn't get up and walk out of church, because Rev Jeramiah Wright didn't preach that sermon every Sunday for twenty years. White people need to give it up already! This whole thing is a ploy to topple Obama. They can't get anything else on him so they're working this one thing!
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By: Andrea on 3/24/2008 2:14PM
We must stand by Barack Obama! And we can not let Hillary Clinton steal the nomination from Barack. Pat Buchanan spits out ignorance -- he needs to be fired.
I watched a church service online of Trinity Church in Chicago, Barack's church, and it was one of the most inspiring and moving church services I ever experienced!
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By: Lisa on 3/24/2008 2:22PM
Are you people slow or what? These comments by Pat Buchanan don't surprise me at all becaues he has been this way for a longggggg time. It dosen't take much to recognize a bigot like Buchanan and I knew what he was about a long time ago- so not shocking. He is a regular on the PBS political commentary show The McLauglin Group, which I watch, where you can see this kind of attitude in his commentaries on that show as well. Black people, let's not stop being proactive in standing against systematic racsim, but let's stop being "surprised" by people like Buchanan, Limbaugh, and Hannity because we all know what they're about. The most important thing for us to do is take our positions of power and not abuse them like some of black leaders have done- for instance like the mayor of Detroit. We need to remember that our anscestors and leaders like Dr. King sacrified their lives for us to be where we are today and to have such positions and we don't need to shoot ourselves in the foot by abusing powerful positions we obtain. Civil Rights Movements wasn't THAT long ago people, come on.
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By: jabir_1@netzero.com on 3/24/2008 3:08PM
buchanan,limbaugh and hannity are doing their job by trying to bait the black community with their conservative views. don't believe the hype? We have been fighting for freedom for too long to act stupid at a very important time in our american history.Think!Let's keep our heads on straight. DNC,could just as well stand for divide n conquer? Here's a thought for the day;maybe Rev.Wright should have claimed that God was going to kill him if he didn't get 8 million dollars by the next day?Remember that?More to come stay tuned to the Silly Season in Politics.
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By: Joel Miles on 3/24/2008 3:31PM
This race for President is unlike any other of my life.First I thought--judged by "content of character not color of skin". Now- race is inevitable.People must think, pray, and vote for the person who is best for America!
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By: buydow on 3/24/2008 3:38PM
He is right...he saved the best for last. This is just pure truth. Read on...for those of you who are so concerned with putting things in context. Look at racism through white eyes.
"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?
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."
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By: Delise Jones on 3/24/2008 3:54PM
First of all, all of us need to realize that there is only one race and that's the HUMAN RACE. Our skin color and/or nationality does not define who we are, it just defines what we look like to others. I agree that we need to continue to unite and not let anyone divide and conquer us, and we need to continue to support Barack Obama, because he is the Peoples Candidate.
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By: Marinda on 3/28/2008 10:32AM
Clinton also likes Rev. Wright and invited him to a formal dinner but nobody says anything about that. I wonder why.
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By: Truth on 3/24/2008 4:10PM
Oh mr.buydow how foolish of you to actually think any one of us would read what you had to say and think about it sorry your comments are as about powerful as Pat Buchanan's presidential run was a few years ago not too good,huh?Face fact america is flawed was built on the principles of:rape,robbery,murder,assault,(sexually&verbally on men and women)intimidation,aggravated battery,drugging,and all other types of torturous events and evil activities on the natives of this land and those of us brought from Africa to this land.Great country it could be if lead by the right person but that is not Hil or John.Barack is the man for this job remove your biggoted mask and shades and look at reality you will find life looks a lot better and there is more peace and less stress.
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By: Minister Larkin on 3/24/2008 6:10PM
Clearly pat is a racist and is ignorant of the facts. Let him keep opening his mouth and showing his ignorance but America keep your eye on the peize which is Chridt Jesus. When you do that nothing a fool can utter from his lips will bother you.There is a place for him and it is not heaven if he does not change. Vote if you are going to vote but what ever you do keep your hands whether black white yellow brown or blue in the hand of the man that stilled the water. No one can give you salvation but Jesus and for anyone else to suggest otherwise is just stupid. Where did anyone come from. He has to be crazy or suffering from dementia to say the things he said. Pray for pat.
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