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A Brief for Whitey
Response to
Barack Obama Speech on Race
By Patrick J.
Buchanan
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.
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.”
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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?
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.
Source:
http://buchanan.org/blog/?p=969 March 21, 2008
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Response
For we have a
choice in this country. We can accept a politics that
breeds division, and conflict, and cynicism. We can
tackle race only as spectacle - as we did in the OJ
trial - or in the wake of tragedy, as we did in the
aftermath of Katrina - or as fodder for the nightly
news. We can play Reverend Wright's sermons on every
channel, every day and talk about them from now until
the election, and make the only question in this
campaign whether or not the American people think that I
somehow believe or sympathize with his most offensive
words. We can pounce on some gaffe by a Hillary
supporter as evidence that she's playing the race card,
or we can speculate on whether white men will all flock
to John McCain in the general election regardless of his
policies.
Barack Obama Speech on Race
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On Pat Buchanan’s Unbearable Whiteness Of Being
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Wow MSNBC Political
analyst Pat Buchanan has really lost it in "A Brief for
Whitey." He doesn't get the reasons for the racial
divide in this country, but thinks he does like many
lily white rich men. And he wants black people to show
gratitude towards white people. Really. He sounds like
the rich, white, well to do racists I grew up with...
he's got all their talking points down, but he misses
the whole point. Sad. . . .
Pat Buchanan doesn't speak for this white American and I
would never dare to say such things to a black person
like "You should be grateful that your slave ancestors
came to America so that you could be saved by Gawd
Almighty in our most christian country blessed by Gawd
himself."
Blonde Sense
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If you ask me, it sounds like
someone’s been drinking unfiltered tap water, if you
know what I mean.Since when is kidnapping, lynching,
raping, and torture seen as a good thing? Talk about
living in a state of denial.
Pat Buchanan’s comments are exactly
the reason why Black people need to address the
atrocities committed against us and not leave it to
others to rewrite our history. If we don’t we get
ludicrous statements like the one above which we all
know is about as far from the truth as WMDs in Iraq.
The fact that he felt comfortable
enough in his whiteness to say this is what really
bothers me and just further illustrates how they
continue to try and minimize and justify slavery and
years of racial discrimination.
If I follow Buchanan’s logic, as a
Black woman I should be thanking my lucky stars that the
white man traveled across the Atlantic Ocean and to
capture my ancestors and bring them here to work as
slaves in his fields and home.
I should be thankful for the trees
in the south that held the ropes that were tied around
the necks of Black men and women who were lynched at the
hands of whitey.
As Black women, we should be
rejoicing over the white man’s penchant for our dark
chocolate colored skin, big hips, and voluptuous
breasts, that frequently took him from the big house to
the outhouse where we were.
The Bible, that Christian salvation
that Buchanan and those like him speak so passionately
about, well it’s the same book that justified whitey
owning slaves and the mistreatment of those slaves.
Whitey’s Bible came complete with a blue-eyed Jesus to
suit and was forced upon his African
slaves in their new land. I think Buchanan forgot to
mention that part.
Jasmyne Cannick
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ThePJB Posse:
The freedom loving Whites Pat inspires
Free Republic
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The problem here is
Mr. Buchanan wants the gratitude that black people give
to God. Eddie
Griffin
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Buchanan, in his
online rant, ignores Obama's call to the Black community
to address its own issues. Obama did this before even
addressing what the White community must do in this
country. Furthermore, he took bits and pieces of
various lines to form demands that Obama never made.
Pat Buchanan went
to private school and to a private college (eschewing
the grandeur of public education). Maybe that's how he
missed the dilapidated schools that Barack Obama talks
about. Since he's never been elected to represent
anyone, maybe he's been able to ignore and skip the
poorest parts of America. And maybe, since his only
real job has been to talk, ad nauseum, on television
(instead of working 2 waitressing jobs, fast food, in
factories, in fields, etc) he doesn't really get the
plight of poor America - White or Black.
The truth is,
though Pat Buchanan talks about wanting to remember
where America comes from, he does so out of ignorance.
He romanticizes the prosperity of Blacks in America
(some Blacks achieve wealth, many are stuck in abject
poverty) as well as indicates the Eurocentric mentality
that living in the US is better for slaves.
Unfortunately,
being a pundit (even from a good school such as Gonzaga)
allows you to make false equivocations without
retribution. Who is to say that Africa would be the
same if Europe and the Americas didn't take 40 million
of its citizens away from the continent? If the West
had left her alone, would Africa have its resources,
governments, wealth and people - so that it could rival
any other continent (especially considering how Africa
brought us civilization in the first place)?
In his "Brief for
Whitey" (written in his white briefs?), he writes that
the US government has given untold trillions to aid the
Black community by way of welfare, etc. Here are, in no
particular order, the issues with his statement:
Blacks aren't the
only ones that receive Aid to Dependant Families and
Children (what we used to know as "welfare") or
Temporary Aid for Needy Families (what we currently
think of when we hear "welfare"). Families of all races
receive this, housing supplements and food stamps.
Even worse, the
amount given to poor families is nothing, nothing,
compared to the amount of welfare given to energy
companies, medical industries and defense contractors.
That welfare FAR outweighs and outspends the welfare
given to poor folk - and the recipients are largely
white, upper class.
Just for fun,
Harper's magazine estimated that the US Government would
owe over 100 trillion dollars in reparations, if we were
to go that route. So - maybe we are just paying it back
slowly.
Finally, good ol' boy Buchanan lists some crimes that
Blacks commit against Whites more often than Whites
against Blacks. Being the guy I am, I want to include
rape of slaves by slaveowners, murder/lynching, etc -
but I won't go there now.
Daily Kos
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Pat Buchanan has some issues with Obama’s race speech
which he expresses in a piece titled,
“A Brief for Whitey.” Apparently he feels like the
discussion on race has been too one-sided and he wants
black people to begin to listen to the white perspective
(a group that he refers to as the “Silent Majority,” by
the way). In the process of listening, he wants blacks
to also acknowledge and be grateful for what white folks
have done for them. . . . . Thanks Pat. We thank
America’s white ancestors for saving our ancestors from
themselves and brining them over on slave ships to the
U.S. That 248 years of unparalleled inhumanity and the
subsequent decades of terror and Jim Crow was a small
price to pay for the wonderful opportunity for us to
live here. Maybe after the number of years we have been
in this country exceeds the number of years we have been
treated less than human, we will be able to see how
truly right you are. . . . Thank you again, sir. Forget
about that little civil rights movement thing that was
initiated and driven mostly by black people. No, that
little blip in American history had nothing to do with
our advances. No, it wasn’t that little movement which
forced much of white America to look at itself in the
mirror and try to make good on the proclamations and
laws laid out by the country’s founders. No, whites did
that all on their own just as they paid for all of the
social programs you mentioned. That money never came out
of anyone else’s pockets–just whites. And all that money
wasn’t an effort to better America, it was an
effort to benefit black people. Yes, Pat, we are all so
grateful.
Community Checkup
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In his March 21 blog entitled,
“PJB: A Brief for Whitey,” Buchanan weighed in on
Obama's race speech. In his blog, he makes it blatantly
obvious that he, himself, possesses deep-seeded hatred,
jealousy, and resentment towards the black community.
Andrew
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Pat Buchanan makes me embarrassed
to be white. He also fails at any self reflection.
Digg
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Well, anyone who uses the phrase
"black folks" has got to have his finger on the pulse of
the racial situation in America, so I'm inclined to
agree with this angry, bitter man who seems to always be
talking on every news program. Come on, black people!
How come you can't realize the enormous favor that good
patriotic white Americans did for your
great-grandparents when they traded five chickens and a
broken lamp for them at the slave market all those years
ago? I mean, otherwise, they would have spent their
lives as African people. Instead, they got the honor of
being American things.
Indecision2008
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For a very different take on
Obama's speech, anti-racist writer Tim Wise, ups the
anti of truth telling in his hard-hitting essay "Of
National Lies and Racial Amnesia: Jeremiah Wright,
Barack Obama, and the Audacity of Truth," where he
states: "Indignation doesn't work for most whites,
because having remained sanguine about, silent during,
indeed often supportive of so much injustice over the
years in this country--the theft of native land and
genocide of indigenous persons, and the enslavement of
Africans being only two of the best examples--we are
just a bit late to get into the game of moral rectitude.
And once we enter it, our efforts at righteousness tend
to fail the test of sincerity." Check out the full text
at
Tim Wise.org/ Terry
K.
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Pat Buchanan =
Ass Hat—I
didn’t even think about race until I arrived in Erie, PA
and was surrounded by confederate flags and the “n” word
being used liberally. Don’t get me wrong, I am in NO WAY
endorsing or justifying the words of Rev. Wright, and
yes, there have been times in my life that I have been
resentful for the looks I’ve received from minorities
who assume that because I’m white my ancestors were
automatically slave owners, of their ancestors. And
don’t even get me started on immigration and the
entitlement that certain minorities seem to have. I’m
just saying, maybe we shouldn’t throw a party for
ourselves for being the liberators of the black people.
Invenema
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It is blatantly
obvious that he, himself, possesses deep-seeded hatred,
jealousy, and resentment towards the black community. I
could dissect Buchanan’s comments at length as
fraudulent, but what’s the point? He writes as if
Caucasians are the true victims of race, and there’s no
reason to even try to fight this notion, because it’s
utterly false. He, in fact, possesses the same “static”
worldview that Obama spoke of in his speech on race;
instead of acknowledging the legitimacy of Obama’s
ideas, he goes to great lengths denying them, while
simultaneously fulfilling them. To put it mildly,
Buchanan’s comments are factually incorrect, ignorant,
repulsive, and preposterous. Frankly put, Buchanan is
full of shit. It’s way past time that MSNBC relieves him
of his position at their network. As of now, they have
yet to comment on his remarks. But when they do, I hope
they recognize the need to “reject and denounce.”
The New Argument
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Pat Buchanan, America’s Foremost Intellectual on Issues
of Race— It’s important to get all this stuff out in the
open. We’ve got to get it all out. And thus,
Pat Buchanan, America’s foremost racial scholar who once
came in just third in the race for the GOP
presidential nomination. . . . Oh, my.
Yes, just looking at Barack Obama, one can tell that he
is the same breed of “black hustler” the white community
has been trying to dispense with for decades. There are
specific characteristics you look for to tell whether or
not a person is a black hustler. For example, black
hustlers have skin that is darker than white
people’s. It’s generally a brown-ish color ranging from
very light to very dark, practically black. Sound like a
certain presidential candidate anyone can thank of?
Hmmm? . . . Listen Pat, it’s hard losing your job
going into a protracted economic downturn, but we’re
sure you’ll come out on top cause, let’s face, Rich
white guys always do? But only cause they work the
hardest right? Right! ;-) Anyway, we hope you don’t get
the living fuck beaten out of you by a bunch of thugs
(black of course) on your way home tonight. It would be
a sad thing for the world to be deprived of your
insights, even if only for a moment.
Cynics Party
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Is Wright Right About Racism?—Pat Buchanan
billy-clubbed Wright for saying, “God damn America.” The
MSNBC commentator, who avoided the draft, implied that
Wright, a former Marine, lacks sufficient loyalty to
country. Out of context, Wright’s exclamation was
admittedly offensive. But remember: It punctuated a
speech about segregation. Buchanan, nonetheless,
unleashed, deriding “black hustlers” and insisting
descendants of those “brought from Africa in slave
ships” owe whites a thank you. “Where is the gratitude?”
he asked. . . . ABC News reports that Clinton’s campaign
is “pushing the Wright story” ahead of the Pennsylvania
and Indiana primaries. The crass tactic is designed to
motivate the racist vote by reminding whites of Obama’s
connection to the African-American community. Put
another way, Clinton’s message has become simply: Obama
Is black. Wright probably expected this brouhaha. He
says our government is “controlled by rich white people”
and our culture afflicted by racism. Though these
statements are also deemed distasteful by the
Establishment, they are truisms. You can see their
veracity in the collected portraits of white
millionaires commonly called the congressional photo
directory. Or, just turn on your television and watch
the mob continue stoking the Wright “controversy.”
Truthdig
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Rice hits U.S.
'birth defect'— Secretary of State
Condoleezza Rice said yesterday that the United
States still has trouble dealing with race because of a
national "birth defect" that denied black Americans the
opportunities given to whites at the country's very
founding. "Black Americans were a founding population,"
she said. "Africans and Europeans came here and founded
this country together — Europeans by choice and Africans
in chains. That's not a very pretty reality of our
founding." As a result, Miss Rice told editors and
reporters at The Washington Times, "descendants of
slaves did not get much of a head start, and I think you
continue to see some of the effects of that." "That
particular birth defect makes it hard for us to confront
it, hard for us to talk about it, and hard for us to
realize that it has continuing relevance for who we are
today," she said. Race has become an issue in this
year's presidential campaign, which prompted a
much-discussed speech last week by Sen. Barack Obama,
one of the two remaining contenders for the Democratic
nomination. Miss Rice declined to comment on the
campaign, saying only that it was "important" that Mr.
Obama "gave it for a whole host of reasons." But she
spoke forcefully on the subject, citing personal and
family experience to illustrate "a paradox and
contradiction in this country," which "we still haven't
resolved." On the one hand, she said, race in the U.S.
"continues to have effects" on public discussions and
"the deepest thoughts that people hold." On the other,
"enormous progress" has been made, which allowed her to
become the nation's chief diplomat. "America doesn't
have an easy time dealing with race," Miss Rice said,
adding that members of her family have "endured terrible
humiliations." "What I would like understood as a
black American is that black Americans loved and had
faith in this country even when this country didn't love
and have faith in them — and that's our legacy," she
said.
WashingtonTimes
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posted 26 March 2008 |
