Dear Conservatives,
Please stop making black people your scapegoats. Are we to blame for everything? Really? The latest is Pat Buchanan insinuating that black people are to blame for the current down economy, and the epic failure of the banks.
Sure, there was a share of poor African-Americans who had help from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and Buchanan only points to too many black people working in the public sector IN WASHINGTON D.C., giving the impression that we get too much of a preference there. Note: it’s Washington,D.C., where a lot of black people live, sir. What else would you expect? In fact, Black people make up 51% of the citizenry in the D.C. area. So, sure, its reasonable that 18% of federal employees, in the d.C. area would be black. Buchanan is twisting the number, distorting the facts to make black people to look like we are the ones always depending on the “big bad gubberment” for money.
Of course, racial stereotypes are becoming en vogue. With calls for “entitlement reform,” and you know, the idea that the black family was better back during the days of slavery than today (which is really just code for the world was much better when white people were in charge, and black bodies were in bondage), it’s become some how that much easier to blame black people for society’s problems.
Note to my fellow libertarians and conservatives, this is not about ‘political correctness’ when it comes to race, this is about bad economic policies & economic inequality. Buchanan seems apathetic to the facts he presents, that even in 2007, the median income for whites was $134,280 versus $13, 450 for blacks. Isn’t there something wrong with that disparity? I think it has to do with institutional racism + the failures of Keynesian economics + the prison-industrial complex, but the details for that is for another day
Look, I hate it as much as the next guy when minorities look for someone to blame for their problems when the situation calls for it, but in this instance, racism should not be tolerated. I know I have shown a large amount of intolerance towards racism (liberal and conservative) in recent weeks, but I want to know, why should anyone continue to tolerate Buchanan’s neo-conservative racist views?
P.S., Pat, what about the poor white people who took out home loans they couldn’t afford either?
Related articles
- Bachmann: Black People Were Better Off During Slavery? (tinfoilhatman45.wordpress.com)
And did you see these?
http://minnesotaindependent.com/84366/stephen-colbert-to-bachmann-everything-is-slavery
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shbiQMMLc3s
I have.
Has Pat Buchanan got pictures of black people with guns to the heads of the white lawmakers who made it okay for Fannie and Freddie to lend to people who would likely default (oh that word!) on their loan payments? Read any police reports of Congressmen’s families being kidnapped for lawmaking ransom?
Personally I think all the ills of society are to be blamed on left-handed Finnish-speaking quiche-eating red-haired bicycling males (a study bible just for them is coming to a store near you!) Either them or the Pretendo Dilly Bibliobloggers, the lowest of the low.
“Pretendo Dilly Bibliobloggers”
Hahhahahahah!
I can’t beleive that Pat Buchanan is still on the scene.
After William F. Buckley, Jr. named him as anti-Semitic in his big essay “In Search of Anti-Semitism,” I really thought that that would end him. Or his ongoing history of demonstrable racism.
However, I guess he’s MSNBC’s token RIghtie, which I would even take as proof of their institutional bias if not for the fact that Hannity trots Buchs out as his buddy and guest now and then.
The guy’s really sick.
I’m not sure he’s a neocon, though. Last I knew, he was more of the Charles Lindbergh “America First” isolationist paleo-con variety.
You are right Ken, I didnt mean neocon, foreign policy wise.
Ugh. yeah he is still around.
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