Part I was just so much fun, we had to come back for more.
This time, Pat helps us make sense of the current racial climate, and of the Jeremiah Wright flap, too.
It is all here, gentle readers, in Pat’s Brief for Whitey. Here’s the scoop: according to Pat, black people need to quit all the whining and realize how good they have it!
Sure, there are some advantages to being black. For instance, you are far more likely than whites to live below the poverty line, live in prison, live in a neighborhood with substandard schools, live without health insurance, and more likely to be a victim of violent crime if you happen to be black in America.
Pat Buchanan’s advice?
Thank your lucky stars!
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.
For, Pat tells us, despite continuing disadvantages for African Americans in income levels, social mobility, educational opportunity, and just about every other damn thing that matters, it is whitey who is getting the short end of the stick:
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.
And, he says, it gets worse:
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?
It looks like white people just can’t catch a break in this country. Thanks for setting us straight, Pat.
If this is what the national conversation on race is going to look like, uh, well…
Hmm. I can’t seem to finish that sentence. I think I just ran out of sarcasm. I’ve used it all up.
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Sounds a bit like G. Ferraro’s comments about Obama:
“If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position. And if he was a woman (of any color) he would not be in this position. He happens to be very lucky to be who he is. And the country is caught up in the concept.”
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/03/clinton-backer.html
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