I Hate What You Just Said

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.

It is about time for IHWYJS (that’s what the cool kids call ihatewhatyoujustsaid.com), to make a contribution to our long-awaited “national conversation on race.”

As you already know, the Clinton campaign has already weighed in. Wow. And there’s more. Also this.

But for our money, there is no one quite like Patrick J. Buchanan when it comes to clear-eyed, no-nonsense thinking on the subject of race. Ever the thoughtful commentator, Pat is offering America, and the world, exactly what it needs right now: white paranoia. How could the guy who gave us the culture war be wrong?

Here’s Pat, in all his glory, in his post titled “The Way Our World Ends” (and I swear I am not making this stuff up. Go look at his website! He actually wrote this, and so much other inanity besides):

An Augusta, Ga., group, The National Policy Institute, has meshed the figures on fertility rates with the continents and races on Planet Earth — to visualize what the world will look like in 2060.

In 1950, whites were 28 percent of world population and Africans 9 percent, a ratio of three-to-one. In 2060, the ratio will remain the same. But the colors will be reversed. People of African ancestry will be 25 percent of the world’s population. People of European descent will have fallen to 9.8 percent.

More arresting is that the white population is shrinking not only in relative but in real terms. Two hundred million white people, one in every six on earth — a number equal to the entire population of France, Britain, Holland and Germany — will vanish by 2060.

The Caucasian race is going the way of the Mohicans.

White people! Vanishing! (Actually, I guess I’ll be one of those white people who vanishes by 2060, too. But Buchanan will also have vanished by then. So, you know, there’s an upside to all of this).

More Buhcanan-y goodness:

By 2050, a fourth of all the people of Eastern Europe will have vanished. Ukraine will lose one-third of its population. Russia, 150 million at the breakup of the Soviet Union, 142 million today, will be down to 108 million. Such losses dwarf what Hitler and Stalin together did to these countries.

Now I think I must be drunk. Because I could have sworn that PJB just compared falling birth rates based on free will and individual choices to the holocaust and Stalinist repression. (And hey - did you notice? More “vanishing”).

Man - this stuff is really killing Pat:

…Western Europe’s populations are being sustained by immigrants from the Maghreb and Middle East, Asia and Africa — and the baby boom among these black and brown peoples is lifting and changing the face of the Old Continent forever. Islam is returning to Iberia, Italy and the Balkans. The Third World is coming to colonize the mother countries.

It is Pat Buchanan’s worst nightmare coming true: vanishing white people, and booming brown people. And finally:

Hopefully, the peoples of Asia, Africa and the Middle East, who are about to inherit the earth as we pass away, will treat us better than our ancestors treated them in the five centuries that Western Man ruled the world.

Otherwise, we all go out with a bang.

Precious.

Thanks, Pat, for giving us the big picture. In part II, we’ll examine Pat’s take on the more immediate racial politics of the day. In the meantime, if you are reading this and you happen to be white, be forewarned that you may vanish at any moment.