Here is a link to an essay Pat Buchanan wrote about black America. He wrote it several months ago. But I kid you not, it is now actually posted on the website of David Duke!
Yes, a primary political commentator for NBC news (MSNBC) has written something so appealing to racists that David Duke is featuring it online.
If a political commentator from FOX News had authored articles that were appearing on David Duke's site, the liberal online coummunity would be going crazy!
Here's the link. The essay was posted on 2/7/09.
http://www.davidduke.com/...
For those who don't wish to visit a hate site, here are some highlights.
Buchanan writes...
"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."
Buchanan goes on...
"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 their time and money to support soup kitchens, adult education, day care, retirement and nursing homes for blacks."
Buchanan then talks about the Obama Presidency...
"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?"
And here is Buchanan's conclusion...
"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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Yes, this man REALLY does have a prominent role as a featured comentator on MSNBC. He makes numerous appearances on the Rachel Maddow show.
Why isn't this a bigger story?
If there was a high profile political commentator at another network or major newspaper who was basically "blogging" for David Duke, wouldn't that make news somewhere?
Would he still be working at say, CNN?
I want to make it clear, I'm not in favor of censorship. But I do think an explantation is owed. Or at least a statement or plea to have the essay removed from a hate site. Heck, even a press release saying the article is being taken out of context will due. Although knowing Buchanan, I doubt that it is.
At best Buchanan should be a "Worst Person in the World candidate!"
But I guess he gets a free pass because he doesn't work for FOX.