Reparations and THE Reason (Pat Buchanan) Dialogue is Needed

Okay, I admit: I'm a bit late on this.

I guess when I heard it I was in a daze - unable to believe such idiocy could come out the mouth of anyone "respected" enough to be a commentator on what seemed to be a credible station (MSNBC). But, my friends at the AfroSpear have called me to consciousness.

Here are Pat's comments:

“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."

What is mind-boggling is that Pat Buchanan claims to be a conservative. For a conservative to be siting welfare, food stamps, poverty programs and the like to be touted as efforts by White Americans to uplift the Black community is beyond comprehension.

In one of his blog postings, Pat says:

"What are Barack’s moral credentials to instruct white folks on what they must do, when he failed to do what any decent father should have done: Take his wife and daughters out of a church where hate had a home in the pulpit?"

This begs the question: would Pat agree that there are very few decent White fathers in past generations? I mean, did they remove their wives and children from those churches who called Blacks inferior? Did they remove their families from those circles that said Blacks were deserving of maltreatment, deserving of lynching? Did those fathers stop their families from being corrupted by public lynchings? Maybe this picture will help you answer that question:

Look at all of those decent fathers, harvesting their "strange fruit." Or, is Pat Buchanan saying that the words spoken by Jeremiah Wright are worse for the Country than the actions of this photo and numerous other similar actions.

Reparations means you take this email address: LindaMuller@Buchanan.org and let her know what you think of Pat Buchanan's ridiculous comments.

Come and Get Your Reparations!