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Pat Buchanan's Wants Blacks to be GRATEFUL for being Brought to America!
Mar 26, 2008 | 2:24 PM
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Buchanan seems to think that black people should be grateful for being kidnapped and shipped to this county as slaves centuries ago.

From his recent blog:

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.

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 time and money to support soup kitchens, adult education, day care, retirement and nursing homes for blacks.

We hear the grievances. Where is the gratitude?

End of column.

What?????????  So we should be grateful for being shipped over here, enslaved, beaten, raped, mamed, robbed, humiliated, hanged and hindered for over 400 years?  What????? 

What his column fails to mention is that all that so-called freedom we got wasn't GIVEN to us.  We FOUGHT for it long and hard, and because his comments prove that racism is still very much alive with a strong pulse in this country, we're STILL fighting! 

Fighting for that freedom came with many price tags marked by dead bodies hanging from trees burned to death, burning crosses in front yards, strongly running water from fire hoses, biting by dogs and beatings by the very laws governed to protect us all. 

And all those programs he talks about...hmmm...

Those were not programs originally even available to black people because for the longest time, we weren't even people, and therefore, didn't deserve assistance or consideration.  Rights?  How can you give right to property?  How can you give rights to people, who even after being emancipated, you still considered as less than human?

If you let Pat tell it, we've never done anything in this country or for this country. 

Hmmm...how about fighting in wars overseas just to come home to still have to walk through the back door. 

How about fighting to preserve everyone else's freedoms while we had none? 

How about the major inventions we never got proper credit for? 

How about the lack of recognition of what REALLY happened during slavery right here in America but all kinds of recognition for Hitler's dastardly deeds in Germany?

How about dying if found to be educated? 

How about stripping us of our native tongues?

Oh, there's more.  But I'll let you all touch those bases.

And don't even get me started on what was perpetrated upon the Indians...the true "Native" Americans.

 
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trippydude read my blog
May 7, 2008 | 10:44 PM

Look its time to put things like this behind us
but fact is fact and theres racism on both sides of the coin Blacks made a lot of sacrifices to gain their rights and freedoms, but there were a lot of whites that helped along the way from the abolishionist in the 1800's to whites working in the ACLU and SCLC for civil rights in the late 1950's and 60's to modern day eradicating the R card from humanity, underneath we all bleed red. What is important today is saving our youth both Blacks & whites from poverty, violence, and putting the energies & geniuses of both races to solutions in stopping Black on Black crimes, Drug addiction, and entitlement of better educational opportunities to slow the dropout rates nationwide. I'm white middle class baby boomer that grew up with segregation, But on my 16th birthday I watched in awe as a Man named Martin L. King opened my eyes to what truth is, That blacks & whites can live, work, love, and respect each other for whom we are as human beings and forgive us our transgressions to each other and live together in harmony & peace....Trippy
FaithTempo read my blog view my photos
May 8, 2008 | 1:03 PM

Trippydude:

You're right...it's time to put these things behind us, but people like Pat Buchanan who are SO QUICK to put things like this out there in PRESENT DAY makes it hard.

He's proof that racism is still very alive and prevalent. And yes, racism exists on every side and all races have some in them. This blog wasn't to argue that point...or frankly to argue at all.

This blog about Pat Buchanan is for people who would naively think that racism doesn't exist and that people (namely black people because these are Pat Buchanan's words) need to just get over it...whatever IT is. This is proof that racism is real and is not an imaginary monster like the boogie man. Racism is its very own boogie man.
trippydude read my blog
May 9, 2008 | 12:54 AM

Ms Faith, Oh yes it is but the more we promote it the harder it becomes to eradicate, a person like Pat Buchanan is one extremist writing his response to what another said. I heard what Pastor Wright comments were loud & clear, to whit both sides of a single minded coin. Obama, (I hope) will go along way in uniting all races under the banner of equality.
By untying the bonds of mistrust, and favouritism of one race over another. Blacks fought for and won their rights & freedoms, that they should have been given from the git. , America portrays the African American race as a minority, well let a person try to get elected to any office without the big block of the black vote. < good luck>. Pat Buchanan trivialized the black struggle to no end. And yes Blacks have enjoyed prosperity thanks in part to programs incited by those long suffering, valiant, leader's and partakers of the Civil Rights movement, BLACKs & WHITEs whom had the courage to speak out when racial injustice raised it's ugly head. My thanks to you for standing up for and on your beliefs, keep calling them like you see'um.......Trippy :)
FaithTempo read my blog view my photos
May 9, 2008 | 1:49 AM

@ Trippydude:

Thanks for replying. ...and for the compliment. Aside from that, your post made a lot of sense and you touched on subjects that few people dare tackle (the 'need for the black vote' factor, for instance). And YES, there were (and still are) white people...or better yet, non-Blacks, that have played and do play a role in healing social and racial injustice.
Former_Cult_Member read my blog
Aug 13, 2008 | 6:37 PM

Faith,

You are justified to be upset with the ignorant comments made by Pat Buchanan. It upsets me greatly to see so-called Christians berate one another no matter what the context.

I assume that you’re a Christian based on the things that I’ve seen you write. I also assume that you are a black woman, also based on what you’ve written. As a Christian, you know that there is no difference as to what our race is when it comes to being children of God (Gal. 3:26-29). There should not be a black church versus a white church. There should only be one church, as there is “… one body and one Spirit… one Lord, one faith, one baptism; one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.” Eph. 4:4-5

Therefore, we have a great responsibility. You, as a black woman, and me, as a white man, must, for the sake of all humanity, be colorblind and look at one-another as brother and sister, because God’s Word is true, and if we are His children, we are in fact, brother and sister.

"A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another." JN 13:34-35
Cont...
Former_Cult_Member read my blog
Aug 13, 2008 | 6:38 PM

The world sneers at our hypocrisy as we pretend to be Christians, while at the same time outwardly show fear, prejudice, and disdain for those that are different from our own kind. Do we not realize that we are all the same? I know that bigotry still exists, even within the church. But you should know that real Christians do not hate any person no matter who they are or what they have done. There are real Christians in this world and God will sort them out when the time comes. In the meantime, we can do our part, be an example for the world to see, and genuinely, love one-another, as Jesus commands.

I was around eight years old when Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. was killed. Even at such a young age I understood the injustice that had taken place. Over the years, I began to listen to and read many of his speeches through the wonder of the internet. I wanted to know more about the man that had stirred up so much passion in so many people. I realize that he was fighting for the rights of black people, but as a minister of God, he was also appealing to all of God’s children. There were, and are, people of all races that are sympathetic to the cause of justice and freedom for every person.
“…I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood…” MLK
“…I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of "interposition" and "nullification" -- one day right there in Al
Former_Cult_Member read my blog
Aug 13, 2008 | 6:39 PM

“…I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of "interposition" and "nullification" -- one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers…” MLK
Whether we aspire to live as Jesus commanded, or as Dr. King dreamed, it is our duty as Christians to show the world that we belong to God by our love for one-another.

Bruce
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God's daughter, wife, mother, sister and friend. LOL. That's almost every woman, huh? I'm blessed to have just completed my first book, which consists of original poetry. I'm working on the second (self-created inspirational quotes and inspirational quotes I've collected from others over the years) and just feeling so blessed that I sometimes feel like I'm God's only child. My heart's desire is to be obedient in sharing His gift. I can no longer sit on my hands and keep His gift under wraps. It must be uncovered and cultivated constantly. I love life and I love to try to look at things from all sides...or as many sides as possible. I don't believe things are just black and white. There is always something in between.

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