I am sure this sounds like white guilt, it's far from it, it's simply not being racist.
That word, I hate. It's strictly, 100% ignorance, and there is no justification for it's use from a white person. My favorite argument is the ol': "Well, they can call each other it..."
Granted, but HOW CAN YOU NOT SEE THAT IT'S A FORM OF EMPOWERMENT TO THEM??? The Jews do it too. Jewish cartoons embrace their stereotypical physical appearance. The soccer club I support, Tottenham, used to be, and still is (just less so) bombarded by anti-semitic chants at every away game they play. The area in which they play used to be heavily-populated by Hasidic Jews.
Away fans used to throw holocaust chants, wear swastikas and physically beat Tottenham fans. Here's a charmer Chelsea fans use: "Gas a Jew, Jew Jew, put him in the oven, cook him through." Even last year, away at West Ham, Tottenham and their fans were greeted with: "I'd rather be a Paki than a Jew."
What did the Spurs fans do? They turned it around and made it a badge of honor...empowered themselves. The supporters of Tottenham turned it around, and began to call themselves "Yid Army" and call the players, none of whom were Jewsih, "yiddos."
That's the same with black folk. They are faced with this type of racism every day of their lives. Can you at least let them turn that word around on us and use it for a little bit of empowerment? It's an absurd argument used by people who don't realize the oppression that blacks have faced and still do to this day in this country.
And then I got this incredible e-mail from my mother that makes me want to move to Europe...anywhere but a country in which rhetoric by a "leader" like this is possible, and agreed with (my retort in italics):
by Patrick J. Buchanan
Barack says we need to have a conversation about race in America? have we ever had a public discourse on race? I'm sad for you if you think we don't need a conversation about race...let's hear Pat out though.
Fair enough. But this time, it has to be a two-way conversation. White America needs to be heard from, not just lectured to. OHHHHHHHHH....Holy Shit! Are you fucking kidding me? WHITE AMERICA NEEDS TO BE HEARD FROM!?!??!?!?? ARE YOU SERIOUS!?!?!?!?!??!?!!? I can't believe this is true. WHITE AMERICA NEEDS TO BE HEARD FROM. Turn on NPR, CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, NBC, CBS, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, etc....the list goes on and on and on and on...WHITE AMERICA NEEDS TO BE HEARD FROM?? That may be the most out of control, for lack of a better term, FUCKING IDIOTIC thing I have ever heard. Awwwww, poor old White man feels like nobody is listening.
This time, the Silent Majority needs to have its convictions, grievances and demands heard. And among them are these: Silent Majority...White people as the silent majority is the most disgustingly false premise I could ever imagine. It's almost too much to wrap my head around...Whites as the silent majority!!!! AMAZING!!
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. Why doesn't Pat just say "call me sir boy, if it wasn't for me you'd still be in Africa?" Can you give me something a little more tangible than Christian salvation? Like, you lynched and hung tens of thousands of us, could you maybe throw us more than, "maybe you can get to this place called heaven. A place nobody even knows is real, and a place Pat Buchanan sure as hell isn't going to see if it is real."
Obama ought to go down on his knees and thank God he is an American. Or Pat's gonna give him a whooping.
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 m ainstream. Thanks for the handouts asshole. How about job programs in the inner-cities? You're a Christian man right Pat, ya know, "give a man a fish...teach a man to fish, yada yada yada." Instead of wanting praise for the handouts, how about setting up permanent solutions? And seriously, these programs were not designed "to bring the African-American community into the mainstream." These programs were all developed on their own merit, like most legislation, to get votes. Earned Income Tax Credits have benefited a hell of a lot more white people than blacks. By the way, how fucking vague is "legal services" and "poverty programs?"
Governments, businesses and colleges have engaged in discrimination against white folks -- with affirmativ e action, contract set-asides and quotas -- to advance black applicants over white applicants. If these programs did not exist, do you realize how much worse it WOULD be? If we're all created equal Mr. Buchanan, a tenant you believe through your faith as well as your public service, then why don't we all have the same opportunities? Do you think we do? Discrimination against white folks? I seriously am ashamed to be white after reading that...discrimination against whites!!! INCREDIBLE. Come here Mr. Buchanan, even to economically depressed Buffalo. Drive to Clarence, drive through East Amherst and then drive through the East Side of Buffalo. Then look me in the eyes and tell me affirmative action and quotas have really give us white folk the short end of the stick...Drive through your suburban Virginia neighborhood in your Mercedes. You've been handed everything you have in your life...Never worked outside of the government or the media. How can you possibly imagine what inner-city life is like? You are a disgrace.
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. And far more white folks are in nursing homes on Medicare than there are black folks. YOU DRIVE A FUCKING MERCEDES AND LIVE IN AND LIVE IN A HOME THAT'S WORTH MORE THAN $3 MILLION. (1) Maybe drive an American car, (2) maybe even grab a Toyota Corrola and throw the extra $50,000 at one of said "charities." HOW HOW HOW can someone live among the excess that he sees every day in D.C and Northern Virginia and not fight THAT? Instead, his cause? DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WHITE FOLKS -- ARE YOU SHITTING ME???
We hear the grievances. Where is the gratitude?? This is abhorent. Sickening. Gratitude for fucking what? For the chance to run for president? Thanks Pat. Is that it, you want a thank you? Look at the country's penal system. It's not a coincidence, though I am sure your opinion is that blacks are genetically disposed to crim, but it's not a coincidence. It's a sledgehammer to your head showing you that THERE IS A SYSTEMATIC PROBLEM IN OUR INNER-CITIES....AND YOU WANT GRATITUDE!! Thanks, I guess, for BET and the NBA?
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? What??? I will guarantee you the school systems in those towns BLOW AWAY anything you will find in any major city in this country...They don't need recruiters from the Ivy League, there are so many advantages inborn in them just by being white that these "recruiters" obviously are a shot at maybe college recruiters bringing black athletes to their schools? I really don't know. It's a terrific paragraph, terrific for it's "What the fuck is this crazy old, entitled white bastard saying now? quality.
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? YES. Yes it is, yes we are. Take some responsibility. We're only 40 years removed from a time when segregation, both legal and illegal, were going on. It's kind of a small sample size Pat, especially considering we raped and pillaged Indians for far more than 40 years when our ancestors came here. A BILLION A MONTH is going to the military efforts in the Middle East. A BILLION DOLLARS A MONTH....Do you think that money maybe would make a difference if it were invested in the inner-city school system, and devoted to job programs in inner-cities?
Is that the fault of white America or, first and foremost, a failure of the black community itself? It is clearly the fault of those in power over the last 50 years....What color have those people been?
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? Do you think maybe it's because they resent the innate advantages we have just for being white? Plus, DO SOME MATH ASSHOLE. It's called per capita baby...a fairly basic concept to grasp. Proportion wise, there are more of us out there. It's basic math...250 million white people, 40 million black people. It's as simple as playing the percentages homeboy. Plus your number is so unbelievably innacurate that it makes me feel embarrassed for your family and friends that you are such a liar. A little Google and a little common sense goes a long way.
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? Are you aware that when slavery was alive, white-on-black rape was 10,000 times more common than black-on-white rape was? This is patently false (a) and (b), the paragraph essentially sounds as if Barack is to blame for all of these rapes. It's weird, he forgot about the atrocities going on in Iraq...Maybe that'll be in his next open letter to Barack?
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. Because there is no epidemic, you're fucking insane. We would hear about if it were an epidemic you sensationalistic, hyperbolic ass. You are a member of the liberal media, report on this epidemic, show us some stories...let's see it...It would definitely draw in viewers, so show proof of the epidemic. Just because you say there is an epidemic does not in fact make it so...I think there is an epidemic of 60 and over American fascist blow-hards who have no factual basis for anything they say are do, but are getting a little insecure that black people **GASP** may in fact be equal to them.
Sorry, Barack, some of us have heard it all before, about 40 years and 40 trillion tax dollars ago. Heard what all before? Pat, I would love you to swing through Buffalo, or I'll come down to D.C. We can eat at a soul food restaurant in West D.C, and then we can drive through Northern Virginia to see the social structures that your generation has set up in the past 40 years to lead to this "epidemic." It's nobody's fault but your own.
Be a better friend, Do they let racists into Heaven?
Here is a quote from Mr. Buchanan from "This Week With David Brinkley": " "If we had to take a million immigrants in, say Zulus, next year, or Englishmen, and put them up in Virginia, what group would be easier to assimilate and would cause less problems for the people of Virginia?"
I will end with a quote from an ex-coworker of Mr. Buchanan's who saw his bigotry right up close and personal: William Safire, who was on Nixon's speech-writing team with Buchanan, says "Buchanan is an extremist whose anti-Semitism would rank at level four or five -- on a scale that has Adolf Hitler at 10 and Black Muslim leader Rev. Louis Farrakhan as a seven.."
Obama ought to go down on his knees and thank God he is an American. Or Pat's gonna give him a whooping.
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 m ainstream. Thanks for the handouts asshole. How about job programs in the inner-cities? You're a Christian man right Pat, ya know, "give a man a fish...teach a man to fish, yada yada yada." Instead of wanting praise for the handouts, how about setting up permanent solutions? And seriously, these programs were not designed "to bring the African-American community into the mainstream." These programs were all developed on their own merit, like most legislation, to get votes. Earned Income Tax Credits have benefited a hell of a lot more white people than blacks. By the way, how fucking vague is "legal services" and "poverty programs?"
Governments, businesses and colleges have engaged in discrimination against white folks -- with affirmativ e action, contract set-asides and quotas -- to advance black applicants over white applicants. If these programs did not exist, do you realize how much worse it WOULD be? If we're all created equal Mr. Buchanan, a tenant you believe through your faith as well as your public service, then why don't we all have the same opportunities? Do you think we do? Discrimination against white folks? I seriously am ashamed to be white after reading that...discrimination against whites!!! INCREDIBLE. Come here Mr. Buchanan, even to economically depressed Buffalo. Drive to Clarence, drive through East Amherst and then drive through the East Side of Buffalo. Then look me in the eyes and tell me affirmative action and quotas have really give us white folk the short end of the stick...Drive through your suburban Virginia neighborhood in your Mercedes. You've been handed everything you have in your life...Never worked outside of the government or the media. How can you possibly imagine what inner-city life is like? You are a disgrace.
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. And far more white folks are in nursing homes on Medicare than there are black folks. YOU DRIVE A FUCKING MERCEDES AND LIVE IN AND LIVE IN A HOME THAT'S WORTH MORE THAN $3 MILLION. (1) Maybe drive an American car, (2) maybe even grab a Toyota Corrola and throw the extra $50,000 at one of said "charities." HOW HOW HOW can someone live among the excess that he sees every day in D.C and Northern Virginia and not fight THAT? Instead, his cause? DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WHITE FOLKS -- ARE YOU SHITTING ME???
We hear the grievances. Where is the gratitude?? This is abhorent. Sickening. Gratitude for fucking what? For the chance to run for president? Thanks Pat. Is that it, you want a thank you? Look at the country's penal system. It's not a coincidence, though I am sure your opinion is that blacks are genetically disposed to crim, but it's not a coincidence. It's a sledgehammer to your head showing you that THERE IS A SYSTEMATIC PROBLEM IN OUR INNER-CITIES....AND YOU WANT GRATITUDE!! Thanks, I guess, for BET and the NBA?
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? What??? I will guarantee you the school systems in those towns BLOW AWAY anything you will find in any major city in this country...They don't need recruiters from the Ivy League, there are so many advantages inborn in them just by being white that these "recruiters" obviously are a shot at maybe college recruiters bringing black athletes to their schools? I really don't know. It's a terrific paragraph, terrific for it's "What the fuck is this crazy old, entitled white bastard saying now? quality.
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? YES. Yes it is, yes we are. Take some responsibility. We're only 40 years removed from a time when segregation, both legal and illegal, were going on. It's kind of a small sample size Pat, especially considering we raped and pillaged Indians for far more than 40 years when our ancestors came here. A BILLION A MONTH is going to the military efforts in the Middle East. A BILLION DOLLARS A MONTH....Do you think that money maybe would make a difference if it were invested in the inner-city school system, and devoted to job programs in inner-cities?
Is that the fault of white America or, first and foremost, a failure of the black community itself? It is clearly the fault of those in power over the last 50 years....What color have those people been?
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? Do you think maybe it's because they resent the innate advantages we have just for being white? Plus, DO SOME MATH ASSHOLE. It's called per capita baby...a fairly basic concept to grasp. Proportion wise, there are more of us out there. It's basic math...250 million white people, 40 million black people. It's as simple as playing the percentages homeboy. Plus your number is so unbelievably innacurate that it makes me feel embarrassed for your family and friends that you are such a liar. A little Google and a little common sense goes a long way.
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? Are you aware that when slavery was alive, white-on-black rape was 10,000 times more common than black-on-white rape was? This is patently false (a) and (b), the paragraph essentially sounds as if Barack is to blame for all of these rapes. It's weird, he forgot about the atrocities going on in Iraq...Maybe that'll be in his next open letter to Barack?
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. Because there is no epidemic, you're fucking insane. We would hear about if it were an epidemic you sensationalistic, hyperbolic ass. You are a member of the liberal media, report on this epidemic, show us some stories...let's see it...It would definitely draw in viewers, so show proof of the epidemic. Just because you say there is an epidemic does not in fact make it so...I think there is an epidemic of 60 and over American fascist blow-hards who have no factual basis for anything they say are do, but are getting a little insecure that black people **GASP** may in fact be equal to them.
Sorry, Barack, some of us have heard it all before, about 40 years and 40 trillion tax dollars ago. Heard what all before? Pat, I would love you to swing through Buffalo, or I'll come down to D.C. We can eat at a soul food restaurant in West D.C, and then we can drive through Northern Virginia to see the social structures that your generation has set up in the past 40 years to lead to this "epidemic." It's nobody's fault but your own.
Be a better friend, Do they let racists into Heaven?
Here is a quote from Mr. Buchanan from "This Week With David Brinkley": " "If we had to take a million immigrants in, say Zulus, next year, or Englishmen, and put them up in Virginia, what group would be easier to assimilate and would cause less problems for the people of Virginia?"
I will end with a quote from an ex-coworker of Mr. Buchanan's who saw his bigotry right up close and personal: William Safire, who was on Nixon's speech-writing team with Buchanan, says "Buchanan is an extremist whose anti-Semitism would rank at level four or five -- on a scale that has Adolf Hitler at 10 and Black Muslim leader Rev. Louis Farrakhan as a seven.."
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