Garnet Donkey

Pat Buchanan has been a spokesman for racism in America for decades. He believes that the Civil Rights movement was a crazy, left-wing conspiracy; called Dr. King a “fraud and a demagogue and perhaps worse,”and has a bizarre obsession with “bringing blacks into the American mainstream.” This isn’t even to mention his well-documented apologist stance for Hitler. Despite this, he is a go-to analyst on MSNBC’s political coverage, often asked about issues of race. Well, in a post on his blog responding to Obama’s race speech, Buchanan really outdid himself:

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.

Okay, so slavery was a major boon for black people. Check. What else do you have for us, Pat?

[N]o 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.

So blacks have done nothing in America than squander the great opportunities handed to them by “white America.” Gotcha. Ya done yet, Pat?

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?

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.

So not only was slavery the best thing that ever happened to blacks, and not only have blacks squandered all of the opportunities given to them by whites, but black people will rob and rape you.

If you have an objection to Pat Buchanan’s racism and fear mongering, join me in flooding MSNBC with letters to letters@msnbc.com . There is no excuse for this hate monger to be employed, much less a lead analyst on a cable news network. Old man Buchanan needs to be sent out to pasture once and for all.