Pat Buchanan: "This has been a country built, basically, by white folks"

Often using the slave labor of brown and black folks.

Pat... stop now before you further embarrass yourself.

Uncle Pat a/k/a Patrick Joseph Buchanan.
Maybe it's time to move on to Fox News Man.
Fox News has their arms open to Hate.
You should give Roger Ailes a call before it's too late.

Speak truth to power.


Mr. News

At what poit will the establishment media be willing to admit that Buchanan is not just some cranky old coot but in fact a massive, flaming bigot who somehow forgot to bring his white hood to the studio?

You know, I keep hearing about how Sotomayor is a racial choice, an affirmative action choice. Who would the conservatives rather have nominated for the Supreme Court? In other words, what other equally qualified candidate got passed over simply because of race? Anyone?

The country was built by white people.... but on the foundation of Native American land(sometimes taken by force and/or deceit) and forced labor of African slaves.It is delusional to ignore the economic advantages created by this system which was in place for centuries!!!It should also be noted that we would certainly be hard pressed to do with out traffic lights,washing machines,elevators,shoe lasting machines,electric filaments,open heart surgery,separation of blood plasma,etc ,etc..all accomplishments of African Americans despite not even being allowed literacy for centuries in this country.Pat..ever hear of Elijah McCoy??His machine inventions were so reliable the phrase "real McCoy " was coined by whites who didn't know he was Black!!!!!The Buchanan ignorance is not surprising since these type records and facts were largely ignored in history books until recently..well after old Pat was in school.It IS surprising that he and others like him get to espouse such ignorance,bigotry,racism and sexism..everyday before a national audience.Progress...yes but way too little after all this time!

There is no use arguing with a bigot.

Lest we forget, Uncle Pat was the one who popularized the phrase, "Culture War" back in 1992. He hasn't contributed much since.

I think he's paying MSNBC to let him appear on their network... how else can it be explained?

I'm thinking Pat really should be in the sideshow at a carnival. any suggestions to what he should be?

Funny how conservatives are always talking about a colorblind country where we are all "mericans" but are the first to bring up race. So we should be talking about the wise American lady from New York who went to Yale. We should be talking about the American firefighters in New Haven who tested better than other Americans. See, I'm learning.

You all missed the best part of Uncle Pat's tirade: "White folks in this country ... were 90 percent of the country in 1960 when I was growing up, Rachel, and the other 10 percent were African-Americans who had been discriminated against."

Apparently, Latinos, Native Americans, and Asian Americans didn't exist in Mr. Buchanan's 1960s America.

Pat, you've never been more wrong.

This country wasn't built BY white people.

It was built FOR white people.

That was fast. i just made a post and within four minutes someone came buy and gave a thumbs down to just about every post.

That took great courage.

A country built by white folk.
On land stolen from the indian, using slave labor.

Good boy Pat. Here is a treat, now go sit in the corner.

This guys full of chit. When the white men wrote the Constituion, they're slaves were out doing the work in the fields. It has always been a multicultural world, built by all races, and history is continually written by white men. Go figure this coot's perspective.

Oh and I suppose the economics of slavery had nothing to do with the United States becoming an industrial power in the 19th Century. Has Mr. Buchanan ever researched the central role of cotton and slave labor to the U.S. and world economies. I do an entire lecture in my history class over how when slavery ended in the U.S. it caused a worldwide economic downturn because of the importance of U.S. cotton which could not have been produced if it were not for slavery. Many of our former presidents made their fortunes connected to some type of slave trade or labor, so Mr. Buchanan needs to go back and do some research. This country was, by no means, mostly built by white people. I could go on and on, but I will spare the history lesson.

The problem is giving Pat Buchanan a forum to espouse his misogyny and ignorance. Not everyone will recognize the hyperbole for what it is. The Lunatic Fringe (Birthers, White Supremacists, etc.) do not need a mouth piece on TV. When is MSNBC going to recognize that this hysteria is not helping to create an atmosphere for a serious cogent dialogue on race in America?

Wait, the defenders of “White folks' greed runs a world in need” are suddenly outraged at sweeping, racial generalizations?

[Hannity revives another smear: "We've got [Obama] on tape saying, 'White folks' greed runs a world in need' "]

(I realize that the initial objection was to who really was quoted. But a few commenters got around to endorsing the notion. As, of course, did our president.)

We need some consistency, folks.

Somebody had the courage to go through and give thumbs down but not the courage to actually POST anything supporting Pat's statement.

No Pat,

The dynamic duo of depopulation, measles and smallpox, built this country. I mean, even with 90% of natives dying at first contact with Europeans, the early colonies barely survived their conflicts with them. How long do you gather Jamestown and Cape Cod would have lasted without germs on their side then?

Also, what do you think would've happened to the native Americans if they had decided to park a settlement in Cornwall? How do you think that would have gone over?

Hmmmm!
Isn't Pat more suitable for FOX News? Or maybe it is more comfortable to be a "political analyst" as opposed to mere contributor...

Pat and Solidad are busy pushing race very strongly . There must be some money to be made here .

This is Pat Buchanan, the real Pat Buchanan, he talks about other races as if they have just ruined the country and the world. He's always said these things, but now it is starting to sink in that this guy really means what he is saying. It was a little funny because here you have this old man and he's just bitter, so let him go. Now everybody starting to realize that this old man represents a good portion of americans and it's not so funny anymore.

A country built for white folks,then everybody else.

Buchanan makes a good argument. All of the protections in the Constitution, including procedural due process, substantive due process, equal protection of the laws, Civil Rights Act of 1964, 13th Amendment against involuntary servitude, etc were fought and won by white folks.

guys, i think ya'll are being just a tad harsh on brother pat. you see, in his mind, no one else exists in the US but white folks. never have, never will. the rest are merely shadows, passing him by on a sunny day. in brother pat's reality, they are non-existent.

we'd all like to think brer pat is unique in this regard. sadly, no. he represents many others who also reside in bizarro land. hopefully, they are on the short end of the actuarial table, soon to leave this mortal plane.

ok, a boy can hope, can't he?

By built- I'm assuming he's talking about directing other people to build. By him saying that white men wrote the constitution doesn’t answer the question on why almost 100 percent of the Justices have been white men. He is trying really hard to justify institutionalized discrimination

I can't believe MSNBC continues to pay this guy. Rachel hadn't had him on since his post election anti-gay, anti-Obama written rant and I'd hoped she was done giving this clown a forum. Maybe the plan was to expose him as the bigoted white supremist he is thereby taking any credibility away. If that was the plan, it sure worked!

from Nixon archives letter from Buchanan
written right after Nixon announced affirmative action
http://students.washington.edu/trevorg/pdfs/Nixon/Buchanan.pdf

"Thus, instead of sending orders out to all our agencies-- hire blacks and women--the order should go out hire ethnic Catholics preferable women, for visible posts. One example: Italian Americans, unlike blacks have never had a Supreme Court member--they are deeply concerned with their "criminal image"; they do not dislike the President. Give those fellows the "Jewish" seat, or the "Black" seat when it becomes available."

The whole 6 page letter is pretty amazing

As ugly as Buchanan was, it was an amazing sight to watch how rational and cool Rachel remained. She has grown to become the very best interviewer on television. A great roll model for how to argue with a hostile person and remain respectful.

This tirade was an amazing example of the myth of white male exceptionalism. Because white males have dominated such and such they are obviously superior to everyone else is Pat's argument. Pat neglects one teeny tiny detail: the system was CREATED by white males for the BENEFIT OF white males, so of course they, or should I say people like ME, are bound to wind up on top. White males have games the system to favor themselves. It's not right or wrong. It's an advantage of power and position.


AA was created to give those without a leg up a leg up. Pat just cannot fathom that AA is not discriminatory against whites but give the system the equilibrium that is otherwise missing. I also want to further my cred on this subject by adding this: I once worked for a black man who was an EOE hire, and he was rampantly racist against whites. Not an opinion. Observed fact. Nevertheless, I wholly support AA. His attitude was unfortunate, but one rotten apple isn't sufficient to toss the barrel.

Randy

Change the word "by" to the word "for" and I think you might actually have a true statement. Geez, Pat, enough is enough.

I do not want Pat Buchanan to be fired. I want MSNBC, preferably Fox News, to give him a spotlight show. All of us will know where he is and who shares his racist views. Rush, "Sepsis," Limbaugh, Falafel Bill O'Reilly, ken, and ilk will make it a ratings mega-max-super-hit. I will know which advertisers to avoid. Why feed evil?

I am not kidding, folks. The best way to beat them, is to show them. Expose all of them; from Congressmen down to Pat, and the bottom, preachers. It is fodder for mediamatters...one stop shopping, can you beat that?

Pat has no problem pretending that even after the signing of the Emancipation Proclomation in the late 1800's that black people were killed and arrested at a alarming high rate only because of the color of their skin.

Pat likes to forget that many whites felt blacks were free but not equal to whites and discriminated against them openly. Federal Troops were used to help integrate schools. Remember Pat?

Pat knows that America was built on a illegal system of prisoner leasing. Blacks were arrested on bogus charges and leased to white slave owners to help rebuild the South after their defeat in the Civil War.

This practice went on for hundreds of years and Pat talks like white people built this country by themselves. He knows better.

Seperate and equal opportunity is what affirmitive action guarentees people of color. I think Pat should accept that many have paid the price to see that whites never treat people af color so harshly again.

Pat is in denial that minorities are benititing from many of the programs that made the playing field equal for all and he opposed.

Built by white folks?
Using slave labor,and underpaid illegal aliens.