Guest Post by Patrick J. Buchanan
If it was the dream of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. that black and white would come together in friendship and peace to do justice, his acolytes in today’s Democratic Party appear to have missed that part of his message.
Here is Hakeem Jeffries, fourth-ranked Democrat in Nancy Pelosi’s House, speaking Monday, on the holiday set aside to honor King:
“We have a hater in the White House. The birther in chief. The grand wizard of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. … While Jim Crow may be dead, he’s still got some nieces and nephews that are alive and well.”
At the headquarters of Al Sharpton’s National Action Network, wrote The New York Times, Jeffries’ remarks were “met with … much cheering.”
At a Boston breakfast that same day, Sen. Elizabeth Warren chose to honor King’s memory in her way: “Our government is shut down for one reason … So the president of the United States can fund a monument to hate and division along our southern border.”
At a rally in Columbia, South Carolina, Sen. Cory Booker declaimed — in what could be taken as a shot at his New Jersey colleague, the lately acquitted Sen. Bob Menendez — “We live a nation where you get a better justice system if you’re rich and guilty than poor and innocent.”
Booker urged the crowd “to apply the ideals of Dr. King” and avoid vitriol in dealing with political adversaries.
But his Senate colleague Bernie Sanders, also in South Carolina, wasn’t buying it. Routed by Hillary Clinton in the South Carolina primary in 2016, Sanders is determined not to lose the party’s African-American majority that badly in 2020.
“Today we talk about racism,” said Sanders. “It gives me no pleasure to tell you that we now have a president of the United States who is a racist.”
Sanders apparently connected, with his remarks “drawing applause.”
Joe Biden spoke in D.C. in the full apology-tour mode made famous by his former boss, Barack Obama. He brought up the 1994 crime bill he shepherded though the Senate, which treated consumption and distribution of crack cocaine as more serious crimes than the use of powder cocaine, and then confessed to the crowd that it was “a big mistake.”
“We were told by the experts that, ‘crack you never go back,’ that the two were somehow fundamentally different. It’s not. But it’s trapped an entire generation.”
Biden meant that lots of black folks got locked up for a long time, unjustly, conceding, “We may not have always got things right.”
Biden then proceeded to slander the nation that has honored him as it has few of his generation: “Systematic racism that most of us whites don’t even like to acknowledge” is “built into every aspect of our system.”
Is America, 50 years after segregation was outlawed in our public life, really a land saturated with systemic racism?
Mayor Michael Bloomberg was also in D.C.
The mayor’s problem with African-Americans is that he pursued a policy of stop-and-frisk with criminal suspects in New York. So, he sought to find common ground with his audience by relating “a series of events that had shaped his recent thinking about race.”
The mayor said he had “recently learned about the deadly race riots in which white residents destroyed the Greenwood district of Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1921, and murdered several dozen black residents.”
But why did his honor have to go all the way back to 1921 and Tulsa to find race riots, when Harlem, in the heart of the town he served as mayor for 12 years, exploded in a riot in 1964 that spread to Brooklyn and Queens and lasted six days?
Why did Bloomberg not bring up the worst riot in U.S. history, when Lincoln sent Union veterans of Gettysburg to shoot down Irish immigrants protesting the draft in New York?
“It’s up to us to bring these stories out of the shadows so they never happen again,” said the mayor.
But where are black communities threatened by white mob violence in 2019? Was the Watts riot of 1965, were the Detroit and Newark riots of 1967, was the rioting, looting and arson that ravaged 100 cities after King’s death a result of rampaging whites assaulting black folks?
Was the LA riot of 1992, which targeted Koreatown, the work of white racists?
Monday, after a meeting with Sharpton, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand offered her message of conciliation. Said the successor to Sen. Hillary Clinton, President Trump has “inspired a hate and a darkness in this country that I have never experienced myself.
“It is wrong to ask men and women of color to bear these burdens every single day. … White women like me must bear part of this burden.”
Does there not come a time when the pandering has to stop?
Ronald Reagan preached America as the Pilgrim fathers’ “shining city on a hill.” For Democrats today, America is the heart of darkness.
Can people lead a republic that they have come to see as a sinkhole of racism?
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This country is completely fucked. Emmigrate is right.
Worked for me.
Think it’s bad now? Just wait until president harris or michael obama takes the throne.
There was a time when treason was illegal….
“Can people lead a republic that they have come to see as a sinkhole of racism?”
Probably a rhetorical question but in any case the answer is NO. Diverse, multicultural and multi-racial societies do not work, have never worked and cannot work. The Democrats/RHINOS and the powerful entities who control Congress know this fact which is why they are promoting and funding the mass invasion of European nations by people from the third-world. This a major tool in the arsenal of those who wish to destroy the United States of America. The enemy is now well entrenched so this battle for freedom, peace and prosperity will be hard fought and the outcome is far from certain. The key in winning this war is to keep our focus on the real enemy who is largely hidden behind the curtain pulling strings and not be too distracted by attempts to confuse and disarm the patriots of America with 24/7 propaganda and subversion.
Are we experiencing the mounting tensions and dread of things likely to come, all the while trying to lead our lives, similar to what the South African farmers have dealt with all these years, and now seeing their days of reckoning rapidly approaching ?
If it was the dream that MLK…… Come on Pat you give that nigger to much credit. It wasn’t. He lied.
Blah, blah, blah.
Pat you’ve been beating this drum as long as I have been alive. At some point it would be wise to move from the complaining about things part to the present a solution part.
What have you got? You still rub elbows with these people and stay fat eating at the same posh restaurants where they gather.
People are stupid enough to believe the shit preached by the left. I was trained to fight the communist. Not vote them into power.
calling the things that are not as tho they were will make them so… so I am now racist, good job democrats
The problem is these bastards in these secret societies are the ones who have been working for a one world government since 1776. These people are in key places at every major institution across America . I’m not taking about low level Freemasons so think big like the ones surrounding the United Nations and like. The very people who are suppose to protect our nation are the ones trying the hardest to destroy it. Like the Rocketfellers.
How come none of the Bankers ever went to jail for the 2008 collapse. Not one. Go man for man and look at the societies they belonged to. There is your answer. They could have completely destroy the financial system of this nation and world but not one has ever been held accountable. They were protected
Hey Man…
You’d be proud of me. Last night went to talk and this fellow gave a speech about truth and lies in politics. It would be great! And there would be No Tinkerbell..
https://www.stfx.ca/about/news/MacEachen-Lecture
Of course it being a university the guest his best gaslighting the right and reaffirming leftist virtue that is everywhere on the Campus where I went to school and my wife now works. While I admit that I enjoyed the anecdotes and stories the one sided leftist approach of his thesis was not helpful. IMO…
When the floor was opened to questions, inevitably he was showered with praise and accolades..
So I asked one myself.. I was fun to watch the moderator squirm, worried that I was about to throw the whole love fest into disarray…It was an interesting night being a shit monkey in real life and I am blaming it all on everyone here. And the thing I learned was one isn’t free until they lose their fear of being offended.. Doing it in front of 500 people made it even moar glorious!
The Tuff love here has helped. I plan on having a beer tonight to celebrate..
As I did enjoy my trip to the Zoo..
Oh well fun it was…
Good on you.
fwiw, I am really super proud of you.
I saw NJ Senator Menendez at the house party next door. I told Ms Freud I wanted to say something snarky to him, preferably with the word “criminal” and/or “scum” in it. But, I didn’t. Because Da Kneegroids outnumbered us whites by about 30-1. I wanted to continue living. So, I pussied out. May Odin have mercy on me.
But, you, O Brave One, are destined for Valhalla.
Thanks Man! And I owe this rampant case of being a shit monkey to all you Fuckers around here… and yeah I am including my favourite wetback friend varmit..
You guys are all the best!
I got one comment… this guys claims to be an expert on politics and this is what he has to say about conservative commentators on the right in the good ol USA!
He thinks, wait for it, that David Frum is at the vanguard of right leaning thought in your Country. I audibly groaned when I heard that. No surprise really. He did work at the CBC for thirty years or something.
So him looking south and picking a Canadian as a spokesperson kinda makes sense… anyways to be honest I did like the speech. Just felt he could have been a bit moar even handed. But to be successful at speaking one has to learn who the audience is and then play to it..
I guess..
It’s all they have left to keep the blacks and browns on the plantation, the whites left, except for the bitches, and the homo’s.