"Miss Affirmative Action, 2009"

"Where's the gratitude?"

From Pat Buchanan's "A Brief For Whitey" in Human Events in March 2008:

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.

[Jeremiah] 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?

Whew! The piece was a tough read, I can tell you. The "Silent Majority" ruled for only 8 years. That wasn't nearly enough time for them to have their voices heard and to have their way. My heart bleeds for downtrodden hetero white men. They don't get no respect. No one listens to them. Minorities and women rule!

From Pat's latest, "Miss Affirmative Action, 2009" on Sonia Sotomayer in Human Events:

No one has brought forth the slightest evidence she has the intellectual candlepower to sit on the Roberts court. By her own admission, Sotomayor is an "affirmative action baby."

Though the Obama media have been ballyhooing her brilliance -- No. 1 in high school, No. 1 at Princeton, editor of Yale Law Review -- her academic career appears to have been a fraud from beginning to end, a testament to Ivy League corruption.

Two weeks ago, The New York Times reported that, to get up to speed on her English skills at Princeton, Sotomayor was advised to read children's classics and study basic grammar books during her summers. How do you graduate first in your class at Princeton if your summer reading consists of "Chicken Little" and "The Troll Under the Bridge"?

I must conclude that all of Sotomayer's professors colluded in grading her work through her undergraduate years to boost her to her summa cum laude degree and her award as one of the two outstanding graduates at Princeton for her year. And the reason she was chosen as editor of the Yale Law Journal was not because she merited the position, but because the Journal needed a poster Hispanic girl.

To me, it seems that the assistence that Sotomayer received along the way did what it was supposed to do, helped her excel through her own efforts and hard work. Of course, I could be wrong.

Okay, so we all know that folks with racist and anti-feminist views dwell amongst us. Human Events has the right to publish despicable drivel. But why does Buchanan have a reserved seat as a commentator on matters conservative at MSNBC, a major cable news channel? No doubt Pat is well-compensated for occupying his chair and blathering on and on with his idiocies. He exercises restraint on MSNBC, because he knows where his bread is buttered. Is Buchanan an example of what the cable channel thinks of as balanced opinion presentations?

H/T to Zachary Roth at TPM Muckraker.