Patrick Buchanan Strikes Out

There certainly is no joy in Mudville tonight; mighty Padraic has struck out.

Patrick Buchanan, herein much lionized and praised, has said:  
It is the same old con, the same old shakedown that black hustlers have been running since the Kerner Commission blamed the riots in Harlem, Watts, Newark, Detroit and a hundred other cities on, as Nixon put it, "everybody but the rioters themselves." Was "white racism" really responsible for those black men looting auto dealerships and liquor stories, and burning down their own communities, as Otto Kerner said -- that liberal icon until the feds put him away for bribery. 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.

I find his argumentum ad hominem directed at Otto Kerner to be evidence of a junk yard Limbaugh coming out. It is a trait I despise in myself and abhor in others. What am I to make from White America needs to be heard from, not just lectured to? I already know. It is a lie. Oh, it is a mischaracterization based on the heat of the moment, but it will not bear any resemblance to any soon future reality; hence, a lie it is.

White America will not hold a dialogue. It will lecture. It is fond of lecturing. Dialogue implies listening at a deep level, not merely the superficial level of cable tv and most writers on the social scene, but at a profound level. It will not happen. I know these people. I have lived a long time. I am tired of chickens coming home, so tigers will change their stripes when hell freezes over...or when hell comes to earth.

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