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You wrote a good article about Pat Buchanan. Pat could have even expounded on his examples in America by using other cases throughout history and the world. It is a major unifying principal of a society, common language. While an official language may not exist in some countries, speaking a common language is what has always kept people together. Pat Buchanan is merely stating facts of the history of our country. This one, however, was uniquely respectful in disagreeing with me: You obviously will never know what it is really like being a totally non productive, worthless, and grossly overpaid media type who does not have the common sense to try to fix problems rather than blaming others. If you don’t like American ideals, then why not leave instead of destroying it for the real Americans, including those “Black Folks” or Latinos or Muslims who actually try to be American. But then if we are like your ethnic group (Africa), or the others (Latinos, Muslims) we can be as dysfunctional, corrupt, weak, diseased, and poor like the countries “you all” came from. Like the Bible says about people like you – they prefer a lie over the truth. Being cocooned in your media close mindedness I doubt you will agree with me. Oh, I forgot, can’t criticize those “Black Folks” – they might be disrespected. Gee, when are you going to write about the benefit of fathers in the home. If you ever grew a brain and adopt American ideals of self-reliance, overcoming obstacles instead of living off someone else’ effort, you could have the same success. They see their ethnic or racial group as a special needs crowd without ever accepting responsibility for their own condition.

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They don’t think we should even try to be our best, which because of our free market system (if it still exists) will give us so much. They don’t love my country, constantly finding fault while never admitting our “exceptionalism” and accomplishments. are the result of your un-American philosophy. Terrible illegitimacy, horrible crime, drug use, venereal disease, drop out rates, etc., etc. We do know that certain groups, like yours, are not acting like Americans. We want equal opportunity and success for all Americans. We white folks that you generalize about (while you hypocritically accuse us of that same bigotry) do not “pine” for the good old days. take a look at Africa….full of lush green farmland and people starving…whats wrong with that picture…but I guess that’s the white man’s fault too!!! Hut your f-ing mouth about pat and white America….without a white man in office America is doomed because a black man cant govern themselves. Here is a sampling of the typical insults: As far as I can tell from the names and self-identifiers, every comment was written by a man. A few were respectful in their disagreements, and a fraction were over-the-top racist. These were overwhelmingly negative, with readers filling my office email with angry, hostile, offensive, and insulting missives.

In fact, no other column in the six years I’ve been writing “Race and Beyond” has generated more reader reactions. Occasionally, they challenge an opinion or point out a factual error.īut I’ve never experienced anything like the reaction to the Buchanan column. From time to time, I hear from self-identifying progressive readers-presumably because they frequent the Center for American Progress website where the column is posted-letting me know that they agree with something I’ve written. “Buchanan’s nostalgia for the Hollywood version of mid-20th century America shares equal billing with the themes of white resentment of modern-day realities,” I wrote.įor the most part, I don’t get angry reader reactions to my weekly columns, an observation that I’ve chalked up to the politically selective choices so many people seem to make when consuming information and soliciting opinions. I find such lamentations racist and said as much. history when European culture dominated American life, complaining that the country is “about-what?-25 years away from the fact where Americans of European descent will be a minority in the United States.” In the column, I chastised Buchanan for comments he made during an appearance on National Public Radio’s “Morning Edition” during which he waxed nostalgic about a time in U.S. I took syndicated columnist and political pundit Pat Buchanan to task in a recent column, and man, oh man, did some readers let me know that they didn’t like it.