The "Clueless Cracker at Work" Award

Goes to Patrick Buchanan (R-Insane), who thinks that Black people ought to be grateful. (No, I don't read that nutty coot's blog, I saw half-a-dozen references to this. The first blog I read that mentioned it was Jack & Jill, so they get my credit.)

Like Jews ought to be grateful to the Germans for not killing all of us, I reckon. Or American Indians ought to be happy that only 95% of them were slaughtered by disease, starvation and gunfire.

I probably could spend the next hour typing up a lengthy rebuttal as to why that crazy old fuck is wrong. We could start with this: For every 100 slaves who reached the Western Hemisphere to be sold into slavery, 40 more died in transit. What happened during slavery is so readily known that I am not going to expound on it.

After the slaves were freed, for another sixty years, when Blacks achieved critical mass in some locality so that they could amass some economic and political power, white folks rose up to slaughter them, burn down their businesses and homes and disperse the survivors. It happened time and time again. It was not the ballot box that ruled from 1865 until 1965, it was the night riders, the torch, the cartridge box and the noose.

For the fact that lynching is no longer tolerated, for the fact that in many jurisdictions, Blacks can vote without hindrance (but not all, the GOP is still working the "suppress the nigra vote" routine), for the fact that legal segregation and discrimination is illegal, for that, Blacks ought to be singing the praises of the the Republicans and other so-called conservatives?

Give me a fucking break.