So, a day later after Colin Powell endorsed Barack Obama, how did the right spin the endorsement? They used the race card and claimed that Powell did it because Obama is black.
Rush Limbaugh, who said, "Secretary Powell says his endorsement is not about race… OK, fine. I am now researching his past endorsements to see if I can find all the inexperienced, very liberal, white candidates he has endorsed. I’ll let you know what I come up with."
Pat Buchanan, a conservative politician, who sought the Republican nomination for President in 1992 and 1996 recently wrote a piece on his column found at his website about the benefits African-Americans reeked in America due to slavery.
Really? He claims, "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."
It seems that Christian salvation supersedes the hundreds of years of involuntary servitude that African-Americans had to endure. The sacrifice of freedom and human dignity apparently paid out years later with the benefits that African-Americans have garnered due to their ancestors troubles.
Buchanan adds, "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."
This is the kind of pompous rhetoric that foreigners attribute to stereotypical Americans. The assertion that without the help of white Americans, African-Americans would be no where near the level they are now is one sided. He also states, "We hear the grievances. Where is the gratitude?" Did Buchanan forget that it was the same people that helped African-Americans that subjugated them to second-class status for countless of years? Who else was suppose to provide relief, so much for the gratitude for something that they were suppose to do? It took them until 1960 to figure out what they were doing with Jim Crow Laws was not that fair nor admirable.
