Pat Buchanan: "This Has Been A Country Built, Basically, By White Folks"

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From the July 16 edition of MSNBC's The Rachel Maddow Show:

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[zwiiyt]

what' so controversial about the truth? Just because something is unequal doesn't make it untrue. (unless it's an equation)

[anywayokey]

What did Buchanan say that was not true? Has the truth become untenable?

[stickyickyicky1203]

@JohnKallen89 If it wasn't for Americans, africans would still be swinging from trees and living in huts. It's no coincidence that the closest thing that africa has to a developed country, South Africa, was settled by the Dutch and the British back when the East India trading company was in it's hay day.

[gunterification]

dumb journalist

[JimmyeDallas]

Indentured servitude was very similar to chattel-slavery, but it existed only during the Colonial period and ended after the American Revolution. Funny that you mention it because this obviously caused a huge deficit in slave labour in America which was essentially compensated, and greatly expanded, with African slave labour.

[96Z24]

@JimmyeDallas Be that as it may, perhaps it's not a coincidence that the American North is more prosperous today than the South - by a mile. I just get peeved when I hear the slavery argument, while people conveniently avoid the atrocious conditions European-Americans faced ultimately in the construction of America. Indentured servitude was very, very similar to slavery as well. Blacks and liberals always conveniently leave that fact about America out.

[JimmyeDallas]

Cotton was an enormously valuable commodity during the Industrial Revolution, and so was the chattel-slavery market that subsidized it. When compared to the Northern states the relatively undeveloped South was enormously dependent on slavery. The fact that they were willing to secede and inevitably provoke war to protect such an immoral institution reinforces it's perceived economic necessity at that time.

Why do I see no mention of the Panama Canal?

[96Z24]

@JimmyeDallas Sort of like all the whites that worked for peanuts building our infrastructure - the Hoover Dam, Iron Ore in the upper Midwest, the skyscrapers in New York. Get your history right. Niggers only helped the South, and the extent to which they "helped" the South is debatable. .

[NoiseCollector]

Why would she even bother to try and railroad him like she does with the other strawmen guests that get past her screeners to make her look intelligent?

[14ALLiWANT76]

White folk love you Pat Demcrat and Republican and Independent

We will never allow you, you Russian Jew! or your pets to take away our country! our continent