The Sino-cated Rant

"White men were 100% of the people that wrote the Constitution, 100% of the people that signed the Declaration of Independence, 100% of the people who died at Gettysburg and Vicksburg, probably close to 100% of the people who died at Normandy. This has been a country built basically by white folks, who were 90% of the nation in 1960 when I was growing up and the other 10% were African-Americans who had been discriminated against. That’s why."

Pat Buchanan speaking for the oppressed white man.
(via notthatkindagay)

I mean, he knows that the only reason any of these things are true is because white men forbade women and black men from taking part in all of these things, right? Right? RIGHT? O GOD MAYBE HE DOESN’T KNOW?!?!?

(via crazyonyou) Also worth pointing out that he is completely wrong about both Gettysburg and Vicksburg. Vicksburg in particular is notable since it’s one of the first major Civil War battles in which black regiments had a noticeable impact in favor of the North. The idea that the country was built by white folks is like theater of the absurd. I’m not out on the revisionist frontier with Howard Zinn and the like, but the idea that the economic prosperity in this country’s early days wasn’t a direct result of the exploitation of black and then Asian workers is nonsensical.