Pat Buchanan on ‘Jim Crow Liberalism’

Chris Matthews recently hosted columnists Clarence Page and Pat Buchanan on MSNBC’s “Hardball” as the two men trade opinions and predict which side would prevail in the Ricci v. DeStefano case. Check out the 8-minute-35-second video:

In his latest column, Buchanan says Republicans can win back “Middle America” and Reagan Democrats by getting rid of preferences based on race. Buchanan understands the difference between affirmative action, the casting of a wider net, and racial preferences, which, by definition, is discrimination based on race. He writes:

If the Republican Party wants a future, it will become again the party that stands on the principle that “No discrimination means no discrimination,” that stands with the victims of state bigotry, and that stands up to hypocrites like the Jim Crow liberals of New Haven.
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In Michigan, Washington and California, none of them red states, majorities have voted to abolish affirmative action. Only Colorado failed in a dead heat last fall. A Republican drive to write into federal law an end to all race and gender preferences, as well as to all race and gender discrimination, is a cause whose time has come.

Buchanan’s called a racist and everything else for speaking out against racial discrimination against whites and for telling the truth about preferences. Those aren’t popular positions for a white man in America or a black woman, but I’m glad he’s not allowing his accusers to shut him down or control the debate. I certainly won’t.

Buchanan is controversial to the mainstream, but whatever motivates him to oppose racial preferences, he and I are on the same side. They are demeaning and unfair and should be abolished. Anyone who opposes discrimination against blacks but supports discrimination against whites is a hypocrite, regardless of motives.