I strongly agree with him that we should not give amnesty to people who entered our country illegally. Those who broke the law should be captured and sent home at their own expense, never to return again. As far as I'm concerned, if you enter our country illegally, you have no respect for our core values. Anyone hiring illegals should also be punished.
However, my agreement with him stops there. He writes:
According to the Census Bureau, from mid-2005 to mid-2006, the U.S. minority population rose 2.4 million, to exceed 100 million. Hispanics, 1 percent of the population in 1950, are now 14.4 percent. Their total number has soared 25 percent since 2000 alone. The Asian population has also grown by 25 percent since 2000.
The number of white kids of school age fell 4 percent, however. Half the children 5 and younger in the United States are now minorities.
So what, Pat? It's not the quantity of the colors, it's the quality. Is the issue illegal immigration, or your sick idea that our country must be white? Look around you. He goes on:
First, while the black and Hispanic population combined is now 85 million – five times what it was in 1960 – half of all black and Hispanic kids drop out of high school. And the average math and reading scores of the half who graduate are at seventh-, eighth- or ninth-grade levels.So now your point is that whites are smarter than blacks and Hispanics? You make me sick, Pat. Let's dance, Ignorant Bigot Buchanan.
They worshiped the same God, spoke the same language, had endured the same Depression and war, watched the same TV shows on the same four channels, laughed at the same comedians, went to the same movies, ate the same foods, read the same newspapers and went to schools where, even when segregated, we learned the same history and literature and shared the same holidays: Christmas, New Year's, Washington's Birthday, Easter, Memorial Day, July 4, Labor Day, Columbus Day. Segregation existed, but black folks were as American as apple pie, having lived in this land longer than almost every other group save the Native Americans. -- You are about as ignorant work of art as has ever been. American as apple pie? Ask Rosa Parks, Dr. King, Jackie Robinson. You are un-American.
"That cultural unity, that sense that we were one people, is gone." Oh, yeah, segregated blacks really felt "one" with you and your family, you ignorant idiot.
Pat you miss the point on the immigration issue. You see color of skin, not quality of character -- of which you have none.
J.
I'm white too, Pat. But not like you.