Pat Buchanan is a political analyst for MSNBC. Over the years, he’s said that the US should prefer immigration of “Englishmen” over “Zulus,” that whites shouldn’t have to keep “groveling” because of the nation’s history of racism toward African-Americans, that Hitler was a “great man,” that the Supreme Court has too many Jews on it, that Justice Sonia Sotomayor was an “affirmative action hire,” that gays who contracted HIV/AIDS were suffering retribution from God . . . the list goes on and on.
Today, to absolutely no one’s surprise, Buchanan lets the hood slip a bit more by writing that the nation’s educational system is not broken, but that minority students are incapable of learning at the same level that whites are:
[L]ooking down the New York Times list of the top 30 nations, one finds not a single Latin American nation, not a single African nation, not a single Muslim nation, not a single South or Southeast Asian nation (save Singapore), not a single nation of the old Soviet Union except Latvia and Estonia.And in Europe as in Asia, the northern countries (Finland, Norway, Belgium, Iceland, Austria, Germany) outscore the southern (Greece, Italy, Portugal). Slovenia and Croatia, formerly of the Habsburg Empire, outperformed Albania and Serbia, which spent centuries under Turkish rule.
Among the OECD members, the most developed 34 nations on earth, Mexico, principal feeder nation for U.S. schools, came in dead last in reading.
To prove that spending money educating minorities is a waste, Buchanan cites an organization called VDARE, which “regularly publishes articles by prominent white nationalists, race scientists and anti-Semites” and is categorized as a “White Nationalist” organization by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Buchanan laments that “[w]e do not know how to close the gap in reading, science and math between Anglo and Asian students and black and Hispanic students. And from the PISA tests, neither does any other country on earth.” Citing VDARE.com contributor Robert Weissberg, Buchanan concludes that “U.S. educational experts deliberately ‘refuse to confront the obvious truth.’” The “obvious truth” according to Buchanan?
If the brains and the will to learn are absent, no amount of spending on schools, teacher salaries, educational consultants or new texts will matter.
No wonder he accuses David Duke of stealing his ideas.
MSNBC’s evening programs are liberal. Can’t the network find a conservative other than this vile fossil to present an opposing view?
