Pat Buchanan show his real colors on Maddow.
Let’s start with some of the factual inaccuracies:
- Judge Sotomayor was born in New York, not PR.
- On having never written anything – She edited the Yale Law Journal and the Yale Journal of International Law.
- I’ll leave the affirmative action discussion to Andrew Sullivan of The Atlantic.
- That half of the class graudates cum laude – Sotomayor graduated summa cum laude. At Yale, at most the top 30% of the graduating class graduates with honors. Summa cum laude graduates are at the top 5%, in the case of the class of 1979. I don’t know the size of that class but it would put her, at the very most, in the top 10.
Visual aids after the cut.
Yep, white people are the only ones responsible for building this country:
Also, Normandy:
And Gettysberg . . .
I’m sure that African-Americans would have liked to be around for the signing of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, but they were busy.
Links relating to all the work white people did to build the country:
The Chinese and the Transcontinental Railroad
African American Freedom Fighters – as in our Freedom as Americans, not theirs as repressed minorities
Black Soldiers in the Civil War – From the National Archives