There is nothing more anti-American than to lie about our nation’s multi-colored history. To see our nation in all of her glory is to see our remarkable democracy as an awesome human undertaking. But Pat Buchanan, and so many others like him, will never be able to embrace the promise and the purpose that the Founding Fathers laid out because it now includes all people who seek freedom not just white men.

Since the presidential campaign of 2008 and the election of our nation’s first black president, Patrick J. Buchanan has become increasingly vocal in his commitment to maintaining white supremacy. First it was his column during the campaign admonishing ungrateful blacks to thank the heavens above that their ancestors had been kidnapped, enslaved and tortured for 400 hundred years here in America. Then he admonished Republicans on the Judicial committee to ignore all possible constituencies except white conservatives and attack Sotomayor on race.

So it’s not really surprising that on the day that the first African American president addressed the 100th Anniversary celebration of the NAACP with a remarkable, rousing and pro-America speech, and the first Latina judge is set to be elevated to the Supreme Court of the United States, it is clear that Buchanan is completely unnerved by these signs of the times. Instead of celebrating, Buchanan’s rage explodes.

Not only is Buchanan braying for a past that no longer exists, he only sees history through a white racist lens. Buchanan is ignorant and unapologetic.

Fact: Irish and Blacks were slaves in the New World together. But laws [slave codes] were changed so that black slaves could not own property and could not become free. The children of black slaves were also deemed to be slaves. No such ordinances were passed against white slaves.

Fact: Slaves built the Capitol of the United States of America and The White House

Fact: Slaves, freed men, Chinese, Latinos and white men built the railroads

Fact: Crispus Attucks, who was Native American Indian/African, was the first killed in the American Revolution.

Fact: Many thousands of blacks were re-enslaved following the Civil War until World War II and served as free forced labor building infrastructure and doing agricultural work in the South.

Fact: Some of the most decorated soldiers of World War II were Latino/Hispanic, Black and Asian.

I could go on, but you get the picture. Pat Buchanan’s ignorance appalls. Why anyone would refer to him as “Uncle Pat” is lost on me. He is a disgrace to the Conservative movement.