Great, just what we need, Pat Buchanan weighing in on the Florida shooting [View all]

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Pat swings and misses...

Buchanan fires wildly, and misses the truth
Colbert I. King is a columnist for The Washington Post.

What would a discussion about the shooting death of unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin by 28-year-old non-black George Zimmerman be without a contribution from Patrick J. Buchanan?

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Wrote Mr. Buchanan: "The real America is a country where the black crime rate is seven times as high as the white rate where white criminals choose black victims in 3 percent of their crimes, but black criminals choose white victims in 45 percent of their crimes." And he goes on like this, citing statistics that point to disproportionately larger numbers of blacks and Hispanics tied to gun assaults.

All of which is irrelevant to the nationwide protests in the wake of Trayvon Martin's death.

It is the absence of justice in this case that strikes the nerve of so many Americans. Yes, there is black-on-black crime. More blacks fall victim to black criminals than whites. But what sets those black perps apart from the man who shot Trayvon Martin is that those offenders are pursued by the criminal justice system. Most of them end up in jail or on probation and with criminal records.

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/opinion/commentary/commentary-buchanan-fires-wildly-and-misses-the-truth-2281396.html