Pat Boone – Melanoid Nation Foundation https://www.melanoidnation.org Thu, 25 Jun 2015 22:13:06 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 “Culture Vulture” Asks For Sympathy Towards Dylann Roof https://www.melanoidnation.org/culture-vulture-asks-for-sympathy-towards-dylann-roof/ https://www.melanoidnation.org/culture-vulture-asks-for-sympathy-towards-dylann-roof/#comments Thu, 25 Jun 2015 19:18:51 +0000 http://melanoidnation.org/?p=1274 Pat Boone, the super conservative suspected white supremacist who notoriously took the music of legendary Melanoid artists such as Little Richard for his own capital gain, wrote a column that was featured on a right wing website. In the column, he challenges the fact that we live in a system of white supremacy by stating the following line towards Barack Obama.

Sir, that incident had nothing to do with “racism” – but you and Al Sharpton and your attorney general tried your best to make it so.

If that wasn’t enough, he proceeds to refer to the late Mike Brown (the teenage Melanoid victim killed by Race soldier Darren Wilson in Ferguson, MO last summer) as “the very large black man in Ferguson, Missouri, who had been seen and identified on videotape robbing a small store, walking out with a batch of stolen cigars and threatening the small Asian owner who tried to get him to pay might also have been imagined by you as “your son.”

Boone also implies that America’s problem is actually a spiritual/moral one, instead of a racial issue.

“God loves America, Mr. President. But during your watch, His name is being erased from public life, forbidden in schools, ignored and repudiated in much public policy and laughed at in popular entertainment. You declared, “Whatever America once was, she is no longer a Christian nation.”

Whether Pat Boone’s delusional behavior towards blatantly racially motivated incidents such as the one in Charleston is contingent upon his advanced age–or his elevated white privilege as a celebrity–remains to be seen.  Regardless of the aforementioned speculations, “moral” zealots like Pat Boone are actually America’s problem.

by B. Clark

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