Editing Pat Buchanan (section)

=== Central Park jogger case ===
In a 1989 column, Buchanan called for the public hanging in Central Park of a 16-year-old black teenager and the [[horsewhipping]] of four other younger [[African Americans|African American]] and [[Hispanic and Latino Americans|Hispanic]] teenagers for allegedly raping a white jogger in the [[Central Park Five]] case.<ref name="NYT20190530">{{cite news |last=Dwyer |first=Jim |date=May 30, 2019 |title=The True Story of How a City in Fear Brutalized the Central Park Five |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/30/arts/television/when-they-see-us-real-story.html |access-date=May 12, 2022 |issn=0362-4331 |quote=The victim was white. The accused were black and brown. If 'the eldest of that wolf pack were tried, convicted and hanged in Central Park, by June 1, and the 13- and 14-year-olds were stripped, horsewhipped, and sent to prison,' the columnist Patrick Buchanan wrote, 'the park might soon be safe again for women.' Note for note, without mention of race, Mr. Buchanan and others echoed the historic calls for the public punishment of dark-skinned men thought to have defiled white women.}}</ref> He also called for the civilizing of "barbarians" by putting the "fear of death" in them. Robert C. Smith, professor of political science at [[San Francisco State University]], characterized the column as racist.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Smith |first=Robert C. |url=https://www.sunypress.edu/p-2101-racism-in-the-post-civil-rights.aspx |title=Racism in the Post-Civil Rights Era |website=www.sunypress.edu |publisher=State University of New York Press |year=1995 |isbn=0-7914-2438-3 |pages=21–22 |oclc=30625417 |access-date=June 8, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190608220005/https://www.sunypress.edu/p-2101-racism-in-the-post-civil-rights.aspx |archive-date=June 8, 2019 |url-status=bot: unknown}}</ref> The five teenagers were convicted, but their charges were later withdrawn, when in 2002 a man said he acted alone and [[DNA testing]] affirmed his guilt.<ref name="NYT20190530" /> All sentences of the Central Park Five were vacated that same year, 13 years after Buchanan called for the public hanging and horsewhipping.<ref name="NYT20190530" />