BUCHANAN TO OBAMA By Patrick J. Buchanan
Barack says we need to have a
conversation about race in America .. Fair enough. But this time, it has to be a
two-way conversation.. White America needs to be heard from, not just lectured
to.... This time, the Silent Majority needs to have its convictions, grievances
and demands heard. And among them are these:
First, America has been the
best country on earth for black folks. It was here that 600,000 black people,
brought from Africa in slave ships, grew into a community of 40 million, were
introduced to Christian salvation, and reached the greatest levels of freedom
and prosperity blacks have ever known.. Jeremiah Wright ought to go down on his
knees and thank God he is an American.
Second, no people anywhere has
done more to lift up blacks than white Americans. Untold trillions have been
spent since the ' 60s on welfare, food stamps, rent supplements, Section 8
housing, Pell grants, student loans, legal services, Medicaid, Earned Income Tax
Credits and poverty programs designed to bring the African-American community
into the mainstream.
Governments,
businesses and colleges have engaged in discrimination against white folks --
with affirmative action, contract set-asides and quotas -- to advance black
applicants over white applicants. Churches, foundations, civic groups, schools
and individuals all over America have donated their time and money to support
soup kitchens, adult education, day care, retirement and nursing homes for
blacks.
We
hear the grievances. Where is the gratitude??
Barack talks about new
'ladders of opportunity' for blacks. Let him go to Altoona ? And Johnstown, and
ask the white kids in Catholic schools how many were visited lately by Ivy
League recruiters handing out scholarships for 'deserving' white kids...? Is
white America really responsible for the fact that the crime and
incarceration rates for African-Americans are seven times those of white
America? Is it really white AmericaĆ¢€™s fault that illegitimacy in the
African-American community has hit 70 percent and the black dropout rate
from high schools in some cities has reached 50 percent?
Is that the
fault of white America or, first and foremost, a failure of the black community
itself?
As for racism, its ugliest manifestation is in interracial crime,
and especially interracial crimes of violence. Is Barack Obama aware that while
white criminals choose black victims 3 percent of the time, black criminals
choose white victims 45 percent of the time?
Is Barack aware that
black-on-white rapes are 100 times more common than the reverse, that
black-on-white robberies were 139 times as common in the first three years of
this decade as the reverse?
We have all heard ad nauseam from the Rev. Al
about Tawana Brawley, the Duke rape case and Jena . And all turned out to be
hoaxes. But about the epidemic of black assaults on whites that are real, we
hear nothing.
Sorry, Barack, some of us have heard it all before, about
40 years and 40 trillion tax dollars ago. This needs to be passed around
because, this is a message everyone needs to hear!!!
OK........... Will
you pass it on?
YES. I did but will you?
Because I'm for a better
America
I am Not racist, Not violent, Just not silent
anymore.
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