Buchanan to Obama
By Pat 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.
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 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 America ‘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?
Sorry, Barack, some of us have heard it all before, about 40 years and 40 trillion tax dollars ago.
Be a better friend,
This time, the Silent Majority needs to have its convictions, grievances and demands heard. And among them are these:
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March 1, 2009 at 4:36 pm
joeland7
Pat Buchanan got his information as to the number of slaves brought to the US from wikipedia. Many other sources state that out of every slave that arrived to the US, nine was lost at sea and the Dutch West Indies Co. alone was stealing and kidnapping a million people a year from Africa. They were kings, queens, princess and prince as well as regular people kidnaped and sold into slavery. Africa is still recovering from the human lost. Pat Buchana has the same mind set as those who stole the people from Africa.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/3905538/Who-Brought-the-Slaves-to-America
March 1, 2009 at 5:55 pm
mrje
It’s a CRYING SHAME that we look to wikipedia as a source of historical accuracy….
Somebody go to wiki to see the historical validity of any other political era… It is a disgrace and should NOT be used as a resource.
Come ON. This is a changeable record of occurrences.. that merely ANYONE CAN EDIT…
We know that, though, right?????
March 10, 2009 at 9:22 pm
smr
Hmmm…and is the same community that is SO pissed at white people also pissed at the black people who ACTUALLY kidnapped them and then sold them to the white people?