A very accurate essay, backed up with strong statistics. Thanks for sharing it.
On Jul 16, 10:05 am, Daniel Seigler <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. 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 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? > > 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. > We are a Christian Nation even if Mr. Obama says we are not. > This needs to be passed around because, this is a message everyone needs to > hear!!! > > S T R E T C H your technology dollars with great laptop deals from Dell! > > Windows Live™: Keep your life in sync. Check it out. > _________________________________________________________________ > Insert movie times and more without leaving > Hotmail®.http://windowslive.com/Tutorial/Hotmail/QuickAdd?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_HM... > > image001.jpg > 3KViewDownload --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
