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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 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.
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