> By Patrick J. Buchanan
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> 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:
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> 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.
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> 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?
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> We have all heard ad nauseam from=2
> 0the Rev. Al about Tawana Brawley, the
> Duke rape case and Jen a . 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!!!
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Comments
To L wrote on Sep 15, 2009 4:31 PM:
Jimmy wrote on Sep 15, 2009 12:01 PM:
L wrote on Sep 8, 2009 7:08 PM:
DeWayne wrote on Sep 7, 2009 7:09 PM:
Outraged wrote on Sep 7, 2009 12:43 PM:
L wrote on Sep 6, 2009 5:50 PM:
DeWayne wrote on Sep 4, 2009 5:30 PM:
Outraged wrote on Aug 30, 2009 6:19 AM:
one love wrote on Aug 30, 2009 12:37 AM:
Translator wrote on Aug 29, 2009 6:34 PM:
Interesting grasp of logic you have there. Statements like this cause folks to realize they're playing with chess with someone who keeps shouting "King me!".
Facepalm. "
Outraged wrote on Aug 28, 2009 1:33 PM:
L wrote on Aug 26, 2009 3:13 PM:
Outraged wrote on Aug 26, 2009 2:46 PM:
Outraged wrote on Aug 26, 2009 10:14 AM:
L wrote on Aug 25, 2009 4:24 PM:
To L wrote on Aug 25, 2009 1:43 PM:
Translator wrote on Aug 24, 2009 10:53 AM:
Maybe when he suggested that black people should be grateful for slavery is where he went wrong. "
Mais Jamais wrote on Aug 24, 2009 9:23 AM:
Outraged wrote on Aug 24, 2009 7:17 AM:
Concerned wrote on Aug 24, 2009 4:53 AM:
DeWayne wrote on Aug 24, 2009 12:35 AM:
concerned wrote on Aug 23, 2009 1:54 PM:
L wrote on Aug 23, 2009 9:44 AM:
L wrote on Aug 23, 2009 9:32 AM:
Outraged wrote on Aug 23, 2009 9:27 AM:
L wrote on Aug 23, 2009 9:19 AM: