BUCHANAN TO OBAMA

Good read and very true! Thanks, Ray!

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 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. 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
10 trillion tax dollars ago.