Barack says we need to have a conversation about race in America.

Fair enough. But this time, it needs to be a two-way conversation. White
America needs to be heard from, not just lectured to by Black America.

  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 anywhere in the world.

Rev. Jeremiah Wright ought to get 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. Trillions of Dollars 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 of blacks.

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 near total
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 more common in
the first three years of this decade than the reverse?

We h ave all heard ad nauseam from the Rev. Al Sharpton 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, white America has heard it all before, about 40 years and
10  trillion tax dollars ago.

  Airman Glen, Booster, and Rocket

Lee ADDS: This is an echo of all I have been saying for some months!