Submitted by: Elizabeth

Subject: Buchanan to Obama

> Buchanan to Obama
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> by: Patrick J. Buchanan
> “<http://www.humanevents.com/search.php?author_name=Patrick+J.+Buchanan>
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> We hear the grievances. Where is the gratitude??
>
> Barack talks about new ‘ladders of opportunity’ for blacks.
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> 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?
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> 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.
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> Sorry, Barack, some of us have heard it all before, about 40 years and 40
> trillion tax dollars ago.

Lee ADDS: Slavery lasted about 350 years, at most, in America while it has been about 7,000 years since it began in Africa!