Posted on 02/23/2009 4:43:55 PM PST by Main Street
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 have 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 Pa, 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...
Buchanan’s and Michael Eric Dyson’s on Hardball
Pat Buchanan on MSNBC: “It’s an invitation to a fight when you call us a ‘nation of cowards’…”
VIDEO: Buchanan: We Are Not a Nation of Cowards:
http://buchanan.org/blog/
Dyson’s who is a against the death penalty has a brother who is serving a life sentence in prison for murder.
“not just lectured to.”
Damn straight. I am NOT responisble for something that happened 200 years ago or something that happened yesterday, if I did not do it!
Little fireside bullshit chat.
Bari the Kenyan is acting like Slim Pickens in his final scene of Dr. Strangelove. YEE HAW!!!!
He’s not real. He’s a cartoon who is way out of his league.
Bitching pays better.
If the slaves had not been brought to America, their decedents would be rotting in an African hell hole and we would not be having this little talk.
Interesting article. The irony is that if you didn’t post the name of the author, I would have wondered if perhaps Bill Cosby had written it.
They've contributed to this nation in a mighty way, spilled
their blood in every conflict that this nation has known
and I for one appreciate it.
Blacks helped make this country what it used to be.
Now they're being used as a tool to help destroy it.
I’d rather the O just shut up completely. I’m losing
money every time he speaks about anything.
Obama will continue to do his lie and do his soundbites.
He can’t have a “conversation”. He can’t think on his feet. All of his words are fed to him.
I am no longer interested.
This has gone too far. I watched the guy on the video debating the ACORN CEO or whatever she is. She lied through her teeth.
Lies. I am not keeping anyone down.
Each person is descended from a certain combination of ancestors. Remove any ancestor from the picture and the descendants never come into existence. The slaves who met and had children in America were from widely separated places in Africa--if they or their ancestors had had the good fortune to stay put, they would have had other sets of children by other mates rather than the ones they had in America.
It's ridiculous to spend one's life bitter over the misfortunes suffered by one's ancestors before you were born. The odds against any individual coming into being are astronomical--if you're here, you should make the most of it.
You ARE kidding, right?
ONLY Pat Buchanan would have the honesty and intellectual integrity to write this.
Cosby is a total TOOL.
I still remember when he, with great media moral outrage, cancelled a stage run here in Cincy, because his power group so ordered. The local police had dared attempt to enforce our law against one of their own.
Buchanan, meanwhile, has always readily taken on ANY group, and especially the most impregnable and powerful, no matter how pervasive its control or ability to punish him.
Your presumption is very optimistic.
They were enslaved because they were weaker than the en slavers who compassionately sold them to the slavers.
Recall Rwanda and Biafra and Darfur and the deaths of hundreds of thousands. Had not the ancestors been enslaved they likely would have been slaughtered.
Gee, thanks for the lecture.
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