A Conversation about Race (e-mail attributed to Pat Buchanan)

http://www.freerepublic.com ^ | 10-26-09 | E-mail attributed to Pat Buchanan

[wac3rd]

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 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 wer e 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.

We are a Christian Nation even if Mr. Obama says we are not..

[April Lexington]

My two cents... “They” need to step up to the global citizen plate. The perpetual state of “need” makes them what they are. Contribute more than urban rhymes, butt cracks and goofy hand signals or risk becoming irrelevant to 6 billion people...

[fallujah-nuker]

This was from a column written in 2008.

[wardaddy]

now if Pat could just shut up about the Chosen ...he makes perfect sense on this race issue...always has but his Jewish thingie is not very appealing

[Rob the Ugly Dude]

It’s sad, but I don’t think we can have an honest discussion on race.

[TheThinker]

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?

And despite this we have hate-crime laws!

And for what???

Face it, Pat, whites just don't count when they're the victims.

[Rafterman]

[camle]

there can never be a real ‘conference on race’ because certain words are stigmitized, and cannot be uttered by oine race, but are used frequently by another.

until every participant can speak freely, there can never be open dialogue between the races.

[onedoug]

Only Judeo-Christian values will save us.

Race and blood? Ptuh!

[reagan_fanatic]

The author of this piece is a racist. The poster is a racist for posting it. We're all racists for reading it. Racists! Racists! WE'RE ALL RACISTS!!!!

[iopscusa]

The race obsessed Blacks & White Libs need to watch this:
Black Slaves for Sale, preview to a documentary on the resurgence of slavery in Sudan, premiered Stateside at the Amnesty International Film Festival.
http://kitmantv.blogspot.com/2009/10/previews-black-slaves-for-sale.html

[Jo Nuvark]

Here is the original article (AS WRITTEN) by Pat Buchanon.

http://buchanan.org/blog/pjb-a-brief-for-whitey-969