Posted on 10/26/2009 3:08:52 PM PDT by artichokegrower
As the public debate over health care reform continues, many African-Americans are concerned that the minority of voices loudly denouncing a public option might sideline the real reform their community desperately needs.
From the cradle to the grave, African-Americans have poorer health outcomes: African-American infant mortality is more than double that of whites; African-American women make up 70 percent of new HIV/AIDS infections; three times as many black Americans die from diabetes as white Americans; and the life expectancy for whites is 78 years, compared with 73 years for all African-Americans and less than 70 years for African-American males.
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Voluntary dependency in a free country is not a lifestyle choice: it is a species of theft.
Every last one of the complainers should be given a tour of Mozambique and Ethiopia, Maybe the Congo, and let them see that being brought over here was the best thing that ever happened to them.
Although I do understand where you are coming from, I don’t really agree with the overall premise.
Look, even if they had remained in Africa and it melted down the same as it has, they should still have remained in their own tribes to determine their own best/worst destiny.
There is no denying that even the poorest in this nation, still have it a lot better than a lot of people in Africa. We can certainly agree with that.
We did this following the Civil in two ways, one was the establishment of the nation of Liberia. We also gave them 40 acres and a mules. It seems like white people are always going to get shaken down for the rest of history. By the way, there were white slaves too.
that is what they said about house, school and education and look what it got us...
Buchanan to Obama [Tells it exactly like it is]
Westside Gazette ^ | Mar 18, 2009 | Patrick J. Buchanan
Posted on 03/26/2009 8:03:19 PM PDT by upchuck
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. Rev. 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, and ask the white kids in Catholic schools how many were visited lately by Ivy League recruiters handing out scholarships for ‘de-serving’ 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 are real, and we hear nothing.
Yes, I agree on all points. Aren’t we the only nation in the world that suffers angst for slavery these days?
Perhaps I just don’t hear about the topic abroad.
I am definitely sick of it here. At some point in time, people need to fend for themselves and move on.
I am sure everyone here realizes that NO amount of reparations will ever be satisfactory. Ever.
How long do we atone? Of all the “stealth reparations” that have gone out, are we any closer to that day when perpetual victimology will no longer be?
The shackles are on whites now and the sins of the father argument falls upon deaf, uncaring ears.
The Marines have a saying: “Something given is never respected.”
“From the cradle to the grave, African-Americans have poorer health outcomes”
That’s because of the big Democrat influence on their lives. Now these Democrats want to expand this failure to include the rest of us.
African-American women make up 70 percent of new HIV/AIDS infections
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It’s Bush’s fault
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