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 pove rty 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. 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 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.
Be a better friend,
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