Uncomfortable Facts

BUCHANAN TO OBAMA

By Patrick J.. Buchanan

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..

Jeremiah 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 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.

This needs to be passed around because,

this is a message everyone needs to hear!!!