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. 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.

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