And, at Last, Perhaps a Little Controversy

Although I don't consider it particularly controversial, just a sober examination of recent history. Proper credit is given to the original author with thanks to the kinsmen who made me aware of this -

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 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 cri mes 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.

Now, if I were to provide any rebuttal, I would point out that the majority of the legislative bodies during the last forty years has been white, and it seems that one of the most insidious of the unintended consequences of that long list of minority advancement programs designed to rapidly and artificially raise the socio-economic standards of the members of those groups, is the equally long list of negative characteristics of behaviors that seem to get all the attention, and to be the rallying cry for blame, but for the wrong reasons. This is to say that it is not the continuance of institutionalized racism that is the limiting factor in any attempts at cultural improvement, but the results of racial preferences that has set the foundation for so much cultural lack of driving responsibility. The old proverb regarding the fish says it best. And America has not only given out tons of fish, but tried to teach fishing in every way possible. Unfortunately, having that choice leads way too many to take the delicious fish right now, and, hey, I can just mess with those worms and crickets and stuff tomorrow.

Naturally, when discussing cutural attitudes, it is done in generalities, and I'm not talking about you, or the individuals that truly have had really crappy luck. But as long as there are people who can stir up a crowd by giving them a common grievance and a common fall guy (the white man), then how is there ever going to be a large enough platform for the truth, sensibility, and reason to speak loudly enough to cut though the emotional fervor?

Would anyone care to comment?