a letter to President Elect Obama

[RubHer Yellow Ducky]

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.

This needs to be passed around because, this is a message everyone needs to hear !!!!!!!

[KenP]

Oldie, but goodie.

[8500lbs]

Does anyone know where the facts are from. This is very interesting and I am not trying to dispute it but would like to know if Joe Schmoe came up with these numbers or credible organizations. Sorry, I have been listening to too much Palin and the names just come out now.

thanks
B

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Originally Posted by 8500lbs

Does anyone know where the facts are from. This is very interesting and I am not trying to dispute it but would like to know if Joe Schmoe came up with these numbers or credible organizations. Sorry, I have been listening to too much Palin and the names just come out now.

thanks
B

This is factual as any other information out there...
Go to www.snopes.com if you want to verify its truth

[RubHer Yellow Ducky]

I looked up Pat Buchanan and Race Letter on SNOPES and it can't find anything, yet !!!

[RubHer Yellow Ducky]

I did find this which is interesting... !

http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/kennedy.asp

[KenP]

Originally Posted by RubHer Yellow Ducky

I looked up Pat Buchanan and Race Letter on SNOPES and it can't find anything, yet !!!

Something crazy goin' on here, Lucy.

Yesterday I Snoped it and found it before commenting. It's from March of this year, that's why I said, "Oldie but goodie." The result was True.

I searched using, "Barack says we need to have a conversation about race in America", and it came right up in the number one spot. This morning it's not coming up.

So I dug a bit deeper and if you Google, "is pat buchanan letter true Barack says we need to have a conversation about race in America" you get this result:
http://buchanan.org/blog/2008/03/pjb...ef-for-whitey/

That link won't work, but you can then search "a brief for whitey" to find it. That's clearly from March, 2008. It's not the same, but has many similarities to the "letter".

[RubHer Yellow Ducky]

I got this:


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[KenP]

Yeah, that's what I got, too.

[jmsspratlin]

Thanks for sharing, very interesting info