CROSS OF CHRIST FAITH MINISTRY

By Patrick J. Buchanan 

Barack says we need to have aconversation about race in America. Fair enough. But this time, it hasto be a two-way conversation. White America needs to be heard from, notjust lectured to. This time, the Silent Majority needs to have itsconvictions, grievances and demands heard. And among them are these: First, America has been the bestcountry on earth for black folks. It was here that 600,000 blackpeople, brought from Africa in slave ships, grew into a community of 40million, were introduced to Christian salvation, and reached thegreatest 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 donemore to lift up blacks than white Americans. Untold trillions have beenspent since the ‘60s on welfare, food stamps, rent supplements, Section8 housing, Pell grants, student loans, legal services, Medicaid, EarnedIncome Tax Credits and poverty programs designed to bring theAfrican-American community into the mainstream. Governments, businessesand colleges have engaged in discrimination against white folks—withaffirmative action, contract set-asides and quotas—to advance blackapplicants over white applicants. Churches, foundations, civic groups,schools and individuals all over America have donated their time andmoney to support soup kitchens, adult education, day care, retirementand nursing homes for blacks. We hear the grievances. Where is the gratitude??? Barack talks about new ‘ladders ofopportunity’ for blacks. Let him go to Altoona? And Johnstown, and askwhite kids in Catholic schools how many were visited lately by IvyLeague recruiters handing out scholarships for ‘deserving’ white kids.?Is white America really responsible for the fact that the crime andincarceration rates for African-American are seven times those of whiteAmerica? Is it really white America’s fault that illegitimacy in theAfrican-American community has hit 70 percent and the black dropoutrate 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 ugliestmanifestation is in interracial crime, and especially interracialcrimes of violence. Is Barack Obama aware that while white criminalschoose black victims 3 percent of the time, black criminals chose whitevictims 45 percent of the time? Is Barack aware that black-on-whiterapes are 100 times more common than the reverse, that black-on-whiterobberies were 139 times as common in the first three years of thisdecade as the reverse?We have all heard ad nauseam from theRev. Al about Tawana Brawley, the Duke rape case and Jena. And allturned out to be hoaxes. But about the epidemic of black assaults onwhites 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!