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(s)Elections See other (s)Elections Articles Title: Obama's Speech—A Brief for Whitey How would he pull it off? I wondered. How would Barack explain to his press groupies why he sat silent in a pew for 20 years as the Rev. Jeremiah Wright delivered racist rants against white America for our maligning of Fidel and Gadhafi, and inventing AIDS to infect and kill black people? How would he justify not walking out as Wright spewed his venom about "the U.S. of K.K.K. America," and howled, "God damn America!" My hunch was right. Barack would turn the tables. Yes, Barack agreed, Wright's statements were "controversial," and "divisive," and "racially charged," reflecting a "distorted view of America." But we must understand the man in full and the black experience out of which the Rev. Wright came: 350 years of slavery and segregation. Barack then listed black grievances and informed us what white America must do to close the racial divide and heal the country. The "white community," said Barack, must start "acknowledging that what ails the African-American community does not just exist in the minds of black people; that the legacy of discrimination—and current incidents of discrimination, while less overt than in the past—are real and must be addressed. Not just with words, but with deeds ... ." And what deeds must we perform to heal ourselves and our country? The "white community" must invest more money in black schools and communities, enforce civil rights laws, ensure fairness in the criminal justice system and provide this generation of blacks with "ladders of opportunity" that were "unavailable" to Barack's and the Rev. Wright's generations. What is wrong with Barack's prognosis and Barack's cure? Only this. It is the same old con, the same old shakedown that black hustlers have been running since the Kerner Commission blamed the riots in Harlem, Watts, Newark, Detroit and a hundred other cities on, as Nixon put it, "everybody but the rioters themselves." Was "white racism" really responsible for those black men looting auto dealerships and liquor stories, and burning down their own communities, as Otto Kerner said—that liberal icon until the feds put him away for bribery. 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 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.
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Whites believe the most bizarre of delusions -- remote-controlled airplanes, explosives in the WTC -- but blacks are even worse. There is a book called "I Heard it Through the Grapevine," about the hysterically silly conspiracies blacks believe in. Not only did white people invent AIDS to kill blacks (somehow it got out of control and attacked homosexuals) but birth control chemicals are put in Church's chicken so blacks can't have kids. Another one is that the "K" kosher symbol of food packages really stands for "KKK". The belief in all impossible conspiracies is based on "Those evil people did it to me and it's everybody's fault but my own."
I don't believe that Obama's suggestion that 'we' have a dialog on race should be rejected. If Buchanan's statistics are true, and they probably are, then 'the White side' should have a lot to say on this topic. The problem seems to be that Whitey is more inhibited than the Black side in expressing his frustrations. While the Darkies do hear in their black churches from preachers such as Obama's mentor and, like the homos or the Jews, have been successful in building their own, segregated communities, there are very few White or even 'traditionally White' organizations, clubs, colleges or TV stations. Somehow, voluntary segregation became a good thing for the Darkies but a terrible one for the Whites. Lacking prestigious or 'mainstream' fora for expressing their views, it's the Whities who have no voice and have nothing intelligent to say or dare not say it because they shut themselves up. Obama's talk looks like a 'lecture' not because he means it that way but because the other side refuses to join the dialog. Instead, Whities are growing and nurturing the do-gooder welfare state, pumping money into collectivist institutions and initiatives, increasing everyone's dependence on the all-powerful State and expecting everyone, Blacks, Whites and Mutts to be eternally grateful for this heart-felt redistribution of resources. The Blacks should be as grateful for the trillions compassionately 'invested' into their welfare as the Iraqis should be for the trillions invested into theirs. If this continues, the end results are going to be quite similar: more hate from the 'beneficiaries' of such lavish but destructive 'charities'.
Most of the largesse is siphoned off by those at the top. The chief players on both the giving and receiving end garner the wealth.
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