Message to Obama attributed to Pat Buchanan

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I have never been a fan of Buchanan but feel he's correct that part of the conversation has been missing.

Subject: A message for Obama from Pat Buchanan

     

    A Brief for Whitey

    by Patrick J. Buchanan
    Posted 03/21/2008 ET
    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 blac ks. 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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This message of racial equality has been copied and sent to my entire email contact list.  In turn, I got a response back from one of my contacts, who tole me he had sent it to all contacts in his email address book.   No I did not get it back from him.  This letter attributed to Pat Buchanon does not matter to me, it is the content that is important and true, no matter whomsoever wrote this piece. 

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Along with Buchanon's letter to Obama is this week's editorial from Walt Williams.  Mr. Williams is a product of Philadelphia's lower class black community who is now a well respected professor of economics and periodical columnist.

Politics and Black Americans
April 23, 2008

By Walter Williams

Dr. Thomas Sowell's recent column, "Republicans and Blacks," (April 10, 2008) pointed out the foolhardiness of Republican strategy to secure more black votes. He pointed out that it is a losing strategy to reach blacks through the civil rights organizations and black politicians. It's like a quarterback trying to throw a pass to a receiver surrounded by a bunch of defenders. The second losing strategy is to appeal to blacks by offering the same kinds of things that Democrats offer — token honors, politically correct rhetoric and welfare state handouts.


Sowell suggests that Republican strategy should be to highlight the liberal Democratic agenda that has done great harm to the poorest of the black community. Among those he mentions is the environmental agenda where "tens of thousands of blacks who have been forced out of a number of liberal Democratic California counties by skyrocketing housing prices, brought on by Democratic environmentalists' severe restrictions on the building of homes or apartments." Since 1970, San Francisco's black population has been cut in half.


Then there are the liberal judges and parole boards who have turned criminals loose to prey on black communities. According to Bureau of Justice statistics, between 1976 and 2005, while 13 percent of the population, blacks committed over 52 percent of the nation's homicides and were 46 percent of the homicide victims. Ninety-four percent of black homicide victims had a black person as their murderer.


The Democratic leadership gives unquestioned support of teacher unions that have delivered near criminally fraudulent education. Professors Abigail and Stephen Thernstrom's book, "No Excuses: Closing the Racial Gap in Learning," reports that the average black high school graduate performs a little worse than white eighth-graders in both reading and U.S. history, and a lot worse in math and geography. Black education is the worst in cities where Democrats, both black and white, have held the reigns of political power for decades and in cities spending the largest amount of money on education. Washington, D.C., ranking third in the nation in terms of per-pupil expenditures, is a classic example. At 12 of its 19 high schools, more than 50 percent of the students test below basic in reading, and at some of those schools the percentage approaches 80 percent. At 15 of these schools, over 50 percent test below basic in math, and in 12 of them 70 to 99 percent do so. The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), which conducts periodic testing, defines "below basic" as not having any of the knowledge and skills to master a subject.


Both Democratic and Republican leaders give support to economic agendas harmful to poor black people. A particularly egregious example is New York City's taxicab licensing law that requires that a person, as of May 2007, pay $600,000 for a license to own and operate one taxicab. Then there's the Davis-Bacon Act that mandates "prevailing wages" be paid on all federally financed or assisted construction projects. The Davis-Bacon Act is a pro-union law that discriminates against non-unionized black construction contractors and black workers. In fact, that was the original intent of the Davis-Bacon Act of 1931. During its 1931 legislative debate, quite a few congressmen expressed their racist intentions, such as Rep. Clayton Allgood, D-Ala., who said, "Reference has been made to a contractor from Alabama who went to New York with bootleg labor. This is a fact. That contractor has cheap colored labor that he transports, and he puts them in cabins, and it is labor of that sort that is in competition with white labor throughout the country." While today's supporters of the Davis-Bacon Act talk differently, its discriminatory effects are the same.


If a politician had the guts to take on these issues, it's stupid to address them through the black civil rights or education establishment, or the black political structure. The reason is that blacks who are members of, or are served by, these establishments have an interest in the status quo.

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It's the truth!