[BRIGADE] PJB: A Brief for Whitey
Published: Fri, 03/21/08
By Patrick J. Buchanan
Friday, March 21, 2008
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.
SOURCE: http://buchanan.org/blog/?p=969