Amen!

[hugo]

A Brief for Whitey

 

by Patrick Buchanan

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.

[ImWithStupid]

Another great speech by Pat B.

[Old Salt]

As always, excellent article, hugo.

[wez]

Wish Pat was running for Prez again.. I'd find it hard to believe someone could listen to this guy for 20 years and not be influenced by his hate speeches..

 

Obama should never be President..

 

Great article teach..

[Old Salt]

I watched Jesse Ventura on a Larry King Live rerun last night. He was pushing a book he wrote.

 

Although he claimed he could win the presidential election as an independent, he said it was too late to get into the race - too many hoops to jump through.

[wez]

I watched Jesse Ventura on a Larry King Live rerun last night. He was pushing a book he wrote.

 

Although he claimed he could win the presidential election as an independent, he said it was too late to get into the race - too many hoops to jump through.

 

I think he could win.. and shake the crap out of the status quo.. The great thing about Jesse.. He speaks what he believes is the truth and whether one agrees with him or not, ya gotta respect that. That's exactly what we need from our politicians.. the only thing we need from them, honesty.. and the one thing we never get..

 

Maybe in 2012.. President "the body" Ventura..

 

I'd love it! Great guy... Certainly doesn't give a crap about the desires of career politicians.. He actually cares about everyday people and isn't easily fooled. Make a great pres, IMO.

 

Plus, he'd never sell his soul to big biz.. Most likely be assassinated though, unfortunately..

[ImWithStupid]

I think he could win.. and shake the crap out of the status quo.. The great thing about Jesse.. He speaks what he believes is the truth and whether one agrees with him or not, ya gotta respect that. That's exactly what we need from our politicians.. the only thing we need from them, honesty.. and the one thing we never get..

 

Maybe in 2012.. President "the body" Ventura..

 

I'd love it! Great guy... Certainly doesn't give a crap about the desires of career politicians.. He actually cares about everyday people and isn't easily fooled. Make a great pres, IMO.

 

Plus, he'd never sell his soul to big biz.. Most likely be assassinated though, unfortunately..

 

Jesse Ventura wouldn't have a chance in hell of winning any state in a Presidential election, outside of New York, California and Minnesota. He is as far left as you get. I'm not saying all these are bad, but he is pro abortion, pro gay rights, against unions, against organized religion, and is for increased government control of the educational system even though he is against public funds for higher education.

[wez]

Jesse Ventura wouldn't have a chance in hell of winning any state in a Presidential election, outside of New York, California and Minnesota. He is as far left as you get. I'm not saying all these are bad, but he is pro abortion, pro gay rights, against unions, against organized religion, and is for increased government control of the educational system even though he is against public funds for higher education.

 

 

Hard to say..I think most people under the age of 60 are pretty damn sick of politics as usual.. Be interesting, that's for sure..

 

I think he's mainly all for getting government out of peoples lives as much as possible and letting them make their own choices on those issues.. Not sanctioning them through government.. Or banning them through government either..

 

He's all for freedom and people being responsible for themselves and their own choices.. And having the right to make them whether others agree or not.. Sounds good to me.

[hugo]

Related article, also by Pat:

 

The Jena Six-and Other Scams

 

by Patrick Buchanan

February 15, 2008

 

"(S)ome Americans do not understand why the sight of a noose causes such a visceral reaction," declared President Bush to the White House gathering for Black History Month.

 

As The Washington Post rushed to remind us, President Bush was "responding to news coverage of such episodes as the 'Jena Six.'"

 

But if history is about truth, not myth, that news coverage deserves another look, before the Jena Six enter the history books alongside Emmett Till and "the Scottsboro Boys."

 

By now, most folks know the media story. White students at Jena High in Louisiana hung nooses on a tree to warn black students not to sit under it. After a fistfight over this racist outrage, black kids in the fight were indicted for attempted murder, while the white racists who hung the nooses walked away with a verbal spanking.

 

Last September, 20,000 traveled to Jena to march against this prosecutorial outrage. Fortunately, however, there are still a few real journalists around. Among them are Craig Franklin, assistant editor of the Jena Times, whose wife teaches at Jena High, and Charlotte Allen, who wrote an extended piece for The Weekly Standard. According to Allen and Franklin, here are the facts and chronology you have been denied by the Mainstream Media.

 

There never was a "whites-only" tree at Jena High. Both races sat under it, though whites congregated there. The nooses, or lariats, were the work of three young teens, who got the idea from watching "Lonesome Dove" on TV, where rustlers are hanged.

 

Franklin says they were a joke aimed at white friends on the rodeo team. As they were painted in Jena High's gold and black, Allen reports that the kids said the nooses were directed at a rival school's Western-themed football team.

 

When school officials confronted them, all were remorseful. All had black friends, and none knew the nooses were offensive to blacks.

 

Far from being let off, they spent "nine days at an alternative facility, followed by two weeks of in-school suspension, Saturday detentions, attendance at Discipline Court and evaluations by licensed mental-health professionals."

 

They were not prosecuted for a hate crime because none of those who investigated the incident believed they committed a hate crime. Hung on Aug. 31, 2006, the nooses had been taken down instantly. Only a few students ever saw them. Case closed.

 

September, October and November passed at Jena High with no racial conflict emanating from the noose incident of August.

 

On Dec. 1, however, Robert Bailey Jr. tried to crash a party at the Fair Barn in Jena. One Justin Sloan, 22, not a student, put a fist in his face. So witnesses and Bailey reported to police. And Sloan was prosecuted for battery.

 

On Dec. 2, Bailey and two friends jumped a white male entering the "Gotta Go" grocery. When the latter ran to get a shotgun out of his car, they wrested it from him and took it. So two witnesses at the "Gotta Go" agreed.

 

Two days later came the "schoolyard fight." Only this was no fight. Black students barricaded an exit to the gym and lay in wait for Justin Barker. As Barker went for another exit, he was struck in the head from behind by Mychal Bell. Multiple witnesses say Barker fell unconscious as a gang of eight or 10 blacks stomped and kicked him in the head. The assistant principal who reached Barker thought he was dead. Barker's emergency room bill ran to more than $5,000.

 

When the six were arrested and charged with attempted second-degree murder, none of them and none of the witnesses mentioned the noose incident. It had had nothing to do with this vicious racist assault.

 

After the charges were reduced to battery, Bell, tried as an adult, was indeed convicted by an all-white jury -- because no blacks answered the summons to the jury pool. Why was Bell prosecuted as an adult? Because he had four prior convictions for crimes of violence.

 

After his conviction was overturned, Bell was ordered retried as a juvenile. Rather than face the same 17 witnesses, he pled guilty in December to hitting Barker from behind, slamming his head into a concrete beam and kicking him in the head. Sentenced to 18 months in juvenile detention, he agreed to testify against his co-conspirators.

 

While some $500,000 has been raised for the Jena Six defense, its whereabouts is unknown. Bailey did pose on the Internet grinning, however, with $100 bills in his mouth. Bell's mom is said to be driving a new Jaguar, and Bailey's mom a new Beamer. Two other Jena Sixers, Carwin Jones and Bryant Purvis, appeared in rapper attire on Black Entertainment Television as presenters of a Hip-Hop Award.

 

A week ago, 6-foot, 6-inch Purvis, who had transferred to Hebron High in Carrollton, Texas, was charged with assault, choking a student and ramming his head into a bench.

 

And that's the Saga of The Jena Six. It belongs right up there with the Rev. Al's other classics: Tawana Brawley and the Duke rape case.

 

When is the mass media gonna start ignoring Al and the other victimology hustlers?

[wez]

Related article, also by Pat:When is the mass media gonna start ignoring Al and the other victimology hustlers?

 

 

 

I know I've had enough of victim hustlers to last a lifetime.. Some people will never want to be responsible for themselves. Too bad for them. They'll always be victims.. They hold on to it for dear life. White and black.. Sad.