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A word from the “White Side”

Now then, here is something that each and everyone of us, both those on the left as well as the right, black and white, needs to read and clearly understand as part of our history.

Once again, this crossed our e-mail path from a good and very reliable friend of ours who felt it was not only important for us to read but also to share.

It is entitled, “The White Side of the Story of Blacks.”

The question was appropriately asked, just how much more does the white America owe to the Black community?

This begins by prefacing, in light of recent tragic events around the country, and the elevation of the “Black Lives Matter” group of thugs, that this piece is more relevant than ever.

A clear message from Patrick J. Buchanan to President Barack Obama: “You say 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 blacks. 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 know.

Jeremiah Wright ought to go down on his knees and thank God he is an American. Second, no people anywhere have done more to lift up blacks than white Americans. Untold trillions of tax dollars 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 whites — 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 their 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?

What more opportunity is it that the White people need to give to help the Blacks?

The main problem why black people are not progressing is the ‘They owe me’ factor. Nobody owes anything.

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 drop-out rate from high schools in some cities has reached 50 percent?

Sorry, Barack, some of us have heard it all before, about 40 years and 40 trillion tax dollars ago.”