Herr Krause. I would say that one cut and paste deserves another, eh?

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 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???

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.