Recently, presidential candidate Barack Obama treated us to a speech about race. He laments the results of discrimination against blacks:
But for all those who scratched and clawed their way to get a piece of the American Dream, there were many who didn’t make it – those who were ultimately defeated, in one way or another, by discrimination. That legacy of defeat was passed on to future generations – those young men and increasingly young women who we see standing on street corners or languishing in our prisons, without hope or prospects for the future. Even for those blacks who did make it, questions of race, and racism, continue to define their worldview in fundamental ways. For the men and women of Reverend Wright’s generation, the memories of humiliation and doubt and fear have not gone away; nor has the anger and the bitterness of those years.
So here's what I want to know, Barack. If the USA is such an awful place for blacks, then why did your father come here from Kenya? And why have so many blacks come to the USA from Africa and from the majority-black Caribbean countries?
Here are the numbers of people granted legal permanent residency in the USA from the following places of origin. Source is Migration Policy Institute (this doesn't even count illegal immigration):
Africa:
2004 66,403
2005 85,081
2006 117,411
Haiti:
2004 14,191
2005 14,529
2006 22,228
Jamaica
2004 14,430
2005 18,346
2006 24,976
If the USA were as bad for blacks as Barack claims it to be, you would see a mass migration in the opposite direction. So why the perpetual whining about racism? Why the need for the racist so-called "affirmative action" programs? Leftwing politicians like Barack and Hillary need their cult of victimology in order to advance their agenda. As one anonymous posted on lucianne.com once put it:
Liberals see a racist under every American rock. Their moral battle against racism is, in their small minds, justification for all the social and cultural damage liberalism has wrought. They want racism. They need racism. Therefore, they create racism.
Anyone who is in doubt that the left try to create racism where no such thing existed need look no further than the Duke Lacrosse Rape Hoax, or the Tawana Brawley Rape Hoax, or many other similar incidents.
2 comments:
So you are seriously claiming that the richest country in the world should not be an attractive destination to immigrants because of the pitfalls of society concerning discimination and predjudice, and that if they decide to go to the U.S. that they should just deal with it.
Abdul, what I am saying is that the USA obviously does not have serious problems with discrimination and prejudice. If we did, then more members of minority groups would be leaving rather than coming.
Actions speak louder than words.
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