This is a good article and it needed to be said. Thanks.  I sent it out.

Loved it!

Sadly your facts are wrong, your analogy is bordering on racist theory and you need a history lesson badly...

1680-1786--there were 2,130,000 slaves imported for the english colonies in American....38.6% died enroute.

1776-1800 average yearly 74,000 slaves imported total of 1,850,000...almost half died.

The civil war ended in 1865 and the 13th amendment freed african americans but they were not able to vote for another 100 years. Do some checking and you will see how the housing market, job market were anti-black until the 1960's.

Your black on white rape is faulty and based on davidduke.com type numbers. Justice department statistics strongly contradictyour findings. Along with that 75 to 90% of rapes are not reported.

Out of 413 serial killers profiled from 1945-2004, 323 were white.

According to DOJ Statistics 7 out of 10crimes against children/sexual were committed by white males....

And please...CHRISTIANITY....It was white southern christians that burned down black churches and lynched black boys and men...

And reality. my daughter is as white as snow. Due to her high Psat scores and 98% honors average she has received 22 letters from colleges around the country...It is all about work and effort, not skin color....

The facts are solid. Blacks were brought into America to use as slave labor by Americans. Before we gained our independence Americans were British subjects. After independence, same people/different title. And symantics does not excuse ignorance. Lincoln emancipated the slaves. He did not give them equal rights. Equal rights did not come into effect until the 1960's under a democratic President. It was Johnson, a democrat that led the March on Civil rights and equality. (NOT THE REPUBLITARDS)...The problem with people who think like you is you think twisting words will make it look like America was squeaky clean during the genocide of black slaves as they were when they wiped out most of the true Americans with the genocide against Native Americans.

Thanks, RA, you and Buchanan are right on...

Nothing has caused more misery and destroyed more lives than the so called Great Society ushered in and nursed along by Democrats and RINOs as a vote buying mechanism. While circumstances of the day made it impossible to accomplish at the beginning of our independence, the Constitution was crafted to insure that abolishing slavery would be an inevitable eventuality in spite of Democrat opposition. Great article RaggedyAnn! Thanks for posting it!

By the way, you might be interested Walter Williams comment about leftist lies in the second paragraph of this article: Were the Founding Fathers Racists...

E pluribus Unum - Out of many, one.

That was the national motto proposed by Benjamin Franklin, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson in 1776. Both simple and elegant, it embodied the notion that the original 13 Colonies were united as one under the Declaration of Independence.

Fast-forward a couple hundred years... The social degeneration of the 1960s and the economic decline of the 1970s, that unity began to disintegrate. This was the era in which multiculturalism emerged -- the era in which ethnocentricity became chic.

Arthur Schlesinger, a former Harvard professor and senior advisor to JFK, published a retrospective on this era in 1991 called "The Disuniting of America." Schlesinger wrote primarily about the orthodoxy of self-interested hyphenated-American citizen groups -- who, rather than unifying to become one, were diversifying to become many. He warned that the cult of ethnicity would result in "the fragmentation and tribalization of America," the natural consequence being that these special-interest groups would be co-opted by the political parties.

"Instead of a transformative nation with an identity all its own," Schlesinger wrote, "America increasingly sees itself in this new light as preservative of diverse alien identities -- groups ineradicable in their ethnic character." He asserts, by way of inquiry, "Will the melting pot give way to the Tower of Babel?"

Leftists for the last half century have been dividing Americans; by propaganizing victimization and instilling hate where they can.  Our President is no exception.

Obama's mantra, "change," from the last election, turned out to be a euphemism for constitutional abrogation - an incremental encroachment on liberty until, at last, liberty is lost.

Our nation's second president, John Adams, warned, "A Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored.   Liberty, once lost, is lost forever."

As for Obama's deception about his own patriotic pedigree, I commend the words of our nation's first president, George Washington: "Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism. ...[W]here is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation deserts the oaths...?"

Regarding the Presidential Oath of Office, Justice Joseph Story wrote: "[T]he duty imposed upon him to take care, that the laws be faithfully executed, follows out the strong injunctions of his oath of office, that he will 'preserve, protect, and defend the constitution.' The great object of the executive department is to accomplish this purpose." He wrote further that if the president does not honor his oath, his office "will be utterly worthless for ... the protection of rights; for the happiness, or good order, or safety of the people."

Of course, Barack Obama proposes to further constrain the rights of the people by advancing centralized government control of the economy by way of regulation and forced income redistribution, all in the name of "happiness, good order, and safety of the people," but in direct violation of his oath.

Am I a racist because I don't like politically, red-americans.