Posted on 09/09/2005 9:59:49 PM PDT by smoothsailing
Some in the black community are beginning to question what happened to the black leadership during the Hurricane Katrina disaster, especially in the city of New Orleans.
While a few black leaders, including the Rev. Jesse Jackson, the Rev. Al Sharpton and the Congressional Black Caucus, have singled out the president for blame, others say Mayor C. Ray Nagin, who is black, is responsible for the dismal response to the flooding that stranded thousands in the city's poorest sections.
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With the absolute first to be evacuated. Hospitals, Nursing Homes and the the Prisons. Who would have cared if they had evacuated these people. People in all three of these places want out.
Do you want prisoners to break out and start looting after the storm? One way of getting people to evacuate is to secure their property. Leaving prisoners in local jails is not a way to instill confidence in law abiding citizens that their property will be protected in their absence.
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