Kind of like that crazy uncle the family won't talk about.
Posted on 09/29/2005 4:58:21 AM PDT by InvisibleChurch
Black Voter Suppression Blamed for Weak Katrina Response By Marc Morano CNSNews.com Senior Staff Writer September 29, 2005
Washington (CNSNews.com) - The Bush administration's slow response to Hurricane Katrina may be the result of minority votes being suppressed and Democratic candidates losing the last two presidential elections, a member of the Congressional Black Caucus has alleged.
"Watching family members and others cling to rooftops in Hurricane Katrina, I wonder whether or not the absence of attention [to the recovery effort] is attributable to the loss of a vote in 2000 and 2004," U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, a Democrat from California, said.
She added that the government's hurricane response gave her the feeling of "deja vu," following the Republican Party's alleged attempts to undermine the black vote in those two presidential elections.
Lee is not the only member of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) to lash out at President Bush and his administration in the aftermath of the killer hurricane that flooded New Orleans and demolished much of the Gulf Coast of Mississippi.
One day after Lee addressed the CBC convention in Washington, D.C., Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.), one of the caucus' most prominent members, compared President Bush to the notorious Birmingham, Ala., police commissioner and segregationist from the 1960s, Bull Conner.
But it was Jackson Lee, often on the front lines of criticizing the Bush administration, who alleged a link between the electoral controversies of 2000 and 2004 and the weak storm response.
"The pain of disenfranchisement is still very fresh for those African Americans who were shut out of the voting process in 2000. It was a sheer travesty. We know America is smarter and better than that," said Jackson Lee, whose congressional district in Houston is now home to an estimated 150,000 Hurricane Katrina evacuees,
She also compared the hurricane's devastating effects on the minority residents of New Orleans with the often violent struggle for civil rights in the 1960s.
In 1965 in Montgomery Alabama, "the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King was attacked by state troopers, beaten and jailed ... This overt violation of human and civil rights, took place live on national television in front of the entire world, as did the tragedy of Hurricane Katrina. Who knows what [effect more African American] votes could have brought about in both of those instances," Jackson Lee explained.
"That is why we are so concerned about voting rights. They impact yesterday, today and tomorrow," she added.
A conservative African American group condemned Jackson Lee's comments, using one of the congresswoman's own descriptions -- "travesty" - to characterize her comments.
"[Jackson Lee] is correct. It is a sheer travesty, but the travesty is that she and those like her would use a catastrophic hurricane to spew forth their patented brand of commercialized race baiting," said Project 21 member Mychal Massie in an interview with Cybercast News Service.
"Comparing Dr. [Martin Luther] King's beating to what took place in the wake of Hurricane Katrina is an unfathomable stretch in any sense of the imagination in anyone's mind excerpt for Jackson Lee and those like her," Massie said.
"To America's credit, America is smarter and is indeed better than that because they see her and those like her for what they are, a contumacious (rebellious), malevolent person who sees nothing good in America," he added.
What a stark-raving moonbat...
Hurricane Katrina was started by the KKK! With the help of the Jooooooooos!
What?!
LOL, and happy FR anniversary.
(whispering) Jooooooooos!
So long troll
How about discussing the roll decades worth of piss poor so called "black leadership", like yours, played, Ms. Jackson Lee?
Is that your screen saver?
Race whore.
I think this story calls for your Kaptain Karl masterpiece, LOL!
I'm guessing we have no mods. this morning???????
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Kind of like that crazy uncle the family won't talk about.
Welcome to FR.
You'll find that most of us here are a able to express ourselves quite well without resorting to vulgar words -- especially the same vulgar word repeated over and over and over again.
WOW! I thought my computer was stuck on stupid!
It was the TERRORIST who was stupid!
Accusations are not proof. I am still waiting for one voter "of color" who was properly registered and went to his or her correct polling place during voting hours and was denied the right to vote. Allegations are that there are millions of such voters. I just want to hear evidence from one.
"Race whore."
Or a racist whore... and IS there a really a difference? Most probably not.
"Watching family members and others cling to rooftops in Hurricane Katrina, I wonder whether or not the absence of attention [to the recovery effort] is attributable to the loss of a vote in 2000 and 2004," U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, a Democrat from California, said.
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Point of information.
Could the Congressperson please explain how she could see the race of people clinging to rooftops, and how she could tell that white people were being rescued, while black people are being left clinging.
Has she considered that what she saw was courtesy of various television corporations who were only able to show a small portion of all the rescues that were occuring. President Bush mentioned the number of sorties in his briefing last week at Northern Command. It was in the tens of thousands.
Is she aware that many of the African-American residents who appeared at the Convention Center, were taken there by rescue boats and helicopters - that they were high, dry, safe, and not clinging to a rooftop as a result of the efforts of rescuers of all races.
I could go on.....
I know, me too. I wonder how long it took him to cut & paste that thing, LOL!
I suggest, We remove this entire thread. Whoever CNS is, can't even get the facts right.
Or a racist whore... and IS there a really a difference? Most probably not.
Flip side of the same coin.
Idiot reporters... Sheila "Mars Rover" Jackson Lee hails from Houston, TX, as I recall.
Idiot wind, blowing every time you move your mouth,
Blowing down the backroads headin' south ...
Now everything's a little upside down, as a matter of fact
the wheels have stopped,
What's good is bad, what's bad is good, you'll find out when
you reach the top
You're on the bottom...
Idiot wind, blowing like a circle around my skull,
From the Grand Coulee Dam to the Capitol.
Idiot wind, blowing every time you move your teeth,
You're an idiot, babe.
It's a wonder that you still know how to breathe.
- Bob Dylan
that reminds me of a report i heard on Rush a couple months ago about some environmental group complaining about high tension wires and transformers were killing birds across the US. the report stated that 50,000,000 birds a year were killed... you'd think people would notice that many birds piled on the ground ... the way these people throw out numbers is painful
It's been shown that the Dinosaurs went extinct due to voter suppression.
This makes no damned sense to me.
What does one issue have to do with the other?
It has been said, and I'm sure it was true, that the dems had no problems sending busses to get those folks out to vote. Where were the busses during the flooding?
A stark raving "stuck on stupid moonbat", who needs to have those cornrow braids cut around her head, I do believe, they are channeling toxic rays from the sun to her small useless brain.
He didn't find any. I figure that the situation must be OK, if he couldn't even find someone to lie for him.
Congressional Black Caucus
Committee Membership | CBC States
Officers
Rep. Elijah E. Cummings
Chair Maryland
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee
Vice-Chair Texas
Rep. Corrine Brown
Second Vice-Chair Florida
Rep. Danny K. Davis
Secretary Illinois
Rep. Barbara Lee
Whip California
Well, whoever said it was named Lee - and they do sound like they read from the same page all the time.
Maybe the writer was using a literary device of combining the two women. LOL!
I believe you. Oh, and it's Bush's fault. There were plenty of dinosaurs around before he was selected, not elected.
Not even creative...
Wait a minute. She left out Bull Conner!
What real evidence does exist proves that, rather than being suppressed, in many cities, particularly Philadelphia and St. Louis, minority voter turnout approached or exceeded 100% of the registered voters. In Milwaukee, African-American democrat operatives were convicted of flattening tires on a fleet of vehicles that was to be used by republicans to drive the elderly or those without transportation to the polls. Dems love the "Big Lie" approach. Republicans are more interested in hard evidence.
A stark raving "stuck on stupid moonbat", who needs to have those cornrows cut from head; I do believe, they are channeling toxic rays from the sun, to her small useless brain.
Joseph Goebbels.
Shiela Jackson-Lee is such an idiot. It is really amazing she remembers to breathe on a regular basis.
The slow response was the result of the fact that Louisiana is a Democrat plantation. Monolithic minority voting in New Orleans sealed their fate. More of the same will not solve their problem.
But she's throwing gasoline on the fire just for the hell of it. What she say doesn't matter to anyone, except folks like us who need a chuckle.
Well, seeing as how Ms. Lee is from Houston, I'm sure an awful lot of those lost votes are going to go to her next year.
Could minority voting blocks of uneducated government dependents be the root cause of most of our problems?
How did he know about Bull Connors?
I like your tag line , but Maybe old Ponce should stop first at the Congressional Black Caucus. Although the DNC may indeed be downstream I believe the true source to start at the CBC.
Thanks! Still have groceries to get and a hockey practice to drive to.
The outrageousness of the race-baiting continues to escalate. If anyone pays a bit of attention to this silliness, other than to laugh at it, I would be shocked. And even those who claim to take it seriously, have GOT to be rolling their eyes and wondering themselves if she has taken it over the edge this time.
She clearly is a total psychopath.
And what a shame we will never have true racial harmony as long as scum like this continues to divide Americans. Damn them for what they do to America.
Nice one, Karl!
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