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To: onyx eyes

Here's one for you. Of course it's not on FR:

---It is reported that black hurricane victims in New Orleans have begun eating corpses to survive. Four days after the storm, thousands of blacks in New Orleans are dying like dogs. No-one has come to help them.

I am a sixty-four year old African-American.

New Orleans marks the end of the America I strove for.

I am hopeless. I am sad. I am angry against my country for doing nothing when it mattered.

This is what we have come to. This defining watershed moment in America’s racial history. For all the world to witness. For those who’ve been caused to listen for a lifetime to America’s ceaseless hollow bleats about democracy. For Christians, Jews and Muslims at home and abroad. For rich and poor. For African-American soldiers fighting in Iraq. For African-Americans inside the halls of officialdom and out.

My hand shakes with anger as I write. I, the formerly un-jaundiced human rights advocate, have finally come to see my country for what it really is. A monstrous fraud.
But what can I do but write about how I feel. How millions, black like me, must feel at this, the lowest moment in my country’s story.

Randall Robinson is a social
justice advocate and author
whose works include The Debt –
What America Owes to Blacks---

But heh, let's all give one another a hug!


42 posted on 09/02/2005 10:15:28 PM PDT by claudiustg (Go Sharon! Go Bush!)
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To: claudiustg

----Here's one for you. Of course it's not on FR:----

Of course it isn't on FR. It doesn't bitch about the tax bite.

-Dan

44 posted on 09/02/2005 10:18:57 PM PDT by Flux Capacitor (Trust me. I know what I'm doing.)
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