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Posted on 09/23/2005 2:17:29 PM PDT by abigail2
Moral poverty cost blacks in New Orleans
© 2005 WorldNetDaily.com
Say a hurricane is about to destroy the city you live in. Two questions:
What would you do?
What would you do if you were black?
Sadly, the two questions don't have the same answer.
To the first: Most of us would take our families out of that city quickly to protect them from danger. Then, able-bodied men would return to help others in need, as wives and others cared for children, elderly, infirm and the like.
For better or worse, Hurricane Katrina has told us the answer to the second question. If you're black and a hurricane is about to destroy your city, then you'll probably wait for the government to save you.
This was not always the case. Prior to 40 years ago, such a pathetic performance by the black community in a time of crisis would have been inconceivable. The first response would have come from black men. They would take care of their families, bring them to safety, and then help the rest of the community. Then local government would come in.
No longer. When 75 percent of New Orleans residents had left the city, it was primarily immoral, welfare-pampered blacks that stayed behind and waited for the government to bail them out. This, as we know, did not turn out good results.
Enter Jesse Jackson and Louis Farrakhan. Jackson and Farrakhan laid blame on "racist" President Bush. Farrakhan actually proposed the idea that the government blew up a levee so as to kill blacks and save whites. The two demanded massive governmental spending to rebuild New Orleans, above and beyond the federal government's proposed $60 billion. Not only that, these two were positioning themselves as the gatekeepers to supervise the dispersion of funds. Perfect: Two of the most dishonest elite blacks in America, "overseeing" billions of dollars. I wonder where that money will end up.
Of course, if these two were really serious about laying blame on government, they should blame the local one. Responsibility to perform – legally and practically – fell first on the mayor of New Orleans. We are now all familiar with Mayor Ray Nagin – the black Democrat who likes to yell at President Bush for failing to do Nagin's job. The facts, unfortunately, do not support Nagin's wailing. As the Washington Times puts it, "recent reports show [Nagin] failed to follow through on his own city's emergency-response plan, which acknowledged that thousands of the city's poorest residents would have no way to evacuate the city."
One wonders how there was "no way" for these people to evacuate the city. We have photographic evidence telling us otherwise. You've probably seen it by now – the photo showing 200 parked school buses, unused and underwater. How much planning does it require to put people on a bus and leave town, Mayor Nagin?
Instead of doing the obvious, Mayor Nagin (with no positive contribution from Democratic Gov. Kathleen Blanco, the other major leader vested with responsibility to address the hurricane disaster) loaded remaining New Orleans residents into the Superdome and the city's convention center. We know how that plan turned out.
About five years ago, in a debate before the National Association of Black Journalists, I stated that if whites were to just leave the United States and let blacks run the country, they would turn America into a ghetto within 10 years. The audience, shall we say, disagreed with me strongly. Now I have to disagree with me. I gave blacks too much credit. It took a mere three days for blacks to turn the Superdome and the convention center into ghettos, rampant with theft, rape and murder.
President Bush is not to blame for the rampant immorality of blacks. Had New Orleans' black community taken action, most would have been out of harm's way. But most were too lazy, immoral and trifling to do anything productive for themselves.
All Americans must tell blacks this truth. It was blacks' moral poverty – not their material poverty – that cost them dearly in New Orleans. Farrakhan, Jackson, and other race hustlers are to be repudiated – they will only perpetuate this problem by stirring up hatred and applauding moral corruption. New Orleans, to the extent it is to be rebuilt, should be remade into a dependency-free, morally strong city where corruption is opposed and success is applauded. Blacks are obligated to help themselves and not depend on the government to care for them. We are all obligated to tell them so.
The Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson is founder and president of BOND, the Brotherhood Organization of A New Destiny, and author of "Scam: How the Black Leadership Exploits Black America." If you'd rather order by phone, call WND's toll-free customer service line at 1-800-4WND-COM (1-800-496-3266).
Tough.
I would dare say that you're wrong.
And that, to be perfectly honest, is an insult to those of us who are out there with a different mindset and conception of reality.
I don't have to justify myself to you or anyone like you.
And quite frankly, if you don't like it, tough.
Amen!
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First of all you don't know this.
Secondly, even if it was true, it is no excuse to smear ALL blacks with the sort of generalization Jesse Peterson made.
I like Jesse and think he has a lot of good things to say, so I am sorry to see him marginalize himself with this sort of inflamatory rhetoric.
Even those with more money, expect someone else to take care of things.
I know plenty of blacks with more money than I have, and I have NEVER heard ANY of them express what you say above.
BTTT
This is the article of our time.
I'm sorry but I don't understand what you're saying here? It seems that was my point. I didn't say ALL blacks but most, enough to make a generalization. That's the truth. Do you disagree?
No, I'm not black. But I worked with a black Red Cross nurse from California, a black local volunteer who helped serve meals and a black Mental Health worker.
Something else I forgot to mention. In Lake Charles, where I worked, rumors of increased crime rates were rampant after the evacuees arrived in town. Three weeks after they arrived the mayor of Lake Charles finally took the bull by the horns and published police reports which clearly showed, not only had their been NO increase in crime, there had actually been a decrease.
I can't say enough about the evacuees I met. I continue to keep in touch with many of them via cell phones---they are good, kind, decent people WITH JOBS!!!---at least, pre-Katrina.
But that is what you clearly implied. So you may as well have said it.
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Decades ago there was an earthquake in some southern area of the USSR that wrecked a village yet spared a lot of its populace. All of the villagers but one sat and waited for people to come and fix it.
Despite everyone else's laziness, one 90 year old woman went to work on her house while others slept outdoors and went cold and hungry, and did nothing to comfort themselves.
We never would have heard about it except for the fact that Italy sent help there and was able to report it. Last I heard, Italy and one old lady were finishing things up.
For years, I've used this as an example of communism. Now I can use it here as an example of our Leftist party.
No, no, no! What happened in Lousiana was just shiftless, lazy black people. Nothing more.
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Don't you know that we are ALL lazy, good-for-nothing "Negroes"? I mean every last one of us.
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I'm willing to step out on a limb here and say, if you look at it that way, you are condoning the likes of Jesse Jackson preying on their own kind for no reason but to enrich themselves.
LOL!!!
My favorite was "He has an eye on the sparrow.."
Your healing is coming along okay?
Not all. I'm poking at the originator of this thread and his comments.
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I detected the sarcasm. It's about all one can do these days, preach to the choir, seeing that the dumbing down of America is the most successful jihad in this country.
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