Posted on 09/02/2005 7:45:16 AM PDT by alloysteel
BATON ROUGE, La., Sept. 1 -- It seemed a desperate echo of a bygone era, a mass of desperate-looking black folk on the run in the Deep South. Some without shoes.
It was high noon Thursday at a rest stop on the edge of Baton Rouge when several buses pulled in, fresh from the calamity of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans.
Hundreds piled out, dragging themselves as if floating through some kind of thick liquid. They were exhausted, some crying.
"It was like going to hell and back," said Bernadette Washington, 38, a black homemaker from Orleans Parish who had slept under a bridge the night before with her five children and her husband. She sighed the familiar refrain, stinging as an old-time blues note: "All I have is the clothes on my back. And I been sleeping in them for three days."
While hundreds of thousands of people have been dislocated by Hurricane Katrina, the images that have filled the television screens have been mainly of black Americans -- grieving, suffering, in some cases looting and desperately trying to leave New Orleans. Along with the intimate tales of family drama and survival being played out Thursday, there was no escaping that race had become a subtext to the unfolding drama of the hurricane's aftermath.
"To me," said Bernadette Washington, "it just seems like black people are marked. We have so many troubles and problems."
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The Congressional Black Caucus has just spoken..the race card is in play..
""To me," said Bernadette Washington, "it just seems like black people are marked. We have so many troubles and problems."
I guess no white or brown or oriental people lost their homes or lives......
What about the citizens and christians that stayed behind since the last hurricase was a dud and provided a false sense of security?
It's hard to lump everyone into the same racial basket. Leave it to the liberals to try and do so just to promote their own self interests at the expense of the poor and those most in need.
90% of which are caused by them on an individual basis.
Liberal policies and the victim mentality have caused most of the aftermath.
A hundred school busses sit underwater in a parking lot.
The mayor failed to employ them to evacuate people.
Great Society.
Years of carping about racial profiling and the gangsta's were just good boys being picked on.
15 years of Gangsta culture.
The GOP couldn't have asked for a better gift than this. Nothing is going to do more to ensure their support among middle-class voters in this country than a divisive, nasty campaign carried out by "leaders" whose primary constituency is a permanent underclass of dysfunctional people.
"it just seems like black people are marked. We have so many troubles and problems"
That's what you get for casting your lot w/ the dems
"The GOP couldn't have asked for a better gift than this."
I thought of that too. But I guess it'll depend on how the whole situation plays out. Never underestimate the power of the MSM.
Most of your problems are related to the crap you elect to represent you, your reliance on the nanny state, and the tolerance of crime and moral depravity in your community.
I am so exceedingly sick of the race card.
What is really tragic is not only did she buy into what she has been told by the so called Black Leadership, she will probably never see how wrong they are. They have emotionally crippled generations of blacks and they are still at it. It makes me sick.
Marked? They had plenty of time to evacuate the city, but the Mayor had to be pressed by President Bush to call for a mandatory evacuation. Where were the Mayor's plan for dealing with this emergency? This has been predicted for New Orleans since Moby Dick was a minnow, so where were the plans? To try and pin this on President Bush is just the latest and most disguting use of politics during a national emergency. So much for pulling together as a nation. By the way, for all those who would question my speaking out on this issue, I made a large donation yesterday while you POS were complaining.
No shizzle, TazRedizzle.
BUMP!
State and local leadership was obviously weak and lacking (intentional?). Who knows, but it's obvious the mayor and the governor are out of their league.
This is true, but in the timidity of "bi-partisan spirit", they will let it slip from their hands and shatter on the floor.
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