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Posted on 09/02/2005 1:28:45 PM PDT by mhking
Project 21 Responds to Congressional Black Caucus Criticism of Hurricane Katrina Relief Efforts
Contact: Ryan Balis at (202) 543-4110 x19 or rbalis@nationalcenter.org
Members of the Congressional Black Caucus held a press conference today in which it was that asserted God "cannot be pleased" with the Bush Administration's response to Hurricane Katrina and suggested race is a factor affecting the likelihood of a person's survival in the aftermath of the hurricane.
Speaking at the press conference, Rep. Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD), said "To the President of the United States, I simply say that God cannot be pleased with our response." Cummings also said: "We cannot allow it to be said that the difference between those who lived and those who died in this great storm and flood of 2005 was nothing more than poverty, age or skin color."
Members of the black leadership network Project 21 have blasted the Congressional Black Caucus - whose elected members are charged to serve the best interest of all Americans - for racially politicizing a natural catastrophe.
"The comments and actions of the Congressional Black Caucus were morally opprobrious and divisive," said Project 21 member Mychal Massie. "It is beneath the level of sane discourse for the Congressional Black Caucus to suggest that blacks are suffering more than the hundreds of thousands of Americans who have been displaced."
Adding to these comments, Project 21 member Kevin Martin points out: "Several of the Congressional Black Caucus' members have districts that have been devastated by this natural disaster. But rather than offering encouragement to those federal, state, local, and private citizens who are responding to this natural disaster, they would rather fan the fames of partisan rhetoric and hatred."
Project 21 members also questioned the use of Biblical passages in comments by Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD), in which he asserted, "God cannot be pleased" with the Bush Administration's response to the disaster.
Mychal Massie, an ordained minister and founder of In His Name Ministries, responded, "For Elijah Cummings to use the Bible to support his hateful speech directed at the President while issuing a pass to the liberal black groups is one more example of his belligerent attitude and jaundiced understanding of appropriateness."
Project 21 members called on members of the legislative branch of government to offer unity, patience and an end to violence and looting. "In this time of tragic need, there should be leadership offered from all sides including the Congressional Black Caucus and civil rights groups," said Kevin Martin.
To date, the federal government has responded to the devastation brought by Hurricane Katrina by sending more than 15,000 National Guardsmen, 7,800 U.S. military personnel and 61 Federal Emergency Management response teams to assist in the recovery efforts. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced that federal, state and local government efforts have saved more than 4,500 lives, assisted more than 30,000 people and evacuated more than 22,000 displaced persons of the hurricane.
For more information, contact Ryan Balis at (202) 543-4110 x19 or rbalis@nationalcenter.org, or visit http://www.project21.org/P21Index.html.
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Man, what are these people's problems? There's work to to do and they stand around with their thumbs in their ears waving their fingers calling people names. Get out of the 7th grade mentality, already.
Project 21
BumP
Was God pleased with Jesse Jackson Jr.'s call to President Bush to, in essence, put a hit out on God (like Bush did to the terrorists on 9-14-01)? Could we just have a repeat of Korah, Dathan and Abiram with these "black leaders", with the dirt getting an early lunch?
That should be the logo of the Black Caucus.
Lijah, like the other members of the fully segregated, step-n-fetchit, colored only Congressional Black Caucus, is a black racist. As a scumbag dem, he will use any opportunity to take a shot at Bush.
I can understand the CBC's deep embarrasment at the behavior of the fat blacks in N. O., both the looters and the dependents loosers waiting around for someone to bring them something. For the very first time, I begin to understand why 95% of black voters vote for dems, it is an issue of ignorent dependency.
So here is a link for people who want to STHU about their stupid liberal politics right now and for those who want to use their resources to help good people get back on their feet. Thanks for listening:
"The U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced that federal, state and local government efforts have saved more than 4,500 lives, assisted more than 30,000 people and evacuated more than 22,000 displaced persons of the hurricane..."and countless of private organizations lending hands at the same time. Personally, it's absolute asinine for ordirnary people like us trying to donate as much as we could afford. These race wh*res need to be smacked.
Michael,
Do you have an email address for Cummings? I want to give my congressman a piece of my mind for this cr*p!
These CBC welfare cases are nothing more than race baiting rejects from the gutters of America's gerrymandered districts.
If the leftwing press ignored them as they should then America could
begin to heal the rift between Americans they have created.
shaking my head in disgust. The words just can't be said of what I really think.
Cummings doesn't like to hear from people outside his district:
http://www.house.gov/cummings/guestbk.htm
Thanks. Now to compose.....
The Black Caucus is the home-grown enemy. Get off the plantation and stop playing race-baiting. Michael, they have destroyed the hopes of a couple generations.
Jesse Jackson is a jerk.
Oops. He may want to rephrase that. LOL
Mayor Nagin is out there showing piss poor leadership by blaming the government instead of growing a pair of stones and lead his city like Rudy did during 9/11. I am a black person and I recognize good leadership arises during time of crises. There is nothing racist about that. NOLA is predominately black and it's leadership is unsat PERIOD. You have black female police officers looting with the criminals instead of trying to stop them. That is the face of New Orleans law enforcement an obese black woman in Walmart with a shopping cart stealing. I mean to rant because I am sick and tired of the same cries of racism when there is none. Those people are foolish and ignorant. It was the Mayor decision to open up the Super-dome he didn't consider that major storm always knock out power so you have all those people in a hot smelly enclosed structure that was really brilliant.
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