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To: GianniV
Jackson questioned why Bush has not named blacks to top positions in the federal response to the disaster, particularly when the majority of victims remaining stranded in New Orleans are black: "How can blacks be locked out of the leadership, and trapped in the suffering?"

Damned if we do, damned if we don't.

10 posted on 09/02/2005 1:32:45 PM PDT by mhking (The world needs a wake up call gentlemen...we're gonna phone it in.)
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To: mhking

"U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Russell Honore, head of the military task force overseeing operations in the three states, is black."

Yeah, but see, he's not the right kind of black.


71 posted on 09/02/2005 2:06:51 PM PDT by Apparatchik
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To: mhking
"How can blacks be locked out of the leadership, and trapped in the suffering?"

Jackson must have missed the fact that the mayor of NO is black.

76 posted on 09/02/2005 2:13:26 PM PDT by Fido969 ("And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free" (John 8:32).)
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