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Is Katrina Racist?
Opinion Journal /Wall Street Journal ^ | 2 September 2005 | James Tarantino

Posted on 09/02/2005 7:37:15 PM PDT by NavySEAL F-16

Al Sharpton showed up on Keith Olbermann's "Countdown" on MSNBC last night, and the pair sounded a theme that's becoming depressingly familiar in the effort to demagogue hurricane Katrina:

Olbermann: I actually heard a commentator this afternoon--it was that Limbaugh--suggest that the issue of class and race in those who were left behind in New Orleans was irrelevant, because, as he put it, those people were not forced to live there and they weren't bused into New Orleans.

And I was thinking, A, this guy is even more clueless than I thought he was, which is saying something. But, B, there are people who actually believe that. How do you respond to them? How do you explain to them what the truth is? . . .

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: katrina; katrinafacts
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There's a chart of the breakdown of races from the 2000 Census. Something you'll never see in the MSM.
1 posted on 09/02/2005 7:37:16 PM PDT by NavySEAL F-16
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To: NavySEAL F-16

No, Katrina was act of nature.


2 posted on 09/02/2005 7:39:04 PM PDT by freekitty
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To: NavySEAL F-16

My understanding is that Katrina sounds like an African-American woman's name.


3 posted on 09/02/2005 7:40:59 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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Every Katrina I have ever met has had a stuck-up attitude and wouldn't hesitate to run you over if you were between her and something she wanted.


4 posted on 09/02/2005 7:43:46 PM PDT by nhoward14
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To: NavySEAL F-16

Well, as usual, women and minorities are hardest hit.


5 posted on 09/02/2005 7:48:47 PM PDT by GSlob
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To: GSlob

: )


6 posted on 09/02/2005 7:52:34 PM PDT by aworldtrader
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To: NavySEAL F-16

Yep, the hurricane only picked on one race.

*rolleyes*


7 posted on 09/02/2005 7:53:50 PM PDT by Indy Pendance
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To: NavySEAL F-16

Al Sharpton= race bater

enuff said


Doogle


8 posted on 09/02/2005 7:54:05 PM PDT by Doogle (8th AF...4077thTFW....408MMS....Ubon Thailand "69"..Night Line Delivery ..AMMO)
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To: NavySEAL F-16

The entire city of N.O. is run by blacks. The citizens didn't listen to their own black leaders when they were told to get the f out.


9 posted on 09/02/2005 7:55:07 PM PDT by Ron in Acreage (It's the borders stupid! "ALLEN IN 08")
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To: NavySEAL F-16

Anyone who would have Al Sharpton on their show, should be fired. That professional RACE-BAITER is totally disgusting and I am sure that he in no way represents the American black community.

What a slug and a loser. Besides, that he is stupid!


10 posted on 09/02/2005 7:55:09 PM PDT by EagleUSA
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

My understanding is it's a German name.


11 posted on 09/02/2005 7:55:47 PM PDT by Indy Pendance
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To: NavySEAL F-16
A couple thousand people have died and our news media is dancing happy on their corpses. I'm so frickin fed up with tolerating this.

At this stage I think saying no to liberalism is just as important as saying no to King George.

We are witnessing the enemy, the MSM, with free reign. Constant drum beat of self-servicism. If we don't stop it, no one will.

12 posted on 09/02/2005 7:56:03 PM PDT by lizma
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MLK said he hoped someday his people would be judged not on the color of their skin...

But upon the content of their character...

Character is formed in the home..in intact families...and in schools who are allowed to teach such things....

Catch a clue you poverty pimp sob...you are the greatest evil enabler of your people..keeping them down so they kowtow to you and the communists who run you and your evil culture of learned helplessness

Listen to a real Reverend Jesse....Jesse Lee Peterson of BOND

13 posted on 09/02/2005 7:57:38 PM PDT by joesnuffy (Save the whales. Redeem them for valuable prizes.)
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A few stats to offset the lib whine that we should bring the troops home to help in the gulf arae:

Take the Army for example. There are 1,012,000 soldiers on active duty, in the Reserves, or in the National Guard. Of them, 261,000 are deployed overseas in 120 countries. Iraq accounts for 103,000 soldiers, or 10.2 percent of the Army.

That's all? Yes, 10.2 percent. That datum is significant in itself, a good one to keep handy the next time someone talks about how our forces are stretched too thin, our troops are at the breaking point, and so forth. If you add in Afghanistan (15,000) and the support troops in Kuwait (10,000) you still only have 12.6 percent.

14 posted on 09/02/2005 7:58:15 PM PDT by Graybeard58 (Remember and pray for Sgt. Matt Maupin - MIA/POW- Iraq since 04/09/04)
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To: NavySEAL F-16

About as much as NYC was on 9/11.


15 posted on 09/02/2005 7:58:52 PM PDT by Alissa
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To: Ron in Acreage

They will never blame their black leaders though. Pres. Bush is now to blame and totally responsible for every negative situation that happens in the entire world.


16 posted on 09/02/2005 8:05:26 PM PDT by BonnieJ
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To: NavySEAL F-16
Recall, too, that many of the same people who are now say the National Guard is too important to waste on American security overseas a year ago were insisting that George W. Bush was a bum for serving in the Texas Air National Guard while "war hero" John Kerry was in Vietnam.

Classic Retort!

Everybody, paste this quote into your perma-keep box and use it the next time a RAT attempts that lame argument again.

17 posted on 09/02/2005 8:05:32 PM PDT by Dont_Tread_On_Me_888 (Bush's #1 priority Africa. #2 priority appease Fox and Mexico . . . USA priority #64.)
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To: NavySEAL F-16

"Is Katrina Racist?"

If Jesse Jackson and/or Al Sharpton say so, then it must be true, right?


18 posted on 09/02/2005 8:07:06 PM PDT by Howie66 ("America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our people.")
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To: Dont_Tread_On_Me_888

Democrats and some in the media even said that serving in the National Guard was just as bad as dodgeing the draft.


19 posted on 09/02/2005 8:08:14 PM PDT by Ron in Acreage (It's the borders stupid! "ALLEN IN 08")
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

You're thinking of "Kaqueesha"


20 posted on 09/02/2005 8:08:43 PM PDT by The Worthless Miracle
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