OMG----
THEY are demanding, they want control over Red Cross money and all that...huh...well, dream on racists....dream on.
I saw a presser on that WWL on Saturday, I think, and it was a LA Black Caucus or something...and it was a group of VERY angry black people...one by one, getting on the microphone and telling "how it WILL be"...and how they "demand respect for the black people"...
I turned if off, shaking my head thinking they are young,..they don't know that one doesn't DEMAND respect, one EARNS it.
It seems that this Curtis Muhammed needs to learn the same lesson. I just wonder if Jesse Jackson or Louis Farrakhan or Sharpton is heading some of these groups.
As far as I am concerned, this is a HUGH slap in the face of all of the people in Texas and other states that have extended a helping hand without expectation of anything in return.
Monday, September 05, 2005
St. Tammany residents starting over in Midwest
By PAUL BARTELS
St. Tammany bureau
Almost 50 Slidell and Pearl River area residents made homeless by Hurricane Katrina’s devastation were evacuated over the weekend on two big tour buses with the promise of a new start in the Midwest.
The promise – guaranteed jobs and free apartments for up to six months – was made by Ed Blinn, a Marion, Ind., businessman who owns three used car lots and almost 100 apartments.
Some 47 people who had spent much of the week in five crowded, squalid school gymnasiums took him up on it the offer and boarded one of the buses Blinn hired to journey down the nation’s midsection and back.
They arrived at their new home, temporary or otherwise, late Monday afternoon and Blinn put them all up at a local hotel, he said in a telephone interview.
With his help and that of Red Cross volunteers and social service agencies, the displaced persons are settling into some of his vacant apartments and others – and into their new lives.
So, why did Blinn, 39, safe and sound with his family 900 miles away take it upon himself to embark upon this mission of mercy?
Blinn was aware from the numerous televised news accounts of the devastation and the plight of so many thousands of men, women and children driven from their homes in the New Orleans area.
But he also has a friend in Slidell, Roper Construction Co. owner Jimmy Roper. He’s the uncle of Dr. Mike Roper, a close friend of Blinn’s. For the past few years, the Blinns and Ropers have gone hunting together every year in South Dakota.
“I have a friend in Slidell – so that’s why I decided to go,” he said. “Hell, we’re like family.”
Blinn also was impatient with the slow pace of a hurricane relief effort that city officials and others in the Marion area were talking about to help the stricken area far to the south.
That group met late Friday and spent a lot of time talking without coming to a firm decision on what to do, he said.
“I just felt that with the bureaucracy, it wasn’t going to get done,” he said. “They said their next meeting was Tuesday and I knew I could make it happen, or thought I could and so I did.”
Accompanied by his 14-year-old son, Evan, Blinn hired a driver for each of the two buses capable of holding 30 to 35 passengers. The buses left Marion at about 8 p.m. Saturday and arrived in Slidell at mid-afternoon Sunday.
They then went shelter by shelter to John Slidell Park, three schools the names of which he couldn’t remember and ultimately to Creekside Junior High School near Pearl River.
At each stop, he told those stranded at the sweltering facilities about his proposal and his six-month “guarantee” of jobs and a place to live rent-free and gave them 20 minutes or so to make up their minds.
Not surprisingly, despite their desperate situations, many didn’t want to leave behind what had been their home for many years.
However, travelers ultimately included a family of three that initially wanted to stay, then changed their mind and chased down one of the buses after it began driving off and jumped on, Blinn said.
“I would have liked to stay a little longer and get a few more people,” he said. “I could’ve spent another day.”
But time was running out, the rescue group was informed of an 8 p.m. curfew, “and these people were weary enough” and faced a long drive back to Indiana.
Blinn said he didn’t know how many of his temporary charges eventually would decide to return to Louisiana or stay in their new homes.
“I don’t know if any of them will (want to return),” she said. “But if they do, I’ll help them get back. We’re friends now.”
Is this curtis muhammed a black man?? I'm NOT racist but a black man with the last name muhammed already has me suspicious,,,
Look who Curtis keeps company with:
January 30&31: DEMOCRACY AND US POLICY IN THE MIDDLE EAST
A FORUM Featuring CONGRESSWOMAN CYNTHIA MCKINNEY. TWO EVENTS:
FRIDAY, JANUARY 30, 2004 - 6:00PM, DILLARD UNIVERSITY and SATURDAY, JANUARY 31, 2004 - 11:00AM at UNO DOWNTOWN THEATRE
619 Carondelet St. Introductions by former New Orleans Black Panther and housing and prison activist MALIK RAHIM (Saturday); Community-Labor Organizer CURTIS MUHAMMED (Friday); Loyola Professor Nabil Al-Tikriti; former political prisoner King Wilkerson. Mc'ed by NOLAPS members Sandra and Jessica.
This was posted on a blog called NOLA Palestine Solidarity
http://216.109.125.130/search/cache?p=%22Curtis+Muhammed%22+louisiana&prssweb=Search&ei=UTF-8&n=10&fl=0&u=www.nolapalestinesolidarity.org/Actions/actions.htm&w=%22curtis+muhammed%22+louisiana&d=0B02D6402D&icp=1&.intl=us
Guess they are counting on everyone to be 'PC' and go along with their Race Card tactic.
What they don't realize is that are turning off a lot of moderate, apolitical, and independent types. Not to mention some of their very own constituency. At least that's been my experience over the past week.
The majority of the population isn't buying what they are selling.