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Posted on 09/06/2005 10:20:34 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Kanye West is way off base.
During an NBC network fund-raiser Friday to help Hurricane Katrina victims, West, a hip-hop artist, let loose with an incredibly destructive diatribe. Among other crass comments, West said, "George Bush doesn't care about black people."
.....West certainly was not the only one to throw down the race card. Some other blacks also accused the federal government of neglecting New Orleans because it has a black majority and rampant poverty.
The racial friction is unwarranted and counterproductive.
I'm no fan of President George W. Bush, but here's a fact that can't be denied: He was not slow to prepare for last week's disaster.
Bush declared a state of emergency for Louisiana on Aug. 27. That was two days before Hurricane Katrina hit Louisiana. The declaration started the process to assemble federal resources.
The racial criticisms made by West and others are an insult to the heroics of U.S. Coast Guard and U.S. Air Force rescuers I watched on the television news. These guys have been descending on cables from helicopters and carrying New Orleans residents out of flooded neighborhoods. The rescues started on Aug. 29, the same day the hurricane hit.
And here's an interesting thing that I noticed in those rescues. All of the men I saw come down from the helicopters were white. The majority of the people plucked from the rooftops were black. Yet those white rescuers didn't seem to care what the victims looked like. The rescuers were energetic and compassionate. In one incident, a white Coastguardsman and a black guy stranded on a rooftop embraced as though they were brothers. Tears filled my eyes. That scene made me extremely proud to be an American.
(Excerpt) Read more at orlandosentinel.com ...
Facts?
You have a perfectly good urban legend and you have the audacity to use Facts???
How low!
How about "black people don't care about each other"?
Why is it when someone defends the President this has to be said, "I'm no fan of President George W. Bush" ?
Who is this clown? Must not be too important, I've never heard of the kRapper.
When I initally read the title, I saw "Raper wrong about racism in rescues." I wonder how off I really was?
Good for Mr. Porter!
Gotta get that disclaimer in, to maintain liberal credibility......
Ok, correction completed. :-)
And I am a fan of President Bush, I think that he's an honest man.
The governor of Louisiana has first jurisdiction. He should have been the one to use NO and Louisiana schoo buses to get people out of NO, and should have called up the LA. Natnl Guard the day before the hurricane hit.
(Not sure if he counts as a conservative, though.)
Oh, welcome to FR BTW. :D
David Porter gets it...
I think it's a prerequisite in the media. That is, assuming one WANTS one's article/editorial to be published. ;)
Apparently Paul Taglibue doesn't think so.
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