The Racism Charges Won’t Wash

City Journal ^ | September 14, 2005 | Peggy Noonan

[mlc9852]

Biting the hand that feeds them, as usual.

[Lacey]

"There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs. There is a certain class of race-problem solvers who don't want the patient to get well."

--Booker T. Washington, 1911

Ms Braun is but one example.

[Piquaboy]

She is another example of sending the worse and the dumbest instead of the best and the brightest to represent the people.

[DoctorMichael]

Whether Liberals know it or not, they are caricatures of themselves.

[OKIEDOC]

Jessie Jackass is the love child of the hate America first crowd.

[fatnotlazy]

"There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs. There is a certain class of race-problem solvers who don't want the patient to get well."
--Booker T. Washington, 1911

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Truer words were never spoken. I have long though that the two so-called Reverends -- Jackson and Sharpton -- keep bringing up allegations of racism (true or not) simply because if they didn't, neither of them would be gainfully employed for long. This is how they make their living, posing in front of cameras and hurling unfounded accusations.

If they had the interests of "their people" at heart, why weren't they in NO or Biloxi or Gulfport or any of the other areas hard hit by Katrina -- to do some real work helping the desolate people? I didn't see either of them in the disaster areas handing out food, shoveling out the mess or doing anything meaningful to help out. Afraid to get their hands dirty?

[Youngman442002]

On the Larry King show last night..they had a black congressman..Galloway..he of course said the response was slow because the people were black...King just let it float out there. The first thing came to me was the violence..if I was just a volunteer worker..would you go into harms way and get yourself killed because of the thugs and gang bangers..or would you wait till the city is secure and safe...so when the Black gangs were shooting at the helicopter's, and ransacking the hospitals and shops...they are to blame for the SLOW response

[dfwgator]

It is all about THEM hating the fact that they aren't in POWER anymore. That is what it's all about. Nothing more, nothing less.

[SueRae]

Oh, how true.

[SuziQ]

Braun’s tortured distinction between a prejudiced government and a charitable people is, of course, absurd: if the public is color-blind in its compassion, its elected representatives will be, too. She offers no theory for why public officials would have held onto race prejudice while the public discarded it.

Carol Mostly Fraud is the the perfect example of, "you don't need a reason when you have an ideology"!

[OKIEDOC]

I think this disaster speaks volumes for the kind of unintelligent Democrat voter that Jessie Jackson recruits to his cause.

Those humans down in New Orleans acted like rabid animals.

Seems as though white enablers in the MSM and black race baiter's use poverty as an excuse for depravity.

MSM get over it, some people are poor because they want to be.

Jessie Jackson needs to keep these people on the plantation by any means possible.

[Kenton]

I think we need to spread the rumor on the net that various leftwing personalities have offered the use of their homes for displaced storm victims. Just get it out in the news.

Then let them deny it.

News reporter: "Miss Streisand, it's been widely reported that you have offered the use of your home for displaced storm victims. How many New Orleans residents do you figure to put up in that California estate of yours?

Barbara Streisand: "Wha-wha-wha-WHATTTTTTTTTTT!!!???? Poor people, in MY house? On MY spotless white carpets and furniture? NONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONO"

[wayoverontheright]

It used to be that a charge of racism was a dart which always hit its intended target. The recipient would swiftly and permanently suffer the stigma without being able to defend himself. There is now so much evidence to the contrary that the charge itself is beginning to boomerang on the dart thrower, IMHO.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Why isn't she in jail ?

[CDHart]

I just a minute ago heard Donna Brazile on NPR whining about "they didn't give us food, we had no water, they let us die and the worst thing was that government didn't care about us." That's a paraphrase, but you get the idea. Several generations are now totally dependent on the government thanks to the welfare state mentality.

Carolyn

[Peach]

Posted by Peach to saveliberty; Tony Snow
On News/Activism 09/16/2005 9:32:53 AM EDT · 105 of 105


For those interested, this is the most comprehensive analysis of what happened in New Orleans and a timeline.

I've been close attention to this matter, as a lot of us have, and there is a lot of information in here that I did not know.

It also explains, specifically, why the feds were PROHIBITED by law, from acting in New Orleans, until the Governor signed a specific request for help.

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1485619/posts

[Unam Sanctam]

What a great, and perfectly accurage quote from Booker T. Thanks for posting.

[william clark]

Oh, but it WAS racism that was the cause of all this misery. The racism that says "You'll never be able to handle life in this country without the government giving you all the basics." This fostered the mindset of dependence on the government and the support of a political party that pushes this ideology and overlooks all manner of corruption in order to acquire and maintain power. In plantation times, this racism was well-represented in the phrase "We treat our darkies GOOD."