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Racism cost lives, N.O. evacuees say
The Times-Picayune ^
| Wednesday, December 07, 2005
| Bruce Alpert
Posted on 12/07/2005 7:55:45 AM PST by Klatuu
WASHINGTON -- Four African-American New Orleans residents told a House committee Tuesday that they felt a sense of abandonment from all levels of government when Hurricane Katrina hit three months ago and believe more lives and homes would have been saved had the victims been predominantly white and wealthier.
"People were allowed to die," said Leah Hodges, who told the panel she still doesn't know if her brother survived the hurricane. She likened what happened to New Orleans, and many of its black residents, to "genocide and ethnic cleansing."
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; US: Louisiana
KEYWORDS: anticapitalists; barkingmoonbats; bushbashing; katrina; neworleansflood; no; nola; nolaaftermath; partisanwitchhunt; playtheracecard; racialdivision; racism; stupidisasstupiddoes
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Thompson said she's now living in College Station, Texas, and isn't sure if she will return to New Orleans. "We won't be missed because we were never wanted anyway," Thompson said. With that attitude, why would anyone want you to come back?!
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posted on
12/07/2005 7:55:45 AM PST
by
Klatuu
To: Klatuu
Their own incompetence was the culprit. Not racism. As a poster on another thread noted, even if you had to walk, 12 miles isn't that far. Some people won't lift a finger to save their own ass.
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posted on
12/07/2005 7:56:53 AM PST
by
xrp
(Conservative votes are to Republicans what 90% of black votes are to Democrats (taken for granted))
To: Klatuu
Wish she would - we certainly don't need her in Texas.
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posted on
12/07/2005 7:57:13 AM PST
by
grobdriver
(Let the embeds check the bodies!)
To: Klatuu
Dyan French is the former head of the NO NACPP.
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posted on
12/07/2005 7:58:20 AM PST
by
ncountylee
(Dead terrorists smell like victory)
To: ncountylee
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posted on
12/07/2005 7:58:57 AM PST
by
ncountylee
(Dead terrorists smell like victory)
To: Klatuu
Barking moonbat alert.
She was going off on capitalism and other "isms".
Laura Ingraham has been playing audio of the testimony.
The woman appears to oppose "optimism" but embrace "Marxism".
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posted on
12/07/2005 8:00:22 AM PST
by
weegee
(Christmas - the holiday that dare not speak its name.)
To: Klatuu
Do these idiots realize that the more they are out there b!tchin' and moanin', that the American people are more and more likely to slowly close their wallets and put them back in their pockets?
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posted on
12/07/2005 8:00:24 AM PST
by
digger48
To: ncountylee
You have got to be kidding. I watched her last night and wasn't surprised.
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posted on
12/07/2005 8:00:25 AM PST
by
mlc9852
To: Klatuu
Perfect epitomization of the 'victim mentality.'
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posted on
12/07/2005 8:01:14 AM PST
by
tgusa
(Gun control: deep breath, sight alignment, squeeze the trigger .....)
To: Klatuu
I watched some of these fat-asses on the tube this morning.
No wonder they couldn't hack the walk out of NOLA.
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posted on
12/07/2005 8:01:39 AM PST
by
SJSAMPLE
To: Klatuu
WASHINGTON -- Four African-American New Orleans residents told a House committee Tuesday that they felt a sense of abandonment from all levels of government when Hurricane Katrina hit three months ago and believe more lives and homes would have been saved had the victims been predominantly white and wealthier. Uh, the wealthier people, having lived their lives making decisions and taking responsibility for them and theirs, got themselves out. They didn't sit and wait for the gummint.
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posted on
12/07/2005 8:02:08 AM PST
by
atomicpossum
(Replies should be as pedantic as possible. I love that so much.)
To: Klatuu
Did anyone happen to ask these "African-Americans" what color the Mayor of New Orleans is? Or, whether it was the Mayor's job to get the school buses rolling for evacuations? Or, whether those buses, like many of the people, were left to drown as the Mayor fled the City? Or, whether they voted to elect the black Mayor who left them in the lurch?
Somehow, I doubt that those questions were asked or answered. Another instance of worthless testimony before Congress. There's always been a lot of that.
Congressman Billybob
Latest column: "What Side is the New York Times On?"
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posted on
12/07/2005 8:02:12 AM PST
by
Congressman Billybob
(Do you think Fitzpatrick resembled Captain Queeg, coming apart on the witness stand?)
To: Klatuu
Note to Leah: IF you have the lowest recorded barometric pressure ever recorded in an Atlantic storm, and it jumps to a cat five with 175 mph winds and you don't have enough sense to get the heck out of its way, that is not racism, that is stupidity.
To: xrp
As a poster on another thread noted, even if you had to walk, 12 miles isn't that far.NO is noted as the most obese city in the country! A bunch of fat, lazy asses! I doubt most could walk 12 yards!
To: mlc9852
You have got to be kidding. Nope...she's proud of her NAACP days.
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posted on
12/07/2005 8:02:48 AM PST
by
ncountylee
(Dead terrorists smell like victory)
To: Klatuu
Maybe next time they'll vote Republican.
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posted on
12/07/2005 8:02:59 AM PST
by
westmichman
(I vote Republican for the children and the poor!)
To: Klatuu
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posted on
12/07/2005 8:03:33 AM PST
by
weegee
(Christmas - the holiday that dare not speak its name.)
To: ncountylee
I'm sick of these complainers. Not enough black people volunteer to help at the Red Cross? The Red Cross is racist. Not enough black people evacuatted and the black mayor of New Orleans didn't do enough of a job to help people leave? Clearly racism at work. I'm surprised they haven't denounced Katrina as a racist Jim Crow hurricane!
This isn't surprising though. Decades of liberal entitlement programs have created this. People have never had to take responsability for anything. They've always been given handouts. Comfortable with those, they use the stock excuse of racism to excuse a lack of motivation to improve their situation, and a lack of commitment to things like education. Anything wrong in their lifes isn't their fault, and is best fixed with more dollars from the federal government.
To: grobdriver
How long before our visitors expect us Texans to wipe their butts too? Why Perrys approval ratings improved over this bungle I dont understand.
To: hillary's_fat_a**
All that butter. And fried food.
Sugarbusters diet options have been added to menus but drinking lo carb beer is no solution. It requires a lifestyle change.
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posted on
12/07/2005 8:04:44 AM PST
by
weegee
(Christmas - the holiday that dare not speak its name.)
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