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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What I think really happened is 80 - 90% of those people in N.O. chose to stay behind to loot. Well, that choice came back to bite 'em in the a$$ bigtime. Now they are trying to divert the attention elsewhere.
Just my opinion. Maybe I'm racist? /s
I agree. can you point me to that post?
The Katrina survivors that were on Cape Cod complained that there were too many White volunteers.
Actually Houston is listed as the nations most obese city by Mens magazine. New Orleans is on the list but pretty far down I believe. Google it, it's not hard to find.
Congressman Shays, meet Mama D! She Fi Bata Cappa.
My wallet is half closed. If they keep this up I will close it for good.
Failing to take responsibility for yourslef cost lives. Nothing more, nothing less.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency is paying an estimated $3 million a day for nearly 50,000 hotel rooms for hurricane victims. The agency had set a Dec. 1 deadline for moving families out of hotels and into more permanent housing, but later extended the deadline to Jan. 7.
The hotel program has cost the agency at least $300 million since Katrina hit on Aug. 29, followed by Hurricane Rita on Sept. 24.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,177264,00.html
LOL. So she's a professional race hustler.
But the saddest thing of all - If she did move back, she'd still vote Democrat.
My vote is for euphemasia.
Yup. Look at South Central LA after the riots...they were blaming everyone but themselves for the damage/destruction. I don't think many rushed in with open hearts.
Immigrant Blacks to this country look at these people as lazy idiots, as they should.
Whiners! Get out and help yourself! We evidently got some of them here in Helena- I donated an old microwave and when the minister came to get it said one of the guys who hadn't worked in NO got a $40,000 truck driving job here! So I guess the work is there if you get off your butt and look for it. I only donated to pet rescues there because I didn't like the blame Bush mentality.
A hurricane is "genocide and ethnic cleansing"? I agree that the government response, on all levels, stunk, but a hurricane is still a natural disaster, not an act of government.
Whiners! Get out and help yourself! We evidently got some of them here in Helena- I donated an old microwave and when the minister came to get it said one of the guys who hadn't worked in NO got a $40,000 truck driving job here! So I guess the work is there if you get off your butt and look for it. I only donated to pet rescues there because I didn't like the blame Bush mentality.
College Station probably doesn't want this societal sponge either.
Excuse me--doesn't the congress have anything better to do than hold these worthless hearings? Is this what we're paying them for?
How much tax money was flushed down the toilet on this stupid fiasco??
I suspect the people of College Station Texas want her to go back.
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