Posted on 12/31/2008 1:28:50 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Black survivors of Hurricane Katrina said Tuesday that racism contributed to the slow disaster response, at times likening themselves in emotional congressional testimony to victims of genocide and the Holocaust.
The comparison is inappropriate, according to Rep. Jeff Miller, R-Fla. “Not a single person was marched into a gas chamber and killed,” Miller told the survivors.
“They died from abject neglect,” retorted community activist Leah Hodges. “We left body bags behind... The people of New Orleans were stranded in a flood and were allowed to die.”
Angry evacuees described being trapped in temporary shelters where one New Orleans resident said she was “one sunrise from being consumed by maggots and flies.” Another woman said military troops focused machine gun laser targets on her granddaughter’s forehead. Others said their families were called racial epithets by police.
“No one is going to tell me it wasn’t a race issue,” said New Orleans evacuee Patricia Thompson, 53, who is now living in College Station, Texas. “Yes, it was an issue of race. Because of one thing: when the city had pretty much been evacuated, the people that were left there mostly was black.”
According to a recent Gallup poll, NBC News’ Kerry Sanders reported on Tuesday, six out of every 10 black New Orleans residents said if most of Katrina’s victims were white, relief would have arrived sooner.
Discussions about race began almost immediately after Katrina hit on Aug. 29. On Sept. 9, according to NBC News, President George W. Bush told the public, “The storm didn’t discriminate and neither will we in the recovery effort.”
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I wonder how many are getting bored, bored, bored to death with “racism”?
Start with their mayor and governor at the time.
I blame STUPIDITY for slow aid. Blame Nagin, Blanco and most of all the IDIOTS who didnt leave ON THEIR OWN.
I’ve been bored by “racism” for years. What I’m getting bored with now is Katrina.
Pure nonsense. The democrat governor was caught saying she deliberately delayed authorizing the feds to come in. And the people there failed to help themselves. It’s all a very sad commentary.
Today’s “logic”: My skin is dark therefore anything bad that happens in my life is racism, anything good in my life, no explanation.
“I wonder how many are getting bored, bored, bored to death with “racism”?”
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I’m such a knuckle-dragging neanderthal I was already bored with it around 1972.
Though “thoroughly pissed-off” at the gross injustice of it all, would be a more apropos characterization.
It rained today. Blacks got wet. Must be RACISM !!!!!
NAGIN,NAGIN,NAGIN,NAGIN,BLANCO,BLANCO,BLANCO was the problem
and don’t forget it.
I blame stupidity for them staying there in the first place.............
Yes,it had nothing to do with a buffoon of a Mayor and a
incompetent drunk of a governor and a 100 yrs of govt relief
checks that some NO residents to dumb to get out of the way.
Now, now, I too, recall how hard Mississippi was hammered and how well it dealt with the situation. But you must understand that your Governor was the hated former RNC chief Haley Barbour and it would not do to point that out.
Such news would have embarrassed the media effort to blame Bush for the suffering black people of NOLA and defuse that all-out, roughly two-week effort the MSM made to try and start another Race War.
Not to worry though sir, I’m glad you rolled with the punches and got back on your feet. Non-democrat, non-black folk are not allowed to be bitter at life’s blows and in any case this problem—like homelessness—will suddenly cease to exist once The Messiah takes the Oath of Office on the twentieth.
“Another woman said military troops focused machine gun laser targets on her granddaughter’s forehead. “
Yeah I’m sure that’s exactly what the relief troops were busy doing, targeting this woman’s grandaughter and because of her race. These people live in their own version of reality.
..."Louisiana got a ton of money. The problem is that it went to politicians who doled it out to bureaucrats so they could create committees to hire experts to write studies to submit to a panel who created guidelines, requirements, rules, and procedures for people who lost everything to abide by in order to protect the state from being cheated out of money by people by people pretending to have lost everything when in fact they did not. (breath) Then, they hired a bunch of appraisers who low-balled the value of a home so the homeowners would appeal the amount to another panel and the state then had to hire more appraisers, accountants, actuaries, and attorneys to testify that the state's amount was correct only to have said panel agree with the homeowner's appraisal. (breath) THEN, the state created another bureaucracy for the homeowners to submit their paperwork to, only to refuse to give the homeowner a check because the owner had lost some piece of paper along the way and didn't have sufficient information for the bureaucrat to determine the accuracy of the homeowner's file (sadly, the bureaucrat did not have ANY of the homeowner's paperwork in his files because that information is stored in a different department). When the homeowner returns after finding the paper, a new "public servant" has been assigned to his file and is unaware of conversations with the previous bureaucrat because no notes were taken and again denies the homeowner because of a different piece of missing paper. When the homeowner finally gets everything he needs together, the billions of dollars given to the state has amazingly disappeared. Whoda thunk?" Meanwhile, the state was cheated out of hundreds of thousands of dollars by people pretending to have lost everything, but did not.
Do they blame William Jefferson for taking up valuable resources to rescue his freezer?
Best to take a deep breath sit back and relax. It will be coming at you in capital letters after Jan 20. The new national slogan wil be "Reparations." Why else do you think this kind of racial diarrhea is being smeared on the country now?
I thought it said 12/6/08! Wow, need to see an eye doctor!
Good point.
I’m so sick of this! They blame racism for their pimples.
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