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Houses severely damaged by Hurricane Katrina are seen in the New Orleans East 
neighborhood in New Orleans, Monday, Dec. 5, 2005. The proposal by the
Urban Land Institute to rebuilding New Orleans, smacks of racism to certain local leaders. 
The proposal focuses available resources on the least damaged neighborhoods first, 
while carefully studying whether it makes sense to repopulate areas that flooded worst. 

(AP Photo/Chitose Suzuki) MLive.com

1 posted on 12/06/2005 3:25:07 PM PST by quantim
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These pathetic weaklings couldn't walk 12 miles into the next town where plenty of food and shelter were??

What the hell happened to self-reliance in this country?

2 posted on 12/06/2005 3:27:58 PM PST by Centurion2000 ((Aubrey, Tx) --- America, we get the best government corporations can buy.)
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Thank Mr. Nagin and Ms. Blank-o, you jerks.


3 posted on 12/06/2005 3:29:44 PM PST by brivette
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Maybe this will be the final straw that will break the back of the 'race' card.

REDICULOUS it is!


5 posted on 12/06/2005 3:30:50 PM PST by BlueStateDepression
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AND where was the Governor and Mayor of N.O.? I thought every state had a plan....no????? How foolish of me to think that....

Where was Kerry, Kennedy, clinton, boxer, and the rest of the koolaid crowd????? How about the Hollywood crowd....little babs, alex baby, oh yeah thats right, someone brought a boat down and ruined his motor...how foolish of me to forget that....

Oh yes, NOW I remember, IT'S ALL BUSH'S FAULT!!!! How foolish to think that people can manage on their own and survive, nope they have to have the PRESIDENT there to hold their hand...how foolish of me to forget!


6 posted on 12/06/2005 3:31:41 PM PST by HarleyLady27 (My ? to libs: "Do they ever shut up on your planet?" "Grow your own DOPE: Plant a LIB!")
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"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."

Bone head! You had the better part of a weeks warning to get out. You could have easily taken a bus out of town before the storm hit. Thats the problem with expecting cradle to grave government handouts to solve your every problem. GET OVER IT! IT WAS YOUR OWN STUPID FAULT FOR NOT LEAVING!

7 posted on 12/06/2005 3:33:54 PM PST by Desron13 (If you constantly vote between the lesser of two evils then evil is your ultimate destination.)
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"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."

White people mostly evacuated themselves [by autokinesis] ... many black people waited to be "rescued" by someone else.

New Orleans was almost 70% black ... isn't it natural that a predominantly black city would have predominantly black people left over at most "events"?

Let's move on to something worthwhile ... like rebuilding lives and rebuilding the city. Hurricane Katrina is over.

8 posted on 12/06/2005 3:35:20 PM PST by caryatid (Jolie Blonde, 'gardez donc, quoi t'as fait ...)
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I have been to Dachau, I find this comparison absolutely appalling. Did any "armed guards" tell them "Arbeit macht Frei? I didn't read of anyone committing suicide because there was no hope of rescue, I didn't see any ovens at the superdome or convention center for throwing people in, or showers hooked up to exhaust systems to gas people. I am sick of hearing about racism after being hit by a category 5 hurricane, after they were ordered to a mandatory evacuation.


9 posted on 12/06/2005 3:41:38 PM PST by WV Mountain Mama (I have a drink at night for my heart. Yeah, my heart, that's it.)
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These whackjobs hit every leftwing point imaginable. Halliburton, racism, concentration camps, shooting people when they left their homes, blowing up the levees, ethnic cleansing and no telling what else during the hearings.


10 posted on 12/06/2005 3:43:35 PM PST by pepperhead (Kennedy's float, Mary Jo's don't!)
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If the prospect of freedom couldn't make these people start walking north over 150 years ago, why would a category 5 hurricane?

Even fish know to walk out of a muddy puddle when their fins are stiff enough!


16 posted on 12/06/2005 3:50:50 PM PST by Mrs. Shawnlaw (Rock beats scissors, don't run with rocks. NRA)
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bump


17 posted on 12/06/2005 3:51:42 PM PST by SALChamps03
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investigating ...requested by Rep. Cynthia McKinney, D-Ga., a member of the Congressional Black Caucus.

Okay. Read enough right there. She's the real racist pig in this pen.


18 posted on 12/06/2005 3:52:02 PM PST by Mrs. Shawnlaw (Rock beats scissors, don't run with rocks. NRA)
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Cynthia McKinney, continuing her role as the conscience of Congress.

It wouldn't hurt if she would learn the meaning of the word "outplay" (as in "the Chargers outplayed the Raiders").

21 posted on 12/06/2005 3:56:43 PM PST by Verginius Rufus
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When Pompeii was destroyed in 79 A.D., the populace fled. When confronted with an oncoming disaster, like a forest fire, wild animals flee. Why couldn't these people at least take what they could carry and leave as quickly as possible?
25 posted on 12/06/2005 4:03:43 PM PST by jmcenanly
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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.

These people are beyond pathetic. Figures that dipstick RINO Christopher Shays would be at this hearing.

26 posted on 12/06/2005 4:04:21 PM PST by Godebert
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"Godwin's law
(From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.)

Godwin's Law (also Godwin's Rule of Nazi analogies) is an adage in Internet culture that was originated by Mike Godwin in 1990.

The law states that:
As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1.

Although the law does not specifically mention it, there is a tradition in many Usenet newsgroups that once such a comparison is made, the thread is over, and whoever mentioned the Nazis has automatically lost whatever argument was in progress.

It is considered poor form to arbitrarily raise such a comparison with the motive of ending the thread. There is a widely-recognized codicil that any such deliberate invocation of Godwin's law will be unsuccessful."


Racist Liberals Lose.


29 posted on 12/06/2005 4:13:07 PM PST by rlmorel ("Innocence seldom utters outraged shrieks. Guilt does." Whittaker Chambers)
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Thanks for the post. These people are obviously geniuses and we should all listen to them. They couldn't even find the bus station.
31 posted on 12/06/2005 4:14:28 PM PST by brooklin
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These people don't believe that crap it's all democrat racist posturing. Who got their sorry asses out of there and how soon? It sure wasn't the black mayor, etc.


32 posted on 12/06/2005 4:16:50 PM PST by Williams
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How many tens of thousands of cars, trucks and SUVs have the auto insurance industry estimated were destroyed,sitting in car ports and garages in the Ninth Ward and elsewhere? Every photo of the scenes of devastation shows vehicles that should have been GONE. If these apathetic people had driven them out of NO, they wouldn't have had to go to the Dome or the overpasses. But this group will always find someone other than themselves to blame for their lazy, ignorant choices.


33 posted on 12/06/2005 4:18:12 PM PST by kittymyrib
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"Racism is something we don't like to talk about, but we have to acknowledge it," McKinney said

This moon bat actually said this? McKinney talks about racism like crack heads talk about crack

34 posted on 12/06/2005 4:21:13 PM PST by Popman (In politics, ideas are more important than individuals.)
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"Because of one thing: when the city had pretty much been evacuated, the people that were left there mostly was black."

I saw Nagin on TV saying 'git your ass out of town.' He didn't say, 'white people git your ass out of town.' I think we have an IQ issue here, not race.

37 posted on 12/06/2005 4:27:35 PM PST by blam
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