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
[[Leah Hodges, a community activist, recalled trying to help a group of stranded senior citizens. The military took them to an evacuation point on a highway where they spent the night, awakening to a "bunch of hard red necks scowling and growling at us in military uniforms.]]
I'm sure that NOBODY had the balls to call this creep on using a racial slur against whites during this hearing. Blacks are not held accountable for much in this country.
It wasn't a race issue.
Here we go again. Wanna bet if this had happened during the Clinton administration there would be no cry of racism? Don't you just wanna puke?
Not totally, but sheeshe.. does this racism excuse EVER stop?
I googled "Leah Hodges" -- apparently she's a former Black Panther who was charged with attempted murder of five police officers (or "pigs" as she quaintly refers to them) in 1970 or so. If this is the same person, I wouldn't trust a word she says.
Here's my stock answer that always shuts up the libs:
NOLA had 450,000 residents, three quarters of which, or 337,000 were black. If ten thousand were left behind, that means that more than 327,000 smart black people climbed into their cars, hopped trains and planes and got the hell out! So what's racist about that?
Of the approximately ten thousand problem cases, how many were white? How many --black or white --have been absorbed into other communities? Who exactly is still sitting there whining?
Meanwhile, on the largely white Mississippi coast, which took the full force of the hurricane and suffered hideous loss of lives and property, neighbors are helping neighbors clean up and rebuild. Few cries of racism emanate from MS because people are busy putting their lives together.
Wrong, McKinny! Racism is something that you talk about all the time.
The black Mayor of New Orleans had the buses to evacuate all those stranded people. If racism played any part in his decision to not use the busses, it must have been because he insisted the buses be re-painted black, before using them.
Despite all the name calling and racial card playing horse sh*t the left keeps trying to spin into the equasion, the truth shines as bright as the sun-The screw ups were caused by the dumb ass, incompentent, democrat politicians of Louiseana, from the US Senate to the Governor, to the Mayor.
C-Span 2 starting another replay right now...
The people that were left there were too stupid to contemplate the meaning of SELF-RELIANCE.
Top ten ploys for squeezing money out of America for fountains, casinos, ghost cops, payoffs and outright graft:
10. The Corps of Engineers built bad levees, so the Federal Government must give us money.
9. FEMA was slow rescuing us, so the government should give us money.
8. If you don't give us money, you're a racist.
7. If you don't give us money, you're heartless.
6. Give us money or the Mississippi River will have to close.
5. If you don't give us money, you won't be able to buy gasoline for less than five dollars per gallon anymore.
4. The National Weather Service told black people not to evacuate, so we deserve some money.
3. If you don't give us money, shrimp cocktail will cost $10,000.
2. Our kids can't go to school because the buses are all flooded. Send us money.
1. If we don't get some money, we'll start eating each other again.
Someone in congress missed the mini teleprompt that said "Paid for by L Farrah Kahn and J Jackson."
Translated all this means is, appropriate apologies will consist of getting your check books out caucasians. It will never be enough, but you get to apologize anyway. We're used to you doing it.
Any American who claims that they were treated by this administration like the victims of genocide and the Holocaust- are not worthy of listening to read a grocery list.
I got the proof of RACISM right here, if this bozo ever learned to read (isn't this the same one who's a "college edumacated student of history"?):
Stop the Republicans
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/1499184/posts
Racism played a role? Most of the city officials, from the mayor's office on down to the beat cop, in New Orleans are black. Heck, 80 percent of New Orleans is black.
When I and other Americans like me were blamed wholesale for the woes of the victims of local corruption and natural disaster, because we are white, that did it.
My wallet dried right up. So yes, racism played a role.
Had I not been bombarded with racism directed against me, I would have been inclined to give far more.
The facts, though, indicate that Katrina was an equal-opportunity drowner. Of the identified victims released to families from a makeshift New Orleans morgue, 44 percent were African-American, 47 percent Caucasian, 3 percent Hispanic and 8 percent unknown. Nor were blacks the only ones to see their homes destroyed. Katrina's storm surge demolished 95 percent of the homes in 95 percent white St. Bernard parish.