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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And who was it that ran Louisiana for years and didn't want them? And which party runs the state where she now lives? To me this is a big-time slam on the Rat Party, even if the MSM doesn't recognize it.
Same with Mayor Bob-White.
If there had been adequate places for Houstonians to seek shelter, they wouldn't have clogged the highways leaving town.
No, STUPIDY cost lives.
A new word from Leah Hodges, as in "da dogs dat shoulda been euphemized was turned loose on us."
Democrat, Rep. William Jefferson (D) of Louisiana, faces investigation by the Justice Department over a telecommunications deal.
Thank Rino Main Street Republican Committee Chairman Tom Davis for allowing this circus to take place.
Tom Davis caved to that militant congresswoman.
Being ugly and stupid is not attributable to racism.
Had Houstons shelters not been filled to capacity as Rita approached, maybe those elderly nursing home residents would not have died 200 miles north in a flaming bus inferno. I have no use for these ungrateful leeches.
Texans are big-hearted people, and like other big-hearted people. Perry's rating improvement is also due to his level-headedness in the evacuation of the Texas Gulf Coast pre-Rita.
He's gonna beat Ma Strayhorn like a cheap drum.
Well why don't we just throw some more money to these life-long looters!
bttt
Yep, Strayhorn is Ma Richards in GOP clothing.
"He's gonna beat Ma Strayhorn like a cheap drum."
I am grateful for that silver lining.
Katrina actually saved lives given the fact that New Orleans hasn't suffered a single homicide since then.
That would make too much sense.
Most of the people left. Because most of the people aren't social parasites expecting that everything in their life be provided free of charge and in first-class condition.
But the Democrats in Louisiana have succeeded in convincing a lot of N.O. blacks that they have no responsibility for anything, including their own lives.
"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."
An act of God killed people. Let me ask you one question. Who finally saved you, was it white people? I bet it was.
just an excuse to cover up their own ineptitude and laziness.
If race played a part in anything it was the major's realization that he could string the black folks along hopelessly and helplessly.
Interesting point.
The hearings do not reflect the aid that was delivered to many, many thousands of folks hurt by Katrina. Is it the feds' fault that many more people were displaced by the storm than we have ever had? Why aren't we hearing from folks in Alabama, Mississippi, and Florida who were hammered by this storm? Seems to me the only bitching I'm hearing is from folks who think the feds are responsible for their well-being, and not themselves. Once the feds figured out the Louisiana crowd had no plan in place to help, President Bush got the ball rolling. Was it a day or two late? Perhaps it was, but at least the attemt was made before hand to tell the folks in N.O. to get the hell out of town. I cannot feel sorry for those who elected to stay there, and that is their problem, not the federal gov't.
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