Posted on 09/03/2005 2:34:53 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Black Democrats in Congress and civil rights leaders yesterday accused the Bush administration of incompetence and a lack of compassion for blacks in response to the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
"Many of these Americans who now are struggling to survive are Americans of color," Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Maryland Democrat, said. "Their cries for assistance confront America with a test of our moral compass as a nation."
He quoted the admonition of Christ to feed the hungry and clothe the naked, and said: "To the president of the United States, I simply say that God cannot be pleased with our response."
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, the highest-ranking black member of the administration, rejected the suggestion of racism in the government's response.
"That Americans would somehow in a color-affected way decide who to help and who not to help -- I just don't believe it," she said. "Americans are generous to each other, and I think you're seeing that people are opening their homes to people who are displaced and have had to be evacuated."
Black leaders at a press conference in Washington criticized news coverage they said has depicted blacks in New Orleans as looters and refugees.
"We cannot allow ourselves to see only the black faces doing the looting and not see the homeowners, the families, the children who have lost everything," said Dorothy I. Height, president emeritus of the National Council of Negro Women.
Mr. Cummings objected to the use of the term "refugees," which news organizations have applied to both whites and blacks left homeless by the storm. Dictionaries typically define "refugee" as "one who flees for safety, especially to a foreign country."
"I hate the term refugees," he said. "Americans are dying, not refugees. ...
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Black Democrats in Congress and civil rights leaders yesterday accused the Bush administration of incompetence and a lack of compassion for blacks in response to the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
The reason that this wasn't so was because some thugs decided to make a living hell out an already bad situation. Imagine if instead of looting, raping and destroying everything they used that energy to setup a distribution system to get commandered food and medical supplies to the people that needed it. While it would have still been awful it wouldn't have been hell.
Looters are victims in the world of the Black Caucus.
But the first bus to arrive in Houston was not provided by FEMA. It was a yellow Orleans Parish school bus driven by an unidentified teenager.
He had stolen the bus, loaded it with family members and left ahead of the official caravan.
Initially, Texas officials refused to admit the school bus refugees to the Astrodome. Then a Red Cross official named Margaret O'Brien-Molina noticed the children aboard. She walked them in, holding the hand of a 5-year-old girl.
"That little girl, think about what she's been through the last few days," she explained.
Before the day was over, the Astrodome was full and freeway signs that had welcomed refugees were switched to a different message: "Houston shelters are full. Go to Dallas or San Antonio."........*** Source
Ben DeSoto / Chronicle A woman carries a child the final distance to shelter early today after a day's journey from New Orleans. A decision to close Houston's Reliant Astrodome to incoming refugees was reversed early Friday.
With every accusation they hope to cover up the fact that it was a Majority Black City, with a Black Police Chief and A Black Mayor and a Black City council.
Furthermore is was a Democratic city in a Democratic state.
Now this shouldn't matter, until The Black Caucus makes it matter. They are scared to death that it will become apparent that Blacks can't govern, and Democrats are the last bunch you want in control in an emergency.
The plan all along was to abandon the poor blacks, and the Mayor said as much in July as posted here on FR.
If the Black Caucus would just shut up about it, this would go away, but if they insist on making a stink then the stink is going to come home to roost.
Chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., right, huddles with Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr., D-Ill., left, during a news conference on Friday, Sept. 2, 2005 in Washington. Members of the Congressional Black Caucus, Black Leadership Forum, National Conference of State Legislators, National Urban League, and the NAACP were critical of the relief effort for victims of Hurricane Katrina. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
U.S. President George W. Bush (L) hugs a resident, displaced by Hurricane Katrina, outside a Salvation Army food distribution area in Biloxi, Mississippi September 2, 2005. U.S. commercial airlines plan to ferry more than 25,000 New Orleans residents displaced by Hurricane Katrina from the city to safer locations, the airline industry and the U.S. government said on Friday. REUTERS/Frank Polich
And these thugs didn't just fall off the straight and narrow turnip truck.
New Orleans' government needs to be introspective and not go shooting their mouths off, blaming others.
But as they say, a good defense is a good offense.
Hey! These looters could be paid get out the vote enforcers for Democrat candidates.
Same old song same old dance, excuses and shift the blame. It's served the black community well over the years just look at the census information on New Orleans.
If almost all the people left are black then the whole picture is that almost all the people doing the rescuing are white.
" Why even respond to such nonsense? With every accusation they are admitting that New Orleans had no government to start with and it was "Bush's fault." The truth will come out eventually. " .... your right,,,, as also in, the truth will come out eventually about Able Danger and how Bill AND ! Hillary both had their hand in it.
The Left has lost it.
They don't get it.
Americans do for Americans.
Democrat politicians do for themselves.
Racism is an easy talking point of concern to take to the podium for a "rebel without a cause".
Total baloney.
Months from now when all is settled down some, people will realize that this was just a tremendously different and awful event. The Federal government has done well, if there is a complaint about government, it's with the mayor and that incompetent governor.
Thank you Dubya for their loss.
Regards,
Concerned Americans
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