Posted on 12/17/2005 12:35:43 AM PST by JohnHuang2
Some intriguing numbers came out this week proving that race played no role in the response to Hurricane Katrina. Of course, this bit of news never saw the light of day among America's leading news providers. They couldn't even tell the amazing news of 15 million people going to the polls in Iraq with only scattered violence. No, they had to concentrate on the feckless John McCain and his sympathy campaign for the terrorists. But I digress ...
The numbers were released from the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals. What they indicated was worthy of front-page coverage in every newspaper in America.
On a whim, I decided to run a Google search to see how many listings reported Kanye West's nationally televised statement saying the president didn't "care about black people." As of Thursday evening, there were 137,000 entries; they included links to most of the major news organizations across America.
As the days following Katrina have ticked away the rhetorical residue that was left across America in the aftermath of the hurricane was formed by West's absurd statement, coupled with intellectual giants like Louis Farrakhan (Nation of Islam), Malik Zulu Shabazz (Black Panther Party) and Damu Smith (National Black Environmental Justice Network), and multiplied over again by the Reverends Jackson and Sharpton and their media omnipresence in the hours and days following. Enough ideologues said it again and again to where they convinced the better part of black America that it was true.
But according to the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals, we now know exactly the opposite to be the case.
In the devastation of Katrina it was whites – not blacks – that died in the highest percentage according to population. Whites perished at a rate of +8.6 percent above the population rate. Blacks perished at -18.15 percent below their population rate. All other groups perished at a rate of -.7 percent.
Coupling these hard statistics with what we now also know of the New Orleans mayor's negligence in not following his own hurricane evacuation protocol – and leaving some 2,000 buses unused a full 48 hours before the hurricane made landfall – makes the truth a bitter pill for the aforementioned black "leaders" to swallow.
If there was an elected leader who acted swiftly to assist the residents of New Orleans it was President Bush. His persistence was rebuffed multiple times, according to Gov. Kathleen Blanco's recently disclosed e-mail records on the matter.
If there was an elected white politician who acted with negligence and almost defiant carelessness toward the residents of New Orleans, it was Gov. Blanco who refused federal help even a full two days after Katrina made landfall.
And if there was an elected politician whose own incompetence led to the deaths of hundreds of black residents in New Orleans – unnecessarily – it was Mayor Ray Nagin.
The question now is, will anyone go back and attempt to correct the onslaught of dishonest statements of slander committed against the president?
Will any major news network report the findings of these statistics and draw the appropriate editorial conclusions?
Will Kanye West stop rapping about "selling crack," using the N-word, using the F-word, and "getting' it" "wid his hoes" to go back on national television and apologize for being as presumptive, racist and ignorant as he is profane?
Probably not, nor will the media who gave him the opportunity to slander the president without regard to accuracy or facts.
But such is the track record for those claiming the leadership mantle of America's black communities. They are willing to watch their own communities be cannibalized by the abortion industry that their own leftist leaders empower. They hold grudges, filled with overwhelming repugnance, against any from their community that have the gall to think for themselves and choose a different political or ideological path.
Thankfully, their time in the leadership spotlight will soon be spent, and their intolerance and contempt against those who succeed with integrity and merit will be shown for the empty shame that it is.
Still, the injustice of allowing Kanye's words to simply linger in the American public's psyche seems brutally unfair.
Then again, what does Kanye West care about being fair to people?
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Kanye West? Why are we making a fuss of this shithead?
Kanye was whining that if he doesn't get his Grammy, it's political revenge. He has that much faith in his colleagues?
ROFL! Funniest thing I've read so far today!
Bump!
"What sticks out in my mind is the live interview by ABC of a black woman who I believe was in Houston. She was an evacuee from N.O.
Anyway, the reporter asked her an obviously leading question as to who she thought was to blame. She said Nagin. She didn't ascribe any blame at all to President Bush or any federal agency.
That, too, has slipped down the memory hole."
yah. Instead the major networks all made sure they ran the testemony before Congress of that dreadlocked moonbat declaring that she had witnessed the explosions that breached the levees...
Black 'leaders' caught in Katrina lie
-----And this surprises who? Leaders or leeches?
I really don't think those people care if they are spouting lies. All that matters to them is their agenda.
Interesting numbers ... however, it seems that Mr. McCullough must have pulled them out of his butt, because they did not come from the Louisian Department of Health and Hospitals.
http://www.dhh.state.la.us/news.asp?Detail=769
Which begs the question, exactly what did "THE MEDIA" miss on this one ? But I guess we shouldn't be distracted by the FACTS ...
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