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Bush denies racial component to Katrina response after touring New Orleans
NEW ORLEANS – President George W. Bush, ducking low-hanging tree limbs and electrical wires, rode in an open truck Monday for his first close-up look at New Orleans’ ravaged, trash-strewn, flooded neighborhoods. He denied that poor, black victims of Hurricane Katrina were ignored because of their race.
This is what is on my start page for news. More of the blame game. It’s so stupid…we’re still worrying about if these people were ignored because they’re poor and black. HELLO! I’m poor and white (ok, so I’m not poor, but I’m a far cry from rich). If I was told, several days in ADVANCE, that a Cat 5 hurricane was headed at me, and that it was likely to bring a 20 foot wall of water along with it, I would LEAVE! I would grab my kids and my hubby and get the hell out of Dodge. I wouldn’t just sit there, and then cry when I wasn’t “saved” quickly enough. I’d WALK, if necessary.
Poor and black has nothing to do with it. What I question at this point is their intelligence.
Ok, that’s all…I think.
I am poor and white…what do I get?!?!
I know, this is so stupid. I knew it was coming though when the media showed all the citizens down there acting crazy and citizens suffering and they just happend to be mostly black, oh excuse me African American. I knew someone would cry foul. I saw Al Sharpton on Fox News last night and of course he had to spout off. I swear, it’s just idiotic I tell ya.
No one seems to remember NOT knowing how bad off it was down there within the first few hours because no one could get cameras in there or anything else. Yeah, like Bush looked at his FEMA people and said, “Nah, don’t bother, they are just black and poor.” I mean does that not sound like the most asanine thing you have EVER heard? Some people just need to wake up and take personal responsibility! You make me want to get on a rant about this at my own place.
Thanks. ;-)
Christ! You are just the bearer of bad news. The last 3 posts were enough to put me over the edge. The baby one was terrible. I am so damn sad. Yes, the people who stayed were really stupid. UGH to it all. No power, eh? Oh JESUS!
You are so right. It is so sad to see the focus being taken off of the important things and everyone spending all their time worrying about who did what and who can be blamed. There is time for that later, right now, lets just do what we can for the people down there.
Exactly
I keep going back to a question circling my little brain – what ever happened to personal responsibility?
I agree to a certain degree here. But what a lot of people don’t understand, from what I gathered is that the people affected aren’t as lucky as you and I. These people simply just get into their cars and drive away when for one, most of these people did not own an automobile, or have the luxury of cable TV to watch FoxNews. Most of these people living in the city are dependent on public transportation. Until we can get clear answers, all we can do is play the blame game. But, it is ironic enough that Florida is much quicker to receive the assistance of FEMA, then let’s say, um, Mississippi, Louisiana, Vermont even when flood happen. Does that have anything to do wt a certain Gov. having certain ties to the white house? Leave it to your imaginations.
Fair post.
If N.O.’s mayor had been more forceful in advising his constituents maybe they would have left. He was too busy saying they were ready.
Oh, he said today that they’re broke, I suppose if we don’t give enough we’ll be the “r” word because they’re black, if they were white we’d all double our taxes paid to help them out. Al Sharpton is rumored to have said that. Or will.
Regardless of my race, I would have moved heaven and earth to have gotten out of the way of that Hurricane.
Very well said….I too am poor (or not rich) middle class…but I would have left BTW with my animals.
I too wondered how come the mayor didn’t load those that had no transportation onto buses and taken them somewhere anywhere…