“If you’ll look at my lovely FEMA attire you’ll really vomit. I
am a fashion god� Anything specific I need to do or tweak? Do
you know of anyone who dog-sits? � Can I quit now? Can I
come home? � I’m trapped now, please rescue me.”
Ex-FEMA Director Michael Brown, in various emails to colleagues
and friends in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina“Considering the dire circumstances that we have in New Orleans,
virtually a city that has been destroyed, things are going
relatively well.”
FEMA Director Michael Brown, Sept. 1, 2005“What I’m hearing which is sort of scary is that they all want
to stay in Texas. Everybody is so overwhelmed by the hospitality.
And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were
underprivileged anyway so this (chuckle) � this is working very
well for them.”
Former First Lady Barbara Bush, on the hurricane evacuees at
the Astrodome in Houston, Sept. 5, 2005“Now tell me the truth boys, is this kind of fun?”
House Majority Leader Tom Delay (R-TX), to three young hurricane
evacuees from New Orleans at the Astrodome in Houston,
Sept. 9, 2005
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repugnants are not known for compassion or brains.
oops I should have read the entire post. LOL Sorry for duplicating.
as seen today on a queens nyc bus:
I Don’t Need Your Approval podcast
My response to a bible thumper on my blog brought about this show. LOL
Disgusting.
AG
The Allentown, PA Morning Call today has a large article about the horse race of Black politics in America Relating to the Lynn Swann race for governor of PA. They never once mentioned Katrina.
Jury out on GOP push for black votes, candidates
I posted the following on their story forum thread.
There is one nationally unifying issue in this and coming elections that the GOP owns, Katrina. What the GOP did to the majority Black community of New Orleans is seared in the minds of poor people of all colors. At a time when people, who are ready had little, have even that taken away by circumstance the GOP did nothing for them. The GOP disbursed their community across the nation.
Affluent minorities, who have alternatives in disasters, may not readily and publicly acknowledge the concerns that Katrina raised for poverty oppressed peoples living in easy target high density urban communities. But poverty oppressed minorities feel it in their hearts: ‘There but for the grace of God…..’ This affinity for and identity with the poorest peoples of New Orleans, I am convinced, will keep many a Black American away from the GOP column.
The superficial sillyness of a Black candidate like Swann spouting all the same failed supply side arguments that have helped to keep minorities poor in America will not overcome the images from the Super Dome. The racism in the media egged on the politicians.
While journalists and politicians obsess over the political horse race and do everything to ignore the issues that impact the hearts and minds of the people, Katrina will define elections, if not politics, for generations to come.
In the past week a story happened in the Lehigh Valley, PA after a Northampton Co. juvenile court judge brought up the issue of “invidious racism” in the American criminal justice system. The demagogues shut him down quick.
I wrote a series of essays on my blog, LeftIndependent blog, culminating in: The invidious economics of Jim Crow
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I will never forget the second or third day of seeing these poor people screaming for help on tv. My heart ached for them(and it still does). I called Boxer’s office that morning demanding to know what she was doing to help these people and of course didn’t get an answer. Well, I lost it. I started screaming that we needed to do something, to get this asstwit president off his vacation ass and get help down there and so on and so on. It is probably the first time in my life that the person I was screaming at on the other end didn’t hang up on me. We are still screaming for help for those people a year later and the asstwit is showing up for yet another phot op! Freaken disgusting that we continue to allow this to keep happening.
And now there’s a hurricane headed for central west Florida, to coincide with the anniversarry of Katrina and Bush’s visit to N. Orleans.
Watch how well Jeb performs to make his brother look good again. And people will fall for it.
Like AG says….disgusting.
Last year during the aftermath of Katrina someone here at BMT (and I can’t remember who – are you still out there?) said the song that kept running through their head was Pink Floyd’s: On the Turning Away”. I think we should make it this week’s anthem.
Michael Dyson is on c-span now talking about Katrina. He just threw out a powerful statement:
Charity is no substitute for justice.
He went on to talk about charity happening when “you feel like it,” whereas justice establishes the structures to do the job.
This is a powerful concept – and that’s coming from someone who – in trying to run a non-profit – gets awfully tired of begging for charity to address the injustices our society commits daily against our children.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14515422/site/newsweek/