Sunday, September 04, 2005

Where to begin?

I wanted to start this thing off by saying that New Orleans has been blown out of the water. But that's not accurate, is it?

Amidst the devastation, questions are sprouting up like weeds on amphetamines. Anger, despair and blame have been loosed from their tethers of human domesticity and are wooshing through the air like furies, stirring up energies which shouldn't die down any time soon.

Some people say that this "natural" disaster will have long term effects not just on the geography and economy of the locality but the social fabric of the nation. Comments from black demogogues are hopefully igniting a move to action.

Jesse Jackson, Sr. spoke to the Bush Administration's incompetence and overtones of racism in handling this crisis.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/jesse-jackson-launches-attack-on-bush/2005/09/03/1125302772060.html

Kanye West claimed "George Bush doesn't care about black people" and said America is set up "to help the poor, the black people, the less well-off as slow as possible." during "A Concert for Hurricane Relief," a benefit which aired live on NBC and other east coast networks Friday night (September 2), but was censured for west coast broadcast.

Mayor Agins blasted the Federal Government's slow response in New Orleans.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/09/02/nagin.transcript/
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and Warrick Dunn, NFL Man of the Year, expressed his quiet outrage and shame at how the United States Government is treating its own citizens, particularly at the labeling of citizens as refugees.

(cannot locate copy of interview which was aired on Indianapolis news channel)

The bottom line? That the majority of people affected in Louisiana are black and poor... and democrats.

(I've got to take a break to sort out my thoughts and edit this later - stay tuned)