"Bumblers, Not Bigots: The post-Katrina racism bunk"
Tags: randall robinson, elijah cummings, kanye west, ray nagin, kathleen blanco, george bush, michael brownDeroy Murdock has a long discussion of the race-baiting coming from "liberals", starting with Randall Robinson's infamous cannibalism post:
…Like New Orleans Mayor C. Ray Nagin, Louisiana Governor Kathleen Babineaux Blanco, and FEMA director Michael Brown, President Bush must explain why, for three to four days, no one could manage at least to air drop bottled water and granola bars on thousands of Katrina survivors who baked under temperatures exceeding 90 degrees at the Crescent City’s Superdome, its convention center, and freeway overpasses in the central business district.
While he must answer for that and other badly dropped balls, Bush need not apologize for being fueled by bigotry during last week’s “inadequate” federal response, as he described it.
This charge crumbles on first inspection.
George W. Bush is a politician with a very ambitious agenda. Does Randall Robinson really believe that Bush thinks it would be easier to persuade Congress to reform Social Security if he merely arranged to deny poor, beleaguered blacks food and water for over half a week?
Does Elijah Cummings truly believe that Bush thinks it would encourage the Senate to confirm his judicial appointees if he ordered FEMA to conduct slow-motion rescues of elderly black ladies from their attics?
Does Kanye West actually believe that Bush eagerly anticipated televised images of parched, screaming black babies as a public-diplomacy tool to boost European and Middle Eastern support for U.S. policy in Iraq and the Arab world?…
September 8th, 2005 at 11:08 am
Here in Utah we have run to the aid of ALL Americans in the south. I have to be honest and say, it disgust me that leaders of the liberal parties have the nerve to accuse the disaster relief of being Racist. They do this while we are forking over millions and millions of our dollars to help.
Not one liberal leader points out that Mayor Nagin had 5 days notice to get people evacuated and did nothing! He waited until 2 days before the Hurricane hit and then said if you can, get out. He then provided NO sorce of transportation out of the city for those who needed it. Why were over 500 school buses destroyed just parked waiting to be used in the flood? Those could have been, should have been, HAD TO HAVE BEEN used to get people out. Did it happen? NO!
Why was it when the Mayor called for evacuation the airports were already closed?
And by the way, the national news media announced that New Orleans had escaped what could have been a catastrophic storm the morning after the storm hit. The rest of the Country were led to believe (by the national news media) that Katrina wasn't near as bad as it could have been. Then as we all know, the levy broke and the rest is history.
Racism? Let me tell you what's happened and continues to happen with refugees that were flown to Utah. Volunteers in Utah have overwhelmed the red cross. We had almost 600 refugees flown to Utah. We have had almost 3 times that amount of volunteers come to assist in the care for them. I personally am not rich. I work 2 jobs to make 36k a year. I work hard and have very little money. I gave 100 dollars to relief funds. It hurts bad to then go home and see people on the news calling me (I am white and I pay taxes to the federal government) a racist.
Refuges that came Utah are on the news saying how overwhelmed they are by the love we have for them. Telling our local news that when they were in Louisiana they believed they were not being helped fast because of the color of their skin. Their stories changed coming to Utah. "It's not about race" one girl and her boy friend said. "I saw tears in white peoples eyes here, they cried for us because we are fellow Americans".
That's the whole problem with the United States. We use skin color or sexual preference to define who we are. I am not a heterosexual white European American . I am an American who happens to be white and likes women and has European roots. Be my fellow American and we can all get through this and be better people and better Americans for it.