Earlier this month, at the request of Rep. Cynthia McKinney, five community activists made some rather disturbing charges before Congress. And, as previously discussed, the MSM ate it up: "Community activists charge racism before Congress, but…"
Now, this article has a bit more on the activists and their charges.
What with all the talk about more per capita deaths of whites than blacks, NBC seems to have struck back. On tonight's NBC Nightly News, Brian Williams announced - somewhat triumphantly - that racism had been discovered in the housing situation for evacuees. I only caught the last part of the report, and it doesn't […]
You may recall Larry Bradshaw and Lorrie Beth Slonsky as the pair who wrote about their experiences trying to get over the Crescent City Connection from New Orleans into Gretna ("Building communism under the overpass"). Bradshaw will apparently be featured on December 18th's 60 Minutes talking about the incident.
From Drudge:
…Larry Bradshaw, who is white, says […]
Five black New Orleans evacuees testified before Congress, and four of them said the underlying reason why the rescue wasn't as good as would have been expected was racism. Their testimony has received minutes on the nightly news shows, which took their testimony at face value.
However, note that one, a former federal worker, didn't blame […]
But, isn't accusing her of race-baiting in itself race-baiting? I seem to have misplaced my PC guide:
Gov. Kathleen Blanco engaged in the "the lowest form of racial baiting" when she suggested last week that a lawsuit filed against her by the Louisiana Legislative Black Caucus was a ploy to protect controversial programs in the state […]
Jay Arena, "PhD student in the Department of Sociology at Tulane University", offers a long screed entitled The War At Home: New Orleans, Public Housing, and the "Chilean Option" (also here).
Your call to action, should you accept it, is to:
Join the Working Class Fightback!: New Orleans Convergence, MLK Day 2006
In the meantime, enjoy this snippet:
The […]
Just when you'd forgotten all about the Gretna Crescent City Connection incident, it comes roaring back in this:
A March to Gretna in protest of the actions of the Gretna police in the aftermath of Katrina and in support of displaced African-Americans from New Orleans, who continue to be denied access to participation and opportunity in […]
From Governor faults White House over rebuilding:
Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco, flanked by veteran Democratic activists and a union leader, criticized the Bush administration on Saturday for allowing hurricane rebuilding contracts to go to out-of-state firms and low-wage workers.
Speaking to a rally of about 1,000 union members and activists from the steps of the state Capitol, […]
From this:
The national Republican Party chairman on Tuesday defended the GOP's outreach to black voters, days after his Democratic counterpart questioned how he could make such an appeal in view of the Bush administration's tepid response to Hurricane Katrina.
Ken Mehlman told the Waterbury chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People that […]
FPM has invited several worthies to discuss this (biased) compendium of stories about looting. The bearded shrimp in the punchbowl is far-leftie Marc Cooper.
