Robert D. Bullard, the director of the Environmental Justice Resource Center at Clark Atlanta University, offers the plan that apparently president Bush has been following. While some of the points are interesting, the article is spoiled a bit with it's less-than-helpful viewpoint.
It's printed in the Pacific News Service, which has a habit of publishing racist […]
Drudge links to this:
T-shirts making fun of Mayor Ray Nagin's remark that New Orleans would once again be a "chocolate city" are in high demand, with recent orders coming in from overseas countries, according to a Local 6 News report.
A company said it has filled thousands of orders of T-shirts featuring Nagin in a top […]
Due to his requirements that are completely ignorant of "fair use", I am forced to only quote three sentences from this pro-Nagin screed:
Forgotten was that Nagin has often used the term throughout the past few years, including during his campaign for and service as mayor. Nothing was made of the term then. Forgotten is that […]
The WaPo's Manuel Roig-Franzia offers "New Orleans Mayor Apologizes for Remarks About God's Wrath".
Obviously, Nagin needed to apologize for the whole comment, including the racist component of New Orleans remaining a "chocolate" and "majority African-American" city. While that's missing from the headline, at least they split that whole comment between the first two paragraphs of […]
Unbelievable as it may be, Mayor Ray Nagin has explained his previous comment promising a "chocolate New Orleans" thusly:
"Do you know anything chocolate? How do you make chocolate? You take dark chocolate, you mix it with white milk, and it becomes a delicious drink. That’s the chocolate I’m talking about."
No, really. In fact, here's the […]
Vying for the Loon of the Year award, New Orleans' mayor Ray Nagin uttered the following:
"Surely God is mad at America. He sent us hurricane after hurricane after hurricane, and it's destroyed and put stress on this country… …Surely he doesn't approve of us being in Iraq under false pretenses. But surely he is upset […]
The AP offers "New Orleans Mayor Asks Residents to Return", which reports on Nagin visiting Atlanta to plead with residents to return. It includes this quote from a former resident:
"There is nowhere to buy food or get gas. It's chaotic… Bringing us back to living in poverty is not a new beginning. How can a […]
That German rag offers Life After Katrina: America's New Jazz Museum! (No Poor Black People Allowed)
It contains this:
New Orleans trumpeter Irvin Mayfield… is incensed too at mainstream coverage of the storm's aftermath. "Looters? Anyone who grew up in New Orleans like I did knows that drugs run rampant here. How are you going to relocate […]
WASHINGTON (AP) - Americans frustrated by the slow response to victims of Hurricane Katrina should channel their energy to changing their communities, Jesse Jackson told thousands gathered for the 10th anniversary of the Million Man March.
"We need millions more to act and react to what we saw in the gulf," the civil rights leader said. […]
From this unverified report:
Friday afternoon, c-span broadcast a black forum on “Hurricane Katrina & Issues Facing African Americans.”
…One of the speakers was a Kamau Kambon, author and owner of Blacknificent Books. I did a web search and I came up with this link: Blacknificent Books
I’m not a stenographer but this transcript is 98% accurate:
…"Now how […]
