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The fingerpointing and racemongering continue, as noted here. At the same time, aid is flowing in faster than for either 9/11 or the tsunami.
If anyone can square that circle and reconcile those facts, I'd like to know how.
The fingerpointing and racemongering continue, as noted here. At the same time, aid is flowing in faster than for either 9/11 or the tsunami.
If anyone can square that circle and reconcile those facts, I'd like to know how.
posted by LadybugUSA at 6:32 AM
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Former Congressman J.C. Watts accurately described these people as "race hustlers" and "poverty pimps." (Perhaps he coined the terms.) I was hoping to see him go on to higher office, but he apparently decided that changing Congress and D.C. politics was a hopeless task, so went back home. The nation's loss in my opinion.
It is more "classism" than anything. These folks are poor.
Homeland Security is blocking the Red Cross from setting up at the Superdome and the Convention Center. You gotta ask why was the Red Cross banned from NO when they knew people were starving? Could it be they were saving the convention center rescue until Bush's visit today? It certainly seems like it. Doesn't it?
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/9/2/2125/04978
oh..and DHS did confirm that this was happening.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/9/3/02454/07418
I love how folks want to pile on the president and FEMA at this time. The worst natural disaster on US soil in our lifetimes. Where is the criticism for Mayor Nagin and Gov. Blanco? Clearly they weren't prepared for this disaster. Why not? If they truly believed lives were in danger -- if they cared -- why didn't they line up all those school buses that are now under water and get people out of there? Why was the mayor in Baton Rouge -- not New Orleans --- screaming profanities and demanding immediate aid? Why didn't Gov. Blanco take the appropriate steps to mobilize the national guardsmen in her state sooner than she did? Why couldn't she sum up the strength of leader?
This conspiratorial reaction is absurd. Nobody saw this coming. On Monday afternoon, everyone thought New Orleans had dodge the bullet yet again.(At least in terms of a Cat 4 hurricane.) Then on Tuesday, the levees gave way. That's when many, many of the problems began.
If anyone can name one person who predicted a disaster this extensive and shocking, then we can start pointing fingers. Nobody dreamed we'd have to evacuate a city the size of New Orleans. And nobody envisioned hundreds of square miles smashed up coast line.
What we should be doing is hoping it's a lesson learned for city managers and residents of every coastal city.
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