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Only Whites Claim Katrina’s Poor Response is NOT Racist

by kirsten anderberg (kirstena [at] resist.ca)
I have not seen one person of color saying that the response to Katrina in New Orleans had “nothing to do with race.” The mere fact that the ONLY people saying that are white says it all to me. Last night, I saw the Mayor of Houston whose name is ironically “Mr. White” pooh-poohing the race card...
Only Whites Claim Katrina’s Poor Response is NOT Racist
By Kirsten Anderberg (http://www.kirstenanderberg.com)

I have not seen one person of color, anywhere, on any news broadcast, on any TV special, in any print article, even on the streets themselves, saying that the response to Katrina in New Orleans had “nothing to do with race.” The mere fact that the ONLY people saying that are white says it all to me. Last night, I saw the Mayor of Houston whose name is ironically “Mr. White” pooh-poohing the racist part of this wholly. There is something totally obnoxious about this white mayor of Houston, saying it is “divisive” to try to address race in the Katrina response. Indeed, white boy President Bush said that any mention of this massacre in New Orleans being racially driven is merely a “political agenda” put out there by his opponents. I am sure Bush is scrambling to find some black faces to publicly deny the racist part of this, and that is why we have Condi Rice around. For times like these. You can tell just how racist this country is, by how many white men are working round the clock to pooh-pooh what is obvious to the world at this point.

Yesterday morning, Sept. 2, 2005, I went out and wrote “Stop the genocide in New Orleans NOW! Impeach GWBush” in chalk on sidewalks near my house. I found it wildly interesting that as I was writing one of these, a white male in his 20’s came up and said “If you were not a woman, I would beat the sh*t out of you right now.” I said, “Why, for writing this in chalk?” He said “You are so ignorant. You do not even know what genocide is.” I said, “Excuse me sir, I have a degree in political science from the University of Washington and also have successfully passed all my prerequisites in law school, and I am well aware of what the word genocide means.” I quoted the Webster Collegiate Dictionary definition: “the deliberate and systematic destruction of a racial, political, or cultural group.” It was as if steam began coming out his ears at this, he puffed his chest, and began to stand in a physically threatening manner close to me. I said, “You know, I am twice you size. And I can be absolutely crazy if you push me. Just know you may endanger yourself physically if you touch me.” He left with his legs between his tail, but why did a white male want to BEAT ME for saying that?!

I watched this trend continue all day yesterday. White men threatened me with violence ALL DAY yesterday for not giving an inch, calling this a genocide. I took a very large protest sign out to the streets yesterday. It said “No more RACIST and CLASSIST genocide in New Orleans. Impeach Bush Now.” The first bus I got on, a black man immediately said to me “You got that right, sister.” Then as I waited for the next bus, a black delivery man unloading near where I was waiting came up to me and said I was 100% right with my sign. When I got on the bus, I sat down, and an older black man turned around from the seat in front of me and said my sign was right on, and wondered how a white girl like me ended up out there protesting the racism. We talked for quite some time. Then I got off the bus into downtown Seattle.

Sadly, I was the only protester on the Seattle streets yesterday. I began to walk to the Market and a white businessman in his 50’s said “Ma’am, ma’am…” and I kept walking thinking he was going to hassle me. He ran after me, tapped me on the shoulder, and said, “I just want to thank you for that sign.” That was a good turn around from the morning threats, but it was brief. I got to the Market and a white middle class man in his late 60’s came up to me and said, “You have a lot of nerve. No one is listening to you.” I said, “No, it is old capitalist racist sexist white men that no one is listening to anymore and I think you are defensive because you know that.” He said “You better watch your mouth girl.” I said “There is free speech in America and I will call you a racist capitalist pig to your face again, so there!” Fuming, he threatened to go get cops. I laughed in his face and kept on walking and talking.

Next, I walked along First Avenue thinking maybe someone with a conscience was protesting at the Federal Building. As I walked down First Avenue, a white male cowboy started glaring at me, then walking next to me at my pace, then began berating me for saying this had to do with race. I pretended I did not hear him and kept walking. Sadly, when I got to the Fed Building, I was the only protester. I stood on the street there protesting for a while. Then decided to move to a place with more foot traffic, Westlake Center.

When I got to Westlake Center, it was packed with shoppers. Disgusted, I began saying very loudly, while holding my sign, “Your children are going to ask you what you did to stop the racist genocide of 2005 in New Orleans and you are going to have to tell them you went shopping! Can you live with that?” Black folks walked by with very wide grins as I was screaming this on the corner. Three black teen girls came up and said their aunt had said what I was saying. We talked at length at why this is blatant racism. They wanted to protest. I told them that even one person protesting makes a difference and they could see I was certainly getting a reaction.

As I stood at Westlake, Seattle’s insane Police Department rode up on their little bikes. They walked right up to my face, and one of them, in FULL UNIFORM, ON DUTY, made circles around his ears at me to symbolize that I was “crazy.” And yes, he was white, of course. I no longer am amazed at the gross lack of professionalism in the beater police squad in Seattle. But that seems very inappropriate to me.

As I stood on the corner with my sign, black males and females were coming in a solid stream saying that I was right, thanking me, etc. Yet white male after white male came up to me, pointed to the word “racist” on my sign, and called me crazy, a bitch, and many other slurs. The police stood by monitoring me, ready to arrest at one wrong move. Three men in a row threatened me with violence, and I was getting louder with each for safety. The police moved closer. Then a fourth white man and his wife approached. The police moved within hearing distance, within two feet of us. I knew they were getting ready to arrest me as a public nuisance or to try to put me in some weird psych thing they keep for logical women such as me. But as they leaned in, they heard the white man saying “What the hell is wrong with those men hassling you? You are absolutely right and you have courage.” Ooops, not what the cops wanted to hear. For about 5 minutes, these folks from Canada began to tell me they are teachers, they have to explain this to kids, and it is impossible without bringing in the race and class equation. The police got bored and rode off.

By the time I got home yesterday from my one woman protest about town, I felt absolutely exhausted. I tried to figure out WHY this was so agitating to white men. I cannot believe I am going to be this honest, but I have to say, that my conclusion after yesterday is, that these white men really do WANT genocide, they really do WANT those poor black people in New Orleans dead. They are not even neutral on the subject. They want them DEAD. And they will try to beat and silence anyone who works against that. Is it mere coincidence that not ONE person of color threatened or harassed me yesterday and white male after white male threatened me with violence? How do YOU explain it?

Yesterday, someone wrote me an email claiming I was nuts to apply racism to this lack of response. I wrote back and said, “without knowing you, I can guess with certainty that you are 1) white and 2) male.” This was his response this morning via email: “Kirsten, I am white. I am proud to be white. And I have no idea why you even brought that up. Was it my vocabulary that gave me away? You sound like a racist. I said nothing about your education. I was not referring to you when I talked about education as the key. I was speaking about people in general. You seem to want to make you and race the focus of everything. I was hoping that you actually had something valid to contribute. But it sounds like you are filled with hate. You sound like another one of those who need to blame the entire worlds problems on American white men. Too bad. I tried. Rmartin” Do I even need to add commentary to that? LOL! These white men try to play some patriarchal game, calling me ignorant and uneducated, then when I bust out the reality that I have more “education” than THEY do, they lose their minds and begin calling ME the racist! LOL! I have begun posting this crap on my website at http://resist.ca/~kirstena/pagehatemail.html.

Katrina has exposed the racism and classism so prevalent in America today and it has shown it is intentional, is my take on it. Those who defend the racism and classism, or try to deny it aggressively, seem to WANT genocide of people of color and the poor. That is my serious take on it. ONLY WHITES are saying Katrina’s response was not racist. That should say it all. (And I am not saying all whites are denying this racism, I am saying that the only people who do deny it, are white, from my experience so far.) Seeing who is angry when you try to fight racism, often tells you where to begin. Go make some racists mad today!
by Socialist
This is another excellent article from Kristen Anderberg. In San Francisco, a few years ago, when Mumia Abu-Jamal's case was in the news, I would hand out flyers for our demonstrations for Mumia at a corner in a workingclass tenant area and got the same reaction in so-called progressive San Francisco, where all my other progressive causes got support from everyone. The whites, especially the white men, would loudly condemn me for supporting a cop killer, and "didn't he kill a New Jersey state cop?" showing their obvious ignorance of the physical facts of the case (the whistleblowing Philadelphia cop was shot by a paid hit man on Philadelphia's streets, and Mumia was framed for this murder), and would stand there trying to get me to stop handing out those leaflets. I never stopped. Every single black person took the leaflet and indicated they were glad I was doing this and all supported Mumia. I only convinced one white woman I knew to support Mumia, or at least, stop repeating the lies, when I told her the Rosenberg's sons support Mumia.

We are dealing with deep-seated racism in white America and we are certainly witnessing genocide in New Orleans and the rest of the Gulf Coast. This racism is based on the illusions of privilege; most whites in this country have lived sufficiently comfortably that they can get away singing the bosses' tune of racism instead of promoting class solidarity with black workers. When the white population is finally faced with no pensions, no homes, no medical care, no schools, then they will have to wake up, and of course, then, they will be at death's door.
by Al Jazeera (repost)
The ever-sensitive question of race in the United States has exploded into the furious debate over the government's handling of the disaster unfolding in New Orleans.

Critics have accused President George Bush's administration of abandoning the overwhelmingly black and poor people to death and anarchy in the fetid floodwaters of America's fabled jazz city.

Charges of racism have added to a litany of complaints that the federal government has done too little, too late to save New Orleans from the devastation wreaked by Hurricane Katrina this past week.

Racism

"You want to know why all those black people are stuck down there dying?" said Yvette Brown, a black refugee from the city.

"If they were white, they'd be gone. They'd be sending in an army of helicopters, jets and boats," she said.

Another black New Orleans resident, Lakeshia Evans, demurred.

"There were white people on their houses too. A lot of people pull the racist card, but I think (the hurricane) affected everyone," she said.

Rapper weighs in

Rapper Kanye West, however, was in no doubt that racism was a factor.

"George Bush doesn't care about black people!" he said, breaking from the script at a television fundraiser for victims of the deadly storm late Friday.

Before the cameras hastily cut away, West also slammed the media for how it has reported on the criminal mayhem that engulfed the city.

"I hate the way they portray us in the media. You see a black family, it says, 'They're looting'. You see a white family, it says, 'They're looking for food'. And, you know, it's been five days (waiting for federal help) because most of the people are black," he said.

Large black population

Before floodwaters burst through the levees protecting New Orleans on Tuesday, the city had one of the largest - and poorest - black populations in the United States.

Census figures showed 67.3% of the city's half-million people were black, with 30% living below the poverty line - against national averages of 13% and 12.7% respectively.

Craig Colten, professor of geography at Louisiana State University in nearby Baton Rouge, said the flood's impact hit the black and poor the hardest.

"In New Orleans, those with power and money purchase houses on the highest ground. African-Americans have been hammered in this event," he said.

"But near the 17th Street canal where a levee broke, the Lakeview area is a largely white area. There was serious damage to black and white neighbourhoods," he added.

Poverty or race?

Barack Obama, a black senator who is a rising star of the Democratic party, said poverty was an issue, if not necessarily race.

"What's true in this country is what's true across the world, which is in the midst of natural disasters the poor and the vulnerable end up getting hit the hardest," he said in Chicago.

But given the anger of people who have lost everything, all sorts of accusations are being levelled.

"Black people are mad because they feel the reason for the slow response is because those people are black and they didn't support George Bush," said Ron Walters, professor of government at the University of Maryland.

"And I don't expect that feeling to go away anytime soon."

Moore's open letter

Left-wing filmmaker Michael Moore, one of Bush's most visceral opponents, issued a scornful open letter to the president.

"C'mon, they're black! I mean, it's not like this happened to Kennebunkport," he said in reference to the wealthy seaside resort in Maine where the Bush family has a holiday home.

"Can you imagine leaving white people on their roofs for five days? Don't make me laugh!" the Fahrenheit 9/11 director said.

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/2C25C252-F8AA-4905-AAA3-C932B98CCEAF.htm
by more
Decades of official neglect, racism and the impact of global warming magnified the destructive impact of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans and other parts of the South.

The mainstream media focused most on the big-money property losses--for example, the heavily damaged casinos on the Mississippi coast that took a direct hit from Katrina, and the tourist hotels in the French Quarter in New Orleans. But beyond the media spotlight are countless others who don’t have sufficient insurance--or any insurance at all--to rebuild their lives.

As in all "natural" disasters, a far-from-natural logic asserted itself: Those who had the least to begin with stood to lose the most.

Thus, in the Gulf Coast cities of Mississippi that took a direct hit when the hurricane came ashore, the big hotels were left standing, though heavily damaged. Other structures--even whole neighborhoods and communities--were erased from the map. "This is our tsunami," said one person, drawing a comparison with last December’s disaster around the rim of the Indian Ocean.

A last-minute shift in the path of the storm sent Katrina east of New Orleans, prompting city officials to think that they had avoided a catastrophe. But the day after the hurricane hit, conditions began to deteriorate rapidly. Parts of the levee system that protects the below-sea-level city from flooding gave way--apparently to the north, along the shore of Lake Pontchartrain--leaving up to 80 percent of New Orleans underwater.

With electricity and communications out, little was known about New Orleans’ poorest neighborhoods, other than that they--predictably--bore the brunt of the disaster. Rumors spread that corpses could be seen floating in the floodwaters. No one had electrical power--nor much chance of getting it for days, and probably weeks.

The worst may be yet to come. The waters that inundated New Orleans were polluted by garbage and debris. And when the floods finally recede, they will leave behind a breeding ground for disease.

The impact of Katrina was visible even before the storm hit land, most obviously in the images of evacuees lined up to take shelter inside New Orleans’ Superdome--mostly poor and African American people forced to go for refuge to a football stadium for lack of a car or want of money.

"By afternoon [the day before the hurricane struck], the Superdome descended into sweaty chaos," the Miami Herald reported. "About 30,000 refugees eventually arrived under the vigilance of the Louisiana National Guard. The frustrated line to get into the stadium stretched the length of several football fields. People sucked at empty water bottles, lugged their belongings in plastic grocery bags, fanned themselves in the humid air, brought their beer and cigarettes and braced for what could be a two-day stay as torrents of rain started soaking them about 4 p.m."

Once inside the Superdome, the evacuees were ordered to stay in their seats after curfew. There were insufficient numbers of toilets, and when electrical power failed, the generators could support lights, but not air conditioning. The storm ripped several holes in the roof, and those below had to scramble away from the rain that poured in.

When the levee system failed and New Orleans started flooding after the hurricane passed, the Superdome became an island surrounded by hip-deep water, polluted by oil and debris. Conditions inside the stadium continued to "deteriorate," as press reports put it--at least two people had died inside the Superdome within the first 36 hours.


While New Orleans is inherently vulnerable to hurricanes--much of the city lies below sea level--governments at all levels refused to take necessary precautions to minimize risk or ensure a safe and orderly evacuation procedure.

The levee system, crucial to the survival of a city surrounded on three sides by water, hasn’t been upgraded to withstand a Category 4 or 5 storm. Thanks to George Bush and his "war on terror." During the 1990s, following floods that killed six people, the federal government established the Southeast Louisiana Urban Flood Control Project (known as SELA). The Army Corps of Engineers was put in charge of implementing the project and spent nearly $500 million shoring up levees and building pumping stations.

"But at least $250 million in crucial projects remained," wrote Philadelphia Daily News writer Will Bunch. "Yet after 2003, the flow of federal dollars toward SELA dropped to a trickle. The Corps never tried to hide the fact that the spending pressures of the war in Iraq, as well as homeland security--coming at the same time as federal tax cuts--was the reason for the strain…In early 2004, as the cost of the conflict in Iraq soared, President Bush proposed spending less than 20 percent of what the Corps said was needed for Lake Pontchartrain, according to [a] Feb. 16 , 2004 article in New Orleans CityBusiness."

According to Bunch’s research, though 2004 was one of the worst hurricane seasons in history, the federal government this year imposed "the steepest reduction in hurricane- and flood-control funding for New Orleans in history."

Why the neglect? Though it is best known as a tourist destination, New Orleans is one of the poorest cities in the U.S., with a population that is 67 percent African American. In the parish, or county, of Orleans, 34 percent of households live below the federal poverty line--an issue that was the focus of a new community coalition at a meeting just a few days before Katrina hit.

The scale of the threat has been well known for years. Oceanographer Joe Suhayda created a detailed model of the impact of a Category 5 hurricane hitting New Orleans, showing that much of the city could be plunged under 20 feet of water, causing tens of thousands of casualties. And in 2004, Hurricane Ivan barely missed the city, again highlighting the urgent need for a viable evacuation plan.

"Affluent white people fled the Big Easy in their SUVs, while the old and car-less--mainly Black--were left behind in their below-sea-level shotgun shacks and aging tenements to face the watery wrath," activist Mike Davis wrote of the evacuation plans for Ivan. "New Orleans had spent decades preparing for inevitable submersion by the storm surge of a class-five hurricane. Civil defense officials conceded they had 10,000 body bags on hand to deal with the worst-case scenario. But no one seemed to have bothered to devise a plan to evacuate the city’s poorest or most infirm residents."

Global warming is almost certainly to blame for the increasing strength and frequency of hurricanes, Davis told Socialist Worker last year. A number of climatic factors are at work. For example, something known as the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO), which involves variations in air pressure and sea temperatures, is a contributing factor to the above-normal number of hurricanes. But global warming caused by air pollution has probably made matters worse.

"Sea temperatures in the tropical Atlantic are higher than normal, thus supplying more energy to hurricanes," Davis said. "This can’t be directly attributed to global warming, but an intensification of the NAO is exactly what you might expect. Every North Hemisphere summer now seems to guarantee climate disaster of one kind or another."

But climate disaster can be profitable--if you happen to be a stockholder or executive for a major U.S. oil company. The oil giants were set to use the excuse of Katrina to hike gas prices still further beyond the record pump prices set last month.

The scale of the devastation resulting from the hurricane won’t be known forweeks. But we know already who will suffer the brunt of this tragedy--the poor in New Orleans and all along the Gulf Coast.

http://www.countercurrents.org/cc-sustar010905.htm
by kirsten
White supremacists show their colors from my article on Indybay…

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http://www.vnnforum.com/showthread.php?t=22845

“Try making a reply to this story. I did.

http://www.indybay.org/news/2005/09...ent.php#1765061

http://www.indybay.org/news/2005/09/1764294.php
My response is there. I hope more vnners get in on the fun!

I even used my real name and contact info!

Ethnic cleansing is a good thing for white Americans
by Michael Mazzone Jr. Monday, Sep. 05, 2005 at 4:03 AM
mmazzonejr [at] ameritech.net 847-359-2663 311 N. Mozart St., Palatine, IL 60067

Blacks are prone to criminality and savagery. Just look at all the raping, stealing, and murdering the blacks are engaging in wherever they are found. In New Orleans, we even see them reverting to cannibalism.

We should not save them.

My heart goes out to the white people who are suffering out there, but I'm filled with glee to see some genocide against the blacks taking place in the US. I hope that one day I'll never have to see another black person again.

If America was a country of whites only, it would be a much better country. If genocide against the blacks is the most efficient means to meet this end, then I certainly won't object to it.
http://www.vnnforum.com/search.php?searchid=455673
by reposted
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- Kathy Anderson/The Times-Picayune
At Orleans Avenue and Bourbon Street, the Southern Decadence Parade rolls Sunday 9/5/2005.
by the man
This is SF. We want to know how Burnig Man went. Did everyone have a good time? Did they all have enough drinking water? Enough food? Enough X? Enough shrooms? Do we need to raise funds so they can afford the higher gas prices to get home? How can I help the thousands of starving artists who might be stranded at Burning Man?
by .
"I was thinking, ‘I’m sick of surf schools,’" he said. "And I got to thinking of that lady, Cindy Sheehan, who’s protesting the Iraq war in front of President Bush’s ranch, and ‘bing!’"
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Labor Day means back-to-school for kids and college students, but a group of Santa Cruz surfers is gearing up to rally against a different kind of school.

The of explosion of loudly colored beginner’s foam surfboards that’s bloomed in local surf spots in recent years may be a fun sight for tourists, but those who use the area’s breaks for their daily dose of surfing are increasingly not amused.

So unamused, in fact, that one of them, surfer Joe Henry of Santa Cruz, decided to organize a Labor Day protest against the widening number of surf schools and camps that he sees as bringing far too many students to the Pleasure Point area, choking out the peaks for the regular surfers, practicing poor surf etiquette and generally wrecking the fun and pleasure of the surf experience for the locals.

The protest is planned for 10 a.m. Monday, starting at the Hook at 41st Avenue, with protesters marching up to Pleasure Point and back for about an hour.

It all got started one recent night when Henry was lying awake in bed.

"I was thinking, ‘I’m sick of surf schools,’" he said. "And I got to thinking of that lady, Cindy Sheehan, who’s protesting the Iraq war in front of President Bush’s ranch, and ‘bing!’"

Why couldn’t he protest the surf schools, he thought?

The mushrooming number of surf-instruction outlets, including formal and informal schools, day camps, church groups, recreational courses and out-of-town instructors who bring their students to Santa Cruz, are one part of the equation.

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Another part, said Henry, whose home break is the Hook, is at least one established surf school owner, Richard Schmidt of Richard Schmidt Surf School Inc., who Henry said has violated previous verbal agreements not to bring too many students to the area.

"Richard has been abusing things, bringing three to four classes and a camp down," said Henry.

Schmidt admitted that there may have been some days when classes and camps have overlapped at the Hook.

"But I’m trying my best to ease their concerns," he said. "As far as me dropping in on them, I don’t think it happens a whole lot. If I’m not teaching etiquette, then what am I doing out there?"

Schmidt, who started his school 27 years ago, said he was aware of the planned protest and has talked with Henry and other organizers.

"I’m pretty sad," he said. "It’s like I’ve taught there for a long time and feel like I’ve done a pretty good job with it, and it seems like kind of a bummer that they’re taking it to this point."

Schmidt’s take is that he’s doing the area something of a community service, since surfing’s popularity has skyrocketed in recent years and it’s better to have people taught properly, since they’re going to surf anyway.

"If they didn’t have schools down in the Pleasure Point area, it could be a lot worse," he said.

A combination of an exploding state and local population, the skyrocketing popularity of surfing and the "California lifestyle" with its resulting increase of surf instructors, the lack of a sandbar at Cowell’s for the past four years and many other factors have funneled teachers and students into the Pleasure Point area, according to Ed Guzman of Club Ed Surf School & Camps.

Guzman, who has run his surf school for 15 years, no longer takes his camps and students to Pleasure Point, seeking to avoid what he calls "Pressure Point." Things were already crowded a few years ago, and he decided to take summer students to the beaches south of town, where he has a contract with State Parks.

"So I don’t have to deal with angry crowds," he said, adding that the only teaching he’ll do at Pleasure Point is individual lessons.

Henry and others recognize the surf schools and classes are not going away, and they realize the ocean is everyone’s resource. But they say they’d like to see some regulation and limitation of student-to-instructor ratio and class size.

At the least, said Henry, he hopes the protest will spark a local, statewide or even nationwide conversation and prompt some problem-solving.

Schmidt said he’s more than willing to talk, offer potential solutions and find a compromise.

Bottom line, he said, it’s important to share and feel the positive vibe of the people who are learning.

"Surfing brings a lot to a lot of people," he said, "and there’s no reason people shouldn’t be able to share that experience."

The protest group will meet at 10 a.m. Monday at the Hook. For information, call Joe Henry
by Indybay: haven for homophobes
Why is this crap on Indymedia, and in *San Francisco* of all places!?!
by Kristen Anderberg
Kristen,
I consider you brave and educated to do what you did. I commend you, and say that you "hit the nail on the head." This is exactly what I've been experiencing from MOST whites on message boards. They get so angry, and say that blacks are playing the "race card." I certainly believe that they know the truth, but will never admit it. Remember, if they admitted it, they would have to do something about it.

I'm not sure if you're familiar with Tim Wise ( a white anti-racist advocate from Nashville, TN), but he certainly calls it what it is...RACISM. Try googling his name, and you'll find many great articles by him.

Keep up the good work!!!
by Joe Horan
What does the Mayor of New Orleans being BLACK have to do with the crisis of hurricane Katrina? Oh, I'm sorry, no one addressed that issue. The city had at least 4 days prior to the storm to try and evacuate it's citizens and get them to shelter. How about the lack of a planned response from the WHITE Governor of Louisiana? Neither she nor her staff met the needs of the victims for a week after the disaster! So, it is obvious that we can blame it on one black man and one white woman. A male pacific islander would have saved the day!
My point is that you race war idiots complain about the other side and only pertuate the problems that you complain about. It's nice to read the posts and realize that we only live in a black and white world. (sarcasm) To sum it up both blacks and whites can be idiots, there are other races in the world, and unfortunately for the weak, the strong survive. Deal whith it or be part of the solution.
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