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When the sky is taken by storm: The rage and anguish of Black America
The unprecedented in America destruction of New Orleans and other vast regions of the South by Hurricane Katrina coupled with the studied, indifferent response of the federal government has caused rage and anguish throughout Black America. Though these tragic events are yet unfolding, it is not too early to ask, is this a seminal event in African American history?...
Posted: Sun, Sep 11, 2005 9:51am PDT
Cornel West On Katrina: Exiles from a city and from a nation
As the tide of evacuees rolls into Baton Rouge, Jamie Doward learns that thousands will not go back to New Orleans - and the effect on the economy across the South will be deep and prolonged...
Posted: Sat, Sep 10, 2005 7:00pm PDT
Bush and Third World America
very good read!!...story of black america, third world america, racism, the elite, corporatist america, etc...wow!!...
Posted: Sat, Sep 10, 2005 6:49pm PDT
Unbearable Crime On The Mississippi
When I woke up today, the only thought that came to mind was Reverend Jesse Jackson's indignant cry, "This is the bottom of the slave ship we are looking at."...
Posted: Sat, Sep 10, 2005 6:38pm PDT
Blasphemy About New Orleans: A God With Whom I Am Not Familiar
This is an open letter to the man sitting behind me at La Paz today, in Nashville, at lunchtime, with the Brooks Brothers shirt:
You don't know me. But I know you....
Posted: Sat, Sep 10, 2005 6:36pm PDT
First Hand Accounts From New Orleans On "This American Life"
"This American Life" has interviewed many different people who tried to get out of New Orleans and it's one of the most revealing accounts as to what happened and perhaps why. If you think the problem was just poverty take a listen and its revealing how much race played in the response and how racism was perhaps one of the major reasons for the response....
Posted: Sat, Sep 10, 2005 12:46pm PDT
Rush Limbaugh: Racist Pig (audio/mpeg 304.1KB)
In his defense of the admministration, Limbaugh intentionally flubs N.O. Mayor Nagin's name. Give a listen and you tell me....
Posted: Sat, Sep 10, 2005 8:18am PDT
Laura Bush takes umbrage: Racism and the Republican Party
In an interview with American Urban Radio Networks on Thursday, First Lady Laura Bush waxed indignant about recent suggestions that racism may have played a role in the government’s slow reaction to the Hurricane Katrina disaster. “I think all of those remarks were disgusting,” she declared, adding, “President Bush cares about everyone in our country.”...
Posted: Fri, Sep 9, 2005 9:15pm PDT
KATRINA TELLS THE TALE: Racism and Classism in Capitalist America
Katrina has turned out to be the worst disaster in the recorded history of this nation. What’s most egregious is that it was predicted years earlier in books on climate change and the growing global warming crisis, as well as from local officials of the region who knew of the dangers and tried to get Federal assistance....
Posted: Fri, Sep 9, 2005 5:29pm PDT
New Black Panther Party Search and Rescue Mission Proves Successful
On September 3rd the New Black Panther Party launched a search and rescue mission in the core of New Orleans. There efforts resulted in over 500 people being rescued and provided with food, clothing, and other relief supplies....
Posted: Wed, Sep 7, 2005 5:37pm PDT
No Child Left Behind? BU**SH**
Poster in PDF format of New Orleans people, government callous inaction...
Posted: Wed, Sep 7, 2005 10:33am PDT
Three Displaced New Orleans Residents Discuss Race and Hurricane Katrina
We speak with three residents of New Orleans who were forced to flee - David Gladstone, Beverly Wright and Curtis Muhammad - about who gets saved and who doesn't and even the question: will New Orleans be rebuilt?...
Posted: Wed, Sep 7, 2005 7:26am PDT
Did Katrina Blow Off the White Sheets of American Racism?
Maybe this will be our generation's Birmingham.
The pictures that streamed out of Birmingham, Alabama, in 1963 showed young Black boys and girls attacked by German Shepherds and drenched with the powerful spray of fire hoses.
Those pictures exposed to the world the hypocrisy that rests at the heart of America. Those pictures exposed the intense racism that rests at the heart of this country.
Those pictures exposed the utter lack of credibility of the U.S. in its bloody intervention i...
Posted: Wed, Sep 7, 2005 7:03am PDT
Hip Hop: Chuck D Poem and New Orleans Commentary mp3 download (audio/mpeg 17.3MB)
Chuck D On Air America From Sept 4th...
Posted: Mon, Sep 5, 2005 12:35pm PDT
80,000 Rodney Kings in New Orleans
MIKE WHITNEY: If You have Nothing, You are Nothing...
Posted: Mon, Sep 5, 2005 10:59am PDT
Rev. Al Sharpton: President Bush's Response "Inexcusable"
More public figures have spoken out, lambasting the government”s slow response to the victims of Hurricane Katrina. The Reverend Al Sharpton spoke in Houston on Saturday and said that race played a role....
Posted: Mon, Sep 5, 2005 8:59am PDT
Kanye West: "Bush Doesn't Care About Black People"
On Friday night, Grammy-award winning hip-hop superstar Kanye West delivered a blistering critique of President Bush and the administration”s response to the devastation of Hurricane Katrina. "I hate the way they portray us in the media," West said. "If you see a black family, it says they're looting. See a white family, it says they're looking for food."...
Posted: Mon, Sep 5, 2005 8:58am PDT
Katrina bared Bush's 'bamsee'
THE contrasts could not be starker, the contradictions more revealing, than when Hurricane Katrina struck a mighty blow at the crucial southern states of Louisiana, Mississippi and Georgia in the USA. It was as if the blitzes on Baghdad and Kabul had returned with intense fury to lash back at hapless, innocent Americans, much the way millions equally-innocent Iraqis and Afghans suffered at the unseen hands of American pilots who unleashed death from way up in the clouds. The irony of it is th...
Posted: Sun, Sep 4, 2005 9:25am PDT
A great "Open Letter" to radicals.
This is an open letter from someone i have probably never met living in Houston, Texas. It speaks for me so much, i had to re-print it. Please read it and pass it on if you like it....
Posted: Sun, Sep 4, 2005 9:01am PDT
Policing the Poor amidst Flood Disaster
The official response to Louisiana's flood disaster has been dominated by policing the state's poor black population while thousands more are still waiting to be rescued....
Posted: Sat, Sep 3, 2005 8:47pm PDT