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Rapper Kanye West blasts Bush on TV benefit show (video/quicktime 1.6MB) Rapper Kanye West surprised viewers of an NBC benefit concert for Hurricane Katrina victims on Friday by accusing President George W. Bush of racism.
"George Bush doesn't care about black people," West said from New York during the show aired live on the East Coast on NBC, MSNBC, CNBC and Pax, just before cameras cut away to comedian Chris Tucker.
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Posted: Sat, Sep 3, 2005 8:46am PDT
Emergency Rally Held Friday - Rescue Not Repression in New Orleans! 
World Can't Wait held an emergency rally and speak-out Friday at Powell and Market in San Francisco to demand that the government be accountable to the people of New Orleans. Many frustrated and angry community members made thier voices heard....
Posted: Sat, Sep 3, 2005 8:17am PDT
An open letter to NBC news, 9/2/05, on Katrina reporting Watching NBC's "Dateline" for Friday 9/2, I realized what subtle racism means, and saw that the 1950s still aren't over....
Posted: Sat, Sep 3, 2005 8:04am PDT
Only Whites Claim Katrina’s Poor Response is NOT Racist 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......
Posted: Sat, Sep 3, 2005 7:55am PDT
New Black Panther Party for Self Defense Sends Elite Aid/Rescue Team to New Orleans Disast heck, yeah!...
Posted: Sat, Sep 3, 2005 12:10am PDT
New Orleans: We are on our own In the US, white people can't imagine black people who are just like them...
Posted: Fri, Sep 2, 2005 11:28pm PDT
Red Cross not allowed into New Orleans by government after reading dKos and the other blogs all week and seeing over and over again comments that that FEMA and the NG were no where to be seen from the people on the ground in NO, I was wondering where the Red Cross was in all this. They were never mentioned. It was like they didn't exist. And, after yesterday's drama at the convention center, the Brown and Chertoff lies, the Red Cross was still MIA. Then, earlier today, I saw a note that the Red Cross was not allowed to enter NO. Hmm, that's doe...
Posted: Fri, Sep 2, 2005 11:09pm PDT
Black lawmakers angry at Bush response to Katrina African American lawmakers have expressed outrage and blamed U.S. President George W. Bush for the "slow and incomplete response" to the devastation wrecked by Hurricane Katrina....
Posted: Fri, Sep 2, 2005 6:48pm PDT
Talk Race, But Don't Play Race Card With Katrina Race has a lot to do with who's suffering and who isn't after hurricane Katrina. But wild accusations of racism will only make matters worse for all of New Orleans' poor....
Posted: Fri, Sep 2, 2005 6:20pm PDT
Katrina: a tragedy made worse Chicago, Sept. 1, 2005 - All of us share the pain of those hit so hard by Hurricane Katrina. All of us will do what we can to help ease the burden of the families who have lost their loved ones, their homes and even their towns and cities....
Posted: Fri, Sep 2, 2005 6:00pm PDT
'This is criminal': Malik Rahim reports from New Orleans Malik Rahim, a veteran of the Black Panther Party in New Orleans, for decades an organizer of public housing tenants both there and in San Francisco and a recent Green Party candidate for New Orleans City Council, lives in the Algiers neighborhood, the only part of New Orleans that is not flooded. They have no power, but the water is still good and the phones work. Their neighborhood could be sheltering and feeding at least 40,000 refugees, he says, but they are allowed to help no one. What h...
Posted: Fri, Sep 2, 2005 5:59pm PDT
Religious Right claims Hurricane Katrina is the Wrath of God A truly Awe-inspiring monument to bigotry, stupidity, and small mindedness. This one leaves me speechless....
Posted: Fri, Sep 2, 2005 4:41pm PDT
Native Hawaiian groups and allies rally to protect sacred sites and environment from U.S. Convoys and marching groups will converge at sacred birthing stones to protest U.S. militarism and imperialism...
Posted: Fri, Sep 2, 2005 2:05pm PDT
Genocide americano en New Orleans Esperaba seriamente que no tendría que escribir este artículo. Pero ha sido demasiado largo ahora, y tengo que decir algo. Sin importar debido a si el masse del en de las muertes de la gente negra pobre en New Orleans es la negligencia o maliciousness, el resultado final es constructivo un genocide en negros pobres en América, ahora, en 2005. La carencia de la ayuda a New Orleans en esta última hora (7 P.M., sept. 1) no es explicables. Tengo solamente una explicación que pueda reunir para arr...
Posted: Fri, Sep 2, 2005 9:51am PDT
Race in New Orleans: Shaping the Response to Katrina? Race and class loom large in the critical discussion of the federal response to the impact of hurricane Katrina. We speak with two African-American activists about the poor communities that have been hit hardest by the hurricane....
Posted: Fri, Sep 2, 2005 7:40am PDT
New Orleans: In Praise of Looting Blaming Katrina's victims for not being rich...
Posted: Fri, Sep 2, 2005 6:34am PDT
Genocide in New Orleans I was seriously hoping that I would not have to write this article. But it has been too long now, and I have to say something. Regardless of whether the deaths en masse of poor black folks in New Orleans is due to neglect or maliciousness, the end result is constructively a genocide on poor blacks in America, right now, in 2005. The lack of aid to New Orleans at this late hour (7 pm, Sept. 1) is not explicable. I have only one explanation that I can muster up. And that explanation is classism...
Posted: Fri, Sep 2, 2005 6:22am PDT
New Orleans and the Death of the Common Good The destruction of New Orleans represents a confluence of many of the most pernicious trends in American politics and culture: poverty, racism, militarism, elitist greed, environmental abuse, public corruption and the decay of democracy at every level....
Posted: Thu, Sep 1, 2005 8:11pm PDT
Example of Racist Media Caught by Web Surfer During Hurricane Katrina Coverage New Orleans, LA (emergingminds.org) - Among the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina, one web surfer on an Atlanta message board did not let the disaster blind him of how racist the media in American remains. A message board poster with the alias “Noah_The_African” pointed out a prime example of how America’s racist media will quickly portray African Americans in a different light than White Americans even in a time of crisis....
Posted: Thu, Sep 1, 2005 8:09pm PDT
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