Katrina hurricane and racism of the US administration?

[lahori_bhai]

the tragedy in New Orleans has exposed the racism of the US government. It has ripped away the thin veneer of ‘civilisation’ in the world’s most powerful country. It has dispelled the notion that democracies are inherently civilised. It has shown that rugged individual capitalism is a nasty ideology that produces monsters and not humans.

That this should happen in the world’s most ‘powerful, democratic, and richest country’ is mind boggling.

just a question, how quick would have aid arrived if the city that had been hit was where the population was predominately white?

i bet aid would have arrived from the US quicker if this had happened in Tel Aviv.

[Seminole]

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If you want to bash the US, at least get your facts right. It doesn't do much for your argument. New York and Washington are not predominately white.

Do you really think the government has a list of minority areas that tells them how fast to respond to certian areas?

And pray tell who are these "monsters and not humans"?

[ak47]

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Raping and pillaging and this in a so called civillised country the United States what a joke!

[Ohioguy]

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We now have duplicate threads going on this. From my other post:

The Mayor of New Orleans (Black) did not order manditory evacuations of the city (The cost of which would have been paid for by the Federal Government) , he simply recommended evacuation. In fact there was never even a plan to evacuate the poor. Yet these are quotes from his head of Emergency Preparedness:

New Orleans-area emergency officials have some simple advice for how to survive a catastrophic hurricane: Get out.

“At some point you have to accept some responsibility for helping yourself,” said Deputy Fire Chief Terry Tullier, acting director of the New Orleans Office of Emergency Preparedness. "You have to understand that this could happen, and whether it’s the second or third time you’ve been asked to evacuate this year . . . you have to get up and go.

“The alternative is unacceptable,” he said.

For Col. Jesse St. Amant, director of the Plaquemines Parish Office of Emergency Preparedness, that means: “Every person who fails to leave is going to be a search-and-rescue mission, either a casualty, injury or death.”
http://www.nola.com/washingaway/aheadofstorm_1.html

**For Tullier, going through the recovery exercise reinforces his belief that New Orleans residents must evacuate before such a storm. **

“I’m always asked what’s my worst nightmare, and I talk about the generations of New Orleanians who have no historical reference in their brain about how bad this will be,” Tullier said. "And when I preach the gospel of evacuation, they won’t take it seriously.

http://www.ohsep.louisiana.gov/news…ncyexercise.htm

This has nothing to do with race. This is incompetence, stupidity, and bad decisions.

And, just for the record, the Mayor of New Orleans has a history of not evacuating people:

NEW ORLEANS (AP) _ Storm-wary residents of low-lying coastal Louisiana stocked up on emergency supplies Monday and New Orleans’ mayor asked anyone who could to leave as Hurricane Ivan moved slowly toward an unpredictable landfall along the Gulf Coast.
**It’s my feeling that this storm will pass very close to New Orleans,‘’ Mayor Ray Nagin said. Meteorologists said it probably would curve eastward, away from Louisiana, but that would take "perfect conditions,‘’ he said. **
He did not order an evacuation, but said, ``If you have the wherewithal to seek higher ground and move to a higher location, you should take that tack today. Or tomorrow at the latest.‘’
http://www.thechanticleeronline.com/media/paper670/news/2004/09/16/News/Gulf-Coast.Braces.Itself.For.Hurricane.Ivan-719836.shtml

[funny_jammies]

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@ak47

Raping and pillaging and this in a so called civillised country the United States what a joke!

you should be right at home then..

[MAN_CHALA]

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the american govt can get troops to iraq and afghansitan with in 4 days !! but cant get help to its own citizens afeter 6 days! we know where usa govt priorities lie!1

GENOCIDE!! that is what it was1!! watch this space amercan black senators and congressman and also all civilsied ppl in usa will tell u their feeling very soon!!

they are jsut busy with the releif efforts!! and dont want to cause panic.

[dope]

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^hey condie dismissed the racism factor as bogus, and she top most african american official in the bush admin. So, your myths have been debunked.

[ak47]

Bush called a racist by Kanye West!

NBC’s celebrity telethon for Hurricane Katrina victims took an unexpected turn Friday when Chicago rapper Kanye (pronounced KAHN-yay) West went off script during the live broadcast, declaring America is set up “to help the poor, the black people, the less well-off as slow as possible.”
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Appearing two-thirds of the way through the program, West took the government to task, saying “George Bush doesn’t care about black people.”

He also criticized the news media, saying “I hate the way they portray us in the media. If you see a black family, it says they’re looting. See a white family, it says they’re looking for food.” **

West said the government is intentionally dragging its feet, and that “they’ve given them permission to go down and shoot us.”

After he stated, “George Bush doesn’t care about black people,” the camera cut away to comedian Chris Tucker.

http://www.cbc.ca/story/arts/national/2005/09/03/Arts/kanye_west_katrina20050903.html

Whats up with the so called media in amerika don’t they like the truth what happened to so called freedom of speech,the truth really hit them in the nuts one of there own called Bush and his dumb government racist against blacks why they afraid to debate it hiding behind prepared scripts the coward media.
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He also criticized the news media, saying “I hate the way they portray us in the media. If you see a black family, it says they’re looting. See a white family, it says they’re looking for food.” **

Ouch!

[deedawar]

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QUOTE:New Orleans-area emergency officials have some simple advice for how to survive a catastrophic hurricane: Get out.

So why people are not allowed to escape the city and being forced to stay in the city and in some instances at gun point? (Source: some people's beloved.....CNN-Sept. 3rd, 2005)

[PakistaniAbroad]

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watch this movie.. in case u missed Hannity & Colmes .. it’s FOX i know but somehow when they are not ‘in bedded’ they show they’re human too

Play Movie Clip

[Silly_Billy]

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@dope

^hey condie dismissed the racism factor as bogus, and she top most african american official in the bush admin. So, your myths have been debunked.

Condie Rice is not the spokesperson for 38 million African-American’s, and she represents a party that 90% of them did not even vote for.

[Ma_Mooli]

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And now we have this. What is wrong with the authorities o yonder?

You’re on your own, Britain’s victims told

Mark Townsend
Sunday September 4, 2005
The Observer

British families trapped in New Orleans last night claimed that US authorities had refused to evacuate them as Hurricane Katrina approached the city.

Although assistance was offered to US residents, British nationals were told they would have to fend for themselves. According to those who remain stranded in the stricken city, police had visited hotels and guest houses on the eve of the hurricane offering to evacuate Americans, but not Britons.

The order meant UK holidaymakers without cars were left helpless in the face of the hurricane. Some have been trapped in hotels and guest houses since the hurricane struck at 7am local time last Monday.

One family from Liverpool, trapped in a flooded section of the city, told relatives yesterday of their bewilderment when they realised US citizens would be offered preferential treatment.

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,1562517,00.html

[ak47]

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^ what do you expect just because Britian is slave and followed Amerika into Iraq you want the amerikkans to make brits their number 1 friend times of real crises you know who your real friends are!

[dope]

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@Silly Billy

Condie Rice is not the spokesperson for 38 million African-American’s, and she represents a party that 90% of them did not even vote for.

You didnt catch the sarcasm. I admit it was too subtle.

[Ma_Mooli]

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@ak47

^ what do you expect just because Britian is slave and followed Amerika into Iraq you want the amerikkans to make brits their number 1 friend times of real crises you know who your real friends are!

This isnt either about Iraq or Britian. At times like this, your nationality should not even come to mind, when lives are at stake. Its just down right pathetic.

[ak47]

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^ in this crisis everyone is like scavenger nobody cares about no one, why when there was earthquake in Kobe Japan people don't behave like this but in amerika the worst in human nature always comes out!

[ravage]

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lets not take this oppurtunity to make fun of the people facing this disaster. I'm not gonna go an remove every mocking post made so far, just bear in mind that Im going to issue warnings if people keep violating our policy of not mocking the dead.

[MAN_CHALA]

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CIVILISED GOVT OF USA??? no way!! doe sit not reminf u have the wild west!! YOU LOOT WE SHOOT!! LIEK A SHERRIFS SLOGAN!!!

WHAT TOOK THE GOVT SO LONG!!! TO ACT!!! I THINK THE usa SHOLD WITHDRAW FROMOTHER COUNTRIES AND LOOKA FTER ITS OWN PPL FIRST WHO STILLLIVE IN THIRD WORLD ENVIROMENT!!!

hOW LONG WOULD IT TAKE USA TOGET TROOPS READY FOR IRAN , SYRIA OR PAKISTAN!! 4 DAYS!! MAX!! BUT FOR AMERICAN AFRICANS IT TOOK SIX DAYS!!!

[gupguppy]

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@Ohioguy

The Mayor of New Orleans (Black) did not order manditory evacuations of the city…

blame it on the black guy…

[Ohioguy]

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Plenty of blame to go around, but shouldn't a Black Mayor be MORE in touch and protective of his people?

The reality of this is that those people were doomed due to 50 years of constuction of innadequate levys. Then they were doomed again when they were not evacuated. A fait accompli...