The latest right wing news/talk, I mean media spin, is to compare the behavior of Japanese people in wake of the recent Earth Quake and Tsunami, to the "out of control" behavior of African Americans trapped in New Orleans in the aftermath of the Katrina Flooding.
Katrina the fourth anniversary
It's not about a hurricane, It's about America
It's not about a Hurricane, it's about America Redux
The struggle for affordable housing in New Orleans
Those were the good old days (Ironically this was my first post at Left in Alabama)
(Who would have thought those days could look good? - promoted by mooncat)
I sure do miss the good old days when abortion was the litmus test for Presidential cabinet and court nominations and not torture.
I sure do miss the good old days when the media reported just the facts and not opinion.
I sure do miss the good old days when people loved their country more than they loved their party.
I sure do miss the good old days of peace and prosperity, when all we had to worry about was who was getting nekid in the White House.
Who would have thought I would banned from Left in Alabama?
SMH
FACTS DON'T LIE! You guy are just afraid to admit it. Why was New Orleans out of control after the hurricane but Japan was not? NOT MANY BLACKS IN JAPAN!See what I mean? Anyhoo, before my Ebony Donkey was booted from Left in Alabama I blogged extensively about Katrina so I thought a stroll down memory lane would be *ahem* appropriate.
Katrina the fourth anniversary
Based on my reading, the lower 9th ward looks the same way today that it did 4 years ago. "Trouble the Waters", a great first hand account of Katrina and it's aftermath was released this weekend, check out Kanye West on jackandjill politics.com for a reminder about what happened and how Americans were treated during that awful time. Uptown and the French Quarter are booming. Thousands of residents still haven't found their way back home. The toxic FEMA trailers are still toxic. The right is still blaming the democratic, female governor and the African American democratic mayor for the disaster.Don't say Goodbye, just GO
Bush defends his response to KatrinaThe untold Race War during Katrina
"Don't tell me the federal response was slow when there was 30,000 people pulled off roofs right after the storm passed," Bush said at what was likely his final news conference as president. "You know, I remember going to see those helicopter drivers, Coast Guard divers, to thank them for their courageous efforts to rescue people off roofs -- 30,000 people were pulled off roofs right after the storm moved through. That's a pretty quick response."
The outrage is here (0.00 / 0)
The plight of the poor who survived Katrina continues to be one of my greatest heartaches. How can anyone not feel outrage over the way these people have been treated by the Bush Administration and by the Republicans in general, is beyond my understanding. It especially outrages me that some of the money that could have helped the Victims of Katrina came to relatively unscathed Alabama, thanks to Shelby and others, and ended up being spent for some highly questionable "pet projects" just infuriates me.
It's not about a hurricane, It's about America
Let me clear my throat (0.00 / 0)
Those videos spoke to me on so many different levels.
The first one was so emotional. Great song selection.
The second one was also emotional, but made me angry when listening to Nagin and watching the video. And now to think that so much of this can happen again.
Are we any more prepared for this?
He talked about Bush flying over (picture of that in Video 1) and bringing in the AP reporters two days later.
Well we all know how disastrous FEMA was anyways.
I'm really hoping that we have good journalists, bloggers, new media sticking around this time to cover Gustav. Therefore, when the storm hits there will be a much better and timely response.
Then at the end of the video when Nagin talked about the drug addicts. I don't know what to say, except for that spoke to me about how we are losing the war on drugs and how addicting drugs are.
It's not about a Hurricane, it's about America Redux
Next week will mark the third anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. I didn't want the occasion to be lost in all the hoopla over the Democratic National Convention so I'm blogging about it now, I hope and pray Senator Barack Obama and the other Democratic politicians remind America not only of the failures of "heck of a job" Bush and his side kick Brownie, but about the poverty the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina exposed.">Next week will mark the third anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. I didn't want the occasion to be lost in all the hoopla over the Democratic National Convention so I'm blogging about it now,
I hope and pray Senator Barack Obama and the other Democratic politicians remind America not only of the failures of "heck of a job" Bush and his side kick Brownie, but about the poverty the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina exposed.
The struggle for affordable housing in New Orleans
Another year has come and gone since the devestation of hurricane Katrina and the victims are still suffering, make that the poor black victims are still suffering. Posting a link from the Blackpressusa.com because the White Press USA is ignoring the situation. I guess they figure if they ignore the situtation it will go away.
Those were the good old days (Ironically this was my first post at Left in Alabama)
(Who would have thought those days could look good? - promoted by mooncat)
I sure do miss the good old days when abortion was the litmus test for Presidential cabinet and court nominations and not torture.
I sure do miss the good old days when the media reported just the facts and not opinion.
I sure do miss the good old days when people loved their country more than they loved their party.
I sure do miss the good old days of peace and prosperity, when all we had to worry about was who was getting nekid in the White House.
Who would have thought I would banned from Left in Alabama?
SMH
35 comments:
Here's a good read for you since you seem to believe poverty causes blacks to commit crime. They do it because they are animals just like the whites who do.
Poverty has nothing to do with crime.
Photo from Detroit News: White landlord allegedly killed by black millionaire. He was rehabilitating properties in Detroit and even living with tenants in one of his own properties. However, living among his tenants caused him to become a target.
The extremist left-wing mantra that “poverty caused crime,” is slander against all law abiding poor people. In fact, a mountain of empirical data exists that shows the two are not related.
In this case a 62 year old black male recently won $1.47 million, after taxes, in the lottery. Only to be charged with the premeditated murder of his daughter’s white landlord in an apparent racially motivated slaying.
The American media is CENSORING this story. There is more about it in the foreign media, but even then any picture or description of the killer is censored. Imagine for a second that the races were reversed. This would have been a major media story.
From Detroit News…
A Michigan Lottery millionaire was ordered on Thursday to stand trial for first-degree premeditated murder.
Freddie Young, 62, whose 13-member lottery club hit a $46.5 million Mega Millions jackpot in February, was bound over by 36th District Judge Patricia Jefferson on charges related to the May 7 slaying of his daughter’s landlord in an alleged dispute over two months’ unpaid rent.
Witnesses testified at a preliminary examination that Young shot 45-year-old Australian native Greg McNicol at point-blank range after the man who had been rehabilitating and living in an east side 10-unit apartment building had argued with Young’s daughter and a granddaughter before Young shot him.
Young sat in court Thursday with his three-lawyer legal team. He wore a prisoner’s uniform and handcuffs.
He had been a member of the P1 Gold Lottery Club, contributing $10 a week for a dozen years before hitting the big winner. The club took the cash option of $29 million, which after taxes could have resulted in even shares of $1.57 million apiece, according to Michigan Lottery officials.
"Another year has come and gone since the devestation of hurricane Katrina and the victims are still suffering, make that the poor black victims are still suffering."
Maybe they should have voted for Bush. You know, so that he could pander to them...first!
For the last time;
"You have so much hate, that it smothers any valid or invalid points you attempt to make on your blog."
"I can see that a mind is a terrible thing to waste and a hard thing to change."
It sure is.
"Anyhoo, before my Ebony Donkey was booted from Left in Alabama..."
Why? Huh, I couldn't possibly ponder(pander) as to WHY...
Hell hath no fury like a Tuscaloosian scorned...don't forget it!
You said- Hell hath no fury like a Tuscaloosian scorned...don't forget it!
And you say I'm full of hate?
Of course that is the way you took it. I'm not the one with a weak ass blog that's "sprouting negativity".
You are as good at dodging questions as President Bush is dodging shoes.
Roll Tide Y'all!
WAY TO GO UNDRE!!! A black man telling it like it is!!!
"There is nothing more painful to me … than to walk down the street and hear footsteps and start thinking about robbery, then look around and see somebody white and feel relieved." — the Reverend Jesse Jackson, as quoted in US News, 3/10/96
WOW THE TRUTH AS TOLD 15 YEARS AGO!
http://cofcc.org/2011/05/unruly-crowd-forces-cops-to-shut-down-water-park/
BLACKS OUT OF CONTROL....ANY COMMENT REDEYE!
It was not as bad as Huntsville Black art festival though! That thing use to be out of hand when it was held at the radio station on Jordan!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Panoply never has those problems...why? The answer is wait for it wait for it..........Panoply is a mostly a white attended event!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Do you really want to go there FedUp?
Were these out of control black folks?
http://www.waff.com/story/4874504/students-post-reaction-pictures-of-prank-on-the-web?redirected=true
Huntsville High School Students “Gone Wild”
May 13, 2006 by Marc
A group of five Huntsville, Ala., students, 4 seniors and one junior student, forced Jim Shields, 53, to stand naked in the school. Shields, homeless and a Vietnam Veteran, was forced to disrobe and walk naked through school as part of a prank, according to a report.
Local school officials have called the act “unacceptable behavior,” (a vast understatement if there ever was one), and suspended the group from school for a week. As part of the suspension the Seniors will also be barred from attending awards day events and “banned from a planned Senior Class picnic and suspended from attending baccalaureate and graduation ceremonies.”
And note the Junior student apparently will only receive the weeks suspension. I guess an older age does have its “benefits!”
There is no indication these 5 idiots were aware Shields was a veteran, not that it matters, this behaviour is unacceptable in any context. The sad part is the school penalties handed out appear to be that only ones available to local officials. Ken Edmonson, who served in World War II and Vietnam, reportedly contacted Huntsville Police and was told their hands are tied unless the victim takes out a warrant.
http://cranialcavity.wordpress.com/2006/05/13/huntsville-high-school-students-gone-wild/
Did this happen at the Black Arts Festival on Jordon Lane?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centennial_Olympic_Park_bombing
The Centennial Olympic Park bombing was a terrorist bombing on July 27, 1996 in Atlanta, Georgia, United States during the 1996 Summer Olympics, the first of four committed by Eric Robert Rudolph.[1] Two people died, and 111 were injured.
Did this happen at an Inner City School committed by black students?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbine_High_School_massacre
he Columbine High School massacre occurred on Tuesday, April 20, 1999, at Columbine High School in Columbine, an unincorporated area of Jefferson County, Colorado, United States, near Denver and Littleton. Two senior students, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, embarked on a massacre, killing 12 students and one teacher. They also injured 21 other students directly, and three people were injured while attempting to escape. The pair then committed suicide. It is the fourth-deadliest school massacre in United States history, after the 1927 Bath School disaster, 2007 Virginia Tech massacre and the 1966 University of Texas massacre, and the deadliest for an American high school.
Speaking of Colombine you might want to watch a brief history of the United States of America.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPBHtjZmSpw
You are right on those incidents ! What about Jesse Jackson comment?
"There is nothing more painful to me … than to walk down the street and hear footsteps and start thinking about robbery, then look around and see somebody white and feel relieved." — the Reverend Jesse Jackson, as quoted in US News, 3/10/96
http://cofcc.org/2011/05/americans-living-in-fear-of-young-blacks/
another one for ya
What about the snippet of the Jesse Jackson comment? I know you are reaching for straws if you are reduced to quoting Jesse Jackson.
Thanks for proving my point white Americans are living in fear of young blacks because of the media driven stereotypes.
Peace be with you.
While there are young black kids that are no doubt violent and out of control, that can be the same for any other race. Our culture and society as a whole has gone down hill and no one can claim responsibility for the bad apples of their races. There are bad examples across the board of extremism, intolerance and vile violence and it comes in all colors. If you think it doesn't then everyone is delusional and haven't been watching a tv in the last 20 years.
It's not a media driven stereo type! It's TRUE incidents that are reported on the news! Race relations are worse than they were 3 years ago since Obama took office! It was suppose to get better it has not!!! BLACKS now feel they don't have to follow the rules because we have a 1/2 white and a 1/2 black president! Oh why is he always refereed to as the first black president and not the first 1/2 president or first mixed president?
i.e. media driven if its reported on the news. Yeah, race was supposed to be better says media pundits. Obama is but one man and not responsible for race relations. Your statement that blacks dont have to follow the rules because we have a black president is such an ignorant statement that I wont dignify it with a response. He is referred to as black because identifies himself as black.
Knowing is half the battle.
Rebel Flower said..."He is referred to as black because identifies himself as black."
In this country, President Obama would be black, regardless of how he identifies himself.
When white skin is the standard by which all other colors are perceived and judged, shades of white are seen as shades of black.
Given the violent history of whites against people of color, I, too, would self-identify as black, notwithstanding the degree of white in my ancestry.
"Shades" should be drawn at night!
Given the violent history of whites against people of color
that was in the past this is the present so move on. affirmative action could be looked at as racism toward whites1
Anonymous said...
Given the violent history of whites against people of color
that was in the past this is the present so move on. affirmative action could be looked at as racism toward whites1
If I were inclined to make the aforementioned statement, I'd insist on being "anonymous," too.
Native Americans should "move on," if I'm to take you at your word. (Nothing to see here.) Let's see: The genocidal tendencies of Europeans practically decimated North America's indigenous people, and to such a degree that, to this day, many struggle against great odds just to stay alive, and to keep their culture intact.
When everyday was, and still is, an "affirmative action" day for whites, I'm guessing that you were, and are, okay with that--after all, it's members of your own race who is benefiting.
You're revealing a race-central proclivity, but then that's nothing new for whites. You made it abundantly clear years ago that people of color exist only to do your bidding, to have your culture, including your religion which you rarely follow, rammed down their collective throat, and exploited in other sundry ways.
"Violence" against a people can take many forms. When whites who think like you "move on," I will, too.
In the meantime, I'll keep my eyes wide open. Whites have shown time and again: The only good white is a watched white.
FEDUP talks the talk but what we should be very aware of there are people who not only talk the talk but who are in positions of power and authority who can walk the walk.
What if FEDUP is a member of the police force? A Judge? A District Attorney? A school teacher, Principal, Superientendant, School Board Member, City Council, County Commission Member? What if FEDUP is a Congressman,a Senator or the President? What if FEDUP is the director of FEMA, HUD, or someother local/state/federal agency? What if FEDUP is the Editor of a Newspaper or the owner of a radio or television station or a Blog?
One can talk racist talk all day, but it takes POWER to walk the racist walk.
Governments have allowed this part of American and British history to be swallowed up. The contemptible black slavery has taken a grip on people associated with American History. Yet, no one will tell of these accounting that are well established on to the middle 1800’s.
Slavery is not something to be proud of but it is a fact that happened to every country, kingdom and empire that has been on this earth. Each of us needs to search our hearts and find the answer to stop racial hatred. One place to begin; realize that the black race was not the only race in the last 400 years that was in bondage.
" Lots of whites feel that blacks think they are still owed something when I think they were never owned so NO White America does not owe that debit. "
White America does owe Black people a debt of gratitude for the contributions they made to build this country for NO PAY for the benefit of White Americans.
White America does Black people a debt for the years of Jim Crow and taxation without represention.
White America is the beneficiay of the labor of black folks.
Black folks aren't asking for a handout, we're asking for a hand up. "WE don't want nobody to give us nothing. Open up the door and we'll get outselves".~James Brown
"White America does owe Black people a debt of gratitude for the contributions they made to build this country for NO PAY for the benefit of White Americans."
WHAT CONTRIBUTIONS? 20 in rims, sagging pants, drive by shootings,baby daddies, crips,bloods,gangsta disciples,rap,largest percentage per capita by race of EBT recipients are black, 90% of VICTIMS of racial crime are white and are victims of blacks,largest percentage of crime per capita by race in the US is committed by Blacks,the largest percentage of children in single unwed parent homes per capita by race are black.
etc etc
"White America does Black people a debt for the years of Jim Crow and taxation without representation".
IF you were not affected then HELL NO you are not owed. Most people today were small kids are not even alive who cry about JIM CROW!! It was WRONG but you are not owed!!!!
"Black folks aren't asking for a handout, we're asking for a hand up. "WE don't want nobody to give us nothing. Open up the door and we'll get ourselves".~James Brown
NOT ALL are but MOST ARE!!
WHAT ARE THE WHITE SLAVES OWED?
There is no history of 400 years of white slavery in America.
How long were whites slaves then? Were you a slave? HELL NO! IT WAS WRONG! You were not owned and no white today owned any slaves!!!!! There was white slavery it does not matter how many years it was just to point that out to you. Whites do not go around all day long talking about it!! It was done to whites and they moved on! Today's whites were not owned! So learn from it but move on and stop blaming today's whites!
Learn what from it and move on?move on?
I'll learn from it and move on when y'all stop celebrating Confederate Memorial Day, Robert E. Lee's birthday, Jefferson Davis's birthday, flying the Confederate Flag and when they remove The Heart of Dixie from the Alabama license plates.
This;
"Because you implied it, let me confess this: I don't harbor "racial hatred." I have more reason to indulge it than you and many others, but it's a soul-numbing, senseless exercise."
They want us to learn from it and move on, but there is always something there to remind us.
"In the end we won't remember the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends"~Martin Luther King, Jr.
I'll learn from it and move on when y'all stop celebrating Confederate Memorial Day, Robert E. Lee's birthday, Jefferson Davis's birthday, flying the Confederate Flag and when they remove The Heart of Dixie from the Alabama license plates.
Why can’t it be celebrated? We celebrate MLK day!!! The confederate flag is also a symbol of the South NOT racism!!! If we stop celebrating these holidays will MLK day also be removed? I do not care about any of them but if one goes the they all go MLK day included or it would be a BIG DOUBLE STANDARD!!!! BET, United Negro College Fund, Miss Black America, Black Panther Party etc etc etc would also have to have a name change!!!!!!!!!! FAIR IS FAIR! I'm sure you will disagree and that my friend would make you WRONG just as you think I am wrong!!
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"I do not care about any of them but if one goes the they all go...."
This statement sums up for me the extent to which you'll go toward establishing a punitive resolution to a race problem--punishing both sides although it's clear than only whites are at fault.
Are you that ensconced in your white "tribalism," that you have to protect white interest at all cost against those evil blacks?
You don't want fairness, although you insist on it: You ostensibly wish to even the score if blacks are seen as winning against your precious whites, even when the game is stacked in whites' favor, and blacks have to establish a movement to make some small civil rights stride to even the playing field.
You see: You do "care" about them. Otherwise, you wouldn't see a "double standard" where none exists.
"BET, United Negro College Fund, Miss Black America, Black Panther Party etc etc etc would also have to have a name change!"
This statement borders on the inane. Now the term "black" is somehow an indication of a "double standard."
Have you heard of the White Citizens' Council (WCC), or The White Man's Bible?
If you had studied U.S. History, you'd know that racism forced blacks to create in their world, what was deprived them in the white world. If you're in the majority, you don't have to preface things with white: It's understood.
Miss Black America denoted a beauty contest for blacks which the Miss America Pageant had excluded for years (note, no white in the name, but the pageant was understood to be for whites only).
The National Colored Baseball League denoted a black baseball league formed when blacks were excluded from the more "prestigious" white leagues.
The "Black Panther" denoted a black activist group who used the term "black," because to just call themselves The Panthers or The White Panthers would have misled in one instance, and would have been ludicrous in the second instance.
"I'm sure you will disagree and that my friend would make you WRONG just as you think I am wrong!!"
Friendship begins with honesty. Your words are as unfriendly as they are dishonest.
What a burden you must carry!
WOW! I am trying to see it as you do but I DON'T. It's not what the holidays stand for it's the point of getting rid of something others like because a few do not like it.If those people want to celebrate let them if you want to celebrate MLK day go for it.Can a white person be in Miss Black America? NO! A black person can be in Miss America!! The Black Panther Party of today is like the white KKK!!!! MLK may be a Patriot but he was no saint. Who were the hos in his room when he died? Would mlk be proud of most young black men today? HELL NO!! His dream was not to be lazy and not take advantage of the NUMEROUS FREE programs offered for blacks to better themselves...but that's another story....I'm done.......
"There is nothing more painful to me … than to walk down the street and hear footsteps and start thinking about robbery, then look around and see somebody white and feel relieved." — the Reverend Jesse Jackson, as quoted in US News, 3/10/96
FED UP said...
"WOW! I am trying to see it as you do but I DON'T. It's not what the holidays stand for it's the point of getting rid of something others like because a few do not like it."
Now, I'm "fed up."
When facts, logic, and rationality fail to persuade others it's because their biases are leading them by the nose.
I hung in here because I was curious as to what it was that was driving you. I now have my answer.
I bid you adieu!
@Black Diaspora, Mack Lyons and Rebel Flower
Thank you for your informed and enlightened participation in the discussion. You were able to make your points without resorting to name calling, personal attacks and insults.
You can lead a horse to water but you can't make them drink.
FED UP IS RIGHT ON POINT ON MOST STATEMENTS!
^says FEDUP/The Truth shall set you free/Undre Pinchon/Harold/Black male in NW HSV/sick and tired/double standard^
Unless you suffer from multiple personality number find a moniker and stick with it.
Roll Tide y'all!
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