Subj : Re: Hurricane recovery
To   : Ralph Smole
From : Finnigann
Date : Sat Sep 03 2005 21:41:00

-=> Ralph Smole wrote to Finnigann <=-

 RS>   Re: Re: Hurricane recovery
 RS>   By: Finnigann to Frank on Sat Sep 03 2005 07:48 pm

 > That's how they did it for Florida. (I just heard Al Sharptons remarks/speac

 RS> AH!!
 RS> Al Sharpton--a REAL voice of reason----------NOT!!!

I guess you'd have to listen to him to know for sure. But [you] a bush
supporter might be risking eternal damnation if [you] he did.

http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m15352&l=i&size=1&hd=0
(Not my usual reading to be sure)

  ...Although I have big problems with Sharpton, he stared down the camera and
told it like it is: no way the people or the government of New Orleans had the
resources (more than 30% of the people live below the poverty level) and Bush
reacted too slowly because the lives of poor people (especially
African-American poor people) are not all that important. Carlson attempted to
give Sharpton hell but the preacher-cum-politician wasn't about to back down.


Further down...
(I'm not sure if we are still quoting Sharpton, but the views are interesting)

Bill O'Reilly simply wanted the police and National Guard to shoot down
"looters," that is to say those attempting to survive by taking food and drink
from stores, thus sending the ruling corporate elite's message: "law and order"
(i.e., protecting corporate property and banks) is more important than human
life, especially expendable African-American human life, for what the robber
baron Jay Gould said a hundred years ago still applies today: "I can hire one
half of the working class to kill the other half." As if to comply, Kathleen
Blanco, the Democrat governor of Louisiana, dispensed with a bit of threatening
machismo: "These troops are battle-tested. They have M16s and are locked and
loaded. These troops know how to shoot and kill and I expect they will." In
fact, with an intolerant right-wing grumbling in the background, Ms. Blanco
expects soldiers to kill poor people as they loot stores devastated by the
storm (stores that are insurance write-offs) because it is of paramount
importance to send a message to the lower and dispensable classes, even those
starving and suffering from dehydration.



or this:


By: Tanisha Blakely
September 3, 2005


 During a live telecast telethon concert for Hurricane Relief, Kanye West told
the world: “George Bush doesn’t care about black people.” Was he right? Read
one young mans account of what’s really going on in Mississippi.

 Last night on MSNBC, West criticized President Bush’s response to the victims
devastated by Hurricane Katrina. After his disparaging comments about the
president, Kanye was cut off the air and his comments were edited from the live
show when it broadcasted hours later.

 Later on MSNBC’s Tucker Carlson show, Rev. Al Sharpton thanked West for his
observation while Carlson passionately argued that race isn’t an issue, the
host said saying that it is [racism] only encourages paranoia.

 Sharpton and West aren’t the only black men questioning the prez. After
talking to Jimison Nelson, I found that West’s remarks aren’t unfounded.
“[Bush] ain’t caring about people from New Orleans who talk funny.”



When half of the people think there is a problem, there is a problem, if only
in perception. But there is a problem.

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