Keeping the myth alive
First the news…
Racism cost lives, N.O. evacuees say
Bitter exchanges erupt as they testify in D.C.
Wednesday, December 07, 2005
By Bruce Alpert
Washington bureau
WASHINGTON — Four African-American New Orleans residents told a House committee Tuesday that they felt a sense of abandonment from all levels of government when Hurricane Katrina hit three months ago and believe more lives and homes would have been saved had the victims been predominantly white and wealthier.
“People were allowed to die,” said Leah Hodges, who told the panel she still doesn’t know if her brother survived the hurricane. She likened what happened to New Orleans, and many of its black residents, to “genocide and ethnic cleansing. (more…)
Like most Americans, I was very disappointed at the slow response of government on all levels. What I didn’t dig was a rush to judgment by folks who wanted to make this into a race issue BEFORE knowing all the facts.
Well, more of those facts are starting to surface and as expected, the very ones that wasted no time making this into a race issue have moved on to cover more important issues like Tookie’s love for the little kiddies.
Below is an excerpt of the report released by the Louisiana department of Health & Hospitals:
Vital Statistics of All Bodies at St. Gabriel Morgue
Here is a link to the actual report.
Here is a link to another post I did recently that breaks down the affected areas by county/parish and race.
*Hat tip: Michelle Malkin
December 15th, 2005 at 7:09 am
Given that the majority of New Orleans’ residents are African-American, the numbers actually point to a disporoportionate amount of Caucasioans perishing.
Isn’t the local power structure in N.O. black?
Uh oh…I’m starting to get suspicious.
December 15th, 2005 at 8:21 am
new orleans,katrina…Iraq war….etc…all started with a lie …old school tells,
tell one lie ,you have to keep adding lies to it to cover it up ….the truth will work out…..a lie will run out……all you have to do is wait .
December 15th, 2005 at 8:39 am
How could a hurricane “start with a lie”?
RE Julio’s suspicion: New Orleans, the city, which is made up of only Orleans Parish, IS majority black but like most chocolate cities, it is surrounded by “vanilla” suburbs in Jefferson and St. Bernard Parishes. Chalmette in St. Bernard Parish is majority white but when the press writes about it, it calls Chalmette “New Orleans” thereby adding to the confusion of non-New Orleanians and giving the wrong impression of the situation on the ground to displaced New Orleanians.
There will be no progress, in NO or elsewhere, without truth and pragmatism. Conspiracy theories clog up the works, sometimes irrreparably. Look at black communities and AIDS.
December 16th, 2005 at 10:07 pm
Root: I hope you realized that my “suspicion” was drenched with sarcasm…
December 19th, 2005 at 1:15 pm
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