Comments | calemorgasm: "George Bush Doesn't Care About Black People"

calemorgasm

"George Bush Doesn't Care About Black People"

Sep 10, 2005 10:24

pretty much true. i mean if texas got hit by a category 5 hurricane that was predicted to cause major flooding and chaos, im sure his ass would have decided maybe its time to stop vacationing, and do some fucking work. it took 5 days to get the national guard down to louisiana. FIVE DAYS. it didn't take much longer than that to get them to iraq to ( Read more... )

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yourturntoburn September 10 2005, 17:39:46 UTC

i hate kanye west.

calemorgasm September 11 2005, 21:22:36 UTC

why?

yourturntoburn September 11 2005, 22:06:18 UTC

i don't know. his whole persona.

thefuriousbacon September 11 2005, 05:17:59 UTC

75% of New Orleans is black people.
85+% has been evacuated.
That means that most of the people who got out okay WERE BLACK.

Don't be one of those race card morons, Cale. PLEASE.

yeah calemorgasm September 11 2005, 21:27:32 UTC

didnt he hesitate a whole bunch before assigning national guardsmen to the area? the NEXT DAY there should have been federal help, not people standing around on the interstate having no idea what to do,where to go, or how to get help.

and im not really trying to compare a natural disaster to a terrorist attack, but i mean it was pretty clear new orleans was gonna get devestated. why wouldnt there be people ON THE WAY to the area to help the day after the hurricane cleared the area? after 9/11 there were troops there like an hour afterwards. i know they were there to protect the area in the event of another attack, but they also were helping people there.

and yeah most of new orleans is black. maybe kanye should have rephrased it as 'george bush doesnt care about POOR people'. cause i mean, we've known that ever since he got elected. tax cuts for the rich, not much for the middle class or the poor. or the elderly.

Re: yeah thefuriousbacon September 12 2005, 22:46:00 UTC

This is not the President's fault alone, though. There were plenty of people not doing their jobs that week, Bush was just one of them.
What about the mayor of New Orleans, or the governor of Louisiana (both democrats, btw)? They WERE THERE ALREADY and did nothing.

There's plenty of blame to go around; the whole thing was handled wrong, no one did anything right. The same thing happened to Holland in like 1926 with a flood there that wiped out cities and killed thousands. It took that disaster to wake them up and build an $8 billion dike and levee system that would withstand any storm possible; maybe this is our wake-up call.

Re: yeah calemorgasm September 13 2005, 03:36:48 UTC

that holland thing happened in 1926, this is 2005. a bit different.

and i agree its not all the president's fault, nothing can all be blamed on one person. its not even a republican/democrat thing. its a leadership thing. he froze up like on 9/11. but you know

Re: yeah thefuriousbacon September 13 2005, 19:02:53 UTC

Yeah, but I think people should stop worrying about who to blame and start caring more about the fate of those affected. There's too much politics in this and not enough action.

Interesting news bit: I just heard on CNN that Palistinian refugees collected $10,000 and donated it to the American Red Cross for the Katrina victims. I thought that was cool, considering how poor they are, and they don't even live here.