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2005-09-10 17:18:44 UTC
"Racism" is the cause of the sluggish response to help New Orleans
IXSI Network
Special report from New Orleans
Sep 02 2005
by North American reporter
Katrina has exposed the ugly underbelly of the USA for the world to
see. The unimaginable suffering of the Black population in New Orleans
and elsewhere in the "Apartheid South" due to the hurricane is
primarily due to the deeply ingrained racism that exists throughout
America
but especially in the "Old South" against the former "slaves". New
Orleans is 70% Black and most earn less than one half what Whites do.
The foot dragging to send in food, water and medicine to help the
dying, mostly Blacks, trapped at the Astrodome is due to the deep
animosity, now hidden, of Whites towards Blacks.
The examples of racism against New Orleans during their hour of need
are many. The first is the fact that the Federal Emergency Management
Agency (FEMA) and other White run federal agencies knew of the
impending catastrophe but chose to ignore it. There were already
numerous reports that New Orleans was in imminent danger of a major
catastrophe because the levy system that holds back the sea needed
upgrading. Instead, federal funds designated to fix the dikes were cut.
"Who cares about those poor niggers and drag queens in the Big Easy,
let it sink into the sea!" is what the Black mayors of New Orleans
heard consistently over the years. Another example is what is being
heard on radio in the Los Angeles area. Bill Handel, and extremely
hateful and obnoxious Jewish talk jock, said of the Blacks breaking
into food stores, "The cops should just shoot those animals in the
head". The same was heard from the anti-Mexican bigot Doug McIntyre on
another LA based radio station.
There is no doubt that there could have been a more rapid and efficient
response if there would have been the "will" to do so. No one cared,
not Bush nor most other responsible government agents until the
embarrassing photographs of the horrific situation were being
transmitted across the world. After much, of what only amounted to,
"lip service" by government officials, George Bush put on a show today
for the press giving the impression that he would fly to New Orleans to
"save the day". "The cavalry is here to save New Orleans" he said.
What a sham!
What happened to all the USA Chinook helicopters? What happened to the
Louisiana National Guard? What happened to the US Army's ability to
deploy emergency hospitals in a matter of hours? Perhaps they are busy
reconstructing Iraq. What a shame! We wonder what Black soldiers in
Iraq from Louisiana and Mississippi think when viewing the pictures of
old Black women and Black children dead on the concrete inside and in
the parking lot of the Astrodome. They died of hunger and thirst and
because of the lack of essential medications. Supplies that were denied
to the Black refugees simply because no one cared.
The same thing may happen to the large Mexican-American population in
the southwest if a similar catastrophe should occur here. If a major
earthquake or terrorist attack should befall Los Angeles, San Antonio,
San Diego or San Francisco, would the White run government emergency
agencies do to us what they did to the Blacks in New Orleans? Would
they choose to apply resources to save the predominate White areas and
leave us to die? The time to plan and prepare is now!
IXSI Network
Special report from New Orleans
Sep 02 2005
by North American reporter
Katrina has exposed the ugly underbelly of the USA for the world to
see. The unimaginable suffering of the Black population in New Orleans
and elsewhere in the "Apartheid South" due to the hurricane is
primarily due to the deeply ingrained racism that exists throughout
America
but especially in the "Old South" against the former "slaves". New
Orleans is 70% Black and most earn less than one half what Whites do.
The foot dragging to send in food, water and medicine to help the
dying, mostly Blacks, trapped at the Astrodome is due to the deep
animosity, now hidden, of Whites towards Blacks.
The examples of racism against New Orleans during their hour of need
are many. The first is the fact that the Federal Emergency Management
Agency (FEMA) and other White run federal agencies knew of the
impending catastrophe but chose to ignore it. There were already
numerous reports that New Orleans was in imminent danger of a major
catastrophe because the levy system that holds back the sea needed
upgrading. Instead, federal funds designated to fix the dikes were cut.
"Who cares about those poor niggers and drag queens in the Big Easy,
let it sink into the sea!" is what the Black mayors of New Orleans
heard consistently over the years. Another example is what is being
heard on radio in the Los Angeles area. Bill Handel, and extremely
hateful and obnoxious Jewish talk jock, said of the Blacks breaking
into food stores, "The cops should just shoot those animals in the
head". The same was heard from the anti-Mexican bigot Doug McIntyre on
another LA based radio station.
There is no doubt that there could have been a more rapid and efficient
response if there would have been the "will" to do so. No one cared,
not Bush nor most other responsible government agents until the
embarrassing photographs of the horrific situation were being
transmitted across the world. After much, of what only amounted to,
"lip service" by government officials, George Bush put on a show today
for the press giving the impression that he would fly to New Orleans to
"save the day". "The cavalry is here to save New Orleans" he said.
What a sham!
What happened to all the USA Chinook helicopters? What happened to the
Louisiana National Guard? What happened to the US Army's ability to
deploy emergency hospitals in a matter of hours? Perhaps they are busy
reconstructing Iraq. What a shame! We wonder what Black soldiers in
Iraq from Louisiana and Mississippi think when viewing the pictures of
old Black women and Black children dead on the concrete inside and in
the parking lot of the Astrodome. They died of hunger and thirst and
because of the lack of essential medications. Supplies that were denied
to the Black refugees simply because no one cared.
The same thing may happen to the large Mexican-American population in
the southwest if a similar catastrophe should occur here. If a major
earthquake or terrorist attack should befall Los Angeles, San Antonio,
San Diego or San Francisco, would the White run government emergency
agencies do to us what they did to the Blacks in New Orleans? Would
they choose to apply resources to save the predominate White areas and
leave us to die? The time to plan and prepare is now!