Now for my rant.
Why is it that wherever there is misery, Jesse Jackson is there to benefit from it? Reverend Jesse showed up in New Orleans this past week not to provide aid to anyone that needed it, just to get his photo-op and point fingers at the President. It was all words. There were no deeds. The people of the Gulf Coast were no better off after Jesse left than before he got there.
Does Jesse Jackson have the power to send help? No. Is Jesse Jackson an elected official of any jurisdiction? No. Is Jesse Jackson accountable for anything he says or does? No. So why does anyone care what Jesse Jackson has to say?
Not surprisingly, Jesse Jackson accused the Bush administration on Friday of not acting faster to rescue New Orleans' flood victims because they were mostly black, poor, and Democrat.
"Many black people feel that their race, their property conditions, and their voting patterns have been a factor in the response,"Jesse, if these people were mostly white, affluent, Republicans, would you give a rat's ass about whether or not the rescue and relief response were slow? Of course not. There are people who fit this description in the suburbs of New Orleans: in Kenner, in Metairie, in Mandeville, in Slidell. These people are still waiting to be evacuated and are wondering why no relief has come. The reson no relief has come is because the news media is centering their coverage on New Orleans and the plight of mostly inner-city blacks. This is the perfect stage for a misery-merchant like Jesse Jackson.
"I'm not saying that myself. What's self-evident is that you have many poor people without a way out."Jesse, if you were worth a damn, you wouldn't be in front of the cameras making political hay out of these people's loss. You would've organized a convoy of relief supplies to distribute to the stricken and a team of buses to help get those people out. We all know that you've never had a problem organizing marches - why is this any different?
The politicizing of the disaster doesn't stop with the Reverend. House Democrat Charlie Rangel, who last year claimed that the Bush Administration was going to reinstitute the draft when in fact Rep. Rangel was the author of the bill that went before the Congress, said that Bush should have recognized the flood danger to New Orleans.
"I assume the president's going to say he got bad intelligence."Well, Charlie, where's the legislation that you sponsored to alleviate the flood danger? Did you have information that was diffderent than what the President had?
"I think that wherever you see poverty, whether it's in the white rural community or the black urban community, you see that the resources have been sucked up into the war and tax cuts for the rich."I hear alot of rhetoric but I don't see alot of action. I didn't see the Reverend or the Congressman standing in a white rural area pointing any fingers. The unfortunate thing for Blacks in this country is that the leaders they have chosen to follow have done absolutely nothing to help their plight and have used their plight for their own personal political empire-building.
We are at a time that we should all be coming together to help our neighbors and Jesse Jackson and Charlie Rangel are busy cultivating hate and discontent. Jesse Jackson should be ignored by the media - he represents no one. Charlie Rangel should be censured by Congress.
Jesse, Charlie: My 10 year old daughter and her friends went door-to-door Friday afternoon and raised $450 for Hurricane Katrina Relief and my community raised an additional $1000 on Saturday for Hurricane Katrina Relief. That's $1400 more than either of you shitheads have done for the people of the Gulf Coast. And we don't care what color the people are that get the help, as long as it someone that needs it.
Both of you can rot in hell next to Adolf Hitler and Josef Stalin!!!! You're definitely cut from the same cloth.
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