this is me avoiding making other posts

[rkt]

if one is to believe condoleezza rice, kanye's wrong and ain't no way in hell george the worst is a racist. this is apparently because, well, nobody could be racist at such time as katrina.

which, i suppose, is fine. according to barbara bush, things will turn out right as, well, ok i'll say it, rain, for those folks holed up at the astrodome since, you know, they were underprivileged anyway.

nope. we're all equal here. even if some are more equal than others.

seriously. i've never been a big tv watcher. and now, this seems to be especially so. but i'm addicted to the wwltv web-blog because they keep feeding me these gold mines, which, in reality, are incredibly sad. but i never said i wasn't addicted to trainwrecks. my own life attests to that much.

ETA: i am NOT commenting on daddy bush and clinton tag-teaming, again.

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[androgy8.livejournal.com]

When Barbara Bush makes those type of comments (publicly, no less), her son's response doesn't surprise me. The apple doesn't fall far from the tree. :(

[bluebuckeye.livejournal.com]

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Sad. :-( Do you have a copy of the text of that article somewhere?

And I wonder why people think that disasters make racists un-racist. I could see a lot of racist people being really happy about what happenened. But the idea that a national disaster like this makes everyone empathetic is really naive.

it would help if i did html properly.

[rkt.livejournal.com]

but, also:

Rice denies race had role in response
September 5, 2005


From combined dispatches
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice yesterday said the federal response to Hurricane Katrina was not slowed by racial insensitivity.
"Nobody, especially the president, would have left people unattended on the basis of race," the administration's highest-ranking black said as she toured damaged parts of her native Alabama.
Later, during a service at the Pilgrim Rest African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church outside Mobile, Miss Rice nodded in agreement as the Rev. Malone Smith Jr. advised the congregation, "Wait for the Lord."
"There are some things the president can do; there are some things the government can do," Mr. Smith told about 300 worshippers during a rollicking two-hour service. "But God can do all things. I want you to know he's never late. He's always on time."
Miss Rice later echoed the call for patience. "The Lord is going to come on time -- if we just wait," she said.
It was a sort of homecoming for Miss Rice, an Alabama native and granddaughter of a Presbyterian minister.
Her visit came as some black leaders, including the Rev. Jesse Jackson, have complained bitterly about the slow response to the disaster, whose victims have been disproportionately black and poor. They have said racial injustice was a factor in the government's slow relief effort.
"How can that be the case? Americans don't want to see Americans suffer," Miss Rice said. "Nobody, especially the president, would have left people unattended on the basis of race."
Mr. Jackson complained that television and press coverage of the disaster was racist for calling storm survivors "refugees" and showing images of blacks looting in New Orleans.
Using "refugees" to describe the people evacuated from storm-ravaged areas "is insulting, it is racist, it does not describe American citizens," Mr. Jackson said. "If you characterize them as refugees, it is someone other than citizens."
The veteran activist accused the press of a double standard in its coverage of chaos in New Orleans.
With a black person, it is called looting; with a white person, it is called finding food," he said.
Bruce Gordon, president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, said any recriminations over the storm response can wait.
"Right now, the NAACP is in what I call a life-saving mode. We are not in a finger-pointing mode, and until every life has been stabilized and every life has been saved, we will devote all of our energies for that purpose," Mr. Gordon said.
In Maryland yesterday, Claude Allen, a leading official in hurricane recovery efforts as senior domestic policy adviser to President Bush, decried racial discord and appealed for national unity.
"Pray that God would prevail against efforts to divide this nation," Mr. Allen asked 2,000 fellow members of Covenant Life Church in Gaithersburg. "This is not a situation of black or white, rich or poor. This storm was indiscriminate in who it took, and we as a people must pull together."
Mr. Allen, who is black, accompanied the president on his tour of the stricken region. Pray "most of all for peace, because people are trying to find places to lay the blame, and this is not a time for that," said Mr. Allen, who was invited by senior pastor Joshua Harris to address the church.