ZOOMBAG
06-22-2007, 09:35 PM
Time of the year for societal / political posts from time to time. Hope our clueless leftwing posters take note as this one strikes the nail right on the head
>I checked this out on snopes.com and it is true...and interesting.
>Self-responsibility, unfortunately a dying concept in both the black and
>white communities these days.
>
>Orleans Went Under--A Black Man's Comments
>Carefully read the whole article. You'll be amazed at this guy!!!
>I don't know the man who wrote this, but I looked at his picture and read
>it
>with my mouth hanging open. He says things here that no white man could
>ever
>write and keep his job as a writer .
>
>By
>Say a hurricane is about to destroy the city you live in. Two questions:
>What would you do?
>What would you do if you were black?
>Sadly, the two questions don't have the same answer.
>To the first: Most of us would take our families out of that city quickly
>to
>protect them from danger. Then, able-bodied men would ret urn to help
>others
>in need, as wives and others cared for children, elderly, infirm and the
>like.
>For better or worse, Hurricane Katrina has told us the answer to the second
>question. If you're black and a hurricane is about to destroy your city,
>you
>ll probably wait for the government to save you.
>This was not always the case. Prior to 40 years ago, such a pathetic
>performance by the black community in a time of crisis would have been
>inconceivable. The first response would have come from black men. They
>would
>take care of their families, bring them to safety, and then help the rest
>of
>the community. Then local government would come in.
>No longer. When 75 percent of New Orleans residents had left the city, it
>was primarily immoral, welfare-pampered blacks that stayed behind and
>waited
>for the government to bail them out. This, as we know, did not turn out
>good
>results.
>Enter Jesse Jackson and Louis Farrakhan. Jackson and Farrakhan laid blame
>on
>"racist" President Bush. Farrakhan actually proposed the idea that the
>government blew up a levee so as to kill blacks and save whites. The two
>demanded massive governmental spending to rebuild New Orleans , above and
>beyond the federal government's proposed $60 billion. Not only that, these
>two were positioning themselves as the gatekeepers to supervise the
>dispersion of funds. Perfect: Two of the most dishonest elite blacks in
>America , "overseeing" billions of dollars. I wonder where that money will
>end up.
>Of course, if these two were really serious about laying blame on
>government
> they should blame the local one. Responsibility to perform legally and
>practically fell first on the mayor of New Orleans . We are now all
>familiar
>with Mayor Ray Nagin the black who likes to yell at President Bush for
>failing to do Nagin's job. The facts, unfortunately, do not support Nagin's
>wailing. As the Washington Times puts it, "recent reports show [Nagin]
>failed to follow through on his own city's emergency-response plan, which
>acknowledged that thousands of the city's poorest residents would have no
>way to evacuate the city."
>One wonders how there was "no way" for these people to evacuate the city.
>We
>have photographic evidence telling us otherwise. You've probably seen it by
>now the photo showing 2,000 parked school buses, unused and underwater. How
>much planning does it require to put people on a bus and leave town, Mayor
>Nagin?
>Instead of doing the obvious, Mayor Nagin (with no positive contribution
>from Gov. Kathleen Blanco, the other major leader vested with
>responsibility
>to address the hurricane disaster) loaded remaining new Orleans residents
>into the Superdome and the city's convention center. We know how that plan
>turned out.
>About five years ago, in a debate before the National Association of Black
>Journalists, I stated that if whites were to just leave the United States
>and let blacks run the country, they would turn America into a ghetto
>within
>10 years. The audience, shall we say, disagreed with me strongly. Now I
>have
>to disagree with me. I gave blacks too much credit. It took a mere three
>days for blacks to turn the Superdome and the convention center into
>ghettos
> rampant with theft, rape and murder.
>President Bush is not to blame for the rampant immorality of blacks. Had
>New
>Orleans ' black community taken action, most would have been out of harm's
>way. But most were too lazy, immoral and trifling to do anything productive
>for themselves.
>All Americans must tell blacks this truth. It was blacks' moral poverty not
>their material poverty that cost them dearly in New Orleans . Farrakhan,
>Jackson, and other race hustlers are to be repudiated for they will only
>perpetuate this problem by stirring up hatred and applauding moral
>corruption. New Orleans , to the extent it is to be rebuilt, should be
>remade into a dependency-free, morally strong city where corruption is
>opposed and success is applauded. Blacks are obligated to help themselves
>and not depend on the government to care for them. We are all obligated to
>tell them so.
>The Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson is founder and president of BOND, the
>Brotherhood Organization of A New Destiny, and author of "Scam: How the
>Black Leadership Exploits Black America."
>I checked this out on snopes.com and it is true...and interesting.
>Self-responsibility, unfortunately a dying concept in both the black and
>white communities these days.
>
>Orleans Went Under--A Black Man's Comments
>Carefully read the whole article. You'll be amazed at this guy!!!
>I don't know the man who wrote this, but I looked at his picture and read
>it
>with my mouth hanging open. He says things here that no white man could
>ever
>write and keep his job as a writer .
>
>By
>Say a hurricane is about to destroy the city you live in. Two questions:
>What would you do?
>What would you do if you were black?
>Sadly, the two questions don't have the same answer.
>To the first: Most of us would take our families out of that city quickly
>to
>protect them from danger. Then, able-bodied men would ret urn to help
>others
>in need, as wives and others cared for children, elderly, infirm and the
>like.
>For better or worse, Hurricane Katrina has told us the answer to the second
>question. If you're black and a hurricane is about to destroy your city,
>you
>ll probably wait for the government to save you.
>This was not always the case. Prior to 40 years ago, such a pathetic
>performance by the black community in a time of crisis would have been
>inconceivable. The first response would have come from black men. They
>would
>take care of their families, bring them to safety, and then help the rest
>of
>the community. Then local government would come in.
>No longer. When 75 percent of New Orleans residents had left the city, it
>was primarily immoral, welfare-pampered blacks that stayed behind and
>waited
>for the government to bail them out. This, as we know, did not turn out
>good
>results.
>Enter Jesse Jackson and Louis Farrakhan. Jackson and Farrakhan laid blame
>on
>"racist" President Bush. Farrakhan actually proposed the idea that the
>government blew up a levee so as to kill blacks and save whites. The two
>demanded massive governmental spending to rebuild New Orleans , above and
>beyond the federal government's proposed $60 billion. Not only that, these
>two were positioning themselves as the gatekeepers to supervise the
>dispersion of funds. Perfect: Two of the most dishonest elite blacks in
>America , "overseeing" billions of dollars. I wonder where that money will
>end up.
>Of course, if these two were really serious about laying blame on
>government
> they should blame the local one. Responsibility to perform legally and
>practically fell first on the mayor of New Orleans . We are now all
>familiar
>with Mayor Ray Nagin the black who likes to yell at President Bush for
>failing to do Nagin's job. The facts, unfortunately, do not support Nagin's
>wailing. As the Washington Times puts it, "recent reports show [Nagin]
>failed to follow through on his own city's emergency-response plan, which
>acknowledged that thousands of the city's poorest residents would have no
>way to evacuate the city."
>One wonders how there was "no way" for these people to evacuate the city.
>We
>have photographic evidence telling us otherwise. You've probably seen it by
>now the photo showing 2,000 parked school buses, unused and underwater. How
>much planning does it require to put people on a bus and leave town, Mayor
>Nagin?
>Instead of doing the obvious, Mayor Nagin (with no positive contribution
>from Gov. Kathleen Blanco, the other major leader vested with
>responsibility
>to address the hurricane disaster) loaded remaining new Orleans residents
>into the Superdome and the city's convention center. We know how that plan
>turned out.
>About five years ago, in a debate before the National Association of Black
>Journalists, I stated that if whites were to just leave the United States
>and let blacks run the country, they would turn America into a ghetto
>within
>10 years. The audience, shall we say, disagreed with me strongly. Now I
>have
>to disagree with me. I gave blacks too much credit. It took a mere three
>days for blacks to turn the Superdome and the convention center into
>ghettos
> rampant with theft, rape and murder.
>President Bush is not to blame for the rampant immorality of blacks. Had
>New
>Orleans ' black community taken action, most would have been out of harm's
>way. But most were too lazy, immoral and trifling to do anything productive
>for themselves.
>All Americans must tell blacks this truth. It was blacks' moral poverty not
>their material poverty that cost them dearly in New Orleans . Farrakhan,
>Jackson, and other race hustlers are to be repudiated for they will only
>perpetuate this problem by stirring up hatred and applauding moral
>corruption. New Orleans , to the extent it is to be rebuilt, should be
>remade into a dependency-free, morally strong city where corruption is
>opposed and success is applauded. Blacks are obligated to help themselves
>and not depend on the government to care for them. We are all obligated to
>tell them so.
>The Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson is founder and president of BOND, the
>Brotherhood Organization of A New Destiny, and author of "Scam: How the
>Black Leadership Exploits Black America."