Now with five years to reflect on what has and what has NOT happened to rejuvenate New Orleans...
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*Subject:* New Orleans Went Under - A Black Man's Comments
New 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 return 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, 'over-
seeing' 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, un-
fortunately, 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 contri-
bution from Gov. Kathleen Blanco, the other major leader vested
with responsibility to address the hurricane disaster) loaded re-
maining 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 ex-
tent 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.
AMEN, BROTHER PETERSON, YOU SAID IT WELL....GOD
BLESS YOU....!!!![image: Amen1.gif]
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.'
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