Quote Originally Posted by mike jones
I wouldn't personally blame Bush for the problems in New Orleans right now. There are a lot of people at fault. Last hurricane season, it was mentioned a lot in the news that if a hurricane of significant strength ever hit that region of the country, New Orleans would be completely destroyed. The local government for that area, as well as the federal government, ignored this concern. When it finally happened, there was no plan in place, and as a result, this situation resulted.

There are government officials that have said that have said that they don't understand why more people didn't evacuate the city when a mandatory evacuation warning was issued before the storm. In reality, 27% of the people in the city live below the poverty line, and had no means of evacuating. No money + no car = no evacuation. And it is even more of a reality that the majority of these people are black.

Being a black American myself, I won't go as far as to say that our government ignores or hates black people and poor people (unlike black "celebrities" such as Kanye West and Jesse Jackson). The mayor of New Orleans is African-American, and it would be just as reasonable to blame his lack of planning for this hurricane, when it was well known that this disaster was a very real possibility.

I am appauled with the fact that we can bomb the shit out of Afghanistan and Iraq and fly in there and drop meals to their citizens, but we can't get sandwiches and a few bottles of water to hurricane survivors in our own country for 4 or 5 days. I do blame the government for the extremely slow and poor response to this disaster. But I will not say that George Bush is letting them starve because he doesn't care about blacks and the less fortunate. I live in Los Angeles now, and a huge earthquake could hit this city at any moment and leave us without food, water, and power. I just hope that we learn from this and that we are much better prepared for this scenario than we were in New Orleans.

Although the leaders of this country look like morons right now, I will say that I am prouder than ever to be an American because of the way our citizens are pulling together to help when our leaders have not. Yes, the government here is pretty fucked up in a lot of ways, but don't let that make you think all Americans are bad. 300 million people can't just leave and go somewhere else just because half of them didn't vote for the current president and don't agree with the war. And just like the entire world pulled together to help tsunami victims, it's great to see that the rest of the world is doing the same for New Orleans.
If ur black why do u hav a pic of a white man. Me thinks u are a disinfo agent, Who u work NSA CIA FBI NSS FEMA...The governemnt is at fault after everything they could of sent water, food etc to the people in the conviction center, superdome . Even medical supplies and why did it take over 4days to do anything, and why was fema blocking aid going in. a cover up brewing just like 9/11, JFK.