Saturday, September 03, 2005
"George Bush doesn't care about black people...."
He might not have said it in the most artful way possible but it was real talk in every sense of that term as Kanye West went off message from the earnest but banal teleprompter script to display some real feelings and emotions. Kanyeezy is The Truth.
A sampling of how the MSM media and blog world have covered the race issue in the Hurricane Katrina story:
"The obvious yet mostly unspoken fact of the Katrina disaster is that all but the poorest blacks escaped New Orleans before the storm." (read full article here at Sploid).
Katrina -- Not an Equal Opportunity Destroyer. (Huffington Post)
"The difference between those who lived and those who died in this great storm and flood of 2005 was nothing more than poverty, age, or skin color." (read more at the Huffington Post)
"Let's just call this for what it is: much of the frenzy over looters is a red herring to deflect attention away from more important issues (like saving dying people and alleviating the suffering of tens of thousands of others)...." (read the rest over at O-Deezy's)
"Don't say that a hurricane destroyed New Orleans. Hurricanes don't drown cities.
It was a "perfect storm" of a different kind that put that great city underwater: Bush-era neglect of our national infrastructure, combined with runaway global warming and a deep contempt for poor African-Americans."
From "Bush's Role in the Drowning of New Orleans."
Conservative magazine The American Spectator blames blacks and political correctness for the chaos.
Stone probably sums it up the best though when he argues that It Sucks to be Poor and Black in America.
That's why we black folk need some real soul music right about now: Little Brother "The Pilot" (aka The Minstrel Show album sampler). (Windows: Hi | Lo | Real | ecard)
