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| Dean Fans Racial Flames: Race Played a Role in Katrina Deaths |
| 2005-09-07 |
| Disgusting depths - racial hatred is obviously part of the 2006 campaign. Unamerican scum Race was a factor in the death toll from Hurricane Katrina, Howard Dean told members of the National Baptist Convention of America on Wednesday at the group's annual meeting. Dean, chairman of the Democratic party, made the comments to the Baptists' Political and Social Justice Commission. The Baptist Convention, with an estimated 3.5 million members, is one of the largest black religious groups in the country. "We must ... come to terms with the ugly truth that skin color, age and economics played a deadly role in who survived and who did not," Dean said. Dean said Americans have a moral responsibility to not ignore the devastating damage caused by Hurricane Katrina when it struck the Gulf Coast. The former presidential candidate said the government will be judged by how it treats the old, the young and the poor. "People are poor in different parts of the country. They are not refugees. They are Americans," he said. Dean said that instead of considering proposed estate tax breaks, the Senate should channel the money into disaster relief. "Shall we give that to the wealthiest people in the country, or should we rebuild New Orleans?" Dean said. Dean also urged the government to exempt victims of Hurricane Katrina from a stricter new bankruptcy law for one year. Ken Mehlman, Dean's counterpart at the Republican National Committee, said he hoped Dean "will match his rhetoric with his support for reforms that replace bureaucracy and entitlement with hope and opportunity." Stephen J. Thurston, president of the Baptist Convention, said there was a lack of response and sensitivity by the government following the Gulf Coast disaster |
| Posted by:Frank G |
| #6 Why does anyone care what this deranged ass says. He, like most of the other Democrats, will say or do anything to get himself in front of a TV camera. As the former governor of Vermont (96.8% white, black 0.5% in the 2000 census), Dean is certainly "qualified" to lecture America on race relations. |
| Posted by: RWV 2005-09-07 23:43 |
| #5 Again, some serious kool-aid chuggin' goin' on at the Dems' HQ. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2005-09-07 23:39 |
| #4 He may be right.... Now who is it that left the hundreds of busses in the parking lot to be flooded? Who was it who refused to declare a state of emergency and federalize the troops? Oh yes... DEMOCRATS!!! |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2005-09-07 22:59 |
| #3 Yeah, great try Howie.. A Democratic Government doesn't follow it's own disaster plan, and even blocks the Red Cross from sending water and blankets in to the Superdome, but yeah, right it's racism. The Governor probably is single handedly responsible for thousands of deaths but, yeah, the Republican administration is racist. Anyway, I hope he keeps speaking. He's doing more for conservatives than, well Kos, Michael Moore, Hanoi Jane, Mother Sheehan, etc...... |
| Posted by: macofromoc 2005-09-07 22:46 |
| #2 I'm soooooo sick of the Democratic race baiting. We are all human beings and Americans. Drop the slavery of welfare, get them educated and people will do great things. Of course, that will rob the democrats of all their power..... |
| Posted by: mmurray821 2005-09-07 22:41 |
| #1 "We must ... come to terms with the ugly truth that skin color, age and economics played a deadly role in who survived and who did not," Dean said. He's may be right. The local and state governments are controlled by Democrats, and Democrats have a 150 year history of race-hatred, lynching, and anti-black policies. Besides, dead voters more reliably vote Democrat than live ones. When I was in NO last year, I toured the Cabildo, the history museum made from the colonial-era conference house/legislature. One of the curious bits called out in the section about the history of race relations in LA was that, for quite a long time, whenever a Republican got elected in LA, there'd be a riot to remove or kill him. I got the impression that the Republicans in question were black. Oddly, there wasn't any mention of a riot sparked by the election of a Democrat. |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2005-09-07 21:35 |