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| 2005-09-13 |
| Several black civil rights leaders are accusing the federal government of conspiring against poor African Americans in the aftermath of the flooding in New Orleans. But one of those hurling the charges, comedian and political activist Dick Gregory, on Friday refused to say what, if anything, he has personally contributed to the relief effort. Gregory, who had just visited evacuees at the Houston Astrodome and the city's convention center, said he was able offer the flood victims something else besides money and food. "I'm a hero in America, so just to go there and touch them, means a lot to them. [That] means more than taking them to the Red Cross and giving them food," Gregory told Cybercast News Service. Gregory did not reply to the question about whether he had made a personal donation. "I'm a hero in America." Anyone besides me have no idea who he is? Earlier, Gregory participated in a rally in front of the White House with leaders of the National Black Environmental Justice Network (NBEJN) and Black Voices for Peace. They charged that the Bush administration delayed rescue efforts of the flood victims because of racism and class-ism. The Network's co-chair Donele Edwards laid the specific blame at the doorstep of the Army Corps of Engineers. The Corps, she charged, "deliberately designed the floodwaters to go into the 9th Ward," of New Orleans. Are you sure it wasn't the 19th Ward? Damu Smith, founder of the National Black Environmental Justice Network, added that "whether they (the federal government) got in a room and conspired or not, what they did is they ignored us, they forgot about us ... because we look like we look." As he was speaking, Smith held out his arm to show his skin color. New Orleans' mayor, Ray Nagin, who is African American, should bear little responsibility for the city's flooding, Smith said. Naturally. If the facts don't fit, ignore them. "I think Mayor Nagin has done everything he could. He's cried out, but I really think the governor, and Bush especially, they really dropped the ball on this," according to Smith. Louisiana Democratic Gov. Kathleen Blanco is white. "There's been some mistakes made by folks in the mayor's office, too," Smith said. "But the most of the blame must be laid at the doorstep of Bush and Governor Blanco." Of course it should. Word up. Smith said he had personally contributed "a lot" to aid in the recovery efforts. "I have friends who lost their homes and lost everything and they've been displaced so this is very personal to me to help out so we gotta do it." He encouraged people to donate to small organizations instead of the American Red Cross. "You see, the Red Cross is getting all the money - about $500 million - but there are groups in Houston and other places that are struggling, that are helping people," Smith said. "They don't get the money, so we're gonna make sure the money gets channeled to them as well." How can that be? When I was at Wal-Mart this afternoon, the woman collecting for Red Cross was white, so naturally I assumed they were The Enemy. This is confusing. Gregory intensified Edwards' conspiracy charges, accusing the government of orchestrating the evacuation to access oil under the city. I knew it was all about the oil! "It (Hurricane Katrina) didn't hit, it went down the Gulf," Gregory said. "And nobody is asking, if it missed, where's this damn water coming from? Who shut them pumps off and who's going to investigate those two barges with dynamite on them that hit that levee," he said in reference to the failure of the city's levees and water pumps, which were intended to protect the city from flooding. I find your ideas fascinating and I'd like to subscribe to your newsletter. Gregory said the government has no plans to let residents back into New Orleans or to rebuild the city. "They will have no problem declaring that whole city a disaster area because of the mold," he said. "Last Friday he (U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert) said there's no need to rebuild it, plow it under," Gregory said, exaggerating the comments Hastert made immediately after the city was flooded. "Well that's what they're planning on doing," Gregory added. If his accusations are correct, Gregory told Cybercast News Service, it will create a backlash beyond just the black community. "If they found oil under there and they're going to turn it into an oil well," Gregory said, "that's black and white folks." I had no idea Karl Rove was this good. In time, as people stop reacting based on emotion (chuckle), Gregory concluded, "It's gonna come out. There's been too many mistakes." "We're on to you, Whitey!" |
| Posted by:Chris W. |
| #25 Conspiracy: George Bush Doesn’t Care About Black People™ prolly true 'cause.... I know he don't care about me me me, cause I voted for him twice and sent him money and went way way ape shit during the 2000 election, and a little less way way apeshit 2004, and still to this day, he hasn't called me or mine on the phone! <( |
| Posted by: Red Dog 2005-09-13 20:31 |
| #24 OK so is it clear to me that these folks need to KEEP wearing their aluminum foil lined hats. I think the Red Cross should force all celebs to wear them for safety. As I understand it the levee was deliberately designed to fail in certain areas, control points, and at the time the areas had no houses so if they failed people could be evacuated in time but the corrupt leaders in NA overloked that little fact when they sold the land. |
| Posted by: 49 pan 2005-09-13 20:17 |
| #23 No worries, by the time faracon is done, the "refugees" will be picking cotton. |
| Posted by: Captain America 2005-09-13 20:11 |
| #22 Giving the Mayor a total pass when he's the one specifically responsible for first response emergencies seems a bit racist to me. Race baiters, the media may be agreeing with you, but as usual the rest of the country is watching. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz@mac.com 2005-09-13 18:38 |
| #21 farakans in on em fun now to |
| Posted by: muck4doo 2005-09-13 17:22 |
| #20 I believe you hit a homer, RC. Mississippi had much worse damage than New Orleans, and so did Alabama but they did work within the system instead of trying to micro-manage every aspect of the relief. |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2005-09-13 16:24 |
| #19 FEMA totally screwed up... Bullshit. They beat their past speed for moving supplies into the area. Maybe the appointees didn't make the weepy speeches people wanted, but the mechanism worked as well as can be hoped. Don't believe me? Ask yourself why Mississippi and Alabama disappeared from the news coverage. *THEY* didn't block the Red Cross and Salvation Army (who work with FEMA) from providing people with food, water, and shelter. *THEY* didn't dither until it was too late to evacuate. *THEY* worked with FEMA, instead of trying to block it. |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2005-09-13 15:33 |
| #18 Now here's a conspiracy-theory for ya: http://www.flashnews.com/news/wfn1050908J5463.html Weatherman Claims Japanese Mafia Behind Hurricane Katrina POCATELLO, Idaho (Wireless Flash) – Here’s a theory that’s sure to cause a storm of controversy: A meteorologist in Pocatello, Idaho, claims Japanese gangsters known as the Yakuza caused Hurricane Katrina. Scott Stevens says after looking at NASA satellite photos of the hurricane, he’s is convinced it was caused by electromagnetic generators from ground-based microwave transmitters. The generators emit a soundwave between three and 30 megahertz and Stevens claims the Russians invented the storm-creating technology back in 1976 and sold it to others in the late 1980s. Stevens says the clouds formed by the generators are different than normal clouds and are able to appear out of nowhere and says Katrina had many rotation points that are unusual for hurricanes. At least ten nations and organizations possess the technology but Stevens suspects the Japanese Yakuza created Katrina in order to make a fortune in the futures market and to get even with the U.S. for the 1945 bombing of Hiroshima. Stevens will discuss the storm creation theory tomorrow night (Sep. 9) on an internet radio show at www.thesciencedetective.com LOL! |
| Posted by: Cleamp Uleans5205 2005-09-13 12:53 |
| #17 FEMA totally screwed up and Bush is taking the deserved hits. However, elections are two sided and with antics like these hit the other side will come out hit harder. If the left had stuck with the facts they could have gained traction. Lies and this propaganda make them a worse cure than the problem. |
| Posted by: DoDo 2005-09-13 12:52 |
| #16 Kayne West made the cover of Time Magazine. The headline read, "Class Act". I was in the Shaman's office and still LOL'd. |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2005-09-13 12:10 |
| #15 Dick Gregory was big in, like, 1966. I honestly thought he was dead. Bush hates dead black people too. |
| Posted by: Captain America 2005-09-13 12:07 |
| #14 I saw him in the late 1970s and he was pretty funny, but also crazy as a loon. What I most remember is that he prattled on about how the government had weather-control machines that, IIRC, he said were being weaponized. I am surprised he hasn't been ranting about how Katrina was deliberately caused by the evil chimp Bushitler. |
| Posted by: Spot 2005-09-13 10:33 |
| #13 The limitation is because I have yet to see any LA whites whining about how the government failed to help them and how it's all GWB's fault. I've seen a few, including one or two at NRO. |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2005-09-13 10:13 |
| #12 I have sympathy for the people stuck in the hospital and the nursing homes that were too sick to leave. I have sympathy for those that left and now have nothing. For everyone else that stayed there I have none. |
| Posted by: mmurray821 2005-09-13 09:47 |
| #11 Mrs. D, The limitation is because I have yet to see any LA whites whining about how the government failed to help them and how it's all GWB's fault. I spent a lot of time down there some years back and got a pretty good understanding of how NOLA in particular and Louisiana in general work. The first major point I learned is that most people in NOLA, and certainly every white person I knew down there, understood perfectly well that they were living in a bowl underneath sea level and that if the levees failed they were in for a world of hurt. It was something mentioned on the news or in the print media on a weekly, sometimes daily basis, particularly during hurricane season. Anyone who was there for more than a few days couldn't avoid knowing this. My contacts either planned to get out before a hurricane or had made extensive preparations for dealing with flooding. Most planned the former. It's also worth noting that none of them trusted either the current Mayor or his thug predecessors, the Morials, to do anything but steal as much as they could as fast as they could. This is not a racial slam; the Louisianians I knew also used to say some hilariously derogatory things about Edwin Edwards, the white LA governor who was indicted, IIRC, eighteen times before he was convicted of something. Edwards is the guy who stated "The only way I can lose an election in this state is if they catch me in bed with either a live boy or a dead girl." My LA friends knew their politicians of both races were crooks and charlatans and often referred to Louisiana as "the northernmost banana republic." The difference is that the white folks, for the most part, realized that they were in a precarious situation just by virtue of living in NOLA and that if worse came to worst, they were on their own. They planned accordingly. The black folks you see on TV are the same characters that have been living off crime and welfare for generations in places like the Desire housing project. They're the ones who are pissed that the people who always made certain their welfare check got there on time let some minor inconvenience like a CAT 5 hurricane disrupt the delivery system. Consequently a lot of them seemed to believe that the difficulties they suffered through their own refusal to take responsibility for themselves justified looting, rape, robbery and murder in Katrina's aftermath. Of course, the preceding sentence begs the question of why many of them were doing those things at every opportunity BEFORE Katrina but that's a different topic. Sympathy for them from me? Not bloody likely! |
| Posted by: mac 2005-09-13 09:32 |
| #10 11A5S Of the 'refugees' taken in at Albuquerque the local news reporters could only find one family that intended to go back. All the rest have been 'resettled' in housing, provided basic necessities, and have jobs interviews or jobs already lined up. The emergency 'refugee' center at the convention center closed last week as it no longer had any occupants and the Red Cross notified city officials that no more where being sent. This is more like the Silesian Germans who were driven out of their lands and homes by Russians and Poles, only to resettle in West Germany in the post-war period. Absorbed into the population rather than segregated into UN ghettos. This may be interesting come the next census. |
| Posted by: Phereque Omineger4095 2005-09-13 09:06 |
| #9 NOLA: America's Gaza? Which begs the question, will the refugees have the right of return? |
| Posted by: 11A5S 2005-09-13 08:57 |
| #8 Dick Gregory was big in, like, 1966. I honestly thought he was dead. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2005-09-13 08:44 |
| #7 Mac, why limit the decline to blacks? |
| Posted by: Mrs. Davis 2005-09-13 08:33 |
| #6 who's going to investigate those two barges with dynamite on them that hit that levee Oh God. You don't imagine he actually believes that, do you? I guess it doesn't matter. If they're saying it this publicly, it's probably the Pravda on "urban radio". |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2005-09-13 07:39 |
| #5 I don't know about the rest of you but my sympathy level for NOLA blacks is steadily decreasing toward zero. |
| Posted by: mac 2005-09-13 05:35 |
| #4 Dick Gregory was a one-trick-pony ("pays attention to my amusing black rage"), Cosby-clone comedian in the sixties. In the seventies he made millions by selling vitamin laced wheat-germ at over-inflated prices, to poor blacks. Gregory also told self deprecating fat jokes when he weighed 350 pounds. And he deliberately toned down his East Village oriented angry-black act, to satisfy Ed Sullivan Show producers. Reality dictates: the lowest areas in East New Orleans were the highest populated by blacks. Thousands were picked up off rooftops, but with as many as 100,000 houses in the east, lifesaving work took time. Could the National Guard have done more? Yeah, if the State Governor signed the papers. . |
| Posted by: Vlad the Muslim Impaler 2005-09-13 02:38 |
| #3 Evidence? we doan need no steenking evidence. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2005-09-13 02:36 |
| #2 comedian and political activist Dick Gregory ...When was the last time he said something INTENTIONALLY funny? Mike |
| Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2005-09-13 01:47 |
| #1 Bush hates UFOs and space aliens, protest planned. |
| Posted by: Captain America 2005-09-13 01:11 |