The Spirit Realm

Anyone else see this moron make his comments during the relief concert last night ? He said that President Bush hates all black people and is deliberately making relief efforts slow to kill off the poor blacks in New Orleans. NBC took no time at all releasing statements that his comments didnt reflect the network's opinion and that West had departed from the previously agreed scripted comments. Yes this disaster is an emotional situation but this 1-900-MixALot tool is just too much.



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Well Jesse Jackson said pretty much the same thing.

If Katrina demolished West Palm Beach, do you think aid would have been there faster?

Kanye West is a kid, and looked like he was about to cry. I can forgive him making ridiculous statements like that. Jesse Jackson, however, should know better. He knows better.

One thing though: Kanye West absolutely had a point about how the media is presenting blacks in this disaster. Those speak volumes. Whites "find bread and soda." Blacks are "looting a grocery store."

I can't imagine America not helping Americans. I can pretty much assure that they might be getting more help down there if they could get the stupid gangs under control and not shooting at helicopters delivering stuff. What did they honestly think they were gonna do by shooting the helicopter?

P.S. Nice to see your still checkin on shaman Numgrak

From what little ive seen of US media there does appear to be a bit of racism in some of the media reporting.
What I honestly can't believe is that the lack of aid/rescue etc is due to racism.

Does anyone on this board honestly believe that someone actually said/thought "oh they're just black people we won't bother helping them".
Seriously get a grip on yourselves and stop seeing racism in everything.

The lack of help etc is caused by one thing only and that is the people in charge (mainly the Governor) making a total 1-900-MixALot of the preparedness before the disaster and the coordination of the after disaster rescues.
This would have happened regardless of where it happened,yes maybe in a rich white neighbourhood more people would have left before the hurricane because they could afford it.
This may be due to lack of resources going to a poor area but for 1-900-MixALot sake this happens whether they are poor and black or poor and white.
But to actually attribute the lack of preparedness to racism just beggars belief.
It was a monumental 1-900-MixALot up by politicians,thats all it was.

Saw an interview with the mayor of New Orleans (I believe it was NO) who himself is black and he laid the blame for the aftermath squarely at the Governors doorstep.
Apparently Bush had a meeting with the 2 of them and told the Governor he wanted to centralise control of Police,Firefighters etc and she replied that she needed 24 hours to think about it.

Yes blame the politicians all you need to,they deserve it,but don't accuse them of racism.
Its just another case of elected politicians when hitting a crisis not having a 1-900-MixALot clue what to do.

From what I've heard, here were a couple of the major problems:

The mayor had access to like 100 city buses, and did not use them to evacuate people from the city.

The governor and federal government had a squabble about political power. Neither side wanted to give up control of the relief effort. FEMA could have sent national guard and recovery workers under state control. The governor could have ceded control to the federal government. Instead, while they had their little political penis fight, disaster recovery plans were not enacted.

Also, Michael Chertoff, head of DHS, said there was no plan of action for dealing with a Category 4 hurricane in New Orleans. The head of FEMA says there was. I'm wondering if there wasn't some kind of territorial fight between FEMA and its parent (DHS).