But views are always different..."Where is Jesse Jackson" someone says in this forum, what the hell does that mean?
Well, I wondered the same thing, where is Jesse Jackson, not "what the hell does that mean". Where is Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, the NAACP, Farrakan(sp?) or any other leader black leader that can show some leadership to these citizens and finally be a part of the solution instead of always being the ones to stir up problems.
Jesse Jackson can draw national attention to a incident at a Stratford Forest high school about a White police officer drawing his weapon in a drug bust within the school and some young Black girl was scared, so Jesse thought that was of national importance, but now look at how the looters and thugs and hoodlums in N.O. are acting against everybody, young, old, white, black, tourists, neighbors, rescuers, police and what have you. A very sad way to have America portrayed all over the world, and definately not the best way for the people of color to further their cause of equality and such.
But now it is all ok because these people are deprived of the good things in life, they live in poverty stricken neighborhoods, and this is the only way they know to survive.(Sarcastic) What a crock of B.S.. A woman on TV there saying "I got 8 babies to feed, what are we supposed to do?", huh?... hmmm, let's see, how about thinking about how you are going to provide for that many children before you give birth to them, or is that part of the mentality of, the more babies I have, the more money the government gives me. I gotta leave this one alone before it gets my blood boiling and some people get offended.
The Mayor of N.O. blames alot of what is happening now on the Federal government, I gotta throw in the B.S. towel on that one too. He is the Mayor and knows what the effect was going to be within his city. I have seen pictures of hundreds of Yellow school buses parked in knee deep water within the city of N.O., now why couldn't their disaster preparedness plan include those buses as a means to evacuate the city long before the city was flooded.
There are going to be a lot of questions about N.O. for along time, ie, the city oficials and the rest of the country knew how succeptable N.O. is to flooding, but yet, there is no emergency backup system of pumps to deal with the water that came in.
