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Moral poverty cost blacks in New Orleans
September 21, 2005



By. Jesse Lee Peterson
� 2005 WorldNetDaily.com





Say a hurricane is about to destroy the city you live in. Two questions:
What would you do?


What would you do if you were black?


Sadly, the two questions don't have the same answer.


To the first: Most of us would take our families out of that city quickly to protect them from danger. Then, able-bodied men would return to help others in need, as wives and others cared for children, elderly, infirm and the like.


For better or worse, Hurricane Katrina has told us the answer to the second question. If you're black and a hurricane is about to destroy your city, then you'll probably wait for the government to save you.


This was not always the case. Prior to 40 years ago, such a pathetic performance by the black community in a time of crisis would have been inconceivable. The first response would have come from black men. They would take care of their families, bring them to safety, and then help the rest of the community. Then local government would come in.


No longer. When 75 percent of New Orleans residents had left the city, it was primarily immoral, welfare-pampered blacks that stayed behind and waited for the government to bail them out. This, as we know, did not turn out good results.


Enter Jesse Jackson and Louis Farrakhan. Jackson and Farrakhan laid blame on "racist" President Bush. Farrakhan actually proposed the idea that the government blew up a levee so as to kill blacks and save whites. The two demanded massive governmental spending to rebuild New Orleans, above and beyond the federal government's proposed $60 billion. Not only that, these two were positioning themselves as the gatekeepers to supervise the dispersion of funds. Perfect: Two of the most dishonest elite blacks in America, "overseeing" billions of dollars. I wonder where that money will end up.


Of course, if these two were really serious about laying blame on government, they should blame the local one. Responsibility to perform � legally and practically � fell first on the mayor of New Orleans. We are now all familiar with Mayor Ray Nagin � the black Democrat who likes to yell at President Bush for failing to do Nagin's job. The facts, unfortunately, do not support Nagin's wailing. As the Washington Times puts it, "recent reports show [Nagin] failed to follow through on his own city's emergency-response plan, which acknowledged that thousands of the city's poorest residents would have no way to evacuate the city."


One wonders how there was "no way" for these people to evacuate the city. We have photographic evidence telling us otherwise. You've probably seen it by now � the photo showing 2,000 parked school buses, unused and underwater. How much planning does it require to put people on a bus and leave town, Mayor Nagin?


Instead of doing the obvious, Mayor Nagin (with no positive contribution from Democratic Gov. Kathleen Blanco, the other major leader vested with responsibility to address the hurricane disaster) loaded remaining New Orleans residents into the Superdome and the city's convention center. We know how that plan turned out.


About five years ago, in a debate before the National Association of Black Journalists, I stated that if whites were to just leave the United States and let blacks run the country, they would turn America into a ghetto within 10 years. The audience, shall we say, disagreed with me strongly. Now I have to disagree with me. I gave blacks too much credit. It took a mere three days for blacks to turn the Superdome and the convention center into ghettos, rampant with theft, rape and murder.


President Bush is not to blame for the rampant immorality of blacks. Had New Orleans' black community taken action, most would have been out of harm's way. But most were too lazy, immoral and trifling to do anything productive for themselves.


All Americans must tell blacks this truth. It was blacks' moral poverty � not their material poverty � that cost them dearly in New Orleans. Farrakhan, Jackson, and other race hustlers are to be repudiated � they will only perpetuate this problem by stirring up hatred and applauding moral corruption. New Orleans, to the extent it is to be rebuilt, should be remade into a dependency-free, morally strong city where corruption is opposed and success is applauded. Blacks are obligated to help themselves and not depend on the government to care for them. We are all obligated to tell them so.


Jesse Lee Peterson is founder and president of BOND, the Brotherhood Organization of A New Destiny, and author of "Scam: How the Black Leadership Exploits Black America."

Great article. Someone emailed it to me yesterday. Best thing about it (besides being true) is that the national media can't scream racism because the author is black. Might have to pick up his book, could be an interesting read.

Yep,
Fortunately, there is someone who can see straight.
I hear he's the one suing Jesse Jackson. Sure hope Jackson get's lots of media attention on the trial, all bad..
Jackson is one of the guys Peterson refers to when he says the Black Leadership is the Black people's worst enemy.
Don

Couple of points....


What if "most of us" lacked transportation? What if "most of us" had already experienced at least two false alarms in seasons past? (got that info from a resident who stayed).



I served food to some of these people in a shelter in my city. Mostly they were polite and grateful. The one guy we talked to had gotten his family and a complete stranger lifted off his roof before finally getting picked up on the fourth day. I dunno to what extent he was on public assistance. Mostly he just wanted to find his family and get them to California to start over.



No argument from me, these guys are a real evil.



How hard is it? Prob'ly pretty difficult, especially as there were no dress rehearsals beforehand (it would seem Cuba is far ahead of anywhere in the US in that regard).

Exactly WHAT will happen with a given hurricane is notoriously hard to predict (spoken as someone who just recently gassed, watered and ammunitioned up in preparation for Rita <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />). If I were mayor, I would have to figure exactly HOW MANY would want to evacuate, and WHERE I would take them. Always faced with the possibility that the death toll from the evac might exceed the number that would die if people stayed put (as exactly what happened three weeks later in the case of Houston).



I'll agree that the city badly dropped the ball on providing for the Superdome folks, having NOTHING in a ready reserve to provide for their needs.

OTOH, much to the possible disappointment of many, the folks who were ACTUALLY THERE, White and Black alike, have reported that most all of the reputed atrocities in that squalid den were false, even if reported by the Mayor and Chief of Police.

See... http://www.nola.com/newslogs/tporleans/i..._26.html#082732

No proven rapes (although some probably occurred), ONE (maybe two) proven homicides among 40,000 people. Mostly folks trying to make the best of an awful situation. I've seen dome crowds of 40,000 pampered college kids who I expect would act about as bad.

I'm not going to deny there is a primarily Black ghetto culture that is hugely destructive to both themselves AND the rest of us, nor that these same Blacks commit a disproportionate number of crimes.

What I do have is the perspective of one who spent a childhood in a country at a time where even the inner-city underclass was White, and largely dependent upon welfare ("the dole"). And where mobs of these same people periodically went on destructive rampages for no good reason.

I also figure it is pointless to hold all responsible for the actions of others, as all these repetitive "Blacks suck" threads seem to imply.

Birdwatcher

Birdwatcher,

Folks from NO like to tell their personal hurricane stories, and like everyplace else, embellishment happens. I've been trying to keep quiet about my time there mostly to avoid any "hell, I was there" bravado. I wasn't there during the hurricane or the immediate aftermath. For the record I arrived in NO 11-days after landfall.

All that said, if the minority of stories I heard are true and the conclusions my own eyes lead me to are in the ballpark then a whole lot of crap went down in NO that is not being reported.

Our only bone of contention Birdwatcher. As crippled up as I am my family and I would have WALKED if it was to only avenue open to use. That one just don't wash with me. But then I have witnessed more than one ass kicking storm and stayed through one myself. In the immortal words of the Raven "NEVER MORE!"

Birdwatcher, for the first time that I can remember we really disagree on something.

"What if "most of us" lacked transportation? What if "most of us" had already experienced at least two false alarms in seasons past? (got that info from a resident who stayed)."

I've heard this argument many times and it really sticks in my craw. Let me answer it by asking you this. If those folks that supposedly had no way of getting out, were given the same situation, with the exact same risk involved, how many of them do you think would wait and watch this time? I'd rate the number would be lower than the last time. Those that did stay would be classified under natural selection. If I remember right you are a school teacher. I would hope that you believe, as I do, that a man can do what he sets his mind to. With that said I'm pretty sure more of those NO folks could've found a way out of the city had they set their minds to.

Good article... Thanks for sharing.

The answer is to WALK if necessary and no other means is availble to evacuate. The large majority of those stuck in there were healthy enough to walk I'd wager, so the excuse that there was no way out is absurd. With three days notice you could walk 20-30 miles easily and be completely safe from the big threat.

Even if you didn't walk out before hand, many of them could have done so afterwards. How many people sat on the interstate and bitched because no one came to get them? I kept thinking "You're already on the interstate people! LaPlace is less than 30 miles away, get off your ass take care of yourself."

JOG, does this also apply to the Superdome? In this case singled out because the area is well defined, there are indeed many witnesses, and more than a few are saying what they actually saw. Are these folks then part of an orchestrated cover-up? and was there really a stack of 100+ bodies?

Outside that area, it is indeed possible that an undetermined number of boides went out through that one levy breach that was actually draining the city in the days after the hurricane, but otherwise where are all the bodies?

Pardon me for asking, but what exactly did you see in NO?

Birdwatcher

I hate it when folks bring up the public school teacher angle (only myself to blame I suppose <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" />) as if we're in the classroom saying ("Kids! There is no God! The government will take care of you! You should be homosexual! etc etc <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />). Suffice to say, in the classroom I'm about like I am here, like most teachers bringing my personality to school with me (draw yer own conclusions <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />).

Hookay.... I was faced just recently with the possibility of a catastrophic flooding event in my town with the impending arrival of Rita, which prompted some serious thinking on my part.

It would have been physically easy for me, my wife and grown son to walk out (flooding permitting). BUT we would be moving among an unknown criminal/desperate element and might need to defends ourselves. Longarms of course would be out of the question, 99 times out of 100 we'd be disarmed upon encountering the first officialdom. Heck, hidden HANDGUNS might also be taken, if we were subject to search at any sort of relief way station.

Walking out in reality would have never been an option. Too many of my wife's relatives around for that, including the very young and the elderly. The only realistic option: hole up in a place that you know, and fill up the bathtubs and everything else that will hold water beforehand, and wait for the cavalry.

The same situation would have applied in spades in NO, walking out of there would be tough enough even for the able-bodied, through hazardous waters of unknown depth.

As for filling up the bathtub etc etc... Just like the Superdome disjunct between the stories and the evidence, I'm wondering how all those people survived three or four days as well as they did if they DIDN'T have a source of water. There has been a notable absence of serious disease among them in the aftermath, not even of bacterial dysentery. I'm guessing more'n a few filled up their bathtubs, as most folks would in anticicpation of even a temporary water cut off.

OK, a replay of the NO situtation again. If I have a second story and my building is sturdy. Holing up would STILL be a viable option, for the same reasons as above. Besides which it would sure stick in my craw to just walk out to officialdom and docilely become a helpless ward of the state. I might end up as such a helpless ward anyways after the mandatory evac, on the other hand I might get some say in the disposition of my dogs and firearms, the two things I'd be most worried about after the welfare of my friends and relatives.

Birdwatcher

Just a couple of thoughts...

LSU, let us assume the media were reporting accurately ( <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />), here's an exercise you can try at home...

Turn off your water and your power. Crawl up into your attic and bang a hole in your roof, drag yer grandmother, assorted relatives and any small children you can round up and sit up there in the Louisiana sun for three days, preferably without shade and with only minimal or no water, and no food(October sun will have to do, a bit weak and a bit cool though, pity).

Bring a rattle just in case, Indians used to deprive themselves under generally similar conditions to get visions and such <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Have yourself choppered out to the Interstate and then proceed to walk thirty miles along it, dependent upon only such natural bodies of fresh water as happen to exist along I 10 in Louisiana in early September.

For added realism throw in numerous well-fed and well-watered officials assuring you that waiting right where you were dropped off for pick-up would be the best thing, and throw in the possibility of retention or return there by force by various armed emergency responders trying to keep the peace if you try to leave. Don't forget too those among your loved ones who CAN'T walk, and dont forget if you leave the security of numbers you and yours may fall prey to lawlessness if it exists en route..

After 24 hours or more waiting on the Interstate, get yourself interviewed by the media and be noble and self-reliant as all get out.

Birdwatcher

"T", Big Sky, LSU fan, I'm with you guys....
If I was caught in that bind just before the Hurricane hit, and being 71 years old like I am, with no transportation to get me outta there... I'd have commandeered one of the school busses and got my family and friends out of there, pronto. Yeah, I would have stole the bus to save my family and friends.. No if's, and's, or but's.
Too many armchair quarterbacks for me.....
Get real..
I guess I've never been able to swallow BS, especially that manufactured to cover for people who can't be responsible for their well being, and the responsibility for the well being of family and friends. As a last resort, I can walk out of there. But, you better bet I'd be getting that school bus up and operating before that. And, those Creeps wanted to take legal action against that kid down there who stole a bus to save people... UNBELIEVABLE!!! MIND BOGGELING!!! In a disaster like Katrina, the best that the liberals can think of is putting a kid in jail who saved lives; for commandeering a bus in a catastrophic situation to save lives of his family and friends. That is beyond ludicrous....
Evidentally none of the Monday morning quarterbacks were ever in a hurricane. They never played quarterback, but they sure can criticize the quarterback's on the field play. YECH
I was in three hurricanes........
Don

DMB... are you missing a limb from diabetes? Also, would you kill the merely desperate if necessary to get that comandeered school bus loaded with your kin out of there?

If you and yours had the option of waiting armed and prepared in a home secured for a possible siege, would stealing a school bus STILL be the best option?

What would you do if the roads were flooded?

Are we talking the aftermath? I hope so because more'n a few here have chosen to ride out hurricanes in the past, possibly including yourself.

I do agree though, it would be criminal to prosecute somenone for putting themselves at risk with the honest intent of saving lives.

Birdwatcher

The if's, and's and but's I was talking about....
Don

In my case the "if" is an military veteran, perhaps about your age, who lost his feet to diabetes.

There is always the exception to prove the rule, but the vast MAJORITY had all the necessary equipment to Di Di Mau. Sorry Birdy, you and I must agree to disagree on this one. I am pretty stove up, can't walk more tha 100 or so yards without sitting down to let the pain subside and that is using my cane. I still would have gotten out of Dodge afore the Marshal arrived one way or another.

Ditto "T",
One thing you can be sure of, and that is if you let me know that you needed a way out of Dodge, I'd be there with the school bus to get you and your wife.
And, that's the way it is.. October 2nd
Don

Birdwatcher, you haven't swayed me in the least on this one. Granted there are those that can't transport themselves due to medical reasons, but they are by far the exception and the minority. I saw an awful lot of folks that looked perfectly able bodied to walk if need be. I saw these same folks doing an awful lot of whining and complaining as well. If they ran their legs half as much as their mouth they would've been in Canada by the time the hurricane hit.

Birdwatcher,




The young fellow, a teenager, I saw interviewed did not have trouble comedering a school buss and loading it up with folks he didn't even know. They had to fill the tanks three times to get to Huston. The money came from the riders all pooling thier money.