America stripped bare ('The Age' - Melbourne, Australia - lead story)

[rooboy]

AMERICANS were yesterday waking up to the painful truth that hurricane Katrina had dramatically exposed the racial and economic fault lines that exist between blacks and whites in the world's richest and most powerful nation.

Under enormous pressure to accelerate the relief effort, President George Bush was confronted by angry African-American refugees and acknowledged for the first time that the Government's reaction was "not acceptable".

He toured areas devastated by the storm and stopped to hug survivors as some reports said the death toll could rise to 10,000.

Across America, black pressure groups were seething with anger over the Bush Administration's slow response to the disaster and politicians were reaching for the race card.

New Orleans' black Mayor Ray Nagin lashed out on Friday. "I have no idea what they're doing. But I will tell you this: You know, God is looking down on all this, and if they are not doing everything in their power to save people, they are going to pay the price. Because every day that we delay, people are dying and they're dying by the hundreds, I'm willing to bet you."

http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/america-stripped-bare/2005/09/03/1125302782216.html

[bemildred]

1. So much for "Republicans want to reach out to Blacks". nt

[wli]

3. The GOP's new Southern Strategy: genocide. n/t

[VegasWolf]

7. You are bad! nt

[wli]

9. No, the GOP's bad. n/t

[DBoon]

14. The ones who don't die get forceably relocated

nt

[damntexdem]

13. Oh, they're reaching all right: and now we know what that means.

And each reaching hand has only a single, middle finger extended.

[napi21]

2. Well, once again Shrub makes America look like sh*t to the world!

I'm sure he doesn't care, but damn it, I do!!!

[marions ghost]

4. good

I'm glad the real story is getting out in Australia and other countries.

[Miss Chybil]

5. And the "Culture of Life" rules again. nt

[Kelvin Mace]

6. black "pressure" groups

That a rather telling way of putting it.

[wli]

11. "black pressure groups" like the Congressional Black Caucus?

This is intolerable.

[VegasWolf]

8. It is called "Compassionate Conservatism!" nt

[kcass1954]

12. My personal definition of "compassionate conservatism"..

"We're gonna smile while we fuck you!"

[Joe Chi Minh]

10. ".... acknowledged for the first time

that the Government's reaction was "not acceptable".

What reaction was not acceptable? Oh. On the fifth day? I see....

"Not acceptable". I like that. It has a certain authoritative no- nonsense ring about it, doesn't it?

[Amonester]

15. The suppression of many people's right to vote in 2000 was

"not acceptable" also (lest it was again in 2004)...

We're still waiting for the criminal pRez to "confess" about that despicable crime 2.