Krugman on Race and the GOP

[kerrygoddess]

Krugman on Race and the GOP
September 18th, 2005
Paul Krugman looks at race, Katrina, and the GOP today. Here’s a couple selections from the column:

By three to one, African-Americans believe that federal aid took so long to arrive in New Orleans in part because the city was poor and black. By an equally large margin, whites disagree.

The truth is that there’s no way to know. Maybe President Bush would have been mugging with a guitar the day after the levees broke even if New Orleans had been a mostly white city. Maybe Palm Beach would also have had to wait five days after a hurricane hit before key military units received orders to join rescue operations.

But in a larger sense, the administration’s lethally inept response to Hurricane Katrina had a lot to do with race. For race is the biggest reason the United States, uniquely among advanced countries, is ruled by a political movement that is hostile to the idea of helping citizens in need.

MORE - http://blog.thedemocraticdaily.com/?p=596

[The Backlash Cometh]

1. kick

[Frederik]

2. Indeed

This was a good one from Krugie.

[The Sleeper]

3. The are more than just hostile to helping fellow citizens....

as far as they are concerned, we are not people; rather, we are just things that are to be used to make them even richer and more powerful, whether it is through ruthless exploitation of our labor, or by prying the gold fillings from our broken bodies.
For them, It's all good.....

[nvliberal]

4. Excerpting

a couple of paragraphs of a piece which is available only to paid subscribers simply isn't going to work.

And because of copyright, the columns can't be reproduced in their entirety, which is the only way a reader can get the true flavor of a column.

I would think the Times will have these columns in other newspapers, though perhaps a day or two or so after they appear in it.