This was an email someone fowarded me just posting it because it was an interesting point of view.
With this circulating on the world wide web, wonder what results it
>will get
>
>Carefully read the whole article. You'll be amazed at this guy!!!
>
>I don't know the man who wrote this, but I looked at his picture and
>read it with my mouth hanging open. He says things here that no white
man c!
>ould ever write and keep his job as a writer, and he speaks the truth.
>
>
>Wednesday, September 21, 2005 -Moral poverty cost blacks in New
>Orleans - 1:00 a.m. Eastern
>
>By
>
>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, 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 repor! ts 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 for
>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.
>
>
>The Rev. 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
>
With this circulating on the world wide web, wonder what results it
>will get
>
>Carefully read the whole article. You'll be amazed at this guy!!!
>
>I don't know the man who wrote this, but I looked at his picture and
>read it with my mouth hanging open. He says things here that no white
man c!
>ould ever write and keep his job as a writer, and he speaks the truth.
>
>
>Wednesday, September 21, 2005 -Moral poverty cost blacks in New
>Orleans - 1:00 a.m. Eastern
>
>By
>
>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, 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 repor! ts 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 for
>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.
>
>
>The Rev. 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
>