Obama in 2005: U.S. ‘indifferent’ toward blacks - More racial remarks regarding Katrina unearthed
WND ^ | October 3, 2012 | Aaron Klein
Posted on Wednesday, October 03, 2012 2:44:19 PM by Cincinatus' Wife
The George W. Bush White House demonstrated a “passive indifference” toward blacks that is common in a society that believes all people drive SUVs with trunks full of sparkling water,stated Barack Obama during a 2005 speech on racism and Hurricane Katrina.
.....Obama,then an Illinois state senator, was first introduced on stage by his future pick for the Supreme Court, Elena Kagan....
Obama stated:“You know, after the hurricane and its aftermath there was a lot of discussion about the fact that those who were impacted by the achingly slow response on the part of the federal government were disproportionally black.”
“And one of my favorite musicians, that’s right I’m 44 but I still can hang,Kanye West,said on a telethon, ‘George Bush doesn’t care about black people.’ And that also shook up the ordinary. NBC scrabbled and they had to…Mike Meyers was standing there. He’s usually a funny guy but he didn’t have a witty comeback for that one. He was looking like somebody just made a bad smell or something.”
Continued Obama: “I love Kanye’s music, but I actually disagreed with how he phrased his statement. … I said I do not ascribe to the White House, or to FEMA,to Mr. Chertoff or Mr. Brown any active malice. I don’t think they were in there plotting and saying ‘you know what these are black people,lets not rescue them.’
“But rather what was revealed was a passive indifference that is common in our culture, common in our society. A sense that, of course once the evacuation order is issued that you will hop in your SUV and fill it up with $100 worth of gasoline and load up your trunk with some sparkling water and take your credit card and check in to the nearest hotel until the storm passes.”.....
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What a fucking liar! They had hundreds of busses than Nagin refuses to use!
