Thursday, January 29, 2009
Rice 'Angry' Over Bush Race Charge
1 commentsMan, this woman knows how to stoke a grudge. It's only taken her 3 1/2 years to get around to doing what she couldn't believe no one was doing.
Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told hosts of ABC's The View Thursday that she was angry with critics who charged that President [George W.] Bush didn't help victims of [Hurricane] Katrina because they were black.
"What really did make me angry was the implication that some people made that somehow President Bush allowed this to happen because these people were black," Rice said. "And for somebody to say that about the President of the United States, a President of the United States who I know well and a President of the United States who is my friend, I was appalled and I couldn't believe people didn't challenge it."
"Well, that was probably wrong," The View's Joy Behar responded.
Rice said, "Oh, absolutely."
OK. Agreed.
Sorry.
It was because they were poor.
posted by Gotham 8:40 PM
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No, it was because they were poor, black and (mostly) Democrat. Trust me, if NOLA had been a predominantly white, affluent, Republican stronghold, the aftermath (including the govt. response) would've been MUCH different. For one, the criminal negligence of FEMA's Brownie would not have gone rampantly unchecked as it did. I also doubt the black people in unaffected neighborhoods would've fended off white victims with firearms in that scenario. (There's a doc out there about the black folk who were greeted at gunpoint--and in some cases, shot and even killed--by the unaffected, affluent white residents of these areas. Sorry I'm not recalling the name of the movie right now.)
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