Jesse Jackson.....oh dear lord

[HardDrive]

Glad to see Jesse took time out from embezzeling funds and having illegitimate kids to commment on Bush.


BATON ROUGE, La. - Racism is partly to blame for the deadly aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, the Rev. Jesse Jackson said, calling President Bush's response to the disaster "incompetent."


"Today, as the President comes to Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi for his ceremonial trip to look at the victims of the devastation, he would do well to have a plan more significant than a ceremonial tour," Jackson said Friday.

"His whole response is unacceptable."

Bush has acknowledged that the federal response has not been acceptable, but promised that the government would get supplies to survivors and crack down on violence in New Orleans.

Jackson questioned why Bush has not named blacks to top positions in the federal response to the disaster, particularly when the majority of victims remaining stranded in New Orleans are black: "How can blacks be locked out of the leadership, and trapped in the suffering?"

"It is that lack of sensitivity and compassion that represents a kind of incompetence."

U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Russell Honore, head of the military task force overseeing operations in the three states, is black. His task force is providing search and rescue, medical help and sending supplies to the three states in support of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

Jackson was in Baton Rouge to take part in a local project using a caravan of buses to pick up people stranded in New Orleans and transport them out. He spoke at a news conference at the state emergency center.

The civil rights leader said the flooding that caused thousands to be trapped inside the city was caused by a lack of federal funding for its levee system and hurricane planning. The resulting tragedy, he said, has largely hit New Orleans' black residents, because they were too poor to evacuate before the storm hit.

"There's a historical indifference to the pain of poor people and black people" in this country, he said.

Jackson also said the news media has "criminalized the people of New Orleans" by focusing on violence in the city.

what an idiot

[AFJuvat]

I really wish that way back inthe day, James Earl Ray would have shot jessie and spared Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

AFJ

[jyl]

I think of him as kind of like the Dick Cheney of the left. Preaches to his choir, who'll kneel and swallow anything he produces.

[lendaddy]

Originally posted by jyl
I think of him as kind of like the Dick Cheney of the left. Preaches to his choir, who'll kneel and swallow anything he produces.

good grief...I'm headed to bar on that one

[ronin]

Originally posted by AFJuvat

[ronin]

oh, and lest I forget. Jesse's a dork too

[dd74]

Race, huh? So would he stand for the Chinese crushed to death in the 1906 San Francisco quake as he has for blacks in N.O.?

[artplumber]

Originally posted by dd74
Race, huh? So would he stand for the Chinese crushed to death in the 1906 San Francisco quake as he has for blacks in N.O.?

How about that Chinese couldn't even be citizens until after WWII?

You know JJ. There are real race issues in this country, but he couldn't identify one if you asked. Just another narcistic demagogue.

As an aside, we should deposit JJ, Michael Moore, Rush etc into the center of NO and see who leaves alive. Would make good tv - like the "Running Man" or if you prefer tv "Survivor".

[kang]

See what I said about Pat Robertson here:

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/showthread.php?threadid=238724

[928ram]

You know JJ. There are real race issues in this country, but he couldn't identify one if you asked. Just another narcistic demagogue.

Very nice, 'bout sums him up.

Never seen him comment on how his comfortable life was built on the backs of these poor folks. I put him in with the Jim Bakker types.

[dd74]

No one takes Jackson seriously anymore, much like Pat Robertson. On Larry King, when Jackson made his statement about race, Bill Fritsch (sp?) just shook his head. That said a lot without saying one word...

[Rikao4]

he's fat,stupid,steal's,father lot's of children he can't take,steal's from friends and neighbors,blames everyone else for his problems..sound's like NO material to me..
rika

[craigster59]

As long as HE ( read JJ) can keep racism alive and well, he'll always be able to collect a paycheck. Upon it's demise, he's just another out of work 2 bit preacher.

[HardDrive]

Originally posted by craigster59
As long as HE ( read JJ) can keep racism alive and well, he'll always be able to collect a paycheck. Upon it's demise, he's just another out of work 2 bit preacher.

EXACTLY.

[Icemaster]

Wonder what he'd be doing if there were no cameras around?

Never mind...forgot about the embezzeling and animal buggery for a second there.

Edit: Damn wish I could type tonight.

[bryanthompson]

With the exception of jyl's comment... i think this is the first thread where i've agreed with pretty much everyone.

[jyl]

Well, you must agree with half of my comment . . .

[bryanthompson]

yeah, half of it

the douchebag was just on CNN with Larry King.

[rob macdonald]

Um, I met LTG Honore last year prior to shipping, he is a very large, white man. I believe he's a self-described coon-ass (Southern Louisianan of French roots).

I firmly believe JJ is an a$$.

[Rick V]

to add insult to injury kanya (Don't care if it is missspelled) west just anounced on live tv that W hates black people. Just more fuel for a fire that won't go away.