Victimology 101
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'To Me, It Just Seems Like Black People Are Marked'
By Wil Haygood
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, September 2, 2005; A01
BATON ROUGE, La., Sept. 1 -- It seemed a desperate echo of a bygone era, a mass of desperate-looking black folk on the run in the Deep South. Some without shoes.
Jackson Blasts Bush Over Katrina Aid
Sep 02 3:48 PM US/Eastern
By DOUG SIMPSON
Associated Press Writer
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.
Black lawmakers angry at Bush response to Katrina
CTV.ca News Staff
African American lawmakers have expressed outrage and blamed U.S. President George W. Bush for the "slow and incomplete response" to the devastation wrecked by Hurricane Katrina.
Members of the Congressional Black Caucus, along with members of the Black Leadership Forum, National Conference of State Legislators, National Urban League and the NAACP, told a news conference in Washington D.C. Friday that the response from the federal government was slow because most of those left behind were poor.
Chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md, said residents of the stricken areas had gone far too long without clean drinking water and asked why "the differences between those who live and those who die are poverty and skin color?"
Project 21 Responds to Congressional Black Caucus Criticism of Hurricane Katrina Relief Efforts
9/2/2005 3:03:00 PM
To: National Desk
Contact: Ryan Balis of Project 21, 202-543-4110 ext. 19 or rbalis@nationalcenter.org
WASHINGTON, Sept. 2 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Members of the Congressional Black Caucus held a press conference today in which it was that asserted God "cannot be pleased" with the Bush Administration's response to Hurricane Katrina and suggested race is a factor affecting the likelihood of a person's survival in the aftermath of the hurricane.
Speaking at the press conference, Rep. Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.), said "To the President of the United States, I simply say that God cannot be pleased with our response." Cummings also said: ""We cannot allow it to be said that the difference between those who lived and those who died in this great storm and flood of 2005 was nothing more than poverty, age or skin color."
Members of the black leadership network Project 21 have blasted the Congressional Black Caucus -- whose elected members are charged to serve the best interest of all Americans -- for racially politicizing a natural catastrophe.
'To Me, It Just Seems Like Black People Are Marked'
By Wil Haygood
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, September 2, 2005; A01
BATON ROUGE, La., Sept. 1 -- It seemed a desperate echo of a bygone era, a mass of desperate-looking black folk on the run in the Deep South. Some without shoes.
Jackson Blasts Bush Over Katrina Aid
Sep 02 3:48 PM US/Eastern
By DOUG SIMPSON
Associated Press Writer
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.
Black lawmakers angry at Bush response to Katrina
CTV.ca News Staff
African American lawmakers have expressed outrage and blamed U.S. President George W. Bush for the "slow and incomplete response" to the devastation wrecked by Hurricane Katrina.
Members of the Congressional Black Caucus, along with members of the Black Leadership Forum, National Conference of State Legislators, National Urban League and the NAACP, told a news conference in Washington D.C. Friday that the response from the federal government was slow because most of those left behind were poor.
Chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md, said residents of the stricken areas had gone far too long without clean drinking water and asked why "the differences between those who live and those who die are poverty and skin color?"
Project 21 Responds to Congressional Black Caucus Criticism of Hurricane Katrina Relief Efforts
9/2/2005 3:03:00 PM
To: National Desk
Contact: Ryan Balis of Project 21, 202-543-4110 ext. 19 or rbalis@nationalcenter.org
WASHINGTON, Sept. 2 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Members of the Congressional Black Caucus held a press conference today in which it was that asserted God "cannot be pleased" with the Bush Administration's response to Hurricane Katrina and suggested race is a factor affecting the likelihood of a person's survival in the aftermath of the hurricane.
Speaking at the press conference, Rep. Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.), said "To the President of the United States, I simply say that God cannot be pleased with our response." Cummings also said: ""We cannot allow it to be said that the difference between those who lived and those who died in this great storm and flood of 2005 was nothing more than poverty, age or skin color."
Members of the black leadership network Project 21 have blasted the Congressional Black Caucus -- whose elected members are charged to serve the best interest of all Americans -- for racially politicizing a natural catastrophe.
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To all those that point to public works spending. Why did the Dems devote so much Pork to the Big Dig in Boston. Can we say hypocrites or pork.
The Democrats have once again "framed" the debate as one of "class" and/or "racial" conflict. In reality, the self-sufficient and capable have taken care of themselves. And the dependent and incapable have not. And everyone looks to the "government" for either blame or for relief. Isn't that what "dependent" people do?
But of course, the government likes to perpetuate the illusion that it is taking care of things. Believe me, we'll all experience the "tax bite" for increased "preparedness" in the near future. When in reality, we should be weaning ourselves away from the government teet. Becoming more self-sufficient and more capable. So that when the NEXT disaster strikes, we can ALL get out.
-FJ
After watching the flooding situation I am going to give some serious thought to survival supplies/water. We think it will never happen yet it does.
Remember the "nuclear age" when it was encouraged to stock household survival supplies/water? There were also stockpiles of Civil Defense food/water spotted in metropolitan area shelters.
Perhaps it is an idea whose time has come around again.
On Pity. Nietzsche "The Anti-Christ".
Pity stands in opposition to all the tonic passions that augment the energy of the feeling of aliveness: it is a depressant. A man loses power when he pities. Through pity that drain upon strength which suffering works is multiplied a thousandfold. Suffering is made CONTAGIOUS by pity; under certain circumstances it may lead to a total sacrifice of life and living energy--a loss out of all proportion to the magnitude of the cause (--the case of the death of the Nazarene). This is the first view of it; there is, however, a still more important one. If one measures the effects of pity by the gravity of the reactions it sets up, its character as a menace to life appears in a much clearer light. Pity thwarts the whole law of evolution, which is the law of natural selection. It preserves whatever is ripe for destruction; it fights on the side of those disinherited and condemned by life; by maintaining life in so many of the botched of all kinds, it gives life itself a gloomy and dubious aspect. Mankind has ventured to call pity a virtue (--in every superior moral system it appears as a weakness--); going still further, it has been called the virtue, the source and foundation of all other virtues--but let us always bear in mind that this was from the standpoint of a philosophy that was nihilistic, and upon whose shield the denial of life was inscribed. Schopenhauer was right in this: that by means of pity life is denied, and made worthy of denial--pity is the technic of nihilism. Let me repeat: this depressing and contagious instinct stands against all those instincts which work for the preservation and enhancement of life: in the role of protector of the miserable, it is a prime agent in the promotion of decadence--pity persuades to extinction....Of course, one doesn't say "extinction": one says "the other world," or "God," or "the true life," or Nirvana, salvation, blessedness.... This innocent rhetoric, from the realm of religious-ethical balderdash, appears a good deal less innocent when one reflects upon the tendency that it conceals beneath sublime words: the tendency to destroy life. Schopenhauer was hostile to life: that is why pity appeared to him as a virtue. . . . Aristotle, as every one knows, saw in pity a sickly and dangerous state of mind, the remedy for which was an occasional purgative: he regarded tragedy as that purgative. The instinct of life should prompt us to seek some means of puncturing any such pathological and dangerous accumulation of pity as that appearing in Schopenhauer's case (and also, alack, in that of our whole literary decadence, from St. Petersburg to Paris, from Tolstoi to Wagner), that it may burst and be discharged. . . Nothing is more unhealthy, amid all our unhealthy modernism, than Christian pity. To be the doctors here, to be unmerciful here, to wield the knife here--all this is our business, all this is our sort of humanity, by this sign we are philosophers, we Hyperboreans !--
-FJ
Had there been no 60's "Great Society" programs, there would have been 1/100th as many "poor" victims of Katrina. You made them dependent mr. ducky. You knew the government couldn't help them. And then you turned a tragedy, into a political statement. You cry crocodile tears over the fallen victims. You don't even have "pity". You see only your own political ends.
-FJ
Nietzsche, "Beyond Good and Evil"
A man who says, “I like this, I take this for my own and want to protect it and defend it against anybody”; a man who is able to manage something, to carry out a resolution, to remain faithful to a thought…to punish and prostrate one who has presumed too much…in short a man who is by nature a master - when such a man has pity, well, this pity has value. But what good is the pity of those who suffer. Or those who, worse, preach pity.
-FJ
Never mind Rush and cars, Duck. Why were all those New Orleans school buses lined up in neat rows flooded out? Why weren't they used to evacuate those without cars?
Big Bubba made a big score at Home Depot two days ago. Table, six chairs, market umbrella, stand, two seat swing for $140.00. Day one was spent on two chairs. Day two (today) smart money had purchased cordless drill for assembly. My son had the grill fired up this afternoon. I went to the closest Walmart for some last minute stuff.
OK, here's the story folks. My local Walmart was crawling with evacuees from New Orleans. They were being brought in by taxi and charter bus to take care of their needs. Wow, this whole thing is quite incredible! I just wish we could get past this black/white b.s. and realize that we are all Americans helping Americans.
These folks are staying at Kelly U.S.A. which is also in my neighborhood. If my health was better I would volunteer to help out.
I know EXACTLY what JUSTICE is mr. ducky. It's every man doing his BEST WITHOUT interference from others. Are you being "just" in your criticism of the authorities? Are you being "just" in levelling blame with the authorities.
Justice has NOTHING to do with law. If it did, the rule of the STRONG would be "Justice".
-FJ
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