One black man's perspective on New Orleans............

[Herb in Pa]

By Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson

© 2005 WorldNetDaily.com



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, then 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 reports 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 – 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."

[grumble]

Good thing the author of this piece is black. Had he been white, the FBI would be knocking on his door.

In view of this, and the latest gaffe by Bill Bennet (AKA Mr Morality) ("abort all black babies and the crime rate will go down"), I've heard numerous calls to the effect that "this country need to engage in a serious dialog about race." How is it possible to have that engaging conversation when any comments or opinions that are not favorable to "people of color" (pardon my PC-ness -- we all know I'm talking about blacks) or that don't call for more money going to their leaders, will be shouted down and ostricized in the media?

While watching the Saturday talking heads this morning, they were discussing the 60 BILLION dollars provided for the INITIAL Katrina/Rita relief, most of which is assumed to be going into New Orleans. I couldn't help but wonder how much would have gone into that effort if the majority of faces in the Superdome and on rooftops had been white instead of black. My estimation would be it would be less than a third of the amount, and it would have taken a month or more for Congress to allocate it, and with much more opposition. I'm reminded of the Mississippi River floods a few years ago, where the hit to the National Budget was fairly minor although property damage was greater.

A "national debate about race?" I don't think so.

[Jumptrap]

Well mark me down as one of the Silent Majority when it comes to the subject of blacks. It isn't the blacks who scream the loudest when it comes to criticizing them. No, it comes from self reighteous Politically Correct Crackers...that's white boys/girls who belive the **** spiel put out by the likes of Farrakhan and Jackson. White folks will jump and shout you down as if you just cursed in church. Stupid white people. Stupid, stupid white people. Mutter the word Nigger and you'd just as well said the F word before a group of blue haired old ladies.

I'm not advocating some race rebellion, just the facing of facts and not turning our heads any longer. THERE IS A REAL PROBLEM and the Democrats handed it us circa 1962-63 when JFK and LBJ pushed the Great Society myth. BULLSHIT!

I don't give a tinkers damn what anybody says, the races are different and it isn't just socio-economic..it is genetic to the core. Tell me a St. Bernard is the same as a poodle.......go ahead, they're both dogs aren't they? Then that makes them the same....well, doesn't it? hell boy, we ain't that stupid...or are we?

[grumble]

When it comes to race, there are plenty of exceptions needed to prove any rule. So, I personally don't think race alone can be used as a 100% predictor of any trait. But, there do seem to be some significant differences.

For example, one minority, the Asians, seems to be significantly smarter than any other group. When it comes to sports, one race dominates in all but a few sports. Sadly, when it comes to things not accepted by society, that same race also dominates, filling our prisons. I've seen statistics that indicate that despite the common perception, whites seem to dominate the welfare (e.g., WIC) rolls, have more abortions, as well as more babies with no last name.

Nature/nurture, genetics/environment, who knows? I do know that if we don't quit screaming anytime we hear something we disagree with, things ain't gonna get any better.

[fatnhappy]

All the race debates are hogwash. You're either a lazy POS or not. Anybody on "public assistance" that isn't missing a leg, an arm and an eye isn't worth flushing. My next door neighbor was one such gem. She went about 300lbs, always had cigarettes and beer, drove a new car and collected a "disability" check every week. Well when she moved I shot video of her lazy white ass carrying furniture and mailed it to the state insurance fraud division.

God help me, the hardest working kid I have working for me in my print shop is black and has CP. That's after he goes to college all day.
So much for racial stereotypes.

BTW, how much federal aid did LA get when all those knuckle heads burned south central to the ground after the Rodney King verdict? Anybody remember?

[Jumptrap]

I told you.

[Bad Ass Wallace]

Judge not any man by the colour of his skin,
But by the goodness in his heart,
The truth of his words,
And the firmness of his handshake.
BAW 2005AD

We suffer similarly where every land sale has to be checked for "Native Title",
and very different social rules depending on colour, problem being it's the whites that are oppressed.

[grumble]

"...All the race debates are hogwash..."

Would but that were true. Blacks comprise something like 12% of of our population. They constitute something like 70% of our jails and prisons, and <5% of our colleges and universities. I won't get into income or HS dropout rates, because that opens the door to excuses on both sides.

Not to hijack the thread, but gender differences are open to the same problems as race discussions. There's a commercial on TV now that has a concluding line that's something like, "..so simple that even dad can do it." I can take the supposed humor of that until I think of what the results would be if "mom" were switched with "dad" in the sentence. All hell would break loose.

[carpetman]

Want to see some very obvious gender treatment differences,look at females in the Air Force. NOT ALWAYS,but usually males wont receive a Meritorious Service Medal(MSM) until they are a senior NCO. If very lucky,they might get a commendation medal as a junior NCO. Not unusual to see female junior NCO's nco's with MSM's and it's not a case that they are outstanding.

[Junior1942]

For a people who were virtual slaves until 1965 when they could finally vote, I think black folks have done well over the last forty years. That was only one or two generations ago, please notice. Let me remind you of something: before 1965 a group of people who couldn't vote didn't have much pull with elected officials. The sheriffs, the mayors, the school board members, etc., didn't care what happened to them or how poor their educational facilities or living conditions were.

[grumble]

For a people who were virtual slaves until 1965 when they could finally vote, I think black folks have done well over the last forty years. That was only one or two generations ago, please notice. Let me remind you of something: before 1965 a group of people who couldn't vote didn't have much pull with elected officials. The sheriffs, the mayors, the school board members, etc., didn't care what happened to them or how poor their educational facilities or living conditions were.

Speaking for yoursef, Junior, or also for the rest of the nation? How about NYC, Detroit, Chicago, and LA?

A case could be made (and often has been) that minorities in pre-1960 US were more responsible and had better family/community cohesion than they have in the last 40 years. Despite the PC-oriented slop we get from modern books and movies, every black wasn't beaten and publically humiliated daily. Outside the "Bible Belt," racism existed, but wasn't nearly as outrageous as it is often portrayed. In communities where blacks were a very small minority, they were mostly taken as who they were as people, not as just "Negros."

You make it sound as if they were created as a race in the '60s. There really WAS life before LBJ, y'know. <GGG>

[Junior1942]

>Speaking for yoursef, Junior, or also for the rest of the nation? How about NYC, Detroit, Chicago, and LA?

Probably 95% of the black people in NYC, Chicago, and L.A. today got there because their parents or grandparents emigrated from the south when mechanical cotton pickers and chemical weed control caused the almost overnight elimination of their economic system. It's called "The Great Migration." So, yes, I'm speaking for the entire nation.

[grumble]

Now I'm confused. You're saying that blacks in cities outside the Bible Belt couldn't vote until the '60s? Ever since the 'Great Migration' of the early 1900s? Sounds like we are basing our opinions based on completely different histories.

[Junior1942]

The Great Migration started as a trickle after WWI but became a torrent in the late 1950s.

Hardly any black person anywhere in the USA could vote until after the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The greatest influence of the act was upon county and parish voter registrars. After the act, a black man didn't have to give the registrar a detailed analysis of the Constitution. He was registered to vote even if he couldn't explain the historical background of the 11th Amendment, or whatever Constitutional question the registrar could dream up.

[HotGuns]

I just returned from Mississippi yesterday after spending 3 weeks there.

I was working an outage at the Grand Gulf nuclear station located outside of Port Gibson.

Several of the shared resources that livedn outside of N.O.that worked there lost everything that they owned in the hurricane. Even so, they were there working right along with the rest of us, even when told that they would recieve full pay even if they didnt show up due to the circumstances.

Some of those folks were black.

Some of the most serious talk that I heard came not from the white folks but from the blacks. They were outraged at the fact that many of the people in N.O. that were stranded didnt have the gumption to help themselves. They were not happy with the fact that many able bodied men were relying on the Government for a paycheck. Many insisted that the mayor of N.O. was gay and that he made several statements to the fact that he was more worried about the destruction of the French Quarter than he was anything else. While I cant deny or confirm that fact, it seemed to be common knowldege to everyone there although Ive never heard that fact mentioned on the news media.

One of the black men that worked here came very close to shooting two young black men that threatened to take his car. He was checking on his mom's property, and he believes that the fact that he produced a pistol when needed was the only reason that he escaped unharmed.

Another interesting tidbit was brought up that I had never thought of. When the hurrican hit, it was only a few days away from the date that everyone recieved their welfare checks...thus many people elected to stay and wait.

Although most of those that stayed in NO were black,they werent the only ones. Many whites stayed behind also. Those that stayed were poor as dirt and stupid. Most of them CHOOSE to be so. Nowadays there in no excuse to stay that way and be totally dependent on the government for your every need. Some of those that did gambled with their lives and lost.

The rev. Jesse Lee Peterson is just telling it like it is. Moral poverty is the very thing that collapses most great civilizations. This stuff in lake N.O. is typical of people that lack the moral and intestinal fortitude to help themselves and it occures in every large city in the US.

[onceabull]

Best just let it go ,guys,..Facts don't matter much to people that "speak for the entire nation" !!! Onceabull

[Jumptrap]

Let me remind you of something: before 1965 a group of people who couldn't vote didn't have much pull with elected officials. The sheriffs, the mayors, the school board members, etc., didn't care what happened to them or how poor their educational facilities or living conditions were.[/QUOTE]

And you know what? I still don't give a ****. As a race these folks are the most disgusting example of human beings I have ever encountered. They have no SELF RESPECT. Maybe 1/10 of 1% of the entire group manages to float to the top and actually make something of themselves. The rest are sunk to the bottom and they like it there, or else they'd grab their bootstraps and pull themselves up. I am so damned tired of hearing this "they don't/didn't have a chance" line of BS, I damn near puke every time I hear it. What generation did Booker T. Wash-ing-ton come from? Hell of a long time before the 1960's. What about the peanut scientist Geroge Washington Carver..who held him back in the 1890's when he went to college and subsequently became an advanced plant geneticist and reasearch scientist? These two are examples of blacks from way before the damnable civil rights movements, who made a personal effort to become somebody on their own...and succeded. This current crop of blacks are a pathetic, self sorrry lot who are a waste of time and effort...because of no personal motivation. They be waitin on de Gubernment to save dey asses. Cut'em off. How many hungry and bumming Asians you see in the ghettos? HAR! Those people will work. Most come with nothing and in a few years are loaded. Why? Self motivation. I don't owe the blacks anything...as a person or a member of my race. I never owned any of them, none of them alive for the last 140 years have been owned and I am not in debt to any of them. Time for them shut the hell up and go to work. I recall a small card I read as a child, "That helping hand you're looking for, is at the end of your arm." Go figure.

[grumble]

"...Hardly any black person anywhere in the USA could vote until after the Voting Rights Act of 1965..."

As I say, Junior, looks to me like we are using different histories for our opinions. The Voting Rights Act was aimed directly at the Southern states, while the rest of the nation self-rightiously approved, ignoring any misdeeds on their own parts. The 'literacy tests' prohibited by the Act were in existance primarily in the "Deep" south and varied from community to community from the simple ability to read (which I still think should be a requirement) to the outrageous complexities that nobody could properly answer (to which you alluded).

The overpopulation of unemployed blacks in large cities was a problem well before 1950, I assure you.

The Welfare State is a serious problem in many communities other than the predominately black ones. Here in NM, Amerindians have the same situation, but have recently began working themselves out of it, mostly due to the employment resulting directly or indirectly from the casinos on the Reservations. They'd been in "gov't check mode" for several generations, but after only a few years of jobs created specifically for them, using their particular strengths and adopted to circumvent their weaknesses, they've made a tremendous amount of progress against the problems common to reservations.

All of which leads back to the premise that people who think their job is to complain about what isn't given to them, will never actually do anything to help themselves unless they quit bitching and go to work.

[Junior1942]

You guys don't have to take my word for anything. You can do a little hands-on research for yourselves. Next time you visit a nursing home ask some old and lucid black person there two questions: (1) where were they and their parents born and (2) who they voted for in the 1964 presidential election, Johnson or Goldwater.

One thought for some of ya'll when and if y'all make that visit: if you'll notice, most of the aides who change the diapers of the old white folks are young to middle-aged black folks. With y'all's attitudes don't expect lots of diaper changes when that day comes.

[Willbird]

I would have to look hard to find a black person to change my diapers in a nursing home in montpelier, OH

I judge people by their actions, ACTIONS and attitude and manner of dress tell you a lot about a person. A working person gainfully employed will generally be wearing clothing that makes sense, and will speak either spanish or english maybe both in a manner that can be understood by most other people speaking that language in the USA.

As to anybody being a slave until the 60's, ask some of the people you are talking about how they feel about the actions, manner, and dress of the younger examples of their race.........They may be harder on them than David Duke has been. Those folks worked, and did the best they could in times and places most of us would not have enjoyed, but they didnt ask for excuses, nor did they hand any out either, they also many of them served their country with pride and honor in the armed forces.

Many races, creeds, and religeons have came, and eventually flourished here.....and none of them did it from flat on their backs demanding to be carried. They took the jobs they could get and worked their @ss's off.


BILL

[grumble]

"Many races, creeds, and religeons have came, and eventually flourished here.....and none of them did it from flat on their backs demanding to be carried. They took the jobs they could get and worked their @ss's off."

Now, see there? With an attitude like that, you won't get your diapers changed! <GGG>

Junior, I guess there's no point in continuing the conversation. You're convinced that some folks should be given everything and that we should engage in self-flagilation for our ancesters not giving it to them earlier. I don't agree. Feel free to continue with your "superior" contiousness. Maybe some of those people who've never held a job will change their ways when your diaper needs changing.

[Junior1942]

>Junior, I guess there's no point in continuing the conversation. You're >convinced that some folks should be given everything and that we should >engage in self-flagilation for our ancesters not giving it to them earlier. I >don't agree.

Neither do I.

>Feel free to continue with your "superior" contiousness.

I'm not trying to be "superior" at all. I just stated easily verifiable facts. No opinions, beliefs, etc., just facts.

[onceabull]

Indeed,like the easily verifiable "fact" that you "speak for the entire nation"..??..Onceabull

[felix]

God picked the Jews for His message(s) before the Jews were termed Jews, right? Ever wonder why this "race/creed" was chosen? I have, and can only conclude nothing is done by the Lord without reason. ... felix

[waksupi]

Jesse Jackson, while visiting a primary school class, found himself in the middle of a discussion related to words and their meanings.

The teacher asks the Rev. Jackson if he would like to lead the discussion on the word "tragedy." So the illustrious leader asks the class for an example of a "tragedy."

One little boy stood up and offered: "If my best friend, who lives on a farm, is playing in the field and a runaway tractor comes along and knocks him dead, that would be a tragedy."

"No," says the Great Jesse Jackson, "that would be an accident."

A little girl raised her hand: "If a school bus carrying 50 children drove over a cliff, killing everyone inside, that would be a tragedy."

"I'm afraid not," explains the exalted spiritual leader.
"That's what we would call a great loss."

The room goes silent. No other children volunteer.
Rev. Jackson searches the room. "Isn't there someone here who can give me an example of a tragedy?"

Finally at the back of the room a small boy raises his hand. In a quiet voice he says: "If a plane carrying the Rev. Jackson were struck by a missile and blown to smithereens, that would be a tragedy."

"Fantastic!" exclaims Jackson, "That's right. And can you tell me why that would be a tragedy?"

"Well," says the boy, "because it sure as hell wouldn't be a great loss, and it probably wouldn't be an accident either."

[C1PNR]

Good job waksupi!:shock:

Hopefully this is a fitting end to a "discussion" that is going nowhere productive!:-D

[Bret4207]

Trash is trash. Black, white, Indian, Hispanic, Asian, gay, straight, Baptist, Catholic, athiest, red, green or purple. It's the individual who makes up the group. You judge a group by the individual members. Some cop gives you a ticket for something you think is bs, therefore ALL cops are jerks. As usual, the scum floats to the top of the cesspool and is easily seen. Around here the blacks are the doctors, college professors and a few are ex-cons whose family reloacted here to be near him while he did his time. The welfare rats are all white. The drug dealers are either white or indians. The illegal aliens are asian, eastern European or from Africa. The blame and guilt is spread around pretty evenly. All this is getting us no where. It's time for the Gov't to stop being the sugar daddy to the trash, whatever their color, nationality, etc, and for people to gut it up and take responsibilty for themselves. Yeah, it ain't easy and it's gonna hurt some. But, thats the only way to change it. However, as long as we have politicians and lawyers around it won't happen.

[Willbird]

I know for a fact that trash is not an issue of color, my own sister is a good example. She ended up pregnant, divorced, and with no real job skills at 21 years of age, she applied for a pell grant and got it, HUD paid for her rent (HUD lady told her to have my ma buy a trailer, and rent it to her, so she was under the table renting to own) HEAP put a new furnace in her trailer, plus even with all that assistance she was able to take out a student loan for another $5000 total. She changed majors after most of her coolege because she found out that being an ultrasound tech you have to touch fat naked people (her words not mine) so she changed to early child development...ended up with a degree that was pretty useless.

Also on the pell grant college deal, very very common is for people getting it paid for to re-take classes to get a better grade and move up higher on the placement list for the actual major, she did that with two math classes, so she could get into the radiology ultrasound section sooner, ya that is the major she later dropped.

Then she moves in with a college prof, eventually marries him, he quits teaching, they have at last count 3 kids, and both work just enough to not make too many $$ to lose all the govt freebies and checks....Two adults with college degrees, one of whom has enough college to teach geology...who by CHOICE earn a small enough income so they can get foodstamps, HEAP, every darn assistance program there is. Oh ya and they just bought a 2000 Taho which is a suburban looking thing, looks brand new, and they paid CASH for it.

She is the first member of my family to EVER collect public assistance, it illustrates to me if you EVER get ON the public assistance tit your probably never going to get off it.

Bill

[7br]

Lets see. My mother-in-law's first husband (Wife's father) used to rob businesses where his father had been hired as a security guard. He also molested my wife when she was a child. MIL's second husband was a salesman who would leave for two weeks at a time and would leave only $25.00 for groceries, etc. My wife, (she would have been under 10) would sell greeting cards from Grit magazine. Husband #2 would deliver them so he could collect and keep the money. He also would fly into a rage if MIL ever talked to someone outside of the household.

Shortly after the birth of my first son, MIL started dating a black man. He has doted on my three kids from the get go. He has stood by MIL through 10 years of medical emergencies, deaths in the family, and financial hardships. He takes her on vacations that she never had a chance to go on before. He is happy when she is happy. Two white guys and a black guy.

Which one would you rather have over to Sunday dinner?

[BCB]

That Jumptrap never did mince words...

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I'm shufflin' thru the Texas sand..... but my head's in Mississippi—ZZ Top

[Jumptrap]

That Jumptrap never did mince words...

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I'm shufflin' thru the Texas sand..... but my head's in Mississippi—ZZ Top

BCB,

I say open the tap and let'er flow. There is a certain percentage of our dedicated viewers who demands facts to support the claims. So, I added indisputable facts concerning a couple black men who rose to the fore, by self determination, over 100 years ago. Just like a smartass prosecuter that chickenhawks the witness with such damnable badgering...."can you substantiate, can you substantiate..." (how I hate those bastards), there are a few who propose to mime those antics. Very well, chickenhawk, there's the substantiation to the claims. What is sweet about this arrangement, is when the Liberal Left begins to allege abuse and neglect....they can't bring numbers to the table to support their allegations. Unsustantiated allegations will yield no higher ground in this venue. Case closed. As for voter registration laws...I think they have merit. If the retard can't read or write, how the hell can he possibly inform himself of the issues and the candidate? There is no place for the uninformed determining the outcome of an election by numbers alone. I'm all for reEmancipation to the countries of their ancestors. See how long their antics last in Nigeria or Botswana or any other place on the African continent. I dare say my life would change very little if I were to return to Scotland where my ancestors came from.

[Willbird]

I could look up the Swedish Fishing lure company with the same name as ME, maybe they would give me a job :-)

Bill

[shooter2]

Citing one or two, or even a dozen, examples of good or bad, does not necessarily make a case in support of ones argument. I’ve known white trash and black. Not enough to condemn a race.

Neither does stating the obvious make one a racist. It was obvious that the majority of people failing to evacuate New Orleans were black. I might also add they were predominantly women and children. Leading one to ask, “where the hell was daddy”? As was pointed out, the majority of men in prison are black leading one to conclude that they commit far more crimes per capita than whites or other races. It’s the age old, “I don’t want to work so I’ll just steal yours” philosophy. Black men are far more likely to die of AIDS or from the ravages of drug use. The list goes on and on.

The federal and state programs for affirmative action, blacks like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, and whites (or blacks for that matter), that yell “racist” at every opportunity, have done more to harm blacks than anyone else. Blacks are destined to be second-class citizens as long as they live on the dole and deserve just what they get. Most of you have been in the army or some branch of the armed services. They wisely teach that you are not going to lay on your ass. You know what, it works! Even in the Garden of Eden man was required to work. The apostle Paul said, “If a man does not work than neither shall he eat”. Good advice.

Whites will never convince them to change. Conservative blacks might, but I do not get my hopes too high. JMHO….