Posted by
Isaiah L. Carter on Friday, September 08, 2006 3:13:58 PM
I’m A Victim!!!
By Isaiah L. Carter
One year after the most devastating natural disaster in American history, people are still victims. It is simply amazing to watch an entire city (and for that matter, a whole state) simply waste away. While Mississippi has shocked the rest of the country with their solid and simply amazing recovery and rebuilding, the city of New Orleans, once one of the most exciting and history-rich cities in the South, has now been reduced to a near ghost-town.
What is more frustrating than the nine-percent drop in non-farm employment, the refusal of many of the “climate refugees” (read: welfare leeches) displaced by the storm to return to their homeland, or the ruins of whole neighborhoods still standing neither touched nor repaired, is the rampant “victicrat” mentality (peace to Larry Elder for that wonderful word) that has engulfed the entire legislature of the state of Louisiana. A year after they accused FEMA and the Bush administration for not responding to Katrina sooner, they not only continue to attack the President, but they have managed to politicize an act of God by calling the response effort racist in one breath, and in the other breath demanding more government money and more government aid.
Remember the school bus incident down there? Remember how Ray Nagin wanted Greyhound bus drivers to drive those people out of there, and since he couldn’t get them, those buses sat where they were and were destroyed in the floods? How is this fool allowed to remain in public service and play the victim’s game? How is Mary Landrieu allowed to keep her job after threatening to assault the president, then demanding billions in federal aid? Moreover, how can this incompetence continue while a world-famous city lies in ruins?
What is being witnessed are the results of what can happen when an entire state is run by a party with no plan of action, no desire to see change, and the desire to make thousands of people suffer just for perceived political gain. The milking of Hurricane Katrina by Nagin, Landrieu, and Blanco are simply pathetic and beyond the pale. And the desire to continue to paint the picture of New Orleans as a victim of the big bad Bush administration is just awful. The lack of self-motivation, drive, and energy to get New Orleans back in livable condition (if it will ever be that way again) is obvious. And it starts with Mayor Ray Nagin.
I am going on record right now with this statement: Ray Nagin, you are a pathetic excuse for a public servant. How anyone left in that failed city could actually vote you back in office is an absolute shock. How dare you hold fast to your status quo and paint yourself as a victim? As a Black man, you are an embarrassment to your race and people. You are the embodiment of what our fathers and forefathers fought and died to get away from… the stereotype of being a lazy, good-for-nothing, foot shuffling Uncle Tom for the Democratic Party. You are an incompetent, ill-equipped failure of a man, who may have garnered some favor had you not sat on your political high-horse and acted like the country owes you anything. You bad-mouth the President, FEMA, and anything else Republican, let your area of responsibility rot, and have the nerve to compare the delay of repairs in your city to the World Trade Center attacks of 9/11? What kind of human being are you?
This, America, is how not to run a city. This is an object lesson on how the Democratic Party fails blacks every day in this country. What’s so funny is that it wasn’t even a white man who screwed up down there. It was a black man, or as Democrats like to call us Black conservatives, someone who looked like a black man who did not have our best interests at heart.
“George Bush doesn’t care about black people.” No, Kanye, Ray Nagin doesn’t care about black people. Happy anniversary, New Orleans.