Black Culture

Here's an interesting take on the culture of New Orleans, before and after Katrina.

Nearly a year after Hurricane Katrina flooded the city of New Orleans, some prominent black conservatives and religious leaders blame cultural problems among African Americans, not the government, for "the great breakdown witnessed during and following" the natural disaster.

I can just hear the leftys screaming obscenities.

But, many African Americans who were living in New Orleans at the time of Hurricane Katrina and the subsequent catastrophic flooding of the city believe the Bush administration's slow response to the disaster was racially motivated.

No mention of the mayor or the governor. We all know Bush commanded Katrina to trash New Orleans specifically to weaken those levees and trash the city.

"It's not President Bush's responsibility to make us get up and take care of ourselves. That was a political ploy in order to make blacks believe the Republican Party was against them and that they really don't care," Peterson said.

I like this guy. (Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson - BOND)

"When the government doesn't come and help them, frankly all they do is yap and complain," said Storm, instead of "saying 'Hey, I better go get a job, I better go on my own, I better go find an apartment, I better go take care of myself and my family.

Yep, that pretty much sums it up.

"Now what in the heck is she doing in the housing projects for 30 years? It's like they own them, but they don't own them," he said. "The government owns them, and that's the mentality." After 30 years, you'd think this woman would get a clue. Shoot, I've never lived in one place for more than 14 years, and that's a rare one. Peterson places most of the blame for the lackluster hurricane response on New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin.

"[H]e did nothing. He had the buses sitting there for days -- over 200 buses. He made no attempt to use those buses in order to get the people out. He is a black Democrat mayor of the city; how come they didn't blame him?" Peterson asked.

Ah, there is it, finally! Storm and Peterson believe the federal government is also to blame for enabling the cultural problems because it fears being branded racist unless it acts.

Yeah, that racist word gets bandied about quite a bit when certain people don't get what they want, or think they deserve.

Peterson said the black culture problem has also been fueled by "false black leaders." "Over the last 50 years, they have heard: 'You need government' from these false black leaders like Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, and the NAACP. They have told black people 'You need affirmative action, you need more welfare programs' and that's not what black folk need. They need less of that and more family," Peterson said. "They need to get married instead of having 70 percent of children out of wedlock. They need to teach their children to work by being an example of that," he added.

The NAACP and the National Urban League did not return calls seeking comment on this article

.I'm sure we'll be hearing from the NAACP and the National Urban League in the papers and on the idjit box, squawking it from the rooftops.....R A C I S T S!