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Blame Game
Last night we told you about an editorial in the New Orleans Times-Picayune blaming President Bush and the federal government for failing to adequately respond to the Katrina disaster. But earlier this summer, the paper reported that Mayor Nagin and other city officials were warning "the poorest of New Orleans' poor" that if a hurricane hits, "you're on your own."
City administrators distributed hundreds of DVDs in vulnerable, low-income neighborhoods, telling residents that while some city and school buses would be deployed to move those without transportation, "you're responsible for your safety." This despite the fact that New Orleans' emergency hurricane plan places the responsibility for evacuation on the mayor and city's transit authority.
Chilling Claim
Just days after Katrina left thousands stranded in New Orleans, black activist Randall Robinson claimed in an online column "It is reported that black hurricane victims in New Orleans have begun eating corpses to survive." Robinson has now retracted that assertion, saying the rumors he'd heard "turned out to be unsubstantiated."
However, Robinson says he stands behind everything else he wrote in that column, including this "I...have finally come to see my country for what it really is, a monstrous fraud."
Last night we told you about an editorial in the New Orleans Times-Picayune blaming President Bush and the federal government for failing to adequately respond to the Katrina disaster. But earlier this summer, the paper reported that Mayor Nagin and other city officials were warning "the poorest of New Orleans' poor" that if a hurricane hits, "you're on your own."
City administrators distributed hundreds of DVDs in vulnerable, low-income neighborhoods, telling residents that while some city and school buses would be deployed to move those without transportation, "you're responsible for your safety." This despite the fact that New Orleans' emergency hurricane plan places the responsibility for evacuation on the mayor and city's transit authority.
Chilling Claim
Just days after Katrina left thousands stranded in New Orleans, black activist Randall Robinson claimed in an online column "It is reported that black hurricane victims in New Orleans have begun eating corpses to survive." Robinson has now retracted that assertion, saying the rumors he'd heard "turned out to be unsubstantiated."
However, Robinson says he stands behind everything else he wrote in that column, including this "I...have finally come to see my country for what it really is, a monstrous fraud."
posted by Andy W. Rogers | 8:16 AM
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