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Tuesday, July 10, 2007

"Lynching"

(Fox News) - NAACP National Board Chairman Julian Bond says the possibility that New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward will never be rebuilt after Hurricane Katrina is comparable to a "lynching."

Bond told the group's annual convention that President Bush has done little to help African Americans and said — "It can be said that Katrina, like lynching, not only destroyed the work of generations in a single day, but is resulting in a deliberate effort to dispossess black landholders."

Bond said Katrina showed that the president's prosecution of the Iraq war has weakened not only the country's defenses, but the levees around New Orleans.

2 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

What a freakin' moron.

Why yes, Julian, not spending taxpayers' money to rebuild a slum is exactly the same thing as a bunch of white guys throwing a rope around the neck of a black man, hauling him up, and watching him strangle.

There should be a price for this kind of stupidity.

Tuesday, July 10, 2007 9:27:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

He's just upset because he maxed out his FEMA card.

Thursday, July 12, 2007 12:53:00 PM  

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