George Bush Hates Black People?!?

That was what one rapper said last night in a broadcast on the NBC family of networks to raise money for Hurricane victims. Kanye West appeared two-thirds through the program with Mike Meyers, he claimed "George Bush doesn't care about black people" and said America is set up "to help the poor, the black people, the less well-off as slow as possible." Mike Myers even looked flabbergasted. The outburst forced Matt Lauer's producer to create a closing script for Lauer that acknowledgedoutburstburst yet did not condemn it.

The facts are simple. The Mayor of New Orleans and the Governor of Louisiana are the culprits in the slow response. The President named Louisiana a Federal Disaster Area two days before the Hurricane hit opening the opportunity for the Mayor and Governor to ask for assistance. None was requested. The delay was so long - in fact - that the National Guard was not even requested until Wednesday a full two days after the hurricane. Why did the President wait - you ask. Well, we have something called the Constitution in the US and it is based on something called State's Rights. The Governor in each state controls its own National Guard and is responsible for requesting aid. The request came very, very late.

The people who hate the poor and minority constituency in this country are among the extreme Left who have used the poor and downtrodden as political pawns since the 1960's. Their policies created this entitlement society and you saw first hand on Fox News, CNN and others what happens to a group of people who are so used to the government doing everything for them - it is clear they have forgotten how to take care of themselves.

The Mayor of New Orleans knew almost 100,000 people in the central district of the city and in the 9th Ward had no cars. In that area, almost the same number are on complete social assistance - from rent to wage and welfare. This is the same area where the snipers and thugs are coming from. The same area created by entitlement programs that have turned active members of society, men who can survive, into children of the state. This is a group of people in the scenarios run by the government and signed off on by the Governor as expendable.


So is George Bush a racist? The simple and plain answer is no. His leadership team since he was Governor of Texas has had a greater percentage of Blacks and Hispanics than anyone in history. He has had two consecutive Secretaries of State who are African American. "They're not really Black" some critics say. Say what? What makes Condoleza Rice less Black than Jesse Jackson? Nothing. How about Colin PowIsl? is he any less black than Chris Rock? No. But that's not the case if you ask Rock.

This double standard is amazing. Everything is politicized. President Bush has stayed above the frey and is doing what has to be done in the Gulf Coast and in the Middle East for that matter. I am not a big Bush booster, but I am sick and tired of what I see as dirty tricks politics rather than substitive debate. The Left hate Bush so much they will blame anything and everything on him. Even and act of God.

In hurricane Katrina, the failure goes back to 1927 and in administration after administration. Despite every effort by CNN, ABC, CBS and NBC to get an "expert" to say that the levy problems and breeches were Bush's fault because he reallocated some funding to a study program in 2002 to support the War on Terror, no one says he's to blame. One the contrary, the former Director of the Army Corps of Engineers blames the GAO and Congress for the problems because the money was originally allocated in 1967 during the last weeks of the Johnson administration but has been re-allocated for nearly 40 years.

As for the tragedy, many experts cite lackadaisicalcical attitudes by everyone in Louisiana and decades of hoping for the best. Unfortunately in this case, that .5% of a chance happened. It didn't have anything to do with race, or socioeconomic factors, it had to do with hundreds of thousands of folks living below sea level on borrowed time. Their time ran out and now the government is blamed and left picking up the pieces. How the administration handles this will reflect how much change there will be in 15 months.