Waking up in the Big Easy

Interesting news coming out of New Orleans. This from the Washington Times. Unfortunately, they charge $3 for viewing an article that is more than a few days old so a fair-use excerpt of it is below:

Blacks fault lack of local leadership
By Brian DeBose
September 10, 2005

Some in the black community are beginning to question what happened to the black leadership during the Hurricane Katrina disaster, especially in the city of New Orleans.

While a few black leaders, including the Rev. Jesse Jackson, the Rev. Al Sharpton and the Congressional Black Caucus, have singled out the president for blame, others say Mayor C. Ray Nagin, who is black, is responsible for the dismal response to the flooding that stranded thousands in the city's poorest sections.

"Mayor Nagin has blamed everyone else except himself," said the Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson, founder and president of the Brotherhood Organization of a New Destiny.

"The mayor failed in his duty to evacuate and protect the people of New Orleans. ... The truth is, black people died not because of President Bush or racism, they died because of their unhealthy dependence on the government and the incompetence of Mayor Ray Nagin and Governor Kathleen Blanco," he said.

Published on September 10, 2005, The Washington (DC) Times Blacks fault lack of local leadership That smirking ChimpyMcBushHalliburtonHitler is the cause of our ineffectiveness. -- BZZT -- NOT!