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desultude
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
Location: Dangling my toes in the Persian Gulf
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 Posted: Sat Sep 10, 2005 3:49 pm Post subject: |
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| endo wrote: |
In respects to the Bush administratons reaction to New Orleans; I feel that votes and economics played a greater role than race in regards to their $hitty response.
Just look at last hurricane season (election year  ) in Florida ( ) where FEMA and the Bush Adminstration were preparing and showing plenty of camera time before and after the hurricane.
FEMA and the Bush administration were given stellar marks by the media and public for their actons.
Bush (actually Rove) realized how important Florida was to his re-election.
I am sure race factors in to some of it, but I agree that the whole area, but especially New Orleans, was largely ignored because of voting demographics- which translates into class and race. Now if this were the more politically divided Latino constituency, things would have been different also.
The preperaton for Katrina simply was not on par with Florda. Now NO's mayor f*ked up and so did the Governor; however the Bush Administraton also failed to act with the same vigor as they did in Florida a year earlier.
Bush (well his polcy makers anyways) doesn't hate black people; but they certainly don't care much for the poor and people who's votes don't matter. |
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