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bobbieinok Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-03-05 11:40 PM
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angry/sick quotes from prominent blacks in paper in Scotland
http://www.sundayherald.com/51614

KANYE WEST, hip hop star: “I hate the way they portray us in the media. You see a black family, it says: ‘They’re looting.’ You see a white family, it says: ‘They’re looking for food.’ It’s been five days . With the way America is set up to help the poor – the black people – that’s as slow as possible. We realise a lot of people who could help are at war right now , and the government’s given the army who are here permission to go down and shoot us! George Bush doesn’t care about black people.”
Jesse Jackson, Congressman: ‘‘Today I saw 5000 African Americans on the I-10 causeway, desperate, perishing, dehydrated, babies dying. It looked like Africans in the hull of a slave ship. It was so ugly and so obvious. Have we missed this catastrophe because of indifference and ineptitude, or is it a combination of the both? We have great tolerance for black suffering and black marginalisation. And today those who are suffering the most, in fact, in New Orleans certainly are black people.”

Randall Robinson, civil rights leader: ‘‘New Orleans marks the end of the America I strove for. I am angry against my country for doing nothing when it mattered. This is what we have come to. This defining watershed moment in America’s racial history. I, the formerly unjaundiced human rights advocate, have finally come to see my country for what it really is: a monstrous fraud. But what can I do but write about how I feel? How millions, black like me, must feel at this, the lowest moment in my country’s story.”

Elijah Cummings, Maryland Democrat and former head of the Congressional Black Caucus: “We cannot allow it to be said by history that the difference between those who lived and those who died in this great storm and flood of 2005 was nothing more than poverty, age or skin colour. Many of these Americans who are struggling to survive are Americans of colour. Their cries for assistance confront America with a test of our moral compass as a nation. ”

04 September 2005
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JanusAscending Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-03-05 11:47 PM
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1. Excuse me?
If you were there in NOLA, and if your were BLACK, would you be angry???????????? Also, I don't get what you mean by "SICK"!!! They are not only "sick" they are DYING!!!!!!!!! For what reason did you choose to post this news thread? I really think you need to clarify yourself!:thumbsdown:
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goclark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-04-05 12:04 AM
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15. Excuse me too!

What makes me sick is that GWB has tried to bring his KKK ways to let my people die on national TV.


He is worse than the Head of the KKK, at least they wear a sheet so we know what they stand for ---
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Judi Lynn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-03-05 11:49 PM
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2. What leads you to believe these comments are SICK?
Please elucidate.
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hlthe2b Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-03-05 11:51 PM
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3. What the hell?
Are you revealing yourself and your true attitudes....? or what?
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MadeinOhio Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-03-05 11:52 PM
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4. Whats sick is the horrors they describe in our third world country...n/t
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Webster Green Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-03-05 11:52 PM
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5. Why are the comments sick?
That makes no sense...

Demand resignations! Now!
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fedupinBushcountry Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-03-05 11:54 PM
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6. The truth hurts
are you afraid of it ?
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elehhhhna Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-03-05 11:55 PM
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"America has great tolerance for the suffering of black people"
jesse j.
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Fridays Child Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-03-05 11:55 PM
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7. Sick? How so?
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SofaKingLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-03-05 11:56 PM
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8. They make me sick because they're true
Edited on Sat Sep-03-05 11:59 PM by SofaKingLiberal
Have you been watching the news or reading any papers this week?
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aresef Donating Member (270 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-04-05 12:03 AM
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14. My only gripe with those quotes...
...is that "black," etc should be crossed out. Hell, the word "poor" too. Their race or amount of money shouldn't matter. Our government should have been doing all they could to help them from the moment we knew it was headed that way. But they didn't. PEOPLE are suffering. Not just black people, not just poor people, but fellow human beings.
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JanusAscending Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-04-05 12:12 AM
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20. NO! NO! NO! NO!
How about just crossing out BLACK AND SICK !!! The article is self explanitory !! She could have left her personal OPINION OUT ALSO!!
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SofaKingLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-04-05 12:14 AM
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23. I agree, it shouldn't matter if they are black and poor,
Edited on Sun Sep-04-05 12:17 AM by SofaKingLiberal
but to this administration it apparently does.
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Pepper32 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-03-05 11:59 PM
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9. Hmm, the only "sick" part... is the heading of this thread. (nt)
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Judi Lynn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-03-05 11:59 PM
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10. Amen to that! n/t
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SofaKingLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-04-05 12:00 AM
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11. Are you going to defend this post?
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dave502d Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-04-05 12:01 AM
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12. What is sick,everything they said was true.n/t
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Bouncy Ball Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-04-05 12:01 AM
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13. Hey uh bobbieinok, you might want to get back to this thread
and explain your title.
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JanusAscending Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-04-05 12:05 AM
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16. The hell with her!
I've already alerted the moderator. Maybe we all should!! How many other Democrats on DU feel like she does I wonder????????
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Judi Lynn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-04-05 12:09 AM
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18. They usually aren't cagey enough to last too long, when they DO feel
Edited on Sun Sep-04-05 12:14 AM by Judi Lynn
that way. We do know there are numerous exeptions, however!



Sometimes justice takes time
when they create a convincing disguise.
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Solly Mack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-04-05 12:06 AM
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17. Since when is speaking the truth sick?
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senseandsensibility Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-04-05 12:11 AM
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19. If the OP had any justification for posting this
he or she would have done so by now. We need to alert on this.
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applegrove Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-04-05 12:12 AM
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21. I've been wondering why they held back so long. GOP expects
little sheep votes from AA (just like they get from little sheep whites) and whines because they have not gotten them. But every move they make diminishes the political power that AA do have. Be it ignoring the NAACP or the anger of the black caucus after the 2000 election - I would be seething at this point.
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nonconformist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-04-05 12:13 AM
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22. are they using "sick" as slang? like "badass"? nt
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Cats Against Frist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-04-05 12:14 AM
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24. Calm the fuck down, people
I'm going to go out on a limb and say that there's a misunderstanding here. I don't think anyone would post that these quotes are "sick," as in they aren't true, or shouldn't have been said. I think the poster was trying to say that the speakers were "sick," as in sickened or something. I could be wrong, but maybe give the benefit of the doubt, before we bust out the sharks with laser beams on their heads...
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Moderator DU Moderator Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-04-05 12:17 AM
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25. Locking
Thread has become a flamefest due to what is likely a misunderstanding.
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