I think Bush's delayed reaction was a combination of just plain ol' incompetence, and not just on his part either...FEMA, anybody (although Bush did appoint the asshole in charge, I believe), plus red tape...it's the inactions of the mayor and the governor that also need to be called into scrutiny just as much as Bush. But attributing a racial motive to it was just plain wrong. Bush has already got Powell and Rice, plus a Hispanic Attorney General in the form of 2257-pushing pinhead Albert Gonzales, and I also saw some Asian lady who was evidently very high up in the Dept. of employment (can't remember her full title) on the news. He'll never make Grand Wizard at this rate...
But 'President Bush doesn't care about black people' is a nice easily digestable soundbite for people that don't think too much. I'd love to see an MTV special where Kanye West gets to have a sit-down Q+A session with an audience of non-black Katrina victims. Who knows, maybe if he'd have stuck it out at college a little longer before he dropped out, he might have been a little smarter by now, but obviously not...I guess Chuck D. was right.
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