George Bush Doesn't Hate Black People.

There are going to be two points to this post. The first, is my viewpoint of the above title. Second are my thoughts on Char's recent posting regarding a specific group of ignorant people. Here we go.

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First...Rev. Sharpton, Rev. Jackson, Kanye Fucking West... Grow the hell up. If you're ignorant enough to think that the Federal government's response to Katrina was anything other than plain-jane, run-of-the-mill, self-centered incompetence, you're fools. Dubya doesn't hate niggers ANY MORE than he hates fags, kikes, retards, muslims, communists, or DEMOCRATS.

Get off your damned ebony high-horse and realize that the president doesn't own any slaves, doesn't have a colored-only sign above Condoleeza's water fountain, and didn't respond late to the hurricane because the people in NOLA are "so poor, and so black".

The government didn't respond quickly because their top priority was finishing out vacations and bridges in Alaska. They didn't respond quickly because of retarded beaurocracy and cluster-fuck communications. They didn't respond quickly because of pure blatent incompetance.

But race didn't have anything to do with their response.

The reason that most victims of the storm are poor black people is because NOLA is a poor black city. It was a poor black city full of poor black victims prior to Katrina, and its a poor black city, full of poor black dead victims now. That's not because GWB hated black people so much that he didn't act quickly enough. The same thing would have happened if the city was heavily populated by poor Jews, poor chinks, or even poor white-as-salt cracker-ass Dixie-whistlin' good ole boys.

Unthinkably stupid? Yes.

Unforgivingly late? Yes.

Racially motivated? Hell no.

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Now, for the second point.

In the four years that I've called Memphis, TN my home, I've made an observation. While there are alot of extraordinarily intelligent and responsible African Americans in this city, there is also a sizable contingent who thinks that I personally shot Martin Luther King, Jr. and would haul their barefoot and whipped black asses back to the cotton fields if I had the chance.

These left-overs from the civil rights era truly believe that the white man is keeping the brother down. Nevermind the fact that the ignorant fools who tend to think this way are also often times the same ignorant fools who don't do their damned jobs, educate themselves, or otherwise seek to improve their situation any way other than by filing EEOC complaints against their white supervisors for reprimanding them when they've been late for the 11th consecutive work day because "they baby-mamma-drama is outta control".

Interestingly, I had never heard of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) until I moved here. Black people in Washington either do their jobs or don't. But generally speaking, they don't file federal complaints when they get fired for fucking up on the job. In Memphis, if a manager looks at an African American employee wrong. One white person gets a job that they were the most qualified candidate for, and a complaint forces HR to go on a McCarthyistic witch hunt to find all the nigger-haters in the company. Retarded.

This isn't to say that there are no racist white managers in the world who are discriminating against minorities. I'm queer. I've very aware that people are treated unfairly or judged prematurely on a regular basis. But I can't blame every reprocussion for improper actions I've taken on something as foolish and elementary as "the Man". That gives others far too much power.

You don't like your situation? Change it.