"Many of these people were underprivileged anyway, so this is working quite well for them."
- First Lady Laura Bush, in reference to the thousands of homeless in New Orleans
Well! Okay, then! Maybe this is what George was thinking while he finished off his VACATION while THE LARGEST AMERICAN POPULATION MOVEMENT SINCE THE GREAT DEPRESSION was taking place as result of a natural disaster...
If my house is struck by a meteor tomorrow and consequently burns to the ground in flames, destroying my livelihood (and possibly my child), could someone please console our dear First Lady by telling her, It's okay! Single mom. Divorced. She was screwed anyway.
Posted by stephanie at September 6, 2005 10:21 PMI read that comment yesterday too. Nice one, Babs. I'm so ashamed that our our president- and our entire federal government for that matter- reacted (or didn't react) in the way that they did. Wasn't Bush on the ground in Florida the very next day when each hurricane hit there last summer? Oh wait, that was an election year. I get it.
Posted by: Tracey at September 7, 2005 10:38 AMWell, and, ya know, Florida's a bunch of old white people...
There were news reports of black people coming out of a flooded grocery store and describing them as "looting," but when white people were shown doing the same thing, they were "fortunate enough to find the grocer's abandoned."
A few days ago, the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel published an article regarding complaints from the public about the use of the word "refugee" in describing victims of the hurricane, and they suggested substituting the word "evacuees" henceforth in the media. Funny - I didn't realize "refugee" meant "black."
From the Oxford American Dictionary:
"refugee, n. a person who has left his home and seeks refuge elsewhere, as from war or persecution or some natural disaster."