Blacks bamboozled by Bush speech, Whites afraid of the Affirmative Action

[socalover]

intonations.....

That's my summary after watching the polls and reactions on the Tele...

[autorank]

1. Nah, nobody believes this guy...plus how many watched?

[chalky]

2. Black evacuees, maybe.

From the flurry of phone calls I've had with MY friends, those of us who were able to watch the whole nightmare unfold on TV weren't buying his joke of a speech one bit.

[socalover]

5. It was interviews of black evacuees I saw on TV who looked bamboozled...nt

I was shocked!!!

I thought my people had seen the light but maybe we are still high on the Condi Rice/Colin Powell house negro koolaid....

[chalky]

6. Yeah. I saw that interview, too. In fact, that's what prompted the

flurry of phone calls. Screaming phone calls, I might add.

[Erika]

7. "Your people" Who might they be?

[tamtam]

8. You better watch out

You said "your people" they will be alerting you as a racist freeper here soon.

I wouldn't worry about fellow blacks going gah gah over that speech. I think the Condi/Colin spell has broken for most of us. I know it never worked for me as I don't believe Condi is really black, I'm not too sure about Colin. :shrug:

I think most black people (who bothered to watch) will take this speech with a grain of salt. We all know he is a big liar besides the horror of Katrina is burned into most of our memories. I don't believe we heard the worst of the stories from New Orleans and when they start coming people will go from being shocked to pissed. I wouldn't worry about "our people" I don't think we are biting that bait. :toast:

[chalky]

14. My worry isn't those of us who've been out here all along watching

this obscene disaster unfold.
The ones I worry about are the evacuees who've been cut off from news. They're the ones who seem to have been taken
in by *s lies, and they're the ones who'll be hurt when he doesn't follow through.

[applegrove]

3. People on the ground needed to hear some of that stuff. So they

can have hope into the future. That is their job. To get back a sense of security for their families. And to begin to trust again.

For the rest of us - not on the ground - we need answers to why this happened.

[Bouncy Ball]

4. bamboozled?

REAL nice.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

9. Only you defeatist reaction with no evidence

Again. You also posted defeatist junk on the "Rove will beat the Democrats again" thread: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4788819#4789547

Post some evidence if you are going to try to depress us.

[FreedomAngel82]

10. Did they have screenings too for this speech?

[chalky]

15. Yep. See post #11 for links to OUR reactions to THEIR reactions.

n/t

[chalky]

11. Got a couple bits of that "evidence" you require:

ABC interview

NYT article

Will those work for you?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

12. Yes. Now we're talking

That would indicate that on the surface, the original poster has a point. By surface, I mean that some people's quick reaction to the speech will be positive when they are "put on the spot" and a reaction demanded.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

13. I must apologize. I misread the original post.

I apologize, I misread the original post to mean the poster's own reactions, when a re-reading makes it clear even to me now that the poster had been seeing reactions from others on TV.

So I apologize to socalover.

[ladylibertee]

16. Affirmative Action? NO..THIS IS 40 ACRES AND A MULE...IF YOU DON'T

UNDERSTAND,LOOK IT UP.

[chalky]

17. ANOTHER broken promise? *gasp* Say it ain't so!

That's so....pessimistic!

[ladylibertee]

18. HURRICAIN KATRINA IS THE COLLECTION AGENCY