The real reason the evac of NOLA didn't begin until Friday

[xray s]

The reason they didn't start busing people from the Superdome and Convention Center until Friday wasn't because they didn't have buses to do so, or because the roads were closed.

They didn't start evac until Friday because they didn't have the "camps" ready until Friday. There was no way they were going to evac all those "so poor, so black" people to just anywhere in Texas and Louisiana. Oh no.

If the crowd at the Superdome and Convention Center had been lily white, the buses would have rolled on Tuesday, at the latest. You can put those people anywhere in this country.

But the "so poor, so black" people of NOLA have always been eyed with contempt and hate through the rest of the region. Just ask any cop in Gretna, LA. "You're not going to turn our town into New Orleans"

"God just solved our problem in New Orleans" Yeah. That's the mindset. The prevalent mindset.

So, once the camps were ready, the security in place, the evac began. Ripping families apart. Too late for some, left to rot in the street.

Good job, Brownie. Good job Bush.

You made sure your base can sleep at night.

[Carla in Ca]

1. They will pay for this!

Remember the expression 'Come hell or high water'? Well, both have come and it is time for the repugs to go!

[lyonn]

2. I think this shows this country's dirty little secret

The South in particular has never gotten over the fact that blacks have rights. Will this open wound help this country do the right thing? For years it has disgusted me that inner city schools, which include white/color, are so poorly funded. The schools are usually large worn out structures and I figure the teachers are the least prepared. Why not spend some money fixing the eduction system and less on the prison system?

[Opusnone]

3. Question:

Why couldn't they stay in Louisiana? The entire state was not decimated, most damage was to the gulf coast. Look at a map. LA is a big place. Why weren't they allowed to stay close so when the reconstruciotn begins they might have as shot at a future?

[xray s]

5. Why not indeed

round 'em up, move 'em out. rawhide.

[applegrove]

4. They let it go - so that they could "bond" with their base. Racists &

white people afraid of black crime.

One of the many "pay-offs" for standing down.

[bklyncowgirl]

6. Let's say Mayor Nagin rode out with his caravan of poor people

Where would they go? Would local communities on higher ground been thrilled to have them? You can't take 30,000 or more people and park them on the highway.

It required state and Federal involvement to have a place where this many people could go and wait until the storm is over.

[xray s]

8. 300,000 white people made it out before the storm

But they didn't have the Gretna PD to shoot their way past on the I-10 bridge.

[kbm8795]

7. GREAT POST!!

I think you are exactly right about this ! ! !

[DoYouEverWonder]

9. You're getting warmer

The real reason why they waited until Friday was because Friday was the day Blanco took back control of her state from the Feds. If Blanco had let Bush blackmail her into signing over her power to the FEDS, most of those people dead and alive would still be in the Superdome and Convention Center. BushCo had no intention of every letting most of them out. They wanted to turn New Orleans into Fallujah and unleash hordes of scary looters across the country. We were inches from become a military dictatorship and we're still not out of the woods yet.

[meow2u3]

10. If I were evil, I'd hope a tornado would hit white supremacists' towns

and obliterate them! But I'm not evil, and I hope bigots open their eyes and see what their actions have done to their fellow human.