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You can look a hurricane right in the eye. Twelve hundred people that are left to die. The poor and undefended left behind while your somewhere trading lives for oil, as if the whole world was blind. Come pull the sheet over my eyes so I can sleep tonight despite the things I've seen today.

Audioslave..Wide Awake

2007-06-07 04:19:57 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government Politics

13 answers

yes

2007-06-07 04:22:37 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2 4

Yes the wonderful group audioslave, I'm sure they've got the right answers for our future.
What are we supposed to do? So a hurricane wiped out the housing of people who were paying rent from welfare checks and living on government hand outs. Guess we're just supossed to give them another place to live and more of everyone elses money?
There are plenty of people who left New Orleans in plenty of time not to die. There are plenty who have made lives of their own elsewhere by the sweat of their brow. Why make those who still refuse to the media's poster children?
God forbid we expect a little common sense and resposibility.

2007-06-07 17:16:00 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Audioslave, Open your eyes and see the truth.

Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson is a Black Minister that tells it like it is.
________________________

By Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson
© 2005 WorldNetDaily.com
Say a hurricane is about to destroy the city you live in. Two questions:
What would you do?
What would you do if you were black?

Sadly, the two questions don't have the same answer.

To the first: Most of us would take our families out of that city quickly to
protect them from danger. Then, able-bodied men would return to help others
in need, as wives and others cared for children, elderly, infirm and the
like.

For better or worse, Hurricane Katrina has told us the answer to the second
question. If you're black and a hurricane is about to destroy your city,
then you'll probably wait for the government to save you.

This was not always the case. Prior to 40 years ago, such a pathetic
performance by the black community in a time of crisis would have been
inconceivable. The first response would have come from black men. They would
take care of their families, bring them to safety, and then help the rest of
the community. Then local government would come in.

No longer. When 75 percent of New Orleans residents had left the city, it
was primarily immoral, welfare-pampered blacks that stayed behind and waited for the government to bail them out. This, as we know, did not turn out good results.

Enter Jesse Jackson and Louis Farrakhan. Jackson and Farrakhan laid blame on "racist" President Bush. Farrakhan actually proposed the idea that the
government blew up a levee so as to kill blacks and save whites. The two
demanded massive governmental spending to rebuild New Orleans, above and
beyond the federal government's proposed $60 billion. Not only that, these
two were positioning themselves as the gatekeepers to supervise the
dispersion of funds. Perfect: Two of the most dishonest elite blacks in
America, "overseeing" billions of dollars. I wonder where that money will
end up.

Of course, if these two were really serious about laying blame on
government, they should blame the local one. Responsibility to perform –
legally and practically – fell first on the mayor of New Orleans. We are now
all familiar with Mayor Ray Nagin – the black Democrat who likes to yell at
President Bush for failing to do Nagin's job. The facts, unfortunately, do
not support Nagin's wailing. As the Washington Times puts it, "recent
reports show [Nagin] failed to follow through on his own city's
emergency-response plan, which acknowledged that thousands of the city's
poorest residents would have no way to evacuate the city."

One wonders how there was "no way" for these people to evacuate the city. We have photographic evidence telling us otherwise. You've probably seen it by now – the photo showing 2,000 parked school buses, unused and underwater. How much planning does it require to put people on a bus and leave town, Mayor Nagin?

Instead of doing the obvious, Mayor Nagin (with no positive contribution
from Democratic Gov. Kathleen Blanco, the other major leader vested with
responsibility to address the hurricane disaster) loaded remaining New
Orleans residents into the Superdome and the city's convention center. We
know how that plan turned out.

About five years ago, in a debate before the National Association of Black
Journalists, I stated that if whites were to just leave the United States
and let blacks run the country, they would turn America into a ghetto within
10 years. The audience, shall we say, disagreed with me strongly. Now I have
to disagree with me. I gave blacks too much credit. It took a mere three
days for blacks to turn the Superdome and the convention center into
ghettos, rampant with theft, rape and murder.

President Bush is not to blame for the rampant immorality of blacks. Had New Orleans' black community taken action, most would have been out of harm's way. But most were too lazy, immoral and trifling to do anything productive for themselves.

All Americans must tell blacks this truth. It was blacks' moral poverty –
not their material poverty – that cost them dearly in New Orleans.
Farrakhan, Jackson, and other race hustlers are to be repudiated – they will
only perpetuate this problem by stirring up hatred and applauding moral
corruption. New Orleans, to the extent it is to be rebuilt, should be remade into a dependency-free, morally strong city where corruption is opposed and success is applauded. Blacks are obligated to help themselves and not depend on the government to care for them. We are all obligated to tell them so.


The Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson is founder and president of BOND, the
Brotherhood Organization of A New Destiny, and author of "Scam: How the
Black Leadership Exploits Black America."

2007-06-07 11:48:27 · answer #3 · answered by REALLY Tired Of The BS 4 · 3 2

For a certain class of jejune, ignorant, disaffected people trying to act cool by being "rebellious," it might.

I recognize the phenomenon. I was once one of them. I'm glad I grew out of it!

2007-06-07 11:44:55 · answer #4 · answered by American citizen and taxpayer 7 · 1 1

I don't know how the president can sleep. He's cost so many American lives and continues to live as though he has no concern for what happens in his own country.
Please don't give up. The election is only about a year and a half away. Pray that someone worthy of leading this country will be elected. Good night.

2007-06-07 11:25:26 · answer #5 · answered by katydid 7 · 2 5

First they had plenty of time to leave before the hurricane. Isn't about someone takes responsibility for not leaving. DAH lets stand here and pick our nose while a hurricane comes through.

Second 4,417 military personal died under Clinton under peacetime.

http://www.timeimmortal.net/2007/02/21/more-soldiers-died-in-peacetime-under-bill-clinton/

2007-06-07 11:26:18 · answer #6 · answered by $1,539,684,631,121 Clinton Debt 6 · 5 4

No. It's drivel. Try this:
http://outoftune.jeremyborum.com/

2007-06-07 11:31:14 · answer #7 · answered by Matt 5 · 4 1

owned

2007-06-07 11:24:34 · answer #8 · answered by truthspeaker10 4 · 3 0

no,

but audioslave rocks

2007-06-07 11:23:57 · answer #9 · answered by James R 3 · 5 1

it sums up part of the last 6 years, but not all of it. COME ON its not ALL bad.......there has got to be ONE good thing bush has done...



....nope, nevermind i cant think of anything

good band though, not quite as good as rage aginst the machine, but close

2007-06-07 11:23:52 · answer #10 · answered by Kevy 7 · 3 5

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