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To: michael97123 who wrote (455263)	2/9/2009 1:20:13 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1586491

Michael, > was the last straw for me but inode is part right Actually I went back to what CJ posted and figured out why Inode responded the way he did. Personally I think both are part right and part wrong. Hence I'll let them duke it out. Tenchusatsu

To: michael97123 who wrote (455263)	2/9/2009 1:38:54 PM
From: i-node	Respond to of 1586491

Appearance is everything and bush/brownie remark was sheer idiocy but his remark at his farewell really said it all about how he should have landed Airforce 1 in Baton Rouge as if that was what the criticism was all about.... When I heard the remark I cringed; yet, that was one of the things Bush was most heavily criticized about, and it was utterly absurd. The airport was a staging area for everything that was going on and it would have been insane for Bush to have landed there. sickest was the stark poverty espcially among black folks in new orleans that i always ignored when in N.O. drinking those great drinks There were many poor blacks in NOLA. But there were also many wealthy and middle-class blacks. The wealthy blacks packed into their RVs and left NOLA just like the wealthy whites did. The truth is that there were a lot of blacks of all demographics in NOLA. It was never about race. Never, ever. There were whites, Hispanics, you-name-it in the crowds at Superdome & the Convention Center. But NOLA has a lot of blacks, and the result is that everyone perceives it as somehow racially motivated that they didn't get help. But the 9th Ward, which was the heart of the flooded area, was predominantly (not exclusively) poor blacks. If East St. Louis or Harlem flooded the way the 9th Ward did, you'd see pretty much the same things. The principal difference is that in those areas it is likely help could get in. In NOLA, there is very limited access from outside the metro area anyway, and most of those routes were down. The Causeway was closed from the North. I10 was broken to the West. I10 to the East was not out of the water into downtown (although it was clear from the airport on). There were literally no access routes capable of handling a significant volume of traffic into downtown (if you set your GPS to "shortest route", it is true you could get through to downtown, but it was extremely circuitous and not a very likely route for a heavy influx of emergency services). It just isn't as simple or cut-and-dried as the FEMA-blamers want to make it.