Archive for April, 2007

New Orleans Went Under–A Black Man’s Comments

Monday, April 30th, 2007

Carefully read the whole article. You’ll be amazed at this guy!!!  He says things here that no white man could ever write and keep his job as a writer .

By Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson

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 ret urn 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, 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 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 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 for 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.” You are asked to keep this moving,,,,,,however, you now have the information so do with it as you will.

Good Riddance

Monday, April 23rd, 2007

One of our morning talk show hosts here in Tulsa abruptly quit last week.  He says he was doing God’s work, but we all know it was about the money.  He got a better job in Nashville.  He always portrayed himself as moral, and willing to fight the fight.  Apparently, after bad mouthing the city, the people, and the leaders for five years, they started bad-mouthing him, and it was too much for him to take.  I guess we are supposed to be able to ridicule others without being ridiculed ourselves.

Some moral Christian.  Blinded by greed and vanity, and unwilling to stand up for what’s right, no matter how hard the fight.  I pity poor Nashville.

I Am As Guilty As Alec

Monday, April 23rd, 2007

I, for one, am going to cut Alec Baldwin a bit of slack.  I am a guilty as he is.  Yes, I have lost my temper with my kids, ust like my parents did with me.  My kids don’t have cell phones, but my wife does, and believe you me, I have left plenty of rude messages on hers when she hasn’t answered the phone and I got stuck in voice mail.  I don’t know about you, but nothing infuriates me like calling someone who is supposed have her phone on and getting voice-mail, especially when it is important and/or when I had to drop what I was doing to make the call.  I think it was extremely tacky of Kim Basinger to make a recording of the voice mail and release a copy of that voice mail to the press.  Family members lose our tempers with each other because we care about each other, and when you care you are bound to get angry, but we trust our families not to show our bad sides to the world at large, and we will not show theirs.  Very poor taste, Kim, very poor taste.

Rosie The “Know Nothing”

Monday, April 23rd, 2007

For those dozen or so who actually know their U.S. History, you will recall that in the years leading up to the Civil War, there was a political party called the “Know Nothing” Party.  The Know-Nothings were anti-immigrant, anti-Catholic, just about anti-everything except for good, God-fearing white Protestant.  The “Know-Nothings” are alive and well, and in the form of Rosie O’Donnell.

 
In case you missed it, she went on an anti-Catholic diatribe on her show about the Catholic Church dictating law.  The Supreme Court last week upheld the ban on that gruesome procedure known as “Partial Birth Abortion” (or Partial Birth Murder, if you prefer), where they deliver all but the head of the baby and then puncture its head and suck its brains out.  It just so happens, that the Supreme Court upheld the ban on a 5-4 vote.  It also just so happens that five of the justices are Catholic.  Therefore, according to Rosie, the Catholic Church, through its Supreme Court justices, is mandating that women are no longer allowed to suck the brains of their babies out.

 
Of course, given the fact that Rosie’s lifestyle goes against the teachings of the Church….

 
Better watch out, people, because the Pope has a hot line to the houses of all the Catholics, including me, to give us orders on how to establish a Catholic theocracy here in the good old U.S. of A.  It is refreshing to know that at least one kind of bigotry, the anti-Catholic kind, is still politically acceptable.

Imus’s Comments About Culture, Not Race

Thursday, April 12th, 2007

Another thought-provoking post from Mr. Schrader at http://thefineprint.t2s2.org/Oklahoma/tfp041207.html

Happy Birthday

Thursday, April 12th, 2007

Happy Birthday, “Aaarrgh”.  You are now 41!  You made it through another year, although all of your hair hasn’t!

Seeing The Forest For The Trees

Wednesday, April 11th, 2007

The month of March, I think, was one of the worst months I have ever had, if it wasn’t the worst.  My whole world came crashing around me; everything I thought I had I thought I had lost.  It seemed to me that my reality of the past 18 years, who I have been for that time, would cease to exist forever.

For 18 years, I have been in a relationship, the only relationship that I ever want to be in.  Then, mistakes were made– big mistakes.  I felt like I had run out of options, that terminating that relationship was my only option.  Of course, the thought of terminating it was causing me great anxiety.  How do you give up the woman you love?  I spent the month feeling hurt and betrayed.  While her whole world started to collapse around her, she did not tell me how grievous things were.  I found out on my own, and only because I happened to be sick and got the mail.  Was she ever going to tell me?  Why was she keeping secrets from me?

Then, this past week, I had a revelation.  It came in the form of my credit report, actually.  You see, my credit scores are atrocious.  Of course, the reason why I filed for divorce in the first place is that I didn’t want her financial issues dragging me down.  Then I saw my credit report, and I realized that her financial woes can’t bring me down, because I am already there.  You see, what you do when you are younger haunts you forever.

My three attempts at launching a business are what have sunk me.  When you are in business for yourself, the income is not steady.  Sure, on paper you may have an income, but if your invoices go unpaid, you are pretty much bumming.  That is exactly what happened.  She would charge essential things, like groceries, in anticipation of our invoices being paid, and when the invoices weren’t paid, she couldn’t pay the charges.  Yes, I am being haunted by written off credit cards from five and ten years ago.

Staring at my credit report, first mad as heck about the fact that these ten year old charges are killing my ability to get credit now, I realized something– there was a time pattern to the bad things.  The bad things occurred during those times that my income and job security were unstable.  Which made me think….perhaps her latest financial crisis has its genesis in such a time.  Indeed, it does.  Apparantly, my wife gets really stressed when our financial and/or job security is unstable, and takes more financial risks than she normally would.

Thus, my conclusion — eliminate the instability, and you eliminate the financial risk-taking.  I can do that.  Yes, there are days that it gets hard to go to work, especially when my bosses get anal retentive about petty things and treat me like a four-year-old, but it is far better to put up with that nonsense than put my wife in a position where she will take unnecessary financial risks.  I value my relationship with her, and I love her too much.  Sure, she did do some really really dumb things the past six months, some things that are almost unbelievable.  However, I my accept my share of the blame, because when I let my pride put my job at risk, I triggered her behavior.

I am going to church regularly again, am rejoining the Knights of Columbus, and praying that God will give me the strength to overcome my weaknesses and will bless me with a blissful and happy marraige to my wife for the rest of my days.