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Tuesday, 13 September 2005 |
Condoleeza Rice went shopping for shoes and took in a broadway show after her home state of Alabama was slammed with a severe hurricane and while many were left stranded and starving in New Orleans and surrounded cities and states. She now speaks out about the response to hurricane Katrina.
In her interview with Tavis Smiley, she continues the idea that we can't multi-task. I think it's wholly possible to hold people accountable and continue the rescue efforts in the Gulf states.
Overall, I give her credit for bringing to the executive branch the idea that race and poverty problems can be compounded by the way rebuilding is done. It needs to be fully considered. She also says, as many feel, that no American president wants to see Americans suffer. I believe this to be true. So the question is - what happened to this American president?
She also, perhaps accidentally, tells us what she should have been doing instead of shopping. Working with international aid efforts. May of those efforts languished for days and some were outright ignored.
In response to Kanye, she says it ludricrous to suspect race delayed the reaction. In her mind she suspects people thought they saw Black people and actively decided not to go in. But the more realistic scenario, is that the general apathy towards Blacks and the poor prevented them from being motivated to leave their vacations immediately. She also says that people who accuse him should have to defend it. For that, I guess, we can multi-task.
We have to be focused on a directed recovery that considers poverty and race. Otherwise, only those with the resources to leave in the first place will be a part of the recovery process. Because natural disasters and terrorism can strike at any moment, we also need to be focused on preparedness and what went wrong right now. If we are incapable of multi-tasking, that's just another problem we face.
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Wednesday, 20 July 2005 |
John G. Roberts, the new nominee to the Supreme Court, has a strong
history of actively challenging voting rights, desegregation efforts and
affirmative action. And he's been very successful doing so.
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Tuesday, 16 August 2005 |
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The nation's two largest minority groups are following strikingly
different paths: Hispanics are moving to areas with few from their
ethnic group; African-Americans are moving to suburbs in the South that
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