Fanning White Folks

MoveAmericaForward , one supremacist voice of conservative (white) America has an ad telling like minded folks how they can fight the "anti-war extremists" (like Cindy Sheehan) who are now "exploiting" Katrina.

Sheehan : " The horrific events that have unfolded in New Orleans and other parts of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama, in the wake of the deadly hurricane Katrina are stark reminders of just how lop-sided our nation's priorities are. Resources that could have been used to save lives are instead tied up in a war that continues to kill Iraqis and U.S. servicepeople. Our nation is at a crossroads: will we continue to squander resources and take lives in a war that never should have happened, or will we commit ourselves to the re-building of the Gulf Coast and the lives torn asunder by Katrina?"

WaPo headlines read : Storm's Devastation Fans Antiwar Flame . Seems to be a lot of shit hitting the fans these days.

Reality is both sides are detracting from what went on in New Orleans. We have the "resources" to handle both war and hurricane. But ain't it convenient that both factions ignore racism and poverty. Although the anti-war crowd does like to compare themselves to Black figures, i.e. Rosa Parks, Emmet Till's momma, and even comparing Casey Sheehan's death with Martin Luther King's. Someone please tell the "left" to stop standing on the backs of long-suffering down-trodden and murdered Black images.

A recent poll showed that the majority of Black America viewed the government response to drowning Blacks in New Orleans as racism. While the same poll showed the majority of whites did not, preferring instead to blame it on "squandered resources" and an incompetent administration. This country has always squandered money and blood on foreign adventures, nothing new here folks.

But this is the usual preference : to pretend America's problems revolve around a particular figurehead president. A preference to play musical president chairs rather than change the fakery of an Anglo social structure and a political system of death and destruction that has worked well for America, particularly white America. I don't think you'll be seeing a lot of Blacks in those mostly white marches and rallies or pointing a finger at just one side exploiting. Been there, done that, didn't change much.