Quotes from Black Leaders on Katrina

And they say Republicans use scare tacticts... pleez!!!!


I heard from a very reliable source who saw a 25 foot deep crater under the levee breach. It may have been blown up to destroy the black part of town and keep the white part dry."

--LOUIS FARRAKHAN


"I assume the president's going to say he got bad intelligence...I think that wherever you see poverty, whether it's in the white rural community or the black urban community, you see that the resources have been sucked up into the war and tax cuts for the rich."
--CHARLES RANGEL


It is reported that black hurricane victims in New Orleans have begun eating corpses to survive. Four days after the storm, thousands of blacks in New Orleans are dying like dogs. No-one has come to help them.”
--RANDALL ROBINSON

"I feel race was a factor. Why? I remember almost a year ago to the day I was in Florida when a hurricane was coming not a point four, not a point five, and I saw the white house move. I saw the government of the president's brother move. National guard was already alerted before the storm ever hit. It seems to me that if we can be alert in Palm Beach, Florida, we could have been alert in New Orleans."
--AL SHARPTON


Many black people feel that their race, their property conditions and their voting patterns have been a factor in the response."
--JESSE JACKSON

"We cannot allow it to be said that the difference between those who lived and those who died in this great storm and flood of 2005 was nothing more than poverty, age or skin color."
--ELIJAH CUMMINGS


"George Bush doesn't care about black people."
--KANYE WEST

Don't tell me 40,000 people are coming here. They're not here. It's too doggone late. Now get off your asses and do something, and let's fix the biggest goddamn crisis in the history of this country."

--RAY NAGIN