SWATJester_os
September 11th, 2005, 01:43 AM
I thought this was an interesting clip from an interview on Hannity and Colmes with Jesse Jackson.
COLMES: Was Howard Dean wrong when he said race is a factor, class is a factor, economics a factor? Did they all figure in here?
JACKSON: They raised class and poverty as a fact. Even on dry land, it may have been emphasized here, but I don't think that's the major theme. I think the real theme is that those persons called refugees in fact were citizens, and the citizens were not well served.
And we did not have the infrastructure to protect our people from what was a growing danger. Global warming is real. The levees could, at best, handle a size 3 hurricane. It was a size five. And so we did not have the capacity to protect American citizens because our priorities are different
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Jackson throughout the whole interview was totally denying any racial implications in the storm. Eh denying's actually not the word I'm looking for but through out the whole time every time anyone ever said "Blacks..." or "race..." he immediately jumped out with "this is a failure to serve CITIZENS" (emphasis added by me).
This is almost the total opposite of how he normally acts....thought it was very interesting. Don't really have a point here, just thought I'd bring it to y'alls attention to see if anyone else saw it the same way.
COLMES: Was Howard Dean wrong when he said race is a factor, class is a factor, economics a factor? Did they all figure in here?
JACKSON: They raised class and poverty as a fact. Even on dry land, it may have been emphasized here, but I don't think that's the major theme. I think the real theme is that those persons called refugees in fact were citizens, and the citizens were not well served.
And we did not have the infrastructure to protect our people from what was a growing danger. Global warming is real. The levees could, at best, handle a size 3 hurricane. It was a size five. And so we did not have the capacity to protect American citizens because our priorities are different
-----
Jackson throughout the whole interview was totally denying any racial implications in the storm. Eh denying's actually not the word I'm looking for but through out the whole time every time anyone ever said "Blacks..." or "race..." he immediately jumped out with "this is a failure to serve CITIZENS" (emphasis added by me).
This is almost the total opposite of how he normally acts....thought it was very interesting. Don't really have a point here, just thought I'd bring it to y'alls attention to see if anyone else saw it the same way.