AFROMERICA - Think not that racism is dead in America or that everything racial is harmonious. Think not that Blacks in America are free from racial oppression by the majority white society or that opportunities afforded to all are equally distributed. Simply know and understand that we live in a blatant racist society not unlike that of the early 1600s in terms of indifference toward Black life.

The events of Hurricane Katrina were an American nightmare that revealed racism with a distinguished, more civilized touch; a modern day display of bigotry and deep-seated hypocrisy on the part of whites and especially most whites in the news media.

Humiliation of Black America was the aim for news stations around the country. The entire undertone of media coverage of New Orleans was laced with subtle and nasty shots at Blacks, padded with overblown and extreme exaggerations of what was happening in the city. More accurate would be to straight out call what the news media reported as bald-face, racist lies.

What is truly sad is that the racists' in the media believe that people around the country and world were accepting what they were saying as true and that they were absorbing the negative images of Blacks they were displaying. In hopes to degrade Blacks and portray them as criminal animals, the media had a field day exploiting the Black victims of Katrina.

However, anyone in the world - if they had a brain of their own - could see that the media were revealing what racists' they truly were. Nevertheless, the reporters and anchors unfortunately do not have the intellectual ability to understand what they were doing was making complete ass-holes of themselves.

The reports streaming in from New Orleans during the week-long travesty were over exaggerated, full of lies, and racism. The media has yet to admit to all the lies, hypocrisy and inaccuracies they reported, but who could actually expect them to through all the arrogance and supremacist mentalities that control American media. However, what truly happened people have to read else where or hear from the victims themselves.

We have footage from media reports during that week along with documented evidence that proves beyond a doubt that the news media's only intensions during Katrina was to humiliate and undermine Blacks in America, by leaving the victims there as long as they felt was appropriate and until they were exhausted from telling lies and degrading helpless people.

According to LexisNexis, there were more than 2,000 newspaper and wire stories on Hurricane Katrina, along with blanket coverage on cable news. The media seemed to cover every angle, particularly the Bush administration's missteps in response to the disaster. But there was one thing missing from the coverage of this natural, social, economic and political disaster: the Fact that Katrina represented an unmitigated media disaster as well. Few of us can forget the reports from two years ago.

• CNN warned that there were "bands of rapists, going block to block." Snipers were reportedly shooting at medical personnel. Bodies at the Superdome, we were told, were stacked like cordwood.
• The Washington Post proclaimed in a banner headline that New Orleans was a "A City of Despair and Lawlessness," insisting in an editorial that "looters and carjackers, some of them armed, have run rampant."
• Fox News anchor John Gibson said there were "all kinds of reports of looting, fires and violence. Thugs shooting at rescue crews."
• Meanwhile, the distortions, exaggerations and flat-out fictions being offered by New Orleans officials were accelerated and amplified by the media echo chamber.
• Glib predictions of 10,000 dead, and the chief of police's insistence that there were "little babies getting raped," swirled around the media like so much free-flowing sewage.
• Reports of the Superdome being a slaughterhouse were repeated, even though dozens of news organizations had access to the building.
• CBS alone had 200 people in New Orleans, and yet it couldn't find those bodies stacked to the ceiling or a single rape victim from the roving bands of "Mad Max"-style marauders. That's because nobody was raped or murdered in the Superdome.

Source from: http://www.latimes.com/news/ columnists/la-oe-goldberg4sep04,1,2455021.column?coll=la-news-columns&ctrack=1&cset=true

Over time, the stories reported were found to be completely untrue, nevertheless, not once has the media come forth to clear itself. This is because it wants to leave the negative images and lies out in public to further instigate any racism in the hearts of white America. It does not want to admit to the racism of itself when it can just as easily portray Blacks of being pathetic. This action in itself is racist, irresponsible, self-centered and hypocritical.

Below is a clip from Fox News reminiscent of what happened in New Orleans:

Katrina: outbursts on Fox News

Gretna Racism
When the reporter mentioned how Gretna had blocked the bridge so no one could pass over, it exposed a whole other level of racism in America. Supposedly, the people of Gretna were fearful of allowing Blacks from New Orleans across the bridge and into their town because of the stories (or lies) they had heard about New Orleans from the media.

The impact the lies and exaggerations had on the country simply ignited the racism in the hearts of those who proclaim "I am not a racist," and told the story of America's hypocrisy and hatred toward Blacks. Maybe without the lies, compassion for fellow human beings would have surfaced, but because of the lies, fear gripped whites and they turned into complete racist cowards.

This town should be reminded of its racist acts towards the victims and people in need every year for the next 100 years. If you would like to contact any officials in Gretna LA, the contact information is below:

Contact Us
Mayor: Ronnie Harris
Physical Address
2nd Street @ Huey P. Long
Mailing Address:
P.O. Box 404
Gretna, LA 70054-0404
Telephone Number: (504) 363-1505
Fax Number: (504) 363-1509
Office Hours: Monday - Friday 8:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.

Scant News on Katrina Family Recovery
The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) for its work in locating and resolving the 5,192 children cases of displaced children as a result of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. In the months following Katrina, the non-profit NCMEC received reports of 4,710 children missing or displaced from Louisiana, 339 from Mississippi, and 39 from Alabama. After Rita, another 28 children were reported missing or displaced from Louisiana; 76 were reported missing from Texas.

The most serious cases were those children arriving at shelters without adult supervision. A total of 45 unaccompanied children were "found" and reported to NCMEC; by October 7, 2005, all 45 cases were resolved.

In addition to reports of missing/displaced children, approximately 12,342 missing adults were reported to NCMEC's Katrina/Rita Missing Persons Hotline and referred to the National Center for Missing Adults (NCMA).

There has been little news coverage of reuniting Katrina families, where the children are, or if there are still any efforts going on to reunite families of Katrina. Most websites that began after Katrina to search for the missing have been shut down or discontinued. When Katrina anniversaries arrive yearly, there is little talk of how many children have been found and reunited with their families.

In addition to little coverage of the families, there remains no official death toll for Katrina, nor has there been mention of whether or not any remains are still being found. The only coverage about Katrina today is how much money has been spent, how much was wasted, and how insurance companies are faring after the disaster. And most of the slant is toward favoring the insurance companies with much negative mention of Blacks who supposedly robbed the system by fraud. Thus the racism continues in various forms.

Sure, there are efforts to rebuild New Orleans but the outcome does not look promising, especially for Blacks. Though most victims of Katrina have reestablished their lives elsewhere and would rather not return, those who have continue to catch the brunt of humiliation from negative news coverage of Black life in New Orleans. The racism of this event continues to be phenomenal and should convince all Blacks in America of what we are up against.

If there is one Black person who does not see the continued practice of American racism in this story they are truly beyond brainwashed and should be stoned for having no mind of their own. Below is another montage of Katrina related news that surfaced after the storm.

Katrina: A Media Montage

Further revelations of Katrina racism shows that the storm itself was not the true cause of the New Orleans catastrophe, but broken levies were. The government neglect and irresponsibility of those levies have been underreported, nothing has been done, and again, instead of whites taking responsibility and owning up to their mistakes, they find ways to redirect the topics away from government failure and once again lay it on Blacks.

The energy it has taken whites to keep the topic of this story on Blacks and their shortcomings must be exhausting. But we now see that that will not stop the drive of hatred and racism toward Blacks in this country from revealing how whites truly feel. The lies have not stopped and they are continually fanned by racist and misguided people in the media and in the America population.

Katrina Truths

Myth: Katrina was a devastating, once-in-a-lifetime storm, the likes of which had never been seen before.

Fact: Nothing about Hurricane Katrina in and of itself was atypical, except for the 30-mile hurricane radius. By the time the storm made landfall in Louisiana, it was a mid-level Category 3 hurricane that already had touched down in Florida three days before. The National Hurricane Center in Miami has reported that due mainly to rising sea-surface temperatures in the Atlantic Ocean, the cycle of rapidly forming hurricanes could last for up to 40 years, making storms like Katrina all the more common. Thus, it's highly unlikely that Katrina is "the big one" that has been predicted since Hurricane Betsy in 1965.

Myth: Most New Orleanians ignored the evacuation orders, choosing to stay behind and take their chances with the storm.

Fact: Despite FEMA promising transportation assistance 48 hours before any recognized hurricane and lacking the emergency assistance registry implemented in Florida, 90 percent of southeast Louisiana residents were successfully evacuated from the Greater New Orleans area in less than 24 hours, even after being left up to their own devices. The remaining 10 percent - mostly poor and elderly - were ushered into to the Louisiana Superdome, a structure that had seen refugees from Hurricane Ivan in 2004 and Georges in 1998. The pre-Katrina evacuation is one of the most successful evacuations of a major city in American history, with everything more or less going down according to plan.

Myth: Nagin left more than 2,000 buses to waste during the hurricane, instead of driving people to safety.

Fact: According to the New Orleans Times-Picayune (Sept. 5, 2005), Orleans Parish school district owned a mere 324 buses; 70 of them didn't run. Additionally, Nagin's jurisdiction was only in the city of New Orleans; had he boarded citizens onto the buses and found enough people capable of operating them, there was no guarantee that they would have been allowed to stay wherever they stopped. Scores of citizens, tired of waiting for government intervention, set off on foot over the Crescent City Connection bridge, only to be turned back by gunpoint by the City of Gretna Police.

Myth: Shortly after the hurricane, New Orleans fell into anarchy, with the Superdome becoming a haven for rape and murder. Babies with slit throats, rapes in the Superdome, citizens turning to cannibalism, unidentified bodies piled up in freezers.

Fact: The reports coming from all over the devastated area, including from Mayor Nagin and Police Chief Eddie Compass, sounded too horrific to be true - and they were.

The Louisiana National Guard reported six deaths in the Superdome: one suicide, one drug overdose and four natural deaths - or as natural a death as staying in a football stadium for nearly a week with no food or water can cause. The Guard also confirmed that there was no shooting at planes, no drug addicts robbing hospitals, and only one police officer shot (with his own gun) during a struggle.

When 42,000 New Orleanians were evacuated from the Superdome and the Morial Convention Center on Sept. 3, Lt. Gen. H. Steven Blum of the National Guard Bureau, reported that "there was absolutely no opposition." Sgt. 1st Class Jason Lachney, who helped out with Superdome security, said of the anarchy stories: "I think 99 percent of it is bullshit."

Myth: Many Hurricane Katrina victims squandered the money given to them for relocation, resulting in billions of wasted dollars.

Fact: It's true that billions of dollars were wasted in less than four months, but the cause had little to do with the emergency assistance funds given to Katrina evacuees. Once again, FEMA would bring the word "wasteful" to a whole new level: more than 10,000 trailers left to sink in mud; roof tarps that run less than $100 in hardware stores being [being purchased for] listed as $2,500 apiece; evacuees being placed in $400-per-night hotels; and so on.

Even the exaggerated cases of debit card/emergency relief check fraud were due largely to government error. Nearly half of the 11,000 debit cards (which were only issued for three days before the program was halted) were sent to people who'd already received their funds via electronic balance. The Houston Police Department Fraud Task Force confirmed that the majority of the money was spent properly and, compared to 23 families in Hancock County, Miss., living on a cruise ship that cost the government $1,000 per day, debit cards used to buy rims and jewelry were hardly making a dent in the category of wasted funds.

Source from: http://www.bet.com/News/

Lessons from Katrina
What Black America need to realize is that racism lives as strong as ever in America. We are fighting against a people (whites) who would like to believe the worst about Blacks. Every chance they get to humiliate Blacks they take it by whatever means necessary even if it means using public television to do so or undermining their own intelligence.

Black Americans, no Americans, can depend on the government for anything and Blacks should not support political officials who do nothing more than make empty promises from behind Black church pulpits. We should not believe in nor follow any Black man who wants us to pledge ourselves to the American political system and we should be skeptical of any who do.

So-called Black leaders who would like us to vote and participate in a system operated by closet racist are deceivers themselves and should never be trusted. What Black America should do, and should have done immediately following Katrina, is to construction an organization that would be there for the next time racial discord arises.

No Black leaders are taking that responsibility simply because they are nothing more than media whores who kiss the assess of the news media itself. They do not want to disturb their media invitations with a chance to appear nationally to speak for Black America so they will never dedicate themselves wholly to the cause of Blacks and what we need most.

Black America must see Katrina for what it really was: an effort at further destroying the image, esteem, and confidence of Blacks. It was a racist course used to humiliate Blacks and to implant more racial animosity against Blacks in America from all other true racists in this God-forsaken country. The judgment against America's racism is coming real soon. Be prepared to see a great fall and an exposure of white racism beyond the Revelations of Katrina.

© Sep. 2007 By CR Hamilton