Media and Government officials continue to dance around the real reason it took so long for someone to get the stranded people out of New Orleans, using excuses such as extended press conferences and briefings to the actual hurricane conditions whereby they were unable to deploy rescue forces and other evacuation operations. Yet when viewed from a pragmatic perspective instead of an administrative, human error one, the reason is clear.

It started within the first three days the people were left inside the city. After that period of time, the people began losing hope, getting desperate, and angry. This is expected from a mass group of people in a desperate situation. Anyone with any sense of human nature should understand this, if not, they have lost complete touch with humanity and reality.

After those three days, the media began reporting the conditions in extremely exaggerated terms. If there was one rape they reported it as "rapes and rapings." If there was one beating or fight, they reported it as "many." If there was a shooting, they reported it as "shootings." The reporting, after three days, had come to the point where they describe the situation as another Iraq. This caused any rescue efforts to be halted because of fear. It also created a horrible picture of Black Americans throughout the world.

Now comes the race part. As long as the media could portray Blacks as animalistic in a desperate situation, they knew society and the rest of the world would absorb this and agree that it would be too dangerous to go in, and that the situation needed troops. Thus, the media continued to show images of looters and continued to repeat the words, "Chaos, Turmoil, Dangerous, Looters, Thieves, Armed Gangs," and such other terms creating the image of a warring atmosphere.

Many conservative whites on radio talk shows and cable news stations began indirecting blaming Blacks for their behavior as to why the rescue had not taken place right away. Many average citizens began agreeing and thereafter looking at Black America and their Black coworkers with a jaundice eye. This is how racism continues to be in America, by negative media imagery of Blacks.

They talked of the filth of the water (which was expected in such a disaster) and showed Black people wading through this water, which in turn implanted more negative, filthy images of Blacks into the minds of whites and the world. They talked of dead bodies as if the dead were killed by Black men with guns. All this led to people reluctant to help or support rescue efforts.

However, their plan backfired big time because it was no longer a race problem but a humanitarian problem and the rest of the world started questioning the morality of America. Afterward, they sent in troops right away as "Saviors" and the rescue took no more than 1 day. Then they thought everything would be alright. But they were and are sorely mistaken. This will haunt them the rest of America's existence.

Now, the blame is toward the President and leaders of FEMA. The truth is, the governor of Louisiana had national guards at her disposal that could have went in the day after. But as stated earlier, the media created a dismal picture of New Orleans as chaotic overran by a gang of Black men with guns, which brought white folks worst fear to surface.

As they continue to portray Blacks in a negative light, regardless of the situation hereafter, their racist innuendos will continue to be exposed and it will continue to backfire until they realize the truth, which is, the media intensionally portrays Blacks in a negative light and this leads to mistreatment and neglect of Blacks in many institutions of American society, schools, banking, judicial and many more.

White America (or better describe as elitist white in the media and government power) want so badly to find reasons to shoot Blacks, jail them without justice, or simply exclude them from life altogether. They want the world to believe that Blacks are to blame for their own problems and not the political governmental neglect and biasness toward Blacks in a race/class country.

They are seeking, constantly, of ways to make Blacks believe that equal opportunity exist and racism is no longer in America, but Katrina exposed that lie to the world and now they have to reevaluate their entire racist doctrine. 50 years of post Jim Crow racism has been dismantled and now they have to come up with another one. So Black people, realize that we have entered a new era of American racism. Though it will continue indefinitely, at least we know it exist and in what ways it exist, negative media portrayal Black America.

From this point, the media will find a way to blame Blacks for the reason it took so long for the rescue, for the reason the levees broke, for the reason a helicopter crashed, for the reason people died and even for the reason the hurricane struck in the first place.

After extensive conferences, assessments, psychological analysis and experts on every subject under the sun, they will narrow it down to the actions of Blacks, or some one Black, as the reason so many died and so many suffered. This is what they do best, polish themselves as innocent while indicting others are guilty.

Bless All The Victims of Katrina! Curse All Liars and Racist!

© September 2005 By CR Hamilton