Posté le: Mer 31 Aoû 2005 23:01 Sujet du message: USA, cyclone katrina: notre peuple 1 fois de plus touché...
Avez vous les infos sur CNN, I-Télé, LCI et même les 20 heures???
Ceux qui ont des contacts directs pourraient ils nous en dire plus?
Les victimes du cyclone Katrina serait des centaines de morts dans le sud des Etats-Unis et d'après ce que j'ai vu, de nombreux noirs, souvent pauvres, sont meurtris et touchés...Les survivants ont quasiment tout perdu : les flics laissent meme les pillages se faire sinon c'est l"émeute...
2005 est vraiment une année maudite mais on se relevera , encore et encore. On a trop vécu et enduré pour renoncer et disparaitre....
"Il faudra probablement de 12 à 16 semaines pour que les habitants de La Nouvelle-Orléans puissent regagner leurs logements dans les zones inondées", a déclaré mercredi son maire, Ray Nagin, sur la chaîne de télévision ABC. Des cadavres flottent dans les rues de la ville et risquent de poser rapidement "de graves problèmes de santé publique", a-t-il précisé.
ceux qui ont vécu là bas savent que question assurances et indemnités, c'est pas vraiment ça...ça va encore enfoncer pas mal des notres dans la misère ...avec l'armée comme seule alternative...
Vivement que la spirale infernale s'arrete: raison de plus pour ne plus perdre de temps...quel que soit l'endroit où l'on vit. C'est une question de survie. _________________ Tout ce qui ne nous tue pas nous rends plus forts...on a tout vécu et on est encore là...avant, maintenant et jusqu'à la fin des temps!
Je suis sûr que la plupart des morts sont des noirs,effectivement,car c'est dans le sud qu'il y a le plus de noirs aux USA. _________________ "tout nèg a nèg
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ki nèg klè ki nèg nwè
tout nèg a nèg
nèg klè pè nèg nwè
nèg nwè pa lè wè nèg klè
nèg nwè ké wéy klè
senti i sa roune nèg klè
mè nèg klè ké wéy klè a toujou nèg
sa ki fèt pou nèg vin' blang?
blang té gen chivé pli long?
pou senblé yé nou trapé chivé plat kon fil mang!!!
mandé to fanm...!
mè pou kisa blang lé vin' nwè?
ha... savé ki avan vin' blan yé té ja nèg!
a nou mèm ké nou mèm dépi nânni nânnan...
chinwa soti, kouli soti, indyen soti, blang soti
mèm koté nèg soti
Posté le: Mer 31 Aoû 2005 23:50 Sujet du message: Les pillards de La Nouvelle-Orléans
Ce que je retiens des images que j'ai vue sur TF1, F2 et F3, ce sont les pillards noirs se servant dans les magasins. On nous a ensuite montré des reportages présentant des pillards noirs menacés parfois par des policiers noirs qui leur demandaient d'abandonner leur butin. Puis, à la fin du reportage, on nous expliquait que la confusion régnant, il semblerait que la police ait autorisé les sinistrés à prendre des produits de première nécessité ; on voyait alors des policiers, tous noirs, remplissant des Caddies. Et tout cela en opposition avec les images de blessés et de secouristes blancs. J'attends avec impatience les articles au vitriol de demain matin.
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Posté le: Jeu 01 Sep 2005 00:07 Sujet du message: Re: Les pillards de La Nouvelle-Orléans
Monostatos a écrit:
Ce que je retiens des images que j'ai vue sur TF1, F2 et F3, ce sont les pillards noirs se servant dans les magasins. On nous a ensuite montré des reportages présentant des pillards noirs menacés parfois par des policiers noirs qui leur demandaient d'abandonner leur butin. Puis, à la fin du reportage, on nous expliquait que la confusion régnant, il semblerait que la police ait autorisé les sinistrés à prendre des produits de première nécessité ; on voyait alors des policiers, tous noirs, remplissant des Caddies. Et tout cela en opposition avec les images de blessés et de secouristes blancs. J'attends avec impatience les articles au vitriol de demain matin.
C'est bien connue les noirs sont des sauvages _________________ The pussy is free, but the crack cost money (BDP 1989)
ki nèg nwè ki nèg klè
ki nèg klè ki nèg nwè
tout nèg a nèg
nèg klè pè nèg nwè
nèg nwè pa lè wè nèg klè
nèg nwè ké wéy klè
senti i sa roune nèg klè
mè nèg klè ké wéy klè a toujou nèg
sa ki fèt pou nèg vin' blang?
blang té gen chivé pli long?
pou senblé yé nou trapé chivé plat kon fil mang!!!
mandé to fanm...!
mè pou kisa blang lé vin' nwè?
ha... savé ki avan vin' blan yé té ja nèg!
a nou mèm ké nou mèm dépi nânni nânnan...
chinwa soti, kouli soti, indyen soti, blang soti
mèm koté nèg soti
Posté le: Jeu 01 Sep 2005 06:19 Sujet du message: Re: Les pillards de La Nouvelle-Orléans
Monostatos a écrit:
Ce que je retiens des images que j'ai vue sur TF1, F2 et F3, ce sont les pillards noirs se servant dans les magasins. On nous a ensuite montré des reportages présentant des pillards noirs menacés parfois par des policiers noirs qui leur demandaient d'abandonner leur butin. Puis, à la fin du reportage, on nous expliquait que la confusion régnant, il semblerait que la police ait autorisé les sinistrés à prendre des produits de première nécessité ; on voyait alors des policiers, tous noirs, remplissant des Caddies. Et tout cela en opposition avec les images de blessés et de secouristes blancs. J'attends avec impatience les articles au vitriol de demain matin.
jai vu des pillards blanc aussi...mais bon dans une region ou il y a beaucoup de noir ca me parait logique que la plupart des pillards soit noirs...
Posté le: Jeu 01 Sep 2005 09:33 Sujet du message: Re: Les pillards de La Nouvelle-Orléans
zoukkev a écrit:
jai vu des pillards blanc aussi...mais bon dans une region ou il y a beaucoup de noir ca me parait logique que la plupart des pillards soit noirs...
On a vu effectivement quelques Blancs, et aussi des Hispaniques. Il est également évident que dans une région où il y a un grand nombre de Noirs qui, pour des raisons économiques, n'ont pas pu partir se réfugier ailleurs, on va avoir ensuite ces personnes en majorité parmi les pillards. Ce qui me gêne dans les reportages et pas seulement sur ce sujet, c'est la manière de montrer les événements. On a vu des Noirs policiers s'opposer au pillage, mais dans le même temps on nous cadre des femmes policiers remplissant tranquillement leurs chariots, en expliquant qu'il semblerait que la police ait autorisé les sinistrés à prendre des produits de première nécessité. J'ai eu l'impression, mais c'est personnel, qu'il y avait un certain doute dans les propos du journaliste. Il est parfaitement possible que cette initiative ait été prise seulement par quelques policiers. Le problème, c'est qu'il y a un effet grossissant et généralisateur de l'image. On a l'impression que pendant qu'une partie de la population essaie de secourir, l'autre, dont des représentants de l'Etat, est en train de se servir. Tout le monde aura oublié le policier noir menaçant des pillards avec son arme, mais se rappelera les policières noires, en bonne santé vu leur tour de taille, déambulant tranquillement dans les rayons pendant que des soldats de la Garde nationale expliquent qu'ils sont débordés. F3, à 23 heures, a titré sur les pillages. Est-ce le plus important ? Non ! Ce sera le plus important quand des pharmacies seront pillées par des drogués noirs avec pour conséquence d'empêcher les secouristes de pouvoir récupérer des médicaments pour soigner des blessés ou lorsque des secouristes auront été blessés par des pillards ou bien quand de la nourriture sera détruite par les agissements des pillards se jetant sur le matériel vidéo, les cigarettes et les bouteilles d'alcool. On ne précise même pas si c'est généralisé ou si ce type de comportement est localisé. Mais dans les salons, les dégâts sont considérables. Et puis je pose une question. Doit-on tout dire quand il y a des risques d'amalgame, de stigmatisation ? Lorsque l'on fait des reportages ou des articles sur la justice et que l'on a une surreprésentation des Noirs et des Maghrébins, on me répond que c'est logique. Mais ferait-on la même chose pour certains types de délinquance, comme la délinquance financière par exemple, où d'autres populations sont surreprésentées ? Je n'ai que BBC World comme chaîne étrangère. J'aimerais bien savoir comment on traite le sujet sur CNN, le première concernée. Est-on focalisé sur les pillards ?
Woaw,non seulement cette catastrophe est encore plus grave que ce que je pensais,mais même pendant une terrible catastrophe comme celle-ci,le raçisme contre les noirs est vivant!!!
Ca bouillone grave dans les forums afro-américains,y'en a même qui disent "fuck france"pour avoir mal construit la Nouvelle Orleans.
C'est grave la N.ORLEANS était déjà un état pauvre,ça vas pas arranger les choses!!! _________________ "tout nèg a nèg
ki nèg nwè ki nèg klè
ki nèg klè ki nèg nwè
tout nèg a nèg
nèg klè pè nèg nwè
nèg nwè pa lè wè nèg klè
nèg nwè ké wéy klè
senti i sa roune nèg klè
mè nèg klè ké wéy klè a toujou nèg
sa ki fèt pou nèg vin' blang?
blang té gen chivé pli long?
pou senblé yé nou trapé chivé plat kon fil mang!!!
mandé to fanm...!
mè pou kisa blang lé vin' nwè?
ha... savé ki avan vin' blan yé té ja nèg!
a nou mèm ké nou mèm dépi nânni nânnan...
chinwa soti, kouli soti, indyen soti, blang soti
mèm koté nèg soti
African-Americans Urged To Contribute To Hurricane Katrina Relief
Long Beach, CA (BlackNews.com) - Recent footage of the gulf coast resembles what one would expect to see in a third world country. There are countless individuals, mostly Blacks, stranded in the middle of nowhere with no shelter, no food, and no clean water.
The situation is so catastrophic that many have been waiting for days to be rescued. Thousands of dead bodies are floating everywhere, contamination is widespread, and looters are forced to steal from abandoned stores.
Many African-Americans wonder what they can do, and the answer is simple:
1) Donate money to Red Cross (www.redcross.org) or any other trustworthy charity; and/or
2) Volunteer to help by contacting the USA Freedom Corps (www.usafreedomcorps.gov)
Black leaders are encouraged to urge federal officials to do everything they can to rescue victims. So far, officials have received criticism for being slow to deploy enough supplies and troops. President Bush is getting heat because he waited two whole days after the hurricane struck before he decided to return from his vacation.
Reportedly, nearly 1/3 of the troops that are on-hand have been designated to focus entirely on capturing looters. Many criticize this decision, saying that these troops need to help rescue the thousands of stranded victims that will soon die of hunger and thirst.
Many say that the food in these stores will rot anyways, so looters may as well take advantage of it. Others say that people are starving and have no other option to resort to.
Dante Lee of BlackNews.com, comments, "As for the stealing of TVs and DVD players, I would agree that this is inexcusable. However, food and drinks are critical to their survival."
Lee continues, "But these aren't the only necessities in life - What about baby diapers, toilet tissue, shoes, dry clothes? People have to do what they can to survive."
In addition to donating to charities and volunteering time and energy, African-Americans are encouraged in the near future to donate to some of the Black-owned businesses/organizations that have been affected. Here are just a few:
BLACK BUSINESSES
Black Collegian Magazine
140 Carondelet St
New Orleans, LA 70130
www.imdiversity.com
Juneteenth.com
6751 Dorchester Street
New Orleans, LA 70126
BLACK COLLEGES
Dillard University
2601 Gentilly Boulevard
New Orleans, LA 70122
www.dillard.edu
Xavier University
3812 Pine Street
New Orleans, LA 70125
www.xula.edu
Southern University at New Orleans
6400 Press Drive
New Orleans, LA 70126
www.suno.edu
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ki nèg klè ki nèg nwè
tout nèg a nèg
nèg klè pè nèg nwè
nèg nwè pa lè wè nèg klè
nèg nwè ké wéy klè
senti i sa roune nèg klè
mè nèg klè ké wéy klè a toujou nèg
sa ki fèt pou nèg vin' blang?
blang té gen chivé pli long?
pou senblé yé nou trapé chivé plat kon fil mang!!!
mandé to fanm...!
mè pou kisa blang lé vin' nwè?
ha... savé ki avan vin' blan yé té ja nèg!
a nou mèm ké nou mèm dépi nânni nânnan...
chinwa soti, kouli soti, indyen soti, blang soti
mèm koté nèg soti
BET is partnering with the National Urban League, American Red Cross, Hip-Hop Summit Action Network Chairman Russell Simmons, Kevin Liles and the Warner Music Group, Essence Communications and numerous concerned celebrities in a telethon to raise financial aid to benefit the victims from Hurricane Katrina.
The telethon is set for Friday on BET, starting with a special benefit episode of 106 & Park: BET’s Top 10 Live at 5 p.m. followed by the telethon from 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. (tape delayed to the West Coast; pledge phone lines will be open).
Other telethons will include New Orleans native Wynton Marsalis, and even Jerry Lewis’ annual Labor Day fundraiser will join in as well.
Lewis said Wednesday his telethon for the Muscular Dystrophy Association would include celebrity appeals for hurricane relief. MDA also will donate $1 million to help victims in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama, he said.
"A Concert for Hurricane Relief" will air on NBC, MSNBC and CNBC at 7 p.m. Friday, NBC Universal Television Group announced Wednesday.
Viewers will be encouraged to donate to the American Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund.
Another aid effort was announced by MTV Networks, starting with a Saturday, Sept. 10, music special airing on MTV, VH1 and CMT and intended to raise funds for the American Red Cross and other organizations.
Besides Green Day, scheduled performers include Ludacris, Gretchen Wilson, Usher, Alicia Keys and others.
The special also will be available on MTV2, mtvU and VH1 Classic, as well as broadband video networks MTV Overdrive and VSpot.
Also Wednesday, MTV Networks' parent company, Viacom, announced a $1 million donation to the American Red Cross and a worldwide matching gift program for employee donations. Other support efforts are planned by Viacom media properties including CBS and UPN, the company said.
This report includes material from the Associated Press.
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ki nèg klè ki nèg nwè
tout nèg a nèg
nèg klè pè nèg nwè
nèg nwè pa lè wè nèg klè
nèg nwè ké wéy klè
senti i sa roune nèg klè
mè nèg klè ké wéy klè a toujou nèg
sa ki fèt pou nèg vin' blang?
blang té gen chivé pli long?
pou senblé yé nou trapé chivé plat kon fil mang!!!
mandé to fanm...!
mè pou kisa blang lé vin' nwè?
ha... savé ki avan vin' blan yé té ja nèg!
a nou mèm ké nou mèm dépi nânni nânnan...
chinwa soti, kouli soti, indyen soti, blang soti
mèm koté nèg soti
As journalists, the number one dictum is to be unbiased, objective and accurate. It is with a heavy heart that I watch TV as the nation is in turmoil as a result of the devastation of Hurricane Katrina. What is becoming increasingly frustrating and infuriating is the biased coverage that news organizations, including the Associated Presss (AP) are presenting to the world. It is irresponsible and incorrigible to characterize the behavior of people desperately trying to survive in unimaginable circumstances to be labeled as "looters." If you have a photograph or footage of people with TV's on their backs crossing through neck high water, then it is fair to call them looters. But to say that people with bags of food, water or clothes are looters is ridiculous. It seems to me that nuances and word choices are being used to characterize an entire race. Additionally it seems that once again, black people who are the majority of the Americans suffering in New Orleans are automatically being characterized as criminals and thugs. Yes, there are a small percentage of people who are misbehaving. But the majority of people down there stuck with no resources are law-abiding, family-oriented, hard-working Americans in a dire situation--with no help in sight.
Instead of focusing on looting, why not have use some courage and journalistic integrity and focus on your journalistic duty--which is investigating and reporting the real story--the American government has failed it's citizens. Why? Is it because the majority of the people are of low-income and of color? Is there a feeling somewhere deep in the subconcious of the powers that be, that because of this, their lives are worth less? Why after four days hasn't more transportation from all over the country been sent to evacuate these citizens? To feed them? To save them? Why are people only being sent to Houston when there are 49 other states and millions of people willing to physically help? Why won't they let private citizens in to help if they're not going to?
By tomorrow--I fear that thousands of people will be dead of hunger and dehydration. Then America will truly have a riot on their hands. Why not use your power as media to initiate change instead of denigrating a people that are already down? (Think Woodward & Bernstein) You can help change things before it's too late.
I'm tired of this--and so are the American people. We deserve answers, we deserve journalists that fairly cover our community instead of constantly labeling them. In the 1970s, my mother was at the AP as a reporter and was discriminated against and vilified because she was black. She sued the AP and won--opening the door for intern and editorial programs specifically for minorities and women! As a trained journalist I too have experienced bias in the newsroom--the double standard that black journalists can't cover objectively because we are biased, or simply that we're not cut out to be journalists. And most of you guys think you're liberals--but the reality is that even in 2005 the same bias continue to frame your work. It is simply disgusting. Don't pretend to be an objective and unbiased news providing organization if you can't really achieve that.
MSNBC seems to be the only news organization that is covering this from an honest point of view--from a human point of view. This is not about race, except for the human race, and it is heartbreaking, disappointing and utterly disheartening to think that this is how America treats its own citizens. It is not about why people didn't leave--at this point it's about how do we get them out. That should be the number one priority of the government and THEN they can focus on the pipelines and the flooding.
So now I say, if there was anytime to be SUBJECTIVE and emotional as reporters--the time is now. You should be angry as U.S. citizens that our country and our leaders--who have put so much money into the military and into protecting America and the world is behaving like the Keystone cops, unable to properly organize the rescue of thousands of people in their own country. This is the essence of what Homeland security should be--and yet you tip toe around the issues when this comes up. If you don't do your jobs, the American people are going to. We are going to march and protest until somebody saves those people. Even if we have to march in front of the White House or down to New Orleans ourselves.
I implore you to skip the melodrama and the hype, to put aside whatever prejudices you may have--to even acknowledge that you may be slanting stories because of bias you may not even be aware you have-- and report the real story. Take these officials to task, don't let them off the hook in the interviews until you have real answers about a plan of action---make them accountable, and use your power to help evoke immediate change.
This could happen to any of us, put yourselves in the survivor's shoes--you wouldn't want to be in them, and they shouldn't be in that situation now.
Signed sincerely,
Morenike Efuntade
An Activist and concerned & pissed off U.S. citizeN
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ki nèg klè ki nèg nwè
tout nèg a nèg
nèg klè pè nèg nwè
nèg nwè pa lè wè nèg klè
nèg nwè ké wéy klè
senti i sa roune nèg klè
mè nèg klè ké wéy klè a toujou nèg
sa ki fèt pou nèg vin' blang?
blang té gen chivé pli long?
pou senblé yé nou trapé chivé plat kon fil mang!!!
mandé to fanm...!
mè pou kisa blang lé vin' nwè?
ha... savé ki avan vin' blan yé té ja nèg!
a nou mèm ké nou mèm dépi nânni nânnan...
chinwa soti, kouli soti, indyen soti, blang soti
mèm koté nèg soti
NEW YORK - Sean "Diddy" Combs and Jay-Z have pledged $1 million to the American Red Cross to help victims of Hurricane Katrina.
The two rappers announced their joint donation Thursday, saying they hoped to inspire others, especially blacks, to give.
"This is our community," Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter, who is also president and CEO of the Def Jam record label, told The Associated Press by phone. "When I turn on CNN, I see a lot of black people on the streets. I know it's other people too, but those projects have been hit hard."
Combs agrees. "We are all descendants from each other's families. When you hear black people say `brothers' and `sisters,' it's really true. These are all people that I know I'm related to somehow, some way — the human race family."
Former New Orleans Mayor Marc Morial, now president of the Urban League, said Thursday that those left in the city "are people who are African-American mostly but not completely, and people who were of little or limited economic means. They are the folks, we've got to get them out of there."
Jay-Z said he had put in calls to NBA star LeBron James and rapper Kanye West for donations.
Also on Thursday, Celine Dion and the partners of her Las Vegas show, "A New Day" — companies Concerts West/AEG Live and Dragone — pledged a $1 million donation to the Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund.
And Oscar-winner Nicolas Cage, who has a home in New Orleans, donated $1 million Thursday to the American Red Cross for hurricane relief efforts for ravaged New Orleans, a spokeswoman said.
In his statement, his publicist, Annett Wolf, said Cage "wishes to help his neighbors during this most devastating time."
ki nèg nwè ki nèg klè
ki nèg klè ki nèg nwè
tout nèg a nèg
nèg klè pè nèg nwè
nèg nwè pa lè wè nèg klè
nèg nwè ké wéy klè
senti i sa roune nèg klè
mè nèg klè ké wéy klè a toujou nèg
sa ki fèt pou nèg vin' blang?
blang té gen chivé pli long?
pou senblé yé nou trapé chivé plat kon fil mang!!!
mandé to fanm...!
mè pou kisa blang lé vin' nwè?
ha... savé ki avan vin' blan yé té ja nèg!
a nou mèm ké nou mèm dépi nânni nânnan...
chinwa soti, kouli soti, indyen soti, blang soti
mèm koté nèg soti
ki nèg nwè ki nèg klè
ki nèg klè ki nèg nwè
tout nèg a nèg
nèg klè pè nèg nwè
nèg nwè pa lè wè nèg klè
nèg nwè ké wéy klè
senti i sa roune nèg klè
mè nèg klè ké wéy klè a toujou nèg
sa ki fèt pou nèg vin' blang?
blang té gen chivé pli long?
pou senblé yé nou trapé chivé plat kon fil mang!!!
mandé to fanm...!
mè pou kisa blang lé vin' nwè?
ha... savé ki avan vin' blan yé té ja nèg!
a nou mèm ké nou mèm dépi nânni nânnan...
chinwa soti, kouli soti, indyen soti, blang soti
mèm koté nèg soti
Scenes from the flooded Deep South recall the desperation of a bygone era
By Wil Haygood
Updated: 7:57 a.m. ET Sept. 2, 2005
BATON ROUGE, La., - It seemed a desperate echo of a bygone era, a mass of desperate-looking black folk on the run in the Deep South. Some without shoes.
It was high noon Thursday at a rest stop on the edge of Baton Rouge when several buses pulled in, fresh from the calamity of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans.
Hundreds piled out, dragging themselves as if floating through some kind of thick liquid. They were exhausted, some crying.
"It was like going to hell and back," said Bernadette Washington, 38, a black homemaker from Orleans Parish who had slept under a bridge the night before with her five children and her husband. She sighed the familiar refrain, stinging as an old-time blues note: "All I have is the clothes on my back. And I been sleeping in them for three days."
While hundreds of thousands of people have been dislocated by Hurricane Katrina, the images that have filled the television screens have been mainly of black Americans -- grieving, suffering, in some cases looting and desperately trying to leave New Orleans. Along with the intimate tales of family drama and survival being played out Thursday, there was no escaping that race had become a subtext to the unfolding drama of the hurricane's aftermath.
"To me," said Bernadette Washington, "it just seems like black people are marked. We have so many troubles and problems."
"After this," her husband, Brian Thomas, said, "I want to move my family to California."
He was holding his 2-year-old, Qadriyyah, in his left arm. On Thomas's right hand was a crude bandage. He had pushed the hand through a bedroom window on the night of the hurricane to get to one of his children.
"He had meat hanging off his hand," his wife said. They live -- lived -- on Bunker Hill Road in Orleans Parish, a mostly black section of New Orleans.
Time was running out
When the hurricane hit, Thomas, a truck driver, said he came home from work, looked at every one of the people he loves, and stood in the middle of the living room. Thinking. He's the Socrates in the family -- but time was running out.
"I only got a five-passenger car," he said.
"Chevy Cavalier," said his wife.
"And," Thomas continued, "I stood there, thinking. I said, 'Okay, it's 50-50 if the water will get through.' "
Within hours the water rose, and it kept rising.
"But then I said, 'If we do take the car, some of us would be sitting on one another's laps.' And the state troopers were talking about making arrests."
Instead, he pushed the kids out a window. They scooted to the roof, some pulling themselves up with an extension cord.
"The rain was pouring down so hard," Washington said. "And we had a 3-month-old and a 2-year-old."
The 3-month-old, Nadirah, was sleeping in her mother's arms. "All I had was water to give her," said Washington, her voice breaking, her other children sitting on the concrete putting talcum power inside their soaked sneakers. "She's premature," she went on, about the 3-month-old. "She came May 22. Was supposed to be here July 11. I had her early because I have high blood pressure. Had to have her by C-section."
Bernadette Washington was suddenly worried about her blood pressure medicine. She reached inside her purse. "Look," she said. "All the pills are stuck together."
Both parents had been thinking about the hurricane, the aftermath, the looting, the politicians who might come to Louisiana and who might not. And their own holding-on lives, now jangly like bedsprings suddenly snapped.
"It says there'll come a time you can't hide. I'm talking about people. From each other," Bernadette Washington said.
Thomas, the philosopher, waved his bandaged hand. He had a theory: "God's angry with New Orleans. It's an evil city. The worst school system anywhere. Rampant crime. Corrupt politicians. Here, baby, have a potato chip for daddy."
The 2-year-old, Qadriyyah, took a chip from her daddy and gobbled it up. Her face was covered with mosquito bites. But she smiled just to be in daddy's arms.
Thomas continued: "A predominantly black city -- and they're killing each other. God had to get their attention with a calamity. New Orleans ain't seen an earthquake yet. You can get away from a hurricane but not an earthquake. Next time, nobody may get out."
A little hero
In the middle of the storm, little Ernest Washington, 9, had grown into a hero.
Washington and Thomas consider Ernest, Bernadette's nephew, their own now. They adopted him after his mother, Donna Marie Washington, died not long ago of AIDS.
"She was a runaway," said Washington, able to sound sorrowful for the child even in her current straits. "She had run away when she was 14. We don't know how she got the AIDS."
While Thomas was figuring his family's fate that first night, little Ernest bolted to the rooftop.
He had fashioned a white flag on a piece of stick, and began waving. "That is one courageous boy," Thomas said.
A helicopter passed them by. A National Guard unit passed them by.
"Black National Guard unit, too," piped in Warren Carter, Washington's brother-in-law.
In the South, the issue of race -- black, white -- always seems as ready to come rolling off the tongue as a summer whistle. A black Guard unit, passing them by. Something Carter won't soon forget.
Before long the whole family, watching the water rise, made it to the roof. Three men in a boat -- "two black guys and an Arab," Washington said -- rode by and left some food on the roof of a van parked nearby. Ernest went and retrieved the food.
"A little hustler he is," Thomas said.
"Child [is] something else," Washington said.
'Racism ain't everywhere'
It took two days for a helicopter to fetch them. They were delivered not to some kind of shelter, but to a patch of land beneath a freeway.
"I thought we were going to die out there," Bernadette Washington said. "We had to sleep on the ground. Use the bathroom in front of each other. Laying on that ground, I just couldn't take it. I felt like Job."
Then, somehow, a bus, and then Baton Rouge. At that moment, a lady -- white -- came by the rest stop and handed her some baby items.
"Bless you," Washington said.
That exchange forced something from Warren Carter: "White man came up to me little while ago and offered me some money. I said thank you, but no thanks. I got money to hold us over. But it does go to show you that racism ain't everywhere."
Under the hot sun, Brian Thomas was staring into an expanse of open air. They expected another relative to arrive soon and assist them in continuing their exodus.
ki nèg nwè ki nèg klè
ki nèg klè ki nèg nwè
tout nèg a nèg
nèg klè pè nèg nwè
nèg nwè pa lè wè nèg klè
nèg nwè ké wéy klè
senti i sa roune nèg klè
mè nèg klè ké wéy klè a toujou nèg
sa ki fèt pou nèg vin' blang?
blang té gen chivé pli long?
pou senblé yé nou trapé chivé plat kon fil mang!!!
mandé to fanm...!
mè pou kisa blang lé vin' nwè?
ha... savé ki avan vin' blan yé té ja nèg!
a nou mèm ké nou mèm dépi nânni nânnan...
chinwa soti, kouli soti, indyen soti, blang soti
mèm koté nèg soti
Posté le: Ven 02 Sep 2005 15:38 Sujet du message: touchés en plein coeur...
c'est terrible ce qui se passe...un coup de massue qu'ils ne sont absolument pas préparés à subir sur leur territoire et j'invite tout le monde à mettre entre parentheses leurs griefs ou leur anti-américanisme (en général , qd le n° est sur les genoux, on jubile), légitimes ou non, car ceux qui ont morflé et qui vont continuer à souffrir sont les plus pauvres, ceux qui n'ont pu partir avant l'arrivée du cyclone:
TRES bon reportage de la 2 à 13 heures (plus objectif que la 1...cf les reportages sur les expulsions de ce matin...): Dans l'état du mississipi, seul 1 habitant sur 3 est noir...mais ce sont eux les plus pauvres dont forcemment ceux qui ont été le plus touchés, images à l'appui...
Et c'est l'autre image de l'Amérique, celle que l'on ne veut pas nous montrer...celle que CNN ou la FOX ou ABC ont honte de montrer...cette USA des ghettos, des bas fonds, la "poor class" qui témoigne que les cicatrices de l'esclavage et de la ségrégation sont TOUJOURS LA...et c'est illusoire de croire qu'une OPHRAH, un Will Smith , un powell ou une Condoleeza ont effacé cela...
Dingue...l'Europe va même leur fournir du pétrole!!!! Nul doute qu'une fois la stupeur passée, les ricains vont réagir en force (milliards de dons, téléthons, New orléans Band Aid, etc...) mais là, c'est vraiment le cas et ceux qui sont dans la mouise mettrons des décennies à s'en remettre...
Je pense que cette catastrophe SIGNE la fin de GW Bush...car son mq de réactivité est patente...On va voir comment vont manoeuvrer les démocrates et voir si les républicains ne vont pas ressortir powell ou jouer le joker rice...
2005 est vraiment une année pourrie pour les nôtres... _________________ Tout ce qui ne nous tue pas nous rends plus forts...on a tout vécu et on est encore là...avant, maintenant et jusqu'à la fin des temps!
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Posté le: Ven 02 Sep 2005 15:45 Sujet du message:
En ce moment si vous allez sur les forum de la communaute afro americaines vous trouverez que des gens venere contre le gouvernement et les republicains de FOX comme O'reilly ou Rush Limbaugh
qui se sont permis de traiter les noirs de sauvages _________________ The pussy is free, but the crack cost money (BDP 1989)
Posté le: Ven 02 Sep 2005 16:01 Sujet du message: A l'attention de Jeff
Jeff a écrit:
TRES bon reportage de la 2 à 13 heures (plus objectif que la 1...cf les reportages sur les expulsions de ce matin...): Dans l'état du mississipi, seul 1 habitant sur 3 est noir...mais ce sont eux les plus pauvres dont forcemment ceux qui ont été le plus touchés, images à l'appui...
Et c'est l'autre image de l'Amérique, celle que l'on ne veut pas nous montrer...celle que CNN ou la FOX ou ABC ont honte de montrer...cette USA des ghettos, des bas fonds, la "poor class" qui témoigne que les cicatrices de l'esclavage et de la ségrégation sont TOUJOURS LA...et c'est illusoire de croire qu'une OPHRAH, un Will Smith , un powell ou une Condoleeza ont effacé cela...
Salut Jeff
Si tu crois que France 2 fait ce type de reportage par souci d'objectivité, tu te fais des illusions. J'ai toujours trouvé suspecte la promptitude des médias français à dénoncer le racisme aux USA. Et en particulier celui dont sont victimes encore les Américains noirs. On n'hésite jamais à nous montrer les pauvres Noirs qui continuent de souffrir 200 ans après l'abolition de l'esclavage. J'aurais aimé la même réactivité quand Oprah Winfrey s'est fait jeter d'un magasin de luxe en plein Paris. Il lui est arrivé ce que nous vivons tous les jours. Avec parfois des variantes : pas plus de 5 Noirs dans le magasin en même temps, par exemple. L'exécuteur de cette besogne étant bien évidemment généralement de la même origine que la victime. Ce genre de reportage est tout simplement destiné à nous faire comprendre que notre situation n'est pas si mauvaise que cela en France. Nous ne vous avons jamais discriminé de manière institutionnalisée comme aux USA, nous ne vous traitons pas comme eux le font dans les ghettos nord-américains, alors ne vous plaignez pas et ne demandez pas qu'une politique d'action positive soit mise en place en France. Cela dit, France 2 a fait des progrès en 24 heures : hier, c'était les policiers noirs de la Nouvelle-Orléans qui étaient montrés en train de remplir leurs Caddie. Et ce, avec des commentaires plus que douteux.
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