Even though the city of New Orleans has a Democratic mayor who is an African American and the state of Louisiana has a Democratic governor, and even though these leaders bear much culpability for being so woefully unprepared to supervise a catastrophe, leave it to Democrat Jesse Jackson to invoke the ugly specter of racism by comparing the aftermath of New Orleans’ destruction to slavery.
In response to the hurricane tragedy, Jackson said, “In this same city of New Orleans where slave ships landed, where the legacy of 246 years of slavery and 100 years of Jim Crow discrimination, that legacy is unbroken today.”
For years now, Jackson has been a publicity-seeking, one-trick pony as he plied his trade as a race hustler. While thousands of white and black Americans are rightly donating millions of dollars to charities, opening the doors of their homes, and providing exhausting hands-on assistance to help thousands of devastated black Americans, all Jackson can do is sow racial division. What a shame.
If Jackson is so distraught about the plight of displaced black Americans, then perhaps he should invite a Gulf Coast family or two to live in his personal residence while they recover from their terrible loss. After all, Jackson was willing to use $40,000 worth of Operation PUSH funds to help pay the “moving expenses” of his love-child’s mother into a $365,000 home.
Larry Blandino
Florissant