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Submitted by Betsy Muse on Wed, 05/30/2007 - 10:39am.

This morning while I was commenting on Blue South's excellent diary at Daily Kos I wandered to the front page where I saw this diary by dNa. The diary consisted of a copy and paste letter from James Rucker at Color of Change and other members of the Black Netroots. dNa is asking people to sign a petition at colorofchange.org.

I signed the petition without visiting Color of Change, but headed over as soon as I was finished. Please head over. It's beautifully written. Here's a sample:

Most politicians ignore poor Black folks because they can't make big donations or deliver votes. And, to be real, a whole lot of us have tip-toed out of the hood and left them behind too, making our folks invisible even to the people who above all others should have their backs.

But they weren't invisible after Katrina hit. The media showed us faces we recognized: people who looked like us; people doing everything they could to save their families; people surviving, not "looting." And the more we looked, the more we knew -- it didn't have to be like that.

I added my name to the mailing list and will do my best to keep us current on future campaigns. The petition allows you to opt out of the mailing list, so don't let the idea of being on another mailing list keep you from signing it. Also, send it to your friends, family and mailing lists.

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I already

Submitted by Blue South on Wed, 05/30/2007 - 10:55am.

signed it when it first came out.

The new letter is amazing.

Draft Brad Miller-- NC Sen ActBlue

I signed a lot of Katrina petitions

Submitted by Betsy Muse on Wed, 05/30/2007 - 11:18am.

but I don't recall seeing one for the CBC/Fox debate.

Robin Hayes lied. Nobody died, but thousands of folks lost their jobs.

Jumped right on

Submitted by HillWilliam on Wed, 05/30/2007 - 11:13am.

Thanks for the link. The mess from Katrina is still festering, both in NOLA and WDC. What's gonna get whacked this year? Betcherass Florida's damage got repaired right away, and NOLA is still barely-habitable.

That ain't right and there's nothing any politician can say will ever make it right.

"The most unamerican thing you can say is 'You can't say that'" - G. Keillor

The politicians are the problem

Submitted by SPLib on Wed, 05/30/2007 - 3:57pm.

PLENTY of money has been thrown at and allocated for NOLA. The current situation(lack of progress) there has more to do with the knuckleheads(Nagin especially) the people of LA and NOLA put in local and state office.

Just because Florida is more used to disasters and better handles recovery efforts doesn't mean NOLA is getting the shaft from anyone other than those people who were chosen by the People there to "run" things.

huh?

Submitted by Blue South on Wed, 05/30/2007 - 4:03pm.

thats not entirely true. The WaPo had a story of how the Bush administration was offered billions of dollars in aid and hasnt collected even a tiny fraction of it due to complete and total incompetence and arrogance.

Nagin is probably more of a hindrance than a help, but he isnt the only problem. You cant blame the voters of NOLA for the fact that the rest of the gulf coast is still very screwed up.

Draft Brad Miller-- NC Sen ActBlue

The number I saw was just

Submitted by SPLib on Wed, 05/30/2007 - 4:15pm.

The number I saw was just under a billion offered in outside aid, but the point is still well made.

It has been almost two years and Nagin and his bunch have not even come up with a plan. The greatest urban planners in the world have made presentations in NOLA, but pretty much no plans have ever been approved since just about all of them suggested something other than building everything back exactly the same way and putting all the people back in their hopeless concentrated poverty and below sea level.

Frankly if "recovery" is defined by putting everything back the way it was, everyone will be better off if it doesn't happen.

Thanks. I hadn't seen this.

Submitted by James Protzman on Wed, 05/30/2007 - 11:21am.

Very inspiring.

It's just nice to know someone is on it

Submitted by Betsy Muse on Wed, 05/30/2007 - 11:25am.

I love what they call the CBC/Fox debate...."Dancing with the Devil". Cute, eh?

Robin Hayes lied. Nobody died, but thousands of folks lost their jobs.

Lifted from KA

Submitted by HillWilliam on Wed, 05/30/2007 - 8:14pm.

Why would the Congressional Black Caucus co-sponsor presidential debates with Fox News?

How much does it really cost to rent the CBC Institute? What else is for sale? How much worse than the rest of mainstream media is Fox News? And what does the CBC-Fox News scandal tell us about present-day corporate funded black leadership?

Fox News Rents the Congressional Black Caucus

By BAR Managing Editor Bruce Dixon

"...it takes a whole lot of grease to fry the CBC's chicken"

Ignoring a withering storm of criticism from virtually every respected voice in black and progressive America, the Congressional Black Caucus has announced its intention to stage a pair of 2008 presidential debates for Fox News. Supposedly these debates would focus on issues important to African American voters. But don't count on it. If there's a way to turn a presidential debate on African American issues into an inflammatory and degrading minstrel show, we can be certain the boys and girls at Fox News are already hard at work figuring it out.

Why are organizations affiliated with the Congressional Black Caucus helping them? We'd like to believe the Congressional Black Caucus and its affiliated bodies, headed by elected black faces in the nation's highest places, would be the purest expression of black America's political will. But the truth is somewhere else. As the African American blog jackandjillpolitics.com noted,

"...the voices of... people of color don't mean much when there's money involved. How much you ask? Well, the debate is being run by the CBC Institute. But while one hand is stirring the greens, the other hand is frying chicken.

"Guess it takes a whole lot of grease to fry the CBC's chicken. Grease MSNBC and other networks must not be handing over quite as liberally to CBC-related organizations. In 2002, the CBC Foundation was given an undisclosed amount from Fox News and parent company News Corp. Between 2003-2005, they gave the CBC somewhere between $47,500 to $98,998 with numbers for 2006 still unavailable. Don't believe me. Get the facts here and take a look at CBCF's donor list."

Posted by fade2bluz on May 30, 2007 at 07:43 PM
"The most unamerican thing you can say is 'You can't say that'" - G. Keillor

Interesting Questions Raised

Submitted by Unique on Thu, 05/31/2007 - 6:24am.

in my mind from this post. Thoughts from the bottom of the first mug:

efforts doesn't mean NOLA is getting the shaft from anyone

Let's just say NO & MS weren't getting the shaft - immediately after - not during the decade proceeding the event. I don't suppose having a brother in the WH would have any bearing on whether the Gov. of FL got his money for disaster relief any faster. Not in this administration. Surely its reputation counts for something.

In 2002, the CBC Foundation was given an undisclosed amount from Fox News and parent company News Corp. Between 2003-2005, they gave the CBC somewhere between $47,500 to $98,998 with numbers for 2006 still unavailable.

Until I looked closer at the dates - I thought, 'wow, they were paid to go on Fox (sic)?' Man, I'd go on Faux Noise, too if someone offered my group ~$50,000.'

I'd give them their money's worth, too. They'd be talking about me for the next decade.

Color of change? Here, Faux - ammo.
"In 40 generations (do the math now) there won't be black or white, we'll all be a more harmonious shade of beige. The future will have to find something else to fight about. :p

Thanks for the link. I'll go visit. I'm glad I can opt out of the list. I had 66 emails in my box yesterday. None of it was SPAM. (!)