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[ferdville]

The Rev. Jackson puts foot in mouth again


This is from an anchorman from Baton Rouge, La. I believe his name is George Sell. I am sure he will be fired.

Yesterday the Rev. Jesse Jackson showed up in Baton Rouge .

He said,"Bush has NOT appointed a Single Black to head up this Katrina Relief.

The Black Caucus and Black Leaders all over America are upset with him putting the black folks on the side.

It is OUR people who are sitting on their rooftops waiting for rescue,OUR people who are standing in line at the Superdome waiting on food, water and a ride to a safe place, OUR people who have been locked down in poverty and so on."

Sell's response -
"Note to the esteemed Rev. Jackson:

The Mayors of New Orleans and Baton Rouge are Black.

The Police Chiefs of
New Orleans and Baton Rouge are Black.

The Head of the LA State Police is
Black. The Head of the Army conducting the Army's operation on the Ground in
New Orleans is Black.

The Congressman from New Orleans is Black,
and for the last 40 years,the leaders of Louisiana have been members of the Democratic Party,
YOUR Party.

Don't blame us like you are doing...
look in the Mirror.You pul lthe Race Card any time you don't get your way.

We are in a terrible crisis.Right now we need to come together and here you come to Louisiana and holler Racism like you do. And it is NEVER EVER your fault, ALWAYS someone elses' fault.
But here you are sitting high and dry.Why don't YOU go out into the waters where they are shooting at the Rescue personne land help in the rescue???"

 

[MadJack]

:clap: :clap: :clap:

 

[IntenseOperator]

We are in a terrible crisis.Right now we need to come together and here you come to Louisiana and holler Racism like you do. And it is NEVER EVER your fault, ALWAYS someone elses' fault.
But here you are sitting high and dry.Why don't YOU go out into the waters where they are shooting at the Rescue personne land help in the rescue???"

:nutkick

 

[LUX]

I saw this on snopes.com story, but I wish somebody would put Jesse in his place. :cursin:

From Snopes:

"The one item in the e-mail that does lend itself to confirmation or denial is its closing anecdote about a newsman who supposedly answered Jesse Jackson's assertion that no African-Americans had been appointed by President Bush to head up relief efforts with a laundry list of the names of African-Americans directing various aspects of the struggle to reclaim the city and its people from the disaster. The Rev. Jackson had made such criticisms of President Bush's appointments while visiting Baton Rouge on 2 September 2005; George Sells (not Sell, as the e-mail would have it), a news anchor at WAFB-TV, the CBS affiliate in Baton Rouge, says he did offer as a reply to the Reverend's assertions the comment that the Mayor of New Orleans and the commander of Army forces, Russell Honore, were African-American. (Russell Honore is head of the military task force overseeing operations in the three states hit by Katrina, and his task force is aiding search and rescue efforts, providing medical help, and sending supplies to three states in support of FEMA. Ray Nagin, the mayor of New Orleans, was elected to that position well before the onset of Hurricane Katrina.)

But that seems to be where the e-mailed anecdote and the truth part ways. George Sells asserts his response began and ended with mention of those two African-Americans, and that the rest of the lengthy list of blacks prominent in relief efforts and the suggestion that the one so quick with his charges of discrimination should go aid rescue workers as they were being shot at were added to the online-circulated account by an anonymous author."

 

[ferdville]

That is quite possible since I got this from internet. Nevertheless, it is interesting.

 

[Nosigar]

George Sells is still anchorman in Baton Rouge???

He must look like a prune by now oke