tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6152307338772205194.post1271381304362154955..comments2024-01-30T11:14:25.598-05:00Comments on Electronic Village: Katrina and Black BloggersAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05001965827509309490noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6152307338772205194.post-67931188889703351232007-06-23T09:13:00.000-04:002007-06-23T09:13:00.000-04:00Pundit - I think that you have taken a strong step...<B>Pundit</B> - I think that you have taken a strong step to have Black bloggers discuss the issue of rebuilding New Orleans back in the mix. I will keep it in mind as I move forward in the coming weeks and months.<BR/><BR/>peace, VillagerAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05001965827509309490noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6152307338772205194.post-42533541481743079192007-06-23T08:16:00.000-04:002007-06-23T08:16:00.000-04:00Villager, Thanks for providing your powerful insig...Villager, <BR/><BR/>Thanks for providing your powerful insights on the New Orleans issues. Villagers can always count on you to set the tone for a discussion regarding our people. As bloggers, we all have many daily issues on our plate. Thank you for placing New Orleans on the front page of your plate today.<BR/><BR/>As you know first hand from your visits to New Orleans the challenge is great, it will take all of us villagers to make things right. There is however a disconnect in the village. A disconnect between the village and its political leadership.<BR/><BR/>I agree with fellow blogger rikyrah, black bloggers haven't forgotten New Orleans. Yet, thousands of black bloggers donot discuss New Orleans. Thousands of black bloggers with gossip blogs, gossip on everything and don't address real issues of the day. <BR/><BR/>We, (I include myself) have in many ways, forgotten about New Orleans, because we don't really highlight the issue of why America has not rebuilt an American city. Even though American taxpayers through the congress are spending hundreds of Billions of American tax payer dollars to Bomb Iraq into the dark ages, and rebuild Iraq, with no bid contracts at the same time. <BR/><BR/>Our black Congressional leadership is a disgrace. No one is holding them accountable. There appears to be no fire in the belly of black political bloggers to hold the Congressional Black (FOX) Caucus accountable for anything. We have to get some fire in the belly. But hey, maybe we have just got too comfortable. What happen to the people of New Orleans could never happen to us.<BR/><BR/>Tavis Smiley and other black pain book peddlers are in bed with the CBC, so we should not be waiting for the best selling black pain writers to challenge anything, but the bill they receive when they stay at the Ritz Carlton, while they preach from city to city about the evils of white America, and how brothers and sisters need to get it together. As the royalty check comes in every month.<BR/> <BR/>But hey, in two months, the conversation will turn to Katrina and its victims. Well at least for a few days, there will be HBO special reports in the News media. <BR/><BR/>Then it will be back to selling books, smiling on the campaign trail and voting for more war dollars for the Bush war on Iraq. With no black folks saying much of anything. No fire in the belly.<BR/><BR/>The Congress will receive another bill to fund the war for another 6 months. And the congressional (FOX) Black Caucus and its leadership will vote again, to support the war and the rebuilding of Iraq versus an American city. <BR/><BR/>But at least some Black bloggers within the village understand the importance of placing the discussion of New Orleans on the front pages of our blogs. <BR/><BR/>If we don't who will?AAPPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07138755134564768388noreply@blogger.com