As I wrote in this post on Friday,
my daughter mentioned that with all the Southern white people helping
black people victimized by Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans this should
be seen as the South’s finest hour, not its worst, as Jesse Jackson and
other demagogues have been saying. Maybe that reality is finally
breaking through. Listen to this black man quoted in a Reuters story:
“Before this whole thing I had a complex about white
people; this thing changed me forever,” said Brant, 36, a truck
driver who, like many of the refugees receiving public
assistance in Houston, Texas, is black. “It was a spiritual experience for me, man,” he said of the
aftermath of a catastrophe al Qaeda-linked Web sites called
evidence of the “wrath of God” striking an arrogant America.
This man’s attitude before Katrina is a direct result of the
hate-mongering of people like Jackson, Sharpton, Farrakhan and even
some members of the Congressional Black Caucus. Before this thing is
over, the race-baiters and the Bush-blamers will be revealed for what
they are. Have faith.
