George Bush Doesn't Care About Black People

I seriously think I'm the only person in my Race and Ethnic Relations course who does not believe that. That line was said by one of the students in my class while talking about Katrina, and everybody nodded their heads. When I attested to it, saying "Don't mistake incompetence for malice," a huge argument ensued. Here I was saying that mobilizing the resources needed for the Katrina disaster isn't as easy as it sounds, and the professor attacks me saying he doesn't believe that argument for one second. Well I'm sorry I actually have experienced how hard it can be to get an extrication crew to an accident where a vehicle has landed on top of a passenger in a county of 10,000, Mr. Professor. You obviously have a better idea of what can be done on a much more massive scale with much more room for people to screw up, along with the scale making it easier to shift the responsibility of saving someone's life on another person's shoulder. You should run the country, sir. You should try to run every single branch of government like you seem to think the president does on a daily basis.

What the hell has happened to us? What is wrong with the people in our country? When has become acceptable to put the entire blame of a huge disaster and the response to it on 1-10 people? Where were these individuals that blame Bush for the horrible response time when the victims of Katrina were starving to death?; watching the news in their heated homes while eating dinner? I am ashamed that the candidates that support the issues I do make part of their reasoning that they should be president, "well, I'm not Bush," or, "I'm not part of that stupid Republican Party." That is the worst reason in the world to vote for someone, "he's the lesser of two evils." If you don't like either candidate, don't vote for them. The reason the voter turnout is so crappy isn't that nobody cares about politics; just ask people what they think of abortion, the war in Iraq, or same-sex marriage. The candidates flat-out suck. There's practically no differentiation between them, but the "I'm not candidate A" reasoning gets people f*cking elected these days. It sickens me that I am living in a nation where that reasoning is perfectly acceptable. The same people that point and accuse conservatives of being less intelligent vote for liberal candidates that simply label themselves liberal. The same people that accuse others of not thinking rarely do so themselves. Just one more reason I want to be a hermit.








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