The American Street: Strange Fruit, Floating In The Levees

The American Street: "September 4, 2005 Strange Fruit, Floating in the Levees That perfect storm of combination of catastrophes exceeded the foresight of the planners and maybe anybody's foresight, the homeland security chief said, considering that we elected a draft dodger instead of a war hero, all the heads of emergency services were busy sipping mint juleps as we vacationed on our cotton plantations, we had to scrounge through numerous junk drawers to find any National Guard troops still around in America, we were all busy daytrading energy stocks and WEGI, and when Karl Rove gleefully announced, the dikes broke!, we thought he was talking about Hillary. Condi Rice: I don't believe color matters. We use a quota system to be certain we utilize equal opportunity when doling out abysmal neglect. When asked if they thought this would cause Blacks and the poor in the South to rise up in anger and demand the resignations of elected officials, they both agreed this was unlikely, because those folks in the Gulf states are so conditioned to regular neglect and abuse that we can easily sidetrack any anger by "humming a few spirituals and doling out more temp jobs than we've offerred them in years." By Kevin Hayden 8:38 am 1 Comment Affirmative Action"