the seattle times reports that barack obama is warning of “quiet riots” among blacks after the disaster of hurricane katrina and the current administration’s poor treatment of new orleans’ residents in its afttermath.
“This administration was colorblind in its incompetence,” Obama said at a conference of black clergy, “but the poverty and the hopelessness was there long before the hurricane…All the hurricane did was to pull the curtain back for all the world to see,” he said.
“Those ‘quiet riots’ that take place every day are born from the same place as the fires and the destruction and the police decked out in riot gear and the deaths,” Obama said. “They happen when a sense of disconnect settles in and hope dissipates. Despair takes hold and young people all across this country look at the way the world is and believe that things are never going to get any better.”
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