Excerpt from Barack Obama's keynote speech at Harvard Law School Association Award Luncheon (part of the "Celebration of Black Alumni" weekend) Cambridge, Massachusetts, Sept. 17, 2005
Two million African Americans showed up on D.C. for Obama's inauguration but two hundred thousand of them could not get out of New Orleans?? It is a shame they have to act entitled during a natural catastrophe rather than helping their neighbors.
Are you fucking kidding me? the people in New Orleans that stayed behind during Katrinia were looking for the opertunity to loot. These people live off the system thats why they were in N.O. These people create the community they live in and then bitch about the way it turns out. Get off your ass and fix your community and lives and stop waiting for the handouts. This is what we have reaped for paying the most degereant porton of or society to breed like rabbits for 50 years.
Barry, you make a great point! Those people have always been criminals, have always been burdens on society, have always taken the easy way out. They were bad seeds before the hurricane and they'll be bad seeds after the hurricane. How many of them are still living in FEMA trailers? How many are still living in Houston? They didn't leave for one reason and one reason only, lack of motivation and work ethic, and they continue to display these traits.
He was a better speaker before he became president.
jimmi161 6 months ago
Two million African Americans showed up on D.C. for Obama's inauguration but two hundred thousand of them could not get out of New Orleans?? It is a shame they have to act entitled during a natural catastrophe rather than helping their neighbors.
ibxncgc 6 months ago
Are you fucking kidding me? the people in New Orleans that stayed behind during Katrinia were looking for the opertunity to loot. These people live off the system thats why they were in N.O. These people create the community they live in and then bitch about the way it turns out. Get off your ass and fix your community and lives and stop waiting for the handouts. This is what we have reaped for paying the most degereant porton of or society to breed like rabbits for 50 years.
paginini 1 year ago
funny how no mention of Nagin failing to fire up those city buses for the evacuation....how did this guy get elected?
jmcwhirk 1 year ago
How about the SLOW response to the oil spill in the Gulf???? Job isn't that easy is it Barry???
LennyBurridge 1 year ago
Barry, you make a great point! Those people have always been criminals, have always been burdens on society, have always taken the easy way out. They were bad seeds before the hurricane and they'll be bad seeds after the hurricane. How many of them are still living in FEMA trailers? How many are still living in Houston? They didn't leave for one reason and one reason only, lack of motivation and work ethic, and they continue to display these traits.
mach3moe 2 years ago