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In a video obtained exclusively by The Daily Caller, then-presidential candidate Barack Obama tells an audience of black ministers, including the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, that the U.S. government shortchanged Hurricane Katrina victims because of racism.
“The people down in New Orleans they don’t care about as much!†Obama shouts in the video, which was shot in June of 2007 at Hampton University in Virginia. By contrast, survivors of Sept. 11 and Hurricane Andrew received generous amounts of aid, Obama explains. The reason? Unlike residents of majority-black New Orleans, the federal government considers those victims “part of the American family.â€
The racially charged and at times angry speech undermines Obama’s carefully-crafted image as a leader eager to build bridges between ethnic groups. For nearly 40 minutes, using an accent he almost never adopts in public, Obama describes a racist, zero-sum society, in which the white majority profits by exploiting black America. The mostly black audience shouts in agreement. The effect is closer to an Al Sharpton rally than a conventional campaign event.
Obama gave the speech in the middle of a hotly-contested presidential primary season, but his remarks escaped scrutiny. Reporters in the room seem to have missed or ignored his most controversial statements. The liberal blogger Andrew Sullivan linked to what he described as a “transcript†of the speech, which turned out not to be a transcript at all, but instead the prepared remarks provided by the campaign. In fact, Obama, who was not using a teleprompter, deviated from his script repeatedly and at length, ad libbing lines that he does not appear to have used before any other audience during his presidential run. A local newspaper posted a series of video clips of the speech, but left out key portions. No complete video of the Hampton speech was widely released.
Obama begins his address with “a special shout out†to Jeremiah Wright, the Chicago pastor who nearly derailed Obama’s campaign months later when his sermons attacking Israel and America and accusing the U.S. government of “inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color†became public. To the audience at Hampton, Obama describes Wright as, “my pastor, the guy who puts up with me, counsels me, listens to my wife complain about me. He’s a friend and a great leader. Not just in Chicago, but all across the country.â€
By the time Obama appeared at Hampton, Jeremiah Wright had become a political problem. Wright told The New York Times earlier that year that he would no longer be speaking on the campaign’s behalf because his rhetoric was considered too militant. And yet later in the Hampton speech Obama explicitly defends Wright from unnamed critics, a group he describes as “theyâ€: “They had stories about Trinity United Church of Christ, because we talked about black people in church: ‘Oh, that might be a separatist church,’†Obama said mockingly.
http://dailycaller.com/2012/10/02/obama-speech-jeremiah-wright-new-orleans/#ixzz28E0zP8Ip
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“Now here’s the thing,†Obama continues, “when 9-11 happened in New York City, they waived the Stafford Act — said, ‘This is too serious a problem. We can’t expect New York City to rebuild on its own. Forget that dollar you gotta put in. Well, here’s ten dollars.’ And that was the right thing to do. When Hurricane Andrew struck in Florida, people said, ‘Look at this devastation. We don’t expect you to come up with y’own money, here. Here’s the money to rebuild. We’re not gonna wait for you to scratch it together — because you’re part of the American family.’â€
That’s not, Obama says, what is happening in majority-black New Orleans. “What’s happening down in New Orleans? Where’s your dollar? Where’s your Stafford Act money?†Obama shouts, angry now. “Makes no sense! Tells me that somehow, the people down in New Orleans they don’t care about as much!â€
It’s a remarkable moment, and not just for its resemblance to Kayne West’s famous claim that “George Bush doesn’t care about black people,†but also because of its basic dishonesty. By January of 2007, six months before Obama’s Hampton speech, the federal government had sent at least $110 billion to areas damaged by Katrina. Compare this to the mere $20 billion that the Bush administration pledged to New York City after Sept. 11.
Moreover, the federal government did at times waive the Stafford Act during its reconstruction efforts. On May 25, 2007, just weeks before the speech, the Bush administration sent an additional $6.9 billion to Katrina-affected areas with no strings attached.
As a sitting United States Senator, Obama must have been aware of this. And yet he spent 36 minutes at the pulpit telling a mostly black audience that the U.S. government doesn’t like them because they’re black.
http://dailycaller.com/2012/10/02/obama-speech-jeremiah-wright-new-orleans/#ixzz28E1kVu48
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Wonder if anyone in the media will ask Barry how his words here conflict with what he said about having no idea what Wright felt later on?
Yeah,I know the answer.
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Nothing to see here. The MSM knows about this, and they did nothing. Of course they showed excerpts of it at the time. But they left out the stupid stuff and made out to be one of the best speeches he ever gave. All that because they agree with him.
If obama was a Republican, or Romney did a speech like that. They would be showing it in it's entirety every hour on the hour.
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So this is what turned turned my Mom from a Liberal into a Conservative, darn i wondered what would turn a 90 year old woman into a Conservative, we tried for years to talk her into reality but finally at her age she has out of the blue said she may have lived her life under propaganda and not thought for her self. It took this film to open her eyes and see what is really going on.
No she would not listen to family, stubborn old lady, but this film has her hyperventilating and wondering how she could have been so wrong.
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Over at the DC, the Soros/Media Bladders trolls are dropping in by the wayside. I must have spent two hours being a "troll slayer". DUmmies never cease to amaze me with their blatant stupidity...
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That’s not, Obama says, what is happening in majority-black New Orleans. “What’s happening down in New Orleans? Where’s your dollar? Where’s your Stafford Act money?†Obama shouts, angry now. “Makes no sense! Tells me that somehow, the people down in New Orleans they don’t care about as much!â€
Well lookie here...
http://thehayride.com/2012/10/eric-bolling-clobbers-obama-on-his-stafford-act-demagoguery/
Well, turns out that just 10 days prior to Obama’s speech there was a vote in the Senate on HR 2206, the U.S. Troop Readiness, Veterans’ Care, Katrina Recovery, and Iraq Accountability Appropriations Act of 2007. That House Resolution amounted to a $6.9 billion appropriation to the Gulf Coast which would waive the Stafford Act.
And guess which way Obama voted?
He voted AGAINST IT. He was one of just 14 Senators to vote against appropriating $7 billion to Katrina relief with no strings attached.
And then he went to Hampton and said the federal government doesn’t care about black people.
It’s so comical you almost can’t hold it against him, right?
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I heard the audio of this speech, complete with his "accent," as I drove to work tonight. He specifically states the response to Katrina was not race based, BUT he definitely also goes in great length to imply the past neglect toward the area (can't remember how long.. decades though) was basically due to racism and that Katrina just brought it to light.
Also, hate to tell him but I've been through two typhoons, an earthquake, three floods and a tornado; I have NEVER seen any federal help. I have seen limited state help and the society band together to get the work done on their own as it should be.