CALLER: How the African-American people are not outraged knowing that their best buddies in the world, the Democratic Party, ran Louisiana for 60 years and allowed 75% of the black population in New Orleans to be 50 to 60% unemployed and these are their best buddies in the world that's going to do everything for them, and the horror I saw on that TV, and I'm an African-American, was unbelievable. That party -- because I left the plantation years ago -- that party was supposed to be the best buddy of the African-American and I guarantee you, Rush, it's not just in Louisiana. There's pockets of people like that all over this country that the Democrats -- I bet you those busses was running on election day. I guarantee you that.
RUSH: I don't doubt what you're saying at all. In fact, you're echoing many of the things that I have said all week. I've asked questions. You know, who lives in New Orleans is who lives in New Orleans, and who runs New Orleans is who runs New Orleans. And we have the census figures that tell us 75% of the population of New Orleans is black. We also are told that much of is unemployed and much of it that is employed is still poor. We also know that it's a black mayor and there have been many black mayors. We all know all the mayors have been Democrats. We know the governors have been Democrats for generation after generation. As I said yesterday, it would seem to me that with liberalism having the power to run around in that state and city unchecked, that we should have an utopia. Instead we've got one of the worst crime problems in the country, got one of the worst problems of poverty, one of the worst centers for minority poverty in the country. It's all run by Democrats. You're going to have to tell me why the loyalty between those people and the Democratic Party survives. I only have one theory, and when I learned yesterday, Janet, that some of the people in New Orleans refused to evacuate because their welfare checks were coming on the 1st of September, and they didn't want to miss those checks, that tells me all I need to know. Whatever they have, however little it is, all comes from their government, and they couldn't leave because they feared missing their check and then they would be out of money, and I think the answer has to lie somewhere there. All these years, these people have been created as essential wards of the state. And the way they look at it, if it weren't for the government, they'd have less than they already do. They don't look around the rest of the country and see prosperity. Even among black people around this country, they don't see the prosperity all over the country. They somehow miss that and beyond what I've said, I don't understand it. Can you tell me?
CALLER: I don't understand it either. I was brought up and raised in the projects myself. We were always taught that no one owed us anything. Your responsibility lies with yourself. |
