Katrina: "Compassionate Conservatives" Blame the Victims
“The USA has mandatory education. You have to go to school or pass exams if home-schooled. But nobody can force you to learn while you're in school. If you refuse to do the hard work that education requires, and millions of kids do, you're going to be ill equipped to compete in the marketplace. And all the government programs in the world are not going to change that. So every American kid should be required to watch videotape of the poor in New Orleans and see how they suffered, because they couldn't get out of town. And then, every teacher should tell the students, "If you refuse to learn, if you refuse to work hard, if you become addicted, if you live a gangsta-life, you will be poor and powerless just like many of those in New Orleans."
--Bill O'Reilly, on The O'Reilly Factor, 09/07/2005
"75 percent of New Orleans residents had left the city, it was primarily immoral, welfare-pampered blacks that stayed behind and waited for the government to bail them out." So said the Reverend Jesse Lee Peterson, founder and president of BOND, the Brotherhood Organization of a New Destiny.
"It took a mere three days for blacks to turn the Superdome and the convention center into ghettos, rampant with theft, rape and murder." Peterson writes, "about five years ago . . . I stated that if whites were to just leave the United States and let blacks run the country, they would turn America into a ghetto within 10 years . . . I gave blacks too much credit. It took a mere three days for blacks to turn the Superdome and the convention center into ghettos, rampant with theft, rape and murder."
--Jesse Lee Peterson of the Brotherhood Organization of a New Destiny (BOND)